Release notes

Improved

• Open in my browser is now its own button on a machine card.
• Reach a workspace or machine over SSH, open its apps in your browser, and keep files in Files and ~/shared. The apps no longer offer the remote desktop.

New

• Eligible new accounts can get $10 of trial credit after a $1 card check and full refund, subject to the daily allowance.
• Try any GPU size on one machine for up to seven days, with twenty start attempts. Machines stop before credit runs out. Files are kept for 24 hours after the trial ends unless you add prepaid credit.

Improved

• The browser shows the card check, refund and credit status together. An interrupted check resumes without a second payment or bonus.
• The new-workspace note leads to the secure browser form. It no longer promises a bonus on the first top-up.

New

• Your first top-up gets $5 of free credit on top. It comes once per organization and once per card.

Improved

• The first payment asks whether to top up automatically. Nothing is turned on for you, and you choose before you pay.
• The form for a new workspace no longer lists rates. It says what pays for the workspace: your organization's credit, or a first top-up from $10.
• Your tier counts every machine you have, paused ones too. At the limit, the apps say which machine to delete and what the next tier adds.

New

• Hinode is now prepaid. You add credit, and everything you run is paid from it. At $0 your machines pause and keep their disks.
• Turn on auto-recharge and the credit tops itself up below a level you choose, so machines never pause.
• Billing shows your tier and the way to the next one: how much to pay, how many days are left, and what it unlocks.
• Top-ups and invoices are in one list, newest first, with a PDF for each invoice.
• In the terminal, hinode billing shows your credit, auto-recharge and tier.

Improved

• Billing opens on your credit and your tier, then what this month cost. The apps open your web Billing to add credit or change auto-recharge.
• If auto-recharge turns itself off, Billing says why: a declined card, a payment your bank wants you to confirm, or no card. The button next to it fixes it.
• Billed to shows the card and the invoice address side by side.
• When your organization runs as many machines as its tier allows, the apps say which machine to pause and what the next tier adds.
• A workspace paused at $0 says so on Files and Machines, with Add credit.

Improved

• On a workspace waiting for a card, the Machines screen offers Add a card instead of Attach a machine.
• The form for your first workspace asks only for its name. You see the prices when you add your card. If a new workspace starts billing the moment you create it, the form shows both rates first.

Fixed

• On Windows, closing the stream window after the main window no longer crashes Hinode.

New

• A machine's card says who is using its screen: someone in your organization, or you on another device. Connect waits until they disconnect; Pause still works.
• On Windows, Explorer shows each file in your workspace's folder going up or coming down: a progress bar in the row, then a green check.

Improved

• On the Mac, Finder's progress for a workspace file follows its bytes, and stopping it there ends the transfer.
• On Windows, a large file that lives only on the workspace opens much faster.
• On Windows, a file still being written, such as a browser download, uploads once it is finished.
• A workspace with a large shared folder goes to sleep when nobody is using it.

Fixed

• A download interrupted by a dropped connection picks up where it stopped, and the file comes out whole.
• On Windows, opening a file that is only on the workspace no longer closes the app.
• On Windows, uploads waiting to retry go as soon as the workspace is back, and folders made on the workspace while the app was closed appear.

Improved

• A machine's screen belongs to the person using it: nobody else in the organization can take it over or end their session.
• Deleting your account also removes your SSH keys and every device you paired.
• Invitations name who sent them, even when that person has no name on their account.

Fixed

• On Linux, People lines up its columns, and the new workspace form shows its prices.
• On Windows, Referrals has its icon, and Settings wraps long captions.
• On the Mac, organization dialogs keep their buttons on one line, and the organization switcher stays inside the window.

New

• If you are in no organization, Hinode asks you to make one, and you can start from there.

Improved

• Give your own organization away and nothing new appears in its place: you stay in it as a member, and make another when you need one.
• People shows each person's current email.
• While you alone own an organization other people are in, Delete account waits until you make someone else its owner.

Fixed

• Deleting your account from the Mac, Windows or Linux app also deletes your own organization.

New

• Make an organization and invite people by email, as owners or members. Owners see every workspace; members see the ones an owner gives them.
• Each organization pays with its own card and gets its own monthly invoice.
• Give your organization to someone in it.
• Remove someone, and their SSH keys come off the organization's machines at once.

Improved

• When you delete your account, organizations with other people in them stay, with their workspaces.

Fixed

• On Windows, you can rename and move files and folders in your workspace's folder, and the workspace gets the new names.
• Files inside a renamed folder open, download and delete as before.

Improved

• When no GPU of your machine's size is free, its card counts down to the next try: No GPUs · 2:41.

Fixed

• On Windows, a machine's status, uptime, cost and jobs update on their own. No need to restart the app.
• On Windows, your workspace's files are in the .hinode\files folder in your user folder. The old Hinode folder stays on your computer, and deleting it no longer deletes anything on the workspace.

Fixed

• On macOS and Linux, Install is ready as soon as your workspace starts. No need to restart the app.
• On macOS and Linux, an app you installed shows as installed, not as Unknown.

Fixed

• Install is ready as soon as your workspace starts. No need to restart the app.
• An app you installed shows as installed, not as Unknown.
• A snapshot shows as saving the moment you save it. While it saves, the setup steps no longer offer the next version.
• After you attach a machine, the app opens Machines, with the machine on it.

Improved

• On Windows, if the app crashes, the report reaches us, so we can fix the cause sooner.

Fixed

• On Windows, the app stays open when you create a workspace or attach a machine.

Improved

• The workspace card shows Machines, Environment and Shared without a frame around them.

New

• The Linux app matches the Mac: the same fonts, icons, sidebar and screens, in light and dark.
• On Linux, Jobs shows what each job cost and how much video memory its machine had.
• On Linux, Billing shows how much of your budget you have spent, and the day you passed it.

Improved

• On the Mac, the app icon follows the system's light or dark appearance.

Fixed

• On Linux, you stay signed in on a computer without a keyring.

New

• A light theme, on cream paper rather than white. Choose it in Settings → Appearance: System, Light or Dark. System follows your computer.
• The website and the dashboard follow the same choice. On the website, switch it from the button in the header.

Improved

• A disk costs only what is written on it, with no minimum. A paused machine with 9 GB on its disk costs $1.35 a month.
• The shared folder costs $0.11 per GB-month, down from $0.14.

New

• When no GPU of a machine's size is free, Hinode keeps trying for an hour and starts the machine as soon as one comes free. The card says until when and when the next try is. Billing starts only when the machine does.
• Try now asks again at once. Stop trying pauses the machine.
• hinode machines shows which machines are waiting, and until when.

New

• Snapshots is its own screen on the Mac and the web: every saved version of your workspace, its note, and which one new machines start from.

Fixed

• On Windows, the sidebar lists your workspaces as soon as they load.

New

• Add Hinode from Claude’s connector directory. The apps now send you there first, and show the address for ChatGPT, Codex and Claude Code.
• An assistant on your computer can sign in to Hinode’s remote server with the account you already use.

Improved

• Every assistant tool answers with numbers as well as text, so an assistant can act on a price or a job’s outcome without reading prose.

Improved

• Signing in happens at auth.hinode.run, on our own address.

Fixed

• The Mac app stays up to date when the connection drops and comes back.
• The Workspace screen stays live on an account that has no workspace yet.

New

• The Files screen shows three figures: how much is stored, how much was written, and what it costs this month.

Improved

• The main action on each screen sits on the same line as its title.
• Each spec on a machine card sits in its own cell, with a line between them.

Fixed

• The password row says Change, and labels no longer wrap.