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# Unleash 8.1

_Published 2026-08-10 by Melinda Fekete in Product._

We’re happy to share that Unleash 8.1 just shipped. You will also find our latest webinar and early access to the newly launched [Unleash Learning Lab](https://learning.getunleash.io/).

## What’s new in Unleash 8.1

### Improved projects overview

The [projects](https://docs.getunleash.io/concepts/projects) page now tells you where to look first. Project cards surface anything that needs attention: pending [change requests](https://docs.getunleash.io/concepts/change-requests), remaining setup steps, flags that are ready to be cleaned up, and [safeguards](https://docs.getunleash.io/concepts/impact-metrics#configure-safeguards) that have been triggered. A quick glance replaces a round of clicking into each project to check.

### Streamlined flag lifecycle and archive views

Following a flag through its [lifecycle](https://docs.getunleash.io/concepts/feature-flags#feature-flag-lifecycle) is now one view instead of several. You can switch between lifecycle phases, archived flags included, without navigating to a different place for each phase.

### Create impact metrics from the UI

You can now [create an impact metric directly in the Admin UI](https://docs.getunleash.io/concepts/impact-metrics#create-a-metric-from-the-ui). Previously, metrics could only be defined in code through an SDK. Once the metric exists, you can use it to drive a safeguard that guards a rollout.

### Clone context fields

You can now [clone a context field](https://docs.getunleash.io/concepts/unleash-context#clone-a-context-field) from the context field list, in both the global admin view and project settings. Cloning opens the create form pre-filled with the source field’s description, legal values, and stickiness, which makes it quick to fix a typo in a field name or spin up a similar field without retyping a long list of legal values.

### New help menu

The top navigation has a new help menu that gathers the useful links in one place: the [Learning Lab](https://learning.getunleash.io/), what is new in Unleash, [documentation](https://docs.getunleash.io/), [GitHub](https://github.com/Unleash/unleash), feedback, and the [Slack community](https://slack.unleash.run/). Several of these previously lived in the footer and are now reachable from anywhere in the Admin UI.

### ServiceNow integration in beta

The new [ServiceNow integration](https://docs.getunleash.io/integrate/servicenow) automatically tracks the state of your Unleash [change requests](https://docs.getunleash.io/concepts/change-requests) in ServiceNow, so you get an audit trail of what was created, approved, and applied, in the system your organization already uses for change management.

### New OpenFeature providers

We’ve released new [OpenFeature providers](https://docs.getunleash.io/sdks#openfeature-providers), currently in beta, for Node.js, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, and Swift. They let you evaluate your feature flags through the vendor-neutral [OpenFeature](https://openfeature.dev/) API while continuing to manage them in Unleash.

[Read the full 8.1 release notes →](https://docs.getunleash.io/release-notes/2026/8/5)

## The Unleash Learning Lab is open

We just launched the [Unleash Learning Lab](https://learning.getunleash.io/): a set of hands-on courses on feature management, covering both [open source](https://www.getunleash.io/open-source) and [Unleash Enterprise](https://www.getunleash.io/enterprise-feature-management-platform) capabilities.

There are four learning paths, and each one ends with a certificate:

### Build

For developers, architects, and engineers. From your first feature flag to automated, experiment-driven releases.

### Scale

For admins and platform teams. Run Unleash for the whole organization, securely and across regions.

### Understand (coming soon)

For everyone on the team, technical or not. What FeatureOps is, why runtime control matters, and how it changes the way you ship.

### Champion (coming soon)

For people driving adoption. Make the internal case, establish governance, and show value to leadership.

Take a course and tell us what you want next: which topics are missing, which ones need to go deeper, and what would be worth your team’s time.

[Go to the Learning Lab →](https://learning.getunleash.io/)