Changes and Releases

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

• Apr 9, 2025 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.

• Apr 8, 2025 Developer Portal backstage v0.60.0

  In this release:

  • when no installations are selected, all are being fetched;
  • several UI improvements were introduced; See ./docs/releases/v0.60.0-changelog.md for more information.
• Apr 7, 2025 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

  • Update kong ingress controller to 3.4.3
  • Align with upstream chart version 2.48.0 (Changes in upstream repository)
• Apr 7, 2025 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.
• Apr 7, 2025 Observability grafana-app v2.20.0

  Changed

  • upgrade grafana chart: 8.9.0 => 8.11.3
• Apr 3, 2025 Developer Portal backstage v0.59.0

  In this release:

  • developer portal roadmap link was added to home page;
  • configurable Slack support channel link was added to home page;
  • “loading” and “error” states were added to the OrganizationPicker and ReleasePicker scaffolder fields;
  • region and pipeline information was added to the Installations picker;
  • ability to use current user name in the TemplateStringInput scaffolder field was added. See ./docs/releases/v0.59.0-changelog.md for more information.
• Apr 2, 2025 Connectivity coredns-app v1.25.0

  Changed

  • Update coredns image to 1.12.1.
• Apr 1, 2025 Security starboard-exporter v0.8.1

  Changed

  • Address new code linter findings for golangci-lint v2.
  • Update Go version and various dependencies.
• Mar 31, 2025 Fleet Management kubectl-gs v4.7.1

  Changed

  • Add organisation namepsace to the gitops add command.
  • Update github.com/getsops/sops/v3 from v3.9.2 to v3.9.3.

  Removed

  • Removed any code specific to KVM installations.
• Mar 31, 2025 Observability silence-operator v0.14.0

  Changed

  • Make the Silence isRegex field optional.

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