Axial 0.4.0-rc.5

New to Axial? Go to https://updates.axial.run. It picks the right download for your computer and shows exactly what to click when your system asks whether to open it.

Axial isn't signed with a paid certificate, so macOS and Windows warn once. The guide walks you through it in about a minute; after that Axial updates itself.

This is a pre-release. Start with a fresh profile; earlier Axial profiles aren't imported.

Distribution

• Axial updates itself: update packages are signed and announced at updates.axial.run, so only the first install meets the operating system's warning
• The download page at updates.axial.run picks the right file for the computer and shows, with pictures, exactly what to click when macOS, Windows or the browser warns
• The macOS disk image carries the same guide, and its button opens Privacy & Security directly
• Axial is available under the MIT license

Axial 0.4.0-rc.4

Release candidate for Axial 0.4.0. Start with a fresh profile: earlier profiles are not imported.

These builds are not notarized or publisher-signed. On macOS, the first open is blocked: go to System Settings → Privacy & Security and choose Open Anyway. Windows SmartScreen warns before running the installer. In-app updates are not enabled for this candidate.

Onboarding

• First run takes two steps: sign in with Microsoft or pick an offline name and look, then choose a color and what runs in the background, with the player's 3D character alongside
• Memory starts at the system recommendation instead of being asked up front; anonymous stats stay off until turned on

Mods and content

• Updates, disables and removals no longer leave an instance unable to start; Axial names the mods involved and offers to change them together
• Mods installed by a modpack are kept out of Update all
• Import .jar files into an instance and create instances from .mrpack files, by picking or dropping them, including packs not published on Modrinth
• A hand-added file that matches a mod is adopted instead of blocking its install; a different file can be replaced on request
• Installed mods show their icon, version, authors and modpack; new Resource packs and Shaders tabs
• Downloads lists recent failures with what failed and in which instance

Performance

• Installs and launches are faster: on macOS a fresh vanilla 1.20.1 install went from about 100 s to 41 s, Forge from 43 s to 29 s, and launching from 1.7 s to 0.8 s

Fixes

• A lost OpenGL context on Minecraft 26.x reports graphics as unavailable instead of a generic crash
• A saved custom Java path is shown again, the Mods pane refreshes after setup, and modpack set up honours the active version and loader filters
• A start stopped by a loader's incompatible-mods screen is recorded as a failed start with the reason
• Built-in shortcuts use Cmd instead of Ctrl on macOS, and shortcut hints show the platform's modifier symbols

Security

• Updated tokio, libz-sys and p256 for RustSec advisories
• Builds use Node 26 LTS and pnpm 11.28.10, which fixes three pnpm advisories (GHSA-c59q-g84q-2gj5, GHSA-vq4v-j7r6-jq4m, GHSA-vx52-2968-3vc6)
• Rust dependencies refreshed to their latest compatible releases

Release integrity

• Releases are exposed only after their version, notes, complete platform asset set, and checksums agree

Distribution

• Source files keep LF line endings on every platform, so Windows packages build from the same checked bytes
• macOS apps are signed ad hoc as a whole bundle, so macOS offers Open Anyway instead of reporting a downloaded app as damaged

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v0.3.1

Changelog

• c439ee2 bump version to 0.3.1

v0.3.0

What's New

Desktop App Rewrite

• Migrated from browser-served frontend to a native Wails desktop app with Preact and signals
• Proper taskbar icon and rounded app icons on all platforms
• Windows icon resource generation built into the pipeline

In-App Updater

• Automatic update detection on startup and from settings
• Shows release notes and links to download the latest version
• Stable channel metadata published to GitHub Pages

Background Music

• Optional background music with auto-mute when a game instance launches
• Track switching from settings

Smart Version Display

• Snapshot and pre-release versions show cleaner display names
• Disabled mods link for vanilla versions (no loader installed)

Build System Overhaul

• Replaced ad-hoc scripts with Task and GoReleaser
• Migrated frontend tooling to pnpm
• Linux AppImage packaging in CI
• Windows MSIX/AppInstaller packaging (requires signing secrets)
• Streamlined cross-platform dev tooling

UI Fixes

• Install button matches launch button size
• Instance status dot reacts to version changes
• Settings nav no longer stretches at low resolutions
• Redundant version hints removed from snapshot display
• Native button styling reset on version group headers

Stability

• Hardened loader installs, onboarding, and processor runtime
• Per-version loader install locks prevent concurrent corruption
• Launch rollback and loader metadata fallback improvements
• Music config and modal flow fixes

Full Changelog: v0.2.0...v0.3.0

v0.2.0

What's New

Frontend Modularization

• Split monolithic 2400-line app.js into 17 ES modules, bundled with esbuild
• Cleaner architecture for future feature development

Multi-Instance Launching

• Run multiple Minecraft instances simultaneously
• Per-instance session tracking with independent SSE connections
• Resource warning dialog when combined memory allocation exceeds system RAM
• LIVE tag on all running instances in the sidebar

Install Queue

• Installing multiple versions no longer silently drops the second request
• Sequential queue with per-instance sidebar progress bars
• Detail panel shows "INSTALLING..." or "QUEUED" states correctly

Game Output Improvements

• Timestamps on every log line
• Per-instance tags (auto-shown when multiple instances are running)
• Instance filter dropdown to isolate one instance's output
• Vertically resizable log panel (drag the handle, height persists)

CDS Auto-Repair

• Changed -Xshare:on to -Xshare:auto — corrupted archives no longer crash the game
• Automatic detection of CDS errors in game output + archive invalidation
• Concurrent CDS generation guard for multi-instance safety

Settings & Theme

• JVM performance preset now persists correctly (was silently discarded)
• Theme saved to backend config — survives localStorage wipes
• Settings save shows a toast and stays on the page instead of navigating away
• WebView2 Destroy() called before exit to flush localStorage

UI Polish

• In-app styled dialogs replace native alert()/confirm()/prompt()
• Instance name uniqueness validation (frontend + backend)
• JVM preset indicator in instance metadata (with ZGC Java 17+ note)
• Distinct colors for selected vs running sidebar items
• Stop button bottom-aligned with session timer
• Log panel max-height prevents collision with settings buttons at low resolutions
• Dev tools adapted to instance-based architecture

Full Changelog: v0.1.8...v0.2.0

Full Changelog: v0.1.8...v0.2.0

Full Changelog: v0.1.8...v0.2.0