v0.6.2-beta introduces offline licences — Binions on hosts that never touch the internet. Selected accounts can now be granted the offline licence class — an enterprise option: daemons installed under such a licence run without any periodic online licence check, built for air-gapped deployments — factory floors, isolated OT networks, ships, remote sites. Ordinary licences and running fleets are unaffected; a routine apt upgrade brings the new daemons, and there are no daemon, verb or grammar changes.
| Version | 0.6.2-beta |
| Released | 19 July 2026 |
| Theme | Offline (air-gap) enterprise licence class + portal account management (vocabulary stays 64) |
| Compatibility | Fully compatible; no daemon, verb or grammar changes since 0.6.1-beta. Ordinary licences behave exactly as before. An offline-class licence requires daemons at 0.6.2-beta or newer. |
- Offline (air-gap) licences. Until now every licensed daemon periodically re-verified its licence against the portal and would stop if the host stayed offline for more than about a week. With the offline class, that check is switched off entirely at the licence level: a daemon holding an offline licence never phones home and keeps running indefinitely without any network path to the portal. The remaining safeguards stay exactly in place — each licence is a one-time key locked to the host’s hardware fingerprint, and revocation lists are still honoured at start-up. Offline licensing is an enterprise option and is unavailable by default: it is enabled manually by the Binions operator, for selected accounts only. Once granted, every new install on that account receives offline licences automatically.
- Unlimited free sets (operator-granted). Accounts enabled for it see a Get free set card on the dashboard: one click provisions another free, non-commercial set for another host — its own row, its own install command, no checkout.
- Portal account administration. The operator side of the portal gained account search and per-account management controls, so enterprise arrangements — such as granting the offline class — are handled faster.
- Licence suspension (a reversible hold). If a licence-terms concern arises, the operator can place every licence on an account on temporary hold pending review: running daemons stop at their next licence check, hosts refuse to start the daemons, and new installs are declined — but nothing is deleted. Portal sign-in keeps working so the matter can be resolved, and lifting the hold restores exactly the same licences (a daemon restart on the affected hosts is all it takes). This is a server-side control — it works with existing installations and needs no upgrade.
If you plan to run Binions somewhere without a permanent internet connection, offline licensing is available as an enterprise arrangement — contact us about having the class enabled for your account. Once granted, upgrade to 0.6.2-beta and install (or reinstall) through your dashboard’s install command — the licences written to the host carry the offline class from that point on. Everyone else: a routine apt update && apt upgrade moves the fleet to 0.6.2-beta-1; your licence binding, your daemons, the sixty-four-verb vocabulary and the playbook grammar are exactly as they were. Nothing to reconfigure.