tauri-cli@2.12.0

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Sep 26, 2026

New Features

• f6c1eb253 (#15401) Added bundle.windows.bundleVCRuntime to copy the Visual C++ runtime DLLs into Windows MSI and NSIS installers. The bundler locates the runtime through VCTOOLS_REDIST_DIR or the bundled vswhere.exe.

• f76b1d3ae (#15644) The bundler now prints the size of each generated bundle next to its path in the Finished N bundles at: output (directories such as macOS .app bundles are measured recursively).

• af465eae1 (#15619) Add a --no-binary-patching flag to tauri build and tauri bundle. When set, the bundler skips patching the main executable with bundle type information (and the subsequent re-signing), leaving an already-signed binary untouched. Patching is only required when shipping multiple bundle types per platform that should each update with their own installer format.

• 0646cc162 (#15620) Add a --fit option to tauri icon to accept non-square source images. --fit cover center-crops the source to a square (clipping the longer side) and --fit contain pads the shorter side with transparency. Non-square sources without --fit keep erroring, now with a hint pointing to the flag.

• f6c1eb253 (#15401) Added build.windows.staticVCRuntime to control MSVC static runtime linking. The STATIC_VCRUNTIME environment variable is now deprecated and emits a migration warning when used.

• f45ec0dcf Record the app version in the trusted comment of updater signatures, so a signed artifact is bound to the version it was released as.

  An update endpoint response is not signed, and the signature only covers the downloaded artifact, so the announced version on its own does not prove which release the url and signature point at. minisign covers the trusted comment with its global signature, which lets the updater plugin compare the two and reject a response that pairs a version number with a different release. Enable requireSignedVersion in the updater plugin configuration to enforce this.

  tauri build fills the version in automatically, and tauri plugin add updater now enables requireSignedVersion for the project it is adding the plugin to. tauri signer sign gains an --app-version flag for signing updater artifacts by hand, and warns when it is omitted.

Enhancements

• e19121427 (#15993) Don't always rewrite Cargo.toml file from CRLF line endings to LF

• aebf38c84 (#15694) Migrate the Android Gradle scripts from the deprecated kotlinOptions DSL to compilerOptions, which is accepted by both Kotlin Gradle Plugin 1.9.x and 2.x. This lets projects move to Kotlin 2.x without hitting the hard error that 2.3+ raises on the old DSL.

  This increased the minimum supported Gradle version to 8.13, if your gradle is on an earlier version, delete src-tauri/gen/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties and re-run tauri android init to update it.

• d89d8fa62 (#15780) Warn during Android commands (init/dev/build) when the active Java version is too new for the Gradle version the project uses (e.g. Java 27 against the Gradle 9.6.1 the template ships, or Java 25 against a project still on Gradle 8.14), instead of letting the build fail later with a cryptic error. The warning points to the Gradle/Java compatibility matrix and suggests a supported JDK.

• c3d21bd60 (#15730) Use Theme.Material3.DayNight.NoActionBar instead of Theme.MaterialComponents.DayNight.NoActionBar when running tauri android init

• f654f470c (#15862) Update template to use targetSdk = 37

• cdaf7eab6 (#15765) Clarify that the tauri init frontend commands run before tauri dev and tauri build, and can be left empty when they are not needed.

• d0f38df06 (#15997) When stdin is not a terminal, tauri init now automatically skips prompts, avoiding IO errors in CI and scripts. This eliminates the need to pass --ci explicitly in non-interactive environments.

• ca160ad48 (#15895) tauri build now warns when productName is still set to the default tauri-app, since it names the generated bundles and is written into install paths and metadata that are expected to be unique to your application. The config documentation for productName now lists what the field controls on each platform, and identifier's documentation notes that the default value is rejected.

• 010f06bae (#15737) Document the TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY_PATH environment variable and clarify that TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY accepts a string or a path for the build and bundle command but must be the literal key string for the signer sign command, both in ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLES.md and in the signer generate command output.

