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What’s new
- Copilot can schedule itself. Ask Copilot to follow up later — “check this in an hour”, “remind me Monday morning” — and it will wake up and continue the conversation on time.
- Live sub-agents in chat. When Copilot delegates work to a sub-agent, you now see the sub-agent’s progress as a live, expandable card in the conversation and in the status bar.
- Open a Zendesk ticket from chat. When Copilot can’t help, it can escalate to Altostrat support without leaving the conversation.
- Faster, peer-to-peer shared terminals. Sharing a terminal session now uses a direct peer connection where possible, with smoother typing and fewer drops. Past sessions land in a new Session Replays tab.
- Browse and install MCP servers from inside Studio. A new MCP Directory lets you search a curated catalogue, see what each server does, and install it in one click — including support for self-signed certs.
- Vulnerability scanning. Copilot can now look up CVEs that match the devices you’re connected to and explain the risk in plain English.
- Native, redesigned billing. Top up credits, add a card, and manage your plan with native Stripe Elements styled to match Studio. Country, tax-ID, and payment-method pickers are all searchable.
- High contrast and personal themes. A new high contrast theme for accessibility, plus dynamic themes that pick accents from your email domain.
Improved
- Procedures get scheduled runs and a richer timeline. Schedule a procedure for later, browse runs in a timeline, and find their artifacts in the Files sidebar. The Markdown editor now supports an AI edit tool and a slash-command picker.
- Real-time billing across windows. Your usage, credits, and trial status update in real time across every open Studio window — no refresh needed.
- Live dashboards on a responsive grid. The dashboard canvas was rebuilt as a flexible grid that fills the viewport, with live summaries from your connectors.
- Hardware-grade credential vault. Your organization’s credentials now live in a FIPS-compliant vault with automatic 30-day key rotation. The old master-password flow is gone.
Fixed
- The “Trialing” badge now reflects remaining credits, not remaining days, so it disappears the moment you actually run out.
- Hosts no longer save before their keychain writes complete, eliminating a class of credential drift on shared folders.
What’s new
- RDP support. Connect to Windows hosts over RDP from the same workspace as your SSH sessions. Includes live frame streaming, fullscreen, a session indicator in the status bar, and AI-driven actions through Copilot.
- Onboarding for new users. A guided first-run flow that imports your existing hosts from PuTTY, SecureCRT, and Termius, scans for installed network tools, and walks you through your first Copilot task.
- Procedures, rebuilt around Markdown runbooks. Procedures are now plain-Markdown runbooks that Copilot can read, edit, and execute step-by-step. Sub-agents can run them as tools, and runs land in a unified timeline.
- Share files and procedures with your team. A new Share dialog lets you mark resources as private or shared with your organization, with a visibility badge on every list.
- Improved sign-in with team management. Sign-in, organization switching, billing, and team profile now share a single, themed dialog.
- VS Code-style command palette and keybindings. A unified command surface for the workspace with keybinding overrides — search commands, navigate, and run actions without touching the mouse.
- Activity indicator in the status bar. A single live indicator that shows every running task — chat agentic loops, sub-agents, sessions, calls, sync — with a popover to drill in.
- Ask mode in chat. Toggle Copilot into a read-only “Ask” mode for questions where you don’t want any actions taken.
- SNMP from chat. Copilot can now run SNMP GET, walk, and bulk-GET against your devices, with vendor MIB name resolution.
- New network probing tools. PMTUD probing, packet capture, and flow collection are now available as Copilot tools.
Improved
- The renderer was overhauled to use a VS Code-style workbench (now called the Workspace) with split panes, tab groups, and persistent state.
- Empty sidebar states are unified across hosts, files, diagrams, procedures, and chats.
- Onboarding events fire only on actual milestones, so the rating prompt shows up at the right moment.
What’s new
- Voice calling. Place and receive SIP calls from Studio with live transcription, DTMF, call history, codec pinning, and call-quality scoring. Calls survive NAT with built-in STUN.
- PTZ camera control. ONVIF detection lets you discover IP cameras on your network and control pan/tilt/zoom directly from a stream viewer.
- OAuth for MCP servers. Studio now supports the MCP standard OAuth flow (PKCE, dynamic registration, auto-discovery). Localhost callbacks are handled by Studio itself.
- MCP servers as tabs. The old MCP server dialog is gone — adding and editing MCP servers now opens as a tab, with reconnect feedback inline.
- Online/offline indicator. Studio now shows when it’s offline and reconnects gracefully.
Improved
- Local-first storage with a cloud twin. Your conversations, hosts, diagrams, and procedures sync continuously between local storage and the cloud, with conflict detection and force-resync controls.
- Search and command palette merged. One dropdown handles both — search local entities, app settings, and quick actions in the same list, with recent search terms.
- Dashboards rebuilt as a builder. The dashboard canvas became a rigid grid builder with viewport-aware generation and live polling panels.
- Browser tools. A picture-in-picture browser view, faster auto-approve toggle, and self-signed cert acceptance for MCP servers and connectors.
- Team presence overhaul. Manual status, idle detection, and deduplicated presence across devices.
Fixed
- Calling reliability. Six bugs that were preventing reliable Chime calls and screen sharing have been fixed.
What’s new
- Live dashboards. Build polling dashboards from your connectors in a widget grid, with summaries and per-panel refresh.
- API connectors. A new connector system lets you wire any HTTP API into Studio with OAuth2 or custom auth, then call it from chat or a dashboard. Custom MCP servers join the same sidebar.
- Account management inside Studio. A full self-service account surface — profile, organizations, billing entry, team members.
