Changes and Releases

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

• Apr 14, 2026 AI Agents klausctl v0.0.51

  What’s Changed

  • fix(deps): update module github.com/mark3labs/mcp-go to v0.48.0 by @renovate[bot] in https://github.com/giantswarm/klausctl/pull/187

  Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/klausctl/compare/v0.0.50...v0.0.51

• Apr 14, 2026 Developer Portal backstage v0.121.0

  Added

  • Add custom review step for scaffolder templates.
  • Add multi-source value editing for app deployment scaffolder templates.
  • Add isValidDNSSubdomainName utility for validating Kubernetes resource names.
  • Add passwordManagerIgnoreProps utility and height/maxHeight options to YamlEditor.
  • Add fromJson Nunjucks template filter for deserializing JSON strings in scaffolder templates.

  Changed

  • Discover app deployment templates by label instead of hardcoded name.
  • Disable Edit Deployment button when deployment structure is incompatible with the edit template.
  • Warn when an app deployment is managed through GitOps.

  Fixed

  • Fix version truncation not working on deployment details page.
  • Fix YAML block-style autocompletion in CodeMirror editors. See ./docs/releases/v0.121.0-changelog.md for more information.
• Apr 14, 2026 AI Agents muster v0.1.101

  What’s Changed

  • Update module github.com/mark3labs/mcp-go to v0.48.0 by @renovate[bot] in https://github.com/giantswarm/muster/pull/560

  Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/muster/compare/v0.1.100...v0.1.101

• Apr 14, 2026 Observability loki-app v0.43.1

  Fixed

  • Disabled per-component serviceaccounts so we rely on a central serviceaccount that has proper IRSA annotation.
• Apr 14, 2026 AI Agents muster v0.1.100

  What’s Changed

  • Update actions/upload-pages-artifact action to v5 by @renovate[bot] in https://github.com/giantswarm/muster/pull/559

  Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/muster/compare/v0.1.99...v0.1.100

• Apr 13, 2026 Observability loki-app v0.43.0

  Changed

  • Updated Loki Helm chart dependency to use grafana-community/helm-charts repository.
  • Upgrade upstream loki helm chart from v6 (6.53.0) to v11 (11.6.4), Loki app version 3.6.5 → 3.7.1.
  • Remove custom ScaledObject wrapper templates (backend, gateway, read, write); upstream v11 ships native ScaledObject support, keeping both caused duplicate resources.
  • Remove kedaAutoscaling value blocks consumed only by the deleted wrapper templates.
  • Remove selfMonitoring dead code; removed from upstream prior to v11.
  • Remove redundant podSecurityContext and containerSecurityContext overrides for loki and gateway components; they are now identical to upstream v11 defaults.
  • Rename sample_configs/ directory to examples/.
• Apr 13, 2026 Connectivity k8s-dns-node-cache-app v2.10.0

  Added

  • Make AAAA NOERROR configurable for IPv6.
• Apr 13, 2026 Connectivity external-dns-crossplane-resources v0.2.0

  Added

  • Add awsPartition value to support non-standard AWS partitions (e.g. China).
  • Add oidcDomain and oidcDomains values to support multiple OIDC providers; the IAM trust policy now iterates over all provided domains.
  • Add managed-by: external-dns-crossplane-resources tag to the IAM role.

  Changed

  • Add io.giantswarm.application.audience: giantswarm annotation.
  • Migrate chart metadata annotations to io.giantswarm.application.* format.
  • Move required validation for awsPartition and accountID into named template helpers.
  • Replace deprecated app.giantswarm.io/branch, application.kubernetes.io/managed-by, and giantswarm.io/service-type labels with app.kubernetes.io/* equivalents.
  • Update chart description, icon, and owning team (cabbage).

  Removed

  • Remove name, serviceType, project.branch, and project.commit values that were leftover hackathon scaffolding.
  • Remove hardcoded baseDomain-based OIDC provider URL; replaced by oidcDomain/oidcDomains.
• Apr 13, 2026 AI Agents klaus v0.0.114

  What’s Changed

  • chore(deps): update dependency @anthropic-ai/claude-code to v2.1.104 by @renovate[bot] in https://github.com/giantswarm/klaus/pull/209

  Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/klaus/compare/v0.0.113...v0.0.114

• Apr 12, 2026 AI Agents muster v0.1.99

  What’s Changed

  • Update module github.com/giantswarm/mcp-oauth to v0.2.98 by @renovate[bot] in https://github.com/giantswarm/muster/pull/558

  Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/muster/compare/v0.1.98...v0.1.99

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