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Release v0.216.0

🚀 Features

• Add support for ap-southeast-6 (Add support for ap-southeast-6 #8544)
• feat: add support for UpgradePolicy attribute in cluster creation (feat: add support for UpgradePolicy attribute in cluster creation #8534)

🎯 Improvements

• Fix upgrade vpc-cni test relying on assumptions about vpc versions (Fix upgrade vpc-cni test relying on assumptions about vpc versions #8562)
• Fix integration test by waiting 2 minutes for ebs update (Fix integration test by waiting 2 minutes for ebs update #8561)
• Fix test failure for add-on waiting for ebs csi driver (Fix test failure for add-on waiting for ebs csi driver #8559)
• For dns test, use an ECR busybox image (For dns test, use an ECR busybox image #8560)
• Don't check access entry length to fix failed intg test (Don't check access entry length to fix failed intg test #8558)
• Don't wait for metrics-server if its the only add-on (Don't wait for metrics-server if its the only add-on #8552)
• Migrate completly off V1 SDK to V2 SDK (Migrate completly off V1 SDK to V2 SDK #8548)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Make update kube-proxy not use minimal images for >= 1.34 (Make update kube-proxy not use minimal images for >= 1.34 #8557)
• Remove kubernetes.io/cluster/<clusterName> tag from EFA security group (Remove kubernetes.io/cluster/<clusterName> tag from EFA security group #8556)
• Create EFA specific security group for self-managed node groups always (Create EFA specific security group for self-managed node groups always #8554)
• Make metrics server create after node groups so it can get scheduled … (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 (Don't check access entry length to fix failed intg test #8558)
• Update coredns (Update coredns #8537)
• Migrate completly off V1 SDK to V2 SDK (Migrate completly off V1 SDK to V2 SDK #8548)

Acknowledgments

The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank @NicholasBlaskey and @guessi.

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