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Looking for the Paperspace API documentation?  The release notes can be found here.

Current Release: 6.7

What’s New:

  • Introducing Gradient Private Cloud, an enterprise solution for using Paperspace/Gradient on your own hardware. Learn more and request a demo here: www.paperspace.com/gradient/enterprise
  • Introducing Teams: a new way to collaborate on Paperspace.
    • Instantly create teams and invite friends and colleagues to join you on Paperspace
    • Share resources like machines, notebooks, jobs, and storage
    • Consolidate billing for your team and manage your subscriptions in one place
  • “Paperspace for Teams” is now Paperspace for Business. Business Teams will maintain all of their existing infrastructure (private networks, shared drives, VPNs, etc) and changes to Teams will not appear in their or their users’ accounts. Users can still request the Business feature from the Core section of the Console.
  • Gradient
    • Gradient Private Cloud: Install the Gradient Node binary or docker container to get started with Gradient Private Cloud. Check out the docs here.
    • Notebooks
      • New fast.ai Notebook Template for fast.ai 1.0. The new template is available in the Notebooks section of Gradient and is designed for the latest Fast.ai course. The new container is built on PyTorch 1.0
      • Auto-shutdown on Notebooks is now customizable. You can select from 8 hours, 12 hours, 1 day, 1 week, or disable it entirely (Note: this feature is only available for G1/T1 subscription tiers and higher.)
  • New Machine Learning in a Box Template! The new template is available on 18.04 Linux MLIAB machines created as of this release. See the updates to the templates here.
  • Added the option to release a Public IP from the same window as deleting a machine. The IP can also still be released from the Public IP section or saved for later use.
  • Native App: 
    • UDP / QUIC streaming for the native app: We've implemented QUIC, a UDP-based network protocol for a more responsive and latency free stream. For now, UDP is currently only available for any VM with a Public IP and will be the default setting. 
    • Super Responsive Mode. Allows users to configure how long the app should wait for a later frame to arrive before it drops it and moves on to the next one.
      Please Note: In Super Responsive Mode there is a continuous stream even if the screen is idle. This could be costly if you don’t have unlimited internet/tiered bandwidth.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue with the auto-shutdown script for 16.04 Linux machines
  • Overall reliability and security fixes

6.6

What's New

  • Gradient
    • Sorting and filtering have been added to Job & Notebook lists. Usernames cannot be searched, yet!
  • Notebooks
    • Custom Notebooks Containers: Build your own Docker imagine and run it on Paperspace! Get all the details here.
    • Save your Notebook Container: Prior to version 6.6,  Paperspace saved notebook contents, but not the notebook environment (configuration with libraries, custom packages, etc). Now we preserve the entire thing!
    • ‘Clone’ replaced by ‘Start’ button in the console
  • Jobs
    • You can now preview images in the Workspace file browser
  • Invoices
    • Invoice display improvements include more detail on the machine line items, such as hostname and creation date of each machine, and Public IPs now show a count of how many you own.

Bug Fixes

  • Team Admins can no longer delete themselves as users, and admins will not see themselves listed as a user in their list of team members.

6.5

What's New

  • Gradient
    • Introducing more Gradient Tiers for Teams! With Team subscriptions you can give your team users access to the power of Gradient. See the newly added tiers here. 
    • Gradient hours used now appears under the Subscription Info in the Billing section of the Console.
    • Gradient Subscriptions have been added to invoices
    • Persistent Storage (/storage) is accessible from Linux VMs 
    • “% Data Used” has been added to the Data tab in Gradient

Bug Fixes

  • Some fixes has been made to the native app to prevent crashing, such as when adding a second monitor
  • Fixed some issues on invoices that affected the way promo credit was displayed
  • Fixed multi-monitor and drag and drop issues in the browser

6.4

New & Improved

  • Gradient
    • We’ve built the ability to switch between compute types for notebooks and job runs. This means that you can work inexpensively on your notebook on a C2, for example, and then clone it onto a GPU to run your model, making Notebooks significantly more cost effective! Learn more here
    • Gradient Persistent storage is accessible from Paperspace Linux VMs created as of this release.

