Release Notes 2026.6.0

This release is one of our biggest this year with a much cleaner dashboard, better usability, LOTS of bug fixes, and overall security improvements. We also rebuilt how billing works from the ground up so adding resources to your organization is much easier, launched Carpathian Object Storage, moved bandwidth to a smarter per-network model, and opened up our threat intelligence feeds to everyone. Here is everything that is new.

Billing

We sunset the marketplace and rebuilt billing around one simple idea: pay for what you run, nothing more.

• No more buying allocations up front. Create what you need, and pay for what you actually run, prorated to the day, on one clean monthly invoice. Spin something up for a week and you pay for a week.
• Prices that go down as we grow. Pricing now lives in a live catalog. As scale brings our costs down, the savings flow straight to every customer automatically.
• Credits apply first. Any credits on your account are used before your card is ever charged.
• See your bill clearly. The billing page now breaks down every service by resource and configuration, shows networking costs per network, puts your spend cap front and center.
• Your payment method. The billing page now displays your saved card with an easy update option. None of your payment data (CC info) is stored on Carpathian's servers - we still use Stripe to handle billing.

A few important notes on payments:

• If your organization has no card on file yet, the dashboard and billing page will prompt you to add one. Creating resources is paused until billing is set up.
• Adding a card now verifies the security code and postal code. A card that fails these checks is declined. If the cardholder name does not match your account, we will show you a heads-up (but the card still works).
• If a payment fails, we warn you right away and again daily by email. Services are suspended after a grace period, and resources are permanently removed 15 days after the first failed charge. Pay at any point and your account is restored automatically. Our Terms of Service have been updated to reflect this.

Introducing Carpathian Object Storage

Carpathian Object Storage (COS) is here. Create buckets and upload, organize, share, and download files right from the dashboard. Objects can be private or public, with shareable expiring links and per-object public URLs.

Smarter Bandwidth, Now Per Network

We moved bandwidth plans from per-server to per-network, which is simpler and almost always cheaper.

• Each network has its own speed and data cap, and you are billed once per network no matter how many servers run on it.