Pre-release channel

Latest stable: v1.2.2.

New in this drop

Terminal

• Settings › Terminal › Clipboard & compatibility › Terminal engine: Fast (LibGhostty) shows heavy output about five times faster and keeps the screen responsive while it pours in; Standard (Termux) stays the default. The choice applies to panes you open after changing it.
• On the Fast engine, kitty images (animated GIFs from kitten icat included), sixel pictures, links, prompt jumps and notifications work as they do on Standard.
• If the launcher crashes with a Fast pane open, new panes use Standard until the next update, so the home screen cannot fall over twice.
• Output shows faster on the Standard engine too, most of all CJK text, emoji and box drawing.
• The CRT effect gains colour bleed, scanlines that follow the beam, brighter highlights and a Composite signal switch, plus an Idle glitch rate; a keystroke powers the screen on at once, and a bell tears it once (#225).
• The terminal's text no longer flips between dark and pale each time the launcher starts, which made it hard to read on light wallpapers (#228).

Workspace

• Terminal, Display and Assistant pages are one Workspace, with one layout and one look.
• The Assistant page: chat with an on-device model on its own Workspace page, with chats you can come back to, dictation and a model picker. Add it from Edit pages, the app drawer or the extra keys' Assistant key; Settings › On-device AI can delete all chats.
• Add display opens the Display page without starting the display, unless autostart is on.
• The volume keys work again while a Display page is in front.

Home

• Swiping up from Home moves the drawer with your finger instead of running ahead of it.
• Pull down the notification shade from Home on Android 15 and newer.
• The wallpaper dim on the Home card darkens every Home page.

Dock

• A pinned app dropped at the dock's edge no longer leaves a gap in the row.
• Peek: the darkened band behind the A–Z is gone, and the reflection reads as wet glass that fades at the edge.

Wallpaper

• The Wallpaper kind is Photo, Video or Shader: a video or GIF plays as your wallpaper (a GIF is converted to video on import), and Shader runs a shader, with examples to start from. Tap a shader to use it; its pencil opens it in the editor.
• A video wallpaper can play at a lower frame rate: pick a rate on the Video page and it prepares that version, showing its progress and size.
• Video and Shader wallpapers preview like a photo: Done keeps the new one, and closing without Done puts back what you had.
• Blurred wallpapers are ready sooner on Android 12 and newer.

Glass

• Clear glass has a sharp face, edges that bend the light more on bigger surfaces, no grain, and no dim by default.
• Settings › Battery & performance › See through: All layers, or One layer to save battery.

Status bar

• In Full screen the Floating status bar splits around the camera, and Keep clear of camera shows the outline it keeps clear of.
• In Full screen the Floating bar is no longer cut off by rounded screen corners.

Keyboard

• Extra keys: modifier combinations and macros you type become keys you can pick, a guide sits under Add row, and the editor fits short and landscape windows.

Appearance editor

• The status bar and dock look shared by every page is edited from the Global card only, and Margin is one number.

Voice and on-device AI

• Speech recognition runs on the graphics chip or the processor, with Auto picking and falling back; Settings › Voice input chooses the cleanup model and where speech runs.
• Whisper Base is offered for the graphics chip, with a note that it may be slower on some phones (#227).
• Model names read as words instead of file names.

Downloads

• There is no 32-bit x86 APK any more; x86_64, arm64 and 32-bit ARM remain.

Experimental

These may change or be dropped before they reach a stable release.

