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if a month is not listed, no releases were published during that month may 2026 may 13 \enhancement\ \ \ improved authorization management with platform central bridge connections manager, tag management, and audit service now use the converged bridge authorization service for centralized authorization this backend update eliminates the need for multiple systems, streamlines request routing through updated endpoints, and improves reliability without impacting the end‑user experience january 2026 january 20 \\ bridge audit service available in apis multiple audit services—bridge, aiops, and control tower— have been merged into a single api, providing a unified view of audit timelines and statuses for site reliability engineers (sres) and developers this scalable solution eliminates duplicate services, streamlines operations, and enhances governance the integration improves maintainability and reusability while reducing administrative overhead a common framework guarantees consistent behavior and a uniform user experience across all applications on bridge june 2026 june 24 \enhancement\ \ \ bridge iam and arms synchronization enhanced this enhancement introduces a bi‑directional synchronization between bridge iam and arms to support a feedback driven access governance model aligned with soc compliance requirements bridge iam now supports all active bridge accounts and tenant‑scoped access groups in arms in parallel, arms continues as the system of record for access requests, approvals, and governance decisions, with all approved access grants and revocations automatically synchronized back to bridge iam this separation of responsibilities ensures consistent governance execution, improves visibility and control over access boundaries, and prevents stale or non‑compliant access across the platform june 17 \\ new okta fga authorization system introduced a new bridge authorization system based on okta fga is now introduced as part of the iam convergence strategy, okta fga now serves as the central authorization engine, enabling consistent access control across bridge and aiops services okta fga has been enabled for a defined set of bridge accounts, while others continue to use the existing bridge authorization system this update centralizes access control and improves consistency and security across services july 2026 july 8 \enhancement\ \ \ editing tag values is now available in tag management bridge tag management now supports updating existing tag values within an account this enhancement closes a key gap in tag lifecycle management by enabling users to modify tag values directly, ensuring bridge tag management now supports complete create, read, update, and delete (crud) capabilities for tag administration april 2026 april 8 \enhancement\ \ \ tag management now supports bulk importing of tag definitions the ability to import tag definitions is available for both account level tags (distributed control plane) and global tags (global control plane) this feature significantly reduces the time required to add tag definitions (tag schema) individually through the user interface, making it easier for tag administrators to import multiple tag definitions at once moreover, once imported, these definitions are activated and become immediately available for use by various applications and services in bridge the system meticulously tracks all tag definition creation details, ensuring comprehensive oversight june 2026 june 17 \enhancement\ \ \ the connections manager now supports hashicorp's external vault a generic adapter has been developed to connect to an external hashicorp vault, with the capability to be adapted to other external vaults in the future, enabling easy extensibility the external vault enables secure read only access to sensitive information for bridge applications via the connections manager, ensuring scalability \\ bridge audit service available in apis multiple audit services—bridge, aiops, and control tower— have been merged into a single api, providing a unified view of audit timelines and statuses for site reliability engineers (sres) and developers this scalable solution eliminates duplicate services, streamlines operations, and enhances governance the integration improves maintainability and reusability while reducing administrative overhead a common framework guarantees consistent behavior and a uniform user experience across all applications on bridge january 2026 january 20 \enhancement\ \ \ the connections manager now supports hashicorp's external vault a generic adapter has been developed to connect to an external hashicorp vault, with the capability to be adapted to other external vaults in the future, enabling easy extensibility the external vault enables secure read only access to sensitive information for bridge applications via the connections manager, ensuring scalability july 2026 july 1 \\ create and share custom dashboards account administrators can now build custom dashboards with existing widgets and share them securely using role based access controls (rbac) approved dashboards appear on the all dashboards page for easy discovery authorized users always see the latest updates, ensuring alignment and governance through an approval workflow \enhancement\ \ \ pin and favorite dashboards for a personalized console experience console users can now favorite frequently used dashboards or pin them as tabs on the console home page for quick access pinned dashboards open directly within the console, reducing navigation to frequently used dashboards preferences are saved per user, allowing each user to create and manage