AI-OPS Standard 0.2.0

Release date: 2026-07-19

Version 0.2.0 is the first validated reference implementation release candidate.

Highlights

• read-only Linux, development-environment and AI capability discovery;
• deterministic compliance evaluation;
• authenticated local-first dashboard;
• report freshness, alerts, audit browsing and Prometheus metrics;
• atomic systemd-scheduled report refresh;
• incident lifecycle with active, acknowledged, silenced and resolved states;
• notification deduplication, cooldown and webhook support;
• backup and audit retention policies;
• operation plans with risk classification and explicit approval;
• verified backup manifests bound to the exact plan digest;
• dry-run-by-default execution and rollback;
• protected-root and symlink safeguards;
• non-destructive acceptance and runtime-health tooling.

Validation evidence

The release candidate was validated on 2026-07-19 with:

• repository validation passed;
• 81 compliance tests passed;
• release acceptance: 18/18 steps passed;
• runtime health: 15/15 checks passed;
• runtime warnings: 0;
• runtime failures: 0.

Compatibility

The reference host used Python 3.12 and systemd. The implementation targets Linux and keeps state-changing behavior dry-run unless apply flags and required approvals are supplied.

Important limitations

• Normative specifications remain Draft.
• Generic command actions require explicit rollback commands and declared backup targets.
• Package-manager, firewall, storage-controller and industrial-equipment adapters remain domain-specific.
• The dashboard is read-only and is not a control plane.
• Version 0.2.0 does not yet include the planned 0.3.0 policy engine and multi-host orchestration.

Upgrade

Follow Installation and Upgrade. Run repository validation, the complete test suite, acceptance and runtime-health checks before considering an installation healthy.