Orbit v0.8.4-beta

Orbit v0.8.4-beta

Version: v0.8.4-beta
Commit: c528a10
Built: 2026-10-06

Note: One tap on Send was sending a voice message. Android fires a set of synthetic mouse events after every touch, aimed at whatever is under your finger by then — and sending swapped the composer to the mic before they arrived.

Fixed

• One Tap on Send No Longer Fires the Mic — Send fired on touchend, which swapped the composer from the send button to the mic. Android then fires a synthetic mousedown aimed at whatever is under the finger at that moment — which was now the mic — so a recording started, and the mouseup stopped and sent it. One tap, a voice note nobody asked for, and it repeated, because each one reset the composer and put the mic back under your thumb. The send icon "not lighting up" was the same stuck state: the swap had already run. Any mouse event within 700ms of a real touch is ignored now, which is longer than Android's ~300ms synthetic delay and shorter than a deliberate second tap. Both controls were also double-firing on a real tap — the mic started on touchstart and the synthetic mousedown, and send ran on touchend and mouseup.

• A Group of Images of Different Sizes No Longer Goes Ragged — every cell took its own image’s height, so a 1:1 beside a 16:9 beside a 9:16 gave three heights in one row: the tallest set the row and the others floated inside it. The grid now follows Discord: one image keeps its own proportions, two are a pair of squares, three are one large square with two stacked beside it, four are a 2×2, and anything past four shows four tiles with a +N on the last. Tiles touch, and the grid clips so only the outer corners are rounded — which is what makes a group read as one object rather than several adjacent cards.

• Images in a Desktop Grid Were Rendering at Half Height — the grid’s own rules were written without the .message-row .msg-attachments prefix, so they lost a specificity tie against an earlier rule that carried it. Both were !important, so the more specific one won and its height: auto and object-fit: contain applied: a wide image rendered at its natural height inside a square cell, so half the tile was empty. The grid rules carry the prefix now, and a desktop spec measures the image against its cell rather than the cell alone — a grid row stretches its cells to a common size whatever the CSS says, so a cell-only assertion passes either way.

Downloads

Artifact	Size
Orbit-v0.8.4-beta.apk	69M
Orbit-0.8.4-beta-amd64.deb	170M
Orbit-0.8.4-beta-x86_64.AppImage	197M
Orbit-0.8.4-beta-arm64.dmg	181M
Orbit-0.8.4-beta-x64.dmg	186M
Orbit Setup 0.8.4-beta.exe	163M

Installation Notes

Desktop builds are currently unsigned.

• Windows: Microsoft SmartScreen may appear. Select More info → Run anyway if you trust the source.
• macOS: You may need to right-click the application and choose Open on first launch.
• Android: Because Orbit is distributed outside the Google Play Store, Android or Google Play Protect may display a warning before installation. Continue only if you trust the release source.

Verify Your Download

A SHA256SUMS.txt file is included with this release.
Since v0.3.0-beta, the checksum file is also GPG-signed (SHA256SUMS.txt.sig).

Use the Orbit Release public key to verify:

# 1. Import the public key
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/D4niel-dev/Orbit-beta/main/security/public-key.asc
gpg --import public-key.asc

# 2. Verify the signature
gpg --verify SHA256SUMS.txt.sig SHA256SUMS.txt

# 3. Verify your downloaded file
sha256sum --check SHA256SUMS.txt --ignore-missing

For Windows PowerShell:

Get-FileHash Orbit-Setup.exe -Algorithm SHA256
Compare-Object (Get-Content SHA256SUMS.txt) (Get-FileHash Orbit-Setup.exe -Algorithm SHA256) -Property Hash

Security

Orbit is designed for trusted private networks and local-first communication.
Official releases are published exclusively through this GitHub repository.

Links

• Repository Orbit-beta
• View the changelog for the latest changes!
• Having issues with the app ? Click here to report it!