Feature Maturity
How Factory labels feature maturity, and how releases and versioning work.
Factory ships quickly, so some capabilities reach you before they are fully settled. A small set of maturity tags tells you how stable a feature is and what to expect from it. This page explains those tags and how our releases and versioning work.
Maturity tags
A maturity tag appears next to a page title and in the navigation sidebar. Most features are stable and carry no tag, so a tag is only present when a feature is still maturing or on its way out.
Private Preview marks a feature with limited or invite-only access that is already running in production. It is stable enough to rely on, though access and surface area are still expanding.
Deprecated marks a feature that is being phased out. Avoid it for new work and migrate to the recommended alternative when you can.
Generally available features carry no tag. They are stable, supported, and safe to build on, and this is the default for everything in the docs unless a tag says otherwise.
Generally available is the absence of a tag, not a label. "GA", "Beta", "Public Preview", and "Research Preview" are intentionally not part of the vocabulary, so you will never see them as tags.
Releases and versioning
The Full Changelog lists every notable change across the
Factory App, Droid CLI, and other surfaces, newest first. Subscribe to it as a feed at
/changelog/rss.xml.
The Droid CLI is versioned, and changelog entries note the version a change shipped in
(for example, v1.10.0). The Factory App and other hosted surfaces ship continuously, so
their changes are dated rather than versioned.
Watching for a capability to graduate? Follow the full changelog; a feature dropping its Private Preview tag is announced there.