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+# Release v0.218.0
+
+## 🚀 Features
+
+- Add support for ControlPlaneScalingConfig (#8590)
+
+## 🎯 Improvements
+
+- Enable termination protection by default for eksctl CFN stacks (#8586)
+
+## Acknowledgments
+
+The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank @NicholasBlaskey and @abhay-krishna.
+