v0.23.6

v0.23.6

Supported OS version details

	vSphere	Bare Metal	Nutanix	CloudStack	Snow
Ubuntu 20.04	✔	✔	✔	—	✔
Ubuntu 22.04	✔	✔	✔	—	—
Bottlerocket 1.50.0	✔	—	—	—	—
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:
  • v1-33-eks-21
  • v1-32-eks-31
  • v1-31-eks-38
  • v1-30-eks-49
  • v1-29-eks-56
  • v1-28-eks-66
• New EKS-Distro base images with CVE fixes for Amazon Linux 2 and Amazon Linux 2023
• cloud-provider-nutanix v0.5.3 to v0.5.5
• cluster-api-provider-aws-snow v0.2.7 to v0.2.8
• eks-anywhere-packages: v0.4.8 to v0.4.9

Added

• Add support for skipping BMC contact checks for specific Rufio Machines #10368

Fixed

• Set DHCP relay sourceInterface from LoadBalancerInterface config (#10425)
• Eliminate race condition in package ctlr installation (#10434)
• Fix Bottlerocket cert renewal: Add 30s sleep and duplicate container (#10435)

Weekly Release 2026-01-01

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

Date: 2026-01-01
Build-tooling repo commit: 0a79bb66343a3e7440c195598f1575f2ea89d42f
CLI repo commit: 7e266c6

v0.24.2

v0.24.2

Supported OS version details

	vSphere	Bare Metal	Nutanix	CloudStack	Snow
Ubuntu 20.04	✔	✔	✔	—	✔
Ubuntu 22.04	✔	✔	✔	—	—
Ubuntu 24.04	✔	✔	✔	—	—
Bottlerocket 1.51.0	✔	—	—	—	—
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:
  • v1-34-eks-12
  • v1-33-eks-21
  • v1-32-eks-31
  • v1-31-eks-38
  • v1-30-eks-49
  • v1-29-eks-56
  • v1-28-eks-66
• New EKS-Distro base images with CVE fixes for Amazon Linux 2 and Amazon Linux 2023
• Cilium: v1.17.8-0 to v1.17.10-0
• Kube-vip: v1.0.0 to v1.0.2
• cloud-provider-nutanix: v0.5.2 to v0.5.5
• cloud-provider-vsphere 1-33: v1.33.0 to v1.33.1
• cloud-provider-vsphere 1-32: v1.32.2 to v1.32.3
• cluster-api-provider-aws-snow v0.2.7 to v0.2.8
• Cert-manager: v1.18.2 to v1.18.3
• cluster-api-provider-nutanix: v1.6.1 to v1.6.2
• Rufio: 55a6a8c to 126069b950a57d571df90dfec7cd98e6d64692be

Fixed

• Update custom TinkerbellTemplateConfig to use new static IPAM logic (#10340)
• Set DHCP relay sourceInterface from LoadBalancerInterface config (#10424)
• Eliminate race condition in package ctlr installation (#10433)

Weekly Release 2025-12-25

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

Date: 2025-12-25
Build-tooling repo commit: 0a79bb66343a3e7440c195598f1575f2ea89d42f
CLI repo commit: 7c47a0b

Weekly Release 2025-12-18

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

Date: 2025-12-18
Build-tooling repo commit: 55d35a4efb878fa64c5c123d8f7f3d08ca23dddf
CLI repo commit: 846470a

Weekly Release 2025-12-04

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

Date: 2025-12-04
Build-tooling repo commit: 95303a1cdd475a94bbbc813936031cdcce44bce9
CLI repo commit: 64b70b3

v0.24.1

v0.24.1

Supported OS version details

	vSphere	Bare Metal	Nutanix	CloudStack	Snow
Ubuntu 20.04	✔	✔	✔	—	✔
Ubuntu 22.04	✔	✔	✔	—	—
Ubuntu 24.04	✔	✔	✔	—	—
Bottlerocket 1.51.0	✔	—	—	—	—
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

• Enable second network interface configuration for VSphere (Bottlerocket) (#4972,#4998,#10373)
• Add support for skipping BMC contact checks for specific Rufio Machines (#10362,#10366)
• Allow user to specify ssh_timeout and ssh_handshake_attempts in image-builder CLI (#4975)
• Support Ubuntu24.04 on Nutanix

Changed

• EKS Distro:

