v1.55.0

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• lambda: the bundlingDockerImage prop of a Runtime now points to the AWS SAM build image (amazon/aws-sam-cli-build-image-<runtime>) instead of the LambCI build image (lambci/lambda:build-<runtime>)
• appsync: pipelineConfig is now an array of string instead of CfnResolver.PipelineConfigProperty for usability.

• appsync: pipelineConfig parameter takes in string []

Features

• appsync: grant APIs for managing permissions (#8993) (e6dca52), closes #6772 #7871 #7313
• aws-codepipeline: experimental support for ServiceCatalog deploy action (#9214) (950e51f)
• cfn-include: handle resources not in the CloudFormation schema (#9199) (d287525), closes #9197
• cfnspec: cloudformation spec v16.1.0 (#9074) (d1ca04f)
• cfnspec: cloudformation spec v16.1.0 (#9216) (d4b68d3)
• cloudfront: new aws-cloudfront-origins module, support for ALB/NLB origins (#9209) (27ee332), closes #9207
• cloudfront: support Lambda@Edge for behaviors (#9220) (d3e5533), closes #9108
• lambda: official lambda build docker images (#9211) (ae0cf2a), closes #9205
• lambda-python: introducing LambdaPython (#9182) (4cc2834)
• route53-patterns: the route53-patterns module is now stable (#9232) (add23bf)

Bug Fixes

• appsync: resolver unable to set pipelineConfig (#9093) (dac9bb3), closes #6923
• cloudfront: Set MinimumProtocolVersion and SslSupportMethod when specifying distribution certificate (#9200) (f99c327)
• cloudtrail: missing sns publish permissions (#9239) (b4339a1)
• codepipeline-actions: CodeDeployEcsDeployAction does not properly handle unnamed Artifacts (#9147) (ac612c6), closes #8971
• pipelines: Reduce template size by combining IAM roles and policies (#9243) (1ac6863), closes #9066 #9225 #9237
• rds: SQL Server instance engine uses incorrect major version (#9215) (eee8689), closes #9171
• route53-targets: Add China Partition Support for CloudFrontTarget (#9174) (52a966a)
• stepfunctions-tasks: EvaluateExpression error when key specified multiple times (#8858) (6506327), closes #8856