Changelog

Baumeister 1.2.28 Security fix

5 Nov 2026 · On GitHub

Online stores and simple websites you edit on your screen.

• New project now asks "What are you creating?": an Online store or a Website, started from a ready-made template.
• Products tab: add what you sell with photos, prices, sizes and stock. Mark something sold out, or record a sale made in person.
• Edit on screen: click any words or picture on your site to change them before you publish.
• Get paid: connect Stripe from the project page. Checkout can ask for a delivery date and a message for the card.
• Templates can be downloaded as a zip to rework with your own AI, and Baumeister checks a site when it comes back.
• Forms send to your Inbox. Test messages sent from Preview show there marked Test.
• Security: fixes from the 1 Nov security review, including tighter checks on Preview and payments.

Baumeister 1.2.26 Security fix

29 Oct 2026 · On GitHub

Baumeister 1.2.26 for Windows and Mac.

• Updating an app keeps your site up; bots and workers restart after a crash
• Restoring code keeps your app's database
• Clear error pages when an app has a problem
• Visitor stats, and email at your own domain
• Backups to a USB drive leave out your keys and passwords
• Building with AI starts right away; clearer wording on the project page
• Security: one project's preview can no longer read another project's files

Baumeister 1.2.22

25 Oct 2026 · On GitHub

Baumeister 1.2.22. A new New Project page that asks what you want first (describe it, upload files you already have, or use your own tools), replace a picture on your site in one step, website forms land in your Inbox, plainer wording throughout, a stopped app no longer shows an old one in its place, uploads skip file names Windows can't store instead of failing, linked programs get an Open button and a port setting, and many other fixes from testing.

Baumeister 1.2.20

23 Oct 2026 · On GitHub

Baumeister 1.2.20. AI changes to a website wait for you to check them and press Apply before they go live, simple word changes happen instantly without using the AI, a site with its own domain sends visitors from its baumeister.host address to that domain, clearer domain status, Traffic shows only real pages, a Users page, security updates, and many other fixes from testing.

Baumeister 1.2.19

22 Oct 2026 · On GitHub

Server build 1.2.19.

Baumeister 1.2.18

22 Oct 2026 · On GitHub

Baumeister 1.2.18. Email alerts when someone sends a form on your site, an easier Inbox (print, reply by email), safer deleting and restoring of projects, a ready instruction to paste into Claude Code or another coding agent, an updated Privacy Policy, a security fix, and over 100 other fixes from testing.

Baumeister 1.2.17

19 Oct 2026 · On GitHub

Baumeister 1.2.17. Simpler uploads (one button, or drag a folder), New Project shows every way to start, the AI asks about your idea first, plain-words setup for passwords and keys, sign-in with emailed codes for members' sites, and many fixes.

Baumeister 1.2.16

15 Oct 2026 · On GitHub

Safety Net now keeps apps online while your computer is off, not just websites. New Project is simpler: describe your idea, then pick ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini or let Baumeister build it. Remote sign-in from your phone works again. Your plan follows your account on every linked computer, addresses move cleanly between computers, and changing your email no longer strands them. Projects are listed by last edit, and more fixes.

Baumeister 1.2.14

11 Oct 2026 · On GitHub

Fixes from the 1.2.13 bug hunt: manage the computers on your email (remove or replace one), re-confirm a computer after moving its data, safer zip uploads, apps no longer reachable from the home network, clearer offline status, password reset and sign-in lockout fixes, and more.

Baumeister 1.2.13

8 Oct 2026 · On GitHub

Safety Net now covers your custom domain.

• If your computer is off, asleep or restarting, visitors to your own domain (not only yourname.baumeister.host) now see your Safety Net: your site as you last published it, or your Back Soon page.
• Connect with Cloudflare now works for domains in any Cloudflare account, and sets up www too.
• A domain only shows "Live" once it actually opens.
• Saving Safety Net no longer makes you wait while it uploads.