a personalized workspace learn more global navigation docid\ mpojak2f0jdnp8wr lizk june 2026 june 10 \enhancement\ \ \ welcome banner enhanced in bridge console the bridge console now has a configurable and dismissible welcome banner that maximizes dashboard space while preserving key context users can collapse or dismiss the banner to reduce clutter and improve usability for data dense views and smaller screens banner preferences persist at the user profile level across sessions, accounts, and devices once dismissed, the banner remains hidden until it is restored from the widget library (dashboard manager) the banner defaults to a collapsed state on smaller screens, ensuring a responsive and space efficient experience \enhancement\ \ \ services menu redesigned the console introduces a redesigned services menu that organizes offerings into a structured, domain based navigation model, replacing the previous flat and service heavy layout services are now grouped under clearly defined domains with a distinct separation between kyndryl services and platform services, enabling a more logical and intuitive browsing experience this update improves discoverability, reduces cognitive load, and allows users to locate and access services more efficiently the scalable structure supports the onboarding of new services while preserving existing permissions, favorites, and navigation behavior, ensuring a seamless and consistent experience \enhancement\ \ \ administration menu redesigned the global main menu now includes a dedicated administration menu that centralizes administrative capabilities into a structured, role aware experience across bridge this update replaces the previous manage & administer menu and organizes capabilities into functional categories existing administrative tools remain unchanged, while role based access control (rbac) ensures that users can access only authorized capabilities legacy capabilities are labeled as (legacy), and external link behavior remains consistent this enhancement improves discoverability, simplifies navigation, and enables faster access to administrative tools through a consistent and scalable platform experience \\ recently viewed introduced in console the console includes a recently viewed option that captures and displays the last accessed pages and dashboards directly within the global navigation menu the list updates dynamically based on user activity and displays up to 10 recent items, allowing users to quickly return to previously viewed content without manual configuration in multi account environments, it maintains a separate history per account to ensure account specific visibility the feature enforces existing access permissions across sessions and provides a streamlined navigation experience \enhancement\ \ \ favorites menu redesigned the favorites menu is now available in a dedicated flyout in the navigation header instead of the main navigation, enabling quick access to frequently used pages users can mark or remove items as favorites directly from supported pages and view them in a centralized panel each user can maintain up to 10 favorites, with prompts to remove an existing item when the limit is reached favorites are stored per user per account and persist across sessions, improving navigation efficiency and enabling a more personalized, streamlined experience \enhancement\ \ \ catalog navigation redesigned catalog navigation introduces a dedicated catalogs section in the navigation menu, replacing the previous enterprise catalogs menu all available catalogs are now centralized in a single, structured view, enabling users to browse and access catalogs directly from the navigation panel this update improves discoverability and usability, reduces navigation effort and ensures users can access only authorized catalogs through a consistent and scalable model \enhancement\ \ \ console menu redesigned the console navigation is redesigned to improve clarity, consistency, and ease of use home is now bridge home , intelligence is now dashboards , actionable insights is now operational insights , and aiops it health indicators is now aiops it health indicators dashboard a new all dashboards entry is available under dashboards , while business service insights and business console are now labeled as legacy applications and identified with launch out icons the navigation order is also standardized, and a new favorites feature allows users to pin frequently used items for quick access, helping users navigate more efficiently and find content faster \enhancement\ \ \ consolidated knowledge & ai capabilities in service menu knowledge & ai capabilities are now available under a dedicated knowledge & ai section in the console service menu core applications have been re homed from manage, administer, and the agent library is introduced as a new entry this update provides a single, intuitive access point, reduces navigation complexity, and improves discoverability, while preserving existing permissions and functionality march 2026 march 18 \\ utilization insights now available sres now benefit from utilization and capacity insights, enabling preemptive action in the context of cpu and memory over utilization and under utilization the new dashboard presents the count of cluster utilization with the ability to drill down for additional details on each cluster march 11 \enhancement\ \ \ f1 dashboard now supports container cluster management actionable insights users of f1 dashboard now benefit from additional insights produced by container cluster management, extending their environment observability and their ability to take preemptive action \\ new role based