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Announcements.

Product and company announcements — new releases, capabilities and milestones across the Mamluk stack.

Announcement · Kipchak

The Kipchak command-line tool

kipchak/cli 1.0 adds any Kipchak driver or middleware to an API in one command. It installs the package, copies its configuration, initialises it with the drivers it depends...

4 Nov 2026 · 3 min

Announcement · Kipchak

OpenTelemetry for Kipchak

An Enterprise driver and middleware that send a Kipchak API's traces, metrics and logs to any OpenTelemetry backend, with the HTTP, Doctrine, Valkey and Kafka drivers instrumented and...

4 Nov 2026 · 4 min

Announcement · Kipchak

A minimal Kipchak starter project

Version 4.0 of the Kipchak starter project is one container with one resource, an OpenAPI document generated from the code, tests and instructions for coding assistants. A new...

4 Nov 2026 · 3 min

Announcement · Kipchak

Authorisation Policies and Circuit Breakers for Kipchak

Two Enterprise middlewares for Kipchak: one decides what each caller may do, from roles, attributes or Open Policy Agent, and the other stops an API from waiting on...

3 Nov 2026 · 5 min

Announcement · Kipchak

HashiCorp Vault and OpenBao for Kipchak

A new Enterprise driver keeps database passwords, API keys and other credentials in HashiCorp Vault or OpenBao, and places them in a Kipchak API's configuration when the API...

2 Nov 2026 · 5 min

Announcement · Kipchak

NATS, PII Redaction and an Audit Log for Kipchak

Three additions to Kipchak: a free NATS and JetStream driver, and two Enterprise middlewares that keep personal data out of responses and logs and record a signed audit...

1 Nov 2026 · 6 min

Announcement · Kipchak

Feature flags for every route in Kipchak

A new free Kipchak middleware places routes behind feature flags from Unleash, Flagsmith or GrowthBook, with percentage rollouts that keep each API key in or out.

1 Nov 2026 · 4 min

Announcement · Kipchak

A response cache for Kipchak

A new free Kipchak middleware caches API responses according to HTTP's own caching rules, with ETags, conditional requests and invalidation when data changes.

31 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Announcement · Kipchak

Idempotency for Kipchak

A new Enterprise middleware lets clients retry POST and PATCH requests safely: an operation sent with an Idempotency-Key runs once, however many times it is retried.

30 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Announcement · Kipchak

Vector databases for Kipchak

A new free Kipchak driver stores embeddings and searches them by similarity in Qdrant, PostgreSQL with pgvector or OpenSearch, for semantic search and retrieval-augmented generation.

29 Oct 2026 · 5 min

Announcement · BKE

Bahriya Kubernetes Engine 2.2.0 is released

BKE 2.2.0 moves the container runtime, Calico and Longhorn, and turns on Longhorn's own network policies. The container runtime gains a directory for local settings that no upgrade...

29 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Announcement · Kipchak

ClickHouse for Kipchak

A new free Kipchak driver runs analytics queries against ClickHouse, streams large results and inserts events in batches.

28 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Announcement · Kipchak

LDAP and Active Directory for Kipchak

A new Enterprise driver connects Kipchak APIs to Active Directory and OpenLDAP, for logging users in, resolving their groups and managing directory entries.

27 Oct 2026 · 5 min

Announcement · BKE

Bahriya Kubernetes Engine 2.1.1 is released

BKE 2.1.1 corrects the configuration BKE applies to Kong, cert-manager and Netdata. No software version moves and no node drains, so clusters on 2.1.0 upgrade with a single...

26 Oct 2026 · 2 min

Announcement · BKE

Bahriya Kubernetes Engine 2.1.0 is released

BKE 2.1.0 brings every bundled component to its latest release compatible with the Kubernetes minor BKE runs. Upgrades now check that the new software accepts your configuration before...

25 Oct 2026 · 3 min

Announcement · BKE

The Passage Plan: every BKE upgrade, laid out before it runs

Before the Bahriya Kubernetes Engine changes a component's configuration, it reports what would change and stops. The Passage Plan shows that report in the Mamluk console, in full...

21 Oct 2026 · 5 min

Announcement · Kipchak

SFTP and feature flags for Kipchak

Two new free Kipchak drivers: SFTP for exchanging batch files with partners, and feature flags from Unleash, Flagsmith or GrowthBook.

18 Oct 2026 · 8 min

Announcement · Kipchak

A hardened runtime image for Kipchak

The Kipchak Enterprise runtime image runs an API as a single static FrankenPHP binary on an otherwise empty filesystem, with no shell, no package manager and no root...

14 Oct 2026 · 7 min

Announcement · Kipchak

Usage metering and quotas for Kipchak

Kipchak APIs can now record what each customer uses and enforce what each customer has bought, with Usage Metering, Quotas and Kipchak Identity.

8 Oct 2026 · 9 min

Announcement · Kipchak

Request signing and Open Policy Agent for Kipchak

Two new Kipchak packages: a free middleware that verifies signed requests and webhooks, and an Enterprise driver for Open Policy Agent.

7 Oct 2026 · 8 min

Announcement · BKE

BKE has its own home: bke.bahriya.cloud

The Bahriya Kubernetes Engine now has a dedicated site, and its installation and operation documentation is public — the same pages our customers operate from, readable before you...

1 Oct 2026 · 2 min

Announcement · BKE

The Mamluk Console opens with self-service BKE trials

console.maml.uk is open to everyone: licences for BKE and Kipchak Enterprise, versioned documentation and ticketed support in one place — and a 14-day BKE trial you issue yourself,...

22 Sep 2026 · 3 min

Announcement · BKE

Bahriya Kubernetes Engine 2.0.0 is released

BKE 2.0.0 moves the Kubernetes minor and, by design, nothing else. It also brings cluster login through your own identity provider and configuration you own, with upgrades that...

22 Sep 2026 · 3 min

Announcement · Kipchak

A new Kipchak website and a public enterprise roadmap

kipchak.dev has been redesigned as a full product site, and the Kipchak Enterprise tier now has a published roadmap, published licence terms and support through the Mamluk Console....

21 Sep 2026 · 2 min

Announcement · Kipchak

Subashi Pro now matches geo and ASN locally

Subashi Pro 1.25 resolves country and ASN from databases bundled with the middleware — no API key, and no network call while a request is in flight.

6 Sep 2026 · 7 min

Announcement · Company

Winding down 7x on 1 September 2026

We are closing the public 7x service on 1 September 2026 to focus on Bahriya and the Bahriya Kubernetes Engine.

27 Jul 2026 · 2 min

Announcement · Kipchak

Kipchak v3 is generally available

Kipchak v3 ships with PHP 8.5 and still maintains compatibility with 8.4.

15 Jul 2026 · 5 min

Announcement · Bahriya Cloud

Bahriya is live — and we're opening early access

Bahriya - an Edge Container Cloud from Bahriya is now live and accepting early access users.

1 May 2026 · 3 min