Backstage Community Session — May 21, 2025

Get a rundown on the improvements in Backstage v1.39, plus discussions about BackstageCon past and future, and more Q&A. 00:05 Mihai welcomes the community! 01:27 What’s new in Backstage v1.39: Mihai runs down the highlights from the latest release, including continuing removal of support for the Old Backend System, removing CodeOwnersProcessor, adios React 17, a new scheduler service, Canon 0.4.0, and lots more. 07:27 Reminder to submit your talk ideas by June 30 for BackstageCon North America 2025 in Atlanta. 09:00 Q&A with the maintainers, including sharing impressions on KubeCons past, thoughts on graduating the CNCF project, dreams of a BackstageCon APAC someday, whither React 19, and more. Join the Backstage community! Backstage is an open framework for building internal developer portals (IDPs). It was created by Spotify and donated to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) in 2020. The Backstage Community Session is the monthly meetup where we all come together to listen to the latest maintainer updates, learn from each other about adopting, share exciting new demos or discuss any relevant topic like developer effectiveness, developer experience, developer portals, and more. 🗓 Join us for our monthly Community Sessions: https://github.com/backstage/communit... ✉️ Subscribe to the newsletter for product updates, community news, and more: https://spoti.fi/backstagenewsletter 🧑🏼‍💻 For features, demos, and docs: https://backstage.io 🗣️ Have questions? Reach out on Discord:   / discord