Changes and Releases

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

• Aug 18, 2026 Developer Portal backstage v0.184.2

  Changed

  • (deps) Update ai-sdk packages in #2083 by @renovate[bot]

  Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/backstage/compare/v0.184.1...v0.184.2

• Aug 18, 2026 Security auth-bundle v0.6.1

  Changed

  • Use .Chart.AppVersion instead of .Chart.Version for label value.
• Aug 17, 2026 Developer Portal backstage v0.184.1

  Changed

  • (deps) Update dependency @codemirror/view to v6.43.7 in #2082 by @renovate[bot]

  Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/backstage/compare/v0.184.0...v0.184.1

• Aug 17, 2026 Connectivity gateway-api-app v1.9.0

  Changed

  • Upgrade Gateway API CRDs to v1.6.1
  • Upgrade Gateway API Inference Extension CRDs to v1.5.0
  • Set install.tcproutes and install.udproutes to standard, following their graduation to the standard channel. Required by Envoy Gateway 1.9, which reconciles them via gateway.networking.k8s.io/v1.
  • Install the safe-upgrades ValidatingAdmissionPolicy, which was previously dropped and left its binding orphaned. Set install.admissionPolicies to false to skip both.

  Added

  • Add install.xbackends value for the new experimental XBackend CRD.
  • Add install.inferencepoolimports and install.inferencemodelrewrites values, whose CRDs shipped without a way to enable them.

  Removed

  • Remove the alpha InferencePool CRD (inference.networking.x-k8s.io/v1alpha2), dropped upstream in Inference Extension v1.5.0. install.inferencepools now only accepts standard or "".
• Aug 16, 2026 Security starboard-exporter v1.2.3

  Fixed

  • (deps) Update module github.com/buraksezer/consistent to v1 in #608 by @renovate[bot]

  Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/starboard-exporter/compare/v1.2.2...v1.2.3

• Aug 13, 2026 Security starboard-exporter v1.2.2

  Fixed

  • (deps) Update module github.com/prometheus/client_golang to v1.24.1 in #600 by @renovate[bot]

  Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/starboard-exporter/compare/v1.2.1...v1.2.2

• Aug 13, 2026 Security starboard-exporter v1.2.1

  Fixed

  • (deps) Update module github.com/aquasecurity/trivy-operator to v0.33.0 in #605 by @renovate[bot]

  Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/starboard-exporter/compare/v1.2.0...v1.2.1

• Aug 13, 2026 Security starboard-exporter v1.2.0

  Added

  • Support GOMEMLIMIT configuration on app startup in #607 by @fjogeleit

  Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/starboard-exporter/compare/v1.1.9...v1.2.0

• Aug 12, 2026 Observability loki-app v0.46.1

  Changed

  • Upgrade upstream loki helm chart from v13.5.0 to v13.7.2. Loki app version goes from 3.7.1 to 3.7.2 (CVE fixes, ruler panic fix, S3 SDK bump).
  • k8s-sidecar bumped 2.7.1 → 2.7.3.
• Aug 12, 2026 Observability loki-app v0.46.0

  Added

  • Support for Azure Workload Identity

  Changed

  • Move the AWS and Azure deployment instructions out of the README into docs/deploying-on-aws.md and docs/deploying-on-azure.md.

  Fixed

  • Add a kubernetes-flavor NetworkPolicy granting the backend pods egress to the kube-apiserver (TCP 443/6443) to fix standalone platforms and CI tests.
  • Fix ABS config to not override AppVersion in Chart.yaml

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