What's Changed 💥 Breaking Changes Devbox is now its own launcher — release builds of devbox replace the bash launcher script that used to sit in front of every command. The binary picks the version to run (DEVBOX_USE_VERSION, otherwise your current version) and runs it directly, downloading it first if needed and verifying it against checksums.txt. The daily update check now runs in the background…
0.0.0-edge.2026-10-29 edge release
What's Changed ✨ New Features Pin the devbox version a project needs with devbox_version — add "devbox_version": "^0.18.0" (or any npm-style constraint) to devbox.json and devbox warns when someone runs the project with a version outside that range. Use the object form, {"version": "0.18.5", "on_mismatch": "error"}, to fail instead of warn. DEVBOX_VERSION_POLICY=off|warn|error overrides the policy…
0.0.0-edge.2026-10-22 edge release
0.0.0-edge.2026-10-15 edge release
0.0.0-edge.2026-10-08 edge release
What's Changed ✨ New Features devbox.jsonc is now a recognized config filename — devbox.json has always accepted comments, but editors and GitHub diffs flag them as syntax errors in a .json file. Name your config devbox.jsonc and standard tooling highlights it correctly, and devbox add/rm write back to it instead of creating a stray devbox.json. If a directory has both, devbox.json still wins, by…
What's Changed ✨ New Features Init hooks in "Reopen in Devbox" — devbox integrate vscode gained a --run-init-hook flag that sources your project's init_hook before relaunching the editor, so env vars it exports are present in the reopened window (previously only devbox shell saw them). The VS Code extension (0.1.9) exposes this as an opt-in devbox.runInitHookOnReopen setting; leave it off and olde…
What's Changed ✨ New Features Generated READMEs now document services — devbox generate readme adds a Services section listing the project's services and how to start them, by @mikeland73 (#2934) 🐛 Bug Fixes Projects in paths with spaces now work with services — plugin service commands quote their path env vars, so a project directory like ~/My Projects/app no longer breaks devbox services up, by…
ci: test against Nix 2.35.2 by @mikeland73 in #2955 feat(release): auto-open the flake bump PR, and fix preflight ordering by @mikeland73 in #2956 php(plugin): set default session.save_path to devbox sessions dir by @jefft in #2963 fix(nix): check per-output binary-cache status in InputAddressedPathForOutput (#2921) by @mikeland73 in #2922 remove excessive comment in Package.InputAddressedPathForO…
What's Changed Remove jetify cloud functionality from devbox. These features are being sunsetted and will no longer work. 💥 Breaking Changes The Jetify Nix cache is gone — the devbox cache command tree (upload/copy, configure, credentials, enable, info) is removed, and nix build no longer receives extra substituters. Package lookups now query only the public https://cache.nixos.org. The nightly ca…
0.0.0-edge.2026-06-25 edge release
Changelog be5b810 Revert "fix(direnv): set DEVBOX_SHELL_ENABLED when entering env via shellenv --init-hook" (#2890)
What's Changed ✨ New Features DEVBOX_CONFIG environment variable — you can now set the --config flag via the DEVBOX_CONFIG env var, making it easier to point devbox at a config in a non-default location without passing the flag on every command, by @mikeland73 (#2838) 🐛 Bug Fixes Shells in paths with spaces now work — quoted the shellrc source guard so a ZDOTDIR containing spaces no longer breaks…
What's Changed ✨ New Features Shell aliases in devbox.json — a new top-level aliases map lets you define shell aliases declaratively instead of hand-writing them in your init_hook. They work both in the interactive devbox shell (injected after the init hook, compatible across bash/zsh/fish) and via devbox run <alias>, which expands the alias even without an interactive shell. Aliases merge across…
What's new in this release: devbox update <pkg> will now only update and install the specified package, instead of reinstalling all your packages Updated devbox to Go 1.26.1 Changelog 52670c4 Bump lastTag version to 0.17.2 (#2821) e3599e6 Bump Go from 1.24.5 to 1.26.1 (#2819) 858d3a3 Fix update installing all packages instead of target (#2816)
What's Changed in This Release Fixed an issue where git+https plugins were not properly respecting the filecache Fixed an issue where declaring multiple built-in plugins would raise a duplicate plugin error Added a success message to devbox init with next steps Fixed a bug where the VSCode Extension's Reopen in Devbox Shell would fail on macOS Fixed a shell compatibility issue in the Python plugin…
What's New in this Pre-release Fixed an issue where git+https plugins were not properly respecting the filecache Fixed an issue where declaring multiple built-in plugins would raise a duplicate plugin error Added a success message to devbox init with next steps Updated dependencies in examples Changelog 27a1502 Fix remaining Dependabot security alerts (#2803) 540b82c Fix false duplicate detection…
Summary Fixes #2793 - use of zsh/bash conditionals in a file with a pure sh shebang. How was it tested? Community Contribution License All community contributions in this pull request are licensed to the project maintainers under the terms of the Apache 2 License. By creating this pull request, I represent that I have the right to license the contributions to the project maintainers under the Apac…
Devbox 0.17.0 New Features Git Plugin Support — Plugins can now be loaded from any Git repository, not just GitHub. Supports git+ssh, git+http, and git+file transports, as well as targeting specific branches, revisions, or subdirectories. (#2735) Nushell Support for Global Packages — devbox global shellenv now works correctly in Nushell. Previously, Nushell users had no equivalent to eval $(devbox…
Devbox 0.17.0 Pre-Release Notes This pre-release includes all the features in (0.17.0-dev)[https://github.com/jetify-com/devbox/releases/tag/0.17.0-dev], as well as the following improvements: You can now view the process-compose port by running devbox services pcport devbox services ls shows pid, namespace, age, health, and restarts information for all of your services What's Changed Add services…