Synaplan 5 is out — and the tools around it got a lot stronger

[orgaralf]

Synaplan 5.0 is on the releases page (latest: v5.0.6). The platform itself is bigger, and the apps and services that sit next to it are now real products you can run, not side experiments.

The platform

• Start from two files. compose.yaml and .env, then docker compose up -d. No git checkout. How to start.
• The current model wave is in the catalog. Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Sonnet 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, and GPT-6 Luna. When a model has a reasoning level, you pick it in the chat menu. New models are picked up from the providers’ own lists.
• Answers stream in as they are written, and the chat names the model that is answering.
• Coding clients connect for real. Claude Code and friends use the Messages gateway, with your Synaplan models, token accounting, and cost view behind them.
• From the chat, run work on a paired computer. Choose the computer and the skill. The result comes back into the thread.
• openDesk meeting notes for Jitsi and Element, on the same speech-to-text path you already configure.
• Same core as always: your models (cloud or Ollama), RAG, memories, widgets, WhatsApp, email, and an OpenAPI surface you can build on. Apache-2.0. Self-hosted is the same software as the cloud.

Synaplan Desktop

github.com/metadist/synaplan-desktop — Windows, macOS, and Linux, in beta.

Pair a computer with your workspace from Channels → Desktop. It chats with your existing Synaplan account (no second AI subscription) and runs Agent Skills on that machine: slides, charts, invoices, CSV profiles, calendar invites, email drafts. Skills stay inside a folder allowlist. The key lives in the OS secret store. Disconnect the computer in the web app and the key is gone.

Kubernetes charts

github.com/metadist/synaplan-charts — official Helm charts, pinned to Synaplan 5.0.6.

One chart runs the app, Redis, the worker, and the scheduler, with optional Piper speech. A second chart runs NVIDIA Triton when you want the model server in the cluster: vLLM on GPU, or CPU and bge-m3 embeddings. Identity, the model catalog, and feature flags are Helm values, so an automated install can lock what the admin UI is allowed to change. Point office conversion at Collabora you already run (openDesk, Nextcloud, OpenCloud).

Everywhere else you already work

The satellites kept pace with the core:

• Phone: iOS and Android
• Outlook: Synamail — summarise, draft, and file mail into your knowledge base without leaving the inbox
• Files: Nextcloud, ownCloud, Dropbox, Microsoft 365 — and the OpenCloud extension
• Your own tools: MCP, the widget, WhatsApp, and email

Try the cloud at web.synaplan.com, or start 5.0.6 on your own machine with the two files above. Questions and show-and-tell welcome in this discussion.