Nowly version history - 6 versions
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Latest version
Version 2.1.2
Released Sep 22, 2026 - 441.93 KBWorks with firefox 140.0 and later, android 142.0 and laterBug fixes:
- Fixed active-user tracking: the extension could keep reporting 0 active users on a presence's page even while it was genuinely active, because the background service worker's in-memory state was lost every time Chrome/Firefox evicted it (a routine MV3 behavior). Active-presence tracking now survives service worker restarts.
- Fixed the periodic heartbeat alarm being perpetually delayed under continuous activity, sometimes preventing it from ever firing.
- Closing a tab now correctly stops reporting its presence as active (previously it could stay "active" server-side indefinitely).
- Fixed a race where a fresh browser start or extension install/update could run background initialization twice concurrently.
- Minor reliability improvements to presence enable/disable/uninstall and update checks.Source code released under Business Source License 1.1
Older versions
Version 2.1.1
Released Sep 22, 2026 - 441.6 KBWorks with firefox 140.0 and later, android 142.0 and laterextension's active-user heartbeat, which could silently stop reporting a presence as active after the background service worker restarted.Source code released under Business Source License 1.1
Version 2.1.0.1
Released Sep 21, 2026 - 441.54 KBWorks with firefox 140.0 and later, android 142.0 and later2.1.0.1 is a critical hotfix: the 2.1.0 build's API endpoint was accidentally baked in as a local development address instead of the production API, breaking the connection to Nowly's servers. This release corrects the build so the extension talks to the real API again. No functional or UI changes beyond that.Source code released under Business Source License 1.1
Version 2.1.0
Released Sep 21, 2026 - 441.58 KBWorks with firefox 140.0 and later, android 142.0 and laterNowly 2.1.0 is a full redesign of the extension: a rebuilt side panel with dedicated Activity, Store, Settings, onboarding, and diagnostics views, reorganized settings with light/dark/system appearance, and clearer feedback throughout (connection status, install errors, guided onboarding).
Highlights:
- New Activity and Store flows for browsing, installing, scheduling, and snoozing presences, plus bulk enable/disable/uninstall.
- Guided onboarding and clearer desktop-app connection diagnostics.
- Contributors shown on presence detail pages; right-click context menu on presence tiles.
- 8 new languages: German, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Malay, and Greek.
- Anonymous usage analytics remain off by default and stay manageable from Settings.
Full changelog: https://nowly.me/changelog/2.1.0Source code released under Business Source License 1.1
Version 2.0.0
Released Sep 18, 2026 - 369.17 KBWorks with firefox 140.0 and later, android 142.0 and later- New: opt-in, anonymous analytics setting (off by default) — see what improves and what stays private in Settings.
- New: light and dark appearance modes for the side panel.
- New: a clear notice when a site's presence is already natively supported by Discord, so you don't set it up twice.
- Improved: the web↔extension connection bridge now also works with locally-hosted instances (localhost).
- Improved: ChromeOS is now detected and clearly flagged as unsupported (instead of a confusing "host not found" state), with an optional way to get notified if that changes.
Source code released under Business Source License 1.1
Version 1.4.0
Released Sep 14, 2026 - 373.36 KBWorks with firefox 136.0 and laterSource code released under Business Source License 1.1