We published a deep dive on why AI coding assistants fail in production, examining the four categories of missing platform context. Backstage v1.50.3 and v1.51.0-next.1 shipped, and the community flagged a RemixIcons licensing change that prompted an immediate dependency pin.

We published a developer-focused deep dive on context engineering infrastructure, Backstage introduced a new AIContext catalog kind for AI agent integration, and v1.50.2 and v1.51.0-next.0 shipped with fixes and new features.

Backstage v1.50.0 ships as a stable release, BackstageCon Amsterdam recordings go live on YouTube, and we published a deep dive on why RAG is one retrieval primitive inside a production context engineering system.

freben proposes Catalog Model Fragments to formalize entity model extensions, v1.49.4 fixes OAuth regression affecting AI tools, and the first Backstage Finland User Group meetup is announced for May.

BackstageCon recordings are live, Unity contributes a DevLake DORA plugin, and the community surfaces critical upgrade issues in two releases shipped this week.

KubeCon Europe recap, four Backstage releases in one week, the CNCF documentary premiere, and a closer look at why context engineering is becoming the real challenge for AI systems.

Backstage v1.49.0 makes the New Frontend System the default, marking the end of a multi-year migration. Plus, Roadie explores IDP architecture tradeoffs and how the catalog becomes critical infrastructure for AI agents.

Backstage v1.49.0-next.2 lands ahead of the March 17 release while the community debates DOM types, catalog modeling, and AI integrations. Roadie’s context engineering deep dive reframes IDPs as the missing layer for grounding AI development.

Backstage v1.48.4 ships a high-severity TechDocs security fix, the CNCF previews an AI-focused BackstageCon Europe, Roadie publishes a deep Context Engineering glossary, and the first v1.49 pre-release lands ahead of KubeCon EU.

Backstage ships v1.48.2 to fix scaffolder regressions, launches the ContribFest web app ahead of KubeCon Europe, merges an alpha MetricsService into core, and the community dives deep into AI-native platform engineering, multi-agent systems, and scaling TechDocs.

Backstage v1.48.0 introduces major New Frontend System updates, API restriction changes, and experimental MCP authorization support. We cover the 1.48.1 patch, CSS migration issues, ajv CVE-2025-69873, SCM webhook contributions, and new community plugins.

This week highlights real-world Backstage adoption: Wiz launches its GA plugin, Spotify details its mobile release engineering dashboard, and the community dives into security advisories, scaffolder patterns, and backend challenges.

Backstage v1.47.3 ships a TechDocs security fix, 14+ community plugins update for compatibility, BackstageCon Europe dates are confirmed, and the community debates tar vulnerabilities, theming bugs, and Renovate PR overload.

Backstage maintainers are gathering community input on priorities for 2026, alongside the v1.48.0 pre-release, BackstageCon Europe updates, and new CNCF velocity metrics.

Backstage 1.47.0 introduces a redesigned Table component, updated UI tokens, and improved AWS authentication in TechDocs.

Backstage updates: new CLI for catalog providers, auth screen uses app title, Postgres v18 support, ESLint UI CSS rule, TechDocs fixes, SES v2 emails, improved UI styles, Docker example app, updated docs.

Backstage 1.44.0 drops, and PagerDuty unveils a new end-to-end AI suite which includes Backstage amongst it's integrations.

The State of Backstage survey closes soon, BackstageCon and KubeCon EU are around the corner, and Roadie Local design partnerships near capacity ahead of GA.

Terasky ships powerful Kubernetes plugins, Kratix expands Backstage into full platform territory, and open-source Tech Insights introduces maturity levels.

Roadie Local moves into beta, Canon launches its new design system site, the State of Backstage survey gains momentum, and Backstage v1.36 brings major frontend updates.

A New article: The Ultimate Guide to Catalog Completeness, a New video alert: ASOS talk about their Backstage instance and v1.32-next is up

A New community is starting (Backstage LinkedIn)!. We also have an new article on Backstage & Cost Management and Roadie is now on v1.30.

