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Wails v3 alpha.76 + alpha.77 shipped 🐉

• alpha.76 — macOS: set CFBundleIconName directly when https://t.co/eRMV8NKKf0 exists (thanks @symball)
• alpha.77 — fix ScreenManager data race that deadlocked WebKit DisplayLink on display hot-plug

https://t.co/aTAOnSccpC

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If you're still here, thank you. Posting this was painful. Blog post next time! 😅

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Wails v3 shipped 17 alpha releases in Q1 2026.

Here's what landed: ↓

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Still alpha, but shipping fast.

Full changelog: https://t.co/8E01CbAs1r
Install: go install https://t.co/pQvdnuZisd
Discord: https://t.co/9KTKR9Btxm

Feedback especially welcome on GTK4 and server mode — both are experimental and need real-world testing.

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alpha.68 added a full Web API example set:
• 41 browser API demos: Storage, Network, Media, Device, Performance, UI
• WebView API compatibility checker — tests 200+ APIs across platforms

Check out: v3/examples/web-apis/ · v3/examples/webview-api-check/

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alpha.55 cut binary size and improved runtime perf:
• Removed 3 deps → ~1.5MB smaller
• Switched to goccy/go-json → 21–63% faster JSON, 40–60% fewer allocations
• Stack-allocated arg buffer for methods with ≤8 args

Less weight, faster calls.

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alpha.72 fixed a painful one: wails3 build and wails3 dev hanging 20–30 min on projects with heavy JS deps (MUI etc).

Cause: go-task's sources: "*/" was checksumming every file in node_modules/ — 50–100k+ files on NTFS.

Fix: exclude node_modules/. Builds are instant again.

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Drag-and-drop reworked in alpha.56, fixes through .69:
• File drop at non-100% Windows scaling ✓
• HTML5 DnD no longer broken with file drop on ✓
• Drop coords fixed (physical vs CSS pixels) ✓
• Linux hover reliable ✓

New API: EnableFileDrop + WindowFilesDropped.

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macOS this quarter (alphas .65–.74):
• Modal sheets
• .icon files for Liquid Glass / asset catalogs
• <input type="file"> picker fix
• Off-thread AppKit ghost windows fix
• Frameless window minimise
• Systray menu highlight fix

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alpha.68 landed experimental GTK4 + WebKitGTK 6.0 for Linux.

wails3 build -tags gtk4

Big deal for distros moving off GTK3. GTK3/WebKit2GTK 4.1 stays default - gtk4 is opt-in while we stabilise.

Also fixes DPI, window position, max size, menu dedup.

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alpha.64 added experimental server mode.
Build your Wails app as an HTTP server - no native GUI required: `wails3 build -tags server`
Same Go backend, same bindings, zero WebView.
Docs: https://t.co/K52cUYYSls

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@neneodonkor All of the testing is going on!

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test

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Wails v3 alpha.75 is out.

Fixes:
- wails3 doctor now correctly detects WebKitGTK 4.1 packages on Fedora, Arch, openSUSE & NixOS
- Fixed silent JS error when custom.js is missing in desktop dev mode

https://t.co/rCjfNeENdg

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Wails v2.12.0 released
macOS Tahoe crash fix, Linux signal handler fix, and more.
go install https://t.co/YpIS1dxZTx

https://t.co/SGPj4oeQCH

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@moeruri @seraro_dev @ChromiumDev The only v2 systray errors were when people were using 3rd party libs that also wanted to control the event loop

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@darryl__yeo @FUCORY @wevm_dev @schickling @paulmillr @shazow @walletbeat Oh hi! 😁