eksctl፦ ሁሉም ስሪቶች እና የቆዩ ስሪቶች

# Release v0.231.0

## 🚀 Features

• Add connectionTracking support to nodegroup config (#8872)
• Add TerminatedPodGcThreshold to control plane component config (#8853)
• Add support for vpc.controlPlaneOnPrivateSubnets (#8793)

## 🎯 Improvements

• chore：harden addon warning logging and empty drain (#8869)
• ci：harden the release pipeline — isolate EKSCTLBOT\_TOKEN, sign releases, publish SBOMs (#8863)
• ci：pass workflow inputs to run steps via env vars (#8860)

## 🐛 Bug Fixes

• fix：resolve latest addon version before pod identity lookup (#8867)
• chore：harden addon warning logging and empty drain (#8869)
• fix：use interruptionQueue Helm value for Karpenter >= v0.33.0 (#8844)
• Grant ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups to the IPv6 VPC CNI role (#8837)

## 🧰 Maintenance

• ci：harden the release pipeline — isolate EKSCTLBOT\_TOKEN, sign releases, publish SBOMs (#8863)
• ci：pass workflow inputs to run steps via env vars (#8860)
• Update ec2-info (#8854)
• Update coredns (#8842)
• Update coredns (#8841)
• Update nvidia-device-plugin to v0.20.0 (#8840)

## 📝 Documentation

• docs：explain addon version differences (#8868)

## Acknowledgments

The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank @atharvaHJoshi, @chithreshazad, @guessi, @gustavodiaz7722, @sapphirew, @warren830, @chithresha and @michaelbeaumont.

Release v0.229.0
🚀 Features
• Add cluster version rollback support with rollbackConfig (#8780)
• Add support for EKS on Outposts with EC2 instance store (#8774)
Acknowledgments
The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank @DimitriPL5 and @michaelhtm.

Release v0.229.0
🚀 Features
- Add cluster version rollback support with rollbackConfig (#8780)
- Add support for EKS on Outposts with EC2 instance store (#8774)
Acknowledgments
The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank @DimitriPL5 and @michaelhtm.

Release v0.228.0
🚀 Features
- feat: add support for controlPlaneEgressMode (#8770)
Acknowledgments
The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank @cxbrowne1207.

Release v0.227.0
🐛 Bug Fixes
- fix: missing Karpenter permission (#8749)
- fix: Regionalize all container images in UseRegionalImage() (#8744)
Acknowledgments
The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank @candonov, and @sapphirew.

Release v0.226.0
🚀 Features
- Adding support for upgrading eks hybrid nodes on EKS clusters (#8719)
- feat(ubuntu): add support for resolute (#8683)
🐛 Bug Fixes
- Populate role ARN from stack outputs on NoChangeError in pod identity update (#8717)
- fix: only add ECR Public perms in aws partition (#8709)
🧰 Maintenance
- Update aws-node to v1.21.1 (#8541)
- Update ec2-info (#8626)
- Update nvidia-device-plugin to v0.19.0 (#8647)
- Update coredns (#8699)
📝 Documentation
- fix: auto-detect system architecture instead of hardcoding (#8708)
- karpenter: clarify createServiceAccount semantics in docs, schema, and runtime log (#8720)
- Update Windows compatibility hint to recommend AL2023 instead of AL2 (#8714)
Acknowledgments
The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank @cloudsmithy, @cs-mehta, @fletcherw, @guessi, @pokearu and @rpocase.

Release v0.225.0
🚀 Features
- Honour permissionPolicyName for pod identity inline IAM policies (#8675)
- feat: add fargate profile support for EKS internal endpoint (#8694)
- feat: add permissions for ECR Public container pulls to Auto Mode NodeRole (#8698)
🐛 Bug Fixes
- fix(goformation): Remove redundant condition in property.go (#8691)
Acknowledgments
The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank @HusainZafar, @ShiriNmi1520, @avoidik and @fletcherw.

