Development Milestones

Pre-release

Canopy is in pre-release development. The milestones below are internal development progress — none of these versions are yet available for download or purchase. Join the waitlist to be notified when Canopy launches.

Development history for Canopy. Follows Keep a Changelog format. All versions use Semantic Versioning.

Versioning Policy

Canopy uses Semantic Versioning with the following interpretation:

Bump	When
Patch (x.y.Z)	Bug fixes, performance improvements, dependency updates. No behavior change.
Minor (x.Y.0)	New features, new commands, new capabilities. Backward-compatible.
Major (X.0.0)	Breaking changes to any public interface (MCP tool signatures, CLI flags, plugin YAML schema, config format).

Pre-launch versioning scope

Active development is in the v2.0.0-alpha range — the single-tool redesign. The v2.0.0-alpha milestones are pre-release builds; Canopy is in pre-release until the launch surfaces (distribution, installers, legal / site) all land together. The v1.x milestones below are the development history that led here; note that v1.x-era pages describe the 31-tool MCP surface that v2 replaced with the single canopy_answer tool.

Milestones

Version	Highlights
v2.0.0	One routed tool, setup-first onboarding, honest answers. The 31-tool catalog becomes a single canopy_answer with deterministic question-shape routing (360/360); onboarding collapses to install → setup → answer with automatic editor wiring; the cross-encoder relevance floor makes empty answers honest; seat release + transfer ship end to end with a never-rotating license hash.
v1.22.x	Data-sovereignty closure, model-agnostic backends, and the Q2 launch-readiness sweep. AWS Bedrock summarizer, --no-network strict mode, summary-backend fingerprint protection, canopy doctor, OpenAI text-embedding-3, GDScript / Godot resource extractors, real D3 + Chart.js vendored for offline dashboard, monthly cargo-update workflow, keypair-rotation runbook, nightly D1 backup to R2, and the v1.22.13 Test-job linker fix that unblocked the v1.22.14–v1.22.20 CI-greening cascade.
v1.21.x	Two-tier RAG, Tier-A durability, and the context-budget lever set. File-summary tier above chunk vectors, incremental Tier-A commits, content-stable index reuse, and the v1.21.9 default flips that cut agent context budget ~50% versus shell-only operation.
v1.20.x	Defaults, gates, and the response cache. The summary=true default-flip experiment cycle, paginated health-check JSON, the meta-tool-first gate that converts soft tips into hard short-circuits, and the 60-second session-scoped response cache.
v1.14.x	Language expansion and the comprehension benchmark. Q2/Q3/Q4 batches add C/C++/C#, Java/Kotlin/Swift, Ruby/PHP plus 30+ extractors, content-based disambiguation, parallel CPU embedding, and the first agentic-correctness benchmark (75/75 levered).
v1.8.x	Density levers, meta-tools, and the comprehension layer. Six new levers on existing tools, four workflow-bundle meta-tools, the canopy_context / canopy_interface / canopy_related_tests family, verdict-format probes, and the verification-rate canary. Tool count 21 → 31 (combined with the canopy_survey add in v1.7.0).
v1.7.0	Token-efficiency levers and Go multi-module support. Density-control parameters across every MCP tool (~10× reduction on realistic workflows), full go.mod resolution, Python/Go indexer fix, ORT dylib pre-flight, JavaScript grammar fix.
v1.6.0	Dashboard, CI-cached indexes, tier-aware MCP, forward-compatible license gating
v1.5.1	Security hardening: gate enforcement, supply chain audit, SHA-pinned CI
v1.5.0	Machine management: portal self-service, stale eviction, ephemeral mode, long-lived keys
v1.4.0	Team tier: shared configs, admin portal, CI cached indexes
v1.3.0	Commercial hardening: Community mode, free trials, heartbeat, revocation, air-gapped tier
v1.2.0	Commercial layer: license system, feature gating, Stripe, R2 distribution, marketing site
v1.1.0	Vector search: hybrid semantic + keyword, Ollama/ORT embeddings, offline bundle
v1.0.0	First stable internal release: 21 MCP tools, 11 CLI commands, frozen public API

Source Changelog

The authoritative changelog lives in the Canopy repository at CHANGELOG.md. This docs site mirrors and expands on that content with additional context for each milestone.