Merge pull request #7564 from yuxiang-zhang/update-release-notes

Add release notes for 0.172.0

Author: yuxiang-zhang

docs/release_notes/0.172.0.md

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+# Release v0.172.0
+
+## 🎯 Improvements
+
+- Fix checks for updated addon versions (#7471)
+- Check for empty region before invoking API in AWS SDK (#7523)
+
+## 🐛 Bug Fixes
+
+- Revert removing RetryMetricsHeader in presigned requests (#7563)
+
+## 🧰 Maintenance
+
+- Bump dependencies (#7554)
+- Extract common workflow steps to set up build environment (#7551)
+
+## Acknowledgments
+The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank:
+@a2ush and @mttrb