Changes and Releases

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

• Jan 28, 2025 Connectivity kong-app v4.5.0

  Changed

  • Update kong ingress controller to 3.4.1
  • Align with upstream chart version 2.46.0 (Changes in upstream repository)
  • Revert ingressController.admissionWebhook settings to upstream values. (Enabled by default with failurePolicy: Ignore)
  • Update Kong Gateway image to 3.8.1.0-debian
  • Execute CRD installation Job only if ingressController is enabled (ingressController.enabled)

  Removed

  • Keep PSP disabled by default and remove Giant Swarm PSP-PSS migration hacks
  • Legacy Giant Swarm metrics Service and labels
• Jan 28, 2025 Developer Portal backstage v0.49.0

  In this release:

  • RELEASE column was added to clusters list;
  • LOCATION column was added to clusters list;
  • AWS ACCOUNT ID column was added to clusters list. See ./docs/releases/v0.49.0-changelog.md for more information.
• Jan 23, 2025 Security exception-recommender v0.2.0

  Added

  • Add AutomatedException feature.

  Changed

  • Disable logger development mode to avoid panicking
  • Disable PSPs and CRD install job.
• Jan 23, 2025 Developer Portal backstage v0.48.0

  In this release:

  • TYPE column in clusters list view was changed to show management/workload cluster icon;
  • CLUSTER APP column was added to clusters list. See ./docs/releases/v0.48.0-changelog.md for more information.
• Jan 22, 2025 Observability dashboards v3.29.1

  Fixed

  • Fix datasource for the new Cluster Overview dashboard.
• Jan 22, 2025 Observability dashboards v3.29.0

  Changed

  • Update DNS dashboard to include memory requests.
  • Added Cluster Overviewdashboard.

  Fixed

  • fix alloy mixins generation
  • fix alloy mixins
  • fix Alloy / Logs Overview dashboard.
• Jan 20, 2025 Fleet Management vertical-pod-autoscaler-app v5.3.1

  Changed

  • Chart: Update Helm release vertical-pod-autoscaler to v9.9.1. (#333)
• Jan 16, 2025 Developer Portal backstage v0.47.0

  In this release:

  • configurable home page was added;
  • on the cluster details page, information about the installation was moved from a dedicated widget into the About widget. See ./docs/releases/v0.47.0-changelog.md for more information.
• Jan 16, 2025 Security athena v1.13.0

  Removed

  • Removed analytics functionality, kept GraphQL API and optional Helm values for compatibility reasons.

  Changed

  • Changed ownership to Team Shield
• Jan 16, 2025 Observability mimir-app v0.16.0

  Changed

  • Upgrade chart to version 5.6.0
    • Add the possibility to create a dedicated serviceAccount for the alertmanager component by setting alertmanager.serviceAcount.create to true in the values.
    • Add support for setting type and internal traffic policy for Kubernetes service. Set internalTrafficPolicy=Cluster by default in all services with type ClusterIP.
    • more at https://github.com/grafana/mimir/blob/mimir-distributed-5.6.0/operations/helm/charts/mimir-distributed/CHANGELOG.md#560
  • Upgrade mimir to 2.15.0
    • Ingester: Change -initial-delay for circuit breakers to begin when the first request is received, rather than at breaker activation.
    • Query-frontend: apply query pruning before query sharding instead of after.
    • Ingester: Replace cortex_discarded_samples_total label from sample-out-of-bounds to sample-timestamp-too-old.
    • Querier: The . pattern in regular expressions in PromQL matches newline characters. With this change regular expressions like .* match strings that include \n. To maintain the old behaviour, you will have to change regular expressions by replacing all . patterns with [^\n], e.g. foo[^\n]*. This upgrades PromQL compatibility from Prometheus 2.0 to 3.0. #9844
    • Ingester: improve performance of reading the WAL.
    • Querier: improve performance and memory consumption of queries that select many series.
    • more at https://github.com/grafana/mimir/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#2150

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