Changes and Releases

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

• Aug 7, 2026 Developer Portal backstage v0.182.7

  Changed

  • (deps) Update dependency ai to v7.0.36 in #2050 by @renovate[bot]

  Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/backstage/compare/v0.182.6...v0.182.7

• Aug 6, 2026 Observability observability-bundle v3.3.1

  Changed

  • Values: Generate schema for Alloy PodLogs CRDs.
  • Values: Add Cilium as dependency for Alloy apps & Kube Prometheus Stack.
  • Values: Update Alloy apps to v0.21.2.

  Removed

  • Values: Remove unused catalog.
• Aug 6, 2026 Observability dashboards v4.29.1

  Added

  • Add a nav bar between the four Envoy Gateway dashboards, like the Cilium ones have.

  Changed

  • Give Envoy Gateway | Clusters a readable uid. Links to its old random uid stop resolving.
  • Rename the cluster variable on Cilium Agent logs to cluster_id, matching the other Cilium dashboards so the selection carries across links.
  • Rename workload_cluster to cluster_id on the Envoy Gateway dashboards, so the selection carries when moving between them. On Clusters its label is K8s Cluster, to tell it apart from the Envoy cluster selector.
  • Hide the datasource selector on the Cilium and Envoy Gateway dashboards and point it at the default datasource, instead of the exported uids that only resolved in the Grafana a board came from.

  Removed

  • Drop the Cluster selector from Envoy Gateway | Clusters. Every panel also matched on the namespace, resource and rule selectors, which compose the same Envoy cluster name.

  Fixed

  • Give Cilium | Agent its own uid instead of reusing the retired Cilium metrics dashboard’s, which kept it from being created.
  • Give Envoy Gateway | Control Plane its own uid instead of reusing the retired Global dashboard’s, which kept it from being created.
• Aug 6, 2026 Developer Portal backstage v0.182.6

  Fixed

  • (agent-platform) Render the question a session is waiting on in #2049 by @marians

  Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/backstage/compare/v0.182.5...v0.182.6

• Aug 6, 2026 Observability alloy-app v0.21.2

  Changed

  • Chart: Install Vertical Pod Autoscaler independent of API availability.
• Aug 6, 2026 Developer Portal backstage v0.182.5

  Changed

  • (backend) Pin base image to node 24.19.0 by digest in #2047 by @marians

  Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/backstage/compare/v0.182.4...v0.182.5

• Aug 6, 2026 Developer Portal backstage v0.182.4

  Fixed

  • (deps) Prune stale yarn.lock entries in #2048 by @marians

  Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/backstage/compare/v0.182.3...v0.182.4

• Aug 6, 2026 Developer Portal backstage v0.182.3

  Fixed

  • (deps) Update dependency @backstage-community/plugin-grafana to ^0.22.0 in #2046 by @renovate[bot]

  Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/backstage/compare/v0.182.2...v0.182.3

• Aug 6, 2026 Developer Portal backstage v0.182.2

  Changed

  • (deps) Update dependency @backstage-community/plugin-github-actions to v1.3.0 in #2045 by @renovate[bot]

  Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/backstage/compare/v0.182.1...v0.182.2

• Aug 6, 2026 Observability alloy-app v0.21.1

  Fixed

  • Setting alloy.enabled: false now disables the whole chart on its own and renders nothing. Previously it only dropped the upstream Alloy chart, and the Giant Swarm templates (NetworkPolicy, Kyverno PolicyException, VerticalPodAutoscaler, PodLogs, extra env Secret) failed to render with no template "alloy.chart" associated with template "gotpl" unless networkPolicy.flavor and kyvernoPolicyExceptions.enabled were also overridden.

  Added

  • Add a make test-chart target and a test-chart workflow that render the chart with every ci/*-values.yaml file and assert it renders nothing when disabled and all of its objects when enabled. Unlike ct lint, these use a current Helm, which is required to catch template rendering errors.

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