v2.263.0

Features

• autoscaling: add support for AutoScalingInstanceRefresh UpdatePolicy (#38277) (434157f), closes #38276
• docdb: support per-instance maintenance window on DatabaseCluster (#38315) (5390624), closes #30391
• ecs: add support for using existing Cloud Map namespaces in ECS clusters (#36812) (bda00bf), closes #26698
• eks: add Provisioned Control Plane support with controlPlaneScalingTier property (#36651) (5ea1054), closes #36650
• eks: add support for Kubernetes version 1.36 (#38441) (da27b6c), closes #38411
• lambda: add Java8AL2023, Java11AL2023 and Java17AL2023 runtime for Lambda #38418 (#38419) (1e55176)
• lambda: add logGroup and systemLogLevel to CapacityProvider (#38183) (61a2e2d), closes #38182
• lambda: add PropagateTags to CapacityProvider for tag propagation (#38180) (6f86f97), closes #38181

Bug Fixes

• core: upgrade cloudformation-validate library (#38444) (d26e507), closes #38412
• bump brace-expansion to 5.0.8 to address CVE-2026-14257 (#38410) (5aaa395), closes #38409 #38063

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Alpha modules (2.263.0-alpha.0)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• mediaconnect: removalPolicy prop removed from FlowProps, GatewayProps, and BridgeProps. These resources now follow CloudFormation's default deletion behaviour (Delete).

Bug Fixes

• glue-alpha: race condition when creating mutiple indices (#38016) (18b1947), closes #24813 #34 #34
• mediaconnect: jsdoc typo (#38434) (7fe6d3d)
• mediaconnect: remove default removal policy (#38437) (238193d)