Ever since the first announcement of "The Release Trio", we're getting closer to the day where we define the first big milestone since our major rebranding effort. We've been hard at work while we're finalizing the release of the projects that will be released on November 5th. Since we announced the upcoming projects, we've finalized all development, and began working on the documentation and the release process to make sure that everything goes smoothly.

Since our last support status change on September 2026, we have reviewed our support policy after we've managed to obtain One UI 9.0 on one of our devices, which is based on Android 17, released this year. After our evaluation of the support policy, we've determined that the following changes have been made, effective November 1st: We have changed the support policy to add support for Samsung phones and tablets that run One UI 9.0.

We at Aptivi have just recently distributed Nitrocid 0.2.1 Release Candidate and Terminaux 8.8 to all the available distribution channels, including WinGet for Windows and Launchpad PPA for Ubuntu. We're glad that the high quality bar has been successfully met by both versions, which makes our plan go smoother. We are very excited to inform you that, on October 15th, an upcoming announcement about our projects will be made, and this could mark the start of the overall quality overhaul, which we've already done on the release candidate of Nitrocid 0.2.1.

Since the release of Nitrocid 0.2.0 earlier this year, which brought many new features, we were focusing on not only performance-related improvements, but also the promising ones that will make it easier for you to use Nitrocid. The tech preview of the new version of Nitrocid already provided you with a basic architecture of how this version would technically work, but we were continuously working on it to add new features and to incorporate some enhancements, with continuous releases of Terminaux and related libraries.

Since our last support status change on May 2026, we have reviewed our support policy after the end of support for Terminaux 6.x and 7.x on August 5th. After our evaluation of the support policy, we've determined that the following changes have been made, effective October 1st: According to our official operating system support policy, we will no longer support macOS 14 and FreeBSD 15.0, both of which will be out of support on October 1st and September 30th, respectively.

An earlier work where we migrated stable documentation for Nitrocid, Terminaux, and BassBoom was done to consolidate all supported version series to a master repository found in the master project docs organization. GitBook has introduced a new way for us to set up a centrally organized repository that stores all of our project documentations in a single, unified repository. As a result, we used this feature to consolidate all the project documentation repositories further to three unified repositories:

Since the release of Nitrocid 0.2.0 on February, we were very thrilled to release new versions of the simulator that brought various sets of improvements, including those that were introduced in the service packs we've released. Meanwhile, we were working on making user experience better by introducing new features and by improving some of the core areas within the whole Nitrocid base kernel and its components, including its addons.

We are excited to announce that we're now back up and running, as we've managed to solve issues related to our network infrastructure. As we strive to continue development of our projects and following the updated release schedules to align with the incident, we have something important to announce exclusively on Aptivi Blog. On September 17th, a new announcement related to Nitrocid will be released to let you know of the progress of the development as we get closer to the official release of the new version.

We have earlier stated that changes to the project release dates would be announced as the network connectivity issues were being analyzed. This makes sure that we adjust our workflow to align with the updated schedules as Nitrocid, Terminaux, and other projects were being worked on. We are now announcing changes to release dates of our projects to align with the situation as issues are being dealt with.

We have recently ran into an issue that caused the development of our projects, such as Terminaux and Nitrocid, to go into a temporary halt due to issues with maintaining a stable internet connection. We know that an ability to access the internet is crucial as we are moving forward in technology, but such issues hold us back. We were excited to announce new big releases of our projects, such as the long-awaited Nitrocid 0.2.1, which we have been working on for a long time in synchronization with the development of various Terminaux versions under the v8.x release series.

Terminaux 8.7, which is set to release August 20th, will contain breaking changes that will affect how your Terminaux-powered applications function. The refactors that we've done to Nitrocid earlier, which is part of an effort to modernize the Nitrocid codebase, have necessitated those breaking changes that were made to Terminaux. Those breaking changes were made to different components, including the shell command handling mechanism.

Since Nitrocid was first released in 2018 as Kernel Simulator, we implemented many features that eventually made the core of the kernel in its own library and extra features as addons. This separation made sure that the core of the kernel isn't oversized with features that aren't part of the core kernel. However, the codebase for some of the features, especially those that focus on code for individual commands in the base kernel and in extra addons, has begun to show its age as the kernel evolved.

Starting from July 21st, with an introduction of new Nitrocid versions, we have introduced an improved distribution method for Launchpad PPA archives for our projects, including Nitrocid and BassBoom. This improved distribution method allows us to build packages for our applications throughout all the supported Ubuntu versions without any human intervention. Before, it required human intervention to achieve the same thing, and it was prone to mistakes.

The second half of 2026 has just started, with July 1st being already here, and we are here to make both July and the rest of the second half of this year more exciting than the first half. Some months felt slow, but we brought in lots of exciting changes to Aptivi and its projects within the first six months of this year.

We have updated the policy regarding the distribution method of the Launchpad PPA packages for our applications, after careful consideration. This policy change is necessary to ensure that users are more aware about our support policy for end-of-life (EOL) versions of Ubuntu, where we don't provide support for those versions. Starting from today, Ubuntu users who are using EOL versions of Ubuntu and plan to install our applications with the official Aptivi PPAs will no longer be able to install them to their Ubuntu systems.

This year, we've released a new major version of Nitrocid that brought lots of amazing new features that we were working on since last year. It brought attractive new look and general improvements to the whole kernel, while introducing new features that improve your user experience, including: Chatbot AI Widget Canvas API Configurable modern logon screen and homepage ...and so on.

The new major release of Nitrocid is beginning to take shape as we have released updates to the essential libraries needed to run it. As today is a summer solstice day, we are celebrating it by announcing this big news as we start working on the bigger stage of development. Nitrocid 0.2.0 was released earlier this year to introduce new features and to incorporate general improvements to ensure that the application becomes more stable than before, with the introduction of widget canvases and two-factor authentication to increase both flexibility and security, respectively.

Last year, we have introduced a brand new way to install Nitrocid to your Windows system using the WiX installer. This method provides you an easy way to install Nitrocid, and we have already integrated it with our WinGet packages for Nitrocid to make it easier for those who prefer WinGet over Chocolatey, as we know that WinGet is bundled with Windows 11 and modern Windows 10 versions by default.

The Chocolatey package method was first introduced in Nitrocid while we were trying to find ways to get users to be able to more easily try it out without having to manually unpack the ZIP file. Our efforts led to creating more installation methods for our apps, with the latest effort being the introduction of the WinGet installation method for Nitrocid and…