Liquibase launches Secure platform & unveils AI changelog tool

Liquibase has announced the launch of Liquibase Secure, a new enterprise platform, and introduced Liquibase 5.0, which formalises two paths for its user community.

The new Liquibase Secure platform builds on the company's previous offering, Liquibase Pro, to provide a unified solution structured around three main pillars: Developer Productivity, Secure Automation, and Change Insights. The company is positioning this product for mission-critical applications and data products, with an emphasis on governance, security, and compliance.

New distributions

With the introduction of Liquibase 5.0, two product distributions are now available: Liquibase Community, which is free for developers, and Liquibase Secure, aimed at enterprise-grade environments. Liquibase Community remains open source and widely used, with over 100 million downloads cited by the company. Liquibase Secure expands on the community offering by including certified packaging, policy enforcement, drift detection, observability, and enterprise support.

Pete Pickerill, Co-Founder of Liquibase, explained the distinction:

"Liquibase 5.0 formalises the two paths we've seen in our community for years. Liquibase Community is for developers who want freedom and flexibility to manage database change on their own terms. Liquibase Secure is for enterprises that need speed with enterprise controls for governance, security, and compliance, where every driver, extension, and policy is already tested and packaged. Both share the same foundation, but they represent very different experiences. One is DIY. The other is built for the modern enterprise that can't afford to trade velocity for risk."

The company stated that both distributions serve the overall ecosystem, but "the difference is how much responsibility an organisation wants to carry on day one."

Open source licensing

Liquibase has opted to use the Functional Source Licence (FSL) for Liquibase Community, joining companies such as Sentry and Codecov in adopting this model. The intention is to keep the software free for developers while preventing third parties from monetising it without contributing back to the project. The company says this approach is intended to preserve both developer freedom and project sustainability.

"Liquibase was born in the open source community, and that heritage continues to guide our values. By adopting the Functional Source Licence, we are protecting the collaborative foundation of Liquibase while ensuring the project remains sustainable for the future. Developers and enterprises alike can trust Liquibase to stay free to use, community-driven, and built to last," said Patti Soch, Chief Executive Officer of Liquibase.

Pillars of Liquibase Secure

The new Liquibase Secure product provides a certified distribution that aims to remove the friction associated with assembling required components. It is built around three pillars:

• Developer Productivity: providing developers with autonomy while embedding guardrails in their workflow.
• Secure Automation: automatically embedding governance, security, and compliance into database changes.
• Change Insights: delivering audit-ready visibility to make changes trusted, explainable, and observable.

Liquibase highlights that while many security tools focus on runtime data access, few address governance around structural changes to databases. Liquibase Secure is said to enforce policy checks on each schema change, separation of duties, and generate tamper-evident audit trails. According to the company, these features are particularly relevant for organisations subject to regulatory frameworks such as SOX, HIPAA, PCI, SOC2, DORA, CPS 230, and GDPR.

AI-ready capabilities

Liquibase Secure is designed to help enterprises ensure that their databases are 'AI-ready.' By enforcing schema standards, applying schema-level lineage, and maintaining version control over more than 60 data platforms, the company says that enterprises can maintain reliable, traceable, and compliant data structures for AI use.

In addition, Liquibase is introducing the Liquibase AI Changelog Generator, now available in private preview. The tool converts natural language descriptions into production-ready Liquibase XML changes, designed to reduce manual effort and speed up DevOps workflows. It is powered by the new MCP Server.

"Our mission has always been to make database change management faster, safer, and more accessible for every team. With the private preview of our AI Changelog Generator, we're empowering organisations to transform natural language requests into reliable, production-ready database changes. These innovations bring AI to database change with the benefit of decades of experience at scale, giving enterprises greater speed, accuracy, and confidence across the entire database DevOps lifecycle," said Kristyl Gomes, Head of AI Strategy & Technology Innovation at Liquibase.

Developer self-service

Liquibase Secure 5.0 introduces the Liquibase Secure Developer, an extension for Visual Studio Code, which brings schema management, history review, and policy enforcement directly into the developer's integrated development environment. This is combined with features such as Liquibase Flows and Policy Checks, which aim to allow developers more autonomy to deploy changes, while still maintaining oversight by platform and compliance teams.

Supporting improved onboarding, the company has also updated its documentation, adding a streamlined Get Started guide and reorganised navigation to help teams transition between Community and Secure offerings.

"Liquibase Secure and the new IDE extension give us the confidence we need to move fast and reduce context switching for our developers. With this new release, we're able to ship faster and more efficiently as we innovate at the pace our business demands," said Tim Smith, NetDevOps Supervisor at Allied National.

Application-based pricing

Liquibase Secure now uses application-based pricing, intended to align costs with how development teams operate rather than charging by infrastructure components. The company asserts that this approach allows organisations to scale the use of the platform as they centralise change and unify delivery across the enterprise.

Liquibase Secure and Liquibase 5.0 are available now, with further details provided through the company's documentation and product pages.