Kube State Metrics unable to find v2beta2.HorizontalPodAutoscaler

[MattCosturos]

What happened:
Kube State Metrics logs an error every second about not being able to find v2beta2.HorizontalPodAutoscaler.

I1003 18:35:19.188423       1 builder.go:232] Active resources: certificatesigningrequests,configmaps,cronjobs,daemonsets,deployments,endpoints,horizontalpodautoscalers,ingresses,jobs,limitranges,mutatingwebhookconfigurations,namespaces,networkpolicies,nodes,persistentvolumeclaims,persistentvolumes,poddisruptionbudgets,pods,replicasets,replicationcontrollers,resourcequotas,secrets,services,statefulsets,storageclasses,volumeattachments
W1003 18:35:19.214974       1 reflector.go:324] pkg/mod/k8s.io/client-go@v0.24.1/tools/cache/reflector.go:167: failed to list *v2beta2.HorizontalPodAutoscaler: the server could not find the requested resource
E1003 18:35:19.215215       1 reflector.go:138] pkg/mod/k8s.io/client-go@v0.24.1/tools/cache/reflector.go:167: Failed to watch *v2beta2.HorizontalPodAutoscaler: failed to list *v2beta2.HorizontalPodAutoscaler: the server could not find the requested resource
W1003 18:35:20.685757       1 reflector.go:324] pkg/mod/k8s.io/client-go@v0.24.1/tools/cache/reflector.go:167: failed to list *v2beta2.HorizontalPodAutoscaler: the server could not find the requested resource
E1003 18:35:20.685798       1 reflector.go:138] pkg/mod/k8s.io/client-go@v0.24.1/tools/cache/reflector.go:167: Failed to watch *v2beta2.HorizontalPodAutoscaler: failed to list *v2beta2.HorizontalPodAutoscaler: the server could not find the requested resource

What you expected to happen:
I expect Kube State Metrics to not try and list a depreciated api version.

We are currently not even using any HPA

kubectl describe hpa -A
No resources found

kubectl api-versions | grep autoscaling
autoscaling/v1
autoscaling/v2

How to reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible):
Not really feasible to repo but this is how we got here.
Have kube running in azure with a version before 1.27.
Add HPA annotation to a pod.
later on remove HPA annotation from pods since we didn't really need it.
Update to version 1.27.9

Anything else we need to know?:

Environment:

• kube-state-metrics version:

  • Image tag docker.io/bitnami/kube-state-metrics:2.5.0-debian-11-r3

• Kubernetes version (use kubectl version):

Client Version: v1.27.9
Kustomize Version: v5.0.1
Server Version: v1.27.9

• Cloud provider or hardware configuration: Azure, 1.27.9
• Other info:

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