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v1.10.0

These are the release notes for the v1.10.0 release of Backstage.

A huge thanks to the whole team of maintainers and contributors as well as the amazing Backstage Community for the hard work in getting this release developed and done.

Highlights​

yarn new instead of yarn create-plugin​

The create-plugin command of the backstage-cli is deprecated, and we have removed its usage in newly created apps and in our documentation. We recommend that you update your root package.json as follows:

 "scripts": {
   ...
-  "create-plugin": "backstage-cli create-plugin --scope internal"
+  "new": "backstage-cli new --scope internal"
 }

New Package: @backstage/plugin-scaffolder-react​

We’ve made it easier to re-use some of the Scaffolder components outside of the Scaffolder plugin as well as re-homing some common types that might live between other frontend modules in the future. With this change there’s been some deprecations that have been shipped which are just renaming the imports from @backstage/plugin-scaffolder to @backstage/plugin-scaffolder-react. You can find out more in the changelog for the @backstage/plugin-scaffolder

New Package: @backstage/plugin-scaffolder-backend-module-sentry​

A new module has been created that allows the creation of Sentry projects with a new ​​sentry:project:create action.

Contributed by @dpfaffenbauer in #15639

New Package: @backstage/repo-tools​

Parts of the tooling that powers the Backstage main repository are being externalized, into the @backstage/repo-tools package. Documentation is sparse and so far it houses only the API extractor (which makes the api-report.md files) and the type dependencies check which makes sure that @types/* packages that are visible in the public API are added as dependencies.

Scaffolder Improvements​

Examples can now be added to createTemplateAction in the backend and can be browsed under /create/actions on your Backstage instance.

Contributed by @punkle in #15341

The allowedKinds has been deprecated from the OwnerPicker and EntityPicker in favor of a catalogFilter option that allows you to be more flexible in the filtering from the Catalog.

Contributed by @rikez in #15063

Backend System Progress​

We’ve made good progress towards getting the new backend system ready for broader testing. While we’re not quite there yet, you’ll see a lot of changes in the @backstage/backend-app-api and @backstage/backend-plugin-api packages as well as supporting packages like @backstage/backend-defaults.

Event based updates in GithubOrgEntityProvider​

There’s some initial support for event (web hook) based updates for GitHub org entities that are ingested using GithubOrgEntityProvider. We are excited to see the events-backend starting to power this type of functionality. More information on the setup can be found in the documentation.

Contributed by @angeliski in #14870

Security Fixes​

This release does not contain any security fixes.

Upgrade path​

We recommend that you keep your Backstage project up to date with this latest release. For more guidance on how to upgrade, check out the documentation for keeping Backstage updated.

Below you can find a list of links and references to help you learn about and start using this new release.

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