Release v0.222.0

🚀 Features

• Add support for EKS Windows Server 2025 in eksctl (#8648)
• Allow wildcard matching of service account subject (#8629)

🎯 Improvements

• Bump aws-sdk-go-v2 versions to support aws login (#8668)
• Update default cluster version to Kubernetes v1.34 (#8645)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• replace AmazonLinux2 amis with AmazonLinux2023 | remove override-bootstrap test in custom_ami tests (#8666)
• fix integration test with eks default version change (#8665)
• only create iam role stack for capability if the roleArn is not provided (#8655)
• fix ssm resolver ami test with addition of bottleRocket nvidia fips amis (#8656)

Acknowledgments

The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank @KlwntSingh, @avoidik, @cdirubbio, @kprahulraj and @naclonts.