OPA v1.11.0

[johanfylling]

This release contains a mix of new features, performance improvements, and bugfixes. Notably:

• More efficient connection management in the http.send built-in function
• More performant loading of large bundles containing multiple Rego files

Immutable Releases

Starting with this release, OPA releases are immutable for increased security.

Runtime, SDK, Tooling

• v1/ast: Fix Call parsing Text attribute including an extra character (#7989) authored by @schmitd
• ast: Export built-in deprecated field (#7912) authored by @colinjlacy
• ast: Intern common var values + some parser improvements (#8028) authored by @anderseknert
• ast: Support custom builtins in CompileModulesWithOpt (#8061) authored by @sspaink
• bundle: Concurrent Rego parsing in bundle loader (#8067) authored by @anderseknert
• cmd: Support --ignore in eval cmd when using bundle flag (--bundle) (#8062) authored by @sspaink
• storage/inmem: Allow passing triggers (AST) data without conversion (#7958) authored by @anderseknert

Compiler, Topdown and Rego

• topdown: Avoid unnecessary use of custom http.Transport in http.send built-in (#7927) authored by @sykesm
• topdown: New custom SemVer implementation (#8010) authored by @anderseknert
• topdown: Use sync.Pool for eval func objects (#8054) authored by @anderseknert

Docs, Website, Ecosystem

• docs: Add example for Compile API's table mapping (#8017) authored by @srenatus
• docs: Address pages with similar titles (#8046) authored by @charlieegan3
• docs: Address some broken links (#8022) authored by @charlieegan3
• docs: Bump glob dep (CVE-2025-64756) (#8056) authored by @srenatus
• docs: Improve ground value and assignment docs (#8047) authored by @charlieegan3
• docs: Make iteration content flow better (#8064) authored by @charlieegan3
• docs: Note package repos are community maintained (#8053) authored by @charlieegan3
• docs: Update terraform guide with notes about plan (#8043) authored by @charlieegan3
• docs: Update the archive to have an edge link (#8011) authored by @charlieegan3
• docs: Update the policy language intro (#8050) authored by @charlieegan3
• docs/ocp: Datasource example uses wrong AWS S3 URL (#8039) authored by @SuchSkill
• docs/regal: Replicate sidebar fixes (#8036) authored by @charlieegan3
• website: Various fixes and improvements by @charlieegan3

Miscellaneous

• Bump golangci-lint, more gocritic linters (#8052) authored by @anderseknert
• Tidy up and unify sync pool handling (#8068) authored by @anderseknert
• builtins: Add StringOperandByteSlice helper (#8048) authored by @anderseknert
• test: Add test cases for consistent cache behavior (#8015) authored by @DFrenkel
• util/performance: Remove math.Log10, remove unused KeysCount (#8041) authored by @srenatus
• workflow: Add Benchmarks workflow (#8072) authored by @srenatus
• workflows/pull-request: Update macos versions (#8030) authored by @srenatus
• Dependency updates; notably:
  • build: golang 1.25.3 -> 1.25.4 (#8051) authored by @srenatus
  • build(deps): Bump github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime-go from v37.0.0 to v39.0.1 (#8075) authored by @srenatus
  • build(deps): Bump github.com/containerd/containerd/v2 from 2.1.4 to 2.2.0
  • build(deps): Bump github.com/huandu/go-sqlbuilder from 1.37.0 to 1.38.1
  • build(deps): Bump github.com/lestrrat-go/jwx/v3 from 3.0.11 to 3.0.12
  • build(deps): Bump github.com/vektah/gqlparser/v2 from 2.5.30 to 2.5.31 (#8027) authored by @johanfylling
  • build(deps): Bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.43.0 to 0.45.0
  • build(deps): Bump golang.org/x/net from 0.44.0 to 0.45.0
  • build(deps): Bump golang.org/x/time from 0.13.0 to 0.14.0
  • build(deps): Bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.75.1 to 1.76.0
  • build(deps): Bump google.golang.org/protobuf from 1.36.9 to 1.36.10

Release notes and downloads can be found here.