Supported OS version details
| vSphere | Bare Metal | Nutanix | Snow | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu 22.04 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Ubuntu 24.04 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | — |
| Bottlerocket 1.68.1 | ✔ | — | — | — |
| RHEL 8.x | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | — |
| RHEL 9.x | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | — |
* Bottlerocket v1.68.1 applies to Kubernetes versions 1.31 through 1.37.
* RHEL 8's default kernel is not supported by kubeadm for Kubernetes versions 1.32 and above. Use RHEL 9 for these Kubernetes versions.
Added
- Support for Kubernetes v1.37 (#10991).
- IPv6 networking is available as a beta feature for baremetal provider.
Changed
- EKS Distro:
- Bottlerocket:
v1.68.0tov1.68.1(#5786). - Cluster API (CAPI):
v1.13.7tov1.14.3(#5771). - Cluster API Provider vSphere (CAPV):
v1.16.1tov1.17.0(#5650). - Cluster API Provider Nutanix (CAPX):
v1.6.1tov1.10.3(#5429, #10770). - Cluster API Provider AWS Snow (CAPAS):
v0.3.3tov0.3.5(#5691). - Cluster API Provider Tinkerbell (CAPT):
v0.6.6to the v0.7.0 development commitc3ee56df719e83851e015fa3cac157324fddfbf0(#5681). - cert-manager:
v1.20.2tov1.21.2(#5740). - Flux:
v2.8.8tov2.10.0(#5546). - EKS Anywhere packages controller:
v0.4.17tov0.4.20. - cri-tools:
v1.36.0tov1.37.0. - govmomi:
v0.54.2tov0.56.2(#5534). - Helm:
v4.2.0tov4.3.1(#5460). - Kind:
v0.32.0tov0.33.0(#5645). - kube-vip:
v1.2.3tov1.3.1(#5234). - Troubleshoot:
v0.130.0tov0.134.2(#5572).
Fixed
- Avoid importing the CLI tools image twice during air-gapped image import (#11025).