WinPodX, a tool for running Windows applications as native Linux windows, has been released in version v0.12.0.

WinPodX runs a Windows container (via dockur/windows) in the background using KVM and presents individual Windows apps as standalone Linux windows through FreeRDP RemoteApp. The previous version v0.11.0 brought the new Qt6 desktop app in early September.

New is a six-page GUI wizard for setup and reinstall, where you can pick the storage directory and optionally a local Windows ISO. The [pod] extra_ports option forwards additional ports (e.g. for game servers) to the container. Also included: improved AppImage provenance records, icon handling fixes and size limits for guest replies.

[0.12.0] - 2026-10-10

Added

• Six-page Windows-style GUI setup and reinstall wizard: Welcome, Configuration, Prerequisites, Review, Install, Finish (#884)
• Storage-directory and optional local Windows ISO selection in the wizard and winpodx setup --customize (#849, #879). Existing storage relocation remains explicit; a local ISO alone does not make installation offline.
• Opt-in [pod] extra_ports accepts mapping strings such as ["25000:30000/tcp", "0.0.0.0:27015-27017:27015-27017/udp"]; see data/winpodx.toml.example.

Changed

• Setup progress, shared GUI dialog chrome, and localized installer messages are updated (#884)
• First GUI provisioning requires the guest agent. Automatic discovery retries use 60/120/180/240/300-second delays (#885); failed installation does not guarantee a populated menu.
• GUI installation suppresses recovery notifications until the install flow ends (#887)
• AppImage provenance collection records FreeRDP/dpkg ownership, license texts, wheel URLs and download hashes. pip --report records hashes; it is not prevalidated hash locking.
• The candidate AppImage recipe pins Ubuntu 24.04, FreeRDP 3.32.1+dfsg-0ubuntu0.24.04.1, Python 3.11.17+20261009, and appimagetool 1.9.1. The pipeline SHA256-verifies and mirrors source originals into winpodx-appimage-sources.tar.gz; tag builds attach it with PROVENANCE.json, SOURCE-OFFER.txt, and SHA256SUMS alongside the binary. Each artifact has its own provenance and source-delivery record; this is not blanket legal or security clearance.
• Nix removes the unused Python libvirt dependency and raw postInstall copy, using wheel shared data instead.

Fixed

• Dependency floors raised to pytest 9.0.3, Pillow 12.3, and CairoSVG 2.9; exact AppImage inputs are recorded in its manifest.
• Installed PNG icons are embedded losslessly in SVG wrappers for desktop compatibility (#890). Original raster and private icons are unchanged; this is not vectorization.
• Desktop icon installation repairs hicolor index.theme; .desktop Icon= remains a theme name.
• Guest HTTP replies, result/progress files, encoded icons, and XPM dimensions have explicit size limits. Reverse-open rejects malformed UTF-8 and lone surrogates and handles stat/read races.
• The five host-side QEMU disguise recipe sources are included in the wheel; local-copy installs retain that recipe and aggregate third-party notices.

Reports

• Thanks @mikeshb for #886: “guest-to-host copying worked after upgrading to FreeRDP 3.32.1+dfsg-0ubuntu0.24.04.1”, and the reporter closed the issue. The exact cause is unproven.

Source: GitHub