1.18.23

Diode Collab v1.18.23 was released on February 18, 2026.

#In-app upgrades

You can now upgrade and manage your Zone subscription plan from within the app on desktop. In the past, it required a relatively complicated receipt code copy/paste process.

#Bookmarks for sub drive locations

You can now add bookmarks to locations or files within a sub drive.

#Fix: Startup crash for old installations

We introduced a bug in v1.18.22 that can cause older Diode Collab desktop installations (installed prior to February 2025) to stop booting up. This version fixes that problem.

If your system has hit this bug, you must reinstall Diode Collab from https://collab.diode.io to recover it (we are not able to provide an auto-update to fix the problem on already broken systems).

The root cause of this was ironically a QA check to see if the app was being run in a QA environment. This check relied on a module that was only loaded by the app after the February 2025 installation. Therefore, if the systems “binary” installation was from before that date, the updated 1.18.22 would crash upon the QA check activating. If the “binary” installation was from after that date, the module used by the check was available and succeeded.

Since we today don’t run tests against older binary installation versions, our unit and end-to-end tests missed this. In the future:

a) Changes to the low level code (before updater is available) will receive special code review scrutiny in the future

b) Will prompt users to update their binary installation from the website if they hit an “Oops you found a bug” error.

#Fix: Join Zone modal improvements

The Join Zone modal now check failure codes more in depth so as to inform the user why the join process can’t initialize, and is also more durable to recoverable issues.

#Fix: Single member Zone joins

There was a bug that would not allow a Zone owner to add a Zone to their linked device if there were no other members. This has been fixed.