Added a ‘Download Local logs’ item to the app menu help section. This generates a zip archive that bundles all logs into a single file for easier sharing with support or troubleshooting.
Use the “Open Site” and “WP Admin” buttons with your preferred browser: “Appearance & behavior” → “Default apps” now displays all browsers installed on your system, instead of just a fixed list. This change also introduces browser selection on Linux for the first time.
Windows can now optionally close Local to the system tray by enabling “System Tray” from preferences in Appearance & behavior (defaults to off).
You can now disable direnv from Advanced Preferences if it conflicts with your developer environment.
Fixes
Windows users will no longer encounter site creation failures when their user account or site credentials contain special characters.
Slowness on Windows has been resolved for new sites using MariaDB 10.11.18, ensuring consistent performance across database types.
Fixed an issue on Windows that could cause “missing MariaDB” and “unable to swap services” errors when starting sites running versions of MariaDB older than 10.11.18.
Local will now use MySQL 8.4.0+2 as the preferred version to fix an issue with sites failing to start on Linux.
Fixed “missing Mailpit” issues caused by sites running older versions of Mailpit, or macOS users migrating Local from Intel to Apple Silicon.
Improved accessibility of radio buttons to make them selectable via keyboard.
Updates
The MariaDB version has been upgraded to 10.11.18 and set as the default (Windows only).
