Previous releases
All versions of Helix, with changelogs and download links.
v1.2.0
v1.2.0LatestReleased Jun 23, 2026
✨ What's New in v1.2.0
This release introduces a plugin system, custom AI providers, and a set of reader quality-of-life features. It also removes the mobile companion to keep the desktop experience focused.
🚀 Major Features
- 🧩 Plugin System — first-class extension API
- Sandboxed plugin runtime loaded from user-data folder
- Manifest loader with version, permissions, and min-Helix-version checks
helix-plugin://custom protocol serving plugin UIs into sandboxed iframes- Permissions model + per-plugin storage API
- Plugin Manager UI: install from folder, enable/disable, uninstall, reload
- Full authoring docs (
docs/PLUGIN_AUTHORING.md) and ahello-worldexample
- 🤖 Custom AI Providers — bring your own OpenAI-compatible endpoint
- Add / edit / remove / test custom providers
- Stored in a dedicated
customstore and exposed alongside built-in providers in the Providers page
📖 Reader Experience
- 🔖 Bookmarks Panel — in-article bookmarks with labels, section anchors, and scroll-position recall
- ⏱️ Reading Time Badge — estimated minutes-remaining on every article
- ▶️ Resume Pill — one-tap jump back to the last position in the article you were reading
- 🕘 Recents Section — sidebar-friendly recents with quick remove and clear-all
- 🧠 Graph view — large rewrite of the knowledge-graph page for faster layout and cleaner visuals
- 📄 Providers page — redesigned for custom providers and clearer key management
🌍 Translations
- 🌐 Five-locale coverage kept in sync across the new screens:
en,ar,fr,es,de
🗑️ Removed
- 📱 Mobile companion — the embedded HTTP server, PIN auth, mobile web UI, and "Mobile companion" settings tab are gone
- Drops the
qrcodeand@types/qrcodedependencies - Existing users: leftover
{userData}/Helix/mobile-settings.jsonis harmless and can be deleted manually
- Drops the
⚙️ Build & Release
- 🛠️ CI: streamlined release pipeline — direct uploads to the
Helix-releasesrepo, fixed release-creation ordering, fixed Windows shell path handling - 📦 Bumped product version to 1.2.0
📝 Notes
- A
package-lock.json↔bun.lockdrift exists from prior development; CI usesnpm installand will refresh the lockfile on the next developer build - The on-disk schema is unchanged — existing libraries, notes, bookmarks, and flashcards migrate cleanly
- 🧩 Plugin System — first-class extension API
v1.1.0-beta
v1.1.0-betaReleased Jun 22, 2026
🚀 Helix v1.1.0-beta
A massive release — 20 new features, 5 languages, and dozens of fixes.
✨ New Features
- 🏷️ Tags — assign custom tags to articles for organisation
- 📚 Collections / Bookshelves — group articles into named shelves
- 📖 Read Later queue — queue articles for later reading
- 📦 Bulk downloader — download entire Wikipedia categories at once
- 🎲 Random article / On This Day — discovery features with curated content
- 🔍 Advanced filters — filter library by language, date range, and tags
- 🔗 Related articles — discover linked articles within any page
- 🧭 Wiki Wanderer — AI-guided reading paths through Wikipedia
- 💬 AI Chat companion — discuss article content with on-device AI
- 🕸️ Knowledge graph — visualise links between your articles
- 🧘 Zen mode — distraction-free reading overlay
- ⌨️ Command palette — keyboard-first navigation (Ctrl+K)
- 🎨 Theme / Accent / Fonts — 5 accent colours, 6 reading fonts
- 📊 Reading goals & streak — daily/weekly targets with streak tracking
- 📈 Difficulty score — Flesch-Kincaid readability + AI difficulty
- ✏️ Annotations 2.0 — highlights, notes, bookmarks on articles
- 📌 Sticky notes — floating note widgets
- 💾 Backup & restore — export/import library as .zip (optional AES-256 encryption)
- 📉 Stats 2.0 — heatmap, time-on-page, topic breakdown
- 🍅 Pomodoro timer — floating countdown widget with live preview
🌍 Internationalisation
- 🇺🇸 English
- 🇸🇦 Arabic (العربية)
- 🇫🇷 French (Français)
- 🇪🇸 Spanish (Español)
- 🇩🇪 German (Deutsch)
🔧 Improvements
- 🎮 Discord Rich Presence — shows article title + thumbnail while reading
- ⚙️ Settings page with 7 tabs (Storage, Downloads, Appearance, Language, Goals, Backup, Discord)
- 🛡️ Wikipedia rate-limit handling — honour Retry-After header, 5 retries with exponential backoff
- 🔤 Library filters fully translated across all 5 languages
🐛 Bug Fixes
- 🍅 Pomodoro timer no longer stops when minimised
- 🌐 Missing library filter translations added to English locale
- 🛡️ Wikipedia 429 errors handled gracefully with proper backoff
- 🎮 Discord RPC exponential backoff and reconnection
- 📱 Language chooser segmented control no longer clips on small screens
Full Changelog: https://github.com/abdalla-3077/Helix/compare/v1.0.9...v1.1.0-beta
v1.0.9
v1.0.9Released Jun 20, 2026
Full Changelog: https://github.com/abdalla-3077/Helix-releases/commits/v1.0.9