specification: API Commons ChangeLog
specificationVersion: '0.1'
provider: Cloudability
providerId: cloudability
generated: '2026-09-05'
modified: '2026-09-05'
method: searched
source: >-
  IBM Documentation "What's new" pages under www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloudability-commercial
  and the Cloudability Cumulative Release Notes document in the IBM TechXchange
  Cloudability community — located 2026-09-05.
description: >-
  Cloudability publishes release notes, but not as a dated, machine-readable
  changelog and not scoped to the API. Notes are split across per-year "What's
  new" pages in IBM Docs (one page per edition: Premium, Standard, Essentials,
  Federal) and a cumulative release-notes document in the IBM community, and IBM
  states the notes are still mid-migration from the Apptio Help Center and IBM
  TechXchange into IBM Docs.
scheme: per-year-whats-new
machine_readable: false
feed: null
api_scoped: false
sources:
  - name: IBM Cloudability documentation home ("What's new" index)
    url: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloudability-commercial
    note: >-
      The docs home for every Cloudability edition. Its navigation carries
      "What's new in Cloudability Premium" plus per-year children for 2025, 2024
      and 2023; the individual topic slugs are not recorded here because
      www.ibm.com/docs returns 403 to non-browser clients and each slug could not
      be confirmed first-hand.
  - name: Cloudability Standard — What's new in 2025
    url: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloudability-commercial/cloudability-standard/saas?topic=cloudability-standard-whats-new-in-2025
  - name: Cloudability Cumulative Release Notes (IBM TechXchange community)
    url: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/apptio/viewdocument/cloudability-cumulative-release-not?CommunityKey=15c0e07d-35c0-49de-a84b-019253d13376&tab=librarydocuments
  - name: Apptio product blog
    url: https://www.apptio.com/blog/
    note: Feature announcements, not release notes.
entries:
  - date: '2026-11-19'
    kind: deprecation
    breaking: true
    summary: >-
      Announced end of functionality for the legacy Cloudability metrics-agent;
      customers must migrate to the IBM FinOps Agent Helm chart.
    evidence: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloudability-commercial/cloudability-premium/saas?topic=allocation-provision-your-container-agent
    note: A future-dated commitment published ahead of the date.
  - date: '2026-08-21'
    kind: release
    breaking: false
    version: 2.14.15
    summary: metrics-agent 2.14.15 released (Helm chart, Docker image and Go source).
    evidence: https://github.com/cloudability/metrics-agent/releases
  - date: '2026-08-07'
    kind: release
    breaking: false
    version: 1.0.25
    summary: IBM FinOps Agent Helm chart 1.0.25 published (appVersion v1.0.25).
    evidence: https://kubecost.github.io/finops-agent-chart/index.yaml
findings:
  - >-
    No API changelog exists. Nothing tells a v3 consumer when an endpoint,
    field or behaviour changed — the "What's new" pages are product-feature
    oriented and the release notes are a PDF-style community document.
  - >-
    Release notes are mid-migration from the Apptio Help Center to IBM Docs,
    and the Apptio Help Center host (help.apptio.com) no longer resolves in DNS,
    so any older release note that was only published there is now unreachable.
  - >-
    entries[] is deliberately short and carries only items whose dates could be
    read first-hand from IBM documentation or a package registry. The per-year
    "What's new" pages were not transcribed because their individual entries
    are undated on the page.