v28.0.0
Polypane 28
The first release of 2026 comes with plenty of improvements to Projects, the new Environments feature prevents you from confusing production for localhost, the Elements panel is faster and more powerful than ever, and Polypane now runs on Chromium 146. Full Release Notes
New
- New Environments for Projects
- New Elements panel: Edit CSS Selectors
- New Console: Support for console.group (Thanks Giles!)
- New Command bar: Activate or deactivate snippets from the command bar (Thanks Eric!)
- New Chromium 146.0.7650.0
Improvements
- Improved Projects, Bookmarks and Environments can now be re-ordered (Thanks Michael!)
- Improved Projects: Open or switch from the CLI (Thanks Marc!)
- Improved Projects: Open or switch from the macOS and windows dock/taskbar (Thanks Benoit!)
- Improved Elements panel: Constructed stylesheets no longer open browse tabs when clicked
- Improved Elements panel: Updated performance when inspecting elements
- Improved Elements panel: make !important styles more visible
- Improved Elements panel: press when editing HTML to apply it
- Improved Elements panel: Show warning for invalid autocomplete values
- Improved Elements panel: Support for
::search-textpseudo-element styling - Improved Meta panel: Improved UI
- Improved Meta panel: Handle broken link tags on pages
- Improved Meta panel: Link meta tags containing URLS are now clickable
- Improved Meta panel: Show the type of 'alternate' link tags
- Improved Meta panel: New Bluesky preview for pages without OG image
- Improved Meta panel: Show warning if security.txt is expired
- Improved Meta panel: Allow webp for og images
- Improved Meta panel: Updated Discord designs
- Improved Outline panel: Form outline warns about small font sizes
- Improved Outline panel: New bottom-aligned panel layout
- Improved Outline panel: Support shipping and billing values in Form autocomplete
- Improved Outline panel: Expand all details option (Thanks Jules!)
- Improved Outline panel: show autocomplete warnings in form overlay
- Improved Context menu: Hold when clicking 'reload pane' to do a hard reload
- Improved Cache: Disable cache now applies to panes instead of sessions
- Improved Improved page load performance
- Improved Improved tab creation performance
- Improved Debug tools: Polypane UI is excluded from placeholdifier debug tool (Thanks Dave!)
- Improved Browse/devtools panel: Improve resize performance
- Improved Browse panel: Show bookmarks in Browse panel (Thanks Matija!)
- Improved Live reload: Redesigned to fit better with Polypane UI
- Improved Consistent 'clear input' UI throughout the app
- Improved New macOS installer background
- Improved Tab customisation UI redesign
- Improved Panes without navigation sync now get a color indicator when environments or domains match
- Improved Browse panel: Search in page (Thanks Matija!)
- Improved Browse panel: Better focus handling for keyboard users (Thanks Matija!)
- Improved Browse panel: Support for default browser shortcuts when focused
- Improved Rulers: Middle click button to disable rulers quickly
- Improved Reference image: updated UI
- Improved When setting a new default new pane, the default new layout is updated too (Thanks Michael!)
- Improved Form autofilling now has Dutch and Canadian postal code formats (Thanks Maarten!)
- Improved We no longer hide the browse and devtools panels when drop downs overlay them
- Improved Emoji pickers now always start with search, and default to Unicode 16 emojis
- Improved Accessibility panel: Update ruleset
- Improved Updated list of Google fonts
Fixes
- Fix Prevent UI from breaking when there are many open tabs (Thanks Ron!)
- Fix Projects: prevent duplicate project names
- Fix Browse panel: Prevent issue where new tabs could not be created
- Fix Snippet panel: Prevent stale focus outlines after use
- Fix Elements panel: Box model would sometimes not render (Thanks Scott!)
- Fix Elements panel: Updating parent styles works again (Thanks Scott!)
- Fix Outline panel: Make sure numbering and focus arrows are visible again
- Fix Outline panel: Prevent link errors from being clipped
- Fix Outline panel: Show broken links now filters list again
- Fix Outline panel: Tracking button in detached panel works again
- Fix Outline panel: Detached panel did not always get new data
- Fix Outline panel: add missing
street-addressautocomplete value - Fix Outline panel: correctly support autocomplete on implicitly typed input elements
- Fix Storage panel: Fix bug where session could not be accessed for initial panes
- Fix Meta panel: Robots.txt duplicate warning layout issue
- Fix Bookmarks: Middle clicks open new tab
- Fix Context menus in Chrome devtools panel not showing
- Fix Emulation: Correctly show the current network throttling profile
- Fix Emulation: scrolled settings no longer prevent tabs from being clickable (Thanks Dave!)
- Fix Update measured screenshot button correctly on activation
- Fix Background color of overview screenshots did not match UI
- Fix Request new permission on launch to allow sites to use desktopCapture on macOS