What's Changed

• perf: try to improve app opens speed by @Salazareo in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3462
• remove deprecated ai models by @reynaldichernando in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3444
• add fixes 1 by @ProgrammerIn-wonderland in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3458
• Replaced Nginx with Caddy by @rowin-C in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3378
• fix: thumbnail res by @Salazareo in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3465
• chore: kill collector by @Salazareo in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3466
• feat: make uninstall also revoke + dashboard css changes by @Salazareo in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3469
• fix(ai-chat): forward temperature 0 and max_tokens 0 to Completions providers by @Ayush7614 in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3456
• ci: attach provenance and SBOM attestations to the published image by @kobihikri in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3463
• fix(puter-js): forward temperature 0 and max_tokens 0 in ai.chat by @Ayush7614 in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3455
• fix(puter-js): size img2txt data URIs by decoded bytes by @Ayush7614 in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3457
• fix: limit api pointing to apps only by @Salazareo in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3470
• perf: traces and perf improvements by @Salazareo in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3471
• fix(ai-chat): preserve max_tokens 0 for Alibaba, DeepSeek, and Claude by @Ayush7614 in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3472
• fix(puter-js): ignore peer offers for unknown connections by @Ayush7614 in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3473
• fix: errors for bad keys by @Salazareo in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3475
• driver controller change by @Salazareo in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3477
• fix: PUT-1398 by @Salazareo in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3478
• Apps: normalize filetype associations to bare lowercase extensions by @jelveh in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3479
• otel: better telemetry numbers by @Salazareo in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3480
• GUI: add npm start --server= to run the GUI against a remote … by @jelveh in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3481
• GUI: fix dev-server port-retry crash under Express 5 by @jelveh in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3482
• change cors auth path by @ProgrammerIn-wonderland in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3464
• fix: auth me for local dev by @Salazareo in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3484
• feat: sandboxed app workers by @Salazareo in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3486
• fix: auth message popups by @Salazareo in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3487
• fix: open ai cost by @Salazareo in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3488
• feat: slack alarms by @Salazareo in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3489
• tests: big test push for better coverage by @Salazareo in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3490
• fix: alarm channels by @Salazareo in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3491
• fix: surface name collisions when pasting instead of failing silently by @jelveh in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3492
• fix: progress window covering paste conflict dialog; ghost row after Replace by @jelveh in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3493
• fix: thumbnails breaking after copy — duplicate the S3 object per copy by @jelveh in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3494
• fix: phantom name conflict when pasting onto a just-renamed path by @jelveh in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3495
• feat: 'Keep Both' option in name-conflict dialogs by @jelveh in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3496
• add limit bypass by @ProgrammerIn-wonderland in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3500
• fix(ai-chat): infron default model is dropped by the aggregator alias rule by @meridah7 in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3506
• docs: document the provider option and refresh the vendor list in chat() by @meridah7 in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3505
• fix: PUT-1401 by @Salazareo in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3504
• fix: PUT-1429 by @Salazareo in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3508
• PUT-1436, PUT-1435, PUT-1371 by @ProgrammerIn-wonderland in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3507
• feat: support dekstop app linking again by @Salazareo in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3511
• fix: oidc issues with cache by @Salazareo in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3512
• Update NPM readme by @reynaldichernando in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3510

New Contributors

• @Ayush7614 made their first contribution in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3456
• @kobihikri made their first contribution in https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/pull/3463

Full Changelog: https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/compare/26.07.2...26.08