• Print the build and prospective download URLs when todesktop build --async queues a build, making CI output directly actionable.
• Document the GCC 13 Linux build image as the default for new builds.
• Failed build preparations now retain their error details and appear as failed builds in the dashboard instead of disappearing.

• Allow extra resources and content files to be selected by operating system and architecture.

• Preserve pnpm workspace build policies when bundling workspace packages for desktop builds.

• Fix platform-specific extra resources and content files so override-only files are uploaded and packaged for the correct operating system, including same-named binaries across platforms. Builds now reject unsafe or colliding extra-file destinations and explain when an older CLI omitted platform override files.
• Support Bun and Yarn workspace catalogs in remote builds.

• Plugin errors now include actionable command output, making issues such as missing macOS permissions easier to diagnose.
• Fixed cross-platform window creation after the Electron 43 upgrade, including rounded-corner handling for Linux menubar windows.
• Internal bug fixes and improvements.

• Add support for running ToDesktop CLI builds with Bun while retaining upload progress and retry behavior.

• Upgraded ToDesktop Builder and apps created with it from Electron 38 to Electron 43.
• Improved native-module compatibility and packaging support for Electron 43.
• Improved local macOS app signing, including support for native features such as notifications.
• Local Run now automatically rebuilds cached apps after relevant Builder upgrades.
• Reduced the Builder’s packaged size by removing unused platform-specific components.
• Internal bug fixes and improvements.

• Resolve pnpm catalog references in peer dependencies when bundling workspace packages, preventing remote npm installs from receiving unsupported catalog: URLs.

• Added support for Apple Icon Composer .icon packages and macOS 26 adaptive app icons.
• Added adaptive icon previews and fallback icons for older macOS versions, Windows, and Linux.
• Local Run support for adaptive icons requires Xcode 26 or later.
• Internal bug fixes and improvements.

• Add app migration to ToDesktop.

  An existing Electron app can now move its installed user base over to a ToDesktop app by shipping one final update through its current update channel. Declare the migration with todesktop.init({ migration: { targetAppId: "your-todesktop-app-id" } }) (or a todesktop-migration.json file in the app's resources); the installed app then updates in place into the ToDesktop build and updates normally from then on. Supported on Windows, macOS (same signing team), and Linux (AppImage), with any build tooling — including Electron Forge. Apps originally installed with Squirrel.Windows can have the legacy installation cleaned up automatically via windows.migrationSource.squirrelPackageName in todesktop.json. See the @todesktop/runtime README for the full migration guide.

• Add CLI support for following build logs. todesktop build --follow-logs streams the build server logs live while a build runs, and a new todesktop logs [id] [--latest] [--platform] command streams logs for a running build or prints them for a finished one. Build server logs are captured and stored (with secret redaction) so they can be followed from the CLI, and the getAzureLogs callable was renamed to getBuildLogs to reflect that it no longer serves only Azure logs.

• Add a self-serve "Programmatic releases" toggle to app settings. Users can now enable or disable releasing without a security-token tap directly from the dashboard; changing the setting is itself authorized by a security-token tap. When todesktop release is blocked because programmatic releases are disabled, the CLI now explains the setting and links to the app-settings page where it can be enabled.

• Internal bug fixes and improvements.

• Add windows.signExts so Windows builds can opt in to signing additional file extensions such as .node.

• Pin Azure builds to known-good Node.js versions when customers omit a version or request a floating major version.

• Allow apps that are members of a monorepo workspace to pass build validation when the package manager lockfile lives at the workspace root rather than in the app directory.

• Improved reliability when creating new apps and uploading icons.
• Internal bug fixes and improvements.

• Allow Electron apps to set productName in todesktop.json so ToDesktop can use the user-facing app name during packaging without changing Electron's runtime app data path.

• Add build environment validation before remote builds to catch incompatible Node.js and package manager configurations, with an escape hatch for builds that need to proceed anyway.

• Add support for mac.provisioningProfile so macOS builds can include provisioning profiles for profile-backed entitlements such as APNs.

• Improved app and tray icon upload controls.
• Improved reliability when creating and duplicating apps.
• Internal bug fixes and improvements.

• Add "probe" value to linux.noSandbox option.

  "probe" is now the default behavior: at runtime, it detects whether the host supports Linux user namespaces (unshare -Ur) and only passes --no-sandbox when they are not available. Set noSandbox: true to always pass --no-sandbox (previous default behavior), or noSandbox: false to never pass it.

• Fix CLI release metadata so Changesets can prepare releases that include CLI updates.

• Fix CLI validation so apps without an explicit appPath still reject invalid Electron version ranges.

• Improved CLI error messages for invalid build IDs and other common failures so they are clearer and expose less internal detail.
• Allow using appBuilderLibVersion: "latest" in todesktop.json during builds.

• Add macOS Icon Composer .icon package support via mac.icon

• Allow choosing the latest app-builder-lib version in todesktop.json.

• Clean up failed builds by deleting the build record when upload fails.

• Fix cases when build cancelling doesn't work as expected

• Improved build introspection so the CLI passes app context for faster session startup and invited teammates can connect without tunnel auth permission errors.

• Add audio capture usage description for macOS
• Add ability to remove app and tray icons by @davej in https://github.com/ToDesktop/todesktop-builder/pull/533

• Added support for custom deb package dependencies via linux.deb.depends in todesktop.json

• Add linux.executableArgs configuration option for passing additional command-line arguments to the Linux executable.

• Fix whoami command not working when authenticated via environment variables (TODESKTOP_EMAIL and TODESKTOP_ACCESS_TOKEN)

• Fix whoami command

• Fix pnpm catalog references not being resolved when bundleWorkspacePackages is enabled but no workspace packages are bundled. This ensures apps using only catalog: dependencies (without workspace:* dependencies) can build correctly with Bun and other package managers.