Bug Fixes

• 9bad06b9f (#16096) tauri capability new and tauri permission new now accept an --out path to a file that does not exist yet, trim comma-separated prompt answers (so fs:default, core:default works), report invalid permissions as errors instead of panicking, and reject identifiers that are not valid file names (such as ../../x), which previously let them write outside of the capabilities or permissions directory.
• 9642b3087 (#16117) tauri add now honors --tag, --rev and --branch for official plugins instead of silently installing the registry version, and rejects passing more than one of them. With npm, the JS package requirement is now ~<version> like the other package managers, instead of >=<version> which allowed a later major version.
• cada1cd4f (#16105) Fix Android dev server port forwarding: adb reverse --list is now matched on the exact port (so tcp:80 no longer matches tcp:8080), stale forwards on other connected devices are actually removed, and the forward verification gives up with a warning after a few attempts instead of retrying forever.
• d5bd04658 (#16111) Fix bundle > android > debugApplicationIdSuffix being written to the signingConfigs debug block instead of the buildTypes one, and keep the existing content of single-line debug blocks such as getByName("debug") { isDebuggable = true } instead of dropping it.
• ba17da2e5 (#16101) tauri icon now generates 72x72 Android hdpi launcher icons (previously 49x49) and writes the Android launcher background color in #RRGGBB/#AARRGGBB notation instead of the raw CSS color string, which Android rejected or misread. Invalid SVG sources and --png 0 now return an error instead of panicking.
• 272842a57 (#16128) Fix error messages that printed placeholders such as {t} literally instead of the value, e.g. "Could not find an Android device matching {t}".
• 10ad4e54e (#16127) The Bash completions generated by tauri completions no longer replace the completions of cargo, npm, pnpm, yarn, bun and deno. They now define a _tauri_cli function registered only for the tauri and cargo-tauri commands. Generating completions when running the cargo-tauri binary directly no longer panics.
• 0e4ded72a (#16107) Fix binaries in src/bin and src/main.rs being left out of bundles when Cargo.toml declares a [[bin]] target without a path.
• 8e0fa2e2f (#16097) Fix the bundler using the host target triple when --target is not passed but build.target is set in .cargo/config.toml. The CLI now also accepts build.target as an array and honors the CARGO_BUILD_TARGET environment variable.
• 7bb0a5421 (#16120) Fix the Cargo.toml feature rewrite corrupting a string dependency version that has a trailing comment or uses single quotes (e.g. tauri = "2" # pin became "2#pin"). The version value is now kept as-is and the comment is preserved.
• e4630258e (#16114) Fix the CLI's working directory being left changed to the config directory when the Tauri configuration fails to parse, for example when tauri dev reloads an invalid config.
• 1b91b7b7b (#16102) tauri info now logs a warning when it cannot check the latest crate version on crates.io instead of silently ignoring the failure, and no longer panics if crates.io returns a version it cannot parse.
• 1b91b7b7b (#16102) tauri info now lists every locked version of a Rust crate when Cargo.lock contains more than one, and no longer panics when the crates.io response cannot be parsed.
• 6507d0b8b (#16124) tauri dev now reports an error instead of panicking when the beforeDevCommand cannot be spawned or the devUrl host cannot be resolved, and no longer risks stopping the beforeDevCommand process tree twice when Ctrl+C and the app exit race.
• c1ea96ad6 (#16110) Fix tauri dev not reacting to the app exiting when a process spawned by the app kept its stderr open, and stop keeping the whole app stderr output in memory. Also fix command output capture that could return empty output when the command finished before its output was read.
• d61fbdc3e (#16109) Fix Cargo.toml feature injection and the v1 migration only updating either [dependencies] or [target.'cfg(..)'.dependencies], whichever came first in the file. Both the main and all target-specific dependency tables are now updated.
• 5d995ed35 (#16017) Normalize gen/android/gradlew CRLF line endings to LF on all host platforms, not only Unix. A gradlew checked out with CRLF broke sh ./gradlew on Windows hosts using Git Bash. The rewrite only runs when a CRLF is actually present. A failure to rewrite aborts on Unix, where the script is executed directly; on Windows the CLI invokes gradlew.bat, so failures there only warn.
• 6d943c420 (#16065) Fix the tauri capability new command description, which said "Create a new permission file", and the --skip-stapling help text on tauri build and tauri bundle, whose first line described the opposite of what the flag does.
• b8be924d3 (#16106) tauri init no longer panics when the app name, window title, frontend dist, dev URL or before dev/build commands contain quotes or backslashes (e.g. -D ..\dist or vite --host "0.0.0.0"); the values are now JSON-escaped in the generated tauri.conf.json.
