Changes and Releases

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

• Jul 22, 2026 Developer Portal backstage v0.167.5

  Changed

  • (muster) Migrate Tool Explorer to bui in #1979 by @marians

  Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/backstage/compare/v0.167.4...v0.167.5

• Jul 22, 2026 Developer Portal backstage v0.167.4

  Changed

  • (muster) Migrate DisclosureAccordion to bui (@backstage/ui) in #1977 by @marians

  Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/backstage/compare/v0.167.3...v0.167.4

• Jul 22, 2026 Developer Portal backstage v0.167.3

  Changed

  • (gs) Migrate SimpleAccordion to bui (@backstage/ui) (#1976) [skip ci] in #1976 by @marians
  • (gs) Migrate WorkloadDetailsPane to bui (@backstage/ui) in #1978 by @marians

  Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/backstage/compare/v0.167.2...v0.167.3

• Jul 22, 2026 Connectivity external-dns-crossplane-resources v0.4.0

  Added

  • Add configurable serviceAccount.name/serviceAccount.namespace and azure.mountPath values.

  Changed

  • Scope AWS values under aws.*. Root-level values remain supported as a fallback for backward compatibility.
  • Templatize hardcoded resource, service account and tag values.
  • Scope the IAM trust policy to the exact serviceAccount subject instead of a wildcard match.
  • Enable Azure Workload Identity for the azure provider in addition to aks.
  • Update chart metadata to reflect Azure support.

  Removed

  • Remove unused baseDomain value.
• Jul 22, 2026 Security starboard-exporter v1.1.6

  Fixed

  • (deps) Update module github.com/go-logr/logr to v1.4.4 in #597 by @renovate[bot]

  Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/starboard-exporter/compare/v1.1.5...v1.1.6

• Jul 22, 2026 Security starboard-exporter v1.1.5

  Changed

  • Allow for running semantic-pull-request on merge group in #598 by @fhielpos

  Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/starboard-exporter/compare/v1.1.4...v1.1.5

• Jul 22, 2026 Developer Portal backstage v0.167.2

  Changed

  • (deps) Update dependency msw to v2.14.7 in #1975 by @renovate[bot]

  Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/backstage/compare/v0.167.1...v0.167.2

• Jul 22, 2026 Fleet Management kubectl-gs v5.7.0

  Added

  • login: new --api-endpoint flag enables a fully offline direct-OIDC workload cluster login. When set together with --oidc-issuer, --oidc-client-id and --api-ca-file, the login skips all management cluster access, so the user needs no RBAC on the management cluster.
  • template cluster: support --provider aks for templating AKS workload clusters via the cluster-aks / release-aks chart. Reuses --region, --azure-subscription-id, and --management-cluster for the required Azure inputs.
  • template cluster: new --azure-cluster-identity-name and --azure-cluster-identity-namespace flags for both capz and aks, setting global.providerSpecific.azureClusterIdentity. Omitted when unset so the chart’s built-in defaults apply.

  Changed

  • Release binaries now include darwin/amd64, darwin/arm64, windows/amd64, and windows/arm64 alongside the existing linux targets. Windows binaries are named kubectl-gs-windows-<arch>.exe.
  • krew manifest updated to reference bare binaries directly instead of tarballs, and extended with windows/arm64 support.
  • (CAPA): Derive the number of VPC chunks from --az-usage-limit. This enables small single-AZ VPC layouts (e.g. a /24 VPC with a /25 private subnet and a /26 public subnet).
• Jul 22, 2026 Developer Portal backstage v0.167.1

  Changed

  • (deps) Update dependency @types/express-serve-static-core to v5.1.2 in #1974 by @renovate[bot]

  Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/backstage/compare/v0.167.0...v0.167.1

• Jul 22, 2026 Security rbac-operator v1.0.0

  Added

  • Create a per-organization ClusterRoleBinding granting the org’s automation ServiceAccount the kamaji-datastore-manager ClusterRole, so cluster apps using Kamaji can manage their kamaji.clastix.io/datastores CR. The referenced ClusterRole is provisioned by the global Kamaji app.
  • RBAC: Create patch-charts Role for automation ServiceAccounts.

  Changed

  • Go: Update dependencies.

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