Baumeister 1.2.12 Security fix

7 Oct 2026 · On GitHub

Safety Net, backups to your own computers, guests, and a security update.

• Safety Net: choose what visitors see while your computer is off: your site as you last published it, your front page kept online all the time, your site from another computer of yours, or a Back Soon page.
• Back up to another computer of yours (a Baumeister Server, a Pi or another PC), not only to Baumeister.
• Invite people to your projects as guests, with their own sign-in.
• Ask a question: free help inside the app, with answers about your own projects and errors.
• Start blank projects, folder uploads, and clearer messages when an app crashes.
• Connected domains follow your computer when its connection changes, and the domain status says plainly when a domain isn't connected.
• A loading bar while pages change, and only one copy of Baumeister runs at a time.
• Security: guests can't run app code or see private files, project pages are isolated when opened remotely, secrets are kept in Windows' secure store, and visitor-password lockouts apply per visitor.

Baumeister 1.2.10 (Raspberry Pi server)

4 Oct 2026 · On GitHub

Raspberry Pi server update.

• Saving environment variables now stays on the Environment tab and says it saved.
• An Anthropic API key goes in the Assistant tab: the Environment tab now says so, and points you there if you type one in.
• Your sites come back on their own if the connection drops, for example after a power cut.
• Updates check themselves properly on systems without curl.
• Remote Access lists every project, with a switch to choose which ones you can open remotely.
• Typing www. or https:// in front of a domain now works.

Baumeister 1.2.9

2 Oct 2026 · On GitHub

Clearer, more accurate wording throughout the app.

• The dashboard now simply tells you when you're connected.
• Publishing, renaming and unpublishing now say exactly what happens to your web address.
• Links that sent you to Settings now go straight to the right tab.
• Messages that didn't appear, or appeared as errors, now show correctly.
• Privacy Policy: added how your recovery email and the optional contact email are used.

Also included from 1.2.8:

• Remote Access has its own tab, and your address reconnects itself.
• Every computer gets its own connection.
• "Keep me signed in" on your phone for 30 days.
• The Assistant works with any provider, including your own OpenAI-compatible server.
• Your work is kept even if you never publish it.

Baumeister 1.2.8

30 Sep 2026 · On GitHub

Remote Access has its own tab, and your address now just works.

• Every computer gets its own connection. If you use Baumeister on more than one computer, each one now serves only its own sites.
• Your remote address is yours indefinitely, and it reconnects itself. Addresses left pointing at an old connection are repaired automatically when Baumeister starts.
• "Keep me signed in" on your phone: stay signed in for 30 days instead of 4 hours.

Also in this release:

• Your work is kept even if you never publish it.
• The Assistant works with any provider, including your own OpenAI-compatible server.
• File Sharing: show a collection on one of your own websites, at /files.
• Domain search shows the right availability and prices.
• The "Report" badge on hosted sites opens a proper report page.
• Site analytics show the real split between desktop, mobile and tablet visitors.
• The Server page shows memory and processor use on Windows.
• Security hardening throughout.

Baumeister 1.2.7

28 Sep 2026 · On GitHub

Simpler pricing: you pay only for addresses, and the AI is yours.

Baumeister is free with 3 .baumeister.host addresses. Lite ($6.99/month) gives you 10, and Pro ($12.99/month) gives you 50.

A domain you connect through your own Cloudflare account, or one you bought from us, is always free and never counts toward any limit. Other outside domains routed through us: 1 on Free, 5 on Lite, unlimited on Pro.

The AI assistant runs on your own API key from Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI (Grok) or Google (Gemini). Your provider bills you directly and we add nothing on top. Existing Assistant Pro subscribers keep their assistant until they cancel.

