Release v0.172.0

🎯 Improvements

• Fix checks for updated addon versions (#7471)
• Check for empty region before invoking API in AWS SDK (#7523)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Revert removing RetryMetricsHeader in presigned requests (#7563)

🧰 Maintenance

• Bump dependencies (#7554)
• Extract common workflow steps to set up build environment (#7551)

Acknowledgments

The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank:
@a2ush and @mttrb