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StillOn Husky v0.5.0 — Email-based remote access
StillOn 0.5.0 brings email-based remote access to your own always-on computer, improves message synchronization, and simplifies setup. Agent execution, workspaces and primary chat history remain on your computer. The gateway terminates TLS; Connect is not end-to-end encrypted, and model providers receive the context sent to them.
Highlights
- StillOn Connect preview: link your computer from Settings → Remote access using a fresh six-digit email code, then return to it from another browser through a configured Connect service. Local loopback use remains accountless. Provider CLI authentication is still required separately.
- Several computers, separate tabs: one linked computer opens directly; remote settings let you switch computers. Each tab keeps its own computer. Logout ends that browser's remote connections while local tasks continue.
- More reliable message order: revisioned transcript updates and serialized broadcasts prevent stale history reads from overwriting newer messages. The replacement includes the complete delta/hydration work and the concurrency fixes from #185, including the reproduced case where a new prompt moved above an older reply.
- Simpler setup: Get started has a compact two-line introduction and no test-message step. Remote access settings, email verification, computer lists and offline/error screens use English. The chat header retains the browser action.
Connection and lifecycle improvements
Connect includes a pinned outbound connector, per-computer authorization, pause/unlink, offline enrollment cancellation, bounded streaming file transfers, durable command receipts and redacted connection diagnostics. Desktop builds can include a configured public Connect origin without bundling account, cloud or device secrets.
This release also improves Windows installer/uninstaller process ownership and cleanup, handles database shutdown deterministically, and retains verified backups and conservative rollback behavior. Public readiness documentation now distinguishes native CI coverage from physical-device, signing and independent-user acceptance.
Distribution and upgrade
This release publishes source and export-viewer assets. Desktop installers remain unsigned development builds in GitHub Actions; they are not attached as official signed installers. All four v0.5.0 builds and native installer checks passed at the exact release tag.
Download and extract the artifact ZIP: macOS uses a .dmg, Windows uses a .exe. These development artifacts expire on 2026-10-30.
Source installation and managed source updates remain supported. Publishing this release does not install it or restart an existing StillOn instance.
Use the Connect setup guide for service deployment and configuration. The native development builds linked here target the current Connect pilot; a self-hosted service requires its own configured origin. See desktop installation for package requirements, user-data preservation and the separation between source and package update channels.
Preview scope
StillOn remains a source-available beta. Connect requires the host to stay on, online and running StillOn. Billing, custom customer domains, teams and file synchronization are not included. Independent-user/platform trials, wider public/mobile-network coverage, the full fault/abuse/load matrix, a 12-hour soak and operational alert delivery remain customer-service gates. Unsigned runner acceptance does not establish trusted OS signing or full platform feature parity; the embedded terminal remains unavailable on Windows.
The obsolete/incomplete PRs #62, #107, #108, #168, #169 and #175 were closed with explanations. Their unmerged dependency upgrades are not included in 0.5.0. Checkout maintenance #89 remains open.
Changes since v0.4.6.3: #185 and #186, release documentation and the 0.5.0 version update.