ElastOS 2.0.0

Released 2 November 2026. The first stable release of ElastOS v2.

New to ElastOS? Start with Install ElastOS. The full technical list is in the changelog.

New

Second passkey. Admins can add another passkey, such as a second device or a security key, in System > Accounts > Add passkey. When sign-in fails, the lock screen says why.
Touch layout. Screens 640 px wide or less get a Dock and one App at a time.
People has three pages: People, Profile and Public. Add someone by their DID, even if they are not in Public. A contact request waits 24 hours for the other Home to open.
Share with contacts. Library lets your contacts get a file of up to 8 MiB while your Home runs. Chat’s Attach posts a file’s link in Community.
Hosted models. On a Mac, admins can add a Venice or OpenRouter key in System > Models. Nothing is sent until you approve it in Inbox.

Your Home joins the shared Community. Inbox asks once whether members see when you are online. To stay out, run elastos setup --isolated before it first joins, or an admin leaves in System > Security.
After a network change, Home reconnects to Community by itself, usually within minutes.
Files no longer use the public IPFS network.
Web links in Chat, Documents and Assistant open only after you see the address and choose to open it.
Documents Autosave is off by default.
Releases are signed with a new key kept off the public server. From 0.7.1 or earlier, run the install command once. Your Home keeps its data.
The installer adds one line to your login profile, so elastos works after a restart.

Web pages open in a separate sandbox, and Apps need permission to reach your private data.
Browser gets security fixes (Chromium 155).
Guests cannot see the security log or use the web Terminal, which is off by default.
Not done yet: Home can still use every App’s permissions, background services run with your account’s rights, and approvals do not have a screen only ElastOS controls. Importing a Recovery Kit does not yet ask for your passkey again. See Security and privacy.

Services (sharing AI models or Browser with contacts), WalletConnect, Approval Lens, Apps & Services in System, and the Archive tile.

After elastos update or Undo in a terminal, Home stays stopped. Start it with elastos home --browser.
Posts between networks pass through the main Community node, which can read them until relay support arrives.
Direct messages need a direct connection, which some networks block. If a message stays on Sending, restart either Home.
Library can lose a save if the same file is saved from two places at once, or renamed, moved or deleted meanwhile.
Unsaved Documents edits are lost when sign-in ends after 12 hours without Home running.
Browser runs only on Apple silicon Macs and has no Chinese, Japanese or Korean fonts.
On a Jetson, getting Qwen takes about 43 minutes and its first reply about 22 seconds.
Models cannot read files, open websites or send messages. SmolLM2 135M sometimes says it did.
Copies of your files to your own other devices are not available yet.