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Nitrocid 0.2.1 Tech Preview is available

This year, we’ve released a new major version of Nitrocid that brought lots of amazing new features that we were working on since last year. It brought attractive new look and general improvements to the whole kernel, while introducing new features that improve your user experience, including:

• Chatbot AI
• Widget Canvas API
• Configurable modern logon screen and homepage
• …and so on.

As we are less than two years shy of the tenth year anniversary of the first ever version of Nitrocid, which was v0.0.1 released February 22nd, 2018, we are so happy to announce that the new version of Nitrocid is under construction.

Starting from today, you can now obtain an early taste of how Nitrocid 0.2.1 will evolve. Based on our previous experiences with the previous technical preview of 0.2.0, we’ve finished implementing all the technical side of this version, and real development will start early next month.

To learn more about this version of Nitrocid, visit this link.

Nitrocid 0.2.1 Tech Preview is available

This year, we’ve released a new major version of Nitrocid that brought lots of amazing new features that we were working on since last year. It brought attractive new look and general improvements to the whole kernel, while introducing new features that improve your user experience, including:

• Chatbot AI
• Widget Canvas API
• Configurable modern logon screen and homepage
• …and so on.

As we are less than two years shy of the tenth year anniversary of the first ever version of Nitrocid, which was v0.0.1 released February 22nd, 2018, we are so happy to announce that the new version of Nitrocid is under construction.

Starting from today, you can now obtain an early taste of how Nitrocid 0.2.1 will evolve. Based on our previous experiences with the previous technical preview of 0.2.0, we’ve finished implementing all the technical side of this version, and real development will start early next month.

To learn more about this version of Nitrocid, visit this link.

Nitrocid’s Windows installer becomes more modular with optional addons installation

We have released v0.2.0.10 and v0.1.0.77 with the improved Windows installer! You can now try it out by downloading the installer file in the Releases page here. Learn more about it here.

Last year, we have introduced a brand new way to install Nitrocid to your Windows system using the WiX installer. This method provides you an easy way to install Nitrocid, and we have already integrated it with our WinGet packages for Nitrocid to make it easier for those who prefer WinGet over Chocolatey, as we know that WinGet is bundled with Windows 11 and modern Windows 10 versions by default.

However, the Windows installer didn’t allow you to exclude the Nitrocid addons, which meant that the minimal installation, which Nitrocid already supports, isn’t possible with this installer method. We needed to rectify this problem, and we took it into consideration during the rather quiet development of an upcoming version of Nitrocid, which is v0.2.1.

Now, we are very thrilled to introduce you to an enhanced Windows installer! It finally allows you to choose whether or not to exclude Nitrocid addons during the installation, and this is one of the most noticeable changes that will be introduced to Nitrocid v0.2.1!

Not only will this enhanced installer land to v0.2.1, but it will also land to v0.2.0 and v0.1.0 in a future upgrade expected to release later this week. This is part of our broader plan to support Nitrocid v0.1.0 and v0.2.0 for a long term while providing improvements to our projects.

To learn more about this change, consult the Aptivi Newsroom article below:

Nitrocid’s Windows installer becomes more modular with optional addons installation

Last year, we have introduced a brand new way to install Nitrocid to your Windows system using the WiX installer. This method provides you an easy way to install Nitrocid, and we have already integrated it with our WinGet packages for Nitrocid to make it easier for those who prefer WinGet over Chocolatey, as we know that WinGet is bundled with Windows 11 and modern Windows 10 versions by default.

However, the Windows installer didn’t allow you to exclude the Nitrocid addons, which meant that the minimal installation, which Nitrocid already supports, isn’t possible with this installer method. We needed to rectify this problem, and we took it into consideration during the rather quiet development of an upcoming version of Nitrocid, which is v0.2.1.

Now, we are very thrilled to introduce you to an enhanced Windows installer! It finally allows you to choose whether or not to exclude Nitrocid addons during the installation, and this is one of the most noticeable changes that will be introduced to Nitrocid v0.2.1!

Not only will this enhanced installer land to v0.2.1, but it will also land to v0.2.0 and v0.1.0 in a future upgrade expected to release later this week. This is part of our broader plan to support Nitrocid v0.1.0 and v0.2.0 for a long term while providing improvements to our projects.

To learn more about this change, consult the Aptivi Newsroom article below:

Nitrocid 0.2.0 SP1 and 0.1.0 SP7 are now available with FreeBSD support!

Since the release of Nitrocid 0.2.0 on February 2026, we have made several improvements across several versions that improve your experience in different ways, including security updates that were released for different sets of libraries, and the utilization of Terminaux that now uses Colorimetry.

As part of the availability of our projects to FreeBSD systems, we’ve released several new versions of libraries in the span of a month, and we were working hard for it to ensure that our libraries and applications are usable on FreeBSD systems. SpecProbe, Magico, BassBoom, and Terminaux have been updated to support FreeBSD.

Now, we are very excited to announce that the first service pack of Nitrocid v0.2.0 and the seventh service pack for Nitrocid v0.1.0 versions are now available for download! This service pack is a rather small service pack but sets a significant milestone for those who are using FreeBSD. Those service packs were results of our earlier work regarding FreeBSD.

