using an extra executable.

### Kubelet Credential Provider Graduates to Beta

Originally released as Alpha in Kubernetes 1.20, the kubelet's support for
[image credential providers](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/kubelet-credential-provider/kubelet-credential-provider/)
has now graduated to Beta.
This allows the kubelet to dynamically retrieve credentials for a container image registry

- Updated an audit annotation key used by the `…/serviceaccounts/<name>/token` resource handler.
  The annotation used to persist the issued credential identifier is now `authentication.kubernetes.io/issued-credential-id`. ([#123098](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123098), [@munnerz](https://github.com/munnerz)) [SIG Auth]

### External credential providers

feature gate `DisableKubeletCloudCredentialProviders` which allows disabling the in-tree kubelet credential providers.
  
  The feature gate `DisableKubeletCloudCredentialProviders` is currently in Alpha, which means is currently disabled by default. Once this feature gate moves to beta, in-tree credential providers will be disabled by default, and users will need to migrate to use external credential providers. ([#102507](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102507), [@ostrain](ht...

						Parent:        acc.Credentials.ParentUser,
						AccessKey:     user,
						SecretKey:     acc.Credentials.SecretKey,
						Groups:        acc.Credentials.Groups,
						Claims:        claims,
						SessionPolicy: policyJSON,
						Status:        acc.Credentials.Status,
						Name:          acc.Credentials.Name,
						Description:   acc.Credentials.Description,

pkg syscall (freebsd-arm64), type Cmsghdr struct, Type int32
pkg syscall (freebsd-arm64), type Credential struct
pkg syscall (freebsd-arm64), type Credential struct, Gid uint32
pkg syscall (freebsd-arm64), type Credential struct, Groups []uint32
pkg syscall (freebsd-arm64), type Credential struct, NoSetGroups bool
pkg syscall (freebsd-arm64), type Credential struct, Uid uint32
pkg syscall (freebsd-arm64), type Dirent struct

pkg syscall (darwin-arm64), type Cmsghdr struct, Type int32
pkg syscall (darwin-arm64), type Credential struct
pkg syscall (darwin-arm64), type Credential struct, Gid uint32
pkg syscall (darwin-arm64), type Credential struct, Groups []uint32
pkg syscall (darwin-arm64), type Credential struct, NoSetGroups bool
pkg syscall (darwin-arm64), type Credential struct, Uid uint32
pkg syscall (darwin-arm64), type Dirent struct

pkg syscall (netbsd-arm64-cgo), type Credential struct
pkg syscall (netbsd-arm64-cgo), type Credential struct, Gid uint32
pkg syscall (netbsd-arm64-cgo), type Credential struct, Groups []uint32
pkg syscall (netbsd-arm64-cgo), type Credential struct, NoSetGroups bool
pkg syscall (netbsd-arm64-cgo), type Credential struct, Uid uint32
pkg syscall (netbsd-arm64-cgo), type Dirent struct

- The AWS credential provider can now obtain ECR credentials even without the AWS cloud provider or being on an EC2 instance. Additionally, AWS credential provider caching has been improved to honor the ECR credential timeout. ([#75587](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75587), [@tiffanyfay](https://github.com/tiffanyfay))

- Expanded the on-disk kubelet credential provider configuration to allow an optional `tokenAttribute` field to be configured. When it is set, the kubelet will provision a token with the given audience bound to the current pod and its service account. This KSA token along with required annotations on the KSA defined in configuration will be sent to the credential provider plugin via its standard input (along with the image information that is already...