v1.42.1August 19, 2026

Linux Desktop in the Browser

Install a full Linux desktop in your browser straight from the Stack Wizard: the Webtop template self-hosts Alpine XFCE (or Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian and Arch, with KDE, MATE or i3) on your VPS, signs in with a username and password you set, and keeps your files across updates. This release also makes S3-compatible cloud storage — Cloudflare R2, MinIO, Hetzner — connect reliably, cleans up the endpoint URLs you paste, and stops credential fields being auto-filled with a saved website password.

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What's Changed

New Features

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

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The Create Your App stack wizard with "webtop" searched in the template picker, showing the Webtop template card — a full Linux desktop in the browser on Alpine XFCE, tagged Dev Tools and needing 2 GB of RAM.