  • Core
    • If you leave your hourly VM running for longer than 24 hours, you’ll get a friendly reminder email. This feature currently applies to individual users only (not team admins or team members). Users will receive one email for each length of time in which the uptime is greater than 24 hours. (ex. A machine that is on for one week will receive one email, not seven.)
  • General
    • All cryptocurrency mining has been restricted on Paperspace to protect our users (by deterring hackers from compromising user accounts and using Paperspace to fraudulently mine), and to comply with other cloud providers' terms of service.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue with auto-shutdown on Linux headless machines
  • Fixed an issue affecting Windows native app users where installing the USB redirection driver resulted in an error. New functionality of the feature gives users the ability to install and uninstall it, and will result in fewer issues.
  • Fixed a clipboard-sync issue with copy+paste in the native app

Known Issues

  • RDP access to machines may require a Windows update on the VM

6.3

What's New 🔥

6.3 is loaded with some really exciting new features for Gradient°. If you're using Paperspace for machine learning, you want to check these out:
  • Notebooks:
    • Jupyter Notebooks now include support for Jupyter Lab Notebooks and Jupyter data science/R notebooks.
    • Support for browsing your Job storage, Persistent and data set from your Jupyter file browser
  • Jobs:
    • Public Jobs: Make a Job public and share with just a link! Anyone who has your link will be able to see your job and (if they join Paperspace) clone it to run a copy themselves.
    • Job Details Page: Everything about your Job: Parameters, environment, logs, metrics and code all in one place.
    • Metrics: (a new feature to configure charts by adding a print statement to your job logs) and more.
    • Browse & download your Workspace files
    • Support for several types of syntax highlighting: txt, sh, js, go, java, c, R, python
    • Canceled Jobs are marked as "canceled" (as opposed to "stopped")
    • Job Builder: New step added to the Job Builder for the port opener
  • Virtual Machines
    • We updated the template with the latest Windows Update, so new machines will not need it
  • General
    • We made some infrastructure changes that improved responsiveness in the Console and sped up the processing of commands
    • Improvements to the invoice display
    • CLI release notes have been updated, link above!
Bug Fixes 
  • Some users would encounter a missing error, this is resolved

 

6.2

What's New & Improved

  • Gradient° New Feature: Job Builder! The Job Builder takes you step-by-step through creating and running a Job. Use our pre-built test containers, or choose your GPU, docker image, workspace, and command, preview the CLI command, and submit your job all in one seamless flow.  Check it out!
  • More Jobs Features: Port Opener for Jobs, and sshing into a running Job 
  • More public datasets available! To save space in your Persistent storage, we're making some of the most popular training datasets available in a read-only format. Suggest your favorite ones to us in the community! To start, we have some of the fast.ai datasets pre-mounted. They can be found here. More to come!
  • Public API: This release includes the option to add/release a public IP dynamically at the time of machine start/stop. For full release notes and documentation on the API, click here.
  • We've elaborated on the job details shown in the log in CLI. This includes storage locations and availability, port mappings (if applicable) public IP, region name, and cluster name. 

 

6.1

What's New & Improved 🌟

  • Gradient° 🚀
    • Welcome to Gradient°! Gradient is now available to all users. Learn more about getting started with running your own Notebooks and Jobs here. 
    • Notebooks: Launch a Jupyter notebook on powerful GPUs in minutes
    • Jobs: the Gradient job runner lets you work on your local machine and submit jobs to the cloud to be processed. 
    • Storage: We've built new storage solutions to support these ML workflows. They're a work in progress, tell us what you think!
    • Some new machine types were added to run jobs and notebooks on (P100s and K80s)
    • Paperspace Python: Paperspace Python provides support for running python scripts and existing python code as Gradient jobs
    • Gradient Subscription (0,1): You can easily upgrade and downgrade between your Gradient subscription. Read more here.
    • This is just Version 1, more great features for Gradient are coming soon!
  • Native App
    • New! Audio surround sound settings
  • General Feature/Product Updates
    • All users can see their service limits 

