Changes and Releases

Updates on Giant Swarm workload cluster releases, apps, UI improvements and documentation changes.

• Apr 2, 2026 AI Agents klaus v0.0.106

  What’s Changed

  • chore(deps): update dependency @anthropic-ai/claude-code to v2.1.90 by @renovate[bot] in https://github.com/giantswarm/klaus/pull/199

  Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/klaus/compare/v0.0.105...v0.0.106

• Apr 2, 2026 Developer Portal backstage v0.120.0

  Added

  • Add authenticated GitHub content fetching for private repository Helm chart README, values schema, and values YAML.

  Fixed

  • Fix AI chat get-helm-chart-values tool failing with 500 for private OCI registries.
  • Fix repeated OAuth2 token refresh on every request after token expiry. See ./docs/releases/v0.120.0-changelog.md for more information.
• Apr 2, 2026 Observability alloy-app v0.18.0

  Added

  • Add E2E test suites for all alloy topologies (metrics, logs, events) on WC using apptest-framework.
  • Add Helm CI test values for controller types, network policies, Kyverno, secrets, and PodLogs.

  Changed

  • Upgrade Alloy upstream chart from 1.6.1 to 1.7.0 (CHANGELOG)
    • This bumps the version of Alloy from 1.13.2 to 1.15.0 (CHANGELOG)

  Removed

  • Remove ATS (Python/pytest) test infrastructure in favour of apptest-framework.
• Apr 2, 2026 Observability grafana-app v2.36.1

  Fixed

  • upgrade pg-cluster-recovery-test subchart: v0.4.0 => v0.4.1
• Apr 1, 2026 Connectivity coredns-app v1.30.0

  Added

  • Add coredns-adopter job to adopt default CoreDNS resources on EKS clusters (disabled by default).
• Apr 1, 2026 Developer Portal backstage v0.119.0

  Added

  • Add custom processor for dependency relationships between components.
  • Add streaming text-reveal animation for AI chat assistant messages.
  • Improve cluster access component by showing kubectl-gs login command.

  Fixed

  • Don’t scroll to bottom when a new AI run starts if the user has scrolled up to read previous content. See ./docs/releases/v0.119.0-changelog.md for more information.
• Apr 1, 2026 Continuous Deployment flux-app v1.9.1

  Changed

  • Update Flux metrics.
• Mar 31, 2026 AI Agents klaus v0.0.105

  What’s Changed

  • chore(deps): update dependency @anthropic-ai/claude-code to v2.1.88 by @renovate[bot] in https://github.com/giantswarm/klaus/pull/198

  Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/klaus/compare/v0.0.104...v0.0.105

• Mar 31, 2026 Observability dashboards v4.19.0

  Changed

  • Updated Tempo dashboards to mixins v2.10
  • bugfixes in Tempo operational dashboard
  • Update Network Traffic Analysis Overview dashboard
    • Replace average network traffic gauges with total data transfer bar chart
    • Add a time period selector for data transfer periods
    • Make total visible in all panels
    • Remove datasource variable
    • Simplify traffic rate queries

  Removed

  • Remove the object-storage-operator
• Mar 31, 2026 Others hello-world-app v3.0.2

  Fixed

  • Specify additionalProperties for all annotation configuration options

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