Changelog

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 support for mas.x64ArchFiles in config.
• Fix: Build is only recognised as ongoing if it was created in the last 24 hours.
• Add support for mac.entitlementsInherit in config.

• 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

• Fix: Mac URL download links are now formatted correctly.

Features

• Upgrade to Electron 30.0.8, Chromium 124.0.6367.230 and Node 20.11.1

Fixes

• Better support for whitelist in constructors (e.g... trafficLightPosition on BrowserWindow)
• Light mode UI fixes
• Z-index fixes

• Add support for mas.entitlements in config.
• Add support for mas.entitlementsInherit in config.
• Add support for mas.provisioningProfile in config. Removed mac.provisioningProfile as a result.

• Add support for mas.type in config.
• Add support for mac.provisioningProfile in config.
• Add support for specifying buildVersion in config.

• You can now specify @electron/rebuild as a custom rebuildLibrary in your todesktop.json file.

Fixes

• Add un-draggable section to the host page so that the find-in-page view is clickable and does not drag the window
• Focus the host page when find-in-page is closed
• Windows should have the correct app name (not "ToDesktop") if they are using the Mac-style app menu on Windows or Linux
• Allow "." character in app protocol

Features

• Add support for customising windows titlebar style
• Added ability to customise the location of the "Find in page" box
• Dialog methods are now available via our API
• Added a button to compare changes since the last release

Fixes

• Dock visibility changes are now throttled which makes them more resilient
• Fixed support for more accelerator keys (including comma and period)
• Various fixes to minimize-to-tray functionality
• Fullscreen tabbed behaviour on Mac is now simplified to avoid blank screen bugs
• Show full release date when hovering on prior releases
• Minor visual fixes
• Fixed some documentation links

• Revert support for yarnVersion in config. Instead use .yarnrc.yml file to specify yarn version.

• Add support for --webhook flag for todesktop build command
• Add support for --async flag to run a build in the in the background
• Add support for specifying custom yarnVersion in config
• Add support for specifying custom pnpmVersion in config

Features

• You can now completely customise how auto-updates are displayed to the user and how often we check for updates in the background

Fixes

• Stop showing release preview if progress reset
• BrowserView fixes for client-core
• Improved client-side migrations and usage of backfills

Fixes

• Notification API fix

Fixes

• Files no longer get stuck on syncing
• Menu Item Fixes
• Update links to icon spec documentation

Fixes

• Minor auto-updater fix

Features

• Upgrade to Electron 27.0.2
• Support "Desktop" style window — "Desktop" is a window at the desktop background level. Note that these windows cannot receive focus.
• Add support for HTTP auth prompts
• Allow backup login process for when browser redirect fails

Fixes

• More resiliency in detecting internet connection and showing offline screen
• Ensure that windows opened with window.open also have access to the ToDesktop client API
• Fix for drag and drop when reordering menus
• Cancelling a subscription will now cancel at the end of the month instead of cancelling immediately
• Improve fetching of cached remote assets

Fixes

• During a redirect that happens before the page load completes, don't try to reload the URL constantly.

• Report errors when S3 upload fails and retry 3 times

Features

• Ctrl-clicking on a tray will behave as a right-click
• Make Tray ID editable

Improvements

• Move "duplicate" and "delete" actions to in-app menu
• Support navigating to changelog when there is a new ToDesktop Builder update

• Add support for multiple app protocol schemes

• Add support for specifying custom npmVersion in config
• Add support for bundling a requirements file for Mac

Features

• Add Apps Overview
• Update open window handler rules to accept openInBrowser action
• Bump Electron to v26.2.1
• Center panel window in the current monitor
• Add Clear App Data menu item and granular logs

Fixes

• Fix UI caching bug
• Fix issue with release completed state showing too soon
• Clarify wording for "remembering dimensions between sessions"
• Fix memory leak when releasing memory
• Fix windows controls
• Intercom now logs users as the correct user

What's Changed

• Allow preventing quit by using newApp.on("before-quit", () => {}, { preventDefault: true } ); client API
• Polished some rough edges on plugin behaviour
• Add new app menu actions and fixed some app menu reactivity bugs

Compare Apps and Merge Settings Between Apps

If you have a dev app and a staging app

It can useful to create a second app for staging or beta testing your main app. The only problem is that it can be difficult to remember what settings have changed between your staging app and your main app. We now have a feature that allows you to quickly see what the differences are between apps and even merge those changes between apps.

You can find the feature in your app settings in the top-right of the ToDesktop Builder window:

This will allow you to quickly see the differences and choose which changes you want to merge.

What Else Has Changed?

• Added support for FS Plugin (contact us if you want this)
• Added ability to set window.open rules dynamically (read more here)
• Add ability to trigger js event from tray click or right
• Fix: Delete submenu if it has a length of 0
• Fix: Use showInactive for showing Panel Windows

• Fix: Linux/Windows platform links no longer have mac/zip/[arch] added to the end of the download URL

What's Changed

• Added link to docs about managing trays/windows programmatically
• Fixed cancellation window issues
• Added app menu that allows switching of apps
• Various text changes to make descriptions more understandable
• Fixed upgrading to professional workflow

Features

• Support for new Windows Titlebar styles and better UI for Mac Titlebar styles

Fixes

• Releases page sometimes errors and is blank

ToDesktop Builder 0.17 is our biggest release yet. You can now manage custom domains, distribution artifacts and code-signing certificates on ToDesktop Builder.

Features

• Use your own custom code signing certificates for your app.
• Define separate tray actions for Windows, Mac and Linux.
• Added a setting to prevent window contents from being captured by other apps ("Application → Obscure Window Contents").
• You can now see the Release Progress and Overview live in ToDesktop Builder.
• You can now manage Custom Domains in ToDesktop Builder (no need to use the web app UI).
• Allow different behaviour for tray clicks and right clicks on different operating systems.
• We now wait a small amount of time for the internet connection if it is not available immediately on startup. If still not available then we show the offline screen.
• Trays now work in Linux.
• Launch on startup functionality now works on Linux.
• Support Programmatic Usage of Windows.
• Live chat with support from the help menu.

Fixes

• We now do a full build (not fast build) if there is a new version of ToDesktop Builder.
• Default for resetting window dimensions when launching the app is now false.
• visibleOnAllWorkspaces property should not be true when creating a "Simple window app".
• Fix inconsistent app name when running a local build (compared with the released version of the app).
• Display first app menu correctly on Mac.
• Fix error when toggle-window option is a menubar window.
• Prevent deletion of app under certain conditions.
• Fix broken shadow on window when in background.

Fixes

• Website URL is no longer required if you are using an offline file instead
• Clarified UI text relating to Window Visibility
• Fixed Issue with Certain Tooltips Remaining Active
• Support parsing error messages defined on a plugin schema
• Fix plugin issues related to the file system

Fixes

• Correct auto-update issue because of incorrect appModelId polyfill

Fixes

• When cleaning the deeplink protocol we fixed an issue where we downcase the entire URL
• Notification title now shows correct app title on Windows when notification (with image icon) is triggered

Fixes

• Increased logging to help debugging of renderer crashes
• Fixes related to loading V2 plugins

• Add asar configuration support

• Add support for specifying custom appBuilderLibVersion in config
• Show suggestion to run a Smoke Test when releasing an untested build