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AOS Community Edition changelog: what's new each month

Every stable AOS Community Edition release summarised by month: the highlights, new features, improvements, fixes and anything you need to act on. 2 months covered; the current month updates daily.

September 2026

4 releases: 2026.9.0 → 2026.9.3

September brought significant platform expansion with native installers for macOS and Linux, along with new interactive tools for managing permissions and system access. The month focused on improving host integration and user control over authenticated operations.

Highlights

  • Signed macOS filesystem app installation and native Linux musl archives for broader platform support.
  • New aos console on Unix and macOS menu-bar app for interactive permission management.
  • Authenticated host hook ingress and MCP broker integration for Claude, Codex, and other platforms.
  • Ability to set up Community and Oracle hosts without requiring an OpenAI API key.
  • aos daemon foreground mode for supervisor integration with proper signal handling.

New

  • aos console on Unix: keyboard and mouse Command Center for permission dialogs.
  • macOS menu-bar app with permission dialogs for native system integration.
  • Authenticated MCP Streamable HTTP support via bundled Astrid updates.
  • aos mcp serve --interaction-socket for native tray presentation of MCP interactions.
  • Principal-scoped capsule metadata inspection for system debugging.
  • Bounded native MRTR tracking with configurable max-in-flight-calls limit.

Improved

  • Host setup simplified to work without OpenAI API key dependency.
  • MCP inputrequired results now automatically intercepted in aos mcp serve native.
  • Runtime and Rust client dependencies pinned to published Astrid versions.
  • Bounded Rhai evaluation with semantic surface and catalog components.
  • Permission repair for existing legacy runtime, secrets, and home directories.

Fixed

  • AOS Tray launch now properly binds the current user's aos binary path.
  • Signal and exit-status ownership clarified for daemon foreground mode.

July 2026

3 releases: 2026.1.1 → 2026.1.3

July brought three maintenance releases of Aos Community Edition, each bundling updated versions of the Astrid Runtime to ensure stability and compatibility.

Highlights

  • Astrid Runtime updated from v0.10.1 through v0.10.4 across the month's releases
  • 19 signed and installable capsule artifacts available in the Community Edition
  • Runtime compatibility information published in runtime-compatibility.toml for each release

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