What's shipped, and what's coming next.

The quickest way yet to a working Linux VM. Choose Cloud image when you create a workspace and Velo Workspaces downloads the official Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora or Rocky Linux cloud image, sets up your account and SSH key with cloud-init, and has the system ready to sign in to in about a minute.

Prefer a full installer? Ubuntu, Fedora and Rocky Linux installs can now run on their own. And a built-in SSH terminal signs in to a workspace with a key kept in your Keychain. Everything in this release is free except the terminal, which is part of Pro. The 1.2 release post walks through it all.

• Cloud images for Ubuntu 26.04 and 24.04 LTS, Debian 13 and 12, Fedora 44, and Rocky Linux 10 and 9
• Automatic installs for Ubuntu Server and Desktop, Fedora Server and Everything, and Rocky Linux
• An Image Library in Settings › Images: downloads are checked against the vendor's checksum and reused, and base images live there too
• Built-in SSH terminal (Pro). The Access tab shows a copyable ssh command, a VS Code Remote block and an ssh -J command for other computers, all free
• More installers: Fedora Workstation, Kali Linux, NixOS 26.05 and 25.05, and Alpine Linux 3.24
• Fixed: arm64 Fedora, Rocky Linux and NixOS installer ISOs that only a CD drive could boot now start on Apple silicon
• The macOS restore image stays in the library, so a second macOS workspace doesn't download it again

Velo Workspaces became free to download. Anyone who had already bought it keeps everything they paid for, permanently and at no extra cost, with nothing to restore or sign up for. Everyone can create and run as many Linux and macOS workspaces as they like for free, with the console, shared folders, SSH details, the VS Code Remote helper and diagnostics export included.

Velo Workspaces Pro adds AI Bridge, restore points, disposable workspaces, base images and Rosetta for $3.99 a month, $24.99 a year, or $79.99 once, with a free week to try it. Pro unlocks creating these things; it never takes away what you already have. If a subscription ends, your workspaces still start, restore points still restore and base images still work. The pricing section has the full list.

• Diagnostics opens in its own window, like Preferences
• Support and Feedback moved into the sidebar, and the Help menu opens the support page in your language
• Fixed shared folders sometimes coming back in a different order after a relaunch
• Fixed CPU usage not updating in the Overview and Resources tabs

AI Bridge provider fixes and a crash fix. Before this release, every workspace sent its AI Bridge traffic to Ollama's default port (11434) whichever provider you had selected, so if you ran MLX or llama-server on 8080, requests arrived at a port with nothing listening. The bridge now forwards to the port your provider actually uses, and switching providers takes effect right away, without a restart.

The crash: an AI Bridge connection that closed while data was still in flight (a cancelled generation, a client timing out, a benchmark saturating the channel) could take down the whole app and every running workspace with it. It was rare in everyday use, since a thousand streamed completions in a row never triggered it, but cancelling a transfer reproduced it reliably.

• You can pick the host provider for a disposable workspace when you create it, the only moment it can be set
• CPU, memory and storage values typed in Advanced Settings are kept even if the cursor is still in the field
• Lower latency between AI Bridge and the inference server
• Clearer diagnostics: logs show both the channel port a workspace dials and the host port its traffic goes to