Changes and Releases

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

• Nov 19, 2025 Fleet Management aws-efs-csi-driver v3.0.0

  Changed

  • Merge both the bundle and app chart into the same repository. Now the AWS EFS Driver app and the bundle containing the necessary IAM resources (managed by Crossplane) will live in this repository.
• Nov 14, 2025 Security kyverno-app v0.18.2

  Changed

  • Update flowcontrolschema API versions.
  • Use GVK for specifying Kinds in core-policies.
  • Add runAsGroup to container security contexts.
• Nov 13, 2025 Continuous Deployment flux-app v1.7.3

  Removed

  • Deleting PSP.
• Nov 13, 2025 Developer Portal backstage v0.90.1

  Fixed

  • Fixed a race condition in the custom Kubernetes client. See ./docs/releases/v0.90.1-changelog.md for more information.
• Nov 11, 2025 Developer Portal backstage v0.90.0

  In this release, custom Kubernetes client has been refactored to use the standard backend proxy.

  Changed

  • Kubernetes backend plugin has been added to the backend-headless-service package.
  • Custom Kubernetes frontend client has been changed to use standard Kubernetes backend proxy.
  • Custom discovery service has been updated to handle requests to Kubernetes plugin. See ./docs/releases/v0.90.0-changelog.md for more information.
• Nov 10, 2025 Observability loki-app v0.34.0

  Changed

  • Upgraded upstream chart from 6.42.0 to 6.46.0 - see changelog for more information.
    • This upgrades Loki from 3.5.5 to 3.5.7
• Nov 10, 2025 Observability tempo-app v0.8.0

  Changed

  • Upgrade Tempo chart from 1.51.1 1.53.2
• Nov 7, 2025 Security external-secrets v0.20.4

  Changed

  • Upgrading to the v0.20.4 version. Included changes:
    • https://github.com/external-secrets/external-secrets/releases/tag/v0.19.0
      • Includes a breaking change because the CRDs are now too big. Apply them with --server-side flag of kubectl apply.
    • https://github.com/external-secrets/external-secrets/releases/tag/v0.19.1
    • https://github.com/external-secrets/external-secrets/releases/tag/v0.19.2
    • https://github.com/external-secrets/external-secrets/releases/tag/v0.20.0
      • Includes a change in CRDs that make it non-backward compatible with Kubernetes releases older than v1.30.
    • https://github.com/external-secrets/external-secrets/releases/tag/v0.20.1
    • https://github.com/external-secrets/external-secrets/releases/tag/v0.20.2
    • https://github.com/external-secrets/external-secrets/releases/tag/v0.20.3
    • https://github.com/external-secrets/external-secrets/releases/tag/v0.20.4

  Removed

  • Remove PSP support (in CRD installer job, RBAC, values.yaml).
• Nov 6, 2025 Observability grafana-app v2.27.2

  Changed

  • upgrade grafana chart: 10.1.2 => 10.1.4
  • upgrade grafana : 12.2.0 => 12.2.1
• Nov 5, 2025 Observability silence-operator v0.20.0

  Added

  • [Helm] Ability to specify deployment (rollout) strategy and switch from ‘Recreate’ to ‘RollingUpdate’ by default.

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