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2025

Note from Teemu, Tim, and Torin to the Open Policy Agent community
Introducing Swift OPA: Native Policy Evaluation for Swift

2024

Announcing OPA 1.0: A New Standard for Policy as Code
OPA 1.0 is coming. Here's what you need to know.

2023

Open Policy Agent 2023, Year in Review
Open Policy Agent 2022, Year in Review
November Newsletter
October Newsletter
September Newsletter

2022

I have a plan! Exploring the OPA Intermediate Representation (IR) format
August Newsletter
Open Policy Agent 2022 User Survey Summary

2021

November Newsletter
Introducing the OPA print function
Serverless Policy Enforcement: Connecting OPA and AWS Lambda
Open Policy Agent 2021 Survey Summary
OPA Slack Tune Up
Community Spotlight — Grant Shively
Enhanced Type Checking for OPA with JSON Schema Annotations
Type checking your Rego policies with JSON schema in OPA
Open Policy Agent graduates in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Introducing OPA for IntelliJ
Open Policy Agent 2020, year in review

2020

Open Policy Agent Survey Summary (Spring 2020)
Open Policy Agent v0.19 Release
Rego Design Principle #3: Optimize Performance Automatically
Rego Playground: New Features
Rego Design Principle #2: Embrace hierarchical data
Rego design principle #1: Syntax should reflect real-world policies

2019

KubeCon US 2019 Recap
OPA v0.15.1: Rego on WebAssembly
v0.14 Release
Policy-driven continuous integration with Open Policy Agent
Envoy External Authorization with OPA
The Rego Playground
Securing the Kubernetes API with Open Policy Agent

2018

v0.10 Release
Write Policy in OPA. Enforce Policy in SQL.
v0.9 Release
Managing OPA
v0.7 Release
Partial Evaluation

2017

OPA's Full Stack Policy Language
Orderly versus Disorderly Policies
Optimizing OPA: Rule Indexing
Authorizing HTTP APIs, SSH, and Puppet with OPA
What is Policy? Part Two: Policy Engines
What is Policy? Part One: Enforcement

Authors

Torin Sandall
20
Anders Eknert
7
Tim Hinrichs
8
Peter O'Neill
7
Charlie Egan
1
Oren Shomron
1
Grant Shively
1
Ansu Varghese
2
Mandana Vaziri
2
Asad Ali
1
Luc Perkins
1
Ash Narkar
2

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