Release notes
What's new in Salad.
Fixes, improvements, and features in the desktop app, newest first. Some components update automatically; app updates may require your approval. You can always grab the latest installer from the download page.
- 1.9.27September 4, 2026
- Adds live download progress for container workload images.
- Adds a Get Help window to submit support tickets from the app.
- Fixes AMD GPU workloads failing to run.
- Fixes machines unable to start any container workload due to leftover networking state.
- Removes Star Chef.
- 1.9.26August 22, 2026
- Fixes a critical security vulnerability in the container workload platform. Details in our security advisory.
- Fixes incorrect vCPU restrictions on GPU workloads.
- 1.9.24August 11, 2026
- Fixes a crash that caused some container workloads to repeatedly fail and restart, interrupting chopping.
- 1.9.23August 5, 2026
- Fixes false "Elevated RAM allocation was disabled" notifications on correctly configured machines.
- Fixes the Chopping Power "allow Salad to use the optimal amount of RAM" step showing as incomplete.
- Adds a recovery for container workloads that could get stuck in "Stopping" and never fully stop.
- Fixes cached container images being incorrectly left marked as in use, and container events being attributed to the wrong workload.
- Fixes the temporary GPU pause for heavy processes failing to lift automatically, which could leave a machine unable to run GPU workloads until GPU sharing was manually re-enabled.
- Fixes the Contact Support links opening the knowledge base home page instead of the contact form.
- Adds a crypto mining control to the Common Settings step of machine onboarding (enabled by default).
- General maintenance and reliability improvements.
- 1.9.17April 29, 2026
- Fixes multiple issues where container workloads would be unable to start after past container workload failures.
- 1.9.16April 22, 2026
- Fixes additional cases which caused stuck or repeating downloads on Chef machines.
- Fixes an issue where logs were spammed with invalid errors.
- 1.9.15April 22, 2026 · pre-release
- Fixes additional cases which caused stuck or repeating downloads on Chef machines.
- 1.9.14April 1, 2026
- Fixes additional cases which caused stuck or repeating downloads on Chef machines.
- 1.9.13March 25, 2026
- Fixes incorrect reporting of some workload failures where nodes were getting stuck downloading.
- Improves reliability of workload caching.
- 1.9.12March 13, 2026
- Fixes potential conflicts when starting container workloads.
Older releases are archived in the Help Portal.