Release history

What changed, and when.

2026

Build 4.0.4299 — October 2026

• AI Agents tile. Claude Code and Codex sessions on one tile, and a window for all of them: a card per session, its conversation, permission prompts and questions answered from the window, modes, teams, prompt history and suggestions. Sessions can be started from Panels with no terminal, and ended ones started again.
• AI Chat. A Codex chat outside any project — from the agents window, and from a new AI Chat button on the Start tile — with a mode, a font size and a history of its own, kept by Codex across restarts.
• Folder tile rebuilt. A folder opens in a window beside the tile as icons at three sizes or as details, sorted by name, date, type, size or tags; subfolders open in place, or in a new window with Shift+click. Drag a file over the tile and its folder opens for the drop, subfolders too. Drag the tile off the panel to remove it.
• Faces. A panel can wear Glass, Prism, Frost, Neon or Carbon; the monitors and clocks can wear brushed Metal, Nixie tubes or LED segments. A new Adaptive Color setting shifts a theme's colours to suit light or dark mode, and a Neon theme replaces Borders.
• Smoother windows. Open and close slides, auto-hide and detaching now run on the compositor, on Windows 11's own backdrop, and tiles slide out to and back from their windows.
• Panel Pilot, a third game: Lunar Lander, played with the same ship and scoreboard as Panel Pew. The games gained help of their own.
• Alt+click a tile for its settings, Alt+double-click to detach it or put it back. A pinned folder window is yours to size.
• The Pictures tile gained a Ken Burns pan and zoom. The web browser remembers a third viewing mode for when it is floated out, and detaches from its own menu.
• Premium tiles and visualizers are listed without a license, greyed, and say where to buy when chosen. Many fixes.

Build 4.0.4251 — August 2026

The largest release since 3.1. Panels stopped being only edge-docked bars.

• Widget panels. A panel can now leave its edge entirely — moved, resized and placed anywhere on the desktop, and locked so a stray drag cannot shift it. Panels that size to their content align to wherever that content sits. Widget is simply one of the choices for where a panel sits, alongside the four edges, and whether a bar reserves its strip of edge is now a separate Docked toggle — so the two questions are answered independently.
• Tiles can leave their panel too. Any tile can be lifted into a window of its own and put back, one at a time or every tile at once, without disturbing the panel's layout.
• Panel Manager, from the Start tile — every panel grouped by display, each one a button that starts or stops it. Two games live along the top: Panel Paddle and Panel Pew, played with real windows on the desktop rather than inside one.
• Pin a panel to a display and to a virtual desktop. The display is held as intent rather than as a position, so a panel assigned to a monitor that is currently disconnected goes back to it when that monitor returns, instead of piling onto the primary display with everything else.
• New tiles:
  • Media — now playing, with album art and transport controls.
  • Pictures — a slideshow of your own, with frames, transitions and effects.
  • Folder — the contents of a folder, with real icons and thumbnails. Not only ordinary folders: the special ones work too — Control Panel, This PC, the installed apps list — and so does the registry, browsed key by key.
  • HTML — one of your own pages, on a tile.
  • Battery — charge at a glance, and it hides itself where there is no battery.
  • GPU monitor — a live graph and readout, alongside the existing ones.
  • Audio visualizers — for panels and for individual tiles.
• Themes follow Windows. Theme mode is now System, Light or Dark rather than a single toggle, and defaults to whatever the OS is set to.
• Settings rebuilt — reorganised around panels and tiles instead of one flat list, with appearance set per panel.
• A new Full screen Z-order layer, so a panel can be set to stay above full-screen applications — or deliberately not to.
• Panels can be renamed.
• Many fixes to window shadows, open and close animations, popup placement, memory use, and behaviour over Remote Desktop and after a virtual machine resumes.
• Requires Windows 11.

2019

Build 3.1.1534.163 — 3 March 2019

• Improved panel auto-hide.
• Network devices can be assigned to rooms and zones.
• New hover context for stocks.

Build 3.1.1517.326 — February 2019

• The gateway is now marked, and is auto-rediscovered when it changes.
• Launch buttons and port status for Wake On LAN, RDP, HTTPS, HTTP, SSH and UNC services.

Build 3.1.1514.386 — February 2019

• Fixed issues with full-screen apps, and position restoration for flyout windows.
• Network Devices. Discover devices on your network, name them, and view their properties from a panel.

Build 3.1.1485.553 — January 2019

• Download support added to UniBrowse and WebView.

2018

Build 3.1.1443.134 — December 2018

• UniBrowse, now included with Panels. Switch viewing mode between Desktop, Tablet and Phone, turn a website into an application, customise it, and have window position and size remembered.
• Requires Windows 10 April 2018 (1803) or greater.

Build 3.1.1428.332 — 11 November 2018

• New WebView tile. Watch YouTube or Twitch, browse, and chat from the edge of your screen. Switches viewing mode (Desktop, Tablet, Phone) and goes 16×9 when horizontal. Requires Windows 10 1803 or greater.
• Windows 7 and 8 appearance enhancements, including Windows 7 Glass.

Build 2.0.1384.231 — 10 October 2018

• Memory cleaner added to the Memory Monitor tile. Hover the tile and an icon appears; click it to free memory. Requires elevation.
• Auto-hide now hides within the space occupied by other panels.
• UWP recent items can be deleted.
• The Explorer shortcut icon updates to reflect its path.
• Fixed config saving repeatedly.

Build 2.0 — 2 February 2018

• New hover context.
• History for shortcuts and Picture in Picture windows.
• Fixed full-screen and minimised PiP windows.
• Fixed auto-hide initial show.
• Improved wallpaper chooser load time.
• Toggle between public and private IP in the network monitor.

2016

Version 2.0 — 8 August 2016

• Create themes.
• Set the font.
• Adjust colour brightness for panels, tiles, foreground and accent colours.
• System window and accent colour settings that change automatically when the wallpaper changes.