ArchiMate 2.1 released

ArchiMate 2.1 has been released.

Apart from the editorial corrections the major change is change of classification of the concepts within the Business , Application and Technology layers.
In ArchiMate 2.0 the core concepts section describes three types of elements :-active structure elements, behavioral elements and passive structure.

However, within the the layers the concepts are categorized as 

• Structural Concepts

• active entities

• passive entities

• Behavioral Concepts

• Informational Concepts

This was inconsistent with the core concepts. Also the at times it is ambiguous whether an entity is a passive structure or information as both do not invoke behavior (as active entity) or are themselves a behavior.
This has been fixed in 2.1 release and the new classification within the layers stand as

• Active Structure Concepts

• Behavioral Concepts

• Passive Structure Concepts

Impact on your existing models:
All references to business objects and data objects which may be categorized as Structural objects in the metadata of the element must be changed to Passive Structure Object. The Information Object category itself should be renamed to Passive Structure objects.