Updates 2026

February 26, 2026

Features & Enhancements

• Add model commenting system

  • Introduce commenting functionality for models with user tagging support

  • Enables collaboration and discussion around model versions

• Support Gateway API for Kubernetes deployments

  • Add support for Kubernetes Gateway API routing alongside Ingress

  • Provides modern, flexible routing options for deployment endpoints

• Add SME access grant support

  • Enable Microsoft Entra ID integration for SME workflow access

  • Simplifies authentication for subject matter experts in enterprise environments

• Soft-delete model comments

  • Allow deletion of comments while preserving metadata and conversation context

  • Maintains audit trail while removing inappropriate or outdated content

• Optimize Datum API performance

  • Implement serialization caching and optimize URL generation

  • Significantly improves response times for datum listing endpoints

UI/UX Improvements

• Rename Notes to Comments throughout UI

  • Update terminology from "Notes" to "Comments" for consistency

  • Applies to models, executions, and tasks

• Add axis labels to confusion matrix

  • Display predicted and actual labels on confusion matrix visualizations

  • Improves readability and interpretation of classification results

• Hide "Show all outputs" for SME users

  • Remove output filtering option from SME interface

  • Simplifies workflow result viewing for non-technical users

Bug Fixes

• Fix missing deployment node edges

  • Restore missing edge connections in deployment graph visualization

  • Ensures deployment pipeline structure is correctly displayed

• Fix dataset version links with trailing slash

  • Correct URL generation for dataset version references

  • Prevents broken links in dataset navigation

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February 19, 2026

Features & Enhancements

• Add output preview grid tab to Compare Executions view

  • Add an image grid tab with synchronized hover state and a filter field for comparing execution outputs visually

  • Lets users compare output artifacts (images, plots) side by side across executions

• Find dataset by UUID in addition to name

  • Accept dataset UUIDs when creating dataset versions, preventing accidental creation of a new dataset named after the UUID

  • Reduces errors when referring to datasets programmatically by ID

• Disallow UUID and 'latest' as dataset version names

  • Reject reserved names during dataset version creation to avoid ambiguity with lookups

  • Prevents confusing collisions between version names and system identifiers

• Improve pipeline creation performance

  • Create pipeline edges in bulk and skip redundant FK validation and sanity checks

  • Speeds up creation of large pipelines with many edges

• SME: Revalidate commit list after repository fetch

  • Refresh the commit list and update selection after fetching the repository in the SME create view

  • Ensures users always see the latest commits when creating a new workflow

UI/UX Improvements

• Allow any value for grouped plot filter values

  • Remove restrictions on filter value input in the grouped metadata plot

  • Gives users full flexibility to filter on arbitrary metadata values

Bug Fixes

• Fix project URL resolution for projects with 'datasets' in the name

  • Match URL fragments properly instead of the first occurrence of reserved keywords

  • Fixes broken navigation for projects whose names contain words like "datasets" or "dataset-version"

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February 11, 2026

Features & Enhancements

• Add execution selector to Compare Executions view

  • Add an execution selector sidebar for choosing which executions to compare, with filtering support

  • Makes it easier to pick and switch between executions in comparison workflows

• Automatically use referenced task blueprints on task nodes

  • Resolve task node steps through their associated task blueprint instead of requiring manual configuration

  • Simplifies pipeline setup when task nodes reference existing blueprints

• Support runtime config preset YAML override in API

  • Convert hyphenated YAML configuration keys to underscored format when processing runtime config presets

  • Ensures YAML-defined presets work correctly through the API without manual key conversion

UI/UX Improvements

• Improve grouped metadata plot

  • Add filtering by metadata values and support grouping by metadata values in addition to keys

  • Brings pivot-table-like interactivity to the grouped chart view

• Use trace-specific colors for min-max shadows in statistics graphs

  • Replace hardcoded gray with per-trace colors (blue for CPU/Memory, orange for GPU)

  • Makes it easier to distinguish overlapping resource utilization ranges

Bug Fixes

• Fix multiple metadata charts sharing the same configuration state

  • Scope metadata chart configuration per view to prevent charts from interfering with each other

  • Eliminates unexpected behavior when switching between views with metadata charts

• Prevent filter state leakage between DatumBrowser views

  • Assign unique view names and sanitize hidden filter keys when navigating between output views

  • Stops filters from one view carrying over into unrelated datum browsers

• Fix input focus styles

  • Restore correct focus ring styling on form inputs

  • Ensures keyboard-navigating users can clearly see which input is active

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February 3, 2026

Features & Enhancements

• Add grouped metadata plot

  • Introduce a grouped chart view with box plots and a statistics table for metadata, supporting grouping by categorical keys

  • Helps users compare distributions across experiment groups at a glance

• Add SME workflow blueprint status frontend

  • Allow managing workflow blueprint status from the SME interface and only show valid workflows in the start flow

  • Gives teams direct control over which workflows are visible and launchable

• Allow store owner to delete project-scoped stores

  • Grant project store creators the ability to delete their own stores from the UI

  • Further reduces dependency on organization admins for store lifecycle management

