Weekly Release 2025-07-10

This is the weekly bundle and EKS-A CLI release from main.

Date: 2025-07-10
Build-tooling repo commit: 47ba4a5788bbc06965d90261a367f132af848b39
CLI repo commit: ea94324

v0.23.0

v0.23.0

Supported OS version details

	vSphere	Bare Metal	Nutanix	CloudStack	Snow
Ubuntu 20.04	✔	✔	✔	—	✔
Ubuntu 22.04	✔	✔	✔	—	—
Bottlerocket 1.40.0	✔	—	—	—	—
RHEL 8.x (*)	✔	✔	✔	✔	—
RHEL 9.x	✔	✔	✔	✔	—

* RHEL 8's kernel version (4.18) is not supported by kubeadm for Kubernetes versions 1.32 and above (see Kubernetes GitHub issue #129462). As a result, EKS Anywhere does not support using RHEL 8 as the node operating system for Kubernetes versions 1.32 and above.

Added

• Support for monitoring certificate expiration for external etcd and control plane (https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/kubeadm/kubeadm-certs/#certificate-expiration) machines through the EKS Anywhere cluster status field. This helps track certificates that have a default validity period of one year.(#9854)
• Support for CAPI diagnostics feature in CAPI, CAPX, CAPV, CAPC, CAPX controller pod

Changed

• Added EKS-D for 1-33::
  • v1-33-eks-5
• Cert-manager: v1.16.5 to v1.17.2
• Cluster API: v1.9.6 to v1.10.2
• Cluster API Provider Cloudstack: v0.5.0 to v0.6.0
• Cluster API Provider Nutanix: v1.5.4 to v1.6.1
• Cluster API Provider Tinkerbell: v0.6.4 to v0.6.5
• Cluster API Provider vSphere: v1.12.0 to v1.13.0
• Controller-runtime: v0.16.5 to v0.20.4
• Kube-rbac-proxy: v0.19.0 to v0.19.1
• Cri-tools: v1.32.0 to v1.33.0
• Flux:
  • Cli: v2.5.1 to v2.6.0
  • Helm Controller: v1.2.0 to v1.3.0
  • Kustomize Controller: v1.5.1 to v1.6.0
  • Notification Controller: v1.5.0 to v1.6.0
  • Source Controller: v1.5.0 to v1.6.0
• Govmomi: v0.48.1 to v0.50.0
• Image builder: v0.1.42 to v0.1.44
• Kind: v0.26.0 to v0.29.0
• Kube-vip: v0.8.10 to v0.9.1
• Troubleshoot: v0.117.0 to v0.119.0

Removed

• With CAPI diagnostics enabled, removed the redundant kube-rbac-proxy metrics server from the CloudStack provider controller.
• Removed vSphere failure domain feature gate VSPHERE_FAILURE_DOMAIN_ENABLED which gradated to GA in this version(#9827)

Weekly Release 2025-06-27

This is the weekly bundle and EKS-A CLI release from main.

Date: 2025-06-27
Build-tooling repo commit: c04c26cf2fe01ee628c72e89b6922b3347fd368d
CLI repo commit: e37fda0

v0.22.6

v0.22.6

Supported OS version details

	vSphere	Bare Metal	Nutanix	CloudStack	Snow
Ubuntu 20.04	✔	✔	✔	—	✔
Ubuntu 22.04	✔	✔	✔	—	—
Bottlerocket 1.32.0	✔	—	—	—	—
RHEL 8.x (*)	✔	✔	✔	✔	—
RHEL 9.x	✔	✔	✔	✔	—

* RHEL 8's kernel version (4.18) is not supported by kubeadm for Kubernetes versions 1.32 and above (see Kubernetes GitHub issue #129462). As a result, EKS Anywhere does not support using RHEL 8 as the node operating system for Kubernetes versions 1.32 and above.

