A new front door

Portail v2.6.9 shipped on 2026-10-09 as a patch release focused on a new front door. The home page at portail.cc is rebuilt around one idea: GPT, Claude and Gemini in one chat, for one $20 plan instead of three. The top of the page is now the same input box you use in the app, with the real model picker inside it. Type a question, sign up, and it sends itself as your first message on the model you picked. Below it, a scripted demo plays real Portail screens: switching models mid-thread, Gmail and Calendar actions, a scheduled morning brief, a Council of models, and Canvas. The work is recorded here because small releases are still product history. They change how people sign in, read responses, pay for access, share conversations, open files, or trust the system when something goes wrong.

The main changes were direct: ask before you sign up: the box at the top is the app's composer, with the same model and effort pickers. whatever you type waits for you and sends itself once your account exists, on auto or the model you chose, watch it work: five short scripted sessions built from the app's own pieces, so what you see on the page is what you get in the chat. phones play one and stop; you can replay or pause any time, the full lineup is browsable right on the page, using the same picker as the app, with the model and lab counts read from the live catalogue, memory, projects, connectors and scheduled tasks each get a small live preview instead of a paragraph, a release graph shows every version shipped in the last 30 days, with a link to each one's notes, pricing reads cleaner, says plainly that every plan gets every model, and explains how credits follow each model's real price, the footer has its own socials column for telegram and instagram, plus the dark/light and english/russian switches, the mobile menu now slides open instead of popping in, and phones get a small start free bar while you scroll, and fixed: scrollbars that were meant to stay hidden in the chat composer and tab strips now actually do. That list is intentionally plain. It names what changed without turning the release into theatre. When a release fixes a build, a redirect, a storage path, or a UI edge case, the value is often that users stop noticing the problem. The archive keeps that invisible work visible enough for future debugging and for anyone checking whether Portail has cared about the details over time.

This version also fits into the wider Portail contract. One account, one chat history, and one model picker only work if the smaller pieces keep their promises. Authentication has to fail clearly. Billing has to count honestly. Uploads have to arrive in a form models can read. Admin tools have to show the operator what happened instead of hiding it behind a blank screen. v2.6.9 moved that contract forward in its own narrow lane.

The screenshots attached to this entry show the public release record as it now appears on portail.cc. For older releases, this archive was rebuilt from the git history, package version changes, release modal text, and commit subjects. That means the page is honest about its source: it documents the shipped change and preserves the record going forward, even when the exact old production screen cannot be recreated from a single saved image.

The practical result is simple. Someone landing on this page can see the version number, date, release tier, headline, highlights, and a real rendered screenshot of the archive page. Search engines can index the post through the canonical URL, sitemap entry, and structured data. Future releases now have a standard to meet before deploy, so the history should get cleaner from here instead of fuzzier.