# FreedomBox 26.5 released
**URL:** https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/freedombox-26-5-released/4131
**Category:** Announcements
**Created:** [March 24, 2026, 2:04am UTC](https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/freedombox-26-5-released/4131 "2026-03-24T02:04:53Z")
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### Author:  [@jvalleroy](https://discuss.freedombox.org/u/jvalleroy)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2026, 2:04am UTC](https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/freedombox-26-5-released/4131/1 "2026-03-24T02:04:53Z")
FreedomBox 26.5 has been released and uploaded to Debian unstable. Typically, the freedombox package will migrate to testing in 2 days, and then can be uploaded to stable-backports.
Highlights of this release:
- action\_utils: Don’t restart web interface when installing an app
- apache: Use a Uwsgi native socket systemd unit for each app
- ui: Use inline SVG icons for all apps
- wireguard: Fix freedombox VPN IP for services
Other changes in this release:
- action\_utils: Stop associated service when stopping a socket unit
- apache: Increase OpenID Connect RP session timeout activity
- apache: Minor improvement to getting the request host
- app: Fix build issue with Django 5.x
- clients: Fix formatting of package row in table
- clients: Fix show empty clients in Desktop section
- clients: Use SVG icons when showing external links
- container: Add option to skip install
- container: Fix image extension to .raw for systemd v260
- doc: Reduce verbosity when building documentation
- html: Drop trailing slash from void elements
- html: Drop type attribute value of text/javascript
- janus: Drop unused reference to font-awesome
- letsencrypt: Don’t perform operations on apps that are not installed
- locale: Update translations for German, Russian, Swedish
- pagekite: Fix issue with adding custom services
- tests: functional: Drop undefined ‘sso’ pytest mark
- ui: Add rest of the icons used from fork-awesome set
- ui: Better placement for dropdown indicator in dropdown button
- ui: Drop fonts-fork-awesome as dependency
- ui: Rename ‘plinth\_extras’ template tags module to ‘extras’
- ui: Simplify SVG app icons for using them inline in HTML
- ui: Use inline SVG icons for buttons, messages, spinners, etc.
- wireguard: Add button for direct APK download
- wireguard: Add entries for Homebrew and RPM packages
- wireguard: Remove client entry for F-Droid which is not available
- wireguard: Update windows client link
The following people contributed to the git repository for this release:
- Daniel Wiik
- Ettore Atalan
- Frederico Gomes
- James Valleroy
- Joseph Nuthalapati
- OwlGale
- Sunil Mohan Adapa
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### Author:  [@jvalleroy](https://discuss.freedombox.org/u/jvalleroy)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2026, 2:03am UTC](https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/freedombox-26-5-released/4131/2 "2026-03-28T02:03:31Z")
Due to a severe issue discovered in FreedomBox 26.5, we have followed up with a patch release 26.5.1.
Changes:
- debian/control: Fix building with nocheck profile
- debian/copyright: Drop a removed file, correct path for another
- locale: Update translations for Albanian, Turkish
- web\_server: Fix locating SVG icons on production setup
The following people contributed to this release:
- Besnik Bleta
- Burak Yavuz
- Sunil Mohan Adapa