Changelog

The next Windows candidate is not what /latest.json or the in-app updater install today — that is still 1.0.0-rc15. No rc16 installer URL or hash. The 3D world plugin is a separate product: it is not this installer bump, and it is not for sale here.

• 3D world plugin. A 3D world plugin for Hardware Lab and the AI Agent Hierarchy builder is coming to Pro and Teams Pro. Named work: AI Circuit City, Hardware Bench in 3D, controller / phone / VR, and AidaBot. Today's Bench stays 2D. Hardware Lab Phase F (3D) is not started. Campaign: /3d.
• Not purchasable yet. No Buy or Install path, no plugin price, no date. Public board count stays 33.

The current shipping Windows build — what /latest.json and the in-app updater install. Create a free account to download. Feature notes from rc11 still apply; this candidate is the signed installer served today.

• Current 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Superseded by 1.0.0-rc15. The 1.0 feature batch the current build 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.