Also in this release:

• Manage your computer from anywhere. Sign in over the internet with your password plus a code from an authenticator app. Only the projects you switch to "Remote access" show up there. The remote address counts as one of your plan's addresses.
• Push to deploy. Connect a project to GitHub, and every push to its branch updates the site. Pushes that aren't signed by GitHub are refused.
• Password-protected file sharing. Put a password on a collection, and visitors need it before they can see or download anything. Changing the password signs everyone out.
• Deleting a project frees its address straight away, so it stops counting against your plan.
• New ways to start a project:
• Paste in HTML you already have.
• Point Claude Code, Codex or Cursor at a project's folder.
• Upload a zip. Baumeister works out whether it's a website or an app.
• Start Command works again. Leave it blank and Baumeister starts your app for you.
• The help assistant works with any provider's key, not just Anthropic's.
• Claude Agent now comes with the Windows version.
• Python apps deploy reliably on Windows, including projects with long names.
• Fewer dead ends. Every option on screen now does what it says, or it's gone.

Windows users on 1.2.5 or earlier: install this version once by hand. Download it from baumeisterprivateserver.com and run it; your projects and settings stay as they are. Older versions can't accept this update automatically. From 1.2.7 on, updates install themselves again.

Windows (10 or 11, 64-bit, signed) and macOS (Apple silicon). Private Server boxes update to 1.2.7 from this release too.

Baumeister 1.2.6

9 Sep 2026 · On GitHub

Server build 1.2.6.

Baumeister 1.2.5

29 Aug 2026 · On GitHub

Pick a domain you already bought, from a list.

When you point a domain at a project, the domains on your Baumeister account now appear in a list — nothing to type, and nothing to connect first. Domains already in use are listed too, marked with the project using them, so a domain you paid for never looks like it has vanished.

Also in this release:

• A domain that is working is no longer reported as broken. The check now opens the address instead of guessing from its DNS settings.
• A domain with no DNS record now says so, instead of telling you to wait for something nobody set up.
• Connecting a domain no longer claims it is live before it opens. It tells you it takes a few minutes, and says when it is ready.
• The plan is stated plainly: free includes 3 baumeister.host addresses; your own domain is $1.99/month, or included with Lite and Pro.

macOS (Apple Silicon) and Windows.

Baumeister 1.2.4

25 Aug 2026 · On GitHub

Link this computer to your Baumeister account.

Settings now has a panel that connects this machine to the account that owns it, so your computer and your sites are recognised as yours in one place.

Also in this release:

• Move a domain from one site to another in a single action, instead of unpicking it by hand.
• Buying a domain no longer sends you off to Cloudflare to do it yourself.
• The update check no longer reports GitHub as unreachable when it is reachable — which made updates look unavailable when they weren't.
• A new API lets a program you write see and control this install — create a project, install it, run it, publish it — using tokens you issue, each limited to what you allow, with every use recorded.

macOS (Apple Silicon) and Windows.

Baumeister 1.2.3 Security fix

13 Aug 2026 · On GitHub

Security fix for two-step sign-in.

Starting a two-step sign-in setup and not finishing it used to destroy the two-step sign-in you already had, along with your saved backup code — silently. The next time you needed either one, you were locked out with nothing explaining why.

A new setup is now only a candidate until your authenticator proves it works. Nothing that already works is replaced until then.

Also in this release:

• The project page no longer freezes for 15 seconds when the computer has no internet connection.
• Running the app from source no longer shares stored passwords and tokens with your installed copy.

macOS (Apple Silicon) only. Windows to follow in this same release.

Baumeister 1.2.2

11 Aug 2026 · On GitHub

Baumeister Desktop 1.2.2 — Windows (64-bit)

The first Windows release. The same software as the Mac version, running on a PC:

your projects run on your own machine and are reachable at a baumeister.host address

through a Cloudflare tunnel.

Checking on this computer from your phone now actually works. Turn it on in

Settings and this computer starts sending its vital signs — how hard the processor is

working, how much memory and storage are in use, and which of your projects are

running. In 1.2.1 that panel never finished loading: the code that fills it in was left

out of the page by a template mistake, so it sat at "Checking…" and stayed there.

