v1.42.1 - Linux Desktop in the Browser

New Features

A Full Linux Desktop, One Click Away

• Install Webtop from the Stack Wizard — a complete Linux desktop in the browser, self-hosted on your VPS
  • Alpine with XFCE is the default, light enough for a small server (2 GB of RAM is enough to start)
  • Switch to Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian or Arch, and to KDE, MATE or i3, by picking a different desktop flavour and redeploying
  • Sign in with a username and password you set during install
  • Attach a domain so the desktop is served over HTTPS — that's what browsers need for audio and video
  • Files you keep on the desktop survive updates
  • The first launch can take a few minutes while the desktop finishes setting itself up

Improvements

• Cloud storage accepts the URLs you actually paste — a Cloudflare R2, MinIO or custom endpoint works with or without https://, with a trailing slash, or with the bucket name still on the path. Addresses copied from the R2 dashboard are cleaned up automatically
• The R2 form tells you which endpoint to use — the S3 API endpoint from the R2 dashboard, not the public r2.dev URL
• Switching storage providers no longer keeps the previous one's leftover settings — changing from R2 to Amazon S3 drops the old endpoint and the region Amazon doesn't accept
• Testing a destination explains what went wrong — wrong credentials, a missing bucket, or an unreachable host are spelled out instead of a generic failure
• Confirmations in Backup settings live in the app — deleting a destination, clearing a passphrase, overwriting a sync snapshot, or deleting a cloud backup uses the same in-app dialog as the rest of Server Compass
• Credential fields no longer get filled with a saved website password — access keys, secret keys, passphrases, and pCloud tokens stay empty until you type them

Bug Fixes

• Fixed typing doing nothing after a file picker or confirmation on Windows — the cursor blinked in the field but keystrokes never arrived until you switched away from the window and back. Typing now works immediately
• Fixed Cloudflare R2, MinIO, Hetzner and other S3-compatible storage failing to connect or upload — destinations that look valid in their own dashboards now connect from Server Compass, which also unblocks Team workspaces that live in those buckets
• Fixed Amazon S3 connection tests failing after filling in an R2 destination first — leftover region and endpoint values are no longer sent to Amazon
• Fixed testing a storage destination failing on S3-compatible providers even when the bucket was reachable — a working bucket now shows as connected instead of as a failure