• b9b32a259 (#16108) Fix PRODUCT_BUNDLE_IDENTIFIER in the iOS Xcode project being set to the raw identifier (with underscores) instead of the sanitized iOS bundle identifier used by the Xcode project template and the export options provisioning profiles.
• 4f51a2f06 (#16115) Fix tauri ios run --features being ignored, and tauri ios dev --release still building the app in debug mode.
• 59e077457 (#16075) tauri ios build for a simulator target no longer fails with "failed to rename app: Directory not empty" when the output .app from a previous build exists.
• fe1aa30d2 (#16113) Quote the Tauri CLI path and the Xcode variables in the iOS "Build Rust Code" build phase, fixing builds when Xcode or the CLI is installed in a path containing spaces (requires regenerating the Xcode project with tauri ios init). Also fixes CXXFLAGS not being set for iOS targets in tauri ios xcode-script.
• aa0a801c3 (#16116) Fix Java version detection for the Android Java/Gradle compatibility warning when JAVA_HOME is not set: the java binary on PATH is now resolved through symlinks (e.g. Linux alternatives and Homebrew), and on macOS the /usr/bin/java stub falls back to /usr/libexec/java_home.
• 1aafaa4e3 (#16103) When rewriting a localhost devUrl to the network address for mobile development, the query string and fragment are now preserved, and the IPv6 loopback ([::1]) and unspecified ([::]) addresses are now treated as localhost.
• 022932dd5 (#16123) Fix iOS Xcode project synchronization corrupting project.pbxproj when several build settings were added to the same configuration, when an added setting was changed again, or when a multi-line setting was overwritten. Product names, signing identities and other values written to the project are now properly escaped.
• a4099d819 (#16098) tauri permission add (and tauri add) no longer overwrites an existing capabilities/desktop.json or capabilities/mobile.json when adding a desktop-only or mobile-only plugin permission and no platform-restricted capability exists; the new capability now gets an unused file name and identifier (e.g. desktop-2.json). An explicitly passed capability is now used even if its platforms do not match the plugin, with a warning, instead of being silently ignored.
• e49d1b474 (#16100) tauri permission rm <plugin>:* and tauri remove no longer strip unrelated permissions whose identifier merely contains the plugin name (e.g. tauri remove os removing positioner:default). Local permission files are now looked up in the Tauri directory, like tauri permission new, and an unparsable permission file is skipped with a warning instead of aborting the command.
• efa82f5ed (#16125) Fix plugin scaffolding for names like my-plugin: the default Android package ID now uses a snake_case segment (com.plugin.my_plugin) and user-provided IDs are validated, iOS Xcode folders use the same kebab-case name as the project file, and the plugin ios init/plugin android init code snippets now match the generated bindings and the setup(|app, api| ..) API. plugin init into a non-empty directory no longer creates a permissions folder after skipping the template.
• db6804d80 (#16126) Fix --release being added to the cargo command when a custom profile is passed as --profile=<name>, which made cargo reject the build.
• 8310461f6 (#16104) Fix tauri init and tauri info detecting SvelteKit projects as plain Svelte; tauri init suggested the wrong dev server URL and frontend dist directory.
• eaf96690d (#15804) On Linux, do not bundle xdg-open and xdg-utils in the AppImage anymore. This rarely worked and usually requires host system support anyway.
• 2b7c1f8b6 (#16003) Fix tauri add / tauri remove installing npm plugin packages into src-tauri instead of the frontend directory.
• c735ba32b (#15241) Fix broken child window icons in Task Manager, you'll need to re-run tauri icon to generate the fixed icons
• adf5acf6f (#15651) Fix MSI bundling when an external binary filename starts with a digit.
• 11012a13f (#15681) Fix WiX bundler doesn't respect the resource's target file name.
• 59e077457 (#16075) Detect pnpm from npm_config_user_agent when generating the mobile projects. pnpm's native binary (pnpm 11+) runs package scripts without setting PNPM_PACKAGE_NAME, and when installed through corepack the binary is named pnpm-native, so tauri android init recorded pnpm-native as the command for Gradle to run and the Android build failed with "A problem occurred starting process 'command 'pnpm-native''".
• 6a298ee12 (#15713) Fix tauri info reporting the Rust-only plugins (localhost, persisted-scope and single-instance) as missing their @tauri-apps/plugin-* JavaScript package, which is never published for those plugins.
• 33b3ea582 The bundled vswhere.exe is now written to a new, uniquely named temporary file on each use and removed afterwards, instead of running any existing %TEMP%\vswhere.exe.

