What's new

Forven moves quickly. This page collects the changes a returning user is most likely to notice since the open-source release on 21 June 2026, grouped by month, with links to the pages that document them. It is a guide, not a full log — the repository's history is the complete record. If you are updating an existing install, read Updating Forven too.

Forven is a research tool. Changes to how strategies are measured can change their results; nothing here is financial advice.

September 2026

• Evidence you can audit. Every backtest now records the resolved code identity, parameters, market, timeframe, engine version, and execution assumptions. Forward execution runs on the snapshot accepted at promotion, and a later diagnostic backtest cannot silently replace that evidence. See execution modes.
• Check data before you generate. The Strategy Creator's AI mode gained a read-only Check data preflight, and candidate development runs the same check before its first model call. Data-blocked tasks keep a checkpoint and can be resumed once the data is collected.
• Resumable tasks. Interrupted work is checkpointed instead of lost, and Diagnostics lists what can safely resume.
• Windows desktop launcher. Start, stop, and restart Forven from a small desktop window — see Install.
• Gauntlet hardening. Bounded workers, durable history, cancellation and retry checks, and recovery that preserves failed evidence rather than inventing a pass.
• Model catalog refresh. The catalog now covers the September 2026 releases across the native providers and gateways, each with a price row; retired model ids were dropped (saved selections still show as (configured)). See models & providers.
• Lighter dashboard polling, faster Binance archive discovery, and strategy-creation tools that record a strategy's parent for lineage.
• Retired: the Portfolio screen (the experimental portfolio layer remains behind Settings → System → Experimental features).

August 2026

• One signal, one paper position. Two strategies can no longer open clone positions from the same signal and inflate the paper book.
• One market, one spelling. SOLUSDT, SOL/USDT, and SOL-USDT resolve to the same market everywhere, so a spelling difference is never mistaken for a different strategy.
• Safer paper force-closes. A manual close on a paper row can never place an exchange order, and it prices from the configured market-data source.
• Pipeline honesty fixes. A status read never writes, paper warm-up is dated from evidence the gate will actually count, and a strategy dropped from the board no longer leaves it silently under-reporting.
• Scheduler resilience. A provably stalled live scheduler is recovered automatically, and graduation work is isolated from the live scan.

July 2026

Research and the pipeline

• The explainable pipeline. The Pipeline board answers, for every strategy: why it is stuck, what evidence it has, what would unblock it, and what happens next.
• Research budget. Crucibles now spend a daily development budget by expected value, with quotas for orthogonal data and for variants of your own survivors, shown in a Research Budget panel.
• Regime awareness. Regime stamps on every verdict and a direction × regime gate with OFF / OBSERVE / ENFORCE modes and a "prove-it" ledger.
• Deflated Sharpe as a column in The Forge, with an opt-in gate; prev/next arrows on the strategy page.
• Verdicts that know when they are stale. Engine-version and data-provenance stamps re-queue validation automatically when metrics or data semantics change. See promotion gates.
• Metric semantics v5. Sharpe and Sortino from per-bar equity returns, funding-aware Kelly, unified regime ATR, and true fixed-dollar sizing.
• Graduation recommender (off by default): recommends a paper strategy for live only when its measured fill costs fit its validated cost budget.

Data

• Data Manager overhaul — trust and venue identity, perp-canonical storage, and a Maintenance tab organized around what you want to do. See managing market data.
• Edge data expansion — a liquidity-ranked research universe with deep history (delisted symbols kept), basis, implied volatility, OKX liquidation capture, a data-quality gate, and full Kraken history. See data sources.

Trading and risk

• Paper and Live Trades are separate pages, with manual controls, a live unrealized-P&L ticker, and itemized fees, slippage, and funding. See paper trading.
• Paper is never halted by real-capital safety, and paper can never trip a halt.
• Equal capital slices for live strategies, System vs Manual sizing on the risk page, a per-trade clamp at order entry, correlation-aware exposure, a liquidity guard, and halts that need three consecutive breaching readings. See risk controls.
• A daily testnet execution harness proves the whole live order lifecycle against the real testnet. See HyperLiquid.
• Bot Factory bots can be armed live with a typed GO LIVE confirmation and their own named wallets. See Bot Factory.

Agents and the app

• The in-app assistant became a guide to the whole app: it can navigate for you, docks beside the page, and lands softly at its tool-round limit.
• Operator attention system — nav badges, event toasts, approvals push, and a notifications inbox in Diagnostics.
• Routines can post to a Discord channel and take plain-English schedules. See scheduled routines.
• Throughput presets — one dial (Trickle / Conserve / Balanced / Max) over AI call volume. See cost controls.
• More providers: NVIDIA NIM, plus GPT-5.5 in the catalog.
• Retired: the Memory Bank page and its ChromaDB store — see quant skills.

June 2026 (after launch)

• Open-source release under AGPL-3.0 (21 June), self-hosted from source with no account.
• Strategy Creator — a no-code builder over 48 indicators, a plain-English AI mode, a code mode, live chart preview, a personal library, and Send to Forge. See Strategy Creator.
• Import and export strategy containers between installs.
• In-app updates — check for updates and one-click update & restart. See Updating Forven.
• The Agents page — providers, models, routing and fallbacks, schedules, and health in one place, with fail-closed spend safety: only models you connected and enabled can be called. New providers: Groq, Gemini, DeepSeek discovery, Cerebras, Mistral, xAI, Together, and OpenCode Zen/GO. See models & providers.
• Stance presets and editable safety floors for the promotion gates, and per-stage backtest windows. See promotion gates.
• One execution kernel for backtest, paper, and live, and paper trading on real Binance data instead of HyperLiquid testnet prices; funding and open interest also moved to Binance.
• Engine safety release — an audit of the paper and live engine fixed 2 critical and 19 high-severity findings. See Updating Forven.
• Security hardening — shared-strategy code only runs in a locked-down worker, the strategy sandbox is jailed from the database and secrets, and mainnet requires an agent wallet.
• Retired: the Execution Trader agent (execution is kernel-driven; no AI can place orders), and Binance as a live-execution venue (HyperLiquid only).

Related

• Updating Forven — how to update and what happens on first boot
• Start here — the documentation home
• Changelog — release notes on the Forven site