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Release Notes 5.4 (2504.1)

February 2026

Summary

CoreStack 2504.1 expands financial governance beyond cloud infrastructure with the introduction of FinOps Visibility for SaaS, while significantly advancing FinOps for Kubernetes through BillOps-driven chargeback, margin control, budgeting, and forecasting. The release also delivers major enhancements to filtering and dimension capabilities, enabling customers and partners to model complex business structures and perform deeper, more precise cost analysis across cloud & Kubernetes workloads.

The release expands AI-driven insights, security compliance coverage, and reporting depth, enabling teams and partners to scale services efficiently while improving financial governance, compliance posture, and operational transparency.

FinOps

FinOps for SaaS – New Capability

Feature Description

CoreStack 2504.1 introduces FinOps for SaaS as a first-class capability, enabling governed cost visibility and analysis for any SaaS providers alongside cloud and Kubernetes spend. Using FOCUS-aligned ingestion (CSV based) and onboarding, SaaS costs can be centrally onboarded, analysed, and reported through unified dashboards.

Key Capabilities

  • FOCUS multi-tool support for SaaS cost ingestion.
  • FOCUS-based onboarding using structured inputs and CSV.
  • Dashboard support for SaaS providers with filtering, grouping, and drill-down.

Key Benefits

  • Unified visibility across cloud, Kubernetes, and SaaS.
  • Consistent financial governance for third-party providers.
  • Faster onboarding for long-tail SaaS and AI tools.

Kubernetes (K8s) FinOps & BillOps Enhancements

Feature Description

This release significantly expands FinOps for Kubernetes by introducing BillOps support using CoreStack Dimensions. Organizations and partners can now apply pricing rules, charge allocation rules, and margin logic to Kubernetes workloads, along with budget tracking and cost forecasting at cluster, namespace, or business-dimension levels. Agent-based ingestion ensures accurate association of in-cluster and shared infrastructure costs. Initial support for AWS EKS.

Key Capabilities

  • Kubernetes support in Budget Management using Dimensions.
  • Pricing Rules & Charge Allocation Rules for Kubernetes workloads.
  • Forecasting support for Kubernetes in Cost Trend widgets.
  • Improved Agent-based Kubernetes cost ingestion and storage.

Key Benefits

  • Accurate chargeback/showback and margin control for Kubernetes.
  • Proactive budget management and cost planning.
  • Clear accountability for shared Kubernetes platform costs.

CoreStack Dimensions – Configuration & Advanced Filtering

Feature Description

CoreStack 2504.1 delivers major enhancements to Dimensions and filtering, enabling customers and partners to model complex organizational structures and perform deeper financial analysis using advanced filter operators and logical grouping capabilities.

Key Capabilities

  • Advanced filter operators including IS NOT, Contains, Does Not Contain, and Starts With.
  • Logical grouping support using AND / OR conditions for complex dimension definitions.
  • Dimension configuration enhancements to support complex, query-based filter logic.
  • Query-based filters and grouping available across dashboards for advanced analysis.
  • Weekly and Quarterly granularity for time-based analysis with additional time-presets and preset groups.

Key Benefits

  • More expressive and scalable business modeling.
  • Improved precision in cost allocation and reporting.
  • Enhanced analytical flexibility across cloud, Kubernetes, and SaaS.

FinOps Dashboard Widget Enhancements

Feature Description

FinOps dashboards and widgets are enhanced to improve visualization, trend analysis, and business-contextual reporting.

Key Capabilities

  • Cost Trend widget with line chart support.
  • Dimensions-based grouping in Cost Summary widgets to understand Cost of Top Dimension Group (ex: Top Application Spend, Top Department Spend, etc.).

Key Benefits

  • Clearer visualization of spend trends.
  • Business-aligned summaries for executive reporting.
  • Improved decision-making across finance and engineering teams
  • Weekly and Quarterly granularity for time-based analysis with additional time-presets and preset groups.

S3 Lifecycle Policies

Feature Description

Four new Lifecycle policies have been introduced. Two Cost Optimization policies analyze usage patterns and provide cost-saving recommendations along with estimated savings. Additionally, two CloudOps policies analyze operational conditions and deliver actionable recommendations to improve efficiency and governance.

