- Removed the last remaining in-tree gcp cloud provider and credential provider.
  Please use the external cloud provider and credential provider from https://github.com/kubernetes/cloud-provider-gcp

### Auth

* 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))

### Feature

- A client-go metric, rest_client_exec_plugin_call_total, has been added to track total calls to client-go credential plugins. ([#98892](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98892), [@ankeesler](https://github.com/ankeesler)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth, Cluster Lifecycle and Instrumentation]

	return MetricDescription{
		Namespace: namespace,
		Subsystem: replicationSubsystem,
		Name:      credentialErrors,
		Help:      "Total number of replication credential errors since server uptime",
		Type:      counterMetric,
	}
}

func getClusterReplCurrQueuedOperationsMD() MetricDescription {
	return MetricDescription{
		Namespace: nodeMetricNamespace,

* Match GroupVersionKind against specific version ([#34010](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/34010), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh))
* Fixed an issue that caused a credential error when deploying federation control plane onto a GKE cluster. ([#31747](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/31747), [@madhusudancs](https://github.com/madhusudancs))

* vendor: update github.com/coreos/go-oidc client package ([#31564](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/31564), [@ericchiang](https://github.com/ericchiang))
* Fixed an issue that caused a credential error when deploying federation control plane onto a GKE cluster. ([#31747](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/31747), [@madhusudancs](https://github.com/madhusudancs))

- Fixed ambiguous behavior when bearer token (kubectl --token=..) and an exec credential plugin was configured in the same context - the bearer token now takes precedence. ([#91745](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/91745), [@anderseknert](https://github.com/anderseknert)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth and Testing]

 if both are present in a container spec.

 - The default Bootstrap Token created with `kubeadm init` v1.8 expires
 and is deleted after 24 hours by default to limit the exposure of the
 valuable credential. You can create a new Bootstrap Token with
 `kubeadm token create` or make the default token permanently valid by specifying
 `--token-ttl 0` to `kubeadm init`. The default token can later be deleted with