We are rolling out EKS v1.30. Please make sure to update to our recommended client versions matching this upgrade.
Timeline:
- Testing & rollout to non-production clusters has happened in the past days
- Production rollouts are expected to finish at the end of next week
- Update this changelog when everything is finished
Important changes between K8s 1.29 and 1.30
This release focusses on internals and several of those features have now graduated to stable.
For detailed info on what’s new and changed, please make sure to check the Kubernetes 1.30 release announcement and the full Kubernetes 1.30.x changelog.
EKS specific updates
AWS EKS 1.30 announcement blog and release notes.
In the process of upgrading EKS, we have also upgraded the following components:
- Amazon Linux 2 to Amazon Linux 2023 (Karpenter NodePools only)
- secure-by-default approach with preconfigured security policies
- optimized boot time compared to AL2
- KubeProxy to
v1.30.0-eksbuild.3 - Cluster Autoscaler to
v1.30.1
Actions to take
There are no actions to take for you this release.