Changes and Releases

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

• 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
• Oct 15, 2025 Developer Portal backstage v0.87.1

  Changed

  • Added support for API version V2 of HelmRelease resource. See ./docs/releases/v0.87.1-changelog.md for more information.
• Oct 15, 2025 Observability tempo-app v0.6.1

  Fixed

  • Fix metrics-generator kind to StatefulSet instead of Statefulset
• Oct 14, 2025 Observability loki-app v0.33.1

  Changed

  • Upgraded upstream chart from 6.39.0 to 6.42.0 - see changelog for more information.
• Oct 14, 2025 Observability grafana-app v2.27.0

  Changed

  • upgrade grafana chart: 9.4.4 => 10.1.0
    • Changes how .Values.alerting.file alerts are handled - see https://github.com/grafana/helm-charts/tree/main/charts/grafana#to-1000 for more info.
    • upgrade grafana : 12.1.1 => 12.2.0

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