A New article: The Ultimate Guide to Catalog Completeness, a New video alert: ASOS talk about their Backstage instance and v1.32-next is up

1.31 is here, the CNCF are launching a new course, and we're blogging about handling Backstage when it gets big.

Improving Backstage Performance, the new Backend is now default, Viktor Farcic reviews Backstage (and Roadie) and there are a whole bunch of new plugins: GitHub Co-pilot Adoption Metrics, LaunchDarkly and Shortcut

Measuring Catalog correctness, the Scaffolder and the New Backend System are grown-ups now, Saxo Bank with Jinhong and Per and a new Pulumi plugin.

New homepage widget, Improved Contributing Guidelines, New article on Custom plugins, *and* BackstageCon is around the corner!

Backstage is getting i18n! Shell into pods without leaving Backstage, Roadie’s refreshed Catalog UI dropped and a New TNS article: Considerations for Backstage in Production

New OpenCost plugin, Techdocs: Specify default MkDocs plugins for all mkdocs.yaml files, and migrating Auth to the New Backend System (help wanted!)

New Backstage release: 1.17, Zalando and Backstage: 30 plugins, 40k entities, thousands of happy Builders and a new RFC - Dynamic backend plugins (with an open PR already) - weight in!

A New Relic Browser plugin is now available! Built-in Scaffolder actions are getting improved usage examples and we've got some ideas on how to secure your software supply chain with Backstage

New article: Traits of successful adopters, Roadie launches Tech Insights, BackstageCon CFP: submit before August 6th (this Sunday)!

Backstage 1.16 is here! New Scaffolder tutorial: create a template to onboard entities. Video interview: what does a dev want from their Platform. Configuring pgadmin to access the backstage databases in a kubernetes cluster

Case study: how Stash is using Backstage to track health and ownership holistically. New to Platform Engineering? Start with the Scaffolder.

New feature: Google Analytics 4 in Backstage, Starting now: the big migration to the New Backend System, Looking to talk with Backstage Adopters

Backstage 1.15 release: breaking changes, security fixes, and new features, Frontend System Evolution: a new RFC worth reviewing, Backstage Users Unconference: a wrap-up

New in: Kubernetes errors? Get Backstage to suggest fixes! Hashicorp Nomad plugin is here, Backstage Users Unconference - see you tomorrow! BackstageCon - submit a talk!

New in: Support for MaterialUI v5, find Unprocessed entities, Backstage Users Unconference - RSVP now! BackstageCon - save the date!

New DevTools 🧰 plugin - everything you need to know about your instance without leaving Backstage, Deprecating React 16 in Backstage, White paper: Managed Backstage vs self-hosted Backstage

New in: Backstage Badges coming to authenticated backends, Kubernetes plugins: pod logs and upgrade, Announcing the new Unpacked Conference

One of the most impressive releases of Backstage was dropped. Let’s recap what’s new: built-in support for deletion of orphaned entities, Scaffolder permissions and filters, 3 breaking changes

There are also great updates in Backstage this week: New Go SDK: access the Backstage API through the CLI and use it in Go apps. The Stack Overflow plugin now supports PAT authentication. New in: what is Platform Engineering, according to the CNCF (with a Backstage mention

Some Backstage updates and mind a small heads-up: Microsoft (ie. Azure) Auth provider now manages more complexity, so you don’t have to. The first Project Area Maintainers are now listed on GitHub! Watch out for errors in your Scaffolder templates: a bug was introduced in the `EntityPicker` in 1.12

How do you make 100% of your developers use your Developer Portal? Get insights from two Backstage adopters who’ve managed to do it.

Here are some actually exciting news: Backstage’s New Governance model just dropped, 8 new org members were added, new in: OAuth redirect flow instead of pop-up based, this Thursday: hear tips for making people use your Backstage instance

I am very excited to see share the latest cool stuff in the Backstage ecosystem: Backstage 1.12 release, Cancellable Scaffolder tasks, `onboard` - a new opinionated CLI command to simplify adoption, Improved Backstage docs with proper file name references

Anyhow, I’m thrilled to share this week: the feature column about Backstage published in the iconic Pragmatic Engineer newsletter, an upcoming CNCF Webinar with tips for spreading Backstage in your org, and the new PuppetDB Catalog plugin.

