v1.38
Self-service Object Storage, AlmaLinux 10, and instance metrics
Object Storage
Object Storage is generally available to all organizations through the console.- Self-service storage uses the same prepaid organization balance as Compute instances and Hivenet Inference Service.
- At zero credits, new buckets and uploads are blocked. The console explains the seven-day deletion policy and offers Add credits. If you cannot add credits, contact your organization’s billing administrator.
- Enterprise customers with an invoicing agreement continue to receive monthly invoices. Prepaid-credit restrictions do not apply to that arrangement.
Console and SSH
- New accounts have a guided first-time experience.
- The sidebar can be collapsed, and the Enterprise tier is visible in the console.
- Instance creation has one fewer step, and every instance type shows a monthly price.
- You can configure your SSH client to trust Hivenet’s signing authority once, avoiding repeated host-key prompts for new VMs with valid signed certificates.
Instances
- AlmaLinux 10 is available for CPU and GPU virtual machines.
- Updated Fedora GPU VM images retain the NVIDIA driver after a normal
dnf upgrade. - Instance usage metrics are available through the public Compute API. The console metrics view is not part of this release.
Inference Service
- Search and filters help you find deployments.
- The model picker includes license, latency, output speed, and monthly price information.
- Copy URL copies an endpoint’s address for use in your application.
v1.37
Instance reliability, disk recovery, and Inference Service permissions
Instances and virtual machines
- VM boots and restarts are faster, with improved networking for multicore VMs.
- Rebuilding an instance now shows Starting while it restarts.
- Fixed instances getting stuck while stopping or terminating, containers failing to return after a restart, and VM root disks being deleted during a plan change.
- Updated Ubuntu GPU images keep NVIDIA driver packages on hold so a normal
apt upgradedoes not replace only part of the driver. - Offline locations are shown as sold out.
- Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is available again for CPU and GPU VMs.
Disk recovery
Support can now help recover files from a terminated instance when a completed disk backup is available. Recovery does not restart the terminated instance and is not guaranteed. Keep your own backups.See Ask about disk recovery.Inference Service
- Owners and Admins can manage all organization endpoints. Members can manage only their own.
- When a member is removed, ownership of their endpoints transfers to the administrator removing them, and their API keys for Inference Service are revoked.
Security and console fixes
- Improved tenant isolation for container logs and monitoring, encrypted internal platform messaging, and added checks to reduce personal data in platform logs.
- Fixed console issues affecting the first-login menu, Safari, endpoint creation, and access-key dialogs.
Object Storage availability
Object Storage is available through enterprise onboarding. Public beta access and full self-service are not part of this release.v1.36
More reliable instance starts, SSH connections, and billing.
Instance reliability and storage
- Instances now reach Running only after they respond over SSH. Applications inside the instance may still need time to start.
- The console filters instance sizes against host capacity, refreshes availability as instances are created, and hides presets with no available location.
- Failed starts have a limited number of automatic retries. Start and stop operations recover more reliably from internal conflicts.
- Startup waits for disk preparation to finish. Cleanup fixes prevent healthy instances from being terminated and protect persistent volumes if an instance cleanup fault occurs.
SSH and diagnostics
- Instances present signed SSH host certificates for server identity verification and can use a configured login username instead of an image’s default username.
- SSH routing recovers automatically when it loses track of an instance.
- Support can use VM serial-console logs to investigate boot and crash problems.
Billing and credits
- Auto top-up is disabled when a user is moved to another organization without choosing to join it.
- Running Inference API deployments with an effective cost of €0 under a fully discounted contract are no longer stopped solely because the organization has zero credits.
- Organization discounts now apply to LLM model presets.
- Internal ledger entries no longer appear in transaction history.
VM performance
GPU hosts use NVIDIA driver 610 with open kernel modules. Updated GPU VM images avoid rebuilding the driver at startup, reducing boot preparation. CPU-only VMs use hugepages to improve memory performance.v1.35
More predictable billing, more resilient Endpoints deployments, and clearer instance recovery.
Billing and credits
- Instance billing now stops as soon as an instance leaves the Running state. Time spent stopping or terminating is no longer charged.
- Organizations on contracts with a 100% discount now show an effective hourly price of €0.
