v1.84.0

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES TO EXPERIMENTAL FEATURES

• apigatewayv2: subnets prop in VpcLink resource now takes SubnetSelection instead of ISubnet[]

Features

• aws-lambda-nodejs: add esbuild define bundling option (#12424) (581f6af), closes #12423
• cdk-assets: add external asset support (#12259) (05a9980)
• cli: --quiet does not print template in cdk synth (#12178) (74458a0), closes #11970
• codebuild: support Standard 5.0 (#12434) (422dc8e), closes #12433
• core: validate maximum amount of resources in a stack (#12193) (26121c8), closes #276
• eks: spot interruption handler can be disabled for self managed nodes (#12453) (6ac1f4f), closes #12451
• synthetics: Update Cloudwatch Synthetics canaries NodeJS runtimes (#11866) (4f6e377), closes #11870

Bug Fixes

• apigatewayv2: vpclink - explicit subnet specification still causes private subnets to be included (#12401) (336a58f), closes #12083
• cli: CLI doesn't read context from ~/.cdk.json (#12394) (2389a9b), closes #10823 #4802
• core: DefaultStackSynthesizer bucket prefix missing for template assets (#11855) (50a3d3a), closes #10710 #11327
• dynamodb: missing grantRead for ConditionCheckItem (#12313) (e157007)
• ec2: interface endpoint AZ lookup does not guard against broken situations (#12033) (80f0bfd)
• eks: nodegroup synthesis fails when configured with an AMI type that is not compatible to the default instance type (#12441) (5f6f0f9), closes #12389
• elasticsearch: domain fails due to log publishing keys on unsupported cluster versions (#11622) (e6bb96f)
• elbv2: can't import two application listeners into the same scope (#12373) (6534dcf), closes #12132
• logs: custom resource Lambda uses old NodeJS version (#12228) (29c4943)
• stepfunctions-tasks: EvaluateExpression does not support JSON paths with dash (#12248) (da1ed08), closes #12221