Changes and Releases

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

• Feb 12, 2026 Observability mimir-app v0.25.0

  Added

  • Add VerticalPodAutoscaler support for index-cache, metadata-cache, and results-cache.

  Changed

  • Change team annotation in Chart.yaml to OpenContainers format (io.giantswarm.application.team).
  • CI: test mimir disabled

  Fixed

  • Disable all mimir objects if mimir is disabled.
• Feb 12, 2026 Security organization-operator v2.1.3

  Changed

  • Build with up-to-date pipelines.
  • Migrate chart metadata annotations to OCI-compatible format.

  Added

  • Add io.giantswarm.application.audience and io.giantswarm.application.managed chart annotations for Backstage visibility.
• Feb 11, 2026 Developer Portal happa v1.72.0

  What’s Changed

  Other Changes

  • Clean-up after HelmRelease migration by @uvegla in https://github.com/giantswarm/happa/pull/4699
  • Align files by @architectbot in https://github.com/giantswarm/happa/pull/4700
  • Make happa and happaapi Ingress resources optional via values by @mcharriere in https://github.com/giantswarm/happa/pull/4702

  Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/happa/compare/v1.71.11...v1.72.0

• Feb 11, 2026 Fleet Management keda-app v5.0.0

  Changed

  • Upgrade app to version 2.19.0 to support kubernetes 1.32 to 1.34.
  • Upgrade chart to upstream version 2.19.0.
• Feb 11, 2026 Fleet Management keda-app v4.0.0

  Changed

  • Upgrade app to version 2.18.3 to support kubernetes 1.31 to 1.33.
  • Upgrade chart to upstream version 2.18.3.
• Feb 10, 2026 Security falco-app v0.11.1

  Added

  • Add io.giantswarm.application.audience and io.giantswarm.application.managed chart annotations for Backstage visibility.

  Changed

  • Build with up-to-date pipelines.
  • Migrate chart metadata annotations to OCI-compatible format.
• Feb 10, 2026 Connectivity envoy-gateway-app v1.5.0

  Added

  • Add convenience values switch for enabling Envoy Gateway Backend extension. Disabled by default.
  • Add optional Kyverno policies for restricting usage of Backend resources with problematic targets like localhost, cloud metadata endpoints, envoy admin ports or dynamic resolver usage. See values.yaml file for more information.

  Changed

  • Update Envoy Gateway to v1.6.3.
• Feb 10, 2026 Connectivity k8s-dns-node-cache-app v2.9.2

  Changed

  • Upgrade application to version 1.26.7 (includes coredns 1.13.1)
• Feb 9, 2026 Observability loki-app v0.37.2

  Fixed

  • Disable Loki Scaled Objects if Loki is disabled.
• Feb 9, 2026 Developer Portal backstage v0.104.0

  Added

  • Extract error reporter API into dedicated @giantswarm/backstage-plugin-error-reporter-react package.
  • Enhance Flux details panel with creation timestamp, interval, and resource-specific metadata.
  • Add missing pages to telemetry tracking (Home, Catalog graph, Deployment details, Flux, AI Chat).

  Changed

  • Replace TelemetryProvider with standard Backstage AnalyticsApi implementation for TelemetryDeck.
  • Report unknown page telemetry events as warnings via errorReporterApi.

  Fixed

  • Fix AsyncValue component to properly handle falsy values.
  • Fix API version discovery for resources with different version support. See ./docs/releases/v0.104.0-changelog.md for more information.

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