Pulumi ESC has introduced a new feature called Approvals to enhance governance and oversight in environment configuration workflows, allowing organizations to enforce change management without slowing down teams. Approvals require explicit review and sign-off before applying changes to ESC-managed environments, similar to code review workflows, ensuring that proposed changes undergo a structured review process. This feature helps manage environment configurations and secrets across various services, reducing the risk of accidental or unreviewed changes. Approvals create an auditable record of who approved changes, which is crucial for teams with strict change-management processes and compliance requirements. The feature is integrated into the Pulumi Cloud console, ESC CLI, SDK, and Visual Studio Code Extension, allowing seamless collaboration while maintaining security and accountability. This development is part of Pulumi's broader effort to extend approval workflows across the software delivery lifecycle, aiming to balance speed with security and compliance.