What's New? - CAIP - 26-PI3
🚀 What's New in CAIP after 26-PI3?
26-PI3 (May 12 – July 6, 2026) improved the reliability and transition path for CAIP Offboard v1/v1.5 customers while advancing CAIP Offboard v2 model governance, agent development, self-service, Apps, and Workflows. The delivered capabilities make it easier to operate existing workloads securely and build new AI applications on CAIP Offboard v2.
🖥️ CAIP Offboard v1 / v1.5: Classic & Managed Kubeflow
CAIP Offboard v1: Classic Kubeflow and CAIP Offboard v1.5: Managed Kubeflow customers gained clearer MLflow access, SDK and Streamlit deployment improvements, and an orderly transition away from legacy deployed-agent tooling.
✨ New Features
📓 Notebooks & Development
CAIP SDK releases 4.8.9–4.8.11 improve GitHub Enterprise and China ECR paths, resolve authentication and pipeline issues, and include security updates. deploy-caip-streamlit-action 2.0.1 supports GitHub Enterprise permissions, helping teams continue to deploy Streamlit applications under the current permission model.
📈 Training & Experiment Tracking
New guidance explains direct MLflow API access for Managed CAIP users, including authentication and common usage patterns. Teams can use the API more confidently when integrating experiment tracking and model-registry workflows with their own tools.
🔐 Access & Security
The AI-Research to Managed Kubeflow migration is essentially complete, and the remaining AI-Research resources are being decommissioned. This marks the transition of customer workloads to the managed platform.
🛠 Maintenance
The legacy deployed-agent CLI and API in the CAIP SDK were removed. Customers building AI agents should use Agents Foundry, CAIP Offboard v2's dedicated agent-development offering, as their successor path. The pipeline Teams notifier also avoids a webhook error that could prevent notifications from being delivered.
📦 Repositories in This Release
caip-sdk— SDK reliability, security, and legacy deployed-agent removal.deploy-caip-streamlit-action— GitHub Enterprise permission support.kubeflow-components— notifier delivery reliability.
This section covers customer-visible changes for CAIP Offboard v1/v1.5 from May 12 – July 6, 2026 (26-PI3). For guides and reference material, see the CAIP Documentation.
🆕 CAIP Offboard v2: All-New CAIP
CAIP Offboard v2 customers gained production guardrails and a wider self-hosted model portfolio, more capable Agents Foundry tools, stronger portal discovery, and the first public Workflow API releases.
✨ New Features
🤖 LLM API
Production PII and VIN guardrails now replace detected sensitive content with placeholders in German and English, helping customers protect inputs and outputs while preserving request flow. The LLM API also added self-hosted chat, embedding, speech-to-text, image-generation, and video-generation models, plus Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, additional DashScope image models, and self-hosted text-to-speech. The new /v1/rerank endpoint lets RAG applications re-order retrieved documents by semantic relevance.
The China LLM API re-architecture standardizes bearer-token authentication and model selection in the request body while retaining the validity of existing China API keys. Its catalog added DeepSeek, Qwen, and image models, and retired qwen2.5-32b-instruct, qwen3-4b, deepseek-v3, and wan2.6-t2i. Autoscaling, provider fallbacks, expanded observability, and /v1/model/info improve dependable model selection and catalog discovery across regions.
🤝 Agents Foundry
The dedicated Agents SDK added FAISS vector search for RAG knowledge bases and LangGraph for graph-based agent orchestration. Langfuse v4 now masks PII in agent traces on both the client and server, giving teams richer observability while helping protect sensitive data.
🌐 CAIP Web Portal
The Model Catalog supports side-by-side comparison and labels self-hosted models, making it easier to choose an appropriate option. The Doc Assistant adds follow-up suggestions, favourites, and lower-latency responses, while Space ID validation prevents invalid space configuration at creation time.
📱 CAIP Apps
CAIP Apps v1.0.0 is the first stable major Apps release, providing customers with a stable supported foundation for application deployment on CAIP Offboard v2.
⚙️ CAIP Workflows
The Workflow API had its first public releases, v0.1 through v0.6. Customers can define workflow stages and assignments, manage configuration, inspect logs, record custom metrics, and validate workflows, giving them an API-led way to operate and understand workflow execution.
🛠 Maintenance
Portal-service authorization now uses a fail-closed, OPA-based model, strengthening access control when authorization decisions cannot be safely completed.
📦 Repositories in This Release
caip-llm-api— guardrails, self-hosted models, reranking, and regional reliability.caip-agents-sdkandcaip-langfuse— agent orchestration, vector search, and trace masking.caip-web-portal,caip-apps-api, andcaip-workflow-api— portal, Apps, and Workflow API releases.
This section covers customer-visible changes for CAIP Offboard v2 from May 12 – July 6, 2026 (26-PI3). For guides and reference material, see the CAIP Documentation.