Orb Changelog

Release notes and full changelog for Orb app & platform.

June 12, 2025

linux_cli
Linux CLI
1.0.8
Permalink
  • Bug: Fixed a broken docker build

June 9, 2025

linux_cli
Linux CLI
1.0.7
Permalink
  • CLI for OpenWrt packages only:
    • fix packages for arm_cortex-a9
    • New packages for aarch64_cortex-a53_neon-vfpv4
    • Micrond is now a recommended package instead of a dependency
  • Bug: fixed a bug causing a potential crash edge case

June 5, 2025

ios
iOS
1.0.4
Permalink
  • Bug: Reverted to static onboarding images as the animated images were causing rendering issues.

June 4, 2025

android
Android
1.0.4
Permalink
  • Bug: Reverted to static onboarding images as the animated images were causing rendering issues.

June 3, 2025

windows
Windows
1.0.24
Permalink
  • Improvement: Improves core latency and lag measurement to improve measurement quality in diverse network conditions, for example, in-flight Wi-Fi, captive portals, and restricted networks.
  • Optimizations and bug fixes including:
  • New feature: Launch Orb at startup setting
  • New feature: Share your Orb Score! Share your Orb score with your friends, family, ISP, or on social media quickly and easily. Tap on the Orb menu (...) and choose “Share Orb Score” as seen below: This will open a browser with a custom link to your Orb Score; use the time selector at the top to toggle through the available timeframes. Date and time range for the Orb score is displayed as seen below:
  • Improvement: We’ve added a little pizazz to our onboarding flow with animated images.
  • Improvement: Better suggestions when using “Improve Connection” feature
  • Improvement: Change your password quickly and easily through the settings menu. Tap on the gear icon/account/change password:

June 2, 2025

macos
macOS
1.0.4
Permalink
  • Improvement: Improves core latency and lag measurement to improve measurement quality in diverse network conditions, for example, in-flight Wi-Fi, captive portals, and restricted networks.
  • Optimizations and bug fixes including:
  • New feature: Share your Orb Score! Share your Orb score with your friends, family, ISP, or on social media quickly and easily. Tap on the Orb menu (...) and choose “Share Orb Score” as seen below: This will open a browser with a custom link to your Orb Score; use the time selector at the top to toggle through the available timeframes. Date and time range for the Orb score is displayed as seen below:
  • Improvement: We’ve added a little pizazz to our onboarding flow with animated images.
  • Improvement: Better suggestions when using “Improve Connection” feature
  • Improvement: Change your password quickly and easily through the settings menu. Tap on the gear icon/account/change password:
android
Android
1.0.3
Permalink
  • Improvement: Improves core latency and lag measurement to improve measurement quality in diverse network conditions, for example, in-flight Wi-Fi, captive portals, and restricted networks.
  • Optimizations and bug fixes including:
  • New feature: Share your Orb Score! Share your Orb score with your friends, family, ISP, or on social media quickly and easily. Tap on the Orb menu (...) and choose “Share Orb Score” as seen below: This will open a browser with a custom link to your Orb Score; use the time selector at the top to toggle through the available timeframes. Date and time range for the Orb score is displayed as seen below:
  • Improvement: We’ve added a little pizazz to our onboarding flow with animated images.
  • Improvement: Better suggestions when using “Improve Connection” feature
  • Improvement: Change your password quickly and easily through the settings menu. Tap on the gear icon/account/change password:
ios
iOS
1.0.3
Permalink
  • Improvement: Improves core latency and lag measurement to improve measurement quality in diverse network conditions, for example, in-flight Wi-Fi, captive portals, and restricted networks.
  • Optimizations and bug fixes including:
  • New feature: Share your Orb Score! Share your Orb score with your friends, family, ISP, or on social media quickly and easily. Tap on the Orb menu (...) and choose “Share Orb Score” as seen below: This will open a browser with a custom link to your Orb Score; use the time selector at the top to toggle through the available timeframes. Date and time range for the Orb score is displayed as seen below:
  • Improvement: We’ve added a little pizazz to our onboarding flow with animated images.
  • Improvement: Better suggestions when using “Improve Connection” feature
  • Improvement: Change your password quickly and easily through the settings menu. Tap on the gear icon/account/change password:
  • Bug: fixed a flash when launching the app on iOS

May 30, 2025

linux_cli
Linux CLI
1.0.6
Permalink
  • New support: New openwrt architecture support
linux_cli
Linux CLI
1.0.5
Permalink
  • Improvement: Fixed issues in arm6 build process
  • Bug: Fixed orb-update for entware

May 29, 2025

linux_cli
Linux CLI
1.0.4
Permalink
  • Bug: Fixed a bug causing abnormal resource utilization on some non-IPv6 networks.
linux_cli
Linux CLI
1.0.3
Permalink
  • Improvement: Packaging work for entware and mipsel
  • Improvement: Repackage functionality
  • Improvement: Minor improvements to installation scripts
  • Bugs: Minor bug fixes

May 21, 2025

linux_cli
Linux CLI
1.0.2
Permalink
  • Improves core roundtrip measurement to improve measurement quality in diverse network conditions, for example, in-flight Wi-Fi.
  • Optimizations and bug fixes
  • Adds platform and architecture support
  • Fixes or improves support on some platforms/architectures
    • Install script: arch-like os, improved install process, warn that the system will be upgraded
    • archlinux packages: missing dependencies, script to restart after upgrade
    • alpine packages: script to restart after upgrade, option to uninstall orb-update, improved error handling
    • openwrt packages: option to uninstall orb-update, improved error handling
  • Available for early access: FreeBSD support

May 12, 2025

windows
Windows
1.0.20
Permalink
  • Improved onboarding experience
  • Improved device discovery

May 9, 2025

linux_cli
Linux CLI
1.0.1
Permalink
  • Improved install scripts
  • Improved MQTT functionality

May 7, 2025

macos
macOS
1.0.3
Permalink
  • Improved onboarding experience
  • Improved device discovery
android
Android
1.0.2
Permalink
ios
iOS
1.0.2
Permalink

May 6, 2025

linux_cli
Linux CLI
1.0.0
Permalink
  • Bump version to 1.0.0 for consistency
  • Service discovery improvements (override host name)
  • Packaging improvements
  • Change for failed ping resends

May 5, 2025

macos
macOS
1.0.2
Permalink
linux_cli
Linux CLI
0.12.38
Permalink
  • Improved messaging
  • Install script improvements
    • Alpine
    • openwrt
  • Automatic timeline refresh
  • Port 5353 bug fix
  • Device discovery improvement
  • Orb link error message improvement

May 2, 2025

windows
Windows
1.0.19
Permalink
  • Fixed issue where Windows app stops running after a while when other Orb devices are present on the network
  • First hop improvement
android
Android
1.0.1+28
Permalink

May 1, 2025

linux_cli
Linux CLI
0.12.37
Permalink
  • Added a mipsel build
  • Pacman script fix

April 30, 2025

windows
Windows
1.0.18
Permalink
  • Initial release
android
Android
1.0.1+27
Permalink
  • Initial release
macos
macOS
1.0.1
Permalink
  • Initial release
ios
iOS
1.0.1
Permalink
  • Initial release
linux_cli
Linux CLI
0.12.36
Permalink
  • Initial release