9. Changelog

9.1 2022 April release

• Link to Trust Framework document (where the Self-Description mandatory attributes now are)
• Aligning Gaia-X architecture with NIST Cloud Federation Reference Architecture (CFRA)
• Updated definition of Data Exchange Services
• Updated Service Composition and Resource model
• Updated Self Description Lifecycle
• Consistency and alignment with other officially published Gaia-X documents, streamlining and de-duplication of text to ease reading

9.2 2021 December release

• Adding Contract and Computable Contract definitions in the Conceptual Model
• Update on the Self-Description lifecycle management
• Update on the Federated Trust Model

9.3 2021 September release

• Rewrite of the Operating model chapter introducing Trust Anchors, Gaia-X Compliance, Gaia-X Labels and Gaia-X Registry.
• Update of Self-Description mandatory attributes in the Appendix.
• Update of Interconnection, Resource and Resource template definitions.
• Gitlab automation improvement and speed-up
• Source available in the 21.09 branch.

9.4 2021 June release

• Adding a new Operating model section introducing the first principle for Gaia-X governance.
• Adding preview of Self-Description mandatory attributes in the Appendix.
• Improvement of the Policy rules.
• Improvement of the Asset and Resource definitions.
• Complete release automation from Gitlab.
• Source available under the 21.06 tag.

9.5 2021 March release

• First release of the Architecture document by the Gaia-X Association AISBL
• Complete rework of the Gaia-X Conceptual Model with new entities’ definition.
• Adding a Glossary section
• Source available under the 21.03-markdown tag.

9.6 2020 June release

• First release of the Technical Architecture document by the BMWi