Changes and Releases

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

• Oct 21, 2025 Security organization-operator v2.1.2

  Changed

  • Updated RBAC rules to include organizations/finalizers for managing .metadata.ownerReferences.blockOwnerDeletion.
  • Disable PodSecurityPolicies by deafult.
• Oct 21, 2025 CAPV releases releases vsphere-33.0.1

  Changes compared to v33.0.0

  Apps

  • security-bundle from v1.12.0 to v1.13.1

  security-bundle v1.12.0…v1.13.1

  Changed

  • Revert previous kyverno update (#536, #531, #538).
  • Update kyverno-policy-operator (app) to v0.1.6.
  • Update kyverno (app) to v0.20.0.
  • Update kyverno-crds (app) to v1.14.0.
  • Update kyverno-policies (app) to v0.24.0.
  • Update kyverno-policy-operator (app) to v0.1.5.
  • Update trivy-operator (app) to v0.12.1.
  • Update trivy (app) to v0.14.1.
  • Update falco (app) to v0.11.0.
• Oct 21, 2025 CAPZ releases releases azure-33.0.1

  Changes compared to v33.0.0

  Apps

  • security-bundle from v1.12.0 to v1.13.1

  security-bundle v1.12.0…v1.13.1

  Changed

  • Revert previous kyverno update (#536, #531, #538).
  • Update kyverno-policy-operator (app) to v0.1.6.
  • Update kyverno (app) to v0.20.0.
  • Update kyverno-crds (app) to v1.14.0.
  • Update kyverno-policies (app) to v0.24.0.
  • Update kyverno-policy-operator (app) to v0.1.5.
  • Update trivy-operator (app) to v0.12.1.
  • Update trivy (app) to v0.14.1.
  • Update falco (app) to v0.11.0.
• Oct 20, 2025 Connectivity gateway-api-app v1.5.1

  Changed

  • Upgrade Gateway API Inference Extension CRDs to v1.0.2
• Oct 20, 2025 Security cert-manager-app v3.9.4

  Changed

  • Upgrade cert-manager to v1.18.2.

  Added

  • Add E2E tests using apptest-framework for automated PR testing across multiple providers (CAPA, CAPV, CAPZ, CAPVCD).
    • Basic test suite: Validates fresh installations
    • Upgrade test suite: Tests upgrade scenarios and certificate reconciliation
  • Add certificate issuance integration test to cluster-test-suites.
• Oct 16, 2025 Fleet Management capa-karpenter-taint-remover v1.0.1

  Changed

  • Use default catalog
• Oct 16, 2025 Developer Portal backstage v0.88.1

  Fixed

  • Fix MultipleClusterPicker to take disabled installations into account. See ./docs/releases/v0.88.1-changelog.md for more information.
• Oct 16, 2025 Fleet Management capa-karpenter-taint-remover v1.0.0

  Changed

  • Not managing the CAPI taint anymore, it manages the karpenter.sh/unregistered karpenter taint that is applied by CAPI controllers when using a stale version for the patch request.
• Oct 16, 2025 Developer Portal backstage v0.88.0

  Changed

  • Changed cluster picker components to better handle rejected cluster authentication. See ./docs/releases/v0.88.0-changelog.md for more information.
• Oct 15, 2025 Observability observability-bundle v2.3.2

  Added

  • Add KSM metrics for cloudnative-pg Cluster objects

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