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Release notes for versions 1.21 and 1.22
Important
You cannot create new clusters with these versions.
This topic gives important changes to be aware of for versions 1.22 and
1.21. When upgrading, carefully review the changes that have occurred
between the old and new versions for your cluster.
Kubernetes version 1.22
The following admission controllers are enabled for all 1.22 platform
versions: DefaultStorageClass,
DefaultTolerationSeconds, LimitRanger,
MutatingAdmissionWebhook, NamespaceLifecycle,
NodeRestriction, ResourceQuota, ServiceAccount, ValidatingAdmissionWebhook, PodSecurityPolicy,
TaintNodesByCondition, StorageObjectInUseProtection,
PersistentVolumeClaimResize, ExtendedResourceToleration,
CertificateApproval, PodPriority,
CertificateSigning, CertificateSubjectRestriction,
RuntimeClass, and DefaultIngressClass.
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Amazon EKS platform version |
Release notes |
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New platform version with security fixes and enhancements. |
May 16, 2024 |
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New platform version with security fixes and enhancements. |
April 1, 2024 |
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New platform version with security fixes and enhancements. |
June 30, 2023 |
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New platform version with security fixes and enhancements. |
June 9, 2023 |
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New platform version with security fixes and enhancements. |
May 5, 2023 |
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New platform version with security fixes and enhancements. |
March 24, 2023 |
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New platform version with security fixes and enhancements. |
January 27, 2023 |
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New platform version with security fixes and enhancements. |
December 5, 2022 |
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New platform version with security fixes and enhancements. |
November 18, 2022 |
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New platform version with security fixes and enhancements. |
November 7, 2022 |
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New platform version with security fixes and enhancements. |
September 21, 2022 |
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New platform version with improved |
August 15, 2022 |
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New platform version with security fixes and enhancements. This
platform version also introduces a new tagging controller which tags
all worker nodes with |
July 21, 2022 |
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New platform version with security fixes and enhancements. |
July 7, 2022 |
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New platform version with security fixes and enhancements. |
May 31, 2022 |
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Initial release of Kubernetes version 1.22 for
Amazon EKS. |
April 4, 2022 |
Kubernetes version 1.21
The following admission controllers are enabled for all 1.21 platform
versions: DefaultStorageClass,
DefaultTolerationSeconds, LimitRanger,
MutatingAdmissionWebhook, NamespaceLifecycle,
NodeRestriction, ResourceQuota, ServiceAccount, ValidatingAdmissionWebhook, PodSecurityPolicy,
TaintNodesByCondition, StorageObjectInUseProtection,
PersistentVolumeClaimResize, ExtendedResourceToleration,
CertificateApproval, PodPriority,
CertificateSigning, CertificateSubjectRestriction,
RuntimeClass, and DefaultIngressClass.
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Kubernetes version |
Amazon EKS platform version |
Release notes |
Release date |
|---|---|---|---|
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New platform version with security fixes and enhancements. | May 16, 2024 |
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New platform version with security fixes and enhancements. | April 1, 2024 |
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New platform version with security fixes and enhancements. | June 9, 2023 |
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New platform version with security fixes and enhancements. | May 5, 2023 |
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New platform version with security fixes and enhancements. | March 24, 2023 |
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New platform version with security fixes and enhancements. | January 27, 2023 |
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New platform version with security fixes and enhancements. | December 5, 2022 |
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New platform version with security fixes and enhancements. | November 18, 2022 |
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New platform version with security fixes and enhancements. | November 7, 2022 |
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New platform version with improved etcd
resiliency. |
October 10, 2022 |
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New platform version with improved etcd
resiliency. |
August 15, 2022 |
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New platform version with security fixes and enhancements. This
platform version also introduces a new tagging controller which tags
all worker nodes with |
July 21, 2022 |
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New platform version with security fixes and enhancements. |
July 7, 2022 |
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New platform version with security fixes and enhancements. |
May 31, 2022 |
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The Amazon Security Token Service endpoint is reverted back to the global endpoint from the previous platform version. If you want to use the Regional endpoint when using IAM roles for service accounts, then you have to enable it. For instructions on how to enable the regional endpoint, see Configure the Amazon Security Token Service endpoint for a service account. |
April 8, 2022 |
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When using IAM roles for service accounts, the Amazon Security Token Service
Regional endpoint is now used by default instead of the global
endpoint. This change is reverted back to the global endpoint in
An updated Fargate scheduler provisions nodes at a significantly higher rate during large deployments. |
March 10, 2022 |
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Version 1.10.1-eksbuild.1 of the Amazon VPC CNI self-managed
and Amazon EKS add-on is now the default version deployed. |
December 13, 2021 |
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New platform version with support for Windows
IPv4 address management on the VPC Resource Controller
running on the Kubernetes control plane. Added the Kubernetes filter directive for
Fargate Fluent Bit logging. |
November 8, 2021 |
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New platform version with security fixes and enhancements. |
September 17, 2021 |
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Initial release of Kubernetes version |
July 19, 2021 |