Bug Fixes 🐛

  • You used to be able to click the Add Card button twice -- fixed!
  • If you were previously approved for a GPU type and then magically unapproved, that won't happen anymore.
  • Some app users were seeing an issue where the second monitor couldn't go into fullscreen if the first one already was. Full screens all around now.  

Known Issues

  • Known Issue: Some Linux desktop users are randomly being prompted to enter their passwords and their passwords don't work. Here's a temporary fix while we figure this one out.
  • Known Issue: The VAT field is not working on the Gradient upgrade modal If you would like to enter your VAT ID please go to the billing page. We're working on a fix for this.
  • Known Issue: Gradient°0 is currently not available for Team Users (Admins have access to Gradient). Gradient°1 on the other hand, is really collaborative! If a Team Admin upgrades their account to Gradient°1, all of the team members will have full access to Gradient, including any job or notebook. 

6.0

What's New & Improved

  • Gradient°
    • Lots going on behind the scenes preparing Gradient° for public launch. 
    • Gradient° credit: If you have Gradient° credit on your account, it will appear in its own field at the top of your Console and in the Account section.
  • Native App
    • Audio improvements 
    • All menu items in the Native App are now under the Paperspace icon 🎯, including multi-monitor, USB redirection, and audio settings. 
  • Invoices/Billing
    • We're slowly making some improvements to the Invoice displays. This release consolidates all of your Snapshots, Templates and Machines into their own sections, making the invoice display more compact.

Bug Fixes 🐛

  • We're not sure why we wanted you to triple-click to rename your machine, but now you can do it in one!  🖱️🖱️🖱️ (This also resolves the issue of firefox users not being able to rename their machines)
  • Fixed a bug that pulled the previous month's invoice into 'charges made this month.' The fix is retroactive.

 

5.9

What's New ⚡

  • New Product! 
    • Introducing: Gradient°, a suite of tools for exploring data, training neural networks, and running GPU compute jobs. Gradient° includes 1-click jupyter notebooks, a powerful job runner, and a python module to run any code with full power of the Paperspace GPU cloud. Learn more at https://paperspace.com/gradient 
  • New Look! The Paperspace console got a makeover 💄
    • Navigation: The nav bar has shifted to the left of the Console, so you can navigate through all of your Paperspace resources with ease, and now contains the following sections:
      • *Core: Everything virtual machines - Easily find your machines, templates, network configurations, etc.
        *Gradient°: Here's where your jobs and Jupyter notebooks live
        *API: Create and manage your API tokens here. Learn more about the Paperspace API.
        *Team: All team features have been consolidated to a Team section at the bottom of the nav bar. Manage your users here.
  • Team Features: Based on your feedback, we're building advanced user management tools. While we refine those features, we've had to temporarily restrict the ability for Team Users to create machines. If you need them to be able to do so, you can elevate them to a Team Admin for full permission.
  • CLI now accepts login using email and password, and saves credentials.

5.8

What's New 🔥

  • Mac users, rejoice!💃 USB redirection is finally available on the Mac native app. Most devices are supported, but some devices like cell phones and webcams are not compatible yet.
  • V100s are available with the Machine Learning in a Box Linux desktop template (beta!) If you want to check it out, submit your use case through the popup at machine creation.
  • Lots of behind-the-scenes stuff for Notebooks and Jobs, coming soon 👀 !! 

