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Changes and Releases

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

  • Security starboard-exporter v1.0.0

    Announcements

    • starboard-exporter now supports kubescape! In addition to Trivy VulnerabilityReports, starboard-exporter now also supports reconciliation of Kubescape VulnerabilityManifests. Metrics have been updated to include a scanner label, indicating the source type of the data. Trivy and Kubescape can be used simultaneously, or individually toggled on and off. See the README for more information.
    • There is a breaking change to one of the CLI flags in this version. The --vulnerability-scans-enabled flag has been renamed to --trivy-vulnerability-scans-enabled in order to facilitate the new Kubescape scanner support. Users installing via the Helm chart are not affected.

    Added

    • Support for Kubescape vulnerability scanning via VulnerabilityManifest CR.
    • Scanner label (scanner="trivy" or scanner="kubescape") to all vulnerability metrics to distinguish between scanning sources.
    • Command-line flag --kubescape-vulnerability-scans-enabled.
    • Helm values configuration for enabling/disabling individual scanners under exporter.vulnerabilityReports.scanners.
    • Added backwards compatibility for legacy vulnerabilityReports.enabled Helm value (now enables Trivy scanner)

    Changed

    • Renamed Trivy-specific functions and constants to include “Trivy” prefix to distinguish them from Kubescape components while maintaining shared metrics.
    • Command-line flag --vulnerability-scans-enabled to --trivy-vulnerability-scans-enabled (Breaking Change).
  • Fleet Management aws-load-balancer-controller-app v4.0.0

    Changed

    • Move Giant Swarm specific values to the bundle chart. Clean up the aws-load-balancer-controller chart from any GS specific stuff.
    • Shorten bundle chart name to aws-lb-controller-bundle
  • Developer Portal happa v1.71.9

    What’s Changed

    Other Changes

    Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/happa/compare/v1.71.8...v1.71.9

  • Fleet Management aws-efs-csi-driver v3.1.0

    Added

    • Add additional permissions to the controller IAM role.

    Changed

    • Document upgrade path from v2 to v3

    Fixed

    • Configure the efs-csi-driver chart to use the IAM role managed by the bundle chart.
  • Developer Portal backstage v0.97.1

    Added

    • Support initializing AI chat from a URL parameter.

    Fixed

    • Fix Mosaic styles not being cleaned up when JsonSchemaViewer component unmounts.
    • Remove custom markdown style overrides from EntityReadmeCard now that Mosaic styles are properly isolated. See ./docs/releases/v0.97.1-changelog.md for more information.
  • Observability dashboards v4.12.0

    Added

    • Add “Envoy Gateway | Configuration” dashboard.
  • Developer Portal backstage v0.97.0

    Added

    • Expose additional MCP tools via the catalog MCP backend plugin.

    Changed

    • Increase request size limit for AI chat backend.

    Fixed

  • Observability dashboards v4.11.1

    Fixed

    • Made node utilization dashboard work again with all nodes
    • Network Traffic Analysis dashboard: consider 100.64.0.0/16 private
  • Connectivity coredns-app v1.29.1

    Changed

    • Update coredns image to 1.14.1.
  • Connectivity envoy-gateway-app v1.4.1

    Changed

    • Add values switch to allow egress traffic to outside world of envoy-gateway control plane pods. This is required in certain cases where SecurityPolicies need to obtain additional configuration from OIDC or JWT providers.