v1.16.0

This release adds the ability to force remove taint, improves scaling resiliency and bumps a number of packages.

What's Changed

• Implement Force Removal Taint Logic by @jackcasey-visier in #246
• update go.mod dependencies by @awprice in #248
• Create dependabot.yml by @awprice in #249
• Bump github.com/prometheus/client_golang from 1.21.1 to 1.22.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #250
• Bump golang.org/x/net from 0.37.0 to 0.38.0 in the go_modules group by @dependabot[bot] in #251
• Bump github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go from 1.55.6 to 1.55.7 by @dependabot[bot] in #253
• Validate cloud provider id and return error by @bianchi2 in #256
• Freeze scaling when unhealthy nodes found and remove them by @vincentportella in #271
• Avoid tainting too many nodes if their deletion breaches ASG min by @bianchi2 in #279
• fix scale down logic by @aqasimi in #280
• Prevent app crashing when the node not in nodegroup error occurs by @osteitieh in #281

New Contributors

• @jackcasey-visier made their first contribution in #246
• @bianchi2 made their first contribution in #256
• @aqasimi made their first contribution in #280
• @osteitieh made their first contribution in #281

Full Changelog: v1.15.0...v1.16.0

Container Image

ghcr.io/atlassian/escalator:v1.16.0