- Endpoints deployments stop automatically when an organization’s credit balance reaches zero.
Endpoints
- Replicas stuck in Starting can now recover automatically, with a manual retry available when needed.
- Scaling down pauses surplus replicas instead of deleting them, making it faster to scale back up.
- Dashboard metrics now report 7-day request counts and input/output token counts more accurately. p95 latency and error rate are measured over a 24-hour window.
- GPT-OSS 20B now supports OpenAI-compatible tool calls and reasoning output.
- Model variants are now served under their own names, avoiding collisions between variants.
Instance reliability
- Instances that fail to start retry a limited number of times before moving to a clear error state that you can retry manually.
- Instances stuck while stopping or terminating are cleaned up automatically.
- Reboots now have their own recovery window and no longer fall back to a stop.
- Invalid instance actions now return clearer errors instead of generic server errors.
SSH connectivity
Every instance now exposes a stable SSH endpoint on port 22. The endpoint is reported in the instance’s events so it can be discovered consistently as the instance moves through its lifecycle.v1.34
Public API access, organizations and teams, the production launch of Hivenet Inference API, and major reliability improvements across Compute.
Public Compute API v1
The first public Compute API is now available.You can use eight documented endpoints to:- List and inspect instances
- Read recent instance logs
- Start, stop, and terminate instances
- List available regions
- Browse available hardware presets
Organizations and teams
Organizations are now available to all Compute users, making it possible to manage instances, teammates, and credits together.You can now:- Create an organization
- Invite teammates by email
- Preview, resend, and manage pending invitations
- Assign roles to organization members
- Use a shared organization credit balance
Hivenet Inference API
The Hivenet Inference API is now available in production, with OpenAI-compatible endpoints running on NVIDIA RTX 5090 hardware.Five models are available at launch:- Qwen 3.6 27B
- Qwen 3.6 35B
- Gemma 4 31B
- Gemma 4 26B
- GPT-OSS 20B
- Failed replicas restart faster.
- Model weights are loaded from a local cache at each location, reducing dependency on external downloads during startup.
- API keys associated with an organization are removed when that organization is deleted.
Shared dedicated servers
Private Compute locations can now be shared across multiple organizations.This allows several organizations, including separate teams belonging to the same customer, to use infrastructure reserved on the same dedicated server without requiring a separate location for each organization.Instance reliability
A broad set of improvements makes core instance management and networking more reliable, including fixes across instance lifecycle, recovery, and networking behavior.Faster support for instance issues
Hivenet Support can now perform additional recovery actions directly when troubleshooting an instance, including rebuilding an instance or changing its instance type.This reduces the need to escalate some recovery cases to the Compute engineering team and can help get affected instances working again sooner.Platform reliability
This release also includes infrastructure changes that improve monitoring, incident detection, deployment reliability, and how Compute manages regions as the platform expands.Public Compute API
Public Compute API documentationThe new Compute API documentation is now available for developers building scripts, tools, and integrations with Hivenet.The documentation covers:Manage existing Compute instances through the Hivenet API.
- Listing, inspecting, starting, stopping, and terminating existing instances
- Reading recent instance logs
- Listing supported region codes and available hardware presets
- Authentication, pagination, error handling, and rate limits
- Request and response examples for every documented endpoint
RTX 4090 fleet retirement
On August 8, 2026, Hivenet completed the retirement of its RTX 4090 Compute fleet as part of the transition to newer GPU hardware.RTX 4090 instances are no longer available for new workloads. Current GPU workloads should use the presets available in the Compute console, including NVIDIA RTX 5090 configurations.Existing RTX 4090 instances and their local data were removed when the retired nodes were decommissioned.Older tutorials, benchmark articles, and changelog entries may still mention RTX 4090 hardware when it is relevant to the configuration tested or available at the time. These references are historical and do not indicate current availability.See GPU types and sizes for current fleet guidance.The RTX 4090 fleet has been retired from Compute with Hivenet.
