Changes and Releases

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

• Dec 12, 2025 Observability alloy-app v0.16.0

  Changed

  • Upgrade Alloy upstream chart from 1.3.1 to 1.5.0 (CHANGELOG)
    • This bumps the version of Alloy from 1.11.2 to 1.12.0 (CHANGELOG)
• Dec 12, 2025 Observability tempo-app v0.8.1

  Changed

  • Upgrade Tempo chart from 1.53.2 to 1.58.0
• Dec 12, 2025 Observability grafana-app v2.29.0

  Changed

  • upgrade grafana chart: 10.1.4 => 10.3.1
  • upgrade grafana : 12.2.1 => 12.3.0
• Dec 11, 2025 Connectivity coredns-app v1.28.3

  Changed

  • Update coredns image to 1.13.2.
• Dec 11, 2025 Developer Portal backstage v0.91.1

  Fixed

  • Added custom scaffolder fields improvements. See ./docs/releases/v0.91.1-changelog.md for more information.
• Dec 10, 2025 Observability grafana-app v2.28.5

  Changed

  • upgrade pgClusterRecoveryTest image tag: 17.5 => 18.1
• Dec 10, 2025 Security dex-app v2.1.4

  Added

  • Auto-include mcpKubernetes in dex-k8s-authenticator trustedPeers for seamless token exchange.
• Dec 10, 2025 Developer Portal backstage v0.91.0

  Added

  • ChartPicker custom scaffolder field.
  • ChartTagPicker custom scaffolder field.
  • YamlValuesEditor custom scaffolder field.
  • YamlValuesValidation custom scaffolder field.
  • GS backend plugin.
  • Container Registry frontend API client and backend service.

  Changed

  • helmcharts catalog entity annotation format has been changed. See ./docs/releases/v0.91.0-changelog.md for more information.
• Dec 9, 2025 Security dex-app v2.1.3

  Added

  • Add PodLogs for log collection.
  • Add Gateway API HTTPRoute support as an alternative to Ingress.

  Changed

  • Fix support for using a private CA in the ingresses
• Dec 9, 2025 Security kyverno-app v0.22.0

  Changed

  • Update kyverno to upstream version v1.16.1.

  Notes

  This release includes an upstream update. Please refer to the following Release Notes from upstream for the latest changes:

  • v1.16.0
  • v1.16.1

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