verbosity at runtime for JSON output. ([#114609](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114609), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly))

- Client-go now exposes two new metrics to monitor the client-go logic that
  generate http.Transports for the clients.
  
  - `rest_client_transport_cache_entries` is a gauge metric
  with the number of existing entries in the internal cache
  
  - `rest_client_transport_create_calls_total` is a counter
  that increments each time a new transport is created, storing

   - In version 1.8, enable this behavior by setting the
     `--horizontal-pod-autoscaler-use-rest-clients` flag to `true`.

   - In version 1.9, this behavior will be enabled by default, and must be explicitly
     disabled by setting the `--horizontal-pod-autoscaler-use-rest-clients` flag to `false`.

### Cluster Lifecycle

- Client-go metrics: change bucket distribution for `rest_client_request_duration_seconds` and `rest_client_rate_limiter_duration_seconds` from [0.001, 0.002, 0.004, 0.008, 0.016, 0.032, 0.064, 0.128, 0.256, 0.512] to [0.005, 0.025, 0.1, 0.25, 0.5, 1.0, 2.0, 4.0, 8.0, 15.0, 30.0, 60.0}] ([#106911](https://github.com/kubernete...

###  Introduced KMS v2

- Fixed a bug that resulted in "grpc: the client connection is closing" errors shortly after the Kubernetes API server automatically reloaded its encryption-at-rest config due to an observed change to the file.  This bug was only encountered when the --encryption-provider-config-automatic-reload flag was set to true. ([#113955](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113955), [@enj](https://github.com/enj))...