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 3.9.7
What's Changed Motrix Next 3.9.7 promotes the complete beta series to stable with Aria2 Next 2.5.5, runtime BitTorrent connection controls, safer file deletion, dynamic Material Design 3 theming, and substantial platform and architecture refinements. ✨ New Features - BitTorrent connection controls — Configure listen and external endpoints, apply supported changes without restarting the engine, and recover port conflicts automatically - File deletion policy — Move downloaded files to the system trash or delete them permanently - Dynamic color system — Use preset or custom seed colors with harmonized semantic roles across light and dark themes - Peer protection and diagnostics — Manage BT peer blocklists, log levels, log retention, and diagnostic exports - Task experience — Resume eligible paused tasks, show sidebar task counts, and control the task-list watermark 🛠 Improvements - Updated all six bundled engine binaries to Aria2 Next 2.5.5 - Reorganized BitTorrent, DHT, peer discovery, and sharing settings by protocol ownership - Added transactional preference saves with engine and configuration rollback on failure - Made Rust the sole task-lifecycle poller and consolidated shared configuration, proxy, and task utilities - Lazy-loaded locale messages and reduced the main frontend bundle - Added a custom macOS DMG experience, macOS ad-hoc signing, and Linux desktop integration - Rebuilt and polished the project website - Improved diagnostic guidance, default logging, localization, and updater signature documentation 🐛 Bug Fixes - Improved magnet metadata reliability and paused...
Version history
| Version | Updated | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 3.9.7 | Unknown | What's Changed Motrix Next 3.9.7 promotes the complete beta series to stable with Aria2 Next 2.5.5, runtime BitTorrent connection controls, safer file deletion, dynamic Material Design 3 theming, and substantial platform... |
| 3.9.6 | Unknown | What's Changed Motrix Next v3.9.6 graduates the 3.9.6 beta line to stable with improvements across download input compatibility, clipboard auto-detection, BitTorrent networking, task display, file category matching, and... |
| 3.9.5 | Unknown | What's Changed Motrix Next 3.9.5 promotes the beta series to a stable release, with task-detail performance work, task-list pagination, safer local RPC defaults, refreshed Aria2 Next binaries, tray icon stability fixes,... |
| 3.9.4 | Unknown | What's Changed Motrix Next 3.9.4 promotes the 3.9.4 beta cycle to stable. This release refreshes bundled engine binaries, improves task detail readability and copy actions, expands link handling for magnet and ED2K workf... |
| 3.9.3 | Unknown | What's Changed Motrix Next 3.9.3 promotes the latest beta work to stable with a broader P2P sharing model, ED2K bootstrap support, refined task cards, manual ordering, user-agent profile management, settings backup, and... |
| 3.9.2 | Unknown | What's Changed This stable release updates the bundled aria2-next engine, separates Motrix Next and aria2-next logging behavior, simplifies protocol handler settings, and cleans up outdated configuration and test paths.... |
| 3.9.1 | Unknown | [!IMPORTANT] This is a major stability and engine modernization update. Motrix Next now ships with the fully modernized Aria2 Next core, refreshed BitTorrent controls, stronger external download handling, improved path r... |
| 3.9.0 | Unknown | [!IMPORTANT] This is a major version update. Motrix Next has fully moved from the legacy aria2 engine to the maintained Aria2 Next engine, fixing many long-standing engine issues and adding native ED2K support. What's Ch... |
| 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... |