3.6

Release details

Application

Octave

Bundle ID

streaming.octave.dev

Release date

August 6, 2026

Platform

iOS

Architecture

Unknown

Minimum OS

18.0

File size

Unknown size

Artifact

Verified · available

This release fixes three things, all of which were reported rather than found. First, the Lock Screen widget. Since iOS 17 the system will not render a widget that never declares its background, and it substitutes a grey card reading "Please adopt containerBackground API" in its place. Every Home Screen size in Octave declared one; none of the three Lock Screen sizes did. That is the whole reason the widget looked fine on the Home Screen and broken on the Lock Screen, and why the rectangular Lock Screen widget had in fact never worked since the day it shipped. All three Lock Screen sizes now declare a background, as Apple's own documentation requires even though the system removes it there. Second, launching Octave from a web link — a Handoff from Safari on a Mac is the easy way to hit this — could show "Import Failed: that theme couldn't be read" about something that was never a theme. The URL router handed any address it didn't recognise to the theme importer, which downloaded it and tried to parse it as JSON. Only genuine theme files are treated as themes now, and anything unrecognised is ignored. Third, and found while fixing the second: links copied from the theme gallery were built correctly but had no route on the receiving end, so opening one did nothing at all. Shared theme links now open the theme they point at.

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