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# Feb 12, 2026

## 🌟 Grow Together, Build Better

This update focuses on expanding our community and empowering your creative process. With our new referral rewards, proactive resource management, and a refined design system, we’re making Arkain a more collaborative and polished environment for every creator.

#### Highlights

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**🤝 Invite Friends, Earn More Credits**\
**: Create more on Arkain—uninterrupted.**

Earn **900 credits** per referral—invite up to **10 friends** to get **9,900 total**!\
Keep the build going by growing your squad and earning together.\
👉 [Invite your friends & start earning now!](https://account.arkain.io/account/referral)

#### New Features

**🔔 Proactive Resource Alerts**\
Prevent downtime with instant resource alerts when usage hits 90%. Manage your environment before performance drops and track the **\[Notifications]** directly in the Workspace Sidebar.

**🔄 One-Click Environment Refresh**\
Skip the manual stop-and-run cycle. The new **\[Restart]** feature refreshes your container environment instantly for a faster, more seamless troubleshooting experience.

#### **Changes**

**🪙 Smart Credit Management**\
Maximize every resource. Receive Dashboard notifications on the day your free credits expire so you can plan your projects and ensure no credit goes to waste.

**💬 Seamless Support Access**\
Get help exactly when you need it. You can now request chat support by selecting **\[Contact Us]** within the \[Help] menu in the sidebar of both the Dashboard page and Workspace.

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#### **Minor Changes**

**Changes**

* **Automated Billing Retry:** The system now automatically retries failed credit deductions when a container is stopped.
* **Design System Update:** Upgraded our design system to a new version, introducing subtle visual refinements across the platform for a more consistent and polished experience.
* **Entry-Level Support:** Added a \[Contact Us] button to the login and sign-up pages for immediate support access.
* **Signup Security Update:** To ensure service stability, we now preserve hashing values for accounts blocked due to policy violations, preventing re-registration.
* **Age-Verified Onboarding:** Added a birthdate collection step during signup to comply with our policy where users under 16 are restricted from registration.
* **Intuitive UI Labels:** Renamed "Create more powerful containers" to \[Change container specs] to clearly reflect that both upgrades and downgrades are supported.
* **Daily Check-in Visibility:** Improved emphasis style to clearly indicate incomplete status for easier reward tracking.

**Bug Fixes**

* **Session Continuity:** Fixed the bug where terminal sessions were initialized when moving between Split Workspaces.
* **Check-in UI Stability:** Fixed the bug where the bottom section of the Daily Check-in popover was visually broken.