Release Notes record what changed in each tagged Binions release, plus where the platform is heading next.
Binions follows semantic versioning and a public changelog. The releases below are the platform’s tagged milestones to date. Binions is now in beta — the alpha phase built the platform and the first beta hardened it for production; numbered, stable releases begin at 1.0 — see the Roadmap for what that involves.
Reading a release. Each page opens with an “At a glance” summary, then lists what is new. Releases are additive and backward-compatible — existing playbooks and configurations keep working — with one change worth noting: the beta turns licence enforcement on by default. See apt upgrade procedure.
Four chapters take Binions from its first tagged build to the beta:
- v0.1.0–v0.3.0 — foundation. The multi-provider broker, the daemons and the event bus, and the industrial Modbus integration, completed.
- v0.4.0 — the connected platform. The edge & interactive layer — inbound HTTP, live pages, OAuth2, five database engines, and gRPC / MCP / SSH edge clients — plus real playbook control flow: bounded loops, explicit wait-for joins, and an async execution mode. The generic verb vocabulary stayed at exactly 45 throughout.
- v0.5.0-beta.1 — the first beta. Guaranteed-or-visible event delivery, a hardened security surface, and built-in observability; licence enforcement on by default. The end of the alpha phase.
- v0.5.0-beta.2 — the Claude skill. A downloadable skill that teaches an AI assistant to write correct, runnable playbooks, offered from the customer portal.
- v0.5.0-beta.3–beta.4 — full MCP-deploy equivalence. Deploying a playbook through the MCP server gained the same power as an operator over SSH, including remote secret-seeding.
- v0.5.0-beta.5–beta.9 — hardening. Argument validation before you deploy, parallel steps with opt-in retries, sturdier email ingestion, and reliable table indexes.
- v0.5.0-beta.10–beta.13 — richer data. Server-side aggregation, or-groups and time-window filters, a fix for exact-number columns, a refreshed Claude skill, and cross-table joins.
- v0.5.0-beta.14–beta.18 — the round-trip platform. Timestamps bind properly on every write,
mail.send publishes back to brokers, attachments arrive with verifiable bytes, watched folders announce new files on every backend, schedules take plain intervals, unknown arguments fail loudly, and the bucket registry joins the vocabulary (46 → 48) with a self-healing boot pattern.
- v0.5.0-beta.19–beta.25 — the capability review. A platform-wide audit of what every verb can do, shipped as six themed releases: results that compose (flat rows, values and files), correctness and reactability (typed extraction, errors as facts, reject-on-entry), open integrations (any OpenAI-compatible model with a cost ledger, APIs as data sources, webhook multicast, named connections), domain processes (industrial alarms and a writable MODBUS server, the universal file bus, mailbox folders and templated mail, calendar schedules), the data plane (in-platform PDF/DOCX parsing, share links, AI batching and cost caps, composable transactions), and the control plane (
or: filters, the trigger governor, signed webhooks, verified writes). The vocabulary grows 48 → 64, and the review closes with every identified gap implemented or explicitly decided.
- v0.6.0-beta — a new versioning line. A packaging-and-tooling release that opens the
0.6.x-beta series (0.6.0-beta, 0.6.1-beta, …), republishes the downloadable Claude skill so its written guidance matches all sixty-four verbs, and hardens release packaging so every 0.6.x-beta installs cleanly — with no daemon, verb or grammar changes.
- v0.6.1-beta — licence-return reliability. A reliability-and-security patch: uninstalling a host now always returns its licence to your portal, removing a single daemon leaves the rest of the set (and its licence) untouched, on-host licence files are no longer world-readable, storefront purchase handling is sturdier, and a dependency security advisory is resolved — all with no verb or grammar changes.
- v0.6.2-beta — offline licences. Selected accounts can be granted the offline (air-gap) licence class — an enterprise option, unavailable by default and enabled manually by the operator: daemons installed under it run without any periodic online licence check — built for factory floors and isolated networks with no permanent internet — while host binding, one-time keys and start-up revocation checks stay in place. The release also adds operator-granted unlimited free sets, portal account administration, and a reversible licence-suspension hold for terms reviews (nothing deleted; reinstating restores the same licences), with no daemon, verb or grammar changes. Active development continues at 0.6.2-beta.
Detailed notes for every release through v0.5.0-beta.25 are collected on the Older versions page.