For more information about the two releases, as well as the installation instructions, please consult the below Aptivi Newsroom article.

Nitrocid 0.2.0 SP1 and 0.1.0 SP7 are now available with FreeBSD support!

Since the release of Nitrocid 0.2.0 on February 2026, we have made several improvements across several versions that improve your experience in different ways, including security updates that were released for different sets of libraries, and the utilization of Terminaux that now uses Colorimetry.

As part of the availability of our projects to FreeBSD systems, we’ve released several new versions of libraries in the span of a month, and we were working hard for it to ensure that our libraries and applications are usable on FreeBSD systems. SpecProbe, Magico, BassBoom, and Terminaux have been updated to support FreeBSD.

Now, we are very excited to announce that the first service pack of Nitrocid v0.2.0 and the seventh service pack for Nitrocid v0.1.0 versions are now available for download! This service pack is a rather small service pack but sets a significant milestone for those who are using FreeBSD. Those service packs were results of our earlier work regarding FreeBSD.

For more information about the two releases, as well as the installation instructions, please consult the below Aptivi Newsroom article.

Nitrocid 0.1.2 has officially become EOL

Nitrocid 0.1.2, which was released on February 2025, has ended its official support as of February 12th of this year. When Nitrocid 0.2.0 gets released, this means that we have ended support for Nitrocid 0.1.2 as we move forward.

Nitrocid 0.1.2 provided more features, such as SMultivar, Pomodoro timer, commands, and much more, alongside many improvements that were shipped with this version of the simulator. It was a third major release for the 0.1.x version series that came after 0.1.1 and 0.1.0.

If you want to continue getting official support, consider these two methods:

• Upgrade to Nitrocid 0.2.0, taking breaking changes into account.
• Downgrade to Nitrocid 0.1.0, but with all updates applied, such as Nitrocid 0.1.0 Service Pack 6.

Users who continue using Nitrocid 0.1.2 will no longer get official support, and updates will officially end at version 0.1.2.33. This means that no security updates will be made for this version.

Nitrocid 0.1.2 has officially become EOL

Nitrocid 0.1.2, which was released on February 2025, has ended its official support as of February 12th of this year. When Nitrocid 0.2.0 gets released, this means that we have ended support for Nitrocid 0.1.2 as we move forward.

Nitrocid 0.1.2 provided more features, such as SMultivar, Pomodoro timer, commands, and much more, alongside many improvements that were shipped with this version of the simulator. It was a third major release for the 0.1.x version series that came after 0.1.1 and 0.1.0.

If you want to continue getting official support, consider these two methods:

• Upgrade to Nitrocid 0.2.0, taking breaking changes into account.
• Downgrade to Nitrocid 0.1.0, but with all updates applied, such as Nitrocid 0.1.0 Service Pack 6.

Users who continue using Nitrocid 0.1.2 will no longer get official support, and updates will officially end at version 0.1.2.33. This means that no security updates will be made for this version.

Nitrocid 0.1.0 Service Pack 5 and 0.1.2 Service Pack 2 released!

We are finally excited to announce two service pack versions of Nitrocid KS after a long time, and those versions upgrade 0.1.0.x to the fifth service pack with some improvements regarding the splash, while also upgrading the 0.1.2.x series to the second (and the last) service pack that brings in quality of life improvements.

Today, we are excited to announce their availability under the 0.1.0.59 and the 0.1.2.25 versions, which can be downloaded in their own section here. The development of 0.2.0 didn’t start yet, but we are in the process of starting it up as we shift our plans to the next-gen version, with no specific ETA for the development start. However, we promise that 0.2.0 will be the biggest release series after the 0.1.0.x series that started in March 2024.

Nitrocid 0.1.0 Service Pack 5

The fifth service pack of 0.1.0 is under the 0.1.0.59 version, further enhanced by the 0.1.0.60 version we’ve released yesterday to update the OpenMoji emoticons from version 15.0 to 16.0 as you can see here. It brings in updated emoji icons, alongside newly added icons.

The fifth service pack contains the following changes:

• Made SetCursor*() functions modifiable
• Fixed splash closing
• Backported improvements from 0.1.2 for games
• Help shows usages in command list

This makes your user experience more natural and intuitive than before, but, in the next service pack, it’s going to be quite huge in regards to changes, and the reasons are explained in the second service pack of 0.1.2.x.

You can download Nitrocid 0.1.0.60 here.

Nitrocid 0.1.2 Service Pack 2

As you can see, the Nitrocid 0.1.2.x version series has a new addition today, and that resembles the second service pack of this series, with 0.1.2.25 as the version. This version of Nitrocid brings the most important change, and we’ll explain it briefly below.

Terminaux 7.0 was released this August to bring many improvements in different areas of the library, including rendering images that became faster, making infoboxes that became more flexible, and managing shells that became more powerful than ever. Nitrocid 0.2.0 Tech Preview used Terminaux 7.0 to demonstrate those improvements with the necessary code refactors needed to align with the requirements.

We are excited to announce that Nitrocid 0.1.2 now uses Terminaux 7.0, and this dependency will be moved over to 0.1.0 as Nitrocid 0.1.2 becomes EOL in the middle of November. As a separate note, Terminaux 5.4.x will become EOL this September.

You can download Nitrocid 0.1.2.25 here.