v1.2.4

New

• Seamless updates: the Linux system inside the VM now upgrades across app versions with no reset and no data loss. Your installed packages, files, and containers carry over when you update Podroid.
• Server mode: a one-tap full-screen black overlay that keeps the VM running headless with the screen dimmed and burn-in protected; hold to exit. Drive it from the shell with podroid-server on|off|status.
• New in-guest commands: podroid-open <url> opens a link on Android, and podroid-power stop|restart|status controls the VM from inside the shell.
• UDP port forwarding now works on the AVF backend, matching QEMU (podroid-forward add <host> <guest> udp).
• When an AVF guest fails to boot, Podroid now shows what to do next (try a single core, switch to QEMU, or retry) instead of a blank failure, and captures early-boot kernel output to help diagnose it.
• A Documentation link in Settings -> About opens the online guide.

Fixes

• On devices whose virtualization build lacks the custom-VM API, Podroid now falls back to the QEMU backend automatically instead of failing to start.
• Broad reliability hardening across the AVF backend, the guest-to-Android bridge, and server mode.

Known limitation

• With an external mouse, right-click still exits fullscreen in the X11 viewer instead of reaching the desktop. Two-finger right-click via touch works. A fix is planned.