Changes and Releases

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

• Jan 16, 2026 Fleet Management kubectl-gs v4.10.0

  Changed

  • Replace github.com/giantswarm/release-operator/v4/api/v1alpha1 with github.com/giantswarm/releases/sdk/api/v1alpha1 for Release CRD types.
  • Update k8s dependencies to v0.35.0.
• Jan 15, 2026 Developer Portal backstage v0.96.4

  Fixed

  • Fix dependency issue. See ./docs/releases/v0.96.4-changelog.md for more information.
• Jan 15, 2026 Developer Portal backstage v0.96.3

  Fixed

  • Fix React dependency. See ./docs/releases/v0.96.3-changelog.md for more information.
• Jan 15, 2026 Developer Portal happa v1.71.8

  What’s Changed

  • Add frontend styles GW API resources too by @pipo02mix https://github.com/giantswarm/happa/pull/4692
  • NGINX config: Stricter argument check by @marians in https://github.com/giantswarm/happa/pull/4691

  Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/happa/compare/v1.71.7...v1.71.8

• Jan 15, 2026 Developer Portal backstage v0.96.2

  Fixed

  • Fix React dependency. See ./docs/releases/v0.96.2-changelog.md for more information.
• Jan 15, 2026 Developer Portal backstage v0.96.1

  Changed

  • Add Anthropic and OpenAI API keys to the Helm chart values. See ./docs/releases/v0.96.1-changelog.md for more information.
• Jan 15, 2026 Developer Portal backstage v0.96.0

  Added

  • Add AI Chat plugin. See ./docs/releases/v0.96.0-changelog.md for more information.
• Jan 15, 2026 CAPA releases releases aws-33.1.3

  Fix Karpenter schema for extraConfigs

  Changes compared to v33.1.2

  Components

  • cluster-aws from v6.4.2 to v6.4.3

  cluster-aws v6.4.2…v6.4.3

  Fixed

  • Fix Karpenter schema: Use helmRelease schema instead of app schema. This corrects the extraConfigs[].kind field to accept ConfigMap and Secret (capitalized), and replaces the priority field with optional field, matching the HelmRelease resource structure.
• Jan 15, 2026 Developer Portal backstage v0.95.1

  Fixed

  • Added proper HTTP error handling for container registry clients.
  • Implemented consistent error handling for chart tags requests. See ./docs/releases/v0.95.1-changelog.md for more information.
• Jan 14, 2026 CAPA releases releases aws-33.1.2

  Improve karpenter subnet selection and extraConfig mounting.

  Changes compared to v33.1.1

  Components

  • cluster-aws from v6.4.1 to v6.4.2

  cluster-aws v6.4.1…v6.4.2

  Added

  • Add kubernetes.io/cluster/$clusterName: "owned" and sigs.k8s.io/cluster-api-provider-aws/cluster/$clusterName: "owned" tags to the IRSAClaim CR so that resources created by Crossplane contain the expected tags. This also allows to find the S3 buckets that need to be deleted when removing a cluster.

  Fixed

  • Fix Karpenter NodePool subnet filtering: when users define custom subnetTags, the default giantswarm.io/role: "nodes" filter is no longer applied, allowing full control over subnet selection. The cluster ownership tag (sigs.k8s.io/cluster-api-provider-aws/cluster/<cluster-name>: owned) is still enforced for security.
  • Fix Karpenter HelmRelease: add missing valuesFrom parent field for extraConfigs, enabling customers to use custom ConfigMaps and Secrets for Karpenter configuration.

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