I’m super excited to share that the epic quest to add paginated results to the Catalog entities list has been merged! In other upcoming news, you’ll soon have a faster way to access API Docs from the dependencies widgets. We also present three new vendor integration plugins.

Hi y’all! We’ve got some heavy hitters this week! a plugin that lets you bring language information in the Entity Page, a plugin that enabled entity feedback, and the new Backend system.

This week, I’m highlighting recent contributions that will make Tech Insights easier to adopt and use. Additionally, I’m sharing the new Microsoft Calendar plugin.

This week I’m presenting you the oven-fresh GraphQL Voyager plugin and support for multi-project discovery in Azure DevOps through a wildcard. Coincidentally, both of these contributions come from the Netherlands 🧡!

This week I’m bringing you some spoilers on what the next Backend System will look like, an explanation of the current state of the GitLab Backstage plugin, and a new search feature.

Get ready to beat the so-called “blue Monday” with some good Backstage news. This week I’m highlighting that you can now use markdown in Scaffolder action descriptions, import Scaffolder’s reusable components, and customize the shell app in which you preview TechDocs while writing them.

This week I’m highlighting a new component to preview entities before clicking on them, new support for Users and Groups event-based updated from GitHub, and a new option for customizing the Search page when there are no results.

Welcome to 2023! Since the last newsletter, Backstage 1.9 dropped, and the project wrapped a calendar year with nearly 10x growth in adopters. Let’s start by reviewing some highlights of the latest release, a packed one for sure.

We’ve got a new release with lots of improvements on the Scaffolder, a guide to all the incident management plugins available on Backstage, and an upcoming feature that lets you embed Scaffolder templates right into an entity page to let teams act in context.

Alright, y’all, buckle up! I’m bringing you huge news this week. First is an invitation to upgrade past Backstage 1.5 (if you haven’t), then I’ll review the new exciting Events API, and finally introduce the new incremental entity provider.

The newsletter highlights the most recent Backstage 1.7, the upcoming ability to import users’ emails from GitHub, and the new meta-issue that makes it easier to contribute to the Catalog.

I highlight the new Linux Foundation course and resources for writing scaffolder templates. Bonus: there’s a new GroupListPicker UI element in Backstage.

In this newsletter, I share my favorite talks and experiences last week in Detroit at BackstageCon and KubeCon.

This week, the newsletter highlights an improvement in the permissions framework that introduces a breaking change and a new UI component available in the Search plugin to let the user decide how many items they want to see per page.

We’re two weeks away from the very first BackstageCon in Detroit. The featured talks will give you a chance to learn directly from the maintainers, do more with Backstage, and get adoption tips. If you’re not attending this time, don’t worry! All talks will be recorded and made available shortly after the conference.

Recently, I’ve noticed a general uptick in the Scaffolder’s usage both at Roadie and other adopters. This week, I highlight two new contributions to the Scaffolder: the ability to define custom functions for your templates and adding links to them. Both of these will prove handy for everyone using software templates!

The new version of Backstage is out and brings exciting new features and a security fix in the Scaffolder. You can now create collections of entities with the Playlist plugin. There’s also a new Azure plugin and an interesting case study about SoundCloud’s adoption journey.

This week features contributions from the community in the Catalog to mitigate the rate-limits problem by filtering repositories, and an entity validator in the Catalog Client. If you are attending OSS Summit Europe this week, don’t miss out on Backstage at the event.

The CNCF sponsored a security audit of the framework, and its results are out! This week, the third Backstage Users Unconference will take place virtually, and BackstageCon Detroit agenda is confirmed! The contribution highlight of the week is the ability to show more than 10 PRs in the Pull Requests Hub plugin.

