Changes and Releases

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

• Feb 24, 2025 Developer Portal backstage v0.53.0

  In this release:

  • Backstage was updated to v1.36.1.
  • Update other dependencies.
  • Enable default auth policy. GS plugins changes:
  • Refactored how GS Kubernetes API is used.
  • Refactored data fetching hooks to share common logic. See ./docs/releases/v0.53.0-changelog.md for more information.
• Feb 24, 2025 Observability loki-app v0.28.0

  Changed

  • Upgraded upstream chart from 6.25.1 to 6.27.0 - see changelog for more information.
    • This upgrades Loki from 3.3.2 to 3.4.2
• Feb 20, 2025 Security kyverno-app v0.19.0

  Changed

  • Update kyverno to upstream version v1.13.4.
  • Use GVK for specifying Kinds in core-policies.
  • Add runAsGroup to container security contexts.
• Feb 20, 2025 Security kyverno-policies v0.22.0

  Changed

  • Update to upstream Kyverno Policies version 1.13.4.

  Added

  • Add supplemental policies restrict-external-ips, require-ro-rootfs, and enable upstream policy require-non-root-groups.
  • Add supplemental policy to generate default deny-all Network Policies in newly created namespaces.
• Feb 20, 2025 Connectivity external-dns-app v3.2.0

  Changed

  • Update architect-orb and ATS.
  • Add DNSEndpoints as a source for DNS records.
• Feb 18, 2025 Connectivity kong-app v4.5.1

  Added

  • Allow users to change the unhealthyPodEvictionPolicy of the generated PodDisruptionPolicy. Default is IfHealthyBudget
  • Allow users to disable CRD installation Job by setting kubectlApplyJob.enabled to false
• Feb 17, 2025 Observability loki-app v0.27.0

  Changed

  • Upgraded upstream chart from 6.19.0 to 6.25.1 - see changelog for more information.
    • This upgrades Loki from 3.2.0 to 3.3.2
    • Minio chart from 4.0.15 to 5.4.0, upgrading minio from RELEASE.2022-09-17T00-09-45Z to RELEASE.2024-12-18T13-15-44Z
      • => beware, this is a huge step, please carefully test the upgrade if you’re using MinIO!
    • grafana-agent-operator from 0.3.15 to 0.5.1
    • rollout_operator from 0.13.0 to 0.23.0
• Feb 13, 2025 Observability sloth-app v1.5.0

  Changed

  • Update dashboards for observability-op provisioning.

  Added

  • Add helm chart templating test in ci pipeline.
  • Add tests with ats in ci pipeline.
• Feb 13, 2025 Continuous Deployment flux-app v1.4.3

  Changed

  • Update PolicyExceptions to v2beta1.
• Feb 13, 2025 Observability dashboards v4.0.0

  Changed

  • Update Cilium Performance BPF map pressure panel datasource.
  • Dashboard labels for observability-operator provisioning.

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