generated: '2026-08-29'
method: searched
source: https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/tac/blob/main/process/lifecycle.md
versioning:
  scheme: semver-per-project
  wire_versioning: none
  note: >-
    ASWF versions projects, not endpoints. Each hosted project releases independently under semantic
    versioning and tags releases on GitHub. Neither the OpenCue gRPC contract nor its REST Gateway
    carries a version segment or version header, so a client's "API version" is whichever OpenCue
    release the studio deployed.
  current_versions:
    - project: OpenEXR
      version: v3.4.15
      released: '2026-08-21'
    - project: OpenVDB
      version: v13.0.0
      released: '2025-11-04'
    - project: OpenColorIO
      version: v2.5.2
      released: '2026-05-13'
    - project: OpenTimelineIO
      version: v0.18.1
      released: '2025-11-09'
      note: Tagged as a pre-release ("Beta 18.1"); OTIO has not reached 1.0.
    - project: MaterialX
      version: v1.39.5
      released: '2026-05-22'
    - project: OpenImageIO
      version: v3.1.16.0
      released: '2026-08-01'
    - project: Open Shading Language
      version: v1.15.6.0
      released: '2026-08-02'
    - project: OpenCue
      version: v1.19.1
      released: '2026-04-08'
project_lifecycle:
  published: true
  source: https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/tac/blob/main/process/lifecycle.md
  governance: >-
    Adopted or amended by majority vote of both the Technical Advisory Council (TAC) and the
    Governing Board.
  stages:
    - name: Sandbox
      description: >-
        Entry point for early-stage projects. Requires an approved Technical Charter, trademark
        transfer to LF Projects LLC, a clean license scan, a completed contribution proposal, a
        presentation to the TAC and an affirmative TAC vote.
      expectation: >-
        Expected to reach Incubation within one year; the TAC may vote a project out of Sandbox if
        it does not report progress.
    - name: Incubation
      description: Projects that have met the TAC's requirements to move beyond Sandbox.
    - name: Graduated
      description: Production-grade projects with established governance and contributor base.
    - name: Archived
      description: >-
        The published end-of-life state for an ASWF project. This is the foundation's deprecation
        path — a project is archived by the TAC rather than an individual endpoint being sunset.
  review_cycle: https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/tac/blob/main/process/review_cycle.md
deprecation:
  policy_published: true
  policy_url: https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/tac/blob/main/process/lifecycle.md
  scope: project-level
  sunset_header: false
  deprecation_header: false
  rfc8594: false
  note: >-
    ASWF publishes a project retirement path (the Archived stage above) and per-project release
    notes carry deprecation announcements, but no RFC 8594 Sunset/Deprecation header is emitted by
    any ASWF surface — there is no ASWF-operated origin to emit one.
  routed_surface_gap:
    description: >-
      The closest thing OpenCue has to a per-operation deprecation signal is the gap between the
      published and the routed surface: 31 of the 304 endpoints its OpenAPI definitions describe are
      not registered on the gateway and return 404 / gRPC NOT_FOUND. The provider documents this
      explicitly rather than removing the definitions.
    source: https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenCue/blob/master/docs/_docs/reference/rest-api-reference.md
status_page:
  published: false
  probed:
    - url: https://status.aswf.io
      status: '000'
      note: DNS does not resolve.
  note: >-
    ASWF operates no runtime service, so there is no uptime to report. Studios monitor their own
    OpenCue deployment; the OpenCue sandbox ships Grafana/Prometheus dashboards for that purpose
    (sandbox/config/grafana/dashboards/opencue-monitoring.json in the OpenCue repository).
sla:
  published: false
  note: >-
    No availability SLA. The one published time commitment ASWF makes is on security response:
    48-hour acknowledgement and a 14-day target for critical patches (see
    security/academy-software-foundation-vulnerability-disclosure.yml).
support:
  slack: https://join.slack.com/t/academysoftwarefdn/shared_invite/zt-3vrwgz5ti-5wTvNH~zn90WCNRDe7163g
  issues: https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation