Tauri 2.0 Stable Release

Oct 2, 2024

Tillmann Weidinger

Tauri Security

We are very proud to finally announce the stable release for the new major version of Tauri. Welcome to Tauri 2.0!

What is Tauri?

Definition

Tauri is a framework for building tiny and fast binaries for all major desktop (macOS, linux, windows) and mobile (iOS, Android) platforms.

Developers can integrate any frontend framework that compiles to HTML, JavaScript, and CSS for building their user experience while leveraging languages such as Rust, Swift, and Kotlin for backend logic when needed.

In a Tauri application the frontend is written in your favorite web frontend stack. This runs inside the operating system WebView and communicates with the application core written mostly in Rust.

No Rust Skills Needed!

You don’t need to write Code in Rust, Swift or Kotlin in most cases. Tauri already offers an extensive JavaScript API.

When Should I Use Tauri?

If you check any of the boxes below, you should use Tauri:

• Do you want a single UI codebase for all platforms?
• Do you want to reach as many users as possible on their platform (eg. Windows, MacOS, Linux, Android, iOS)?
• Are you a frontend web developer and want to write native applications?
• Are you a Rust developer looking to write applications with a nice looking UI with the option to do it in Rust?
• Do you have an existing team of web developers and want to expand to native application markets with low upfront investment?
• Do you have an existing team of rustaceans and want everything written in Rust?

How Popular is Tauri?

On GitHub the Tauri repository has ~4,878 Pull Requests and ~3,570 Issues closed and around 1000 discussions, at the time of writing. To get a more detailed insight take a look at the OSSinsight analysis of the Tauri repository.

Our Discord Server currently has ~17,700 members. We are seeing a lot of individual user support, questions on Tauri itself, questions directly to the working group or just discussions between fellow Tauri app developers.

We are very happy about the positive and supportive community and grateful to all the community members answering or helping others in Discord or GitHub.

We maintain a curated list of Tauri related projects, applications, plugins, guides and more at awesome-tauri. Check this out if you want to get inspiration, see what others are building and ideally create a PR to add your project.

Of course this is only a representative sample set and we don’t know exactly who else is building on Tauri.

How Did We Get to 2.0?

In June 2022 we released Tauri 1.0 with a great impact on the desktop operating system market and how cross platform applications can be built.

In the end of 2022 we released our initial alpha version of 2.0 to get initial feedback and to test out how mobile interaction should be defined.

After the initial alpha we spent close to two years refining and changing the architecture of Tauri in public. After we saw the broad picture clear enough ourselves we released the beta in Februrary this year. At the same time we collaborated and worked with external security auditors to check our decisions, architecture changes and much more.

This August we published the release candidate version of 2.0 to iron out major bugs and to get more feedback from productive use. At the same time the external audit was concluded and made public.

The release candidate time frame was considerably shorter and consisted mainly of high impact bugfixes and documentation improvements. Some breaking changes we had to make during the release candidate phase were bundled up until the end and are now included in the stable release. Take a look at the migration section if your main concern is upgrading from a previous version.

In total we spent over two years working on improvements, new features, bugfixes, documentation, rewrites and a lot of discussions.

This all happened while we released 8 minor versions of the Tauri 1.x branch and backported security fixes and other important bug fixes in several patch releases.

Who Made This Release Possible?

This release and Tauri itself is only possible due to massive amount of contributions from Lucas, who has provided a constant stream of code changes over the years ❤️.

Obviously, Lucas is not the only individual working and contributing to Tauri, but we feel he deserves a very special mention for carrying, starting, and supporting the project and its community throughout the years.

We have had major contributions to the Tauri repository in 2.0 from Amr, Fabian-Lars, Tony, Chip, Jason, YuWei, icb , Simon, Oliver Lemasle and many more contributors (source data).

We received an increasing number of drive-by contributors (one or very few PRs). We are grateful for these, but naming everyone would make this a very long list here.

We have a lot(!) of repositories in our organization, which are supporting the success of Tauri and without community and working group contributions Tauri would not be where it is now. A big thank you to everyone involved!

Another special shout out and thanks for their constant involvement in the community goes to Fabian-Lars and Simon. If you have been involved in Tauri’s Discord or Github discussions you likely know their name or avatar.

If you ever searched on Google or YouTube for Tauri, you have probably seen one of Jacob’s streams. If that’s not the case please make sure to check it out and subscribe as his sessions are beyond just educational.

Another special place in our heart has the Tauri Board, highlighting Daniel Yvetot-Thompson for the numerous hours, sweat, blood and dedication to make Tauri known and sustainable.

One important thing we should not forget, is that we acquired support from a stable partner of this open source project.

CrabNebula granted multiple people mentioned above and others that are not mentioned here, the privilege to work on the Tauri ecosystem not only in their private time, but also during work time. You can find the partnership announcement on our blog and we have been more than happy about this collaboration over the last year.

In 2024 alone they spent over 2,870 work hours on this project, which massively pushed the progress and allows us to announce the stable 2.0 release today.

If you were not aware of CrabNebula yet, make sure to check out their products and services and consider the symbiotic relationship with Tauri if you are interested in not only improving your workflows, but also supporting the Tauri ecosystem.

What Makes 2.0 Great?

With this major release we improved and changed several aspects of how and where you can build, develop and publish your Tauri app. In the following sections we have more detailed insight. This does not cover everything, but should give you a decent impression on what you can expect from Tauri.

Getting Started Experience

One thing you are always going to go through when starting with a new framework or tool is the initial onboarding or getting started process.

We value developer experience (DX) and try to make this initial process as seamless as building and distributing your final application.

For this we created another project, which is called create-tauri-app or in short CTA. This tool allows developers to start from scratch and get to a running Tauri app in a few minutes instead of hours.

Bash

sh <(curl https://create.tauri.app/sh)

PowerShell

irm https://create.tauri.app/ps | iex

Fish

sh (curl -sSL https://create.tauri.app/sh | psub)

npm

npm create tauri-app@latest

Yarn

yarn create tauri-app

pnpm

pnpm create tauri-app

deno

deno run -A npm:create-tauri-app

bun

bun create tauri-app

Cargo

cargo install create-tauri-app --locked
cargo create-tauri-app

Of course you need to install some prerequisites on your development system before you can start building your application. For this we have extensive guides with operating system specific sections in our official documentation.

This whole onboarding experience has been improved and now also bootstraps mobile development templates for iOS and Android.

Hot-Module Replacement

After the initial onboarding you will regularly develop and debug your Tauri application. We considered what would improve your development process already in 1.x of Tauri and extended the Hot-Module Replacement (HMR) to mobile devices and emulators.

This means that all changes to the frontend of your application do not require a rebuild of your whole application and you can live preview how it will look like in the device or operating system your are developing for.

Plugins

With Tauri 2.0 we built a more advanced plugin system. We transferred a lot of our previous functionality into our official plugins (see plugins-workspace), to allow the community an easier entry into contributing to Tauri. We also hope to attract more maintainers for plugins and to speed up the process of implementing new features.

This move to plugins has another benefit. We are going to be able to define a definition of done for Tauri’s core. We hope to stabilize the core functionality and offer a stable framework, where the moving parts are mostly plugins offering access to system specific functionality.

You no longer need to understand all of Tauri to improve or implement specific features. The plugins usually do not depend on other plugins, with some exceptions. This means to implement a new file system access functionality it is only required to contribute to the fs plugin instead of Tauri itself.

As this release also targets mobile platforms, the plugin system also supports mobile plugins. You can write or re-use native code in Swift on iOS and Kotlin on Android and directly expose functions to the Tauri frontend using Annotations (@Command on Android), implementing a Subclass (YourPluginClass: Plugin) on iOS, or by invoking the Swift or Kotlin code from a Rust based Tauri command. Check out the documentation on how to write your own plugin.

As we are releasing Tauri as 2.0, the official plugins will follow the major version of Tauri to make compatibility with Tauri’s major version visible at a glance. Not all plugins are as stable as Tauri itself though.

Each plugin’s stableness is defined per plugin and documented (soon) in the plugin documentation. The plugin API can possibly break in minor versions, but we will try to keep these changes to a minimum, especially for plugins considered stable.

Tip

You can pin your plugin versions to only patch updates if you need absolute stable interfaces. We generally try to backport security updates and will announce advisories on GitHub.

Autostart

Automatically launch your app at system startup.

Barcode Scanner

Allows your mobile application to use the camera to scan QR codes, EAN-13 and other types of barcodes.

Biometric

Prompt the user for biometric authentication on Android and iOS.

Clipboard

Read and write to the system clipboard.

Command Line Interface (CLI)

Parse arguments from the command line interface.

Deep Linking

Set your Tauri application as the default handler for an URL.

Dialog

Native system dialogs for opening and saving files along with message dialogs.

File System

Access the file system.

Global Shortcut

Register global shortcuts.

HTTP Client

Access the HTTP client written in Rust.

Localhost

Use a localhost server in production apps.

Logging

Configurable logging.

NFC

Read and write NFC tags on Android and iOS.

Notifications

Send native notifications to the user.

Opener

Open files and URLs in external applications.

OS Information

Read information about the operating system.

Persisted Scope

Persist runtime scope changes on the filesystem.

Positioner

Move windows to common locations.

Process

Access the current process.

Shell

Access the system shell to spawn child processes.

Single Instance

Ensure that a single instance of your Tauri app is running at a time.

SQL

Tauri Plugin providing an interface for the frontend to communicate with SQL databases through sqlx.

Store

Persistent key value storage.

Stronghold

Encrypted, secure database.

Updater

In-app updates for Tauri applications.

Upload

File uploads through HTTP.

Websocket

Open a WebSocket connection using a Rust client in JavaScript.

Window State

Persist window sizes and positions.

Mobile Support

A very much awaited part of this release is the mobile operating system support. The previous version of Tauri allowed to have a single UI code base for desktop operating systems but now this extends to iOS and Android.

We have investigated and experimented with different solutions to support mobile and decided on using the operating system native language (Swift and Kotlin) to build an interface for the Rust code and to allow developers to write part of their functionality in these languages.

This means you can re-use existing logic of your Swift or Kotlin app that interacts with the system and expose it to Rust or the frontend. Right now this works as mentioned above via the plugin system.

We support development with an emulator or a real device and provide a lot of tooling to make the process as seamless as possible. We are not completely happy about the developer experience at the moment but are actively improving to bring it up to par with the desktop experience.

On mobile not all of the official plugins are supported. Some are by design not a good fit for mobile and some are just not implemented to support mobile yet. If you would like to contribute on this part check the last section of this post.

The Allowlist is Dead, Long Live the Allowlist

Yes, there is no allowlist anymore, as we hit the limits of this system pretty quickly. We made it exclusive for Tauri core features and it did not even cover all of Tauri’s APIs. Our new system not only covers all of Tauri’s core API surface, it also supports app and plugin developers to implement their own access control and scoping with a unified approach.

The new system we implemented is using permissions - “On-off toggles for Tauri commands”, scopes - “Parameter validation for Tauri commands” and capabilities - “Attaching permissions and scopes to Windows and WebViews”, to create a flexible but simple to use access control system.

It allows the creation of named permission or scoping files and to re-use and combine them with other named permissions or scopes. This makes it possible to build more fine grained descriptive sets containing several simple or complex permissions and scopes.

As a plugin developer you can abstract away several base permissions into a default permission. This can be based on your default security assumptions and threat model. All official Tauri plugin default permissions are reasonably secure by default.

As an app developer you can use, extend or reduce plugin permissions. Of course you can also build permissions and scopes for your own application.

With this addition, Tauri’s core is now able to understand if a command invoke message from a frontend WebView is allowed to reach the command function. It is also able to attach the configured scope to the message.

The command implementation is responsible for interpreting and enforcing the scope. You can read more about our Threat Model and approach to security in our documentation.

External Security Audit

The major changes and architecture of v2 was independently audited by Radically Open Security during the beta and release candidate period. Please take your time to read the report and learn more about the awesome work of @gronke and @pcwizz.

The whole audit was funded by the great folks at NLNet via funding from NGI and we are super grateful to be in the privileged position to get fully funded external security audits for major releases.

The results of this audit caused us to rewrite parts of how our dev server is exposed, specifically for mobile development. Without the help and guidance of the auditors this rewrite would not have been possible ❤️.

Additionally, we hardened our iFrame API exposure, fixed scope validation and resource identifier access for the fs and http plugin, improved our inter-process communication stability, and many other security related fixes and improvements.

Inter Process Communication (IPC) Rewrite

With the rewrite of our IPC layer we now support a long wished feature of Raw Payloads and generally changed how it works under the hood.

Previously all IPC payloads were json serialized and deserialized which caused an overhead. This was noticeable once more than a few kilobytes were transfered between frontend and backend.

The new system supports Raw Requests. These speed up the transfer of large data from backend to frontend and vice versa, where you can either use raw bytes directly or use your own (de)serialization process (eg. bson, protobuf, avro and others).

For directly reading files from the filesystem into the WebView we still recommend the convertFileSrc functionality, as it is most likely still faster if you do not need to process the data on the Rust backend.

Distribution Guides

With Tauri 2.0 the distribution diversity greatly increased. Partially, due to the mobile ecosystem and partially due to our community contributions.

We have official guides on how to ship to the Apple Appstore, Google Play, Microsoft Store, CrabNebula Cloud, Flathub, Snapcraft, AUR and more distribution formats in our distribution docs.

Github Action

Our GitHub action (tauri-action) is in progress to support automated building for the mobile operating systems but does not support it yet.

Changelog

This section contains all changes going from 1.x in a concise list.

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Added

• Added Mobile support.
• Added multiwebview support behind the unstable feature flag. See WindowBuilder and WebviewBuilder for more information.
• Added rustls-tls cargo feature flag
• Added shadow option when creating a webview window,WebviewWindow::set_shadow method in Rust and equivalent API in JS.
• Added tauri::Webview, tauri::WebviewBuilder, tauri::WebviewWindow, tauri::WebviewWindowBuilder structs in Rust and equivalent classes in Js. The old tauri::Window and tauri::WindowBuilder behaviors have moved to tauri::WebviewWindow and tauri::WebviewWindowBuilder.
• Added tauri::scope::fs module
• Added tauri::App/AppHandle::default_window_icon method.
• Added tauri::ipc module with IPC primitives.
• Added tauri::ipc::Channel type and equivalent JS Channel type to send data across the IPC.
• Added incognito option when creating a webview window.
• Added windowEffects option when creating a webview window and WebviewWindow::set_effects to try and change effects at runtime.
• Added tauri::path::PathResolver
• Added tauri::Manager::path method to access the new PathResolver
• Added visibleOnAllWorkspaces option when creating a webview window.
• Added tauri::App/AppHandle::primary_monitor and App/AppHandle::available_monitors methods.
• Added tauri::plugin::Builder::on_navigation and tauri::plugin::Plugin::on_navigation.
• Added tauri::WebviewWindow::navigate method
• Added tauri::RunEvent::Opened on macOS and iOS for deep link support.
• Added file associations support in bundler.
• Added tauri::App/AppHandle::cleanup_before_exit to manually call the cleanup logic. You should always exit the tauri app immediately after this function returns and not use any tauri-related APIs.
• On Linux, add tauri::WebviewWindow::default_vbox method to get a reference to the gtk::Box that contains the menu bar and the webview.
• Added linux-libxdo cargo feature flag (disabled by default) to enable linking to libxdo which is used to make Cut, Copy, Paste and SelectAll native menu items work on Linux.
• On macOS, add tauri::WebviewWindow::ns_view method to get a pointer to the NSWindow content view.
• Added tauri::Builder::register_asynchronous_uri_scheme_protocol to allow resolving a custom URI scheme protocol request asynchronously to prevent blocking the main thread.
• Included drop and hover position for drag and drop events.
• Added tauri::WebviewWindow::set_progress_bar method
• Added tauri::WebviewWindow::set_always_on_bottom method and alwaysOnTop option when creating a webview window.
• Added tauri::WebviewWindowBuilder::on_page_load method.
• Added common-controls-v6 cargo feature flag (enabled by default).
• Added Window::destroy to force close a window.
• Added tauri::EventId type
• Added tauri::WindowBuilder::on_download to handle download request events.
• Added tauri::WebviewWindowBuilder::parent which is a convenient wrapper around parent functionality for Windows, Linux and macOS.
• Added tauri::WebviewWindowBuilder::owner on Windows only.
• Added tauri::WebviewWindowBuilder::transient_for and tauri::WebviewWindowBuilder::transient_for_raw on Linux only.
• Added tauri::WebviewWindow::start_resize_dragging and tauri::ResizeDirection enum.
• Added tauri::WebviewWindowBuilder::proxy_url method.
• Added tauri::WebviewEvent enum
• Added tauri::RunEvent::WebviewEvent variant.
• Added tauri::Builder::on_webview_event and tauri::Webview::on_webview_event methods.
• Added tauri::image module which includestauri::image::Image and tauri::image::JsImage types and tauri::image::include_img! macro.
• Added tauri::is_dev function to determine whether the app is running in development mode or not.
• Added tauri::Assets::setup method on tauri::Assets trait that lets you run initialization code for your custom asset provider.
• Added tauri::Rect struct.
• Added tauri::WebviewWindow::set_zoom method
• Added zoomHotkeys option when creating a webview window.
• Added window.isTauri JS global function to check whether running in tauri or not.
• Added specta feature flag which adds specta support for AppHandle, State, Window, Webview and WebviewWindow types.
• Added tauri::App/AppHandle/WebviewWindow::cursor_position getter to get the current cursor position.
• Added tauri::App/AppHandle/WebviewWindow::monitor_from_point(x,y) getter to get the monitor from a given point..
• Added tauri::RunEvent::Reopen to handle click on dock icon on macOS.
• Added defaultWindowIcon to the JS app module to retrieve the default window icon in JS.
• Added tauri::WebviewWindow::set_title_bar_style to set title bar at runtime on macOS.
• Add APIs to enable setting window size constraints separately:
  • Added tauri::WindowBuilder::inner_size_constraints and tauri::WebviewWindowBuilder::inner_size_constraints
  • Added tauri::WindowSizeConstraints struct
  • Added tauri::Window::set_size_constraints and tauri::WebviewWindow::set_size_constraints

