Release v0.216.0

🚀 Features

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

🎯 Improvements

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

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Make update kube-proxy not use minimal images for >= 1.34 (#8557)
• Remove kubernetes.io/cluster/<clusterName> tag from EFA security group (#8556)
• Create EFA specific security group for self-managed node groups always (#8554)
• 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 (#8558)
• Update coredns (#8537)
• Migrate completly off V1 SDK to V2 SDK (#8548)

Acknowledgments

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