XPipe 18 starts a venture into many new environments. It comes with the first cloud provider integration for Hetzner cloud to kickstart the process of integrating common cloud providers directly into XPipe. Furthermore, it comes with a new MCP server functionality to seamlessly integrate XPipe into your AI agent workflows. On top of everything, there are also many new convenience features like the network scan, multiple hostnames, many SSH improvements, and much more.
MCP server
There is now an MCP server available for XPipe which allows you to perform many actions in an agentic workflow via your favourite MCP client, for example Cursor. The MCP server feature is disabled by default has to be enabled in the MCP settings menu.
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Hetzner cloud
This release introduces support for Hetzner cloud servers via the hcloud CLI tool. You can list all your service automatically and then access them normally as SSH connections. This is the first of hopefully many integrations for cloud providers and will serve as a good experiment.
Network scan
There is now the option to automatically search the local network for any listening SSH servers and add them automatically as new connections. This also works for remote systems and their networks.
You can find the network scan at New -> Network scan.
Host addresses
You can now configure multiple addresses for a host. This allows you to quickly switch between different addresses if needed.
macOS fonts
The fonts on macOS have been updated with the goal of better readability. If you don't like the new font style, you can still select the old one in the appearance settings menu.
Build pipeline
The build pipeline has been reworked. This might result in unexpected issues that were not caught yet.
SSH
- Add support to launch VsCode Insiders and Trae as well in the VsCode SSH launch menu
- Disable SSH host key checking for local network devices
- Rework SSH timeout options to hopefully better handle unexpected connection disruptions
- There is now a new option and improved handling of SSH MOTDs to control whether they should be shown or not
- Fix SSH ProxyCommand not being executed for custom connections
- Fix SSH agent public key setting not working on Linux and macOS due to permissions issue
- Fix SSH gateways not working on systems where username contained a dot
- Fix some terminal connections asking for passwords even if it was entered before if the connection was edited
Other
- XPipe will now clean any temp files more often
- Tailscale connections are now a top-level entry and can be synced via git
- Add more documentation links to the settings menu
- Proxmox entries are now ordered by their vmid
- Kitty and WezTerm now also support the tabs or windows settings option for terminals
- Any small changes such as a change in color other connection are now synced instantly
- Add two new connection colors with cyan and purple
- Add new option to prefer available monochrome icons instead of colored variants
- Add vietnamese translations
Fixes
- Fix bitwarden on Windows sometimes requiring the master password multiple times
- Fix restart button not working on Linux
- Fix file browser execute action on Windows not being limited to certain file types
- Fix file browser refresh of single files failing on Windows systems
- Fix file browser execute action not showing confirmation dialog if enabled
- Fix file browser not supporting dollar signs in directory names
- Fix file browser conflict dialog being cut off
- Fix license check becoming invalid if xpipe was left running for more than a week
- Fix tunnel restart sometimes resulting in an invalid tunnel state
- Fix small parts of the UI moving a bit on hover
- Fix performance issue when opening connection chooser dropdown
- Fix git vaultversion conflict not being solved automatically
Downloads
You can find all downloadable artifacts below attached to this release. For installation instructions, see the installation guide.
All artifacts are signed by Christopher Schnick (2E21 05AB FDBA C0EB)