• Terminal (v2.0.0-pre.1):
  • dialog and whiptail screens, such as termux-change-repo, are readable: the red and blue text on their white panels now stands out in every Look and at every Contrast level.
  • Grey and normal text stays readable on a glass terminal over a bright wallpaper: the glass evens out the wallpaper under the text. It is on by default; Settings › Debugging › Even out glass turns it off so you can compare.
  • Switching terminal windows with Fancier Glass on no longer flashes the bare wallpaper behind the window that is leaving.
  • The terminal's Opacity stays yours: at 0% the glass is exactly as clear as you set it, with no evening-out, and below the default it evens out less.
  • A terminal window whose shell Android kills (its child-process limit, often hit with a Linux desktop on the display) stays open with "Process completed (signal 9)" instead of vanishing; Enter closes it, and a notice says how to lift the limit.
• Home (v2.0.0-pre.1):
  • Bare widgets draw nothing behind themselves: the soft dim behind a Bare clock is gone, and only its ink changes tone to stay readable.
  • Swiping between Home pages moves both pages together under your finger, in the transition you picked, instead of the next page appearing only after you let go.
  • The Home card has a Transition row of five glyph tiles (Slide, Depth, Fade, Carousel and Stack), and Settings › General › Page transition now opens it.
• Appearance editor (v2.0.0-pre.1):
  • Scrolling a card's content moves the card sheet like a standard bottom sheet: up grows it to half and full height, down at the top of the content shrinks it a stop. Sliders and strips still drag sideways.
  • A swipe on a glass slider in the Appearance sheet moves it straight away, without tapping it first.
  • Change wallpaper opens its picker above the card sheet, so Choose photo can be tapped again.
• Launcher (v2.0.0-pre.1):
  • Opening or closing a window behind the one you are looking at no longer makes the wallpaper jump; it glides to its new place.
• Linux apps (v2.0.0-pre.1):
  • A display you start from a shell with termux-x11 gets a window manager, so apps open with window frames instead of unmanaged at their own size.
  • The display starts on its own again after it was killed, instead of staying down until you cleared it by hand.
  • On the apt edition, installing termux-x11-nightly no longer replaces the launcher's termux-x11 command.
  • Linux apps play sound in a distro you installed while the launcher was running, without an "Access denied" from the sound server.
  • Tapping an app that is already open, in the drawer or Home, raises its window instead of starting a second copy, and the Display chip's menu lists the other open windows under Switch to.
  • The Linux display now works on 32-bit phones and with the 32-bit APK; before, it could not start there at all.
  • When the display can't start, its window now says why, with a link to Startup and support, instead of showing Start display again as if nothing happened.
  • Settings › Linux apps says Linux apps are set up only once the setup command has finished; after copying it, the row tells you to run it.
• Settings › About & help has an Ask on Discord row, Documentation opens the website guide, and the help panel's support link goes to Discord (#58).
• Settings › Backup & restore saves your launcher settings and config files to one file, and your downloaded AI models to a folder, and restores both on this phone or a new one (#40).
• Pressing a pinned app on a glass dock, or a glass card in a sheet, lights the glass under your finger for a moment (#75).
• Glass edges catch the wallpaper's own light instead of a white line, brightest at the top left, on every glass surface on Android 13 and up (glass plan 2026-10-16, Round 1, always on).
• Scripts and agents in a pane can place, size, inspect, wait on and close panes and windows through launcherctl: pane open --from --direction --size, pane resize, pane wait, window list|focus|close, and launcherctl <group> --help (#66).
• Pictures travel through the terminal clipboard: programs that speak kitty's clipboard protocol (OSC 5522) can read a picture from Android's clipboard and copy one to it, pasting a picture into a shell or an agent pastes it as a file path under $PREFIX/tmp/clipboard, and pictures inserted from the keyboard land the same way (#61).
• A screenshot you just took can be pasted from the keyboard's paste key, which shows a photo while it or a copied picture is waiting; plain paste (paste with a modifier) keeps the clipboard. Screenshots need the storage permission (Settings › Permissions & services › Files and media, or termux-setup-storage).
• Terminal programs that ask for touch events receive your taps, long presses and swipes.
• Settings › Keyboard › Layouts lets you edit, reset and create keyboard layouts, each row sliding its buttons open beneath it.
• Pinned app icons go bigger: the Icon size slider reaches further on both dock styles, and icon packs draw as big as stock icons.
• Pinned apps fill the dock when it holds nothing else: the icons grow into the bar, and the bar sheds some of the space above and below them, at every Icon size.
