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Blog timeline

Summary: Chronological index of OpenBao announcement, release, and event posts from raw/blog/. Captures the project’s evolution: initial GA → governance → namespaces → OpenSSF → 2.0 roadmap.

Sources: raw/blog/*.md.

Last updated: 2026-05-19

2024 — kickoff and first GA

  • 2024-07-25 — Announcing OpenBao v2.0.0 (raw/blog/2024-07-25-release-v2-0-0.md). Initial GA of the fork.
  • 2024-09-23 — OpenBao Blog Kickoff (raw/blog/2024-09-23-kickoff.md). Blog launches, focused on community and technical deep-dives.
  • 2024-09-27 — Profiles for Cross-Plugin Communication (raw/blog/2024-09-27-profiles.md). Proposes a server-side request framework as an alternative to a new ACL system. See plugins.
  • 2024-10-03 — Maintainers, Committers, and Moderators (raw/blog/2024-10-03-maintainers.md). Community roles policy — a step toward open governance.
  • 2024-10-11 — First Roadmap and Community Direction (raw/blog/2024-10-11-roadmap.md). Initial public roadmap.
  • 2024-10-16 — Overview on Transactional Storage (raw/blog/2024-10-16-transactions.md). High-level intro to transactional storage. See internals.
  • 2024-10-24 — My First Week as an OpenBao Mentee (raw/blog/2024-10-24-mentees-first-week.md). Mentorship program kickoff post.
  • 2024-10-27 — Implementing Transactions in Raft (raw/blog/2024-10-27-transaction-details.md). Deep dive into the Raft transactional storage work.
  • 2024-11-29 — Announcing v2.1.0 (raw/blog/2024-11-29-release-v2-1-0.md). Safety and scalability improvements.
  • 2024-12-11 — December RFC Update (raw/blog/2024-12-11-rfcs-dec-2024.md). In-progress RFCs status.

2025 — events, vision, namespaces, OpenSSF

  • 2025-01-16 — OpenBao at FOSDEM, State of Open Con (raw/blog/2025-01-16-fosdem.md). Conference announcement.
  • 2025-01-31 — OpenBao Travels to FOSDEM (raw/blog/2025-01-31-bao-at-fosdem.md). Travelogue.
  • 2025-02-07 — OpenBao Travels Back Home (raw/blog/2025-02-07-bao-back-home.md). Post-event wrap.
  • 2025-02-12 — OpenBao @ GitLab — FOSDEM ‘25 Talk (raw/blog/2025-02-12-cipherboy-fosdem-25-talk.md). Alex’s talk on GitLab’s OpenBao usage.
  • 2025-02-26 — Vision for Namespaces, Horizontal Scalability (raw/blog/2025-02-26-vision-for-namespaces.md). Sets up namespaces as the unit of future sharding.
  • 2025-03-18 — EdgeX Selects OpenBao (raw/blog/2025-03-18-edgex-selects-openbao.md). EdgeX Foundry adoption.
  • 2025-05-30 — Announcing Namespaces (raw/blog/2025-05-30-namespaces-announcement.md). Namespaces ship in OSS — a key differentiator from upstream Vault.
  • 2025-06-17 — OpenBao Joins the OpenSSF (raw/blog/2025-06-17-openbao-to-openssf.md). Project moves under the OpenSSF umbrella.
  • 2025-08-19 — Meet OpenBao at Open Source Summit Europe 2025 (raw/blog/2025-08-19-meet-openbao-oss-europe-2025.md). Event announcement.
  • 2025-08-28 — OSS Europe 2025 Wrap (raw/blog/2025-08-28-openbao-oss-europe-2025-wrap.md). Post-event recap.
  • 2025-09-23 — The Perfectly Unperfect Mentorship (raw/blog/2025-09-23-mentorship-program.md). Retrospective on the 12-week mentorship experiment.
  • 2025-10-20 — Roadmap and Direction for 2025-2026 (raw/blog/2025-10-20-roadmap-2.0.md). Roadmap refresh toward 2.0.

2026 — horizontal scalability

  • 2026-03-25 — Improved Horizontal Scalability (raw/blog/2026-03-25-improved-horizontal-scalabilty.md). v2.5.0 enables standby nodes to serve reads. See high-availability.

Themes

  • Governance maturation — kickoff → blog → maintainer roles → OpenSSF.
  • Differentiation from Vault — namespaces in OSS, transactional Raft, horizontal scalability work.
  • Adoption proof points — GitLab talk, EdgeX selection.