v0.19.6

EKS Anywhere v0.19.6 release

Supported OS version details

	vSphere	Bare Metal	Nutanix	CloudStack	Snow
Ubuntu 20.04	✔	✔	✔	—	✔
Ubuntu 22.04	✔	✔	✔	—	—
Bottlerocket 1.19.2	✔	*	—	—	—
RHEL 8.x	✔	✔	✔	✔	—
RHEL 9.x	—	—	✔	✔	—

* EKS Anywhere issue regarding deprecation of Bottlerocket bare metal variants

Changed

• Backporting dependency bumps to fix vulnerabilities #8118
• Upgraded EKS-D:
  • v1-25-eks-37 to v1-25-eks-39
  • v1-26-eks-33 to v1-26-eks-35
  • v1-27-eks-27 to v1-27-eks-29
  • v1-28-eks-20 to v1-28-eks-22
  • v1-29-eks-9 to v1-29-eks-11

Fixed

• Fixed cluster directory being created with root ownership #8120