Changes and Releases

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

• Jul 15, 2026 Developer Portal backstage v0.155.6

  Changed

  • (deps) Update dependency ai to v6.0.217 in #1930 by @renovate[bot]

  Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/backstage/compare/v0.155.5...v0.155.6

• Jul 15, 2026 Connectivity external-dns-crossplane-resources v0.3.0

  Added

  • Add support for Azure Workload Identity in AKS clusters.
• Jul 14, 2026 CAPA releases releases aws-34.4.1

  Changes compared to v34.4.0

  Components

  • cluster-aws from v7.7.2 to v7.7.3

  cluster-aws v7.7.2…v7.7.3

  Added

  • Add global.connectivity.certManager.createIamRole toggle (default true) to let customers opt out of provisioning the cert-manager IAM role via crossplane and bring their own role.
• Jul 14, 2026 Security dex-app v2.2.3

  Changed

  • CI: push the release image to gsoci only and mirror to Aliyun out-of-band via sync-china-registry, so a slow cross-Pacific Aliyun push can no longer time out and block the chart catalog publish.

  Fixed

  • Update dex to v2.43.2. Fixes forced re-login after ~8h for GitHub App-backed connectors (GitHub App user-to-server tokens expire after 8 hours); the connector now persists GitHub’s refresh token and renews the upstream user access token on refresh. Cherry-pick of upstream dexidp/dex#4845.
• Jul 14, 2026 Connectivity envoy-gateway-app v1.8.0

  Added

  • Add basicauth performance test suite.
  • Add keyauth performance test suite.
  • Add mobilelatency performance test suite.

  Changed

  • Set giantswarm-critical priorityClass on the Envoy Gateway control plane pods.
  • Add circuitBreaker config field in bundle values for envoy performance test suites to better sustain high request load.
  • Configure Envoy Gateway to be HA by default.
  • Move apps’ versions in dependencies_test files from each performance test suite into a single file used in each of those.
  • Update Envoy Gateway to v1.8.2 (data plane Envoy bumped to v1.38.3).

  Fixed

  • Fix kong performance tests in basic and basicauth suites.
• Jul 14, 2026 AI Agents klaus v0.0.274

  Changed

  • (deps) Update dependency @anthropic-ai/claude-code to v2.1.209 in #404 by @renovate[bot]

  Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/klaus/compare/v0.0.273...v0.0.274

• Jul 14, 2026 Developer Portal backstage v0.155.5

  Changed

  • (renovate) Exempt Giant Swarm npm packages from 14-day minimumReleaseAge (#1924) [skip ci] in #1924 by @marians
  • (renovate) Pin react below v19 until Backstage supports it (#1928) [skip ci] in #1928 by @marians

  Fixed

  • (deps) Update ai-sdk packages in #1926 by @renovate[bot]

  Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/backstage/compare/v0.155.4...v0.155.5

• Jul 14, 2026 Developer Portal backstage v0.155.4

  Changed

  • (deps) Prune stale entries from yarn.lock in #1925 by @marians

  Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/backstage/compare/v0.155.3...v0.155.4

• Jul 14, 2026 Developer Portal backstage v0.155.3

  Fixed

  • (deps) Update dependency @backstage-community/plugin-grafana to ^0.21.0 in #1922 by @renovate[bot]

  Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/backstage/compare/v0.155.2...v0.155.3

• Jul 14, 2026 Developer Portal backstage v0.155.2

  Changed

  • (deps) Update dependency fs-extra to v11.3.6 in #1921 by @renovate[bot]

  Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/backstage/compare/v0.155.1...v0.155.2

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