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people keep asking if the next release is umbrelOS 2.0. we're not confirming. just noting that nobody vagueposts about a 1.7.5 release for a month

keep an eye on the dock

so turns out everything we've shipped so far in umbrelOS was the warmup. we understand this is a bold claim. and we stand by it.

Introducing Umbrel App Store agent skills. Ask Claude Code/Codex: "See getumbrel/umbrel-apps repo and build (or test/update/submit) an Umbrel app". After approving 350+ apps and 5,000+ app updates, we've condensed all those learnings into 4 hyper-focused agent skills right in our app store repo. So yeah, that's the entire barrier to building high-quality self-hosted apps now. 🫡

You can now connect two Umbrels in different locations and back one up to the other. This already worked on the same network, but the latest Tailscale update in the Umbrel App Store removes the "same network" part. You can now mount folders from one Umbrel into another in Files, even across the world, and use that as a backup location. So one Umbrel at home, one at your parents' place, and tada - you now have real offsite backups, fully self-hosted, on hardware you own. You asked, and it's here!

Oof, we might need a new "Nostr" category in the App Store soon. Two new Nostr apps just dropped: - Gupt: Self-hosted, end-to-end encrypted messenger powered by Nostr. No phone number, no email, no account. Like Signal/Telegram, but your keys and messages are actually yours. - DTAN Server: A torrent network with no central website. File sharing that runs over Nostr and peer-to-peer instead of one site everyone depends on (and that can vanish overnight).

Gupt | Umbrel App Store

Discover Gupt for your umbrelOS home server. Learn more, see screenshots, and discover other self-hosted Social apps available for umbrelOS.

DTAN Server | Umbrel App Store

Discover DTAN Server for your umbrelOS home server. Learn more, see screenshots, and discover other self-hosted Networking apps available for umbre...

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Paperclip is now live on the Umbrel App Store! It lets you run a whole team of AI agents like a company, right on your home server. Create agents with API keys, or login with your Codex/Claude Code subscription, or even onboard your existing OpenClaw/Hermes agent as an employee in your company!

Paperclip | Umbrel App Store

Discover Paperclip for your umbrelOS home server. Learn more, see screenshots, and discover other self-hosted AI apps available for umbrelOS.

you might've noticed hermes and openclaw have just been… insanely reliable on umbrelOS lately, right? here's why: both apps now ship with managed umbrelOS runtime context injected into the agent's prompts the agent now knows it's running inside an umbrelOS app, where to correctly store data, that it shouldn't self-update, where the sandbox boundaries are, and when to load deeper umbrelOS-specific guidance basically, the agent stops doing weird stuff because it finally knows where it is you're welcome 🤝

Nostr VPN is now live on the Umbrel App Store! It turns your Umbrel into a private mesh VPN, aka you can securely reach your Umbrel and all your devices from anywhere in the world. Think Tailscale, but with no third-party company and no central control server in the middle.

Nostr VPN | Umbrel App Store

Discover Nostr VPN for your umbrelOS home server. Learn more, see screenshots, and discover other self-hosted Networking apps available for umbrelOS.

"lol you're never gonna mine a block with that cute lil solominer plugged into your umbrel node" bitcoiners last week: hold my beer bitcoiners this week: hold my other beer

PSA: umbrelOS 1.7.2 is out now. This is a security update that patches CopyFail (CVE-2026-31431), a recently disclosed vulnerability in the Linux kernel.