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From: TiberiuGC <110664232+TiberiuGC@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 11:10:11 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Add release notes for v0.177.0

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+# Release v0.177.0
+
+## 🚀 Features
+
+- Add utils command to migrate `iamidentitymappings` to EKS access entries (#7710)
+
+## Acknowledgments
+
+The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank @punkwalker.
+

From 29a93249178d832fd7a369dbf76ad2221fec8dad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tibi <110664232+TiberiuGC@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 14:45:28 +0300
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] update release notes for 0.177.0

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 ## 🚀 Features
 
-- Add utils command to migrate `iamidentitymappings` to EKS access entries (#7710)
+- Add utils command to migrate iamidentitymappings to EKS access entries (#7710)
+- Add support for Ubuntu Pro 22.04 based EKS images (#7711)
 
-## Acknowledgments
+## 🎯 Improvements
+
+- Handle K8s service account lifecycle on eksctl create/delete podidentityassociation commands (#7706)
+
+## 🐛 Bug Fixes
+
+- Fix reusing instanceRoleARN for nodegroups authorized with access entry (#7707)
+- Allow nodegroup creation after a cluster subnet is deleted (#7714)
+- Fix arn build logic to support different aws partitions (#7715)
 
-The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank @punkwalker.
+## 🧰 Maintenance
+
+- Disable IMDSv1 in unowned integration tests (#7722)
+
+## Acknowledgments
 
+The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank @punkwalker, @veekaly, @aciba90 and @timandy
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