diff --git a/.github/release-drafter.yml b/.github/release-drafter.yml
index 228a79e12d..0967048ed4 100644
--- a/.github/release-drafter.yml
+++ b/.github/release-drafter.yml
@@ -13,11 +13,12 @@ categories:
     labels:
       - 'kind/bug'
   - title: '🧰 Maintenance'
-    labels: 
+    labels:
+      - 'kind/maintenance'
       - 'area/tech-debt'
       - 'area/ci'
   - title: '📝 Documentation'
-    labels: 
+    labels:
       - 'area/docs'
       - 'kind/docs'
 change-template: '- $TITLE (#$NUMBER)'
@@ -41,6 +42,8 @@ exclude-contributors:
   - 'a-hilaly'
   - 'yuxiang-zhang'
   - 'cheeseandcereal'
+  - 'dims'
+  - 'bryantbiggs'
   - 'eksctl-bot'
   - 'dependabot'
 replacers:
diff --git a/docs/release_notes/0.205.0.md b/docs/release_notes/0.205.0.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c6057bc8ee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/release_notes/0.205.0.md
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+# 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.