# 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.

