# Release v0.172.0

## 🎯 Improvements

- Fix checks for updated addon versions (#7471)
- Check for empty region before invoking API in AWS SDK (#7523)

## 🐛 Bug Fixes

- Revert removing RetryMetricsHeader in presigned requests (#7563)

## 🧰 Maintenance

- Bump dependencies (#7554)
- Extract common workflow steps to set up build environment (#7551)

## Acknowledgments
The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank:
@a2ush and @mttrb
