1. Docs
  2. Changes and releases

Changes and Releases

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

  • Developer Portal backstage v0.63.1

    In this release, a bug that caused the InstallationsPicker component to incorrectly save selected installations into local storage was fixed. See ./docs/releases/v0.63.1-changelog.md for more information.

  • Observability observability-bundle v1.13.0

    Added

    • Add support for enabling pre-configured custom resources in KSM
    • Add metrics containing labels for Crossplane resources
  • Highlights

    Highlights for the week ending 2025-04-10

    Breaking Changes

    • Ingress NGINX App version 4.0.0
      • Important breaking changes to note:
        • ConfigMap option allow-cross-namespace-resources is now deactivated
        • Annotations with risk level “Critical” now require explicit configuration Please read carefully the whole release notes.

    Fleet Management

    Security

    Connectivity

    • Cilium App version 0.32.0

      • Using upstream default value for prometheus.metrics
      • Enabled Envoy Proxy in standalone DaemonSet

    • CoreDNS App version 1.25.0

      • Updated CoreDNS image to 1.12.1

    • Ingress NGINX App version 4.0.0

      • Updated controller image to v1.12.1
      • Added multiple controller configuration options
      • Removed Pod Security Policies (incompatible with Kubernetes v1.24 and below)
      • Important breaking changes to note:
        • ConfigMap option allow-cross-namespace-resources is now deactivated
        • Annotations with risk level “Critical” now require explicit configuration

    • Kong App version 5.0.0

      • Updated to upstream chart version 2.48.0
      • Updated Kong ingress controller to 3.4.3
      • Changed default installation to OSS version (Enterprise requires explicit configuration)
      • Dropped support for Kubernetes below v1.26
      • Added customizable CRD version selection

    • Proxysocks version 0.1.1

      • Fixed service selector in the Helm chart
      • Initial release with support for credentials

    Continuous Deployment

    • App version 8.0.0

      • Changed app.Validator interface for admission controller identification
      • Streamlined existence checks for referenced resources

    • App Admission Controller version 2.0.0

      • Streamlined validation approach by moving resource existence checks to reconciliation

    • App Operator version 7.2.0

      • Decreased default reconciliation interval from 5m to 3m
      • Enhanced reporting of missing resources in App CR status
      • Improved namespace checking before creating resources

    • Cluster Apps Operator version 3.2.0

      • Updated app-operator to version v7.2.0

    • Konfigure Operator version 0.1.2

      • Initial implementation of configuration management
      • Fixed map filtering logic to respect external annotations and labels
      • Added protection for internal configuration annotations

    • Kube Downscaler App version 0.6.1

      • Updated chart’s image
      • Fixed Cilium network policy endpoint selector

    Developer Portal

    • Backstage version 0.62.0
      • Improved error message styles in deployment details
      • Enhanced resource entity page layout
      • Added links from deployments to corresponding catalog entities
      • Improved installation selection functionality

    Observability

    • Alloy Rules version 4.54.1

      • Added multi-tenancy support with tenant labeling
      • Fixed and improved various alerts:
        • Enhanced alert for missing teleport access logs
        • Fine-tuned MetricForwardingErrors to avoid triggering on sporadic issues
        • Fixed MonitoringAgentDown to not page for non-deleting clusters
        • Added log-based alerts for CIDRNotAvailable events
        • Improved various alert thresholds and timing

    • Cluster API Monitoring App version 1.17.0

      • Set default memory resources to 200Mi

    • Dashboards version 4.4.0

      • Added Cilium Agent logs dashboard
      • Added Observability Resource Usage dashboard
      • Added Backstage dashboard

    • Grafana App version 2.20.0

      • Upgraded Grafana chart from 8.9.0 to 8.11.3

    • Logging Operator version 0.26.1

      • Fine-tuned Alloy logs and events resource usage to avoid impacting customer workloads
      • Fixed schema violations in Alloy logs configuration

    • Node Exporter App version 1.20.2

      • Updated dependencies for improved security and stability

    • Observability Bundle version 1.12.0

      • Upgraded kube-prometheus-stack from 69.5.1 to 70.1.1
      • Updated Prometheus to 3.2.1
      • Updated Prometheus Operator to 0.81.0

    • Observability Operator version 0.23.2

      • Added multi-tenancy support for alerting, recording rules, and remote write
      • Enhanced configuration validation with amtool
      • Improved sharding for metrics across all tenants
      • Configured OpsGenie integration for severity:page alerts
      • Optimized resource usage settings

    • Prometheus Meta Operator version 4.88.0

      • Improved resource usage by not loading log-based alerts in Prometheus

    • Sloth App version 1.7.0

      • Upgraded to sloth 0.12.0

    • Starboard Exporter version 0.8.1

      • Updated Go version and dependencies
      • Addressed code linter findings

    Others

    • NOS App version 0.1.0

      • Updated container images to 0.1.2
      • Added Cilium network policies for API communication
      • Adapted webhook certificate for platform compatibility

    • Zot version 2.1.0

      • Updated to project-zot/helm-charts version 0.1.67
      • Bumped default zot image tag to v2.1.2

    • N8n App version 1.5.1

      • Upgraded the upstream helm chart to 1.1.0

    Docs

  • Connectivity external-dns-crossplane-resources v0.1.6

    Added

    • Included the giantswarm.io/cluster label
  • Developer Portal backstage v0.63.0

    In this release:

    • GitOps indicator was added to the Deployment details pane;
    • linkage between deployments and catalog entities was fixed. See ./docs/releases/v0.63.0-changelog.md for more information.
  • Developer Portal backstage v0.62.0

    In this release:

  • Developer Portal backstage v0.61.0

    In this release, links from deployments to corresponding catalog entities were added. See ./docs/releases/v0.61.0-changelog.md for more information.

  • Developer Portal backstage v0.60.0

    In this release:

  • Connectivity kong-app v5.0.0

    We’re going back to installing the kong OSS version by default instead of enterprise. In case you’re relying on this default behaviour, please make sure to set the .Values.image.repository, .Values.image.tag, .Values.enterprise.enabled and .Values.enterprise.license_secret values to the respective Enterprise values. These changes were introduced in PRs #378 and #379. This release drops support for Kubernetes below v1.26.

    Added

    • Allow chart users to specify the version of the CRDs to match the kong ingress controller version by changing .Values.kubectlApplyJob.files to any other file in helm/kong-app/crds/ folder. The default is crds/custom-resource-definitions-v3.4.3.yaml.

    Changed

  • CAPA releases releases aws-25.5.4

    Changes compared to v25.5.3

    Components

    • cluster-aws from v1.3.10 to v1.3.11

    cluster-aws v1.3.10…v1.3.11

    Changed

    • Reduce IMDS Response Hop Limit to 2 if pod networking is in ENI mode to increase security.

This part of our documentation refers to our vintage product. The content may be not valid anymore for our current product. Please check our new documentation hub for the latest state of our docs.