Release v0.224.0
🚀 Features
- Add Gateway API ELB cleanup support for eksctl cluster deletion (#8664)
- Update go mod and go sum to use the latest nodeAdm api (#8677)
🎯 Improvements
- Add Gateway API ELB cleanup support for eksctl cluster deletion (#8664)
🐛 Bug Fixes
- add missing iam permission for enabling karpenter | fix karpenter discovery tags in subnets and security groups (#8684)
🧰 Maintenance
- Update coredns (#8651)
Acknowledgments
The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank @kprahulraj, @prasad0896 and @shraddhabang.

Release v0.223.0
🚀 Features
- add support to policy for pod-identity-association create and update (#8674)
🐛 Bug Fixes
- change ubuntu ami family to 2404 (#8670)
Acknowledgments
The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank @kprahulraj.

Release v0.222.0
🚀 Features
- Add support for EKS Windows Server 2025 in eksctl (#8648)
- Allow wildcard matching of service account subject (#8629)
🎯 Improvements
- Bump aws-sdk-go-v2 versions to support aws login (#8668)
- Update default cluster version to Kubernetes v1.34 (#8645)
🐛 Bug Fixes
- replace AmazonLinux2 amis with AmazonLinux2023 | remove override-bootstrap test in custom_ami tests (#8666)
- fix integration test with eks default version change (#8665)
- only create iam role stack for capability if the roleArn is not provided (#8655)
- fix ssm resolver ami test with addition of bottleRocket nvidia fips amis (#8656)
Acknowledgments
The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank @KlwntSingh, @avoidik, @cdirubbio, @kprahulraj and @naclonts.

Release v0.221.0
🎯 Improvements
- added support us-isob-west-1 region (#8602)
🐛 Bug Fixes
- Fix failures in cluster deletion in regions without capability support (#8631)
- Add taints for AL2023 NodeGroups as tolerations for Nvidia device plugin daemonset (#8627)
🧰 Maintenance
- Update ec2-info (#8578)
Acknowledgments
The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank @NicholasBlaskey, @jdwtf and @knottnt.

Release v0.220.0
🚀 Features
- Add support for EKS Capability (#8603)
Acknowledgments
The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank @punkwalker.

Release v0.219.0
💥 Breaking Changes
- Make AL2023 be the default for all k8s version to handle AL2 deprecation (#8593)
🚀 Features
- support Al2023 on outposts (#8599)
🎯 Improvements
- Make AL2023 be the default for all k8s version to handle AL2 deprecation (#8593)
Acknowledgments
The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank @NicholasBlaskey.

Release v0.218.0
🚀 Features
- Add support for ControlPlaneScalingConfig (#8590)
🎯 Improvements
- Enable termination protection by default for eksctl CFN stacks (#8586)
Acknowledgments
The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank @NicholasBlaskey and @abhay-krishna.

Release v0.217.0
🚀 Features
- feat: Add enhanced node repair configuration support (#8512)
🐛 Bug Fixes
- Fix issue with upgrade policy not being applied (#8577)
🧰 Maintenance
- Update nvidia-device-plugin to v0.18.0 (#8549)
- Update ec2-info (#8536)
Acknowledgments
The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank @NicholasBlaskey, and @sapphirew.

Release v0.216.0
🚀 Features
- Add support for ap-southeast-6 (#8544)
- feat: add support for UpgradePolicy attribute in cluster creation (#8534)
🎯 Improvements
- Fix upgrade vpc-cni test relying on assumptions about vpc versions (#8562)
- Fix integration test by waiting 2 minutes for ebs update (#8561)
- Fix test failure for add-on waiting for ebs csi driver (#8559)
- For dns test, use an ECR busybox image (#8560)
- Don't check access entry length to fix failed intg test (#8558)
- Don't wait for metrics-server if its the only add-on (#8552)
- Migrate completly off V1 SDK to V2 SDK (#8548)
🐛 Bug Fixes
- Make update kube-proxy not use minimal images for >= 1.34 (#8557)
- Remove kubernetes.io/cluster/<clusterName> tag from EFA security group (#8556)
- Create EFA specific security group for self-managed node groups always (#8554)
- Make metrics server create after node groups so it can get scheduled … (#8538)
🧰 Maintenance
- Don't check access entry length to fix failed intg test (#8558)
- Update coredns (#8537)
- Migrate completly off V1 SDK to V2 SDK (#8548)
Acknowledgments
The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank @NicholasBlaskey and @guessi.