• Support runtime config preset YAML override in Create Pipeline UI

  • Apply runtime-config-preset overrides when creating pipelines from the UI

  • Ensures pipeline creation respects preset configurations consistently

UI/UX Improvements

• Improve table loading and empty states

  • Fix and refine the Tablor component's loading and empty states to avoid layout shifts

  • Delivers a smoother experience when tables are loading or have no data

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January 27, 2026

Features & Enhancements

• Add SME workflow run history view

  • Allow SME users to view full workflow run history with context-aware headers, pagination, and workflow name display

  • Gives subject-matter experts visibility into past runs without navigating away from the SME interface

• Add SME workflow blueprint status API

  • Introduce a status field on workflow blueprints so blueprints can be marked active or inactive via API

  • Allows teams to control which workflows are available for launching

• Validate required assigned inputs in SME workflow creation

  • Prevent creation of workflow versions when required assigned inputs lack a value

  • Avoids workflow failures caused by missing mandatory inputs

• Allow setting associated projects in execution output metadata

  • Support a list of associated project IDs in the valohai.dataset-versions output metadata property

  • Enables automatic cross-project dataset association from execution outputs

• Add output_execution_counters filter to datum API

  • Allow filtering data by execution counter in the datum browser and API

  • Makes it easier to locate outputs from specific executions

• Allow store owner to administer project-scoped stores

  • Grant project store creators the ability to manage their own stores

  • Reduces dependency on organization admins for routine store management

• Add UI to purge outputs when deleting pipelines and tasks

  • Add purge-output toggles to pipeline and task delete dialogs and table actions

  • Lets users clean up outputs directly from the UI during deletion

• Only show organization tokens for organizations that have them enabled

  • Gate organization token visibility by the organization-level feature flag instead of user privilege

  • Prevents confusion by hiding token management from organizations where the feature is not active

• Add audit logging to store secret administration

  • Log changes made through the store secret configuration admin interface

  • Improves traceability and accountability for sensitive store configuration changes

UI/UX Improvements

• Overhaul Compare Dataset Versions view

  • Replace the cramped modal with a full-page view, add checkbox selection, a swap button, and improved comparison layout

  • Makes dataset version comparison more readable and easier to navigate

• Improve DatumBrowser loading state

  • Add integrated loading indicators for datum queries and a separate loader for the side panel

  • Provides clearer feedback when data is being fetched or filtered

• Make maximum number of metadata property keys configurable

  • Allow the property key limit to be adjusted instead of using a hard-coded cap

  • Supports projects with large numbers of metadata keys without truncation

• Replace Zendesk chat with ClearFeed web chat

  • Swap out the Zendesk widget for ClearFeed-based support chat

  • Provides a refreshed in-app support experience

Bug Fixes

• Fix copying executions that use environment variable groups

  • Resolve a regression where copying executions with EVGs failed due to strict typing

  • Restores the ability to reliably copy and re-run executions that reference variable groups

• Return proper error when stopping an already-stopped resource

  • Raise InvalidStatusAPIException instead of a generic error when attempting to stop a resource that is already stopped

  • Gives callers a clear, actionable error message

• Block non-allowed email domains on social signup

  • Enforce the email blocklist for social login (OAuth) signups, not just email/password registration

  • Closes a loophole where restricted email domains could bypass the allow-list via social auth

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January 14, 2026

Features & Enhancements

• Add transient environment variables

  • Allow users to define transient environment variables via API and manage them through a new editor in user and organization settings

  • Enables injecting short-lived, secret-capable variables into job payloads without persisting them in project configuration

• Add API to purge outputs when deleting pipelines and tasks

  • Provide a purge_outputs option on pipeline and task delete endpoints

  • Lets users reclaim storage in a single API call instead of manually cleaning up outputs after deletion

• Support model version URL as deployment endpoint input

  • Accept a model version URL when creating deployment endpoint files, automatically converting it to a dataset version URL

  • Simplifies deployment version creation by allowing direct model references

• Add deployment version model input UI

  • Add a model version input field to the Create Deployment Version page

  • Makes it easier to attach model versions to deployment endpoints directly from the UI

• Default to execution hash v2

  • Switch the default execution hashing algorithm to v2

  • Improves execution deduplication accuracy

• Exclude interactive executions from hashing

  • Skip hash computation for interactive (notebook/SSH) executions

  • Avoids misleading hash values for executions that are inherently non-reproducible

UI/UX Improvements

• Debounce datum metadata query input

  • Add input debounce and Enter-key flush to the metadata query field

  • Reduces unnecessary API calls while still allowing instant search on demand

• Parse true/false as boolean in datum queries

  • Recognize true and false as boolean values in metadata query input

  • Allows users to filter on boolean metadata without special syntax

Bug Fixes

• Ensure deleted triggers do not run

  • Prevent soft-deleted triggers from being evaluated and executed

  • Eliminates unexpected pipeline or workflow runs from stale trigger configurations

• Catch missing job data exceptions gracefully

  • Handle cases where job data is absent instead of raising an unhandled exception

  • Prevents 500 errors when viewing executions with incomplete backend data

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