# Release v0.209.0

## 🎯 Improvements

- Add eksctl support for new AWS region ap-east-2 (#8406)

## 🐛 Bug Fixes

- Use AmazonLinux2023 as default AMI instead of AmazonLinux2 for Kubernetes version >=1.33 (#8405)
- Fix missing permission setup for IPv6 cluster (#8387)

## 🧰 Maintenance

- Update aws-node to v1.19.5 (#8377)
- Update nvidia-device-plugin to v0.17.2 (#8381)
- Update ec2-info (#8382)
- Update coredns (#8385)

## 📝 Documentation

- Fix missing permission setup for IPv6 cluster (#8387)

## Acknowledgments

The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank @guessi and @naclonts.

