Hello everyone!
It’s been about 3 months since the last release, and this one took a bit longer than usual. A lot of work went into polishing and refining both the web and mobile apps to make sure it was worth the wait.
Today, we’re excited to announce Linkwarden 2.14!
For those who are new to Linkwarden, it’s a tool for collecting, organizing, reading, and preserving webpages, articles, and documents in one place. Linkwarden is available as a Cloud offering, or you can self-host it on your own server.
This release focuses on performance, usability, security, and platform upgrades.
What’s new:
🗂️ Improved team collaboration
Collections and subcollections got some important improvements.
Members and their permissions can now be propagated to subcollections, and collection admins can now create subcollections as well.
🏷️ Improved tag browsing with pagination
Tags now support pagination, making large tag lists easier to browse.
This helps keep things faster and more manageable, especially in places like the sidebar and tags page.
⚡ Faster interface with optimistic rendering
We added optimistic rendering to some of the slower parts of the app, especially around links and collections.
That means actions like updating or deleting items can now feel much more immediate, since the UI updates right away instead of waiting for the full request to finish.
🚀 Platform upgrades: Next.js 15 and Expo 54
Linkwarden now runs on newer foundations across both web and mobile:
- Next.js 15 for the web app
- Expo 54 for the mobile app
These upgrades improve compatibility and give us a stronger base for future improvements.
✨ Improved user experience
This release brings a number of user experience improvements across the app, especially around search and settings.
Search is now more helpful and easier to discover, while settings are cleaner and easier to navigate.
🔒 Security improvements for submitted links
We improved how submitted links are validated on the server for safer and more reliable processing. We recommend updating to 2.14 as soon as possible.
✅ And more…
As always, this release also includes smaller fixes, UI cleanups, dependency updates, and under-the-hood improvements across the app.
Full Changelog: https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden/compare/v2.13.5...v2.14.0
Thanks!
Thanks to everyone who’s been using Linkwarden, reporting bugs, suggesting improvements, contributing, and supporting the project along the way.
This release took a little longer than usual, but a lot of care went into making sure it was worth the wait. It also gives us a much stronger foundation for what’s coming next, and we’re looking forward to sharing more with you in the coming months.
If you’re interested in trying Linkwarden without dealing with server setup and maintenance, our Cloud offering is the easiest way to get started.
We hope you enjoy Linkwarden 2.14!
And I get it, I do, but I think what rubs me the wrong way is how cagey the dev is about AI disclosure.
Use it for your project, it’s open source (which allows me to see that AI is being used) and free to self-host. Like I mentioned previously, I do see the dev being pretty responsible about their usage from the few merge requests and individual commits I looked at.
Personally, I feel like FOSS is built on a foundation of trust, and I find it very hard to trust a dev/project that (in my opinion) lies by omission. So, while I won’t use/contribute/pay for this project, I’m not judging anyone who does and I wish y’all the best. At the end of the day, it’s your time, effort, money (if you donate and or pay for the hosted plan), and or hardware (if you choose to self-host).
Especially, after fiascos like Booklore (another project I now feel vindicated for writing off early) and the general trend of enshittification for almost all software and services, can you blame people for being a bit more skeptical?