Changelog

The current shipping build — what /latest.json and the in-app updater install. Windows is the primary supported path (signed installer). macOS and Linux builds are in progress. A Linux experimental source tarball is available to try. Create a free account to download. The Workbench still ships in this desktop build. Android stays a separate Lite-class app, not a desktop host download. The Cloud Portal is unchanged. This entry observes the manifest Release already published. It does not change that pin.

• Current signed Windows installer. AidaIDE_Setup_1.0.0-rc19.exe, about 141 MB (141,790,670 bytes). SHA-256 8a26621a2653cbd7b70ae92ec86b0167c52314ee1572f8aac43466b442ab0561.
• Linux experimental source tarball — available to try. AidaIDE-1.0.0-rc19-linux.tar.gz, about 12.7 MB (12,705,885 bytes). Unpack and run ./install.sh. Not a signed peer installer and not a first-class host OS. Windows remains the primary supported path. SHA-256 d273dd07464c7498427f7dfcd546ce1f0f489afe9b97e9735e908bb02a41caee.
• Same 1.0 line. Feature notes from 1.0.0-rc18 still apply. This entry does not add a new product-feature list.

Superseded by 1.0.0-rc19. This candidate's signed Windows installer and Linux experimental source tarball are recorded below. The Workbench shipped in this desktop build. Android stayed a separate Lite-class app, not a desktop host download.

• This candidate's signed installer. AidaIDE_Setup_1.0.0-rc18.exe, about 141 MB (140,931,169 bytes). SHA-256 eca4c2723b34c0869ac39133bb61d92c7e48b6f6f74cc13ca054b5307499c840.
• This candidate's Linux experimental source tarball. AidaIDE-1.0.0-rc18-linux.tar.gz, about 13 MB (12,936,014 bytes). Unpack and run ./install.sh. Not a signed peer installer and not a first-class host OS. Windows remains the primary supported path. SHA-256 af33b0336936600fc6b652f90be680372764d926bb1a478a416568cfe612f977.
• Workbench. The desktop window is a workbench: every tab is a panel you can split, stack, or tear off, and your setups save by name. View → Workbench → Use the workbench shell is on by default.
• Drag any tab onto an edge of another to split the view, onto its middle to stack; drag it out, or double-click it, for a window of its own.
• Add panel (Ctrl+Shift+B) lists every built-in tab, installed widgets, the Dashboard, panel tools and the pages of running plugins. Ctrl+Shift+A is AI Chat.
• Named layouts live in the toolbar's Workspace list; the current arrangement saves itself, floating windows included. SSH sessions do not reconnect by themselves.
• Pop a connection's terminal into a panel and take it to another window while it runs.
• Classic layout rebuilds the familiar IDE from panels you can move.
• Retired: the per-tab Grid Layout mode, Layout Wizard, Layout Presets and Widget Palette. To use plain tabs, turn off View → Workbench → Use the workbench shell.

Superseded by 1.0.0-rc19. This candidate's signed Windows installer is recorded below. Feature notes from prior release candidates still apply.

• This candidate's signed installer. Windows x64, AidaIDE_Setup_1.0.0-rc17.exe, about 118 MB (118,093,342 bytes). SHA-256 036e7d4376d73591495b4f94a7b72cae54bc7929bce1db135c6bc930101c1d78.
• Same 1.0 line. Feature notes from 1.0.0-rc15 and 1.0.0-rc11 still apply. This entry does not add a new product-feature list.

Historical preview notes for AidaHL, AI Hierarchy, and Circuit City. There is no rc16 installer URL or hash. The current shipping build is 1.0.0-rc19.

• Not a download. /releases/1.0.0-rc16 names AidaHL, AI Hierarchy, and Circuit City. It is not a ship notice and not an installer.

Superseded by 1.0.0-rc19. Feature notes from rc11 still apply; this candidate is no longer the signed installer served today.

• This candidate's signed installer. Windows x64, AidaIDE_Setup_1.0.0-rc15.exe, about 111 MB. SHA-256 8ba09e17084b064b0372b07c3277484b61984c2e731ed3676c57f042c6944926.
• Same free core. Editor, SSH/SFTP, vault, fleet, OTA, and Hardware Lab stay free forever. A free account is required to download; Pro remains optional at $19/mo. AI Scenario/Fix need Pro AI.
• Hardware Lab. Virtual HIL (timeline scenarios, assertions, pass/fail), Run on Device over SSH, Record, Bench (2D A–E), 33-board library. Definition: What is Hardware Lab?.

Superseded by later candidates. The 1.0 feature batch the current build (1.0.0-rc19) still includes. New features only below — the full fix stream is in the release notes. The headline addition is a way to test device code without a device.