• Use todesktopRuntimeVersionUsed instead of todesktopRuntimeVersionSpecified for smoke test

• Add support for Electron Fuses configuration
• Add Bun package manager support

• Add todesktop build --introspect flag and todesktop introspect [buildId] command for interactive shell access to in-progress builds
• Add --config-dir and --ephemeral global flags for custom config storage

• Various security updates

• Security fixes

• Upgrade to Electron 38.7.2
• Fixed issue where setWindowOpenHandler only evaluated the last rule in the array

• Add support for pnpm workspace catalogs in workspace bundling

Features

• Plugins are now opened up to everyone and no longer require user's to request access

Fixes

• Show error details when a build fails
• Fixed visual alignment of Run button

• feat(mas): add mas.minimumSystemVersion config option

• Add support for bytenode compilation

Features

• OS version is tracked by CSS class names. This allows you to target styles for specific OS releases. See the "Release-specific CSS" section here

Fixes

• Update to Electron 38.2.0. This contains a fix for lag on macOS Tahoe, more info here
• Slight adjustment of app profile positioning to account for larger traffic light on macOS Tahoe.

Features

• Add option to open same-domain URLs externally in app settings

Fixes

• Security fixes
• Fix for Panel window display issue on Windows

Features

• Added option to only allow verified external protocols when configuring app.

Fixes

• Enforce stricter http(s) protocol allowlist in open url in browser API

Security fix

• Security fix

Enhancements

• Upgraded to Electron 38.1.0
• Added support for Recall.ai plugin
• Updated to a new version of the internal pnpm that we use for plugin installs

Fixes

• Prevent renderer listener leak by tracking and cleaning up listeners for each registered accelerator
• Various improvements to plugin installation

Features

• Ability to sync app configuration to a local todesktop-data.json file that can be tracked in version control. See here for more info: https://www.todesktop.com/docs/application/sync-app-data-with-a-local-file

Fixes

• Fix bugs related to Files. Specifically fixes for deletion, permissions issues and support for sub-folders

Fixes

• When editing menu items we implemented a fix to prevent modifier dropdown state leaking between menu items
• Domain management is now in the web app and no longer in ToDesktop Builder
• Invited users can now view releases and diffs between releases

Fixes

• Menu merging operations result in duplicate menu IDs, causing UI glitches in the application.
• Asset migration bug

Features

• Added device permission handler for serial devices in web-contents

Fixes

• Simplified Sentry error-reporting logic (removed unnecessary customer-app checks)
• Correct Tab-key handling and improved label formatting in the Accelerator component
• Upgraded to latest version of @todesktop/runtime in customer apps
• Various patch to dependencies to fix security issues

Features

• Added an API to toggle app visibility in dock when no windows are active.
• Upgrade @todesktop/runtime
• Allow getLoginItemSettings to be accessed by non-privileged apps
• Enhance release management with ongoing and unreleased releases tracking in app-store and add reset confirmation in ReleaseProgress component

Fixes

• fix for Push Notifications socket timing out an closing

What's Changed

• Upgrade Electron
• Fix transparency crash
• Add programmatic support for FindInPageView
• Add a more clear way to start a subscription
• Fix URL sometimes opening in new tab
• Various bug fixes

Features

• Upgrade to Electron 33.2.0
• Add option to enable OAuth Popup Windows

Fixes

• Changes not persisting because failing validation due to missing properties
• Expires defaulting to current day

Fixes

• Fix Release Warnings Shown on Inherited App

• Support multiple code signing certificate targets

Features

• Support switching off Intel builds on macOS
• Add option for disabling the built-in spellchecker

Fixes

• Dismiss application groups tutorial once user has interacted with it
• Fix traffic light positions not updating
• Block UI and disable other buttons when updating app subscription

• Support disabling apple intel artifacts

Features

• Improve cert management and warn if releasing with an inactive cert
• Support application groups (staging/dev apps)
• Support soft deleting app
• Handle web contents (internal urls) when window created via API

Fixes

• Unify Subscription across web app and desktop app.
• Obscure window contents should apply to indirectly-created windows

• Add entitlementsInherit support for all mac apps

• add isPinnedToVersion for installer so we can show the link on the web app UI

• Support pinned versions in mac installer

• Evaluate pkg certs separately

What's Changed

• Push Notifications are now available for every app. You no longer need to contact us. We load the correct push notification service based on the signature of the function call.

Features

• Support Mac PKG files
• Support new FCM HTTP v1 API for push notifications. Documentation here: https://www.todesktop.com/docs/miscellaneous/push-notifications

Fixes

• When upgrading your plan, we now make sure that you are upgrading to a compatible plan.

• Use leader app in cases that involve code signing

• Prevent potential log timeout

• Handle cases where windows cert has type 'hsm'

• Added support for application groups

• Add support for mac pkg artifacts

• fix: envs don't get initialised until after the beforeInstall script

Features:

• Added session.setDisplayMediaRequestHandler support. See doc here: https://www.todesktop.com/docs/miscellaneous/capture-screen-contents-new

Fixes

• Throw errors to avoid assigning undefined to desktopApp.plugins

• Add support for todesktop.runtime.isInstalledUsingWindowsMSI function.

Features

• Upgrades to context menu. Spellcheck now works!
• Add option for disabling open link in new window
• Support passing through original URL to open-protocol-url

Fixes

• Fix potential error with installing new version of plugins
• Improving handling of detecting oauth URLs
• Don't duplicate custom domain and fix duplicate app not showing when not on Application view
• Option to disable sentry if error tracking is disabled