Release v0.177.0

🚀 Features

• Add utils command to migrate iamidentitymappings to EKS access entries (#7710)
• Add support for Ubuntu Pro 22.04 based EKS images (#7711)

🎯 Improvements

• Handle K8s service account lifecycle on eksctl create/delete podidentityassociation commands (#7706)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix reusing instanceRoleARN for nodegroups authorized with access entry (#7707)
• Allow nodegroup creation after a cluster subnet is deleted (#7714)
• Fix arn build logic to support different aws partitions (#7715)

🧰 Maintenance

• Disable IMDSv1 in unowned integration tests (#7722)

Acknowledgments

The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank @punkwalker, @veekaly, @aciba90 and @timandy

Release v0.176.0

🚀 Features

• Add support for AMIs based on AmazonLinux2023 (#7684)

🎯 Improvements

• Display full draft release notes in PR description (#7686)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Enforce authenticationMode:CONFIG\_MAP on Outposts (#7699)
• [EKSCTL create cluster command] Authorise self-managed nodes via aws-auth configmap when EKS access entries are disabled (#7698)
• Allow GPU instance types for Windows nodes (#7681)
• Include MixedInstancesPolicy LaunchTemplate for validation (#7661)
• Aim for namespace uniqueness across parallel integration tests specs (#7680)

🧰 Maintenance

• Bump mkdocs version (#7696)
• Bump dependencies (#7668)

Acknowledgments

The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank @qclaogui.

Release v0.176.0

🚀 Features

• Add support for AMIs based on AmazonLinux2023 (#7684)

🎯 Improvements

• Display full draft release notes in PR description (#7686)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Enforce authenticationMode:CONFIG\_MAP on Outposts (#7699)
• [EKSCTL create cluster command] Authorise self-managed nodes via aws-auth configmap when EKS access entries are disabled (#7698)
• Allow GPU instance types for Windows nodes (#7681)
• Include MixedInstancesPolicy LaunchTemplate for validation (#7661)
• Aim for namespace uniqueness across parallel integration tests specs (#7680)

🧰 Maintenance

• Bump mkdocs version (#7696)
• Bump dependencies (#7668)

Acknowledgments

The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank @qclaogui.

Release v0.175.0

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Upgrade Bottlerocket node with explicit Version field (#7666)

Release v0.175.0

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Upgrade Bottlerocket node with explicit Version field (#7666)

Release v0.174.0

🎯 Improvements

• Assign EFA network interface device index 1 to additional network cards (#7643)

🧰 Maintenance

• Refactor release workflows (#7632)

Acknowledgments

The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank No contributors.

Release v0.174.0

🎯 Improvements

• Assign EFA network interface device index 1 to additional network cards (#7643)

🧰 Maintenance

• Refactor release workflows (#7632)

Acknowledgments

The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank No contributors.

Release v0.173.0

🚀 Features

• Make EKS 1.29 default (#7599)

🎯 Improvements

• Add profile flag support for get and delete access entry (#7623)
• Remove inline ELB and CloudWatch policies from Cluster Role (#7603)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Increase STS session duration to fix caching credentials with assumed role MFA session (#7626)

🧰 Maintenance

• Automate PR with release notes draft (#7604)

📝 Documentation

• Update docs with Ubuntu 20.04 supported in EKS <= 1.29 (#7618)

Acknowledgments

The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank @ibnjunaid, @rpocase and @vutny.

Release v0.173.0

🚀 Features

• Make EKS 1.29 default (#7599)

🎯 Improvements

• Add profile flag support for get and delete access entry (#7623)
• Remove inline ELB and CloudWatch policies from Cluster Role (#7603)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Increase STS session duration to fix caching credentials with assumed role MFA session (#7626)

🧰 Maintenance

• Automate PR with release notes draft (#7604)

📝 Documentation

• Update docs with Ubuntu 20.04 supported in EKS <= 1.29 (#7618)

Acknowledgments

The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank @ibnjunaid, @rpocase and @vutny.

Release v0.172.0

🎯 Improvements

• Fix checks for updated addon versions (#7471)
• Check for empty region before invoking API in AWS SDK (#7523)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Revert removing RetryMetricsHeader in presigned requests (#7563)

🧰 Maintenance

• Bump dependencies (#7554)
• Extract common workflow steps to set up build environment (#7551)

Acknowledgments

The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank: @a2ush and @mttrb