Changes and Releases

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

• Aug 7, 2026 Observability grafana-app v2.39.0

  Changed

  • Fix ABS config to not override AppVersion in Chart.yaml
  • Upgrade grafana chart: 12.3.0 => 12.10.3
  • Upgrade grafana (appVersion): 13.0.1 => 13.1.2
  • Upgrade postgresql-cnpg: 18.3 => 18.4 — the rolling DB upgrade can cause ~5min of Grafana downtime.

  Removed

  • The upstream chart no longer creates a Role/RoleBinding when grafana.rbac.namespaced is false (our default). Those objects were empty, sidecar permissions come from the ClusterRole.
• Aug 7, 2026 Developer Portal backstage v0.182.11

  Changed

  • (deps) Update dependency recharts to v3.10.0 in #2058 by @renovate[bot]

  Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/backstage/compare/v0.182.10...v0.182.11

• Aug 7, 2026 Developer Portal backstage v0.182.10

  Changed

  • (deps) Update dependency fast-xml-builder to v1.3.0 in #2053 by @renovate[bot]

  Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/backstage/compare/v0.182.9...v0.182.10

• Aug 7, 2026 Developer Portal backstage v0.182.9

  Changed

  • (deps) Update dependency axios to v0.33.0 in #2051 by @renovate[bot]

  Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/backstage/compare/v0.182.8...v0.182.9

• Aug 7, 2026 Developer Portal backstage v0.182.8

  Changed

  • (deps) Update dependency js-yaml to v5.2.2 in #2052 by @renovate[bot]

  Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/backstage/compare/v0.182.7...v0.182.8

• Aug 7, 2026 Developer Portal backstage v0.182.7

  Changed

  • (deps) Update dependency ai to v7.0.36 in #2050 by @renovate[bot]

  Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/backstage/compare/v0.182.6...v0.182.7

• Aug 6, 2026 Observability observability-bundle v3.3.1

  Changed

  • Values: Generate schema for Alloy PodLogs CRDs.
  • Values: Add Cilium as dependency for Alloy apps & Kube Prometheus Stack.
  • Values: Update Alloy apps to v0.21.2.

  Removed

  • Values: Remove unused catalog.
• Aug 6, 2026 Observability dashboards v4.29.1

  Added

  • Add a nav bar between the four Envoy Gateway dashboards, like the Cilium ones have.

  Changed

  • Give Envoy Gateway | Clusters a readable uid. Links to its old random uid stop resolving.
  • Rename the cluster variable on Cilium Agent logs to cluster_id, matching the other Cilium dashboards so the selection carries across links.
  • Rename workload_cluster to cluster_id on the Envoy Gateway dashboards, so the selection carries when moving between them. On Clusters its label is K8s Cluster, to tell it apart from the Envoy cluster selector.
  • Hide the datasource selector on the Cilium and Envoy Gateway dashboards and point it at the default datasource, instead of the exported uids that only resolved in the Grafana a board came from.

  Removed

  • Drop the Cluster selector from Envoy Gateway | Clusters. Every panel also matched on the namespace, resource and rule selectors, which compose the same Envoy cluster name.

  Fixed

  • Give Cilium | Agent its own uid instead of reusing the retired Cilium metrics dashboard’s, which kept it from being created.
  • Give Envoy Gateway | Control Plane its own uid instead of reusing the retired Global dashboard’s, which kept it from being created.
• Aug 6, 2026 Developer Portal backstage v0.182.6

  Fixed

  • (agent-platform) Render the question a session is waiting on in #2049 by @marians

  Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/backstage/compare/v0.182.5...v0.182.6

• Aug 6, 2026 Observability alloy-app v0.21.2

  Changed

  • Chart: Install Vertical Pod Autoscaler independent of API availability.

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