Changes and Releases

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

• Sep 11, 2025 Fleet Management aws-efs-csi-driver v2.1.2

  Changed

  • Increase minAllowed memory in VPA.
• Sep 11, 2025 Observability dashboards v4.8.0

  Changed

  • Switch aws dashboards to be deployed in CAPA, plus some cleanup of unused dashboards.
• Sep 11, 2025 Fleet Management aws-efs-csi-driver v2.1.1

  Fixed

  • Changed node controller nodeAffinity to only schedule into the worker nodes, to keep the same behavior as we had before removing the node-role.kubernetes.io/worker label.
• Sep 10, 2025 CAPZ releases releases azure-31.1.2

  This release fixes a permission issue with the Azure Cloud Controller Manager.

  Changes compared to v31.1.1

  Apps

  • azure-cloud-controller-manager from v1.31.8-gs1 to v1.31.8-gs2

  azure-cloud-controller-manager v1.31.8-gs1…v1.31.8-gs2

  Changed

  • Chart: Update RBAC. (#122)
• Sep 10, 2025 CAPZ releases releases azure-30.1.5

  This release fixes a permission issue with the Azure Cloud Controller Manager.

  Changes compared to v30.1.4

  Apps

  • azure-cloud-controller-manager from v1.30.14-gs1 to v1.30.14-gs2
  • azure-cloud-node-manager from v1.30.14-gs1 to v1.30.14-gs2

  azure-cloud-controller-manager v1.30.14-gs1…v1.30.14-gs2

  Changed

  • Chart: Update RBAC. (#120)

  azure-cloud-node-manager v1.30.14-gs1…v1.30.14-gs2

  Changed

  • Update PolicyExceptions apiVersion to v2.
• Sep 10, 2025 Fleet Management aws-efs-csi-driver v2.1.0

  Changed

  • Removed default nodeSelector that were relying on the node-role.kubernetes.io/worker label, as that’s deprecated and will be removed.
  • Add VPA.
  • Add standard labels to all manifests.
  • Move PSS to policy-exceptions namespace.
• Sep 10, 2025 Developer Portal backstage v0.85.0

  In this release:

  • PersistQueryClientProvider is now being used instead of the standard QueryClientProvider.
  • Quay plugin has been deleted.
  • Code clean-up and refactoring. See ./docs/releases/v0.85.0-changelog.md for more information.

  Removed

  • Remove Quay plugin
• Sep 8, 2025 Fleet Management vertical-pod-autoscaler-app v6.0.1

  Changed

  • Chart: Update Helm release vertical-pod-autoscaler to v11.0.1. (#370)
• Sep 8, 2025 Observability observability-bundle v2.2.2

  Changed

  • Upgrade kube-prometheus-stack-app to 18.1.0
    • Add relabeling rules from cluster-api-monitoring-app so that cluster_id label points to the workload cluster name as expected in some alert definitions
• Sep 8, 2025 Observability kube-prometheus-stack-app v18.1.0

  Added

  • Add relabeling rules from cluster-api-monitoring-app so that cluster_id label points to the workload cluster name as expected in some alert definitions

  Changed

  • Update Kyverno PolicyExceptions to v2.

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