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Changes and Releases

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

  • Security cert-manager-app v3.9.1

    Added

    • Added Vertical Pod Autoscaler support for controller pods.
    • Added renovate configutarion

    Removed

    • Removed dependabot configuration
  • Developer Portal backstage v0.64.0

    In this release:

    • Dex sign-in resolver was changed to use username from an email as user reference;
    • gitopsRepositories configuration was changed to support GitHub repositories by default. See ./docs/releases/v0.64.0-changelog.md for more information.
  • Continuous Deployment flux-app v1.5.0
    • Updgrade Flux to 2.2.0 version.
  • Observability mimir-app v0.17.0

    Changed

  • Developer Portal backstage v0.63.1

    In this release, a bug that caused the InstallationsPicker component to incorrectly save selected installations into local storage was fixed. See ./docs/releases/v0.63.1-changelog.md for more information.

  • Observability observability-bundle v1.13.0

    Added

    • Add support for enabling pre-configured custom resources in KSM
    • Add metrics containing labels for Crossplane resources

    Changed

    • Upgrade kube-prometheus-stack to 72.3.0
      • Bumps prometheus-operator to 0.82.0
  • Highlights

    Highlights for the week ending 2025-04-10

    Breaking Changes

    • Ingress NGINX App version 4.0.0
      • Important breaking changes to note:
        • ConfigMap option allow-cross-namespace-resources is now deactivated
        • Annotations with risk level “Critical” now require explicit configuration Please read carefully the whole release notes.

    Fleet Management

    Security

    Connectivity

    • Cilium App version 0.32.0

      • Using upstream default value for prometheus.metrics
      • Enabled Envoy Proxy in standalone DaemonSet

    • CoreDNS App version 1.25.0

      • Updated CoreDNS image to 1.12.1

    • Ingress NGINX App version 4.0.0

      • Updated controller image to v1.12.1
      • Added multiple controller configuration options
      • Removed Pod Security Policies (incompatible with Kubernetes v1.24 and below)
      • Important breaking changes to note:
        • ConfigMap option allow-cross-namespace-resources is now deactivated
        • Annotations with risk level “Critical” now require explicit configuration

    • Kong App version 5.0.0

      • Updated to upstream chart version 2.48.0
      • Updated Kong ingress controller to 3.4.3
      • Changed default installation to OSS version (Enterprise requires explicit configuration)
      • Dropped support for Kubernetes below v1.26
      • Added customizable CRD version selection

    • Proxysocks version 0.1.1

      • Fixed service selector in the Helm chart
      • Initial release with support for credentials

    Continuous Deployment

    • App version 8.0.0

      • Changed app.Validator interface for admission controller identification
      • Streamlined existence checks for referenced resources

    • App Admission Controller version 2.0.0

      • Streamlined validation approach by moving resource existence checks to reconciliation

    • App Operator version 7.2.0

      • Decreased default reconciliation interval from 5m to 3m
      • Enhanced reporting of missing resources in App CR status
      • Improved namespace checking before creating resources

    • Cluster Apps Operator version 3.2.0

      • Updated app-operator to version v7.2.0

    • Konfigure Operator version 0.1.2

      • Initial implementation of configuration management
      • Fixed map filtering logic to respect external annotations and labels
      • Added protection for internal configuration annotations

    • Kube Downscaler App version 0.6.1

      • Updated chart’s image
      • Fixed Cilium network policy endpoint selector

    Developer Portal

    • Backstage version 0.62.0
      • Improved error message styles in deployment details
      • Enhanced resource entity page layout
      • Added links from deployments to corresponding catalog entities
      • Improved installation selection functionality

    Observability

    • Alloy Rules version 4.54.1

      • Added multi-tenancy support with tenant labeling
      • Fixed and improved various alerts:
        • Enhanced alert for missing teleport access logs
        • Fine-tuned MetricForwardingErrors to avoid triggering on sporadic issues
        • Fixed MonitoringAgentDown to not page for non-deleting clusters
        • Added log-based alerts for CIDRNotAvailable events
        • Improved various alert thresholds and timing

    • Cluster API Monitoring App version 1.17.0

      • Set default memory resources to 200Mi

    • Dashboards version 4.4.0

      • Added Cilium Agent logs dashboard
      • Added Observability Resource Usage dashboard
      • Added Backstage dashboard

    • Grafana App version 2.20.0

      • Upgraded Grafana chart from 8.9.0 to 8.11.3

    • Logging Operator version 0.26.1

      • Fine-tuned Alloy logs and events resource usage to avoid impacting customer workloads
      • Fixed schema violations in Alloy logs configuration

    • Node Exporter App version 1.20.2

      • Updated dependencies for improved security and stability

    • Observability Bundle version 1.12.0

      • Upgraded kube-prometheus-stack from 69.5.1 to 70.1.1
      • Updated Prometheus to 3.2.1
      • Updated Prometheus Operator to 0.81.0

    • Observability Operator version 0.23.2

      • Added multi-tenancy support for alerting, recording rules, and remote write
      • Enhanced configuration validation with amtool
      • Improved sharding for metrics across all tenants
      • Configured OpsGenie integration for severity:page alerts
      • Optimized resource usage settings

    • Prometheus Meta Operator version 4.88.0

      • Improved resource usage by not loading log-based alerts in Prometheus

    • Sloth App version 1.7.0

      • Upgraded to sloth 0.12.0

    • Starboard Exporter version 0.8.1

      • Updated Go version and dependencies
      • Addressed code linter findings

    Others

    • NOS App version 0.1.0

      • Updated container images to 0.1.2
      • Added Cilium network policies for API communication
      • Adapted webhook certificate for platform compatibility

    • Zot version 2.1.0

      • Updated to project-zot/helm-charts version 0.1.67
      • Bumped default zot image tag to v2.1.2

    • N8n App version 1.5.1

      • Upgraded the upstream helm chart to 1.1.0

    Docs

  • Connectivity external-dns-crossplane-resources v0.1.6

    Added

    • Included the giantswarm.io/cluster label
  • Developer Portal backstage v0.63.0

    In this release:

    • GitOps indicator was added to the Deployment details pane;
    • linkage between deployments and catalog entities was fixed. See ./docs/releases/v0.63.0-changelog.md for more information.
  • Developer Portal backstage v0.62.0

    In this release: