🚀 Verge Core v26.5.0.0 — Major UX, Performance & Platform Upgrade

A massive step forward for Verge — bringing a modern UI overhaul, faster startup performance, major dependency upgrades, and expanded platform support across the board.

✨ Highlights

• 🎨 Brand new QML lightweight & responsive UX theme
• 🍏 macOS certificate signed builds for improved security & trust
• ⚡ Up to 50% faster startup after first run (persistent last start block)
• 🧠 New debug insights — Tor, Boost, and OpenSSL versions now visible
• 🔁 New versioning format: Year.Month.Release across all Verge apps

🧩 New Features

🕵️ StealthEX Swap over TOR

• Private, No-KYC seamless swaps directly through the wallet

🎮 Games Tab Added

Built-in classics:

• 🟪 Tetris
• 🏓 Pong
• 🚀 Space Invaders

🛠️ Core Upgrades & Improvements

• 🧬 Qt upgraded: 5.9.9 → 6.10.2

• 💪 Boost upgraded: 1.80 → 1.90

• 🔐 OpenSSL upgraded: 1.x → 4.0.0

• 🧅 Tor upgraded: 0.4.9.5

• 🍓 Raspberry Pi / aarch64 compatibility added

🧱 Build System Updates

• native_capnp.mk 1.2.0 → 1.3.0
• native_ds_store.mk 1.3.1 → 1.3.2
• libext 1.3.6 → 1.3.7

📦 Downloads

🍓 Raspberry Pi (AppImage)

• 📁 verge-aarch64-pi5-appimages.zip
• 🔐 sha256:d12d152b5b3fd61f8555a2547eca0ed83cde8da99ba52c9f0c52290257e8706a
• 📦 Size: 26.3 MB

🍏 macOS 14

• 📁 Verge-Qt-macos14.dmg
• 🔐 sha256:e5c2f660b231a2e07b21a6fad8e828a42950acc4754083d9458c953dcdf23619
• 📦 Size: 268 MB

🍏 macOS 26

• 📁 Verge-Qt-macos26.dmg
• 🔐 sha256:526efc1f8a54cf3e57271c8fc7c457fa1fa15adb4c433d9782dadae29f041c25
• 📦 Size: 265 MB

🐧 Ubuntu 24 (AppImage)

• 📁 verge-ubuntu24-appimages.zip
• 🔐 sha256:7c3b4da0bc11938ec124f8c2af578c7f300ff469229f0434cd818aea861f29e0
• 📦 Size: 142 MB

🪟 Windows (Installer)

• 📁 verge-windows64-setup.exe
• 🔐 sha256:33ace1612611eefbdbb29da9ec756763f0d2c0ab24a0ddc87c3ec4e0d992e352
• 📦 Size: 148 MB

🪟 Windows (Portable)

• 📁 verge-windows64bit.zip
• 🔐 sha256:e39c8e2b97a3209081edb14903c9c6ead42b078efde239a6b313249480fcd016
• 📦 Size: 194 MB

🧪 Notes

• First launch may take longer — subsequent startups are significantly faster
• Recommended to fully close and reopen once after initial sync for performance gains
• macOS builds are now notarized by Apple