We’ve released a recent version of Backstage: 2021-11-12

The main user facing changes are:

1. The “View API” button on the “About” card for entities has been removed in favour of users navigating to the API tab directly.
2. The search modal is now available.

When the catalog-info.yaml metadata for a entity is deleted, it’s possible for the entity to end up in an “orphaned” stage in Backstage.

Backstage now warns you when this happens, and gives you a way to clean up the entity.

The Travis CI plugin lets you List Travis CI Builds and Retrigger builds from within Backstage.

Visit our Travis CI documentation to learn how to use it.

FireHydrant is an incident management tool with a variety of reliability management features including its own service catalog. Backstage components can be added to the FireHydrant service catalog.

The FireHydrant plugin is now available in Roadie. Visit our docs to learn how to use it.

We’ve also made the Catalog Graph plugin available from today. The Catalog Graph plugin shows relationships between entities in your catalog.