Happy new year! We are excited to announce to you the next iteration of Ory Hydra: Version 1.11.0! This version has significant new features contributed by the awesome Open Source Community - you! But not only that: **Ory Hydra 2.0 is coming!** While a major version, we intend to keep all APIs with as few breaking changes as possible. The efforts focus on some long-standing issues in the persistence layer. In particular, data growth rate and performance improvements are the focus areass! If you are interested to see what is going on, check out PR [#2796](https://github.com/ory/hydra/pull/2796) And Ory Hydra 2.0 will be available as an API in Ory Cloud! If you are interested in Ory Cloud, apply to [Ory Acceleration Program](https://share-eu1.hsforms.com/1KWJxgKzNQWOjR9r5blC41wextgn) and receive a **one-year free subscription for Ory Cloud's Start-Up plan**. The Start-Up plan comes with convenient features such as custom domains and unlimited identities/tokens! More on timelines and Ory Hydra 2.0 plans will follow later this year. If these changes are not exciting enough already, Ory Hydra now supports loading Private and Public Keys from Hardware Security Modules, a physical computing device that safeguards and manages digital keys, performs encryption and decryption functions for digital signatures, strong authentication, and other cryptographic functions. Thank you [@aarmam](https://github.com/aarmam) for this amazing work! For more information, please [read the guide](https://www.ory.sh/hydra/docs/next/guides/hsm-support). Next up, Ory Hydra now natively supports the OpenID Connect Dynamic Client Registration and OAuth2 Dynamic Client Registration Protocol which can be enabled (optionally) in the configuration! Thank you [@fjvierap](https://github.com/fjvierap) for your hard work! We do not stop there, [@Xopek](https://github.com/Xopek) and [@jagobagascon](https://github.com/jagobagascon) added the Support for JSON Web Token (JWT) Profile for OAuth 2.0 Authorization Grants (RFC7523) to Ory Hydra! This major improvement allows Ory Hydra to have an even better integration API than before! For our Apple users and everyone eyeballing ARM64, we now distributed binaries and Docker Images for all platforms and CPU architectures, including Apple M1, Linux ARM (v6, v7, v8, ARM64), and - this is new - FreeBSD! Lastly, we resolved a bug in the configuration loading which now allows loading complex configuration keys from environment variables without hassle! **Please notice that this release requires SQL migrations to be applied! As always, please make a backup before applying them!**