Changelog

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August 2026

Dotenvx reaches 11M weekly npm installs.
Weekly Armor digests include a summary of your team's activity.
Name armored keys and find them faster through Armor search.
Control which team members can access each armored key with fine-grained access controls.
Manage Armor teams, invitations, and key access through the dotenvx API.
Search dotenvx.com. Type / on any page.
Type dx instead of dotenvx—dx encrypt, dx run, and more.
Delete keys from .env files with dotenvx del.
Dotenvx reaches 10M weekly npm installs.

July 2026

June 2026

Dotenvx reaches 30M monthly npm installs.
Dotenvx 2.0 ships on a cleaner primitives core.
Dotenvx runs correctly in PowerShell.
Load encrypted env files natively in Next.js.
Armor is built directly into dotenvx.
Key Guard development begins for access approvals.
SOC 2 Type 2 observation process starts.
Run Armor workflows with --token in CI and agents.

May 2026

Dotenvx Ops is renamed to Dotenvx Armor.
Lenient rate limiting lands to keep systems stable.
Change your organization avatar in Settings.
Choose local or armored key storage on first create.
New guide for encrypting secrets with Python uv.
Trust Center launches for security and compliance.
Sign in with Google for faster team onboarding.
Run an automated pentest against armor.dotenvx.com.
Pick the right team when armoring keys across orgs.
KEYSEE publishes whitepaper for public-key identity.
Armor up, down, push, pull, and move commands ship.
KEYSEE releases deterministic public-key visuals.

April 2026

Dotenv reaches 500M monthly npm installs.
Encrypted env files work in Cloudflare Workers.
Dotenvx Ops opens in beta for early teams.

January – March 2026

Dotenvx reaches 15M monthly npm installs.
Publish a guide for encrypted env with Next.js.
Vestauth research begins on agent identity.
Ops gateway starts with initial OpenAI support.
Dotenvx reaches 6M monthly npm installs.

October – December 2025

Ops adds secure .env.keys backup and recovery.
Rotation tokens and provider connect flows land.

July – September 2025

First Ops command lands in dotenvx.

April – June 2025

Dotenvx reaches 2M monthly npm installs.

January – March 2025

Dotenvx whitepaper draft is published.
Decryption-at-access via main.get and main.set.
Dotenvx reaches 1M monthly npm installs.

October – December 2024

July – September 2024

Dotenvx reaches 500K monthly npm installs.
Dotenvx hits feature-complete across five commands.

April – June 2024

Dotenvx 1.0 ships as next-gen config for dotenv.
Encrypted .env replaces the older .env.vault path.

From here, the fastest next step is installing dotenvx.