Hey Everyone,
We’re rolling out another round of earlyaccess updates for both Roon and Roon ARC, focused on improving connectivity, performance, and reliability. This release enhances double-NAT (not CG-NAT) handling to make port forwarding and remote access more reliable across a wider range of network setups, reduces battery usage on mobile devices, and fixes issues affecting browser macroscrolling in ARC.
On the Roon side, this update includes stability fixes for macOS, including resolving crashes on macOS 26 (Tahoe). We’re currently looking into various reports of audio zones disappearing and are identifying and addressing multiple underlying causes that will be delivered across upcoming releases. In this specific update, we’ve fixed a bug that could cause macOS users to lose all of their audio zones after the app restarted during the update process.
You’ll also find various refinements and polish across both apps.
The Team at Roon Labs
Build Numbers
| Application | Build |
|---|---|
| Roon / RoonServer | (build 1566) earlyaccess |
| Roon ARC | (build 371) earlyaccess |
Changes
- Fixed Roon crashes on macOS 26 (Tahoe)
- Resolved an issue where Roon on macOS could lose track of audio zones following update procedure
- Resolved an issue where Roon could get stuck in the “Initializing” phase after restoring a backup
- Enhanced double-NAT traversal support in Roon to * support more network configurations with automatic port forwarding
- Fixed incorrect “Starting Roon Radio…” message when playing an artist directly from the Artist page
- Improved ARC performance to reduce battery usage
- Resolved a bug preventing macroscrolling functionality from working in browsers in ARC
- Resolved a bug where album artwork failed to appear in the Now Playing widget in ARC
- Added shuffle playback options to ARC on CarPlay and Android Auto
- Various changes and improvements
Installation
| macOS: | Roon | |
| Windows: | Roon | |
| Linux: † | Easy Installer | Full Package |
| Nucleus / ROCK: | See Help Center | |
| Android APKs: | Roon | Roon ARC |
† Information on loading Roon on Linux can be found here . Please use the files linked here in place of those from the help center article when loading earlyaccess.