### SIG Cloud Provider

        }
        return httpClient;
    }

    // --- Abstract methods for subclasses ---

    /**
     * Performs the actual availability check against the LLM provider.
     *
     * @return true if the provider is available
     */
    protected abstract boolean checkAvailabilityNow();

    /**
     * Gets the request timeout in milliseconds.
     *

- Updated cri-tools to v1.34.0. ([#133636](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/133636), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Updated etcd to v3.6.5. ([#134251](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/134251), [@joshjms](https://github.com/joshjms)) [SIG API Machinery, Cloud Provider, Cluster Lifecycle, Etcd and Testing]

* Logging Implementation

 Maven 3.1.0 ships bundled with {{{https://www.slf4j.org/api/org/slf4j/simple/SimpleLogger.html}SLF4J simple logger}} and since 3.5.0 {{{../maven-slf4j-provider/}Maven-customized <<<maven-slf4j-provider>>>}},
 but is ready to use other logging implementations: SLF4J is responsible for loading the implementation, referred to as
 {{{http://www.slf4j.org/manual.html#swapping}"SLF4J bindings"}}.

import org.gradle.api.artifacts.transform.TransformOutputs
import org.gradle.api.artifacts.transform.TransformParameters
import org.gradle.api.file.FileSystemLocation
import org.gradle.api.provider.Provider
import org.gradle.api.tasks.PathSensitive
import org.gradle.api.tasks.PathSensitivity
import org.gradle.work.DisableCachingByDefault

import java.nio.file.Files
import java.util.zip.ZipEntry

      <scope>provided</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.eclipse.sisu</groupId>
      <artifactId>org.eclipse.sisu.plexus</artifactId>
      <scope>provided</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.eclipse.sisu</groupId>
      <artifactId>org.eclipse.sisu.inject</artifactId>
      <scope>provided</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>

SIG-VMware development was primarily focused on fixing bugs for the in-tree cloud provider, starting the development of the external cloud provider and taking ownership of the cluster-api provider for vSphere.

In-tree cloud provider bug fixes and improvements included:
- Adding initial Zones support to the provider using vSphere Tags
- Improving the testing harness for the cloud provider by introducing vcsim for automated testing

- JobReadyPods graduates to Beta and it's enabled by default. ([#107476](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107476), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps and Testing]

import org.gradle.api.file.ConfigurableFileCollection
import org.gradle.api.file.FileCollection
import org.gradle.api.file.RegularFileProperty
import org.gradle.api.model.ObjectFactory
import org.gradle.api.provider.Provider
import org.gradle.api.tasks.CacheableTask
import org.gradle.api.tasks.InputFiles
import org.gradle.api.tasks.OutputFile
import org.gradle.api.tasks.PathSensitive
import org.gradle.api.tasks.PathSensitivity

import org.lastaflute.web.login.credential.LoginCredential;

/**
 * SPNEGO authentication credential implementation.
 *
 * This class represents login credentials obtained through SPNEGO (Security Provider
 * Negotiation Protocol) authentication. It contains the username extracted from the
 * SPNEGO authentication process, typically from a Kerberos ticket.
 */