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 v0.231.0

🚀 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 v0.230.0

🚀 Features

• Add control plane component config support (#8821)
• Add support for BottlerocketFips AMI family in managed nodegroups (#8778)

🎯 Improvements

• Make vpc-cni and kube-proxy optional when creating IPv6 clusters (#8790)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Grant ec2:DescribeSubnets to the IPv6 VPC CNI role (#8835)
• Bump oras-go to 2.6.2 to resolve five open advisories (#8829)

🧰 Maintenance

• Update aws-node to v1.23.0 (#8832)
• Update coredns (#8833)
• Update ec2-info (#8723)
• Update coredns (#8724)
• Update aws-node to v1.22.4 (#8747)
• Update nvidia-device-plugin to v0.19.3 (#8722)

Acknowledgments

The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank @41ks, @amdonov, @chithreshazad, @gustavodiaz7722, @chithresha and @michaelbeaumont.

Release v0.230.0

🚀 Features

• Add control plane component config support (#8821)
• Add support for BottlerocketFips AMI family in managed nodegroups (#8778)

🎯 Improvements

• Make vpc-cni and kube-proxy optional when creating IPv6 clusters (#8790)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Grant ec2:DescribeSubnets to the IPv6 VPC CNI role (#8835)
• Bump oras-go to 2.6.2 to resolve five open advisories (#8829)

🧰 Maintenance

• Update aws-node to v1.23.0 (#8832)
• Update coredns (#8833)
• Update ec2-info (#8723)
• Update coredns (#8724)
• Update aws-node to v1.22.4 (#8747)
• Update nvidia-device-plugin to v0.19.3 (#8722)

Acknowledgments

The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank @41ks, @amdonov, @chithreshazad, @gustavodiaz7722, @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 v0.228.0

🚀 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 v0.227.0

🐛 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.