v1.40.1August 11, 2026

Tailscale, and a Better Windows

Reach your desktop from your phone over Tailscale instead of a public tunnel, plus a batch of Windows and Linux fixes covering click handling, local builds and Docker.

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What's Changed

New Features

Connect over Tailscale — if you already use Tailscale, pick it as your remote access mode and your phone reaches the desktop privately across your own tailnet, with nothing published to the internet and no tunnel service in the middle
Both devices only need to be signed into the same tailnet
The connection is private HTTPS, so the mobile terminal, deployments and everything else work exactly as they do over Cloudflare Tunnel
The QR code only appears once the private address is confirmed working, so you never scan a code that goes nowhere
Settings tells you precisely what is missing — Tailscale not installed, not signed in, switched off, or needing HTTPS turned on for your tailnet — each with a button that takes you straight there

Improvements

The app catalog in the Stack Wizard is far faster — searching, filtering and scrolling through 400+ apps is now instant instead of stuttering on every keystroke
A Changelog link in the sidebar — under Help, "What's new" opens the full release history
Better Tailscale messages — when Server Compass can't read Tailscale's status it now says so and tells you what to do, instead of quietly showing it as disconnected

Bug Fixes

Fixed clicks being ignored along the top of every screen on Windows and Linux — an invisible strip meant only for the macOS window buttons was swallowing them
Fixed wasted empty space above the sidebar and terminal tabs on Windows and Linux — the gap reserved for the macOS window buttons is no longer held open on platforms that don't have them
Fixed Local Build failing to send the built app to your server on Windows — the transfer no longer relies on a compression tool Windows doesn't ship
Fixed Docker actions on your own machine failing on Windows — Server Compass no longer mangles the system search path when it runs Docker, which had been breaking commands that ran alongside it
Fixed servers being reported as running nginx or Apache when they weren't — the check was detecting itself, which could put a server into the wrong proxy mode and change how domains and SSL were set up
Fixed false "edited outside Server Compass" warnings on redeploy — a harmless extra blank line at the end of an app's configuration no longer looks like someone changed it on the server
Fixed Tailscale reporting as unavailable when Server Compass was opened from the Dock or Finder — the check now works the same however the app was launched

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