Rocket 0.92.0 — Windows and Linux preview

Rocket 0.92.0 packages the native Rust Git client for Windows x64 and adds a Linux x64 preview. These portable downloads contain the application and its matching helpers; no installer is needed.

Highlights

• Linux preview: everyday Git operations, the integrated terminal, SSH key management, hosting requests, localhost MCP, app updates and sandboxed Lua extensions. Linux uses your installed Git and system services.
• Readable CJK text: Linux embeds the verified, licensed Noto Sans CJK fallback for Chinese, Japanese and Korean text, including code editors and extension previews. Installed fonts retain priority, and existing Latin metrics are preserved.
• Configurable secret scanning: the default total budget is now 256 MiB of cumulative uncompressed Git objects. Change it in Preferences → Security → Total scan budget. Reachable history counts toward the budget; the 128 MiB per-object limit, secret/API-key checks and cancellation remain in place. CLI clients use the default independently of desktop settings.
• Linux security hardening: stricter private state and update storage checks; cross-process preview ownership; and tighter Lua sandbox memory, capability, syscall and resource limits. Unsafe storage and unavailable sandbox protection produce an error instead of an insecure fallback.
• Local crash reports: review bounded diagnostic metadata through Help → Crash Reports and choose whether to export it. Reports are not uploaded automatically and do not contain memory dumps or repository contents.
• Interface and navigation improvements: the Clay theme, additional interface languages, updated branch switching and diff controls, code search, repository maps and redesigned review surfaces.

See the changelog at this release for the detailed changes included in these packages, including entries previously labelled Unreleased.

Download and run

Platform	Package	Requirements and startup
Windows x64	Rocket-0.92.0-windows-x64.zip	Extract the entire ZIP into a writable folder and open rocket.exe as your normal user. Includes Git for Windows 2.56.0.windows.4 and the required native runtimes.
Linux x64 preview	Rocket-0.92.0-linux-x64.tar.gz	Requires glibc 2.43 or newer, Git 2.46 or newer and an X11/Wayland desktop. Extract the archive and run ./rocket inside Rocket-0.92.0-linux-x64 as your normal user. This is not a universally compatible Linux bundle.

Linux feature requirements include system OpenSSH for SSH, libsecret and an unlocked desktop keyring for saved credentials, and trusted system curl/gzip for the corresponding network/update operations. Lua extensions require x86_64 and an enabled Landlock sandbox; scripts are refused if isolation is unavailable. See Linux setup and feature requirements.

When moving from a local development bundle, extract into a new folder rather than mixing old and new helpers. Custom scan budgets use settings format v28; older Rocket builds refuse that state instead of silently dropping the saved policy.

SHA-256 checksums

Matching .sha256 files are attached for both packages. Compare the downloaded archive against its checksum before extraction:

e37e30ca028d25975dc5ca20ae1337a40d47eafe2f290583e77a3be1b53fc8f9  Rocket-0.92.0-windows-x64.zip
5e9f615771ceffe8996a260da94fd990fab403862a7fd8d8c2f562de792120bb  Rocket-0.92.0-linux-x64.tar.gz

Windows: use Get-FileHash -Algorithm SHA256 on the ZIP. Linux: with the archive and sidecar in the same folder, run sha256sum -c Rocket-0.92.0-linux-x64.tar.gz.sha256. Each archive also contains its file inventory and update manifest.

Verification and current limits

• Built from commit 2c71d446; all 1,079 recorded source inputs were rechecked before publication.
• Actual archive contents, hashes, helper bindings, manifests, paths and Linux executable permissions were verified. The Linux archive also passed the application's extraction/install-copy validation.
• Nine focused localhost MCP scenarios passed per platform, covering CJK rendering, compact windows, saved scan budgets and protected commits. Thirty focused Linux tests passed, including cancellation, storage safety, updates and the shipping Lua worker.
• Runtime validation used the existing Windows 10 host and Ubuntu 26.04 under WSL2/WSLg with software rendering. Fresh Windows 11, other Linux distributions and hardware graphics have not been established by this test run. This publication does not claim a new full-suite or live-hosting test pass.
• Rocket application binaries are unsigned. Checksums verify content consistency; they are not a Rocket publisher signature.