Altair One Release 2026.0.0.0

The release notes provides details about the enhancements and resolved issues in Altair One 2026.0.0.0

New Features

Altair Drive
  • The new Tag management for files and folders, enabling users to quickly find files using common or specific tags. Users can organize tags into tagsets within each classification and add, edit, share, or delete them as needed.
  • Introducing Malware Scanning in Altair Drive to enhance security, transparency, and control over potentially harmful files.
    • Real-time Scan Status The UI displays real-time malware scan status, to track scan progress instantly.
    • Strict Malware Handling Policy The UI immediately restricts malware identified files, blocks all operations, and only allows to delete flagged files.

Altair One Enhancements

Altair One Appliances
  • Improved visual indicators for Appliance Status on Altair One Home, enabling quick status recognition, monitoring, and availability of each appliance.
  • Added an appliance Summary page with a bar chart that provides clearer visibility into node status, resource utilization, and overall system capacity for efficient management.
  • Added an appliance Nodes page with a detailed view of all compute and head nodes within an appliance, including Head Node Details such as state, instance type, and IP address. Enabled grouping by instance type for better analysis, introduced resource utilization bars for quick assessment of usage and capacity, and improved visibility of node operational states (Up, Stopped, Error).
Altair Drive
  • Enhanced Advanced Search and Filtering to find files faster and easier. Users can now filter by file extensions, content types, tags, file size, last modified time, and user, with improved search fields and a streamlined filter panel for quicker navigation and refined results.
  • Improved notifications for file upload, copy, paste, and delete actions, and added a full-screen view to track progress.
Altair Drive Desktop
  • User Storage Tab: View your storage usage directly in Altair Drive Desktop settings.
  • Admin Account Storage Overview: Site administrators get a comprehensive view of account storage and total consumption across all users.
  • Storage Alerts Thresholds: Administrators can set percentage thresholds to trigger alerts for themselves and users as storage fills up.
  • Purge Button: Site administrators can open the Altair Drive web interface to quickly purge files and free up space.
Note: This feature is only available in Altair One Enterprise.
Altair Applications and Version Updates
  • Version 2026.0 upgrade for HPCWorks, Access, and PBS Pro.
  • Onboarded 2026 versions of all HyperWorks products and solvers to Altair One Appliances.
  • Added GUI application version 2026 to Desktop Windows appliance.
  • Added Batch/Solver application version 2026 to Altair One Compute
Bug Fixes and Enhancements
  • Enhanced privacy in proxy logs within Access remote desktop sessions.
  • Enabled multi-GPU support for remote desktop sessions to fully utilize available GPUs.
  • Refreshed the Appliance page UI with additional job states.
  • Improved reliablity and performance of the Altair One platfrom.​ ​