# puter 26.08 - Product: puter (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/puter) - Vendor: HeyPuter - Date: 2026-08-06 - Version: 26.08 - Original notes: https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/releases/tag/26.08 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/puter/releases/26.08 What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog. Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'. --- - **changed** — Improve app opens speed - **removed** — Remove deprecated AI models - **changed** — Replace Nginx with Caddy - **fixed** — Fix thumbnail resolution - **added** — Make uninstall also revoke permissions - **fixed** — Forward temperature 0 and max_tokens 0 to AI Completions providers - **fixed** — Forward temperature 0 and max_tokens 0 in puter-js ai.chat - **fixed** — Size img2txt data URIs by decoded bytes - **fixed** — Limit API pointing to apps only - **changed** — Improve traces and performance - **fixed** — Preserve max_tokens 0 for Alibaba, DeepSeek, and Claude - **fixed** — Ignore peer offers for unknown connections - **fixed** — Handle errors for bad keys - **fixed** — Normalize filetype associations to bare lowercase extensions - **added** — Add npm start --server= to run the GUI against a remote server - **fixed** — Fix dev-server port-retry crash under Express 5 - **fixed** — Fix authentication for local development - **added** — Add sandboxed app workers - **fixed** — Fix authentication message popups - **fixed** — Surface name collisions when pasting instead of failing silently ##### What's Changed * perf: try to improve app opens speed by @Salazareo in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3462 * remove deprecated ai models by @reynaldichernando in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3444 * add fixes 1 by @ProgrammerIn-wonderland in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3458 * Replaced Nginx with Caddy by @rowin-C in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3378 * fix: thumbnail res by @Salazareo in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3465 * chore: kill collector by @Salazareo in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3466 * feat: make uninstall also revoke + dashboard css changes by @Salazareo in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3469 * fix(ai-chat): forward temperature 0 and max_tokens 0 to Completions providers by @Ayush7614 in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3456 * ci: attach provenance and SBOM attestations to the published image by @kobihikri in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3463 * fix(puter-js): forward temperature 0 and max_tokens 0 in ai.chat by @Ayush7614 in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3455 * fix(puter-js): size img2txt data URIs by decoded bytes by @Ayush7614 in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3457 * fix: limit api pointing to apps only by @Salazareo in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3470 * perf: traces and perf improvements by @Salazareo in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3471 * fix(ai-chat): preserve max_tokens 0 for Alibaba, DeepSeek, and Claude by @Ayush7614 in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3472 * fix(puter-js): ignore peer offers for unknown connections by @Ayush7614 in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3473 * fix: errors for bad keys by @Salazareo in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3475 * driver controller change by @Salazareo in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3477 * fix: PUT-1398 by @Salazareo in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3478 * Apps: normalize filetype associations to bare lowercase extensions by @jelveh in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3479 * otel: better telemetry numbers by @Salazareo in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3480 * GUI: add npm start --server= to run the GUI against a remote … by @jelveh in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3481 * GUI: fix dev-server port-retry crash under Express 5 by @jelveh in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3482 * change cors auth path by @ProgrammerIn-wonderland in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3464 * fix: auth me for local dev by @Salazareo in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3484 * feat: sandboxed app workers by @Salazareo in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3486 * fix: auth message popups by @Salazareo in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3487 * fix: open ai cost by @Salazareo in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3488 * feat: slack alarms by @Salazareo in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3489 * tests: big test push for better coverage by @Salazareo in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3490 * fix: alarm channels by @Salazareo in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3491 * fix: surface name collisions when pasting instead of failing silently by @jelveh in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3492 * fix: progress window covering paste conflict dialog; ghost row after Replace by @jelveh in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3493 * fix: thumbnails breaking after copy — duplicate the S3 object per copy by @jelveh in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3494 * fix: phantom name conflict when pasting onto a just-renamed path by @jelveh in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3495 * feat: 'Keep Both' option in name-conflict dialogs by @jelveh in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3496 * add limit bypass by @ProgrammerIn-wonderland in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3500 * fix(ai-chat): infron default model is dropped by the aggregator alias rule by @meridah7 in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3506 * docs: do _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/releases/tag/26.08]_