Changes and Releases

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

• Jan 9, 2026 Continuous Deployment flux-app v1.8.0

  Changed

  • Migrate Chart.yaml annotations to new format as per https://docs.giantswarm.io/reference/platform-api/chart-metadata/
  • Updgrade Flux to 2.5.1 version.

  Fixed

  • Adding back the app.kubernetes.io/part-of: flux label.
• Jan 9, 2026 AI Agents muster v0.0.122

  What’s Changed

  • Update module github.com/giantswarm/mcp-oauth to v0.2.30 by @renovate[bot] in https://github.com/giantswarm/muster/pull/201

  Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/muster/compare/v0.0.121...v0.0.122

• Jan 9, 2026 Connectivity envoy-gateway-app v1.3.0

  Added

  • Add PodLogs resource for log collection

  Changed

  • Update Envoy Gateway to v1.5.6.
• Jan 9, 2026 AI Agents muster v0.0.121

  What’s Changed

  • Align files by @architectbot in https://github.com/giantswarm/muster/pull/200

  Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/muster/compare/v0.0.120...v0.0.121

• Jan 7, 2026 Developer Portal happa v1.71.7

  What’s Changed

  • Remove NGINX modules and /jwt-token endpoint by @marians in https://github.com/giantswarm/happa/pull/4675
  • Enable OCI pushing, simplify job names by @marians in https://github.com/giantswarm/happa/pull/4676
  • Migrate Helm charts to new Chart.yaml annotations by @marians in https://github.com/giantswarm/happa/pull/4681, https://github.com/giantswarm/happa/pull/4682
  • feat(helm): add Gateway API support by @weatherhog in https://github.com/giantswarm/happa/pull/4684
  • NGINX config: Stricter argument check by @marians in https://github.com/giantswarm/happa/pull/4691

  New Contributors

  • @weatherhog made their first contribution in https://github.com/giantswarm/happa/pull/4684

  Thanks

  • @Sumitshah00 for reporting a possible security vulnerability

  Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/happa/compare/v1.71.6...v1.71.7

• Jan 7, 2026 Connectivity external-dns-app v3.4.0

  Changed

  • Sync to upstream helm chart 1.20.0.
    • Add option to set annotationPrefix.
    • Fixed the missing schema for .provider.webhook.serviceMonitor configs.
    • Fixed incorrect indentation of selector labels under spec.template.spec.topologySpreadConstraints when topologySpreadConstraints is set.
• Jan 7, 2026 Developer Portal backstage v0.93.2

  Changed

  • Expose isManagementCluster value in the ClusterPicker scaffolder field.
  • Improve formatTemplateString utility to support clusterNamePrefix placeholders. See ./docs/releases/v0.93.2-changelog.md for more information.
• Jan 7, 2026 AI Agents muster v0.0.120

  What’s Changed

  • Bump year to 2026 by @TheoBrigitte in https://github.com/giantswarm/muster/pull/199

  Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/muster/compare/v0.0.119...v0.0.120

• Jan 6, 2026 Developer Portal backstage v0.93.1

  Changed

  • Configuration docs component in the scaffolder custom step has been refactored.

  Fixed

  • Syntax highlighting in the YamlEditor component has been fixed. See ./docs/releases/v0.93.1-changelog.md for more information.
• Jan 6, 2026 Observability observability-bundle v2.5.0

  Added

  • Add KSM metrics kube_servicemonitor_info and kube_podmonitor_info for ServiceMonitor and PodMonitor resources
  • Add KSM metrics kube_podlog_info for PodLog resource

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