API

  • You can request access to the API on paperspace.com/api
  • New: Your API key utilization is displayed on the Account Info page of your Console
  • Your virtual machine's last 10 events (start, stop, restart, upgrade, etc.) are available 

Bug Fixes 🐞

  • Mac native app users were experiencing issues with CTL+Click which is now fixed 🔧
  • We also fixed an issue with V100 being unable to join private networks properly

 

 5.6

What's New

      • Users who deleted their Paperspace accounts and have a change of heart can reactivate their Paperspace accounts through the sign-in form with an email confirmation. Welcome back!
      • When a Team Admin creates a new user, the new user will get a welcome email
      • Fast.ai template has been updated

Known Issues

      • The latest Fall Creator's update to Windows 10 has caused some known incompatibilities with some hardware, and Windows 10 BYOL machine creation has been temporarily disabled while we work with Microsoft and our hardware providers to resolve these issues.

 5.5

What's New

      • AMS1 is LIVE! All features now available in our first European data center
      • We've added a new Template preloaded with everything you need for the popular Fast.ai course, Practical Deep Learning for Coders
      • Paperspace charges VAT for users with European credit cards from participating countries
      • A VM can be assigned to multiple users, allowing users to share a machine (though they cannot be accessed simultaneously)

 5.4

What's New

      • Teams can now have multiple Team Admins
      • Console changes and improvements include: 
        • Machine tiles now have a gear icon to reach the machine settings 
        • Account credit is displayed in the billing section, if applicable
        • On machine details page, see who the machine is accessible by (accessors). Coming soon, you'll be able to have multiple accessors on a given VM.
        • Subscription details can be expanded and contracted. Helpful for users who have multiple of the same machine type and can expand to see each VMs usage or contract for easy summarized viewing.
      • European Expansion (AMS1)
        • Machine create map includes new data center in Amsterdam. Coming soon!
        • Users can sign up to be notified of AMS1 updates here

Bug Fixes

      • Fixed an issue where the app would not uninstall completely on some devices
      • Applying promo code doesn’t require page refresh to see that it's been applied
      • Full-screen native app issues resolved

 

 5.3

What's New

      • Team Users can now create/delete machines, add/remove public IPs, create/delete/restore snapshots and use the auto-shutdown feature. Team Admin get a notification email anytime a User creates a VM.
      • The password tool that reveals the Paperspace password on your VM has been added to the latest Windows VM templates. Any new machine will already have it installed, any existing machine would still have to download it.

Known Issues

      • Mouse occasionally disappears and reappears in the native app

Bug Fixes

      • Audio issues on GPU+ machines has been resolved
      • A bug related to the billing of auto-snapshots belonging to deleted machines was resolved
      • Credit card info can be edited following an error

5.2

What’s New

      • Private networking is fully automated! Teams can create private networks from their Console.
      • Individual users can create and use Templates
      • Parsec Template for gaming is available
      • Referral codes are now shareable links
      • P6000s are available in limited release and can be requested through the Console in machine creation
      • Native App: Improved support for special mouse buttons (mouse 5, 6, 7)
      • Ability for Team Admins to edit user information and reactivate deleted users
      • Active Directory: Tags on machines to indicate if they are AD-joined, Team Admin can edit AD usernames can be edited through the Console
      • Subscription Info in the billing section now shows the number of hours used on machines for the month

Known Issues

      • Mouse occasionally disappears and reappears in the native app
      • Provisioning times are occasionally longer than usual
      • Audio issue on GPU+ 

Bug Fixes

      • Billing issue related to snapshots and templates is resolved
      • Active promo code displays in the billing section of the Console

4.9 

What’s New

      • New Advanced and Pro instances for Windows VMs*
      • API public beta signup
      • New gaming template & integration with Parsec
      • Optimized speed of provisioning and event processing
      • Better handling of relative mouse mode for games, Unity, Unreal etc.

