Backstage Community Session — Mar 19, 2025

Get a rundown on the improvements in Backstage v1.37, including the continued removal of old backend system support. Plus, sneak previews of upcoming BackstageCon talks. 00:00 Mihai welcomes the community. 01:32 What’s new in Backstage v1.37: Vincenzo and Camila share highlights from the latest release, including removing support for the legacy backend system bit by bit, a TypeScript version bump, improvements to the New Frontend System, a new Catalog query format, and more. 08:00 Wishing a Happy 5th Birthday to Backstage! March 16, 2020 is the day Spotify took the lid off their homegrown developer portal and made the GitHub repo public. 08:55 BackstageCon sneak previews from Spotify (09:56), Red Hat (16:15), Neo4j (18:24), and the Backstage events going on the rest of the week during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon (22:10), including the maintainers State of Backstage session, Backstage Contribfest, and the hours for the Backstage kiosk (2A) at the CNCF Project Pavilion. 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/community/tree/main/backstage-community-sessions ✉️ 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: https://discord.gg/MUpMjP2