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Changelog

Changelog

What changed in the data and the pages, newest first. Every entry is a real, dated change to a figure, a data source, or the site's structure. Corrections and freshness live in the per-page last-verified dates; this page records the changes worth naming.

  1. The registry reaches 47: five specialized certifications and the Palantir answer

    Five profiles join the registry, every figure verified at the vendor on publication day: CompTIA SecAI+ (the new AI security cert, $298 voucher, a price CompTIA's own page only exposes in its store data), AWS Machine Learning Engineer Associate ($150, with the September 2026 MLA-C02 changeover dates), Google Cloud Generative AI Leader ($99), NVIDIA NCA-GENL ($125), and Microsoft Fabric Data Engineer DP-700 ($165). Palantir's certifications fail the published-price gate by the vendor's own design, so they get what the registry cannot give them: a dedicated guide documenting the two Foundry exams, the contact-gated pricing, and the code-based registration system.

  2. The Price Index, an OffSec discount caught live, and priced summaries everywhere

    The IT Certification Price Index joins the data set: medians and per-vendor exam-fee ranges computed from the registry, refreshed with every verification pass. The same pass re-verified ISC2 and OffSec pricing at the source and caught OffSec's rare limited-time $250 discount on Course + Cert bundles, now recorded in the price watch and noted on the OSCP profile. Every certification profile's search summary now leads with its verified exam price, and the ISC2 and OSCP quick answers gained cert-specific entries (the $50 and $135 Annual Maintenance Fees, the OSCP+ split, Learn One).

  3. The DoD 8140 guide, retake policies compared, and 8 new head-to-heads

    Three reference guides join the library: the verified DoD 8140 list (the registry's 17 vendor-confirmed qualifying certifications, with costs and the matrix mechanics the login-gated official source leaves unexplained), retake policies at every vendor (verification corrected our own RHCSA pages: Red Hat has included a free first retake on individual exams since February 2023), and certification stacking by role, plus the retirement and rename triage playbook and eight new comparisons spanning the Wave 2 registry.

  4. The registry doubles: 20 new certification profiles

    Twenty profiles join the registry, every figure verified against the vendor's own pages: cloud (AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Developer Associate and CloudOps Engineer Associate, AZ-305, AZ-500, Google Professional Cloud Architect, AI-901), projects and platforms (PMP, ITIL 4 Foundation, Salesforce Platform Administrator, SnowPro Core, Databricks Data Engineer Associate), Kubernetes and infrastructure (CKA, CKAD, Terraform Associate, RHCSA), and security (GIAC GSEC, CompTIA SecurityX, Cisco CyberOps Associate, CompTIA Cloud+). Verification surfaced changes worth knowing before you pay: AZ-500 retires August 31, 2026, the AI-900 exam was replaced by AI-901 in June 2026, and CKA/CKAD validity dropped to 2 years. The verified DoD 8140 set grows to 17 certifications, and the decision tool gains a projects-and-platforms direction.

  5. One-click BLS source link on every wage figure

    Every occupation record on a certification profile, and every row of the ROI Index, now links directly to its BLS OEWS profile on data.bls.gov. Any wage figure on the site can be checked against the original government table in one click. The downloadable CSV carries the same source URL per row. See the methodology.

  6. Reference corpus verified and published

    The full corpus reached its first verification pass and went live: 20 certification profiles, 12 head-to-head comparisons, and 8 guides, each carrying its own visible last-verified date and a primary-source list.

  7. CompTIA 2026 exam price increase transcribed

    CompTIA raised voucher prices across its lineup in 2026. The new list prices are reflected on every affected profile and flow through to the ROI Index: Security+ and PenTest+ moved from $425 to $439, CySA+ to $439, Network+ and Linux+ from $390 to $399, and A+ to $274 per exam ($548 for both cores, up from $530). Every ROI figure uses the post-increase price.

  8. Occupation pay set to the BLS OEWS May 2025 vintage

    Every occupation wage figure on the site uses the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics national estimates for the May 2025 reference period, the current vintage. When the Bureau publishes its next May-reference estimates, the switch will be recorded here. How the join works is documented in the methodology.

  9. CertiGuard launched

    The site went live with its first certification profile and the ROI Index framework: every exam cost checked against the vendor's own published price, every wage figure joined from BLS by SOC code, and no invented salary premium anywhere. The about page explains why it exists.

Corrections record

Where a figure we published was wrong or had gone stale against its source, the correction is recorded here by date, plainly. Spot one we missed? The contact form is the corrections channel; the editorial policy explains how reports are handled.

  • · RHCSA retake policy

    Our RHCSA pages initially omitted that Red Hat has included a free first retake on individual exams since February 2023. The verification pass for the retake-policies guide surfaced the gap, and the affected pages were corrected the same day.

For how figures are sourced and corrected, see the editorial policy. To flag a figure that no longer matches its source, use the contact form.