# MAO 0.11.0

Released 2026-10-15.

## Changes

- **A new name.** The app, its window, its icon, the installers, the notifications and this website now say MAO. On the first launch after you update, your workspaces, canvases, notes, chats, arrangements and settings are moved to the new data folder. Nothing is deleted, and the old folder stays as a link to the new one for a while.
- **Sign in with your email.** The app opens your browser, sends you a link by email and connects the computer. There is no password. Your 7-day trial starts when you connect a computer, and a paid licence is renewed quietly in the background while you are online. If you already have a licence key it keeps working: sign in once to link it to your account. The sign-in screen is a single button.
- **One computer per account.** Connecting a second computer offers to replace the first, a limited number of times per year. The computer you replaced is disconnected at its next renewal, and you get an email when a computer is connected or replaced.
- **The command is now `mao`.** The `relay` command and the `RELAY_*` variables agents see are replaced by `mao` and `MAO_*`. The app replaces the agent skills it installed earlier with their new versions on first launch. Anything of your own that calls `relay` or reads a `RELAY_*` variable, such as a routine's script, has to be updated.
- **Backups are written as `.mao-backup`.** Existing `.relay-backup` files still restore.
- **Linux:** the launcher entry and icons are renamed, and the old launcher entry and the `relay` program are removed when you first open the update. If the old entry was pinned as a GNOME favourite, pin the new one again.
- **Trial and unlicensed installs do not update in place.** If you are on the free trial or have no licence, download MAO from [trymao.dev](https://trymao.dev) and open it as usual.

Source: https://trymao.dev/changelog/0.11.0