We upgraded our Jenkins Environment to 2.332.1 and Kubernetes Plugin to 1.31.2. After restarting our Jenkins jobs are not responding. we tried to trigger manually and it not responding. When we checked the system logs, we get this exception. 

Can any one familiar with this issue, please help us out

Our Jenkins Setup is Running on Azure Kubernetes Cluster

java.lang.IllegalStateException: The class jenkins.security.QueueItemAuthenticatorConfiguration was not found, potentially not yet loaded
    at hudson.ExtensionList.getInstance(ExtensionList.java:166)
    at jenkins.security.QueueItemAuthenticatorConfiguration.get(QueueItemAuthenticatorConfiguration.java:60)
    at jenkins.security.QueueItemAuthenticatorConfiguration$ProviderImpl.getAuthenticators(QueueItemAuthenticatorConfiguration.java:69)
    at jenkins.security.QueueItemAuthenticatorProvider$IteratorImpl.hasNext(QueueItemAuthenticatorProvider.java:43)
    at hudson.model.Queue$Item.authenticate2(Queue.java:2362)
    at hudson.model.Node.canTake(Node.java:401)
    at hudson.model.Queue.makeFlyWeightTaskBuildable(Queue.java:1742)
    at hudson.model.Queue.makeBuildable(Queue.java:1704)
    at hudson.model.Queue.maintain(Queue.java:1573)
    at hudson.model.Queue$1.call(Queue.java:330)
    at hudson.model.Queue$1.call(Queue.java:327)
    at jenkins.util.AtmostOneTaskExecutor$1.call(AtmostOneTaskExecutor.java:109)
    at jenkins.util.AtmostOneTaskExecutor$1.call(AtmostOneTaskExecutor.java:99)
    at jenkins.security.ImpersonatingExecutorService$2.call(ImpersonatingExecutorService.java:80)
    at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:264)
    at hudson.remoting.AtmostOneThreadExecutor$Worker.run(AtmostOneThreadExecutor.java:121)
    at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:829)