- Network status popover. See your public IP, ASN, and ISP in one click from the status bar.
- Network calculation tools. Subnet math, IP parsing, and YAML/XML data conversion are now available as Copilot tools.
- JIT components in chat. Copilot can now render rich, just-in-time UI inside its responses — tables, charts, alerts, code blocks, diff views, forms — instead of plain text.
Improved
- Faster, smarter Copilot. A new agentic loop runs tools concurrently, streams progress as it works, and routes to Claude Opus 4.6 or Sonnet 4.6 based on the task. Long conversations are now compacted in stages instead of failing.
- Streaming status bar. A persistent bar shows Copilot’s current phase, turn progress, and per-tool durations.
- Usage tracking. Per-feature usage is now metered server-side and surfaced in a usage page, with a status-bar badge for app resource use.
- Files sidebar. Streamlined with cleaner empty states and faster host file workflows.
Fixed
- Sign-in now exchanges tokens through the main process so production CORS no longer blocks Bedrock calls.
What’s new
- Local credential vault. Store device credentials encrypted on your machine with AES-256-GCM. Credentials redact themselves before anything is sent to Copilot.
- Vendor-aware terminal. Studio detects Cisco, Juniper, and MikroTik prompts, parses their CLI output into interactive tables, and shows a two-tier AI explanation for any error inline in the terminal.
- Quake-mode terminal. A global hotkey drops a terminal pane down from the top of the screen, ChatGPT-launcher style.
- Up to 8 split panes. Run more sessions side by side, with per-pane close controls.
- Saved commands and templates. Save commands for reuse, parameterize them with
{{variables}}, and configure post-connect scripts that run automatically when you open a session. - SFTP file management. Browse, upload, and download files on remote hosts from the Files sidebar.
- Structured logs panel. A bottom-panel Logs tab with structured agent log timelines, plus video support (HLS and RTSP) for CCTV troubleshooting.
- Markdown editing. Markdown documents now have a toolbar with formatting actions and a built-in Mermaid diagram creator.
Improved
- Memory budget per session. Long terminal sessions automatically prune scrollback to keep performance steady.
- Sidebar consistency. Hosts, diagrams, chats, and procedures now share the same context-menu actions, folder behavior, and item layout.
What’s new
- Shared terminal sessions. Invite a teammate into a live terminal session — they see your output, you see them typing, and the session can be replayed afterwards.
- Memory system. A dedicated sidebar and detail view for Copilot’s long-term memories, with date grouping, search, and full CRUD.
- Workflows. Multi-step procedures Copilot can run end-to-end, with grouped nodes, a context menu for editing, debug copy, and a workflow reflector for after-action review.
- Browser auto-approve. Toggle to let Copilot drive the headless browser without an approval prompt for each step.
- Auto-updater. Studio now checks for updates and notifies you in the status bar — with a manual check option.
- Custom title bar on Windows and Linux. Native minimize/maximize/close in a dark frame that matches the rest of the app.
Improved
- Diagram editor. A new layers panel and selection spotlight in the inspector, AWS draw.io fidelity import (with gradient fills and theme-aware contrast), section shapes, multi-select property edits, and smarter responsive toolbars.
- VS Code-style workspace menus. Unified tab chrome, workspace-level commands, and a faster team switcher.
- Chat composer. New
prompt-kitbased chat UI, deep-linked AI settings, and grouped tool cards for repeated actions. - YOLO mode. Optional auto-approval for chat tools when you want Copilot to keep moving.
- Theming. A new theming architecture with smooth, native-feeling transitions between light and dark.
What’s new
- Studio for Windows. Studio now ships as a signed installer for Windows alongside macOS, with auto-incrementing versions and an integrated update flow.
- Voice in chat. Talk to Copilot — recordings transcribe in real time and an audio visualizer shows you the level. Microphone and camera permissions are now properly entitled on macOS.
- Extended thinking. Copilot can now think harder when needed, with cryptographically-signed reasoning sessions you can audit.
- Team presence. See who else from your organization is in the workspace and what they’re doing.
- AI usage tracking. A usage page shows token consumption per feature, with a token-usage indicator wired into the status bar.
Improved
- Diagram editor v2. A new MaxGraph-based editor with cleaner shape rendering, draw.io import and export, viewport-preserving edits, and improved label and edge styling.
- Local search. Built-in full-text search now uses an on-device embedding model for relevance, downloaded the first time you launch Studio.
- System tray. A macOS tray icon and About dialog, plus dynamic window icons.
Fixed
- Team switching is faster and more reliable, with better error logging when an org load fails.
Welcome to Altostrat Studio — an AI-native network operations IDE for engineers running production. A single workspace that combines a terminal, network diagrams, runbook execution, and a Copilot that can drive any of them.
What’s in the box
- AI Copilot. A conversational sidebar that can read your screen, run commands in your terminals, navigate web admin UIs, and edit code or markdown — with a clear approval flow for anything that touches a host.
- Multi-protocol terminal. SSH, Telnet, and serial console sessions in tabbed editor groups, with private-key and jump-host support.
- Hosts and credentials. A hosts sidebar with folder organization plus a local keychain that stores credentials encrypted on your machine.
- Diagrams. A diagram canvas with shape libraries, draw.io import, and Mermaid support — opened side-by-side with terminals and chat.
- Browser automation. A headless browser tab Copilot can drive on your behalf for web-based device admin and service dashboards.
- Search and command palette. Full-text search across hosts, diagrams, conversations, and settings, plus a quick-action command palette.
- Image attachments and Monaco code blocks. Drop images into chat for Copilot to look at, and view structured output in a real code editor with syntax highlighting.