• Hardware Lab — virtual hardware-in-the-loop testing. Run device code against a simulated board with virtual pins, I2C, and UART. Because it runs on a virtual clock, a 30-second hardware scenario finishes in under a millisecond and is deterministic. Build scenarios from button presses, sensor edges, and UART; assert pin states, pulse counts, I2C writes, and log output; then Run on Device and Record. 33 boards including Raspberry Pi. Citation-ready definition: What is Hardware Lab?. Product surface: /embedded#hardware-lab.
• Board View with capability-coloured pinout and trace replay. The selected board renders as a real pinout card — pins coloured by I2C, SPI, UART, PWM, analog, or plain GPIO — in a collapsible side panel. After a run the recorded trace replays over the board at 0.5×–4× with play/pause, a scrubber, and a live clock.
• Run on Device, and diff it against the simulation. A temporary HIL helper (hil_device_agent) may be pushed to the target over the open SSH session for that run, runs the scenario against real GPIO outputs and timing, and streams every output edge back. Scenario inputs are GPIO-API injected (not jumper wiring). The IDE diffs real against virtual edge by edge and reports matched edges with timing skew in ms, edges the device never produced, and device-only extras.
• Record on hardware, replay forever. The same ephemeral helper watches chosen pins for real physical edges while you press the buttons on the bench, then turns the edge stream into a scenario you can re-run without the hardware.
• AI writes the test and fixes the code. AI Scenario asks a model for stimuli and expectations for the current file and runs them immediately; AI Fix sends the failing checks back, applies the returned code — syntax-checked, editor undo preserved — and re-verifies in the simulator. Both honour the Remote Models override, so the tests can be written by a model running on your own device.
• Scenarios import and export as JSON, so a test pack travels with the project. Import appends rather than replaces.
• Board registry: 33 boards, including Raspberry Pi. Raspberry Pi ×6 (Generic, 3B, 4B, 5, Zero W, Zero 2 W); Simulation Board and Generic Linux GPIO (in the 33); Jetson ×6 with BCM-compatible numbering and the physical BOARD pin cross-referenced; Arduino ×10 with sketch-style numbering and per-model PWM, I2C, SPI, UART, ADC and DAC tables; ESP32 classic ×3 plus Espressif ESP32-S2/S3/C3/C6 and ESP8266 with per-chip pin maps and quirks. Shared by the Hardware Lab, the Board Library Manager, and the editor's board picker.
• Virtual Board panel in the editor sidebar. Runs the active file on the simulator and replays it on a compact board view, with the board synced from the editor toolbar.
• Trace a known device to its switch port. Rogue Device Hunt now works forwards too: give it an IP or MAC, optionally scoped to a VLAN, and get the ordered path to the access port. On the robotics page →
• Find in output, in every SSH tab. Ctrl+F searches terminal output in SSH session tabs, and the result count discloses when scrollback has been trimmed instead of implying a session-wide verdict.
• Jump-to-bottom chip with a new-output counter. Scroll up to read and the terminal counts the lines that arrive while you're away, then takes you back in one click.
• Live font zoom in the web terminal — 6 to 40 point with a reset, reflowing the PTY, instead of browser page zoom scaling the whole app. Cloud Portal →
• Editor quick fixes and line editing. One-click fixes for is comparisons against literals, invalid string escapes, and assertions written as tuples; plus Join Lines (Ctrl+J) and Insert Line Below/Above (Ctrl+Enter / Ctrl+Shift+Enter). In the editor →
• LCOT command packs for more vendors. Aruba in both the ArubaOS-CX and ProCurve dialects, plus OpenWrt and BIRD — config backups, ARP tables, routes, and MAC tables. Groups sitting in packs you haven't enabled are now counted and named in search results rather than silently hidden. SSH toolkit →
• The Secret Scanner reads private-key files and reports what it actually covered, instead of returning a clean result for files it never opened.

Everything that landed between the first 1.0 candidate and rc11. The theme is running AI on hardware you control, and making the browser workspace match the desktop app.

• Local and remote LLMs. Install Ollama on a device in one click from the SSH Models tab, pull models straight onto the remote host, and run agents against a model hosted on that device from the Agent panel's Remote Models tab. Model overrides now apply across every AI surface, not just the Agent panel. How it works →
• Small models handled properly. Context is compacted to fit a local model's real window with num_ctx sized per model, a run that exhausts a device GPU retries on CPU, and the model server's actual error is shown instead of a bare HTTP 500.
• Agents attach to the SSH session. A device picker points an agent at any saved device or fleet entry, and in an SSH session the assistant indexes the remote device over SFTP so it answers from the code on that machine.
• Install AidaIDE on a device over SSH. Deploy to a Linux box or a Jetson from the desktop app. The desktop host download is Windows today; macOS and Linux builds are in progress.
• The installer is roughly 3.7 GB smaller — machine-learning frameworks that were being bundled unnecessarily are no longer shipped inside it.
• Rogue Device Hunt. A new Network tab traces an unknown device to the physical switch port it's plugged into via ARP and MAC tables, across multiple switches and scoped by VLAN. On the robotics page →
• Quick Scan is usable. It reports every reachable device rather than only SSH hosts, runs on a network with no internet, binds to a chosen interface, takes configurable ports, and finishes in seconds instead of minutes.
• Web terminal parity. Command history recall in the browser, a PTY that resizes with the window instead of being fixed at 120 columns, scroll lock with follow mode, and honest scrollback-trim reporting. Cloud Portal →
• Remote Desktop is driveable — mouse input works in desktop browsers, unmapped keys no longer break the input thread, and pan plus image paste are in.
• Fleet devices that move stay found. A board that picks up a new DHCP lease heals itself, device edits stop reverting, and Manage Device shows the SSH port in use.
• Accessibility in Composer. Palette cards can be added by click, Enter, or Space rather than drag-only (WCAG 2.1.1), and offline mode is explicit instead of silently degrading.

The first 1.0 candidate, shipped as 0.5.78. Updates, remote saves, and device status are the three things everything else depends on, so this release focused on making all three trustworthy.

• Reliable in-app updates. The desktop updater reads the live signed manifest and verifies each build with an Ed25519 signature before installing it.
• Save Remote fixed on Windows hosts. Files save over SFTP whenever the channel is alive, with a verified fallback path when it isn't — no more silent failures.
• Live Agents attach to real devices over SSH, so agent sessions run against the machine you're connected to rather than a local stand-in.
• Honest device status. The Fleet sidebar surfaces errors with a Retry action instead of showing an empty list, the Camera Grid Viewer reports real feed liveness (Live / Stale / Connecting / No signal), and Cloud Portal gained a live status pill.
• Nine runtime fixes from a repo-wide bug-hunt pass, including the Hierarchy Builder open path.