Changes and Releases

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

• Apr 21, 2026 Developer Portal backstage v0.122.2

  Changed

  • Stream reasoning tokens from OpenAI-compatible models (vLLM) to the AI chat UI by switching the aiChat.openai.api: chat path to @ai-sdk/openai-compatible and unconditionally rendering the Reasoning/ReasoningGroup slots in Thread.tsx. See ./docs/releases/v0.122.2-changelog.md for more information.
• Apr 21, 2026 CAPV releases releases vsphere-33.2.0

  Changes compared to v33.1.1

  Components

  • cluster-vsphere from v3.4.0 to v3.4.1
  • cluster from v4.4.0 to v4.4.1

  cluster v4.4.0…v4.4.1

  Changed

  • Control Plane: Make etcd image tag configurable. (#841)
• Apr 21, 2026 CAPZ releases releases azure-33.2.0

  Changes compared to v33.1.1

  Components

  • cluster-azure from v4.4.0 to v4.4.1
  • cluster from v4.4.0 to v4.4.1

  cluster v4.4.0…v4.4.1

  Changed

  • Control Plane: Make etcd image tag configurable. (#841)
• Apr 21, 2026 CAPA releases releases aws-33.2.0

  Changes compared to v33.1.4

  Components

  • cluster-aws from v6.4.3 to v6.4.4
  • cluster from v4.4.0 to v4.4.1

  cluster v4.4.0…v4.4.1

  Changed

  • Control Plane: Make etcd image tag configurable. (#841)
• Apr 21, 2026 Developer Portal backstage v0.122.1

  Added

  • Add configurable welcome screen title, subtitle, and suggestions for the AI chat.

  Changed

  • Redesign AI chat layout with PluginHeader, sticky composer, scroll-on-send behavior, and polished UI styling. See ./docs/releases/v0.122.1-changelog.md for more information.
• Apr 20, 2026 Security cert-manager-app v3.13.0

  Changed

  • Upgrade cert-manager to v1.19.4.
• Apr 20, 2026 Developer Portal backstage v0.122.0

  Added

  • Add optional guest auth provider, enabled via ENABLE_GUEST_AUTH environment variable.
  • Add optional aiChat.systemPrompt config to override the built-in AI chat system prompt.
  • Add optional aiChat.openai.api config to target OpenAI-compatible servers via chat completions API.

  Changed

  • Update Backstage to 1.50.2.
  • Migrate scaffolder pages to NFS SubPageBlueprint layout.
  • Make sidebar nav items configurable via NFS extensions.
  • Use custom X-Backstage-Token header for identity tokens to avoid conflicts with ingress-level Basic auth.
  • Use ProxiedSignInPage with guest provider as fallback when Dex auth is not configured.
  • Allow hiding the Backstage Identity card on the settings general page via extension config.

  Fixed

  • Fix AI chat producing empty replies when the model uses a tool by increasing the default step limit.
  • Strip stale tool results from AI chat conversation history to reduce token usage. See ./docs/releases/v0.122.0-changelog.md for more information.
• Apr 20, 2026 Observability dashboards v4.21.1

  Changed

  • Update envoy-gateway-loadtesting dashboard with added kong graphs
• Apr 17, 2026 Connectivity k8s-dns-node-cache-app v2.11.0

  Added

  • Add configmap.log.enabled helm value to toggle CoreDNS query logging (default: false).
• Apr 15, 2026 CAPVCD releases releases cloud-director-34.1.1

  Changes compared to v34.1.0

  Components

  • cluster-cloud-director from v3.1.3 to v3.1.4

  cluster-cloud-director v3.1.3…v3.1.4

  Fixed

  • Fix ntpd failing permanently on boot due to systemd rate limiting (node rolling).

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