eksctl update addon with version: latest and useDefaultPodIdentityAssociations fails

[cPu1]

From a user on Slack:

eksctl update addon fails for this config file:

apiVersion: eksctl.io/v1alpha5
kind: ClusterConfig
availabilityZones:
  - us-east-1a
  - us-east-1b
  - us-east-1c
metadata:
  name: cluster-79
  region: us-east-1
  version: "1.28"
addons:
  - name: eks-pod-identity-agent
  - name: aws-ebs-csi-driver
    podIdentityAssociations:
    - serviceAccountName: ebs-csi-controller-sa
      namespace: kube-system
      permissionPolicyARNs: ["arn:aws:iam::XXXXXXXXXXXX:policy/ebs-csi-policy"]
  - name: vpc-cni
    version: latest
    useDefaultPodIdentityAssociations: true

2024-06-18 13:45:07 [ℹ] Kubernetes version "1.28" in use by cluster "cluster-79"
2024-06-18 13:45:08 [ℹ] no new version provided, preserving existing version: v1.2.0-eksbuild.1
2024-06-18 13:45:08 [ℹ] updating addon
2024-06-18 13:45:19 [ℹ] addon "eks-pod-identity-agent" active
2024-06-18 13:45:20 [ℹ] no new version provided, preserving existing version: v1.31.0-eksbuild.1
2024-06-18 13:45:21 [ℹ] updating IAM resources stack "eksctl-cluster-79-addon-aws-ebs-csi-driver-podidentityrole-ebs-csi-controller-sa" for pod identity association "a-xpaah4j4xsvt9af6l"
2024-06-18 13:45:22 [ℹ] waiting for CloudFormation changeset "eksctl-kube-system-ebs-csi-controller-sa-update-1718714721" for stack "eksctl-cluster-79-addon-aws-ebs-csi-driver-podidentityrole-ebs-csi-controller-sa"
2024-06-18 13:45:22 [ℹ] nothing to update
2024-06-18 13:45:22 [ℹ] IAM resources for kube-system/ebs-csi-controller-sa (pod identity association ID: a-xpaah4j4xsvt9af6l) are already up-to-date
2024-06-18 13:45:22 [ℹ] updating addon
2024-06-18 13:46:04 [ℹ] addon "aws-ebs-csi-driver" active

Error: getting recommended policies for addon vpc-cni

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eksctl needs to resolve the keyword latest to the latest version before attempting to describe recommended policies for an addon.

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[stevejr]

This is also failing on the latest version of eksctl - is there any update on when this can be fixed?