Enhancements

• Use custom protocols on the IPC implementation to enhance performance.
• Enhance centering a newly created window, it will no longer jump to center after being visible.
• The custom-protocol Cargo feature is no longer required on your application and is now ignored. To check if running on production, use #[cfg(not(dev))] instead of #[cfg(feature = "custom-protocol")].
• Improved the JS path APIs to return simplified paths on Windows when possible, i.e removing UNC (\\?\) prefix.
• Improved the error message that is shown when deserializing the Tauri plugin config.
• Set the gtk application id to the identifier defined in tauri.conf.json to ensure the app uniqueness. This can be disabled by setting enableGtkAppId option to false.
• On Windows, handle resizing undecorated windows natively which improves performance and fixes a couple of annoyances with previous JS implementation:
  • No more cursor flickering when moving the cursor across an edge.
  • Can resize from top even when data-tauri-drag-region element exists there.
  • Upon starting rezing, clicks don’t go through elements behind it so no more accidental clicks.
• Mark AppHandle::restart and process::restart as diverging functions

Bug Fixes

• No longer unpacking and flattening the payload over the IPC so that commands with arguments called cmd, callback, error, options or payload aren’t breaking the IPC.
• Fix calling set_activation_policy when the event loop is running.
• Fix can not prevent closing a window from another webview.
• On Windows, fix decorated window not transparent initially until resized.
• Resolve symlinks on the filesystem scope check.
• Fix the JS basename(path, 'ext') API implementation removing all occurances of ext where it should only remove the last one.
• Fix window white flashing on exit on Windows
• Apply minWidth, minHieght, maxWidth and maxHeight constraints separately, which fixes a long standing bug where these constraints were never applied unless width and height were constrained together.

