Welcome to the first Fine-Grained News edition of 2025! January is always a good month to look back at what the OpenFGA community accomplished over the past year.

Major features​

Below is a list of the major features that were shipped in 2024:

• Modular Models
• Java Spring Boot Integration
• JetBrains Integration
• Telemetry in OpenFGA SDKs
• ListUsers Endpoint
• Batch Check Endpoint
• Query Consistency Options
• Storage adapter for SQLite , contributed by DanCech from Grafana Labs
• Experimental Access Control for the OpenFGA server

We heavily invested in OpenFGA performance, reducing latency by 90% in several cases. We'll continue improving performance in the following months.

But that's not all!​

We are very grateful with the OpenFGA community, who helped shipping 126 releases and improvements across the board:

• OpenFGA Server: 23 releases. Thanks kalleep, DanCech,golanglemonade tranngoclam, lalalalatt, Code2Life, JAORMX, Zach-Johnson, cmmoran, 00chorch, chenrui333, le-yams, lekaf974, raj-saxena!
• Python SDK: 16 Releases. Thanks Oscmage ovindu-a, GMorris-professional, Divan009!
• Go SDK: 10 releases. Thanks le-yams, le-yams, gurleensethi, gurleensethi, wonyx, Code2Life, Kryvchun!
• Java SDK: 10 releases. Thanks le-yams, paulosuzart and Didier-SimpleCommeDev!
• JS SDK: 13 releases. Thanks sccalabr, Siddhant-K-code, vil02, Waheedsys, tmsagarofficial!
• .NET SDK: 5 releases.
• Spring Boot: 2 releases. Thanks eddumelendez and dheid!
• Helm Chart: 31 releases. Thanks jliedy, aaronschweig, bagnaram, vil02, jagregory danielloader, wenzel-felix, aballet, tamalsaha, Oscmage, rorynickolls-skyral, juusujanar, cstruck, almeynman, JAORMX!
• openfga.dev: Our website received contributions from Siddhant-K-code, tazarov, sarthak-kumar-shailendra, nimakarimi97, soura-b, asenawritescode, kwiky, lupeterm, RobertKielty, t3hmrman, mwangersjo, josxha, tbcvl, sujitha-av, jamct, lhchingit, DanCech. Thanks to everyone!
• Visual Studio Code Extension: 11 releases. Thanks solon!
• IntelliJ Plugin: 5 releases. Thanks le-yams and edlundin!

• OpenFGA repository’s stars increased 70%, crossing the 3k mark.
• External contributors to the OpenFGA repository doubled.
• There are more than 140 repositories in Github that have ‘openfga’ in its name or description and are not maintained by the OpenFGA team.
• We onboarded Grafana Labs as a new maintainer for the OpenFGA project.
• We just launched a LinkedIn Page. We need more followers!
• There are 15 Production OpenFGA Models in different projects in Github.
• We applied to CNCF Incubation in April 2024, we are third in the line waiting for being evaluated.

Sam Bellen will present Can’t Touch This!, a talk about access control, including OpenFGA at JFokus Stockholm.

Poovamraj Thanganadar Thiagarajan from Okta will be presenting at KubeCon Europe, together with Jo Guerreiro from Grafana Labs about From Chaos To Control: Migrating Access Control To OpenFGA in a Multi-Tenant World.

Andres Aguiar from Okta was invited to present on the Maintainer’s Summit at KubeCon Europe aaout our experiences collaborating with the CNCF TAG-Security team: A Project Maintainers Guide To TAG Security.

Mark Laing from Canonical will present at FOSDEM about Fine-grained access control in LXD with OpenFGA.

See You Next Month:​

Fine-Grained News is published every month. If you have any feedback, want to share your OpenFGA story, or have a noteworthy update, please let us know on any of our community channels or at [email protected].