This week's newsletter spotlights a recent cleaning up we’ve noticed in Backstage, invites you to tune in on Wednesday for BackstageCon schedule announcement, and invites you to the Backstage Users Unconference next week.

New Backstage is out! Upgrade to 1.5 to use the new GithHub Entity provider, try out the experimental plugin reconfiguration and backend system evolution, and profit from three recent plugins.

This week’s newsletter features a new plugin for Github issues, a new guide for customizing icons in your instance, and a milestone for converting discovery processors into entity providers.

This week’s newsletter highlights contributions to simplifying setting up documentation for monorepos and to configure multiple SonarQube instances. We also share a 20% discount on KubeCon on-site tickets.

In this week’s newsletter, we announce the new Backstage Users Unconference, highlight a UX improvement, and take a sneak peek into the new Scaffolder Wizard.

This week’s newsletter goes through the highlights that come with the new Backstage release, including Search V1 and the new Apollo Explorer plugin.

This week’s newsletter introduces the state of Backstage’s Backend system evolution regarding plugins, announces a new way of ingesting infrastructure into the Catalog, and shares Roadie’s new security certification.

This week’s newsletter highlights the new Backstage Support VSCode extension and brings spoilers of what Backstage 1.4 has in store for us: highlighting in the search page and advanced filters for orphan entities or with errors.

This week’s newsletter features the latest developments on the support for OpenAPI $ref in the Catalog, the recently added node support policy, two new integration plugins, and Backstage’s vacation schedule.

Backstage keeps evolving to support a wider array of teams. This week, we’ve seen two exciting new features for those using gRPC—the modern open source high performance Remote Procedure Call framework—: support for API Docs and a live playground. Before we get there, let me celebrate how fast Backstage is growing!

The new Backstage version is full of exciting features including Scaffolder dry-runs, a template editor, new plugins, and more!

4 big milestones were achieved in the past week. A birthday, a 1.0 release, 100 public adopters and CNCF Incubation.

Recent weeks have seen a flurry of activity around TechDocs. These changes make TechDocs more readable and easier to use.

This week, we published a 2,000+ word, ultimate guide to Backstage. Plus, Spotify publish an awesome looking CI/CD statistics plugin.

The Backstage Users Unconference returns on March 3rd. Plus, we announce our Backstage Bites video series.

It’s that time of year where we’re all making resolutions and Backstage is no different. The official roadmap has been updated to make the short term priorities clear.

6 numbers which sum up Backstage in 2021

Plus the latest great features released... a search modal and steps towards Tech Insights.

Also, work has started on Tech Insights and TechDocs is now slightly easier to set up.

A look at the upcoming Backstage events for your calendar. Plus, learn about the new Prometheus plugin, Bugsnag plugin and dependency mapping plugins.

Multiple companies demo their internal Backstage deployments and we round up the PRs merged in the past few weeks.

Backstage now supports searching TechDocs in three different search engines. Learn about the pros and cons of each.

The Backstage maintainers were on summer vacation for the month of July, but this didn't stop the contributions from flowing. 200 pull requests were merged during this holiday month.

Backstage search reaches the v1 alpha milestone and plugin maintenance is about to get a whole lot easier.

Plus... a recap of community session 4 and a look at the new Backstage catalog UI.

An interview with a large org who are adopting Backstage at a frantic pace

A look into the history of Backstage at Spotify

How Spotify use Backstage to form a collective knowledge graph and control cloud costs.

Code coverage plugin, use cases for security and compliance, and both the Spotify and Roadie teams are growing.

The last pieces are in place for the new Backstage plugin composability API. All the links you need are below. We also have a technical TechDocs deep dive. Try saying that 10 times fast!

Search begins its migration to the backend, read only mode and some catalog importer improvements.

Backstage was announced 1 year ago. We look at how Spotify developed the internal skills required to launch Backstage to its current heights.

Heads up on two upcoming Backstage meetups and a roundup of the latest merged pull requests.

The latest beta of the scaffolder opens up a world of potential for templating applications. We run through an example below.