Nothing was wrong with the reporting itself, and nothing about how it works has changed

— this computer sends readings out, nothing reaches back in, and none of your files or

logs ever leave.

A new End User License Agreement and Privacy Policy. Both documents have been

replaced. The new agreement covers self-hosted software, the Cloudflare tunnel and

Assistant Pro, rather than the earlier framing around a single-board computer; it

changes the limitation of liability; and it adds a section setting out who is

responsible for personal data your site collects from its visitors. That responsibility

is yours, because that data sits on your machine and never reaches us. The Privacy

Policy is rewritten around the same self-hosted model.

You will be asked to agree once more. Because those two documents changed

materially, the agreement screen appears again the next time you open Baumeister, even

if you have used it before — an agreement to the earlier text is not an agreement to

this one. The Terms of Service are unchanged. Both documents are now readable any time

from Settings → Legal, and they are installed alongside the app, so they open with no

internet connection.

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Verify what you downloaded (SHA-256):

`

8517e98a683f2d8adbc3dbe2d13d7f8f702301deee1b258594f601845d467dc8 Baumeister-Setup-1.2.2.exe

`

Check yours in PowerShell with:

`

Get-FileHash "$env:USERPROFILE\Downloads\Baumeister-Setup-1.2.2.exe" -Algorithm SHA256

`

Signed with an SSL.com EV Code Signing certificate issued to Baumeister Private Server,

Inc., and countersigned by SSL.com's timestamping authority so the signature remains

valid after the certificate expires.

Windows may still show a SmartScreen warning the first few times ("More info → Run

anyway"). Reputation is built per certificate and this is a new one; the signature

itself is genuine, and you can confirm it before running from right-click → Properties

→ Digital Signatures.

Requires 64-bit Windows 10 or 11. Installing over an earlier version replaces the app

and keeps all your sites, settings and documents.

Baumeister 1.2.1

7 Aug 2026 · On GitHub

Baumeister Desktop 1.2.1 — macOS (Apple Silicon)

Check on this computer from your phone. Turn it on in Settings and this computer

starts sending its vital signs — how hard the processor is working, how much memory

and storage are in use, and which of your projects are running — so you can see them

in the Baumeister app anywhere, including on your phone.

It is read-only. You can look; you cannot start or stop anything remotely. That is

deliberate: remote control of a machine is a different and much larger security

question, and this release does not open it.

Two things about how it works, because they are the reason it is safe:

• This computer sends the readings out. Nothing reaches back in. There is no new

door into your machine, and no queue that a command could arrive through.

• None of your files or logs ever leave. Your app logs can contain API keys and

passwords from your Environment variables, so they are not part of this at all — they

stay here and are read on this computer's own Server page, as before. What leaves is

a handful of numbers.

It uses its own separate credential, kept in your macOS Keychain, and turning the

feature off discards it. Websites showing files from this computer are unaffected

either way — those are separate and stay separate.

When this computer is off, asleep, or offline it simply stops reporting, and the app

says so rather than showing you a stale number.

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Verify what you downloaded (SHA-256):

`

e2f4e5187a738fbcf0f633c1fa0bfea02233a5d488adc41a5a2970a6b3fdfcec Baumeister-1.2.1-arm64.dmg

e871371f4c2a39800ac1be427c04bcfe2f6652b64c835fc1f0bd211aacf87dcb Baumeister-1.2.1-arm64-mac.zip

`

Check yours with shasum -a 256 ~/Downloads/Baumeister-1.2.1-arm64.dmg.

Signed with Developer ID Application: Baumeister Private Server, Inc.

(Team ID ADUT48QJSF), notarized by Apple and stapled — the same identity as 1.2.0.

Requires an Apple Silicon Mac. Installing over an earlier version replaces the app and

keeps all your sites, settings and documents.

