From bf7fd13fbcab9807edb0712010c5679682f084e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: NicholasBlaskey <31451191+NicholasBlaskey@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2025 01:47:04 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add release notes for v0.218.0

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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.
+