Changes and Releases

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

• Jan 7, 2026 Developer Portal happa v1.71.7

  What’s Changed

  • Remove NGINX modules and /jwt-token endpoint by @marians in https://github.com/giantswarm/happa/pull/4675
  • Enable OCI pushing, simplify job names by @marians in https://github.com/giantswarm/happa/pull/4676
  • Migrate Helm charts to new Chart.yaml annotations by @marians in https://github.com/giantswarm/happa/pull/4681, https://github.com/giantswarm/happa/pull/4682
  • feat(helm): add Gateway API support by @weatherhog in https://github.com/giantswarm/happa/pull/4684
  • NGINX config: Stricter argument check by @marians in https://github.com/giantswarm/happa/pull/4691

  New Contributors

  • @weatherhog made their first contribution in https://github.com/giantswarm/happa/pull/4684

  Thanks

  • @Sumitshah00 for reporting a possible security vulnerability

  Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/happa/compare/v1.71.6...v1.71.7

• Jan 7, 2026 Connectivity external-dns-app v3.4.0

  Changed

  • Sync to upstream helm chart 1.20.0.
    • Add option to set annotationPrefix.
    • Fixed the missing schema for .provider.webhook.serviceMonitor configs.
    • Fixed incorrect indentation of selector labels under spec.template.spec.topologySpreadConstraints when topologySpreadConstraints is set.
• Jan 7, 2026 Developer Portal backstage v0.93.2

  Changed

  • Expose isManagementCluster value in the ClusterPicker scaffolder field.
  • Improve formatTemplateString utility to support clusterNamePrefix placeholders. See ./docs/releases/v0.93.2-changelog.md for more information.
• Jan 6, 2026 Developer Portal backstage v0.93.1

  Changed

  • Configuration docs component in the scaffolder custom step has been refactored.

  Fixed

  • Syntax highlighting in the YamlEditor component has been fixed. See ./docs/releases/v0.93.1-changelog.md for more information.
• Jan 6, 2026 Observability observability-bundle v2.5.0

  Added

  • Add KSM metrics kube_servicemonitor_info and kube_podmonitor_info for ServiceMonitor and PodMonitor resources
  • Add KSM metrics kube_podlog_info for PodLog resource
• Jan 6, 2026 Developer Portal backstage v0.93.0

  Changed

  • About card on the cluster details page has been improved.
  • Policy compliance component has been removed from the cluster details page.
  • Show details for GitRepository, OCIRepository, HelmRepository in Flux plugin.
  • Allow to install only deployable applications. See ./docs/releases/v0.93.0-changelog.md for more information.

  Added

  • Gateway API support in Helm chart with HTTPRoute and Envoy Gateway SecurityPolicy.
  • New route configuration section in Helm values for Gateway API HTTPRoute.
  • Configurable ingress.enabled and ingress.className in Helm chart.
• Jan 6, 2026 Observability mimir-app v0.22.0

  Changed

  • Add Gateway API and Envoy Gateway resources

  Fixed

  • Fix vertical pod autoscaler maxAllowed schema
• Jan 5, 2026 Fleet Management kubectl-gs v4.9.1

  Changed

  • Update CI so the update-krew-index job waits until the binaries have been pushed to the registries.
• Jan 5, 2026 Fleet Management kubectl-gs v4.9.0

  Added

  • Add support for user.Exec using client-go credential plugin framework.
  • Support non-default session timeout lengths.

  Changed

  • Update github.com/3th1nk/cidr to v0.3.0, adapt internal CIDR mask size calculation in the tempalte cluster command.
• Jan 5, 2026 Observability dashboards v4.11.0

  Changed

  • Add cluster_id to Envoy Gateway dashboards

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