Release notes

0.76.0

Plugin Architecture Migration: Plugins must now be built as standalone executables instead of shared libraries (.so files). Existing custom plugins need to be updated with a main() function that calls plugin.Run(). See the AWS plugin implementation for reference.

Plugin Architecture Overhaul: Plugins now run as separate executables in their own processes rather than as shared libraries, enabling independent dependency graphs and multi-host deployment.
Major Performance Improvements: Significantly improved command processing performance. Previously limited to around 500 resources, the agent now handles up to 20,000 resources. See the agent sizing recommendations for resource requirements.
Enhanced Observability: The agent now exports comprehensive telemetry via OpenTelemetry including metrics, structured logs with trace correlation, and distributed traces for API requests, resource operations, and database queries.
Grafana Dashboards: Pre-built Grafana dashboards for monitoring formae are now available in the new formae-grafana-dashboards repository.
New temporality configuration option for OTLP metrics export, supporting both delta (OTel-native) and cumulative (Prometheus/Mimir) temporality.

Shell auto-completion is now supported for formae commands in bash and zsh. The installer can now install the necessary completion scripts
Sync commands that did not pull in any changes are now automatically removed from the database

Watch output prints useful hints at the end of the output
Targets are now discoverable by default
When creating a target, discovery is automatically initiated
Discovery now traverses multuple levels of parent-child relationships in resource hierarchies
Discovery can now handle multiple namespaces
Discovery creates resolvables to parent properties in child resources
Destroy queries no longer accept "managed" as a field parameter, as it does not apply to destroy operations

New formae cancel command that allows to cancel any apply or destroy command already being executed by the agent.
New formae inventory targets command to query and list targets with filtering by label, namespace, and discoverability.
Targets now support a discoverable field for granular control over which targets participate in discovery scans.
Pkl: Nested fields are now being parsed.
The lifeline example now uses more idiomatic PKL code.

We are deprecating configuration of discovery targets through the agent config. Instead, targets need to be configured through forma application now.

Public launch.