Changed

• EKS Distro:
  • v1-32-eks-15
  • v1-31-eks-22
  • v1-30-eks-33
  • v1-29-eks-40
  • v1-28-eks-51
• Cert-manager: v1.16.4 to v1.16.5
• Cluster API Provider Nutanix: v1.5.3 to v1.5.4
• Cluster API Provider Tinkerbell: v0.6.4 to v0.6.5
• Cilium: v1.15.14-eksa.1 to v1.15.16-eksa.1
• Kube-rbac-proxy: v0.19.0 to v0.19.1

Fixed

• Tinkerbell workflow updates running into Rate limit issues during concurrent provisioning (#4616)
• Some Tinkerbell workflows getting stuck at STATE_PENDING (#4616)
• Honor the --no-timeouts flag during BMC checks (#9786)
• Improve latency for BMC interactions (#9791)
• Add retries around mount action to address race conditions in device becoming available (#4639)
• Validate Eks-distro manifest signature for extended kubernetes version support (#9801)

Weekly Release 2025-06-12

This is the weekly bundle and EKS-A CLI release from main.

Date: 2025-06-12
Build-tooling repo commit: dd44409a5621177414ad0b94284f90981173ddb5
CLI repo commit: 6aab17b

Weekly Release 2025-06-05

This is the weekly bundle and EKS-A CLI release from main.

Date: 2025-06-05
Build-tooling repo commit: f32690aa106066c34ded3d462225e81b4bb60449
CLI repo commit: d8fd65a

Weekly Release 2025-05-29

This is the weekly bundle and EKS-A CLI release from main.

Date: 2025-05-29
Build-tooling repo commit: d8df4c4254aef45d69c1c11ea7dd72606d336c46
CLI repo commit: 7cafb9c

Weekly Release 2025-05-22

This is the weekly bundle and EKS-A CLI release from main.

Date: 2025-05-22
Build-tooling repo commit: d8df4c4254aef45d69c1c11ea7dd72606d336c46
CLI repo commit: a637856

v0.22.5

v0.22.5

Supported OS version details

	vSphere	Bare Metal	Nutanix	CloudStack	Snow
Ubuntu 20.04	✔	✔	✔	—	✔
Ubuntu 22.04	✔	✔	✔	—	—
Bottlerocket 1.32.0	✔	—	—	—	—
RHEL 8.x (*)	✔	✔	✔	✔	—
RHEL 9.x	✔	✔	✔	✔	—

* RHEL 8's kernel version (4.18) is not supported by kubeadm for Kubernetes versions 1.32 and above (see Kubernetes GitHub issue #129462). As a result, EKS Anywhere does not support using RHEL 8 as the node operating system for Kubernetes versions 1.32 and above.

Changed

• EKS Distro:
  • v1-32-eks-13
  • v1-31-eks-20
  • v1-30-eks-31
  • v1-29-eks-38
  • v1-28-eks-49
• kube-vip: v0.8.9 to v0.8.10
• New base images with CVE fixes for Amazon Linux 2

Fixed

• Assign multiple vcenter tags to a machine (#9707)
• Fix an issue when creating vSphere group via EKS-A CLI (#9458)
• Expose CLI flag on Smee to bind interface (#9720)
• VSphere failure domain delete cluster bug fix (#9711)

v0.21.8

v0.21.8

Supported OS version details

	vSphere	Bare Metal	Nutanix	CloudStack	Snow
Ubuntu 20.04	✔	✔	✔	—	✔
Ubuntu 22.04	✔	✔	✔	—	—
Bottlerocket 1.26.2	✔	—	—	—	—
RHEL 8.x	✔	✔	✔	✔	—
RHEL 9.x	—	✔	✔	✔	—

Changed

• EKS Distro:
  • v1-31-eks-20
  • v1-30-eks-31
  • v1-29-eks-38
  • v1-28-eks-49
• Golang: 1.21 to 1.23 (#9382)
• Image builder: v0.1.40 to v0.1.42
• Curated package controller: v0.4.5 to v0.4.6
• Containerd: v1.7.25 to v1.7.27

Fixed

• Assign multiple vcenter tags to a machine (#9707)
• Fix an issue when creating vSphere group via EKS-A CLI (#9458)