infoq.com/news/2026/10/backstage-1-55-task-recovery Backstage 1.55 Adds Scaffolder Task Recovery and Removes Deprecated Catalog APIs
Backstage 1.55 adds crash recovery for scaffolder tasks but ships a pile of breaking changes: dropped catalog APIs, Elasticsearch 8 required, MkDocs plugins stripped unless allowlisted. One GitLab fix cuts a self-hosted merge-request action from 5-15 seconds to about 3 by skipping redundant API calls.
— via InfoQ, Mark Silvester
