[WIP] [release-1.10] fix(homepage): update homepage frontend and backend

[christoph-jerolimov]

Update homepage plugin to redhat-developer/rhdh-plugins#3240, manual backport of #2525 for 1.10.

Mark it as WIP to confims this first on a cluster and by a release-manager.

Releases

@red-hat-developer-hub/backstage-plugin-dynamic-home-page@1.13.4

Patch Changes

• ab8323b: Fix issue that defaul widget props are ignored when customization is enabled.

@red-hat-developer-hub/backstage-plugin-homepage-backend@0.1.3

Patch Changes

• ab8323b: Fix conditional permission checks.

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Quality Gate passed

Issues
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Measures
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/publish

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Publishing process

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• Published container images:
  • ghcr.io/redhat-developer/rhdh-plugin-export-overlays/red-hat-developer-hub-backstage-plugin-dynamic-home-page:pr_2526__1.13.4
  • ghcr.io/redhat-developer/rhdh-plugin-export-overlays/red-hat-developer-hub-backstage-plugin-homepage-backend:pr_2526__0.1.3

Backstage Compatibility Check

✅ All workspaces are compatible with the target Backstage version (1.49.4).

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Running e2e tests
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Error logs from container

�[2m2026-05-27T20:09:46.345Z�[22m �[34mscalprum�[39m �[32minfo�[39m Loaded dynamic frontend plugin '@red-hat-developer-hub/backstage-plugin-dynamic-home-page-dynamic' from 'file:///opt/app-root/src/dynamic-plugins-root/red-hat-developer-hub-backstage-plugin-dynamic-home-page'  
�[2m2026-05-27T20:09:46.358Z�[22m �[34mlicensed-users-info�[39m �[33mwarn�[39m The plugin-licensed-users-info-backend was disabled because it does not support the SQLite in-memory database configuration. 
�[2m2026-05-27T20:09:46.364Z�[22m �[34mbackstage�[39m �[31merror�[39m Plugin 'homepage' threw an error during startup, waiting for 8 other plugins to finish before shutting down the process. Failed to instantiate service 'homepage.defaultWidgets' for 'homepage' because the factory function threw an error, Error: Invalid homepage.defaultWidgets config: [
  {
    "code": "custom",
    ]
  }
] �[36mtype�[39m="initialization" �[36mstack�[39m="Error: Failed to instantiate service 'homepage.defaultWidgets' for 'homepage' because the factory function threw an error, Error: Invalid homepage.defaultWidgets config: [\n  {\n    \"code\": \"custom\",\n    \"message\": \"Node must have `id` and `ref` (leaf) or non-empty `children` (group), not both\",\n    \"path\": [\n      0\n    ]\n  },\n  {\n    \"code\": \"custom\",\n    \"message\": \"Node must have `id` and `ref` (leaf) or non-empty `children` (group), not both\",\n    \"path\": [\n      1\n    ]\n  },\n  {\n    \"code\": \"custom\",\n    \"message\": \"Node must have `id` and `ref` (leaf) or non-empty `children` (group), not both\",\n    \"path\": [\n      2\n    ]\n  }\n]\n    at /opt/app-root/src/node_modules/@backstage/backend-app-api/dist/wiring/ServiceRegistry.cjs.js:232:21\n    at async Promise.all (index 0)\n    at async #getInitDeps (/opt/app-root/src/node_modules/@backstage/backend-app-api/dist/wiring/BackendInitializer.cjs.js:132:22)\n    at async /opt/app-root/src/node_modules/@backstage/backend-app-api/dist/wiring/BackendInitializer.cjs.js:282:32\n    at async Promise.all (index 13)\n    at async #doStart (/opt/app-root/src/node_modules/@backstage/backend-app-api/dist/wiring/BackendInitializer.cjs.js:233:5)\n    at async BackendInitializer.start (/opt/app-root/src/node_modules/@backstage/backend-app-api/dist/wiring/BackendInitializer.cjs.js:180:12)\n    at async BackstageBackend.start (/opt/app-root/src/node_modules/@backstage/backend-app-api/dist/wiring/BackstageBackend.cjs.js:19:12)"
�[2m2026-05-27T20:09:46.366Z�[22m �[34mevents�[39m �[32minfo�[39m Database is not PostgreSQL, using memory store 
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�[2m2026-05-27T20:09:48.155Z�[22m �[34mbackstage�[39m �[32minfo�[39m Plugin initialization complete, newly initialized: 'scaffolder', 'catalog', 'app' �[36mtype�[39m="initialization"
�[2m2026-05-27T20:09:48.156Z�[22m �[34mbackstage�[39m �[31merror�[39m Unhandled rejection Backend startup failed due to the following errors:
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  {
    "code": "custom",
    ]
  }
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Test name	Commit	Details	Required	Rerun command
ci/prow/e2e-ocp-helm	0767205	link	false	/test e2e-ocp-helm

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