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Changes and Releases

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

  • CAPVCD releases releases cloud-director-28.0.1

    Changes compared to v28.0.0

    Apps

    • cloud-provider-cloud-director from v0.3.1 to v0.4.0

    cloud-provider-cloud-director v0.3.1…v0.4.0

    Changed

    • Update to 1.6.0-gs of CPI. (Upstream 1.6.0 plus custom patch from previous release.)
  • CAPVCD releases releases cloud-director-29.0.1

    Changes compared to v29.0.0

    Apps

    • cloud-provider-cloud-director from v0.3.1 to v0.4.0

    cloud-provider-cloud-director v0.3.1…v0.4.0

    Changed

    • Update to 1.6.0-gs of CPI. (Upstream 1.6.0 plus custom patch from previous release.)
  • CAPVCD releases releases cloud-director-29.1.1

    Changes compared to v29.1.0

    Apps

    • cloud-provider-cloud-director from v0.3.1 to v0.4.0

    cloud-provider-cloud-director v0.3.1…v0.4.0

    Changed

    • Update to 1.6.0-gs of CPI. (Upstream 1.6.0 plus custom patch from previous release.)
  • CAPVCD releases releases cloud-director-29.2.1

    Changes compared to v29.2.0

    Apps

    • cloud-provider-cloud-director from v0.3.1 to v0.4.0

    cloud-provider-cloud-director v0.3.1…v0.4.0

    Changed

    • Update to 1.6.0-gs of CPI. (Upstream 1.6.0 plus custom patch from previous release.)
  • CAPVCD releases releases cloud-director-29.3.1

    Changes compared to v29.3.0

    Apps

    • cloud-provider-cloud-director from v0.3.1 to v0.4.0

    cloud-provider-cloud-director v0.3.1…v0.4.0

    Changed

    • Update to 1.6.0-gs of CPI. (Upstream 1.6.0 plus custom patch from previous release.)
  • Developer Portal backstage v0.51.1

    In this release: Deployments table improvements:

    • page size was changed to 50 items. Allowed for a user to change page size to 100 items;
    • sort by name by default;
    • CLUSTER TYPE column values were fixed for App CRs deployed by a bundle. Grafana link on cluster details page was changed to point to the new Cluster Overview Dashboard. See ./docs/releases/v0.51.1-changelog.md for more information.
  • Managed Apps falco-app v0.10.0

    Changed

    • Update Falco to upstream version 0.40.0
  • Security falco-app v0.10.0

    Changed

    • Update Falco to upstream version 0.40.0.
  • Observability dashboards v3.30.0

    Changed

    • Add team label to karpenter dashboard.
    • Add grafana organization label to public dashboards

    Removed

    • Remove CAPI Overview dashboard.
  • CAPA releases releases aws-25.5.0

    Most notable change in this release is the reduction of IAM permissions on the worker nodes instance profile, aiming at improving the general security of the clusters. Additional changes include reducing the size of the ETCD volume to 50GB targetting costs saving initiatives, improvements for the node-termination-handler application for smoother upgrades and operations as well as fixes for ENI mode targetting the CAPA migration.

    Changes compared to v25.4.0

    Components

    • cluster-aws from v1.3.5 to v1.3.7

    cluster-aws v1.3.5…v1.3.7

    Added

    • Add ingress rule in nodes Security Group to allow access to the Kubelet API when using ENI mode. This is needed by the metrics server to gather metrics from the Kubelet

    Changed

    • Chart: Reduce default etcd volume size to 50 GB.
    • Explicitly set Ignition user data storage type to S3 bucket objects for machine pools
    • Use reduced IAM permissions on worker nodes instance profile. This can be toggled back with global.providerSpecific.reducedInstanceProfileIamPermissionsForWorkers.
    • Explicitly set aws-node-termination-handler queue region so crash-loops are avoided, allowing faster startup

    Apps

    • aws-nth-bundle from v1.2.0 to v1.2.1
    • cilium-crossplane-resources from v0.1.0 to v0.2.0

    aws-nth-bundle v1.2.0…v1.2.1

    Added

    • Forward proxy settings to aws-node-termination-handler-app as environment variables

    cilium-crossplane-resources v0.1.0…v0.2.0

    Added

    • Add a Security Group rule for node to pod communication