Freed v26.5.405-dev
Pre-release
Pre-release
(AI Generated).
Freed v26.5.405-dev
Freed Desktop is calmer during renderer memory spikes
Fixes
- Social memory preflight now ignores WebKit processes left over from earlier Freed Desktop launches.
- Social feed scraping now drops fewer frames under memory pressure.
- Native desktop toolbar dragging restored.
- Linux release compile restored.
- Renderer recovery under memory pressure is now more stable.
- Deferred startup RSS polling is now retried.
- Reader, feed, and header polish.
- Stale renderer recovery no longer blocks the main thread.
- Freed Desktop now pauses heavy background work before high renderer memory can force repeated recovery.
- Renderer health events now include generation, route, visibility, memory footprint, recovery state, and active background work.
- Social sync memory preflights now defer the shared scheduler instead of cycling through providers.
- Startup recovery now waits for stable renderer heartbeats before high-memory background jobs resume.
- Startup recovery and Settings copy now distinguish high memory from critical memory.
- Non-macOS release builds now compile the renderer memory diagnostics cleanly.
Follow-ups
- Reverse integrate v26.5.309 production release.
- Local diagnostics now write bounded runtime bundles for memory pressure, stale heartbeats, and pre-recovery samples.
- Reader, sidebar, and settings UX work.
Downloads
macOS: .dmg (Apple Silicon or Intel, signed + notarized)
Windows: .exe (NSIS installer)
Linux: .AppImage
macOS downloads are signed and notarized for normal Gatekeeper installation.