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+# Release v0.169.0
+
+## 🚀 Features
+
+- Add support for EKS 1.29 (#7498)
+
+## 🎯 Improvements
+
+- Fix coredns pdb preventing cluster deletion in integration tests (#7496)
+- Update well-known policy for ebsCSIController (#7451)
+- Handle unordered public endpoint CIDRs from EKS in endpoint updates (#7483)
+
+## 🧰 Maintenance
+
+- Fix coredns pdb preventing cluster deletion in integration tests (#7496)
+
+## 📝 Documentation
+
+- Fix outdated links (#7297)
+
+## Acknowledgments
+
+Weaveworks would like to sincerely thank:
+@Emberwalker, @guessi, and @teraflik