NeuralVault 1.1 is the release we have been building towards since the first beta went out on 20 August, and it is now days away. This post says what it contains, what it deliberately does not, and what to do if you want it the moment it lands.
When
The plan is Tuesday 8 September, with the rest of that week held back for the things that go wrong on release days. If it is not out by the 14th, something went wrong, and this blog will say what. The changelog is where you will see the date become a fact.
Free and Personal go out on the same day, as one build, for Windows.
What is in it
A rebuilt interface. The first beta shipped on a frontend that proved the idea and was wrong for living in. 1.1 replaces it with a shell built around the two things people do all day, talking to Cortex and working in the vault, with settings, dashboard and library rebuilt around that. It opens faster, moves faster, and screens you return to paint from the last answer instead of a blank while they reload.
Sign in, and a licence the app can check. One account across the website and the app. Sign in once, and the app fetches a licence it can verify on its own afterwards, so a bad connection does not lock you out of something you paid for.
NeuralVault Personal, on sale from inside the app. Settings gets a Buy button that opens checkout for the right tier, and the app picks the plan up on its next licence check. No email chain, no key to paste.
Routing on credits, for people who do not want to manage API keys. A local model through Ollama stays free and private, and a cloud model on your own key stays the other honest option. The third path is NeuralVault routing: sign in, pick a model, and it works, with your balance and what each run used visible in Settings.
Search that uses the same index Cortex uses. The search box now answers from the index the chat tool reads, so what you find by hand and what Cortex finds are the same thing.
The full list, entry by entry, is under this post and on the changelog the day it ships.
What is not in it
The assistant that can act in your vault, not only read it, with you approving each change before it happens and able to undo it afterwards. That is built and being tested, and it is the first thing after 1.1, not part of it. Shipping it inside a release that is already this large would be the wrong day to find its edges.
How to get it
Free is a public download on this site today. 1.1 is a fresh download for anyone on the first beta, installed over the top; from 1.1 on, the app checks for updates itself. Personal is bought from Settings once 1.1 is out.
If you want to know the moment it lands, the release list on the services page sends one email when a version goes out, and the box at the bottom of the blog sends one email per post. Either is enough; you do not need both.