StackIDE is Mac only, for at least another month
We have taken the Windows download of StackIDE off /ide until its installer is code-signed, which is at least a month away. The Mac app and the web builder are unchanged.
On this page
From today, StackIDE downloads for Mac only. We have taken the Windows installers off /ide, and they will stay off for at least another month, until the Windows installer is code-signed.
Nothing else changes. The web builder, the CMS, Clients, the Hub and Publish all work as before, in any browser, on Windows as well as on a Mac.
Why we took Windows down
A Windows app proves who made it with a code-signing certificate. Our Mac builds have been signed with a Developer ID and notarised by Apple since 0.1.5, so macOS opens them like any app you download. The Windows installers have never been signed, because our certificate has not come through yet.
An unsigned installer makes Windows stop and say "Windows protected your PC". Until now we asked people to choose More info, then Run anyway, and to check the installer's fingerprint first. That is a fair thing to ask a developer. It is not a fair first impression for anyone else, and it teaches the wrong habit: clicking past a security warning.
So rather than ask you to do that, we have held the download back until the warning is gone.
What you can do on Windows today
Everything StackIDE opens is on the web too:
- Build and publish sites in Terminal's designer, in your browser.
- Run your clients, team and billing in the Stacklumen Hub.
- Edit content in each site's CMS.
- Connect your coding agent to Stacklumen's MCP server, from any computer.
What only the desktop app adds is a terminal beside the designer, folders on your computer kept in sync with your sites, and git. Those come to Windows with the signed installer.
If you already installed StackIDE on Windows
It keeps working, and it keeps updating itself. We have only stopped offering new downloads.
When Windows comes back
Once the certificate arrives and the installer is signed, the Windows downloads return to /ide, x64 and Arm as before, and we will say so on the changelog. We expect that to take at least a month.
On a Mac, download StackIDE as usual.