Changed

• The window creation and setup hook are now called when the event loop is ready.
• Renamed the default-tls feature to native-tls and.
• Changed the plugin setup hook to take a second argument of type PluginApi
• Changed tauri::Window struct behavior and moved its old behavior to the new tauri::WebviewWindow type.
• Moved tauri::api::path module to tauri::path
• Moved all functions from tauri::api::path to be methods on tauri::path::PathResolver
• Renamed system-tray feature flag to tray-icon.
• Changed tauri::App::handle and tauri::Manager::app_handle methods to return a reference to an AppHandle instead of an owned value.
• Changed tauri::Builder::register_uri_scheme_protocol to return a http::Response instead of Result<http::Response>. To return an error response, manually create a response with status code >= 400.
• The custom protocol on Windows and Android now uses the http scheme instead of https.
• Changed tauri::Env.args to tauri::Env.args_os and now uses OsString instead of String
• Changed TAURI_AUTOMATION env var to TAURI_WEBVIEW_AUTOMATION
• Changed tauri::Builder::invoke_system to take references instead of owned values.
• Changedtauri::Builder::invoke_system, tauri::Builder::on_page_load hooks to take a tauri::Webview argument instead of a tauri::Window.
• Moved the tauri::command module items to the tauri::ipc module so its import name does not clash with the tauri::command macro.
• Changed tauri::App::run_iteration to take a callback and removed its return value.
• Changed AppHandle::exit and AppHandle::restart to trigger RunEvent::ExitRequested and RunEvent::Exit
• Renamed tauri::WebviewWindowBuilder::owner_window to tauri::WebviewWindowBuilder::owner_raw and tauri::WebviewWindowBuilder::parent_window to tauri::WebviewWindowBuilder::parent_raw.
• Renamed the window-data-url feature flag to webview-data-url.
• Changed tauri::WebviewWindow::close to trigger a close requested event instead of forcing the window to be closed. Use tauri::WebviewWindow::destroy to force close.
• Renamed icon-ico and icon-png feature flags to image-ico and image-png respectively.
• Removed tauri::Icon enum, use the new tauri::Image type instead. All APIs that previously accepted tauri::Icon have changed to accept tauri::Image instead.
• Changed tauri::Context struct and tauri::Assets trait to have a R: Runtime generic.
• Renamed tauri::Context::assets_mut to tauri::Context::set_assets
• Changed tauri::Context type to not have <A: Assets> generic so the assets implementation can be swapped with Context::set_assets.
• Changed tauri::Context::assets to return &dyn Assets instead of &A generic.
• Renamed tauri::FileDropEvent enum to tauri::DragDropEvent and renamed its variants. Also renamed the js events
• Renamed tauri::WindowEvent::FileDrop enum variant to tauri::WindowEvent::DragDrop
• Renamed file drop emitted events to tauri://drag-enter, tauri://drag-over, tauri://drag-drop, and tauri://drag-leave
• Renamed tauri::WebviewWindow::disable_file_drop_handler to tauri::WebviewWindow::disable_drag_drop_handler.
• Changed tauri::WebviewWindow::url getter to return a result.
• Changed tauri::Env.args_os, to include the binary path, previously it was skipped.
• Renamed getAll and getCurrent to getAllWindows and getCurrentWindow in the JS window module but you probably want getAllWebviewWindows and getCurrentWebviewWindow from the webviewWindow module.

Removed

• The reqwest-* Cargo features were removed
• UpdaterEvent
• Removedtauri::api module and moved them into standalone plugins in plugins-workspace repo.
• Removed tauri::scope::IpcScope
• Removed tauri::scope::ipc module and all its types.
• Removed tauri::scope::FsScope, use tauri::scope::fs::Scope
• Removed tauri::scope::GlobPattern, use tauri::scope::fs::Pattern
• Removed tauri::scope::FsScopeEvent, use tauri::scope::fs::Event
• Removed tauri::scope::HttpScope
• Removed tauri::scope::ShellScope
• Removed tauri::scope::ShellScopeAllowedCommand
• Removed tauri::scope::ShellScopeAllowedArg
• Removed tauri::scope::ExecuteArgs
• Removed tauri::scope::ShellScopeConfig
• Removed tauri::scope::ShellScopeError
• Removed linux-protocol-headers cargo feature flag, now enabled by default.
• Removed tauri::path::Error and tauri::path::Result and added its variants to tauri::Error
• Removed tauri::path::Result and tauri::plugin::Result aliases, you should use tauri::Result or your own Result type.
• Changed tauri::Builder::on_page_load handler to take references. The page load hook is now triggered for load started and finished events, to determine what triggered it see tauri::PageLoadPayload::event field.
• Removed tauri::GlobalWindowEvent struct, and unpacked its fields to be passed directly to tauri::Builder::on_window_event.
• Removed tauri::EventHandler type.
• Renamed tauri::Context::default_window_icon_mut to tauri::Context::set_default_window_icon and changed it to accept Option<T>.

