Pre-release channel

Latest stable: v1.2.0.

New in this drop

• Linux apps whose desktop entry carries an unfilled command, such as Termux's Chromium, open from the drawer.
• Benchmark graphics in Set up Linux apps finds this phone's fastest graphics option.
• Full screen uses the whole screen.
• Dragging a launcher widget across pages no longer crashes.
• When another app is your home screen, the launcher can have a wallpaper of its own, and its colours theme the launcher.
• Battery & performance in Settings gathers the power presets and the motion effects they turn off.
• The keyboard floats over the Linux display in portrait, follows text fields in every touch mode, and with fcitx5 follows text-field focus exactly.
• The touchpad can switch the keyboard between floating and making room.
• The drawer, palette and sheets over the Linux display take Back and typing.
• "Use system keyboard" replaces "Search keyboard" in the drawer settings.
• Fresh installs start from a newer Termux base.

Experimental

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

• Linux apps whose installer left a placeholder in place of their command, such as Termux's Chromium, now open from the drawer; an app whose command is missing says which one instead of a generic error. (merge 7940a21 on pre)
• Benchmark graphics, under Settings → Display → Linux apps → Set up Linux apps → Graphics, tries every graphics option this phone has and keeps the fastest. (merge d55271a on pre)
• Full screen now uses the whole screen: the empty band left where the status bar was is gone. (280ced3 on pre)
• Dragging one of the launcher's own widgets to the edge of the Widgets page to move it to another page no longer crashes the launcher. (77e72e4 on pre)
• With another app as your home screen, Appearance lets you pick a picture for Termux Launcher alone: it sits behind the terminal and under the glass, and the phone's own wallpaper stays as it was. Tick "Also set as phone wallpaper" to set both. The launcher's Material colours follow that picture. (merges 19b0f4c and 0f256d0 on pre)
• Settings › App › Battery & performance gathers Reduce idle activity, the Low-memory preset and the motion they trim (Glass refraction, Living glass, Wallpaper parallax, Cursor trail, Terminal effect), and shows which ones a preset has turned off. Wallpaper parallax moved there from Appearance. (merge 8f13019 on pre)
• The keyboard floats over the Linux display in portrait as it does in landscape, so apps no longer resize and flicker each time it opens. (branch feat/display-keyboard, spec #125)
• "Keyboard follows text fields" works in every touch mode: Touchscreen, Trackpad and Direct touch. (branch feat/display-keyboard, #126)
• The touchpad has a button that switches between the keyboard floating over the display and the display making room for it, so you can reach its bottom corners. (branch feat/display-keyboard, #128)
• With fcitx5, which Set up Linux apps now installs, the keyboard comes up when a text field in a Linux app takes focus and goes when it loses it, with no tap; it no longer opens over text you can only read, and stays put as you move between fields. (branch feat/display-keyboard, #129–#131)
• The app drawer, the command palette and sheets opened over the Linux display take Back and your typing, as they do over the terminal; the drawer's search there brings up the keyboard. (branch feat/display-keyboard)
• The drawer's "Search keyboard" setting is now "Use system keyboard". (branch feat/display-keyboard)
• Fresh installs start from a newer Termux base (bootstrap 2026.10.18). (branch feat/display-keyboard)

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