What's new

What's new in version 0.2.1 2026-10-31

Added

• Update now in Help → Check for updates: MDM downloads the new version, checks it, puts it in place and restarts, on Windows (setup, portable and plain zip), Mac and Linux (AppImage, .tar.gz; a .deb or .rpm opens in the system's installer). It installs only files listed in a checksum list signed by MDM's release key, which every release now carries (SHA256SUMS.txt.sig). The first update this way will be from 0.2.1 to the next version.

Fixed

• Ghost windows while a menu is open (issue #4): faded copies of the main window titled "egui window" opened and closed with every redraw of an open menu, and the toolbar's hover flickered under them. On a Mac in full screen they opened a space of their own and froze MDM (issue #5). They came with 0.2.0's menu keyboard support, which asked about a submenu's window that wasn't open, and that made one.
• Check for updates: the release notes scroll (the wheel, a trackpad, their scroll bar, and the arrow, Page and Home/End keys); their lines no longer break mid-sentence, and links show as their text (issue #5).
• Controls that didn't react to the mouse: the ▾ of Address and Save As (Add URL, Download File Info), the drop-down lists, check boxes, radio buttons, the Categories pane's ×, the Scheduler's date button and calendar, scroll bars and the list's column headers now show when the pointer is over them and when they're pressed, as Windows' own controls do; an arrow stays pressed while its list is open.

Changed

• Help → Report a problem opens GitHub's new bug report form with your MDM version, your system and its version, how MDM was installed and its language filled in. Every report now says which system and version it comes from.

Release page and files on GitHub

What's new in version 0.2.0 2026-10-31

Mac fixes from the first round of real use, found on every system and fixed there too; the menus and text boxes work as in any desktop program; and MDM works with AI assistants.

Fixed

• Menus on macOS and Linux: clicking a menu item did nothing (the click moved the focus to the menu's own window, which closed it first). The list's right-click menu and the toolbar's drop-downs had the same fault.
• Paste from other programs into any text box (Ctrl+V, ⌘V): MDM kept a clipboard of its own.
• The app icon on macOS: the Dock showed a small, blurry icon while MDM ran; it keeps the app's own now. Elsewhere windows take their icon from a large size (sharp at any scaling).
• The download list's file icons were drawn over the Categories pane when the list was scrolled sideways (the Categories tree and the Scheduler had the same fault).
• The download progress window could be stretched on macOS and Linux without its contents following; it keeps its size, as on Windows.
• Questions ("Create this folder?", delete, a duplicate download, the turn-off countdown) could open behind the window that asked them; they stay in front now.
• Video downloads' progress went back and forth (a stream in fragments re-estimates its size, and picture and sound arrive one after the other); it only moves forward now, from the size the video window showed.

Added

• The menus show each command's keys (Ctrl+N, on a Mac ⌘N) and work from the keyboard: F10 or Alt (on a Mac Ctrl+F2), the underlined letters, the arrows, Enter, Esc.
• Right-click any text box for Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete and Select all.
• Address (Add URL) and Save As (Download File Info) list the last 20 addresses and folders from their arrows; ... beside Save As chooses a folder, + beside Category makes one.
• Help → Keyboard shortcuts shows the Mac's keys on a Mac.
• AI assistants: misterdownloadmanager-mcp, an MCP server that comes with MDM, lets Claude, Cursor, VS Code and other MCP assistants list, add, pause, resume and remove the running app's downloads and start its queue, through the automation API (how to set it up).
• --json for misterdownloadmanager-cli: every command prints JSON for scripts and AI agents, downloads as one progress line per half second and then done or paused (the formats).
• The automation API's JSON Schema, automation-api.schema.json, made from the code the app answers with. Each download in its list now says why it failed (error), and the "it is off" answer carries "code": "api-off" for programs to check.
• The website has llms.txt and llms-full.txt, and every help page as Markdown, for AI tools.

Changed

• misterdownloadmanager-cli status, pause, start, remove, delete and api exit with code 1 when the app answers with an error (the API is off, an unknown action), as they do when the app isn't running.

Release page and files on GitHub

What's new in version 0.1.0 2026-10-30

The first release: a free download manager for Windows, laid out the way Internet Download Manager users expect, with experimental builds for macOS and Linux.

• The download engine: up to 32 connections per file, re-splitting the slowest part until the last byte, and crash-safe resume after a restart or a dropped connection. HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FTPS (ftp://, ftpes:// explicit TLS, ftps:// implicit TLS), proxies, SOCKS and proxy auto-config (PAC) scripts.
• The main window you know: categories, the download list, the progress window with every connection's share, queues and the Scheduler, the speed limiter, Sites Logins, and Options where you expect them, every control working. Day and dark mode.
• Browser integration for Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera and Vivaldi (Firefox in testing): downloads hand over to MDM with their cookies and referrer, right-click Download with Mister Download Manager, and a Download video button over videos on any page, which can be dragged along the video's edge, hidden on a video or a site, or turned off in Options.
• Copy a link, get the download window: copying a link to a file type on the File types list opens Download File Info with it, ready to start, also without the browser extension (Options → General → Offer to download links copied to the clipboard, on by default).
• Videos from web pages through yt-dlp (installed and kept current from MDM, with ffmpeg for the qualities that need merging), and BitTorrent and magnet links through librqbit: choose the files, see peers, trackers and pieces, keep sharing if you like.
• 86 interface languages, every language Windows 11 offers, chosen by flag on the first start or in View → Language...; right to left for Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Urdu and Uyghur; fonts for every script from the system itself. The installer speaks the same languages, and the browser extension speaks your browser's (50 languages).
• Options → Regional: dates and times as your region writes them, or your own way (day, month or year first, 12- or 24-hour clock, the week's first day); the list and the Scheduler follow.
• Command line and automation: IDM's switches (/d /p /f /a /n /s), misterdownloadmanager-cli (files, videos, torrents) and a local, token-protected automation API that lists, pauses, starts, removes and deletes downloads.
• Downloads: the Windows installer, a portable zip and a plain zip, the browser extension on its own (a zip for Chromium browsers, an .xpi for Firefox, always the app's version), and macOS and Linux to try: a universal .dmg and an AppImage, .deb, .rpm and .tar.gz, marked -experimental because they are untested by us. There, MDM connects itself to Chrome, Edge, Brave, Vivaldi and Firefox, has its tray icon, follows the system's light or dark look and uses the system's fonts and ffmpeg. Tell us how they work for you.
• Help opens the user guide and tutorials.

Release page and files on GitHub