Changelog
This changelog lists all updates, improvements and new features our Engineering team develops for our Skyscrapers Reference Developer Platform. These are rolled out automatically to all DevOps-as-a-Service customers.
2026 Q1
- 2026-02-18
Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
The following updates have been rolled out to all non-production clusters, and will be deployed to production in the coming week. As usual there are also improvements across various other add-ons, ensuring enhanced performance and security: alloy v1.13.1 …
- 2026-02-17
Announcements
Concourse upgraded to v8.0.1
We have upgraded Concourse to v8.0.1, which includes all changes from the v8.0.0 major release. This is a significant upgrade that brings new features, improved defaults, and a few breaking changes that pipeline authors should be aware of. The full …
- 2026-02-06
Announcements
Tempo is now production ready
We’re excited to announce that Grafana Tempo is now available for production use in our Kubernetes stack. Tempo provides distributed tracing capabilities, allowing you to track requests as they flow through your distributed systems and gain deep …
- 2026-02-03
Announcements
Critical ingress-nginx security updates applied
Security Updates Applied We have proactively updated ingress-nginx to the latest patched versions across all clusters to address four security vulnerabilities disclosed by the Kubernetes project. These updates have already been deployed, and no action is …
- 2026-02-02
Announcements
Migration from gp2 to gp3 for all customer PVs
We’ve migrated all customers infrastructure storage from AWS EBS GP2 to GP3 volumes. What’s GP3? GP3 is AWS’s latest generation storage offering better performance and faster access times, more consistent speed regardless of volume size, …
- 2026-02-02
Announcements
Enabling Pylon for all customers
Following up on our previous post: https://docs.skyscrapers.eu/changelog/2025-12-22-introducing-pylon/ We’re happy to announce that we’ve now enabled Pylon for all customers as our primary entry point for support requests and customer communication. At …
- 2026-01-27
Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
The following updates have been rolled out to all non-production clusters, and will be deployed to production in the coming week. As usual there are also improvements across various other add-ons, ensuring enhanced performance and security: amazon-eks-ami …
- 2026-01-16
Announcements
Kube-green added to our roadmap
We are announcing that we have added kube-green as a viable component into our roadmap. kube-green is a simple kubernetes addon that automatically shuts down (some of) your resources when you don’t need them.
- 2026-01-15
Maintenance
Enhanced automatic scaling for cluster components
We have rolled out improvements to our platform’s automatic scaling capabilities. These optimizations allow cluster components to better adapt to the varying workloads and demands of our customers’ environments without the need for manual …
- 2026-01-08
Announcements
New team members in Customer Enablement Circle
We’re excited to welcome two new cloud engineers to our Customer Enablement circle: Besfort Haxhani and Arman Harutunyan. With this addition, our team is growing stronger and better equipped to support you. You’ll likely see them pop up in your support …
- 2026-01-07
New Features
New storage dashboard for better resource management
We’ve added a new Grafana dashboard to help you track and manage unused storage resources across your Kubernetes clusters! This dashboard provides clear visibility into PersistentVolumes and PersistentVolumeClaims that are no longer in use but still …
2025 Q4
- 2025-12-22
Announcements
Kickstarting support improvements with Pylon
We’re launching the implementation of a new customer engagement platform at Skyscrapers! We are continuously aiming to improve how we handle support across different digital channels and will position Pylon as our central tool for managing all of your …
- 2025-12-11
Announcements
Updated support processes
We’ve updated our support processes and dashboards for all your requests. These changes will improve clarity in day-to-day support and operations. You can read more here: https://docs.skyscrapers.eu/docs/reference/support-process/. Feel free to tell …
- 2025-12-08
Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
The following updates have been rolled out to all non-production clusters. As usual there are also improvements across various other add-ons, ensuring enhanced performance and security: amazon-eks-ami v20251120 Root block volume has been migrated from gp2 …
- 2025-12-08
Maintenance
Migrated to new ECR Basic Scanning version
We have successfully migrated all managed AWS accounts to the new version of ECR Basic Scanning, which uses Amazon’s native scanning technology. What Changed ECR Basic Scanning: Upgraded from the previous version to AWS_NATIVE scanning technology …
- 2025-12-04
New Features
New Feature: Seekable OCI Parallel Pull mode for Amazon EKS
We have implemented support for an experimental feature called Seekable OCI (SOCI) parallel pull mode in our node pools. This enhancement allows for faster and more efficient container image pulls by enabling parallel downloads of image layers, …
- 2025-12-04
New Features
New Feature: S3 CSI Driver for EKS Clusters
We are excited to announce support for the S3 Container Storage Interface (CSI) Driver on our EKS clusters. This new feature allows Kubernetes workloads to seamlessly interact with Amazon S3 storage, enabling applications to read and write data directly to …
- 2025-11-13
New Features
Creation of a yaml validator github workflow
New Feature: YAML Validator for EKS Cluster Configurations We’ve introduced a new YAML validation tool integrated into our GitHub workflows! This validator automatically checks all YAML configuration files (especially EKS cluster definitions) to prevent …
- 2025-11-13
Maintenance
Upgrading EKS clusters to v1.33 + node auto repair feature
Update 2025-10-21: These changes have been rolled out to all clusters. We are rolling out EKS v1.33. Please make sure to update to our recommended client versions matching this upgrade. This upgrade promotes the in-place resource resize API to beta, …
- 2025-10-13
Maintenance
Upgraded Concourse CI to version 7.14.2
Concourse CI has been upgraded to version 7.14.2. This release comes with a UI bugfix for Chrome v141. You can find the full changelog on GitHub: Concourse v7.14.2 Release Notes
2025 Q3
- 2025-09-25
Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
The following updates have been rolled out to all non-production clusters. As usual there are also improvements across various other add-ons, ensuring enhanced performance and security: amazon-eks-ami v20250904 aws-ebs-csi-driver v1.48.0-eksbuild.2 …
- 2025-09-23
Maintenance
OpenSearch maintenance: improved monitoring and upgrading to 2.19
We have redone our OpenSearch monitoring setup to rely on the CloudWatch integration instead of using elasticsearch-exporter. This allows us to monitor metrics more reliably and closer to the AWS setup. You will also notice a brand new Grafana dashboard …
- 2025-09-22
New Features
Enhanced AWS Backup Mechanism Released
We are excited to announce a new and improved backup mechanism for AWS resources, powered by AWS Backup. This allows us to create backups on custom intervals and custom retention periods (next to the built in backups of the components). Next to that the …
- 2025-08-21
Maintenance
Upgraded Concourse CI to version 7.14.1
Concourse CI has been upgraded to version 7.14.1. This release comes with several improvements and bug fixes. In addition, we have updated our Concourse authentication flow by plugging it into the same Dex instance that is used for other services like …
- 2025-08-20
Announcements
Expanding our Customer Enablement Team (know anybody?)
Two people recently left our Customer Enablement team. As a result, we’ve had some capacity challenges: service has been a bit slower at times, and progress on internal improvements hasn’t moved as quickly as we’d like. To address this, we’ve opened up a …