Blog | OpenTofu

April 11, 2024

Our Response to Hashicorp's Cease and Desist Letter

On April 3rd, we received a Cease and Desist letter from HashiCorp regarding our implementation of the "removed" block in OpenTofu, claiming copyright infringement on the part of one of our core developers. We were also made aware of an article posted that same day with the same accusations. We have investigated these claims and are publishing the C&D letter, our response and the source code origin document resulting from our investigation.

March 18, 2024

Help us test OpenTofu 1.7.0-alpha1

Hey there, OpenTofu community! Over the last few months we've been hard at work to bring new features, such as the state encryption and the removed block, as well as compatibility improvements to you. A few days ago we released the first preview version of these improvements as OpenTofu 1.7.0-alpha1.

January 10, 2024

OpenTofu is going GA

Today is a big day for OpenTofu! After four months of work, we're releasing the first stable release of OpenTofu, a community-driven open source fork of Terraform. OpenTofu, a Linux Foundation project, is now production-ready. It’s a drop-in replacement for Terraform, and you can easily migrate to it by following our migration guide.

December 19, 2023

OpenTofu Release Candidate Is Out, GA Set for Jan 10th

OpenTofu v1.6.0-rc1, the final stage before the first stable release, is out today. It follows the quick succession of its alpha and beta versions, on the road to an expected General Availability release on January 10, 2024, right after the holidays.

October 30, 2023

What We Learned While Working on OpenTofu's New Test Feature

Jumping into a newly forked project can be a difficult task, maybe even frightening! Now, think about jumping into a production-ready project with nine years of legacy code base there. On top of that, you have the task of taking one of the project’s new features from experimental to production-ready.

October 10, 2023

OpenTofu’s New Office Hours

OpenTofu is introducing new office hours, open to everyone.

September 25, 2023

Why should I care about OpenTofu?

TL;DR having options is good strategy, OpenTofu is your insurance policy and competition makes things great.

September 5, 2023

The OpenTofu fork is now available!

Four weeks ago, HashiCorp switched Terraform from an open source license to the Business Source License (BSL); three weeks ago, we released the OpenTofu manifesto, asking HashiCorp to switch back to an open source license; two weeks ago, with no response from HashiCorp, we created a private fork of Terraform and said we'd make it public in 1-2 weeks; and today, as promised, we're happy to announce that the OpenTofu repository is now publicly available at github.com/opentofu/opentofu!

August 25, 2023

OpenTofu Announces Fork of Terraform

Two weeks ago, HashiCorp announced they are changing the license to all their core products, including Terraform, to the Business Source License (BSL). In an attempt to keep Terraform open source, we published the OpenTofu manifesto, and the community response was huge! Over 100 companies, 10 projects, and 400 individuals pledged their time and resources to keep Terraform open-source. The GitHub repository for the manifesto already has over 4k stars, and the number is growing quickly!