The 2026.1 operating envelope
Status: 2026.1 Release Candidate (2026.1-rc.1), published 2026-10-30. Server image: ghcr.io/honua-io/honua-server:2026.1-rc. GA qualification is the commitment in the release notes, not a completed qualification. This page records operating boundaries.
Source: honua-release docs/2026.1-operating-envelope.md at abf1f40c23a9d3979f443c798a05d00f6c748fb7. Historical measurements in that document are not the RC pin.
2026.1 tiers
- GA targets: Docker Compose on a single host, and AWS ECS. Qualification of those targets is still pending.
- Preview: AWS Lambda, Helm on EKS and other Kubernetes distributions, the GP catalog, and Honua Studio. Preview surfaces are in the RC. Behaviour may change before GA.
- Architecture: x86_64 only.
- Tenancy: single-tenant only. Multi-tenancy is internal and is not a customer deployment.
2026.1 ships with licensing disabled (Licensing__Mode=Disabled).
Deployment topology
| Deployment | 2026.1 scope |
|---|---|
| Single-tenant Docker Compose on-prem, x86_64 | GA target, qualification pending. Exact-candidate installation and full-platform recovery are not qualified in 2026.1. |
| Single-tenant AWS ECS, x86_64 | GA target, qualification pending. |
| Single-tenant AWS Lambda, x86_64 | Preview, qualification pending. A Lambda receipt is not required to admit the candidate. |
| Helm on Amazon EKS or other Kubernetes, x86_64 | Preview, qualification pending. Not a GA deployment. |
| ARM64, Azure, and air-gapped deployment | Not qualified in 2026.1. |
| Multi-tenant deployment | Internal. Not offered for customer deployment. |
Release Candidate pins
These are the 2026.1 Release Candidate pins from the release notes, not the September draft lock and not a signed GA lock. A published package does not add a deployment topology the table above leaves unqualified. NuGet also publishes a newer .NET package; that package is not this pin.
| Component | RC identity | Qualification |
|---|---|---|
| Server | ghcr.io/honua-io/honua-server:2026.1-rc (2026.1-rc.1) | Release Candidate for evaluation and pilots. GA qualification is not complete. |
| JavaScript SDK | @honua/sdk-js | 0.2.10. Client version the 2026.1 RC is qualified with. |
| Python SDK | honua-sdk | 0.1.19. Client version the 2026.1 RC is qualified with. |
| .NET SDK | Honua.Sdk | 1.12.0. Client version the 2026.1 RC is qualified with. No OGC API Tiles client. |
| Helm | Chart ships with the release | Preview. Not a GA deployment. |
| Honua Studio | Present in the RC | Preview. Behaviour may change before GA. |
The whole GP catalog (BuiltInProcessCatalog) is Preview, not a GA denominator. No per-operation GA carve-out is implied. Dataset sizes, request ceilings, GP concurrency, storage, and backup recovery are not qualified in 2026.1.
AWS Lambda limits
Lambda is Preview, qualification pending. These are the published limits, not a qualification receipt.
| Limit | What applies |
|---|---|
| Invocation duration | HTTP API integration is capped at 30 seconds. |
| Long-running jobs and GP | No long-running jobs or GP workers in the serving function. |
| Ephemeral storage | /tmp defaults to 512 MB. It is not durable. |
| Cold starts | New environments incur initialization latency. No cold-start SLO is qualified. |
| Reserved concurrency | Reserved concurrency defaults to unreserved. No concurrency ceiling is qualified. |