A full-featured Linux desktop app has been our most requested feature by far and responsible for the longest forum post in our history. Today we’re thrilled to announce that 1Password is coming to Linux! 🎉
Planned for official release later this year, we couldn’t wait to share the news with you so today we’re unveiling an alpha a development preview so you can join in on the fun.
As we approach beta, we’d love to hear from our Development Preview community one more time about your experience with 1Password for Linux so far. Please take our Development Preview Wrap Up Survey.
We appreciate you taking the time to provide us with your feedback and insight.
Participation in the survey is completely optional and if you do choose to participate, your feedback is kept anonymous.
This isn’t a long-term support release! You can expect many updates and changes over the next few months as many features are not complete yet. For example, the app is currently read only: there is no item editing, creation of vaults, or item organization.
As such this initial release should be used for testing and validation purposes only and is not suitable for business critical environments. For a stable experience on Linux you’ll want to use 1Password X in your browser.
Our new app is built on great open source projects like the Rust programming language for the underlying logic, and React for a responsive component-based UI.
Building an app for Linux wouldn’t have been possible without these giant shoulders to stand upon so we want to give back to the free software community. If you work on an open source team that needs a password manager, open a PR against our 1Password for Open Source Projects repo and we’ll give you and everybody on your team a free account. You and your team will be able to continue using this account even when the development preview ends.
Thank you so much for your contributions and making the world a better place. 🤗❤️
Our new app is built to meet the security and performance expectations of Linux users. Its backend is written completely in Rust, a secure systems programming language that has made a lot of waves in the Linux community. We’re especially proud to be using the incredible ring crypto library to power the end-to-end encryption that keeps your data safe.
In addition to a secure foundation we’ve tailored the app to integrate with Desktop Linux with features like:
Automatic Dark Mode selection based on your GTK theme 🌓
Simple and secure installs using apt and dnf packager managers 📦
Open network locations (FTP, SSH, SMB) 🌍
Tiling window manager support and descriptive window titles 🏠
Unlock with your Linux user account, including biometrics ☝️
System tray icon for staying unlocked while closed 📌
X11 clipboard integration and clearing ✂️
Keyboard shortcuts ⌨️
Data export ✈️
Unlock multiple accounts with different passwords 🔐
Create collections to organize data across accounts and vaults 🎯
If you’re excited to report issues, work with us to resolve them, and update to verify fixes, then you’re welcome to join us on this journey. To get started read the guide Get to know 1Password for Linux to find installation and troubleshooting instructions.
We maintain signed apt and rpm package repositories for Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. We also have an AppImage for as-of-yet unsupported distributions. Let us know what distribution you use and how well 1Password works there.
We hope you are as excited about a 1Password Linux app as we are. Our development team will be active in this forum so when you find issues please report them here.
“What’s new” in the notification view will show now unread badge when you haven’t checked out what’s new in 1Password. !2871
Added a share button to help with copying item links and moving your items between shared vaults. #2471
Move Item dialog will no longer blind you while in dark mode. #2359
Added nice placeholder images and messages to the item list and item details when nothing is selected or when the selected list has no items in it. !2816
Added an experimental feature to hide/show the sidebar. !2846
UI improvements throughout the app, especially within the Move Item and Manage Collections view. #1922#2432!2865!2658!2811!2818!2836
Start 1Password without showing its main window with the --silent command argument. Start 1Password without showing its main window with the –silent command argument. !2915
Improved 1Password database operations to be more resilient. !2884
Watchtower’s accuracy has been improved to correctly categorize items. #2359
When creating multiple new collections, we now append numbers to the default titles. !2925
1Password will show why it was locked on the lock view. #2382
1Password now supports zooming with the Control/Command + and Control/Command -, both with and without the shift key. #2531
1Password will now remember the width of the sidebar, item list, and item details when it restarts. #2500
We updated the text to clarify who will have access to an item after it has been moved. #2630
Search now works correctly with international characters. Previously, certain international characters would cause an error. Thanks to @tunix for reporting this. #2572
We fixed a bug where password strength wasn’t shown on custom password fields if the item’s first password field wasn’t used. **#4949
Fields now have a compact mode. !3057
Fields no longer have a hover effect if they have no actions. !3057
Section titles and address fields now truncate properly. !3057
The password strength indicator no longer animates when switching items. !3057
You can now perform some basic edits on items. !2935
You can now move items between vaults and accounts. !3316
1Password will now notify you if you are attempting to sign in while using a blocked network due to company firewall rules set by your 1Password account administrator. #2319
Fixed a string in the Manage Collection view to say Include new vaults instead of Locked. #2852
In the Collections dropdown, the label for managing your collections will dynamically change depending on if you have a collection or not. !3299
1Password will ask you to sign in again with new email address after you change the email address for your account. #2317
1Password will continue syncing when you update templates in a business account. #2868
Search description is more clear about showing matching items in the item list. !3372
Bonjour! If you’re a French user in Canada, you may notice 1Password has a few localized strings, we’re just currently testing and starting the work on the localization for 1Password on Linux. More to come in future updates. !2766
Pressing the enter key in the username field will no longer clear the username. #2905
Clicking the username suggestion now inserts it correctly into the username field. #2905
Field focus ring is no longer cut off at the bottom when navigating through the fields. #2905
1Password now properly blocks multiple 1Password account sign-ins from the same 1Password membership. #2496
Some items, that are not of Login or Password categories, didn’t show saved website fields. #2360
1Password correctly displays the full name of the menu fields such as the Database’s type or Wireless Router’s wireless security field. #2903
If more than one account experienced an authentication error at the same time, 1Password can now show the dialog for the affected accounts instead of a single dialog. #2930
Experiment with a new actions menu above the edit button. !3473
1Password now shows a useful notification with follow-on actions after it finishes moving an item. #2417
We have a new release notes website! Check it out on “What’s New”! 🎉 #3121
Long item titles can now wrap around in two lines in the details view. !3556
Fixed the glitch where adding new custom fields would reset the previous unsaved edits you made to the item. #3051
Go and Fill option will only appear on items that can be used for filling. #3028
Suspended users will be informed about being suspended via the sign-in view. #2313
1Password will notify the user that their account will remain offline if the user closes the two-factor authentication window without a code. #2802
Move button will be disabled if you do not have permission to move it. #3069
Fixed a regression with the missing Copied notification when clicking fields to copy their content. #2966
1Password will now notify you in-app when you’re currently in a blocked network set by a firewall rule. !2886
1Password now displays a disabled field with a notice when it sees a field it does not understand. #2980
1Password no longer crashes internally when the item list resets to no item after a background sync due to vault permission changes or the app went into the travel mode. #2777
Collections has been removed for the moment. It will return in a better fashion in a future update. !3547
1Password now syncs after you finish editing! #3054
If you forget to save your changes and you then close or quit the program, 1Password will automatically save it now. Use Item History on the website to undo the save. #3195
You can now add website fields to your Login and Password items. !3480
You can add and remove items from Favorites. !3558
Add and remove tags to your items! !3380
Turned the ladybug in the toolbar to the other direction, so they don’t get hit with a notification badge on their head. 🤦 #2619
Pressing Control + F now selects the text in the search field to make it easier to clear. #2702
1Password now returns an error if you entered an invalid two-factor authentication code. #2254
When entering the edit mode for your item, the title is now focused first. !3571
You will no longer lose edits in progress when a background sync occurs. #3024
Edit fields now provide autocomplete suggestions instead of menus. Give it a try and let us know how you like it. !3465
Fixed a crash related to time, date and timezone formatting during item saving. #3058
Disabled features that are not yet ready for the beta release. #3917#3241
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