portmaster Releases

This release focuses on critical stability fixes, including crashes after restart and DNS listener issues, alongside improvements to mDNS reliability and DNS-over-HTTPS support.

Aug 14, 2026

Introduces a new EBCDIC backend, exposes PDF heading-level inference in the API, and adds agent skills. Also refactors RapidOcrModel to support more languages.

Aug 3, 2026

Optimizes Whisper.cpp integration for Windows and fixes subtitle issues. Enhances UI and batch translation management.

Jul 31, 2026

Adds chunking options and targets to service datamodels, and exposes OpenAI logprobs. Includes various fixes for OCR and PDF outlines.

Jul 30, 2026

Exposes the docling version, introduces a layout-driven OCR pipeline with configurable modes, and makes pipeline shutdown timeout configurable. Fixes ASR language detection.

Jul 29, 2026

Focuses on UI/UX improvements and stability for the Windows client. Key updates include video playback previews for subtitle verification, a refined advanced options interface, and separating heavy TTS channel execution into a separate process.

Jul 24, 2026

This release enhances document processing capabilities, specifically improving code block detection in DOCX files, JATS formulas, and optimizing XLSX merge-cell scanning performance. It also includes fixes for ODF content preservation and CLI progress reporting.

Jul 23, 2026

Introduces support for legacy binary office formats and video processing pipelines, alongside new ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) presets. Fixes include improvements to PPTX parsing safety, JATS list structure preservation, and VLM metadata handling.

Jul 20, 2026

This release integrates ConfuciusTTS and OmniVoice directly into the application, upgrades the chatterbox-tts engine to version 3.0, and introduces support for speaker labels in local SRT files. It also includes performance optimizations for startup speed and audio/video processing algorithms.

Jul 18, 2026

This update integrates OmniVoice as a built-in component and resolves issues with the Qwen-TTS model. It adds support for the Xiaomi mimo-v2.5-asr model for speech recognition and introduces the Hy-MT2-1.8B model for local subtitle translation.

Jul 4, 2026

Focuses on documentation improvements and adding GGUF export support for vLLM.

Jun 22, 2026

Releases prebuilt self-contained binaries for the llama.cpp runtime, enabling on-device ASR without Python dependencies.

Jun 21, 2026

Fixes documentation and language code handling for Qwen3-ASR to ensure the quickstart is runnable and language codes are mapped correctly.

Jun 21, 2026

Introduces the llama.cpp runtime with built-in FSMN-VAD and flexible audio input support via miniaudio.

Jun 20, 2026

Initial release of prebuilt binaries for the llama.cpp runtime.

Jun 20, 2026

Focuses on webapp redesign and integrations, adding support for Shopvox and redesigning the app shell. Includes metering changes and telemetry improvements.

Jun 19, 2026

Redesigns the TUI with a calmer visual hierarchy and splits the RustNet codebase into reusable library crates. Adds features like theme presets, FTP deep packet inspection, and Landlock v6 support.

Jun 16, 2026

Major update focusing on v2 component migration and adding extensive integration support for retail and productivity tools, plus OpenSearch backend support.

Jun 16, 2026

Safing Portmaster v2.2.1 introduces a new Split Tunneling feature allowing users to route specific applications through different network interfaces. The update focuses on stability improvements for Linux systems, fixes for application profile migrations, and UI privacy enhancements.

Jun 16, 2026

Introduces a confirmation threshold (grace period) to stabilize uptime monitoring by requiring consecutive checks before status changes, adds manual controls for maintenance events, and enhances status page customization and API capabilities.

Jun 13, 2026