  • v1-34-eks-10
  • v1-33-eks-19
  • v1-32-eks-29
  • v1-31-eks-36
  • v1-30-eks-47
  • v1-29-eks-54
  • v1-28-eks-65

• Troubleshoot: v0.122.0 to v0.123.12

Fixed

• Fix Bottlerocket cert renewal: Add 30s sleep and duplicate container (#10360)

Weekly Release 2025-11-27

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

Date: 2025-11-27
Build-tooling repo commit: 95303a1cdd475a94bbbc813936031cdcce44bce9
CLI repo commit: a6f7473

v0.24.0

v0.24.0

Supported OS version details

	vSphere	Bare Metal	Nutanix	CloudStack	Snow
Ubuntu 20.04	✔	✔	✔	—	✔
Ubuntu 22.04	✔	✔	✔	—	—
Ubuntu 24.04	✔	✔	—	—	—
Bottlerocket 1.50.0	✔	—	—	—	—
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 Kubernetes v1.34
• Enable second network interface configuration for VSphere (Ubuntu, Redhat) #10211
• Configure Audit Policy content for Control Plane nodes #10004
• Add support for protection of system resources from admission webhooks #10179
• Add support for First-party Supported Cilium CNI #10157, #10256, #10158
• Add Cilium helmValues feature support to configure cilium parameters #10161, #10222
• Add diagnostic address flag to eksa controller, etcdadm-bootstrap-provider and etcdadm-controller to support secure serving of metrics, pprof endpoint, and dynamic log level changes in production #10282, #49, #73
• VSphere image clone builder #4784
• Support addition or removal of aws iam authentication using cluster upgrade #9897
• Enable support for in-place upgrades on RedHat for Bare Metal clusters #10290
• Allow toggling Cilium skipUpgrade from true to false #10231
• EKS Distro:
  • v1-34-eks-8
  • v1-33-eks-17
  • v1-32-eks-27
  • v1-31-eks-34
  • v1-30-eks-45
  • v1-29-eks-52
  • v1-28-eks-63
• Containerd: v2.1.4 for Kubernetes 1.34
• Autoscaler: cluster-autoscaler-1.34.1 for Kubernetes 1.34

Changed

• Cluster-api (CAPI): v1.10.2 to v1.11.1
• Runc: v1.1.15 to 1.3.3 (CVE-2025-31133, CVE-2025-52565, CVE-2025-52881)
• Cert-manager: v1.17.2 to v1.18.2
• kube-rbac-proxy: v0.19.1 to v0.20.0
• Cri-tools: v1.33.0 to v1.34.0
• Govmomi: v0.51.0 to v0.52.0
• Flux:
  • Cli: v2.6.4 to v2.7.0
  • Source Controller: v1.6.2 to v1.7.0
  • Helm Controller: v1.3.0 to v1.4.0
  • Kustomize Controller: v1.6.1 to v1.7.0
  • Notification Controller: v1.6.0 to v1.7.1
• Troubleshoot: v0.121.2 to v0.122.0
• Image builder CLI: v0.6.0 to v0.7.0
• Kube-vip: v0.9.2 to v1.0.0
• etcdadm-controller: v1.0.24 to v1.0.26
• etcdadm-bootstrap-provider: v1.0.16 to v1.0.18
• controller-runtime: v0.20.4 to v0.21.0

v0.23.5

v0.23.5

Supported OS version details

	vSphere	Bare Metal	Nutanix	CloudStack	Snow
Ubuntu 20.04	✔	✔	✔	—	✔
Ubuntu 22.04	✔	✔	✔	—	—
Bottlerocket 1.50.0	✔	—	—	—	—
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

• Runc: v1.1.15 to 1.3.3 (CVE-2025-31133, CVE-2025-52565, CVE-2025-52881)
• cloud-provider-nutanix v0.5.2 to v0.5.3
• cluster-api-provider-nutanix v1.6.1 to v1.6.2
• cloud-provider-vsphere 1-33 v1.33.0 to v1.33.1
• cloud-provider-vsphere 1-32 v1.32.2 to v1.32.3
• cluster-api-provider-aws-snow v0.2.6 to v0.2.7
• Upgraded tinkerbell/ipxedust and tinkerbell/rufio to latest versions

Added

• Enable support for in-place upgrades on RedHat for Bare Metal clusters #10290

Fixed

• Collect management cluster support bundle as well when target is a workload cluster #10277