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Changes and Releases

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

  • CAPZ releases releases azure-29.3.0

    Changes compared to v29.2.0

    Components

    • cluster-azure from v1.3.0 to v1.4.0
    • Flatcar from v3975.2.1 to v3975.2.2
    • Kubernetes from v1.29.9 to v1.29.10

    cluster-azure v1.3.0…v1.4.0

    Changed

    • Make external-dns-private app depend on the prometheus-operator-crd app, because it uses ServiceMonitors.

    Apps

    • cert-exporter from v2.9.2 to v2.9.3
    • observability-bundle from v1.6.2 to v1.8.0

    cert-exporter v2.9.2…v2.9.3

    Changed

    • Chart: Enable global.podSecurityStandards.enforced. (#420)

    observability-bundle v1.6.2…v1.8.0

    Changed

    • Upgrade prometheus-agent from v0.6.9 to v0.7.0.
      • Adds extraArgs to be able to use nice features like wal truncation
    • upgrade kube-prometheus-stack from 61.0.0 to 65.1.1
      • prometheus-operator CRDs from 0.73.0 to 0.75.0
      • prometheus-operator from 0.75.0 to 0.77.1
      • prometheus upgraded from 2.53.0 to 2.54.1
      • grafana from 8.2.0 to 8.5.0
      • thanos ruler upgraded from 0.35.1 to 0.36.1
      • prometheus-node-exporter upgraded from 1.8.1 to 1.8.2
    • Add missing depends on annotation on alloy-metrics and alloy-logs to make sure they are deployed after the prometheus-operator-crds.
    • Upgrade alloyLogs to v0.6.1
      • Allow passing PodLogs via helm chart values
      • Upgrade to Alloy v1.4.2 which fixes a bug with component reload/evaluation and keeping Alloy up-to-date
      • Fixes an issue with CiliumNetworkPolicy preventing Alloy to run in clustering mode
  • CAPVCD releases releases cloud-director-28.0.0

    Changes compared to v27.0.0

    Components

    • Kubernetes from v1.27.16 to v1.28.15
  • CAPV releases releases vsphere-29.1.0

    Changes compared to v29.0.0

    Components

    • cluster-vsphere from v0.65.2 to v0.66.0

    cluster-vsphere v0.65.2…v0.66.0

    Changed

    • Use Renovate to update kube-vip static pod manifest.
    • Updated giantswarm/cluster to v1.6.0.
    • Update kubectl image used by IPAM job to 1.29.9.
    • Use init-container to prepare /etc/hosts file for kube-vip.

    Apps

    • cert-exporter from v2.9.2 to v2.9.3
    • observability-bundle from v1.6.2 to v1.8.0

    cert-exporter v2.9.2…v2.9.3

    Changed

    • Chart: Enable global.podSecurityStandards.enforced. (#420)

    observability-bundle v1.6.2…v1.8.0

    Changed

    • Upgrade prometheus-agent from v0.6.9 to v0.7.0.
      • Adds extraArgs to be able to use nice features like wal truncation
    • upgrade kube-prometheus-stack from 61.0.0 to 65.1.1
      • prometheus-operator CRDs from 0.73.0 to 0.75.0
      • prometheus-operator from 0.75.0 to 0.77.1
      • prometheus upgraded from 2.53.0 to 2.54.1
      • grafana from 8.2.0 to 8.5.0
      • thanos ruler upgraded from 0.35.1 to 0.36.1
      • prometheus-node-exporter upgraded from 1.8.1 to 1.8.2
    • Add missing depends on annotation on alloy-metrics and alloy-logs to make sure they are deployed after the prometheus-operator-crds.
    • Upgrade alloyLogs to v0.6.1
      • Allow passing PodLogs via helm chart values
      • Upgrade to Alloy v1.4.2 which fixes a bug with component reload/evaluation and keeping Alloy up-to-date
      • Fixes an issue with CiliumNetworkPolicy preventing Alloy to run in clustering mode
  • Managed Apps dex-app v1.42.13

    Changed

    • Changed ownership to Team Shield
    • Prepare for Backstage service
  • Security dex-app v1.42.13

    Changed

    • Changed ownership to Team Shield
    • Prepare for Backstage service
  • Fleet Management kubectl-gs v4.4.0

    Added

    • Cloud Director Provider.
  • Developer Portal happa v1.70.0

    Changes

    List of allowed origins was extended by @ljakimczuk in https://github.com/giantswarm/happa/pull/4635

    New Contributors

    Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/happa/compare/v1.69.0...v1.70.0

  • Observability dashboards v3.26.1

    Added

    • Add Mimir / Continuous test dashboard.

    Fixed

    • Fixed “Management cluster Overview” dashboard
  • Developer Portal backstage v0.41.3

    This release fixes a bug when Grafana links for component deployments had incorrect namespace variable. See ./docs/releases/v0.41.3-changelog.md for more information.

  • Developer Portal backstage v0.41.2

    See ./docs/releases/v0.41.2-changelog.md for more information.