Bug Fixes

      • Fixes for native app crashes and connection failures
      • AD usernames are now case insensitive
      • Windows native app hotkeys fix
      • Powered off VMs stuck displaying ‘shutting down’

Known Issues

      • Full-color mode is causing issues on GPU+ machines with the native app
      • Vertical resolution limited to 1600 pixels
      • Multi-monitor not available for GPU+
      • 2 Factor Authentication not available for AD users
      • AD users will have to log back in after restarting VM
      • Screens larger than 2560x1440 are not supported
      • Linux only: Google Chrome does not load web pages on the initial run. To use Chrome,
        run the program from the launcher, provide a keyring password, and close
        the browser. Run Chrome again from the launcher and use normally.

* If you had a Pro machine before 4.9, your machine's specs and pricing remain the same. Any new Pro machines will be created according to the new Pro specs and pricing.

4.7

What’s New

      • CPU instances now available for Linux (Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 16)
      • Create multiple machines simultaneously
      • Users and Teams without private networks can add public IP addresses. Teams with private networks that need IPs should contact support (for now). 
      • Team Admins can now reassign machines from one user to another
      • Shared Drive creation is now instant (for Team accounts)
      • Invoice display improvements include add-ons and category sections
      • Updates to the pre-installed software in Machine Learning Linux instances to include Tensorflow 1.1.0
      • Templates can be created from Linux machines but must be prepared following these instructions. 

Bug Fixes

      • Loading screen happens less often

Known Issues

      • Vertical resolution limited to 1600 pixels
      • Multi-monitor not available for GPU+
      • 2 Factor Authentication not available for AD users
      • AD users will have to log back in after restarting VM
      • Screens larger than 2560x1440 are not supported
      • Linux only: Google Chrome does not load web pages on the initial run. To use Chrome,
        run the program from the launcher, provide a keyring password, and close
        the browser. Run Chrome again from the launcher and use normally.

 

4.6

What’s New

      • Cloud Gaming partnership with Parsec optimizes the gaming experience on Paperspace.
      • Referral codes were added—share Paperspace with your friends and colleagues for free credit!
      • Available credit (promo codes or referral credit) displays when creating a new machine
      • Machine Learning template updated with the latest software
      • We are deprecating the previous version of the native app. You'll see a message about this when you launch this version of the app. Download the new version here.

Bug Fixes

      • Switching between Paperspace other streaming protocols (RDP, Chrome Remote Desktop etc.) is now supported
      • Windows explorer no longer crashes when mounting shared drive
      • Paperspace hostnames handle IPv6 resolutions

Known Issues

      • Cannot assign public IPs to machines from networks tab (You can still add one to your machine from the machine's details page in the Console).
      • Vertical resolution limited to 1600 pixels
      • Multi-monitor not available for GPU+
      • 2 Factor Authentication not available for AD users
      • AD users will have to log back in after restarting VM
      • Screens larger than 2560x1440 are not supported

 

4.5 

What’s New

      • Price drop: GPU+ lowered to $0.45/hr
      • Auto-shutdown option for Linux
      • Improvements when using other streaming protocols eg RDP, Chrome Remote Desktop etc.
      • Machine hostname and datacenter region displayed in console
      • New password tool for Windows
      • Display scaling in Windows now supported

Bug Fixes

      • Native app streaming improvements on WiFi
      • Linux desktop stream will auto-reconnect
      • Snapshot revert caused potential downtime

Known Issues

      • Vertical resolution limited to 1600 pixels
      • Multi-monitor not available for GPU+
      • 2 Factor Authentication not available for AD users
      • AD users will have to log back in after restarting VM
      • Screens larger than 2560x1440 are not supported
      • Gaming not optimized

 

4.4 

What’s New

      • New native app available for download. More on new features of the app here.
      • New GPU option: P5000 (by request only)
      • Hardware accelerated decoding on NVIDIA clients
      • Linux Machine Learning template updated to latest drivers/frameworks
      • Public IP addresses added for Windows
      • Linux servers
      • New Feature: Auto-Snapshot
      • Help Center widget added to Console to browse the help center and submit tickets

