What's new in Red Hat Developer Hub 1.9?
We are pleased to announce the general availability of Red Hat Developer Hub (RHDH) 1.9.
What is Red Hat Developer Hub?
Red Hat Developer Hub (RHDH) is our enterprise-grade platform built to solve a specific, growing problem: developer cognitive load. By leveraging Backstage—the CNCF open-source project—RHDH provides a bespoke, unified portal that centralizes the fragmented tools, documentation, and resources developers need to build and deploy high-quality applications at scale.
Reducing Friction, Increasing Flow
Rather than forcing developers to navigate a "tooling tax" of disconnected services, RHDH integrates the entire lifecycle into a single pane of glass. Whether your infrastructure lives on Red Hat OpenShift or managed cloud services like AWS EKS, Azure AKS, and Google GKE, Developer Hub ensures a consistent experience across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
The Power of an Integrated Ecosystem
A portal is only as strong as its connections. RHDH seamlessly plugs into the industry’s most critical DevOps tools, including:
- Collaboration & Planning: Jira, GitHub, and GitLab.
- CI/CD & Reliability: Jenkins, Quay, ArgoCD, Dynatrace, SonarQube, etc.
- Deployment & Platforms: OpenShift, Tekton, Kubernetes, Topology.
Driving Productivity through Self-Service
By providing a "broad information hub," RHDH enables true self-service. Developers can use validated Software Templates that you can write to scaffold new projects in minutes—not days—complete with built-in security and compliance. This move toward platform engineering keeps teams productive, collaborative, and focused on writing code throughout their entire working day (and night).
Notable Enhancements & Changes in Red Hat Developer Hub 1.9
RHDH is now based on Backstage 1.45.3. This release has many important features and enhancements, here are the most notable:
- [New] Summarized Scorecard data on the homepage for platform engineers (TP)
- [New] Support for multiple identity providers on the login screen (TP)
- [New] Lightspeed AI chat popup/dock, UX improvements (DP)
- [New] New localization for Italian & Japanese languages
- [New] Orchestrator logging for workflows (GA)
- [New] More MCP tools and improved Lightspeed MCP user experience
- [New] Auto logout
- [New] Postgresql 17 support
- [Enhancement] OCI artifact mirroring for air gapped RHDH deployments
- [Enhancement] Bulk Import Orchestrator workflow integration
- [Enhancement] Dynamic plugin references updated to OCI artifacts and tagless catalog references
- [Enhancement] ArgoCD plugin multi-cluster/multi-namespace support, Quay multi-instance support
- [Enhancement] ServiceNow plugin: Allow integration without changing ServiceNow infrastructure
- [Docs] Additional documentation for both administrators and end users.
Learn more
- For further information about all the new features and enhancements of RHDH 1.9, please refer to the Release Notes.
- Full product documentation.
- Visit Getting started with Red Hat Developer Hub to find additional resources.
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