• The Appearance editor's Cursor trail menu has an Off entry, and the Mouse mode key reads out the state it switched to.
• The window bar names terminal-browser in full, with a globe.
• Dictation cleanup now writes what you meant from the whole passage, fixing misheard words and broken sentences rather than only dropping fillers; Polished keeps its paragraphs and lists.
• Dictation cleanup is about twice as fast and leaves what you said alone where nothing needs fixing: "uh" and "um" are always removed, only sentences that need it are rewritten, it no longer turns other languages into English, and it keeps your spelling.
• Cleaned-up dictation is ready a moment after you stop: on phones that run cleanup on the graphics chip (or with a remote model), it tidies your words at natural pauses while you talk.
• With a multilingual Whisper model, Voice language Auto-detect listens for the language you speak instead of assuming your keyboard's, and the dictation card names it when it differs.
• Tap the text on the dictation card to fix a word with the keyboard before you insert or copy it, and the words the cleanup fixed stay highlighted while you edit.
• On-device models load with less free memory than before, and one that would fill the phone's memory is stopped instead of freezing it.
• Settings › Keyboard › Adaptive touch accuracy learns where your taps land, the space bar included, and pauses itself if typing gets less accurate.
• Look › Custom's glass controls work from any Look: Frost (clear to frosted), Tint with Hue, Vibrancy, Edge and the keyboard's Keys, with Custom remembering your setup; the wallpaper can change under the editor and the X11 display (#82).
• The welcome message in a new terminal is a rounded card in your wallpaper's colours, with Apps, Packages and Setup sections that fit the pane's width.
• The Appearance editor's one card sheet, per-screen glass and Elements list replace the old Layout and Look pages (editor redesign, 2026-10-26).
• Peek dock style, page overview and live layout drag (peek-dock and overview, 2026-10-25).
• The extra keys editor (#164) and Auto keyboard (2026-10-25).
• Launcher sound with Linux media controls (2026-10-25).
• Niagara-style A–Z with Shown, Faint and Pull tab, and the long-press popup (editor redesign).
• Use as (Home screen or Terminal only) and the welcome choice (editor redesign).
• Home's widget family, dock styles and the Home ⇄ Workspace crossing (widget redesign, chrome unification, wall rework).
• The graphics benchmark and Graphics acceleration row on Linux apps (GPU bench, 2026-10-24).
• Terminal text on glass evens out the wallpaper under it and keeps dialog's red and blue readable, with Even out glass in Settings › Debugging to compare (legibility waves 1 and 2, 2026-10-27).
• The Home card's Transition row and the card sheet that follows a scroll of its content (2026-10-27).
• The Linux display's upstream-parity work: window manager for a shell-started display, auto-start after a killed display, termux-x11-nightly diversion, raising an open app's window and Switch to on the Display chip (2026-10-27).
• Live blur: the Battery & performance switch that makes the dock's, floating windows' and widgets' glass blur what moves behind them (live glass waves 1 to 4, v2.0.0-pre.3).
• Panels that blur through one shared picture: the drawer, command palette, terminal sheet and menus, with a software picture on Android 8 to 11 (backdrop panels 2b, v2.0.0-pre.3).
• Pages as cells: Display pages for Linux apps, the Terminal page anywhere in the order, Set as home on any page, a Look per page kind, and live windows while swiping (page model, wall cells and Display pages, #168 to #193, v2.0.0-pre.3).
• One layout per page kind, one Icon size, and Home in landscape the Launcher3 way (ADR 0020, v2.0.0-pre.3).
• The Appearance cards overhaul: Global, Home and Workspace cards, the same glass rows everywhere, Frost's eight steps and the Material 3 Expressive controls (appearance overhaul and look grid, v2.0.0-pre.3).
• The CRT effect's screen events and the deck look for the keyboard, window bar, extra keys and sessions chip (agsl effects waves 1 to 8e, v2.0.0-pre.3).
• Beaded A–Z and dock tiles you drag to any column (A–Z letter beads and dock tiles by column, v2.0.0-pre.3).
• First-run setup cards and the Setup row (setup wizard waves 1 to 5, v2.0.0-pre.3).
• Pane borders, and panes that resize when your finger pauses on a divider (#206, ADR 0019, v2.0.0-pre.3).
• Media widget redraw and the status bar's long-press fold (widget cards and status bar menu, v2.0.0-pre.3).
• Motion log and launcherctl look and layout (motion invariants, ADR 0017 and ADR 0020, v2.0.0-pre.3).
• The Fast terminal engine, with kitty graphics, sixel and the crash fallback (libghostty-vt, ADR 0026, v2.0.0-pre.5).
• The Assistant page and one Workspace for Terminal, Display and Assistant (ADR 0025, v2.0.0-pre.5).
• Video and Shader wallpapers (v2.0.0-pre.5).
• The camera-aware Floating status bar and See through (v2.0.0-pre.5).

Editions

Nothing exclusive to the Nix or VAJ build in this drop.