What's Changed

• 2e6e33c85 (#16029) Moved to edition 2024 for the tauri init/tauri plugin init templates
• 2e6e33c85 (#16029) Moved to edition 2024
• ce3f13b91 (#15887) Lock unstable tauri crates to minor versions.
• 1cffb01da (#13221) Set MSRV to 1.90.

Security fixes

• 98918df64 (#16112) tauri add no longer installs the npm package tauri-plugin-<name>-api for community plugins. npm and crates.io are separate namespaces, so that package may be unowned or squatted; the CLI now asks you to install the plugin's JavaScript bindings yourself. tauri remove only removes the plugin's JS package when package.json lists it, and a failure there no longer skips the capability cleanup.
• cc9d522c6 (#16095) The built-in dev server now rejects requests whose Host header is not the address it serves on, which blocks DNS rebinding attacks, and rejects cross-site Origins on its reload WebSocket. The index.html fallback now goes through the same path scope check as other files, and the reload WebSocket no longer closes when the client sends a message.
• dacddfe9f (#16094) The CLI no longer writes its default ignore rules to shared files in the system temporary directory (.gitignore and .tauri/.gitignore) and reads them back, which let other local users change which files the project lookup and the dev watcher skip. The rules are now applied in memory. TAURI_CLI_WATCHER_IGNORE_FILENAME is now consistently treated as an ignore file name looked up in each directory, as documented.
• fdd56da19 (#16099) Secure the local server that tauri android|ios dev|build uses to pass options to the Android Studio and Xcode build scripts: requests now need a random per-session token, WebSocket connections from web pages (with an Origin header) are rejected, and variables whose name contains TOKEN, PASSWORD, SECRET or CREDENTIAL are no longer sent. The connection details are now written with owner-only permissions to gen/<android|apple>/.tauri/cli-options-server.json (instead of the shared temp directory) and removed when the command exits. The IDE build scripts now report a clear error when the Tauri CLI command is not running.
• ff7cd8d86 (#16118) tauri signer generate --write-keys now creates the private key with owner-only permissions (0600) on Unix and refuses to overwrite either the private or the public key file without --force. Updater signing now rejects file names containing tabs or newlines (which would corrupt the signature's trusted comment) and assumes an empty password instead of prompting when no password is given and stdin is not a terminal. tauri signer reports errors instead of panicking.
• 51aa20388 (#16119) On Windows, package manager commands (npm, pnpm, yarn, bun, deno, node) are now executed directly instead of through cmd /c, so arguments such as @tauri-apps/plugin-fs@>=2 are escaped properly and can no longer be interpreted as shell redirections or command separators.

Dependencies

• Upgraded to tauri-utils@2.10.0

• Upgraded to tauri-bundler@2.10.0

• Upgraded to tauri-macos-sign@2.4.0

• e2e585ad1 (#15828) On Android, fix missing consumer-rules.pro file in the template.

  IMPORTANT: For plugin authors, update your build.gradle.kts file to remove the

      buildTypes {
          release {
              isMinifyEnabled = false
              proguardFiles(
                  getDefaultProguardFile("proguard-android-optimize.txt"),
                  "proguard-rules.pro"
              )
          }
      }

  section and rename your proguard-rules.pro to consumer-rules.pro to match the consumerProguardFiles("consumer-rules.pro") in the template.

• e2e585ad1 (#15828) On Android, updated the template to use Gradle v9.6.1 (com.android.tools.build:gradle v9.3.1) and Kotlin v2.2. Use tauri android init to apply the change.

• 9e9a54dea (#15890) Update the generated iOS Xcode project to build with Xcode 27. The scenes lifecycle is not enabled by default: to opt in, add the UIApplicationSceneManifest key to your src-tauri/Info.ios.plist.

• b6660a041 (#15954) Update typescript to v7 in tauri plugin init template. Also fixes the default rootDir in the template tsconfig.json

• 9e9a54dea (#15890) Update cargo-mobile2 and change the default minimum iOS version to 15.0 to support Xcode 27.