Changes and Releases

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

• May 21, 2025 Developer Portal backstage v0.72.4

  In this release, ReleasePicker scaffolder field has been improved to allow to filter releases by provider. See ./docs/releases/v0.72.4-changelog.md for more information.

• May 20, 2025 Observability silence-operator v0.16.1
  • Remove duplicate container securityContext from the Helm chart deployment template.
• May 20, 2025 Observability silence-operator v0.16.0

  Added

  • Helm chart now supports conditional installation of the Silence CRD via the crds.install value. The CRD is templated and installed by default, but you can disable it by setting crds.install to false.
• May 20, 2025 Developer Portal backstage v0.72.3

  In this release, custom OIDC provider implementation was removed from GS auth backend module. See ./docs/releases/v0.72.3-changelog.md for more information.

• May 16, 2025 CAPA releases releases aws-30.1.2

  This release reconfigures the Cilium HelmRelease to avoid disruptions during cluster upgrades.

  Changes compared to v30.1.1

  Components

  • cluster-aws from v3.2.1 to v3.2.2

  cluster-aws v3.2.1…v3.2.2

  Changed

  • Chart: Update cluster to v2.2.1.

  Apps

  • cilium from v0.31.1 to v0.31.4

  cilium v0.31.1…v0.31.4

  Changed

  • Upgrade Cilium to v1.16.10.
• May 15, 2025 Developer Portal backstage v0.72.2

  In this release fixed an incorrect secret reference in Helm chart templates. See ./docs/releases/v0.72.2-changelog.md for more information.

• May 14, 2025 Developer Portal backstage v0.72.1

  In this release, Helm chart templates have been cleaned up. See ./docs/releases/v0.72.1-changelog.md for more information.

• May 14, 2025 Observability silence-operator v0.15.0

  Added

  • Migrate from Giant Swarm deprecated operatorkit framework to kube-builder.
  • Add CiliumNetworkPolicy support.

  Changed

  • Migrate from Giant Swarm deprecated operatorkit framework to kube-builder. This change introduces a few breaking changes:
    • Operator configuration has been moved from a configmap to command-line arguments. This does not affect helm chart users
    • The operator needs new rbac capabilities to be able manage leases and to create events
    • http port has been changed from 8000 to 8080.
    • Finalizers set on silences have been changed from operatorkit.giantswarm.io/silence-operator-silence-controller to monitoring.giantswarm.io/silence-protection
  • helm .registry.domain has been renamed to image.registry (breaking change)
  • helm deprecated PodSecurityPolicy has been removed (breaking change with kubernetes < 1.25)
  • Use app-build-suite to build the operator.
  • Changed container image from alpine to a non-root distroless image.

  Fixed

  • Fixed the linting errors from golangci-lint v2.

  Removed

  • Remove the unnecessary sync job to rely on GitOps. Breaking change: this means that you should now use your favorite GitOps tool (flux, ArgoCD) to deploy silences on your clusters.
  • Removed Giant Swarm legacy microerrors package for error handling
• May 14, 2025 Developer Portal backstage v0.72.0

  In this release:

  • headless backend package has been added to serve auth and scaffolder plugins separately from the main backend instance;
  • custom discovery and scaffolder API clients have been added to interact with the headless backend instances. See ./docs/releases/v0.72.0-changelog.md for more information.
• May 13, 2025 Continuous Deployment flux-app v1.5.1

  Changed

  • Upgrade Flux to 2.2.3 version.

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