Changes and Releases

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

• Jun 27, 2025 Developer Portal backstage v0.80.1

  This releases fixes a problem where the chart would not render when .backstage.extraEnvVars was set. See ./docs/releases/v0.80.1-changelog.md for more information.

• Jun 27, 2025 CAPA releases releases aws-28.5.5

  Upgrade cluster-aws to handle IMDS Hop Limit and patch kubernetes version.

  Changes compared to v28.5.4

  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.
• Jun 26, 2025 Developer Portal backstage v0.80.0

  In this release:

  • Backstage was updated to v1.40.1.
  • Custom auth connector implementation was cleaned up.
  • Catalog routing issue was fixed.
  • Other dependencies were updated. See ./docs/releases/v0.80.0-changelog.md for more information.
• Jun 26, 2025 Fleet Management zot v2.2.0

  Changed

  • Bump default zot image tag to v2.1.5.
  • Migrate Deployment and PVC to a StatefulSet when persistency is enabled.
• Jun 26, 2025 Developer Portal backstage v0.79.0

  In this release:

  • The new page with the details about a deployment has been added. The old deployment details popup has been deleted.
  • Grafana alerts link on the cluster details page has been fixed with the correct organization id parameter. See ./docs/releases/v0.79.0-changelog.md for more information.
• Jun 26, 2025 Continuous Deployment flux-app v1.7.1

  Changed

  • Enable VPA by default (Helm value .verticalPodAutoscaler.enabled now defaults to true, was false).
• Jun 25, 2025 Security dex-app v2.0.2

  Changed

  • Allow for managementCluster value to be a string or object.
• Jun 25, 2025 Security dex-app v2.0.1

  Changed

  • Allow for additionalProperties in the Chart values schema.
• Jun 25, 2025 CAPA releases releases aws-27.5.4

  Upgrade cluster-aws to handle IMDS Hop Limit.

  Changes compared to v27.5.3

  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.
• Jun 25, 2025 CAPA releases releases aws-26.4.4

  Upgrade cluster-aws to handle IMDS Hop Limit.

  Changes compared to v26.4.3

  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.

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