Release notes

TebibHost is in its lab preview. Entries are newest first.

Date	Area	Change
2026-11-08	Console	Ogbai, the console’s rules-based support assistant: checks SSH access, load and stopped VMs with your permissions, explains your spend, and offers one small fix at a time that runs only when you confirm it. See Ogbai.
2026-11-06	Storage	Scheduled backups: snapshot schedules (hourly, daily, weekly or cron, in your time zone) with retention by count or age; the console and tebib snapshot schedule warn when a run does not happen. Snapshots can be taken from the Snapshots page and restored from their own page. See Volumes and snapshots.
2026-11-06	Storage	Object storage (preview): S3-compatible buckets, private or public-read, S3 keys for you or a service account with rotation, tebib bucket and tebib storage key. See Store files in a bucket.
2026-11-05	IAM	Organization guardrails and permission boundaries. See Guardrails and boundaries.
2026-11-05	IAM	The access checker (tebib iam simulate, IAM → Access check) explains every allow and deny. Access keys expire after 90 days by default; unused keys are turned off after 90 days; the credential report shows last use.
2026-11-05	Compute	VMs shut down from inside stay stopped and say so (stop_reason: guest); VMs stopped by the platform are restarted.
2026-11-04	Billing	Monthly statements and top-up receipts as PDFs; runway and low-balance warnings in the console.
2026-11-04	Billing	Chapa top-ups for Ethiopia (ETB, and USD by international card), ready for when Ethiopian signup opens.
2026-11-04	Billing	Prepaid wallet with M-Pesa top-ups (STK push and paybill), hourly rating, internet egress metering with included allowances, promotional credit.
2026-11-04	Accounts	Self-signup with email verification and trust tiers; ID verification for higher limits.
2026-11-03	Platform	The console, the API and the tebib CLI: projects, VMs, volumes, snapshots, SSH keys, VPCs, subnets, security groups, NAT gateways, public IPs, IAM with policies, groups, roles and service accounts; passkeys and authenticator-app MFA.
2026-11-02	Network	VPCs with routed IPv6, private DNS, NAT gateways and movable public IPv4 addresses.