This release was originally unplanned, but after learning about several vulnerabilities being discovered in libexpat, one of Tenacity's core dependencies, we decided to make a new release. However, as time progressed, several other issues came up that needed addressing. This took longer than expected, primarily due to busy schedules and personal issues, but despite that, we present to you a new release bringing fixes to several long-standing issues.
This release is also the first release with an original maintainer. Due to the project's early history, they had to step away for a long while, but since they are doing better, they chose to come back. We'd like to welcome them in coming back and we're both excited to see where Tenacity goes!
New
- ASIO is now natively supported in Tenacity.
- Windows on ARM is now supported. We expect minimal issues, if any, on Windows on ARM, with an exception due to a lack of plugin support (we expect only native ARM plugins to work, but we have not tested this aspect yet).
- Windows 11 or later is required for the Windows on ARM installer. The other installers continue to require Windows 7 (SP1) or later.
- macOS builds have returned.
- Tenacity supports macOS 10.15 or later, both on Intel and Apple Silicon.
- Note that these builds are unsigned and thus require extra steps to get working. Open a Terminal window and run
xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /path/to/Tenacity.app
Changes
- For packagers: wxWidgets 3.3 and later is now supported.
- On Windows, some parts of the UI now better adapt to dark mode if enabled. (However, Tenacity's theme will not automatically adapt to dark mode; you need to wait for 1.4 for that).
- Update about dialog:
- Remove build date. It wasn't necessarily accurate on Linux depending on who packaged Tenacity (e.g., through our official Flatpak).
- Move an original maintainer from emeritus to active.
- Miscellaneous: CPack is now used for building packages across all platforms, including Inno Setup installers.
Fixes
- Fixed several build issues.
- Fixed a spectrogram crash (backported from 1.4 alpha 1).
FFmpeg
Instead of the previous FFmpeg 6.1.2, we now have FFmpeg 7.1.5. Support for FFmpeg 7 was backported in some previous release accidentally, but you can use it to your benefit :)
Unfortunately, we do not provide FFmpeg libraries for Windows on ARM. However, you can download FFmpeg 7.1.5 for Windows on ARM here. Configuration is the same as if you were on x86(_64). Keep in mind that we have not tested these binaries, so if any issue comes up, please create a new issue for it and we'll try to resolve it. We will continue to provide our own builds for 64-bit and, for now, 32-bit Windows.
Under normal circumstances, the 1.3.x series would be locked to only FFmpeg 6.x. Because it's been a while since the last stable release (over a year and a half), and 1.3.x supports up to FFmpeg 7.x, we will provide FFmpeg 7.x libraries. These libraries have been compiled manually under Windows using MSVC and MSYS2 tools.
Hashes and Verification
There are two ways to verify your downloads: via PGP signatures or SHA256 hashes.
PGP Signatures
IMPORTANT: we made yet another signing key, this time containing both active maintainers. The new key's fingerprint is 29FE9795E57619BC854CF9A730EFEEFA63DF61BA.
If you are using gpg, you can import it like so:
$ gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 29FE9795E57619BC854CF9A730EFEEFA63DF61BA
Then you can verify your download like so:
$ gpg --verify /path/to/download-signature.asc /path/to/download
For example, to verify the AppImage using gpg:
# Receive the key first if you haven't done so
$ gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 29FE9795E57619BC854CF9A730EFEEFA63DF61BA
# Then verify the release like so
$ gpg --verify tenacity-linux-1.3.5-x86_64.AppImage.asc tenacity-linux-1.3.5-x86_64.AppImage
gpg: Signature made Sun 05 Jul 2026 03:29:52 PM PDT
gpg: using EDDSA key 9F7144C4FEC3D116E8569F728F5DF0C25B19955F
gpg: Good signature from "Avery King (Tenacity) <gperson@disroot.org>" [full]
gpg: aka "Emily Mabrey (Tenacity) <emilymabrey93@gmail.com>" [full]
If it says there's a bad signature, your download may have been tampered with. Try checking against the SHA256 hash (down below) for additional verification. If the hash doesn't match, try redownloading the file. If it does match, please open an issue so we can correct the signature.
Windows
Windows 64-bit installer: e8c5d9090ca2ffb64789e3df9991cf7e05989c63482d811b9b7d8e1277643c5d
Windows 32-bit installer: 2ea931cff38c23630144610746c1b4f9ff7b2311712ba2fa42af434926c2fa29
Windows on ARM installer: a6895f71ea0606d2794e98ca8500156b53947ee0dc4bcf8ffa0a888847afe649
FFmpeg Downloads
32-bit FFmpeg libraries: 367ccc8321c99806b826d664f85382d9a0dafc6327bc9b166f2691856aecdea0
64-bit FFmpeg libraries: 9551d79195bb37bd48178e760c7d099acd3d323e14d0ff849e3dbd45bf820819
macOS
macOS Apple Silicon DMG: dca2c606b8ab2146c4aebc98a27d5791c587f677f6fbccd846515a694bde49a1
macOS Intel DMG: 51825677212b8864c163a0011c5cc4d1f5010cca3c459ec8c9a4e7754f14b6cc
Linux
Tenacity AppImage: 53202c1f3f12ea3c264221a31c88890463533d8debd1677f96f904273db7844f
Source Tarball
Source tarball: 0446e14e09046a0c72d0fdfbbf3823a2ba3451204de7b93f715cc4fe2333e781
Other Notes
Other updates, such as through your distribution's repos or our official Flatpak, will occur shortly, but will proably span over the next few days as we all perform testing. Our official Flatpak will also be updated to use the latest runtime and dependencies.
There should be one last 1.3.x release if one comes, that being version 1.3.6. This will contain minimal but otherwise more important updates. After that release, we plan to no longer make releases for 1.3.x unless deemed necessary (e.g., because of a security vulnerability).