Changes and Releases

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

• Jan 15, 2026 Developer Portal backstage v0.96.1

  Changed

  • Add Anthropic and OpenAI API keys to the Helm chart values. See ./docs/releases/v0.96.1-changelog.md for more information.
• Jan 15, 2026 Developer Portal backstage v0.96.0

  Added

  • Add AI Chat plugin. See ./docs/releases/v0.96.0-changelog.md for more information.
• Jan 15, 2026 CAPA releases releases aws-33.1.3

  Fix Karpenter schema for extraConfigs

  Changes compared to v33.1.2

  Components

  • cluster-aws from v6.4.2 to v6.4.3

  cluster-aws v6.4.2…v6.4.3

  Fixed

  • Fix Karpenter schema: Use helmRelease schema instead of app schema. This corrects the extraConfigs[].kind field to accept ConfigMap and Secret (capitalized), and replaces the priority field with optional field, matching the HelmRelease resource structure.
• Jan 15, 2026 Developer Portal backstage v0.95.1

  Fixed

  • Added proper HTTP error handling for container registry clients.
  • Implemented consistent error handling for chart tags requests. See ./docs/releases/v0.95.1-changelog.md for more information.
• Jan 14, 2026 CAPA releases releases aws-33.1.2

  Improve karpenter subnet selection and extraConfig mounting.

  Changes compared to v33.1.1

  Components

  • cluster-aws from v6.4.1 to v6.4.2

  cluster-aws v6.4.1…v6.4.2

  Added

  • Add kubernetes.io/cluster/$clusterName: "owned" and sigs.k8s.io/cluster-api-provider-aws/cluster/$clusterName: "owned" tags to the IRSAClaim CR so that resources created by Crossplane contain the expected tags. This also allows to find the S3 buckets that need to be deleted when removing a cluster.

  Fixed

  • Fix Karpenter NodePool subnet filtering: when users define custom subnetTags, the default giantswarm.io/role: "nodes" filter is no longer applied, allowing full control over subnet selection. The cluster ownership tag (sigs.k8s.io/cluster-api-provider-aws/cluster/<cluster-name>: owned) is still enforced for security.
  • Fix Karpenter HelmRelease: add missing valuesFrom parent field for extraConfigs, enabling customers to use custom ConfigMaps and Secrets for Karpenter configuration.
• Jan 13, 2026 CAPA releases releases aws-32.2.0

  This release updates the cluster-aws chart to address an issue with Karpenter nodes not working properly with ingress load balancers.

  Changes compared to v32.1.0

  Components

  • cluster-aws from v5.3.0 to v5.4.0

  cluster-aws v5.3.0…v5.4.0

  Added

  • This change will roll the nodes on Karpenter node pools Attach the lb Security Group to Karpenter nodes.
  • This change will roll the nodes on Karpenter node pools Name instance on AWS after the nodepool name.
• Jan 13, 2026 Developer Portal backstage v0.95.0

  Added

  • Add Helm chart README overview. See ./docs/releases/v0.95.0-changelog.md for more information.
• Jan 12, 2026 Security auth-bundle v0.3.0

  Changed

  • Update dependency dex to version v2.1.5.
  • Update dependency ingress-nginx-app to version v4.2.1.
• Jan 12, 2026 Developer Portal backstage v0.94.0

  Added

  • Add Helm chart versions history overview.

  Fixed

  • Fix ChartPicker and ChartTagPicker to respect initial form value.
  • Fix AutocompleteOption to display label instead of value. See ./docs/releases/v0.94.0-changelog.md for more information.
• Jan 12, 2026 Connectivity coredns-app v1.29.0

  Changed

  • Update coredns image to 1.14.0.

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