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Changelog ​

v2.15.0 (2026-10-15) ​

New content

  • Security Principles — new page covering Zero Trust, open standards, least privilege, digital sovereignty, defense in depth, crypto agility, and software supply chain integrity
  • Scope & Shared Responsibility — new page with a full responsibility table clarifying what ApeiroRA provides versus what operators own, and an explicit list of what ApeiroRA does not define
  • Identity & Access Management — new page covering OIDC/MFA/SPIFFE authentication, OpenFGA Relationship-Based Access Control (ReBAC), workload identity, and federation
  • Network Security — new page covering Zero Trust networking, Zero Trust Workload Identities (in development), IronCore declarative networking (NetworkPolicy, L3 tenant isolation, NATGateway, BMCSecret), CobaltCore for traditional workloads, and intrusion containment integration points
  • Software Supply Chain Security — new page covering OCM as Software Bill of Delivery, provenance and signing (RSA, X.509, Sigstore), Open Delivery Gear continuous compliance, and Konfidence delivery governance
  • Security Operations — new page covering Greenhouse security observability (adopted by CobaltCore with Heureka), IronCore infrastructure telemetry, OpenTelemetry audit logging, and incident response integration points
  • Emerging Threats — new page covering Open Crypto Broker algorithm governance, the architectural path for future post-quantum migration, AI-driven threat analysis (AI as attack force multiplier, AI supply chain risks, why Apeiro's layered architecture is more critical rather than obsolete), and continuous vulnerability visibility via OCM/ODG
  • Blog post: Security Compliance Automation — original security compliance automation deep-dive by Frederik Thormaehlen, covering SCF, OCM as compliance backbone, tool-centric to model-centric transition, and the regulatory backdrop (EU CRA, EO 14028)

Updated content

  • Security Overview — expanded into a security hub with architecture orientation and navigation table linking all sub-sections; ordered by defense-in-depth layers
  • Key Management — rewritten to accurately reflect OpenKCM's current state: pluggable KMS backends (AWS KMS, OpenBao), BYOK/HYOK via CMK component, early-availability warning for Q4 2026 production target
  • Secrets Management & PKI — updated tone and structure; added operator responsibilities, Zero Trust Workload Identities complementarity note, and edition-availability qualifier for namespace support

Removed content

  • Security Compliance Automation — removed as a documentation page; original content preserved as a blog post (see above)

v2.14.0 (2026-09-24) ​

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v2.13.0 (2026-09-18) ​

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v2.12.0 (2026-09-09) ​

New content

v2.11.0 (2026-08-18) ​

New content

  • Videos - new page in the Resources section with three demo videos from the Apeiro channel, including content summaries
  • Showroom Scenarios - embedded demo videos for Application Hosting and Development and Management scenarios
  • Local Platform Mesh Tutorial - added "See it in Action" video section

v2.10.0 (2026-08-06) ​

New content

v2.9.1 (2026-05-06) ​

Updated content

  • Tutorial: Local Platform Mesh - updated to Platform Mesh 0.3.0; tutorials are now served under /tutorials/ instead of /guides/

v2.9.0 (2026-05-05) ​

New content

  • Tutorial: Local Platform Mesh - step-by-step guide to setting up a local Apeiro Showroom environment with a sample Platform Mesh scenario

v2.8.0 (2026-03-31) ​

New content

v2.6.3 (2026-02-24) ​

Updated content

v2.6.1 (2026-02-06) ​

Updated content

v2.6.0 (2026-02-04) ​

New content

v2.5.0 (2025-12-22) ​

New content

Updated content

v2.4.0 (2025-11-12) ​

New content

v2.3.0 (2025-10-27) ​

New content

  • Getting Started - get started with Apeiro by exploring how you can use individual components in your existing setup.

v2.2.0 (2025-10-13) ​

New content

  • Konfidence - software delivery framework for microservice-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) in Apeiro
  • Gardener - Kubernetes-as-a-Service in Apeiro
  • Operating Systems - modern cloud-native operating systems such as Garden Linux in Apeiro
  • Baremetal - control plane capable for managing the entire physical lifecycle of hardware resource
  • Data and Control Plane State - about the role of state in Kubernetes data and control planes

Updated content

v2.1.0 (2025-08-25) ​

  • Blog post: Garden Linux: Enabling AI on Kubernetes with NVIDIA GPUs

v2.0.0 (2025-08-12) ​

  • Update layout to new design

v1.3.0 (2025-06-30) ​

New Content

  • quarterly release of version 2025-06
  • new section "Architecture Overview"
  • new section "Data Fabric"
  • new section "Showroom"
  • new section "Resources"

Chore

  • display NeoNephos logo
  • re-arrange navigation

v1.2.0 (2025-06-03) ​

  • Blog post: Release of OpenBao namespaces

v1.1.0 (2025-03-25) ​

  • Blog post: KCP Multi‑Tenant Control Planes

v1.0.0 (2025-03-13) ​

  • Initial setup of documentation content
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