EKS Anywhere v0.19.0 release

Added

• Support for Kubernetes v1.29
• Support for in-place EKS Anywhere and Kubernetes version upgrades on Bare Metal clusters
• Support for horizontally scaling etcd count in clusters with external etcd deployments (#7127)
• Etcd encryption for Nutanix (#7565)
• Nutanix Cloud Controller Manager integration (#7534)
• Enable image signing for all images used in cluster operations
• RedHat 9 support for CloudStack (#2842)
• New upgrade management-components command which upgrades management components independently of cluster components (#7238)
• New upgrade plan management-components command which provides new release versions for the next management components upgrade (#7447)
• Make maxUnhealthy count configurable for control plane and worker machines (#7281)

Changed

• Unification of controller and CLI workflows for cluster lifecycle operations such as create, upgrade, and delete
• Perform CAPI Backup on workload cluster during upgrade(#7364)
• Extend maxSurge and maxUnavailable configuration support to all providers
• Upgraded Cilium to v1.13.19
• Upgraded EKS-D:
  • v1-25-eks-30 to v1-25-eks-32
  • v1-26-eks-26 to v1-26-eks-28
  • v1-27-eks-20 to v1-27-eks-22
  • v1-28-eks-13 to v1-28-eks-15
  • v1-29-eks-4
• Cluster API: v1.5.2 to v1.6.1
• Cluster API Provider vSphere: v1.7.4 to v1.8.5
• Cluster API Provider Nutanix: v1.2.3 to v1.3.1
• Flux: v2.0.0 to v2.2.3
• Kube-vip: v0.6.0 to v0.7.0
• Image-builder: v0.1.19 to v0.1.24
• Kind: v0.20.0 to v0.22.0

Removed

• Support for Kubernetes v1.24
• Support for bare metal Bottlerocket clusters running Kubernetes versions v1.29 and above (#7754)
• Support for MachineHealthCheck-related CLI flags

Fixed

• Validate OCI namespaces for registry mirror on Bottlerocket (#7257)
• Make Cilium reconciler use provider namespace when generating network policy (#7705)

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