Every behaviour listed here ships default-off behind a feature flag (with one deliberate exception: latency metrics auto-enable in paper and development environments). Your deployment does not change until an operator opts in.

Safer promotions​

• Trial ledger — every research trial is recorded, so the deflated-Sharpe and overfitting statistics that gate promotion use an honest experiment count. A lucky 1-in-10,000 backtest no longer looks like skill. Concept →
• Evidence-gated promotion — promotion requests fail closed without a complete statistical evidence bundle, and paper execution refuses artifacts that lack an approval token.
• Approvals now expire — pending human approvals (orders, promotions, ingestion) carry a TTL; stale requests lapse instead of firing late. Concept →

See where every millisecond goes​

Six named clocks measure each segment of the order path — market-data lag, strategy think time, risk gate, ledger write, broker acknowledgement, fill apply — with a ready-made Grafana dashboard. Auto-on in paper/dev environments. Concept →

Bring your own keys​

Market-data and brokerage credentials (Alpaca, IBKR, Databento, Alpha Vantage) now resolve through the platform credential vault at the moment of use — organizations can bring their own vendor keys, and worker processes no longer carry vendor secrets in their environment. Concept →

Governed streaming​

Kafka messages carry schema ids that consumers verify (refusing to guess on unknown schemas), and stream consumers address topics through the governed data catalog rather than hard-coded names. Concept →

Also in this cycle​

• CLI sign-in fix: alphaswarm-cli auth login device flow now works against hosts that previously only advertised the web app's OIDC client.
• Clearer readiness: /readyz distinguishes "database migrations pending" from "database down", and surfaces auth-service reachability advisorily.
• License + customer management APIs for enterprise/BYOC deployments.
• dbt semantic layer (preview): named, governed business metrics for agents and dashboards. Concept →

The full engineering detail is in the 2026-08-13 changelog.

New​

• The documentation site is live at alpha-swarm.ai/docs, replacing the previous GitHub-rendered tree. Every previous link continues to resolve via 301 redirects.
• Interactive API playground at /docs/reference/api. Token persistence works end-to-end; copy a Bearer from alphaswarm-cli auth login and every request from the playground inherits it.
• AI-native surfaces. A curated /llms.txt index, the full corpus at /llms-full.txt, and an MCP server at /mcp are first-class agent entry points.
• In-product help panel in the operator UI — the help drawer reads directly from the docs corpus, so in-product reference never drifts from the public site.

API​

• First Stripe-style date epoch: 2026-06-01. No surface changes from the prior unversioned API; future epochs follow the documented 12-month sunset cycle with RFC 8594 Deprecation and Sunset response headers.
• OpenAPI specs committed and drift-gated with oasdiff on every PR.

For the full details, see the release notes archive.