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+# Release v0.203.0
+
+## 🎯 Improvements
+
+- [Hybrid Nodes] Remove strict requirement of providing a VGW or TGW during cluster creation (#8168)
+- Bump golang.org/x/crypto from v0.22.0 to v0.32.0 (#8166)
+
+## 🐛 Bug Fixes
+
+- Resolve clusterDNS for IPv6 MNG AL2023 with custom AMI (#8170)
+- [Hybrid Nodes] Make `remoteNetworkConfig.IAM.Provider` field case insensitive (#8169)
+
+## Acknowledgments
+
+The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank @gustavodiaz7722.
+