dashboard limited to subscribers assigned the capacity & performance engineer role, this dashboard enables capacity engineers to view clusters in the context of over and under utilization and over committed clusters the dashboard enables an efficiently acquired, keen understanding of current capacity and the ability to preemptively balance resources for maximum cost efficiency february 2026 february 25 \enhancement\ \ \ ccm now fully integrated with application portfolio site reliability engineers can now consult ccm with confidence that application names in the ccm dashboard are correct, minimizing possible confusion to that end, ccm is now fully integrated with application foundation february 18 \\ persistent volumes a new insight enables site reliability engineers an at a glance assessment of cluster persistent volumes, enabling preemptive action in near real time persistent volume inactive and orphaned are now supported \\ persistent volume claims container cluster management offers site reliability engineers an at a glance assessment of cluster persistent volume claim utilization, allowing preemptive action and resource balancing as needed in near real time persistent volume claims utilization insights are now supported as underutilized, overutilized, and running out july 2026 july 1 \\ new control library dashboard is now available continuous controls monitoring & management now introduces a unified compliance framework (ucf) with multi‑framework control mapping, enabling users to view controls across standard cybersecurity frameworks this dashboard helps teams manage compliance at scale without navigating siloed standards, resulting in less duplication, clearer coverage, and faster progress toward readiness may 2026 may 6 \\ risk insights dashboard is now available this new dashboard provides a unified view of enterprise risk across compliance, exposure, patch management and asset lifecycle users can quickly see where risk originates, how it is weighted and which areas need attention, supporting proactive and informed decision‑making standardized risk indicators, transparent weighting and consistent severity levels clarify how key metrics contribute to the overall risk score june 2026 june 24 \\ github secret scan integration is now available for di devops intelligence now integrates with github secret scanning to ingest and surface secret scan alerts within the platform users can identify exposed sensitive data and monitor secret exposure trends through the security & compliance posture widget on the secure overview page, with detailed alert information available in the secret scan page june 17 \enhancement\ \ \ multi level jfrog repository support is now available for di devops intelligence now supports multi level repository selection in jfrog users can onboard specific folders or images instead of entire repositories, improving precision, reducing unnecessary data ingestion and ensuring accurate artifact attribution devops intelligence april 2026 april 29 \\ secure alerts are now available secure alerts are now available in the release management dashboard, giving security champions a quick, at‑a‑glance view of security alerts for an application or technical service this visibility helps them identify security issues early and take timely action as part of release readiness april 22 \enhancement\ \ \ expanded application services view for security pages users can now view all services associated with selected applications in addition to only those with identified vulnerabilities, enabling a more holistic understanding of application security users can now also filter items and export the filtered content to supported report formats such as csv february 2026 february 11 \\ enhanced open source license compliance categories the security champion can now easily set licensing priorities and reduce compliance lapses using the updated license compliance details table the table now includes the following compliance categories denied, need approval, allowed, and uncategorized learn more devops intelligence user interface https //docs kyndryl com/us/en/services/introduction to bridge services/devops/devops intelligence user interface july 2020 july 1 \\ logging & monitoring service is now available in bridge bridge now provides a common logging service for application logs, enabling faster troubleshooting through unified visualization, monitoring and log‑to‑trace correlation in grafana users gain reliable, advanced monitoring across applications and services, with secure, account‑based visibility enforced by bridge iam and seamless switching between services to view logs in one place \enhancement\ \ \ converged gcp iam is now available for the bridge logging service the bridge logging service now adopts the new converged global central plane (gcp) iam, leveraging bridge iam as the unified authorization layer to enable consistent and centralized access control across the platform april 2026 april 8 \\ onboarding network devices to network configuration management tool now supported network devices can now be onboarded to the network configuration management tool using the current consolidated onboarding process the consolidated onboarding process ensures network devices are onboarded concurrently to all tools in the network service hub stack july 2026 july 8 \\ unified notification service in the launch of the converged notification service brings together the previously separate , and service notification capabilities into a single common notification service with one unified api as a shared service, it can be adopted by all applications and services across the platform to publish and manage no