Bug Fixes

      • Improved event feedback in interface
      • AD machine joins are faster

Known Issues

      • Multi-monitor not available for GPU+
      • 2 Factor Authentication not available for AD users
      • AD users will have to log back in after restarting VM
      • Screens larger than 2560x1440 are not supported
      • Gaming not optimized

 

4.1

What’s New

      • Linux OS (beta)
      • GPU+ machine type
      • Machine Learning public Template
      • Public IP addresses (Linux only)
      • Multi-select for team admins from list view
      • New machine provisioning form

Bug Fixes

      • Fixed slow machine start times

Known Issues

      • 2 Factor Authentication not available for AD users
      • AD users will have to log back in after restarting VM
      • Screens larger than 2560x1440 are not supported
      • Gaming not optimized

 

3.8

What’s New
•   New Operating System: Windows 10 (Server 2016) - Licensed
•   Hostname now listed in Console
•   Added Users tab in team management console
•   Added ability to remove deactivated machines from Console
•   International support: German keyboards

Bug Fixes
•    Pagination fixed on machines and users Console pages 
•    Upgrade works with any storage amount

Known Issues
•    2 Factor Authentication not available for AD users
•    AD users will have to log back in after restarting VM
•    Screens larger than 2560x1440 are not supported
•    Gaming not optimized 
•    Invoices do not reflect upgrades

 

3.0

What’s New
•   New feature: Templates
•   New feature: Snapshots
•   Ability to rename machine
•   Added search functionality to machines list
•   Filter and sort options in machines list
•   Advanced settings: Multi-monitor, retina support and full-color resolution
•   Ability to set auto-shutdown
•   Audio stream optimized

Bug Fixes
•    Windows updates are displayed in interface
•    Machines occasionally get stuck at startup

Known Issues
•    2 Factor Authentication not available for AD users
•    AD users will have to log back in after restarting VM
•    Screens larger than 2560x1440 are not supported
•    Gaming not optimized

 

2.0

What’s New
•    2 Factor Authentication
•    New subscription type:  Air
•    Switched to a standard port (443)
•    Performance improvements across all platforms
•    Increased security

Bug Fixes
•    Mac native app fullscreen bug

Known Issues
•    2 Factor Authentication not available for AD users
•    AD users will have to log back in after restarting VM
•    Screens larger than 2560x1440 are not supported
•    Audio stream is not optimized
•    Gaming not optimized
•    File upload (drag and drop) with Firefox 

 

1.5

What’s New
•    Active Directory integration
•    Support for Teams
•    Consolidated billing
•    Drag and drop folder upload
•    Copy/paste button allows you to transfer clipboard contents in and out of Paperspace 
•    Improved security and stability

Bug Fixes
•    Mouse up events in Firefox
•    Mouse now works on devices with both touchscreen and mouse
•    Mac native app fullscreen bug

Known Issues
•    Your machine may appear unresponsive for up to 20 minutes during Windows Update. We're working on alerting you in the interface when this is happening.  
•    Linux native app does not enter fullscreen mode
•    AD users will have to log back in after restarting VM
•    Team invoice does not display team billing data
•    Screens bigger than 2560x1440 are not supported
•    Audio stream is not optimized
•    Gaming still not optimized

 

1.0

What’s New

• Web browser performance 25% faster (if you've only been using the native app, definitely give it another shot in Chrome!)
• Dramatic reduction in bandwidth use
• New monthly plans! Let us know if you'd like to switch from hourly
• Improved security and stability
• Experimental copy + paste into VM (currently only works with ctrl+c)

Bug Fixes
• White screen on initial connect (while loading)
• Smooth scroll calibrated for trackpads (still not perfect)

Known Issues
• Your machine may appear unresponsive for up to 20 minutes during Windows Update. We're working on alerting you in the interface when this is happening.
• Audio stream not optimized
• Drag-and-drop upload only supports files, not folders

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