Config restructure

Restructured Tauri config per RFC#5:

• Moved package.productName, package.version and tauri.bundle.identifier fields to the top-level.
• Removed package object.
• Renamed tauri object to app.
• Moved tauri.bundle object to the top-level.
• Renamed build.distDir field to frontendDist.
• Renamed build.devPath field to devUrl and will no longer accepts paths, it will only accept URLs.
• Moved tauri.pattern to app.security.pattern.
• Removed tauri.bundle.updater object, and its fields have been moved to the updater plugin under plugins.updater object.
• Moved build.withGlobalTauri to app.withGlobalTauri.
• Moved tauri.bundle.dmg object to bundle.macOS.dmg.
• Moved tauri.bundle.deb object to bundle.linux.deb.
• Moved tauri.bundle.appimage object to bundle.linux.appimage.
• Removed all license fields from each bundle configuration object and instead added bundle.license and bundle.licenseFile.
• Renamed AppUrl to FrontendDist and refactored its variants to be more explicit.
• Renamed tauri.window.fileDropEnabeld to app.window.dragDropEnabled

Migration

As we try to make the migration from previous Tauri versions as smooth as possible, we have documentation available to guide you through the process.

If you are migrating from a 1.x release please check out this migration guide.

For upgrading from a 2.0 beta or release candidate version check out this migration guide.

The Tauri v2 CLI includes a migrate command that automates most of the process and helps you finish the migration:

npm

npm install @tauri-apps/cli@next
npm run tauri migrate

yarn

yarn upgrade @tauri-apps/cli@next
yarn tauri migrate

pnpm

pnpm update @tauri-apps/cli@next
pnpm tauri migrate

cargo

cargo install tauri-cli --version "^2.0.0" --locked
cargo tauri migrate

Rust Migration

We can not automatically migrate your Rust code, so make sure to go through the documentation and rust docs of the 2.0 version.

Call To Action

If you are familiar with Tauri and have used it already during your journey, please take your time to check out the Github Discussions, Github Issues. Maybe you have already solved the issues your fellow newcomers to Tauri are experiencing right now.

If you think that some of these problems you have seen are generic and should be documented somewhere we probably have the perfect place for it in our official documentation.

To contribute improvements or additions we are open for PRs in the tauri-docs repository. Please make sure you’ve read the guidelines for contribution though.

If you are in the position to understand and translate the current documentation into your native language we appreciate content translations to our documentation.

The repositories surrounding Tauri are also looking for contributors, especially we would love more maintainers and contributors to the plugin-workspace.

The plugins are now a major part of the development and user experience of Tauri and all kind of help is welcome there. From discussing new plugin ideas, collaborating with others to write new plugins, contributing PRs to fix bugs in existing plugins or documenting weird workarounds and knowledge in the plugin readme or code.

Roadmap

You probably expect solid plans for the future and new cool ideas from us. We currently have some in mind but have not committed to a roadmap beyond 2.x yet.

We mainly want to focus on improving this major version with a better developer experience, better documentation and less impactful bugs. We want to improve especially the mobile development experience and make the whole flow from idea to published application as seamless as possible.

Things on our radar for the future we feel we should mention at least:

• Providing or Bundling Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) for Linux as an alternative to WebKit2GTK
• Servo as Tauri WebView (POC in Wry)

If you want to collaborate on these ideas, please let us know and we will figure it out together.

Experimental Tauri Verso Integration

Tauri 2.0 Release Candidate