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v1.50.0CI/CD & App Delivery

Apr 15, 2026Copy link

v1.50.0 is a wide-ranging release with several breaking changes across auth, frontend APIs, and catalog. Key practical upgrades: AWS RDS IAM auth, Auth0 federated logout, catalog deadlock fixes, and security patches for rollup/glob.

• breakingVerify token decoding code before upgrading — ent claim removed by default

  auth.omitIdentityTokenOwnershipClaim now defaults to true, so Backstage user tokens no longer include the ent ownership claim. Any code that manually decodes tokens and reads ent will silently get nothing. Audit your codebase for raw token decoding and replace it with the userInfo core service. If you need time, set auth.omitIdentityTokenOwnershipClaim: false in your config temporarily, but plan to remove it — the setting will be dropped in a future release.

• breakingMigrate createSchemaFromZod to configSchema before upgrading frontend-plugin-api

  The deprecated createSchemaFromZod helper is gone in @backstage/[email protected]. Any extension or blueprint using it will fail at runtime. Check the 1.50 migration docs at backstage.io/docs/frontend-system/architecture/migrations#150 and switch to the configSchema option. Note that plain zod v3 schemas are not supported — use import { z } from 'zod/v4' from the zod v3 package or upgrade to zod v4.

• securityUpdate CLI and build tooling to pick up rollup path traversal fix

  rollup < v4.59 has a high severity path traversal vulnerability (GHSA-mw96-cpmx-2vgc). The @backstage/cli, repo-tools, and several CLI modules have been updated. Run the upgrade helper and update your lockfile. If you pin rollup versions anywhere in your workspace, update those pins to v4.59+. The glob dependency was also bumped to v13 to address vulnerabilities in v7/v8/v11.