  • S3 Lifecycle cost policies - Excessive Primary Storage Expenses
    • Policy Name: AWS Audit S3 bucket for Primary Storage Size
  • S3 Lifecycle cost policies -Tier Down Non-Current Versions to Reduce Storage Expenses
    • Policy Name: AWS Audit S3 bucket for Standard Storage Size
  • S3 Lifecycle Policy - Inefficient Lifecycle Policies Driving Up Transition Costs
    • Policy Name: AWS Audit S3 Bucket Lifecycle enabled
  • S3 Lifecycle Policy - Unrestricted Versioning: No Expiry Configured
    • Policy Name: AWS Audit S3 Buckets with Versioning Enabled but No Expiry

Platform

AI Agent Metering & Pricing Dashboard

Feature Description

Introduces a centralized dashboard for tracking AI agent usage, token consumption, and credit utilization across tenants.

Key Benefits

  • Full transparency into AI usage and costs.
  • Better cost governance for administrators.
  • Clear audit trail of credits and debits.

AI Framework Enhancements

Feature Description

Enhances AI agents with deeper analysis capabilities across assessments, workload changes, security, cost, and operations.

Key Benefits

  • Rich, cross-domain insights through natural language queries.
  • Deeper analysis beyond standard dashboards.
  • Improved decision support for assessments.

AI Ontology Enhancements

Feature Description

Expands AI agent knowledge with policy data, vulnerabilities, threats, and historical resource changes.

Key Benefits

  • More accurate and contextual AI responses.
  • Ability to answer complex security and history-based questions.
  • Improved assessment and AppSecOps insights.

AI Agent Enhancements

Feature Description

This includes a set of enhancements to the CoreStack AI Agent platform in terms of knowledge and performance.

  • Assessment AI Agent supports additional knowledge on workload such as resource changes summary, security, cost and operational insights.
  • AppSecOps AI Agent supports additional knowledge on Infrastructure associated with Applications such as resource changes summary, Threats and Vulnerabilities.

Key Benefits

  • Provide richer, context-aware responses across Assessments and AppSecOps.
  • Rich, cross-domain insights through natural language queries.
  • Deeper analysis beyond standard dashboards.

SecOps

New CIS Compliance Standards

Feature Description

Adds support for CIS Azure 5.0, CIS Azure 4.0, and CIS OCI 3.0 compliance benchmarks.

Key Benefits

  • Coverage of the latest security standards.
  • Improved compliance assessments.
  • Reduced audit and regulatory risk.

Compliance Enhancements

Feature Description

  • Added detailed policy remediation steps (or links) directly within policy recommendations to guide faster compliance fixes.
  • Introduced a comprehensive policy violation Excel report with both summary and detailed views.
  • Reports are available in “By Cloud” and “By Policy” formats.

Key Benefits

  • Faster identification and resolution of compliance gaps.
  • Improved clarity and consistency in policy remediation.
  • Centralized visibility of policy violations across clouds.
  • Easier audit readiness with structured summary and detailed reports.
  • Reduced manual effort through standardized compliance outputs.

AppSecOps

AppSecOps Dashboard Enhancements

Feature Description

The Vulnerability Graph widget is now a separate page by itself accessible through a left navigation menu.

AppSecOps Dashboard supports a new filter 'Fix Available' across all the widgets, which indicates if a vulnerability has a fix available for affected components.

Vulnerability aliases as additional column is available in all Vulnerability Details pages and in “Risk Prioritized Software Supply Chain Vulnerabilities” Widget. 

Assessments

Custom Role Permission Enhancements

Feature Description

Improves access control for workloads and assessments based on user permissions across cloud accounts. Fine-grained permission validation of workload through individual cloud accounts.

CloudOps

Microsoft Fabric Integration

Feature Description

Adds inventory and tag support for Microsoft Fabric resources.

Key Benefits

  • Expanded cloud service visibility.
  • Consistent governance across data platforms.

External APIs

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