Caution
Beta engine migration notice
This beta moves Motrix Next from the upstream aria2 sidecar to Aria2 Next, a maintained aria2-compatible engine developed for Motrix Next and other aria2 consumers. The JSON-RPC API, configuration model, session handling, and aria2-style controls remain compatible, but this is a major engine packaging and runtime identity change. Please treat this build as a test release and report any download, startup, updater, or platform-specific sidecar issues.
What's Changed
Motrix Next 3.9.0-beta.1 completes the engine transition to Aria2 Next and gives the bundled runtime a Motrix-owned process identity. The app now ships and launches the engine as motrix-next-engine, making the background process easier to identify and allowing cleanup logic to target only the Motrix Next managed sidecar.
🛠 Improvements
- Migrated the bundled download engine runtime to Aria2 Next.
- Renamed the managed sidecar process to
motrix-next-engineacross macOS, Windows, and Linux builds. - Updated Tauri sidecar configuration, engine startup, port cleanup, Windows installer cleanup, and macOS quarantine handling for the new runtime identity.
- Updated README wording to describe Aria2 Next as the download engine and
motrix-next-engineas the bundled sidecar process. - Fixed the Windows release build by exposing the shared engine process matcher to the Windows cleanup path.
- Kept aria2-compatible RPC methods, configuration files, session files, and control file semantics unchanged.
📦 Downloads
| Platform | Architecture | File |
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| macOS | Apple Silicon · Intel | .dmg
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| Windows | x64 · ARM64 | -setup.exe
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| Linux | x64 · ARM64 | .AppImage .deb
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