How to fix exec plugin: invalid apiVersion "client.authentication.k8s.io/v1alpha1"?

I recently spin up a new AWS EKS cluster (version 1.23) and tried to manage it with a newly downloaded kubectl cli (version 1.24).

When i tried to get the namespaces with the kubectl cli and faced this error:

~# kubectl get ns
error: exec plugin: invalid apiVersion "client.authentication.k8s.io/v1alpha1"

Initially I thought it was due to the incorrect api version used in the kubeconfig, thus I referred to https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/config-api/client-authentication.v1beta1/ and changed to "client.authentication.k8s.io/v1beta1" and was also faced with the same error.

A little googling brings me to this github's issue on AWS cli (https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/issues/6920) which perfectly sums up the error I'm facing.

I downloaded the kubectl cli (version 1.23.6) and everything went fine there after.

~# curl -LO "https://dl.k8s.io/release/v1.23.6/bin/darwin/arm64/kubectl"
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   138  100   138    0     0    515      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--   530
100 52.8M  100 52.8M    0     0  16.9M      0  0:00:03  0:00:03 --:--:-- 18.6M
~# chmod +x kubectl
~# sudo mv kubectl /usr/local/bin
~# kubectl version --client
Client Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"23", GitVersion:"v1.23.6", GitCommit:"ad3338546da947756e8a88aa6822e9c11e7eac22", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2022-04-14T08:49:13Z", GoVersion:"go1.17.9", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"darwin/arm64"}
~# kubectl get ns
NAME              STATUS   AGE
default           Active   51m
kube-node-lease   Active   51m
kube-public       Active   51m
kube-system       Active   51m