Release Notes

The latest updates and changes across the BriqMind platform, APIs, and applications.

01Release Timeline

May 2026

-New: The Birk demo space is now available at birk.briqmind.com for users who want to try agentic workflows before a full enterprise rollout.
-New: Users can test Birk through a limited daily free usage allowance, making it easier to evaluate agent behavior, tool use, and workflow execution in a real product surface.
-Improvement: The demo experience is positioned as a practical evaluation area for agentic tasks, not only a static chatbot preview.

April 2026

-New: The orchestration architecture that manages all Birk models from one center is now generally available on the /v1/chat/completions endpoint with the workflow=orchestration parameter.
-New: The /v1/responses endpoint is now available in alpha for multi-step pipeline execution; long-running jobs can be tracked through webhooks.
-Improvement: Average Birk-Fast-v1 response time was reduced by 15%; time to first token is now under 90 ms on reference hardware.
-Improvement: JSON Schema mode is now stable for Birk-Light and Birk-Heavy, with automatic schema repair behavior for validation errors.
-Fix: Resolved a rare token truncation issue in long context windows.

March 2026

-New: REST API v1 is now generally available, with published contract stability and breaking change policies.
-New: Official SDKs are available for Python (briqmind >= 1.0) and Node.js (@briqmind/client >= 1.0).
-New: Bearer token authentication is live with environment-separated key scopes for test and live usage.
-New: Server-Sent Events (SSE) protocol is documented for streaming responses.

February 2026

-New: Birk-Heavy v1 is live with a 256K context window, visual understanding, and long-context reasoning capabilities.
-New: Blink v1 for image generation and Blip v1 for audio generation are integrated into the Birk-Fast pipeline.
-New: Seven parallel specialist roles are enabled for Birk-Light v1, including Data Analyst, Coding, Math, and Memory-Context.
-Improvement: vLLM 0.6.x-based inference server increased concurrent user capacity by 2.1x through continuous batching.

January 2026

-New: Confluence, Jira, SharePoint, Google Drive, OneDrive, GitHub, and GitLab connectors are production-grade and live.
-New: Read-only SQL connectors were added for PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, and Snowflake.
-New: Enterprise SSO support with SAML 2.0, OIDC, and OAuth2 has been validated for Active Directory, Entra ID, Okta, and Google Workspace.
-Improvement: Connector activity logs were standardized to include user, agent, and affected resource information on every call.

December 2025

-New: On-premise reference architecture was published; Docker Compose and Kubernetes Helm charts are available to enterprises.
-New: Signed offline image packages and a manual update procedure were defined for air-gapped deployment.
-New: Validated setup recipes were added for NVIDIA A100 and L40S reference hardware.
-New: AES-256 encryption at rest and TLS 1.3 in transit are now enabled by default.

November 2025

-New: Birk-Light v1, the first agent model optimized for speed and capability balance with a 64K context window, entered closed beta production pilots.
-New: Tool-calling protocol is live; sandbox execution and schema validation are enabled by default.
-New: Audit log infrastructure now supports immutable records, SIEM export, and admin action tracking.

September 2025

-New: Birk-Fast v1, the first low-latency Birk model, is live in open developer preview.
-New: The initial BriqMind developer console and API key management experience was released.
-New: Native web search was enabled as the first tool on Birk-Fast.

May 2025

-Milestone: BriqMind was founded as an enterprise AI and orchestration platform.
-Milestone: The enterprise RAG and fine-tuning architecture on top of open-weight foundation models was completed.
-Milestone: The first research team was formed and the reference hardware lab was established.