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Orion Technical Changelog

This technical changelog provides guidance for technical teams operating Orion deployments. It is intentionally kept brief and only informs you of any deprecations, migration steps between major versions, or addressed security vulnerabilities.

This page tracks the releases of Genesis, Orion's management layer, as well as the per-environment Project Deployments. We recommend you link this changelog within your internal documentation and review it prior to each upgrade.

If a release has nothing extra to consider, it is explicitly listed as such for you to provide confirmation. Any major release requiring special upgrade steps also contains a detailed migration guide linked under the changelog.

For new features and enhancements, see the Feature Changelog.

2026-01-23 Genesis v2.0.2

Upgrade Status: ✅ Standard upgrade - no special steps required

Final QA tests performed against: Kubernetes 1.34.1

This release contains no breaking changes, API deprecations or major security updates.

2026-01-09 Genesis v2.0.1

Upgrade Status: ✅ Standard upgrade - no special steps required when upgrading from v2.0.0

Final QA tests performed against: Kubernetes 1.34.1

This release contains no breaking changes, API deprecations or major security updates. The only adjustments were to the Genesis deployment charts registry handling in an effort to meet AWS ECR spec requirements, along with a fix for an incorrect warning in our admin controls panel.

Please note v2.0.0 was a major update, please see the v2.0.0 changelogs for fuller detailed release notes.

2026-01-08 Genesis v2.0.0, Orion Projects v2.0.0

Upgrade Status: ⚠️ Major upgrade - API Changes, Terra Plugin Support Affected.

Upgrading to Genesis v2.0.0 introduces our Rhea backend service to service authorization handler. This will require Orion Projects to also be upgraded to v2.0.0 in order for the backend requests to be authorized and function properly.

Final QA tests performed against: Kubernetes 1.34.1

  • Rhea our backend service to service authorization handler has been implemented. Currently Terra plugins that try to interact directly with our API will not be supported. This includes plugins such as Helios-Auto-Shutdown this support will be added in future releases
  • We have changed how our Genesis, Terra, and Titan images are formatted in our charts. Prior to upgrading to this targetRevision, please ensure any custom overrides to these image versions is cleared out for a seamless transition.
  • The Genesis /workstation endpoints have been removed, and replaced with the /workload endpoint
  • The Genesis /schemas and /catalog endpoints have been replaced with /workload/schemas and /workload/catalog
  • Rhea our backend service to service authorization handler has been implemented. Currently Terra plugins that try to interact directly with our API will not be supported. This includes plugins such as Helios-Auto-Shutdown this support will be added in future releases
  • Free Community license now allows for 2 active workloads rather than 5

2025-12-19 Genesis v1.7.3, Orion Projects v1.6.3

Upgrade Status: ✅ Standard upgrade - no special steps required

Final QA tests performed against: Kubernetes 1.34.1

This release contains no breaking changes, API deprecations.

We recommend promptly updating existing deployments. As part of our internal security improvement review, we identified vulnerabilities from upstream dependencies in Next and React. We have reviewed our existing public deployments and found no evidence of it being actively exploited. To prevent making this more likely, we will contact customers directly with specific information on the vulnerability.

2025-12-10 Genesis v1.7.2

Upgrade Status: ✅ Standard upgrade - no special steps required

Final QA tests performed against: Kubernetes 1.34.1

This release contains no breaking changes, API deprecations or major security updates.

2025-12-05 Genesis v1.7.1, Orion Projects v1.6.2

Upgrade Status: ✅ Standard upgrade - no special steps required

Final QA tests performed against: Kubernetes 1.34.1

This release contains no breaking changes, API deprecations.

We recommend promptly updating existing deployments. As part of our internal security improvement review, we identified a component that could be exploited to reveal a limited set of information. We have reviewed our existing public deployments and found no evidence of it being actively exploited. To prevent making this more likely, we will contact customers directly with specific information on the vulnerability.

2025-11-17 Orion Projects v1.6.1

Upgrade Status: ✅ Standard upgrade - no special steps required

Final QA tests performed against: Kubernetes 1.34.1

This release contains no breaking changes, API deprecations or major security updates.

2025-11-11 Genesis v1.7.0, Orion Projects v1.6.0

Upgrade Status: ✅ Standard upgrade - no special steps required

Final QA tests performed against: Kubernetes 1.34.1

This release contains no breaking changes, API deprecations or major security updates.

2025-10-25 Genesis v1.6.0

Upgrade Status: ✅ Standard upgrade - no special steps required

Final QA tests performed against: Kubernetes 1.34.1

This release contains no breaking changes, API deprecations or major security updates.

2025-10-17 Orion Projects v1.5.1

Upgrade Status: ✅ Standard upgrade - no special steps required

Final QA tests performed against: Kubernetes 1.33.3

This release contains no breaking changes, API deprecations or major security updates.

2025-10-10 Genesis v1.5.0, Orion Projects v1.5.0

Upgrade Status: ✅ Standard upgrade - no special steps required

Final QA tests performed against: Kubernetes 1.33.3

This release contains no breaking changes, API deprecations or major security updates.

2025-08-15 Genesis v1.4.0, Orion Projects v1.4.0

Upgrade Status: ✅ Standard upgrade - no special steps required

Final QA tests performed against: Kubernetes 1.33.3

This release contains no breaking changes or API deprecations.

It contains improvements to backend token and signing generation across both the per-project and cluster management layers. We recommend upgrading any 1.3.X or earlier deployments to it.