# Release v0.117.0

## 🚀 Features

- Add support for me-central-1 (#5837)
- Add option to preserve addon config during update (#5830)

## 🎯 Improvements

- Added networking.k8s.io api to allowlist ingress operations (#5834)
- Add ready plugin to CoreDNS and use health.lameduck for a safer shutdown (#5695)

## 🐛 Bug Fixes

- Preserve existing version during addon update when a version is not provided (#5803)
- Fix max-pods for managed nodegroups (#5808)
- Fix adding taints and labels as ASG tags (#5781)

## Acknowledgments
Weaveworks would like to sincerely thank:
@singhbhaskar, and @wind0r