v1.32
More accurate instance availabilityInstance presets now reflect real-time capacity more accurately. Configurations that can’t currently be provisioned appear disabled instead of disappearing from the list.Sold-out and storage-constrained states are now more precise, reducing cases where an instance looked available but failed to launch.Inference improvementsFalcon-OCR is now available in the managed model catalog.Managed models now start faster and more reliably by loading weights from a local cache at launch instead of pulling them from an external endpoint.vLLM runtime behavior is also more stable, with pinned dependencies and cleaner shutdown handling.Storage capacity checks improvedCompute now checks available disk capacity more accurately before launch, including scheduling limits, disk reservations, and live replica state.Networking improvementsPer-instance network controls now apply to both VM and container instances, helping make network behavior more predictable and reducing noisy-neighbor variability.More accurate instance availability, Falcon-OCR inference, and more predictable networking.
v1.31
GPU VM reliability improvedMore reliable GPU VM restarts, cleaner billing, and easier instance access.
- Fixed several issues that could prevent GPU VMs from restarting, booting, or recovering cleanly, especially on Ubuntu GPU VMs and larger eight-GPU configurations.
- NVIDIA driver configuration now persists more reliably across package reinstalls and kernel upgrades, reducing the chance of GPU drivers breaking after a reboot.
- Stuck instances are now detected and recovered more reliably.
- Deleted instances now clean up related resources more consistently and are marked as terminated correctly.
- Deprecated Ubuntu and older image variants have been removed from the template catalog so unsupported builds can no longer be launched.
- Instance connection panels now show full access URLs for each open port, making it easier to open Jupyter and custom services.
0 in the Connectivity panel.Billing reliability improved- Fixed billing drift on stopped and errored instances.
- Compute now checks stopped instances regularly and closes any billing records that should no longer be active.
Additional infrastructure and monitoring improvements were added to support more reliable regional routing and faster issue detection.
v1.30.2
GPU VMsThis release improves GPU VM reliability, instance cleanup, SSH compatibility, and auto top-up stability.
- Fixed GPU driver issues that could prevent GPU VMs from starting correctly on supported operating systems.
- Prevented automatic OS updates from breaking GPU drivers after a reboot on GPU VM images.
- Fixed a boot issue that could affect 8-GPU VMs.
- Improved image tagging for more predictable deployments across environments.
- Fixed cleanup issues that could leave resources behind after an instance was terminated.
- Fixed an issue that could incorrectly show some instances as sold out in certain environments.
- Instances stuck in an error state are now automatically terminated and cleaned up.
- Fixed several edge cases affecting instance status updates and restart flows.
- Added ECDSA SSH key support.
- Enforced a minimum RSA key length of 2048 bits.
- Improved SSH connection performance for large file transfers.
- Improved the reliability of auto top-up credit handling for accounts with automatic billing enabled.
v1.30.1
InstancesImprovements to instance management, billing, and reliability, plus a few UI polish updates.
- Instances can now be terminated while starting.
- Stopped instances are now retained for 10 days instead of 5.
- Improved the instance experience across several flows.
- Fixed OS image name display.
- Added a transaction history view.
- Lowered the minimum custom top-up amount from €20 to €10.
- Sold-out states are now handled more gracefully.
- Improved SSH key validation.
- Updated UI text and labels across the product.
v1.25
Pricing at the time of this release:Lower GPU pricing, faster startup, and smoother custom networking.
- RTX 4090: 0.20 EUR/hour
- RTX 5090: 0.40 EUR/hour
- Custom TCP, UDP, and HTTPS port configuration for improved flexibility.
- Upgraded SSH documentation and in-app help link for easier setup.
- Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, CUDA 12.8, and pre-configured Hugging Face cache.
- Faster time-to-first-training and consistent environments across GPUs.
- Updated sign-up profiling questions for clarity.
- Last seen tracking for active users on Compute.
v1.24
New pre-packaged vLLM models added (total of 10 now available):Expanded vLLM model catalog, faster launch times, and improved stability.
- Meta Llama-3.1 8B Instruct
- Mistral Small-3.1 24B Instruct
- Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
- Mistral Small-24B Instruct
- Qwen-2.5 VL 32B Instruct
- GPT OSS 20B
v1.23
HTTPS services are now available.vLLM inference servers added.Improved instance flow for smoother setup and management.More connectivity options introduced.HTTPS support, new inference options, and smoother instance setup.