aws-cdk: (aws-eks): Tag Update in EKS-based Stack triggers "Version and ReleaseVersion updates cannot be combined with other updates"

Hello guys,

We have a CDK Stack that, among others, it bundles together the creation of an EKS Cluster with an EKS Managed NodeGroup. For cost/analytic purposes we have some mandatory tags being applied to all the resources of a Stack. If a Tag is being added/changed/removed, the change is propagated in the CDK tree to all the resources as you can see below.

[~] AWS::EKS::Nodegroup awsrefeksCluster/Cluster/NodegroupNodeGroup awsrefeksClusterNodegroupNodeGroup36246D59
 └─ [~] Tags
     └─ [~] .CiCd:CdkLibPpbVersion:
         ├─ [-] 7.40.0
         └─ [+] 7.41.0
.........
[~] AWS::EC2::LaunchTemplate awsrefeksCluster/NodeGroup-LaunchTemplate awsrefeksClusterNodeGroupLaunchTemplate4E8E0D48
 └─ [~] LaunchTemplateData
     └─ [~] .TagSpecifications:
         └─ @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
            [ ] },
            [ ] {
            [ ]   "Key": "CiCd:CdkLibPpbVersion",
            [-]   "Value": "7.40.0"
            [+]   "Value": "7.41.0"
            [ ] },
            [ ] {
            [ ]   "Key": "CiCd:Product",
            @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
            [ ] },
            [ ] {
            [ ]   "Key": "CiCd:CdkLibPpbVersion",
            [-]   "Value": "7.40.0"
            [+]   "Value": "7.41.0"
            [ ] },
            [ ] {
            [ ]   "Key": "CiCd:Product",

Basically the only change is one of the Tag’s values which is applied to all the resources, but we are interested in particular about the AWS::EKS::NodeGroup and AWS::EC2::LaunchTemplate as the Stack update fails with the following error:

AwsrefeksStack-ephemeral-tauta: creating CloudFormation changeset...
14:32:16 | UPDATE_FAILED        | AWS::EKS::Nodegroup                   | awsrefeksClusterNo...pNodeGroup36246D59
Version and ReleaseVersion updates cannot be combined with other updates

Did someone else face this issue before and might be able to advise? Thank you a lot!

What did you expect to happen?

Have the Tags updated without their change to cause the NodeGroup and the LaunchTemplate update.

Environment

• CDK CLI Version : 1.122.0
• Framework Version:
• Node.js Version: v16.4.0
• OS : MacOS
• Language (Version): TypeScript (3.8.3)

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