Changelog

What’s New in APIOps Cycles

Latest Updates

August 2025 - March 2026

Improved instructions for Interaction Canvas, Localization Canvas, as well as API Design station and API Delivery station
Improved detailed instructions for API Delivery station i.e how to start the API Delivery work based on the previous “stations” and canvas outputs
Improved flow on customer experience station i.e. how to validate API Value Proposition Canvas from API consumer point of view, and use the Customer Journey Canvas for desining API consumer (customer / partner) onboarding journey and lifecycle.
Fixed localizations of API Style Guide and Finnish translation of steps in labels
Various small improvements to other texts and translations
Fixes to related metrolines texts by @mniinio in #2
Typo fixes to labels and German name for API Delivery line
Static canvas assets regenerated for all supported languages in SVG, JSON, and PNG formats.

July 2025

New fully static and version controlled website launched with
- all 26 suburb stations described
- 38 resources documents (some still first drafts)
- fixed and improved resources, such as design guide, API Audit Checklists (now have reference also to OpenAPI)
- the whole method is described using a few localizable JSON files, the website is generated automatically based on them.
- Website uses Astro -based Startlight documentation library

Archived Releases

June 2025

French (fr-FR) localization of the canvases with Canvas Creator
Finnish (fi-FI) localization of the canvases with Canvas Creator
Canvas Creator now available as node module and standalone Javascript frontend-library.

January 2025

Canvas Creator open-sourced (under CC-BY-SA-4.0)
New canvas layouts with more details introduced.
German (de-DE) localization of the canvases with Canvas Creator.

Dec 2024

Metro Map -based structure prototyped and introduced the core-stations, metrolines and the concept of suburb stations to extend the method.

Sep 2023

API Audit Checklist with OWASP Top 10 2023 API Vulnerabilities and Async API checklist published

October 2022

The API Collective members from Osaango and APIsFirst used all experiences gained from client and partner projects and workshops to do a major rewrite of the APIOps Cycles method. All the method descriptions were improved, canvases got a fresh new look and checklists were modified and simplified.

Early 2018

Osaango Ltd. was established by Marjukka Niinioja with the help from other API and training gurus to take APIOps Cycles to the next level and beyond.

2017

APIOps Cycles -method is developed originally at Digia Plc by Marjukka Niinioja, and team.