Baumeister 1.2.0

7 Aug 2026 · On GitHub

Baumeister Desktop 1.2.0 — macOS (Apple Silicon)

Connect a website to your own computer. You can now link a Baumeister website

to a collection of documents on this machine, and unlink it again. Setting it up

happens here on your computer — the pairing screens are local-only and never

reachable over the internet — and you confirm each connection in the page rather

than in a browser pop-up. Disconnecting really disconnects: the credential for

that site stops working immediately.

One simple AI allowance on Pro. Pro used to split your allowance into 300

"standard" plus 10 "premium" messages, with a model picker and a Basic/Premium

toggle. Nobody wanted to ration that, so it is gone. Pro is now 300 AI messages a

month on one model, resetting on the 1st. Nothing to choose and nothing to set up.

Free AI for a verified email. If you have no Pro subscription and no API key

of your own, you no longer hit a dead end. Verify your email in Assistant settings

and we cover a small amount of assistant time each week, free — no card, no

subscription. Your own API key still works and is still unlimited.

You stay signed in across restarts. Sessions were written to disk but never

read back, so every restart signed you out — including every automatic update.

Fixed. A step-up security prompt is deliberately NOT restored: proof that you were

present should not outlive the app that asked for it.

Your API key moves into the macOS Keychain. If you use your own Anthropic or

OpenAI key, it was stored in the app's database in plain text. It now lives in

your login Keychain and the database keeps only a placeholder; existing keys are

moved automatically the first time this version reads one, and the old copy is

erased from the file. On Windows and Raspberry Pi this is still pending.

Update and install integrity. Notarization now happens as part of the build

rather than afterwards. Two consequences: the automatic-update download is

correctly ticketed for the first time (previous releases shipped it unstapled),

and the update manifest now describes the exact files published rather than

pre-stapling copies of them.

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Verify what you downloaded (SHA-256):

`

279d187502834e0ce66de78ba1e7a50196fe0cc7eae4a5493c6151c843468c52 Baumeister-1.2.0-arm64.dmg

81a6c1dac8e53253fd0bb802638f3ed78d77d4d673aff5bdae1e26cf79ec9102 Baumeister-1.2.0-arm64-mac.zip

`

Check yours with shasum -a 256 ~/Downloads/Baumeister-1.2.0-arm64.dmg.

Signed with Developer ID Application: Baumeister Private Server, Inc.

(Team ID ADUT48QJSF), notarized by Apple and stapled — the same identity as 1.1.0.

Requires an Apple Silicon Mac. Installing over 1.0.0 or 1.1.0 replaces the app and

keeps all your sites, settings and documents.

Baumeister 1.1.0 Security fix

6 Aug 2026 · On GitHub

Fixes a security problem in how Baumeister answered requests from the internet.

What was wrong: on 1.0.0, someone who could reach your server's public address could get into your dashboard without your password and without your 6-digit code. This release closes that, and remote access now genuinely requires the code.

After you update, open Settings → Remote Access. If you see "Your remote address needs reconnecting", click Reconnect now. Your address does not change, and the sites you are hosting are unaffected.

Also in this release

• Updates now ask first. Baumeister checks in the background, tells you what changed, and waits for you to choose when to install — because installing restarts your server and anything you are hosting goes briefly offline. Nothing downloads or installs on its own.
• Help → Check for Updates, and About now shows the version you are actually running.
• A Server page for starting, stopping and restarting your apps, with logs and resource readings. Local only.
• A Documents page, and a Domains page.

Two changes worth knowing

• The dashboard no longer answers on your home network at its local address. It is your own machine, or your remote address with your password and code. This was the hole: anyone on the same Wi-Fi previously had unauthenticated access.
• Removed: the old Cloudflare Pages publishing option, and the Wi-Fi setup page.

Updating from 1.0.0

1.0.0 cannot update itself — it shipped pointing at a private feed and without the file macOS updates need. Download and install this one by hand; from here on, updates will offer themselves and let you pick the moment.

Your projects, settings, tunnel and web address all carry over untouched.

Baumeister Desktop 1.0.0

11 Jun 2026 · On GitHub