winget install --id AnInsomniacy.MotrixNextAbout MotrixNext
Motrix by agalwood was one of the best open-source download managers available — clean UI, aria2-powered, cross-platform. It inspired thousands of users and developers alike. However, the original project has been largely inactive since 2023. The Electron + Vue 2 + Vuex + Element UI stack accumulated technical debt, making it increasingly difficult to maintain, extend, or package for modern platforms. What we kept We owe a great deal to the original Motrix and its community. The following were gratefully adopted an...
What's new in 3.8.10
What's Changed Motrix Next 3.8.10 promotes the 3.8.10 beta line to stable. This release adds HTTP Basic authentication support, improves local port conflict recovery, prevents system idle sleep during active downloads, and updates the README around the aria2-next engine integration. ✨ New Features - HTTP Basic authentication — Adds credential management for downloads that require HTTP Basic authentication. - Automatic port conflict recovery — Detects local port conflicts and switches ports automatically when recovery is possible. - Power guard — Keeps the system awake while downloads are active without forcing the display to stay awake. 🛠 Improvements - Improved error reporting when port auto-switching cannot recover from a conflict. - Updated README feature and installation guidance. - Clarified that Motrix Next now uses the maintained aria2-next engine. - Improved README shield formatting and architecture table clarity. - Standardized locale key formatting in Vietnamese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese preference files. - Renamed SignPath test workflow steps for clearer CI output. - Added SignPath workflow coverage for artifact configuration validation. 🐛 Bug Fixes - Fixed the SignPath certificate subject check by using Contains matching instead of -notlike. - Moved stat service shutdown logic into the correct engine service position.
Version history
| Version | Updated | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 3.8.10 | Unknown | What's Changed Motrix Next 3.8.10 promotes the 3.8.10 beta line to stable. This release adds HTTP Basic authentication support, improves local port conflict recovery, prevents system idle sleep during active downloads, a... |
| 3.8.9 | Unknown | What's Changed This stable release promotes the v3.8.9 beta line with native download task notifications, stronger filename handling, clearer localized messages, and small UI and Linux cleanup fixes. ✨ New Features - Nat... |
| 3.8.8 | Unknown | What's Changed Motrix Next v3.8.8 brings several focused desktop quality improvements from the beta cycle. This release fixes macOS tray icon rendering, improves lightweight-mode window restoration, and adds the recent a... |
| 3.8.7 | Unknown | What's Changed Motrix Next v3.8.7 improves external download handling, app activation behavior, update checks, and remote integration compatibility. This release includes the new Latest Across Channels update option, str... |
| 3.8.6 | Unknown | What's Changed Motrix Next 3.8.6 is a reliability-focused release for browser integration, deep links, filename handling, and download safety. It improves how downloads are received from extensions and external protocols... |
| 3.8.5 | Unknown | What's Changed This release consolidates 7 beta iterations focused on browser extension integration, download path safety, and comprehensive diagnostic logging. ✨ New Features - Extension API secret isolation — Decoupled... |
| 3.8.4 | Unknown | What's Changed This release resolves high system resource consumption during large file downloads on Windows (#255) and introduces improved metadata task handling for magnet links. 🛠 Improvements - Eliminate file pre-all... |
| 3.8.3 | Unknown | What's Changed This patch fixes proxy-aware file resolution for extensionless URL downloads and restores auto-update support for Linux RPM users. ✨ New Features - Directory quick-pick popover — favorite and recent folder... |
| 3.8.2 | Unknown | What's Changed This release resolves four user-reported bugs and delivers several quality-of-life improvements across all platforms. ✨ New Features - Keep-awake preference — Prevent system sleep during active downloads (... |
| 3.8.1 | Unknown | What's Changed This release modernizes the preference UI, adds granular notification controls, and prepares the project for SignPath Foundation code signing. ✨ New Features - Granular OS notification toggles — independen... |
| 3.8.0 | Unknown | What's Changed v3.8.0 introduces the browser extension HTTP API for seamless integration with the companion browser extension, along with critical fixes for the auto-archive file classification system and deep-link handl... |
| 3.7.3 | Unknown | What's Changed This release resolves duplicate download tasks caused by deep-link event duplication across all three platforms, adds browser cookie forwarding for authenticated downloads, and simplifies the extension aut... |
| 3.7.2 | Unknown | What's Changed This release fixes critical reliability issues in the auto-shutdown feature and unifies all confirmation dialog styling to a consistent NDialog design language. 🐛 Bug Fixes - Fixed auto-shutdown not re-tri... |
| 3.7.1 | Unknown | What's Changed This release resolves critical issues with lightweight mode and autostart behavior, ensuring the WebView lifecycle is correctly managed across all platforms. ✨ New Features - Browser extension auto-submit... |
| 3.7.0 | Unknown | What's Changed A major architectural release that migrates core download logic from TypeScript to a native Rust backend, introduces Lightweight Mode for dramatically reduced memory usage, adds GeoIP peer geolocation, and... |
| 3.6.10 | Unknown | What's Changed A feature-packed release introducing intelligent speed scheduling, automatic file categorization with archiving, system proxy auto-detection, and a complete animation architecture overhaul. The download gr... |
| 3.6.9 | Unknown | What's Changed This release graduates the v3.6.9 beta to stable, bringing comprehensive operational logging and a refreshed downloads page layout. ✨ New Features - Comprehensive operational logging — Added structured log... |
| 3.6.8 | Unknown | What's Changed This release decouples seeding tasks from pause operations and fixes the system tray menu. 🐛 Bug Fixes - Pause All no longer stops seeding tasks — "Pause All" (toolbar, tray, macOS menu) now pauses only ac... |
| 3.6.7 | Unknown | What's Changed This release introduces a dual-layer file deletion architecture that automatically cleans up internal aria2 engine metadata files (.aria2, hex40 .torrent, .meta4) after BT tasks finish seeding. Previously,... |
| 3.6.6 | Unknown | What's Changed This release improves the speed limiter user experience based on community feedback and fixes a Windows tray restore bug. ✨ New Features - Always-visible speed limit inputs — Upload/download limit fields i... |