Release v0.215.0
🚀 Features
- automatic security group tagging for karpenter (#8501)
🎯 Improvements
- fix: use default security group for eks 1.33+ when EFA is enabled (#8509)
- fix: karpenter tagging, addons and flaky integration tests (#8508)
🐛 Bug Fixes
- fix: match cloudformation stack name using suffix for pod identity association (#8511)
- fix: Add exact match check to use specified addon versions (#8510)
- fix: Fix GPU instance filtering when --instance-selector-gpus=0 (#8506)
- fix: use latest managed addon version for kube-proxy image name (#8505)
🧰 Maintenance
- Update aws-node to v1.20.3 (#8471)
- Update nvidia-device-plugin to v0.17.4 (#8453)
- Update coredns (#8472)
- Update ec2-info (#8454)
📝 Documentation
- docs: Add Auto Mode behavior change notices (#8513)
- Revert Add scheduled maintenance announcement for eksctl.io (#8500)
- Add scheduled maintenance announcement for eksctl.io (#8498)
Acknowledgments
The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank and @sapphirew.

Release v0.208.0
🚀 Features
- Enable enclave options in EC2 Launch Template (#8349)
- Add support for AL2023 arm64 nvidia amiType (#8351)
🎯 Improvements
- Add AmazonLinux2 end-of-life warning message when creating clusters and nodegroups (#8376)
🐛 Bug Fixes
- Fix for create podidentityassociation bug in auto-mode clusters (#8358)
- Fix CoreDNS scheduling on Fargate failing when component label in selector (#8357)
- Fix support for non-current-generation ec2 instance types (#8354)
- Fix get iamserviceaccount returning error for unrelated CloudFormation Stack (#8350)
🧰 Maintenance
- Update coredns default to v1.11.4-eksbuild.10 (#8363)
- Update ec2-info (#8361)
- Drop support for Ubuntu 18.04 images (#8344)
📝 Documentation
- Update binary install for best practices (#8359)
Acknowledgments
The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank @cloudxabide, @dheeraj-coding, @naclonts, @ndbaker1, @tarikdem and @toabctl.

Release v0.207.0
🚀 Features
- Add support for new force parameter when upgrading cluster version (#8319)
🎯 Improvements
- Enable creating IPV6 clusters with pod identities in addition to IRSA (#8322)
- Add latest changes to AWS Load Balancer Controller IAM Policy (#8316)
🧰 Maintenance
- Fully remove intermediate eksctl build image (#8341)
- Remove redundant 'typecheck' linter (#8298)
Acknowledgments
The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank @MartinEmrich, @alexandear, @rsumukha and @simonmarty.

Release v0.204.0
🚀 Features
- Enable NVIDIA Plugin automatically for AL2023 GPU AMIs (#8199)
- Added EBS IO2 volumeType support to Managed NodeGroup (#7989)
- Enable Bottlerocket on Neuron Instance types (Inferentia and Trainium) (#8173)
🎯 Improvements
- pre-Generate EC2 instance type details out of band (#8206)
- New EFA plugin images need a new volume for EFA plugin to mount - /dev/infiniband (#8201)
- Add addon name to some logging lines (#8200)
🧰 Maintenance
- Update building with golang 1.24 (#8210)
- Update aws-node to v1.19.2 (#8160)
Acknowledgments
The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank @BhowmickSumit, @Juneezee, @alexandear, @dims and @vigh-m.

Release v0.191.0
🎯 Improvements
- Add support for EKS 1.31 (#7973)

Release v0.183.0
🎯 Improvements
- Make EKS 1.30 the default (#7827)

🐛 Bug Fixes
- Upgrade Bottlerocket node with explicit Version field (#7666)

🚀 Features
- Add support for EKS Pod Identity Associations (#7312, #7313, #7315)
🧰 Maintenance
- Ignore google docs domains for link checker (#7316)
- Bump aws-sdk dependencies (#7292)
- Bump dependencies (#7267)
- Improve CRUD suite runtime (#7208)
📝 Documentation
- Fix README Links (#7230)