Release v0.205.0

🚀 Features

• Add support for creating access entries of type EC2 for EKS Auto Mode (#8228)
• Support for setting MarketType/InstanceMarketOptions for use with capacity-block (#8207)

🎯 Improvements

• Update eksctl api schema for neuron devices (#8255)
• Fix go.sum; check go.mod and go.sum on CI (#8254)
• Switch default for ExecConfig api version from v1alpha1->v1beta1 (#8252)
• Allow separate explicit selection of Neuron Devices (separate from GPUs) in api (#8243)
• Add support for allow/deny regexp(s) in instanceSelector (#8247)
• Re-add support for env var keys from AWS SDK (#8231)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Allow adding remote network config to private clusters (#8261)
• Re-allow use of the cnn1-az4 availability zone (#8240)
• Add missing coredns-1.32 json file (#8233)
• Print the computed upgrade version correctly (#8232)
• Remove support for p2 instances which require NVIDIA driver <= 470 (#8226)
• Fix issue installing the nvidia device plugin unconditionally on al2023 (#8225)
• Do not create a placement group when using a reservation (#8220)

🧰 Maintenance

• Update aws-node to v1.19.3 (#8258)

📝 Documentation

• Update Karpenter usage documentation to reflect latest supported version(s) (#8250)

Acknowledgments

The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank @NicholasBlaskey, @alexandear, @bryantbiggs, @cenkalti, @dims, @escardoso and @vsoch.