Everything that changed in each release, in plain language. Newest first.
Private servers you can put where you want them, a shutdown button Roblox never gave owners, and a small island that sits over the game while you play.
Private servers spin up wherever Roblox decides. Now you choose, and the launcher keeps trying until it lands one there.
Private servers spin up wherever Roblox decides, which is usually near whoever opened it and rarely near everyone else. There is now a Server Region panel on any private server you own: pick a region and the launcher opens the server, checks where it actually landed, and if it is wrong it closes it and tries again until it gets one there. Most take a handful of tries. You are told which try it is on the whole time.
Rather than guessing a region off a map, Best Ping measures. It samples the round trip to each region from your connection, tells you which came back fastest and at how many milliseconds, and then goes hunting for a server there. The number is yours, not an average of strangers already on a server.
Roblox gives private server owners no way to end a running server, so this does what an owner would do by hand: issue a fresh link so nobody walks back in on the one they have, switch joining off until Roblox stops reporting anyone inside, then switch it back on. It tells you what actually happened rather than always claiming success — and if Roblox refuses to switch joining back on, it says so instead of quietly leaving your server dark.
Turn on the in-game overlay and a small island sits over Roblox with where the server actually is, how long you have been in it, and your volume. Click it for a panel with media controls, so skipping a track does not mean alt-tabbing out of a round. It goes away on its own when you leave the game. Off by default — it does put a window over another program.
A progress strip that stays visible over the game, two switches for what happens when you leave one, and Windows backdrops on the launcher window.
A region search spends almost all of its life with Roblox in front of the launcher, so a progress bar inside the launcher would be a progress bar nobody can see. The Hold tight strip is now pinned to the corner of your monitor instead of the corner of the app — it stays visible over the game, and you can stop the search from it without going back to the launcher.
Two new switches under Roblox client. Don't close to the Roblox desktop app closes the client when you leave a game rather than dropping you on its home screen, and brings the launcher back instead. Hide the launcher while in a game tucks it into the tray while you play and takes it out again when you are done. Both read the client's own log and neither touches the game.
The launcher window can now take a Windows backdrop — transparency, blur, acrylic, mica, or Liquid Glass — with a strength to go with it. Picked before the first frame is drawn, so it is already right when the window appears rather than snapping into place a moment later.
Type a username on any experience page and the launcher goes and finds which server they are in.
Next to Join through link there is now a Find Player button. Search a username, pick them out of the dropdown, and the launcher works out which server they are in — then hands you a green Join their server button. It does not need them to have joins turned on, which is the entire point: it is for the people who never worked out where that setting is.
Before searching anything it checks whether they are actually online and in that experience. If Roblox is willing to say, it says which server outright and you get an answer in about a second with nothing scanned. If they are offline, or in a different game, you are told that instead of being made to wait through a search that was never going to find them — and you can search anyway, because presence can be switched off.
When Roblox will not answer, it walks the public server list and matches their avatar against the people in each one. Brookhaven has close to half a million people in it — a full pass covered 18,600 servers holding 396,566 of them before stopping. Big places get searched to 80% and then stop; tick Keep checking forever and it laps instead, because people change servers while you are looking.
Searching a place that size will hit Roblox's rate limit. When it does, the panel shrinks into a small island in the bottom-right corner — We are still finding them! — and keeps going while you carry on using the rest of the launcher. Close it whenever you have lost interest.
Roblox only exposes an anonymous token per player, so the only thing left to match on is their rendered avatar. That means two accounts wearing exactly the same outfit look identical to it — most obviously default avatars. The result says so rather than claiming a certainty it does not have.
The progress line counts real things: servers checked, and how many of the place's players were in them. Roblox publishes how many people are in an experience but never how many servers, so anything phrased as "x% of 22,000 servers" would have been guesswork dressed up as a number.
A ping column that was pointing you at the servers furthest away, and Home rows you can actually get to the end of.
The server browser sorted on ping by default and called 28 ms Excellent. That number is the average round-trip of the players already on the server, not yours — so a Paris server full of European players reads as the best in the list and costs someone in the US four times that. Sorting by it floated the servers furthest from you to the top. It is still shown, because a server averaging 300 ms across its own players is bad for everyone, but it is now labelled as their number and no longer sorts the grid.
Every row on Home scrolls sideways properly now instead of cutting off at the window edge. Each one also has a View More → in its corner that opens the whole category as a full page of games, with Load more at the bottom for the ones Roblox pages through.
Two settings screens became one, new installs get walked through the place, and Home remembers what you were playing.
Launcher settings and Roblox account settings were two separate places. They are now one screen with its own sidebar — Preferences, Accounts, Appearance, Background effects, Roblox client, App behaviour and Privacy under Launcher, then Account, Security, Privacy and Billing under your Roblox account. It reopens on the section you were last in.
The search box at the top now searches the page you are on. In Settings it is Search settings features… and filters every option across every section, so you can find a switch without knowing which page it lives on. In your inventory it is Search My Items, in favourites Search My Favorites, in the catalog Search the marketplace.
New installs get offered a walkthrough that dims the app and cuts a moving spotlight around whatever it is talking about. Concise is eleven steps and covers the parts you need. In depth is twenty-seven and goes through the lot. Skip it whenever you like, or start it again from Settings.
The first time you sign in you get asked the handful of things the launcher cannot guess — what to call you, your pronouns, your timezone (detected, change it if it is wrong), 12 or 24 hour clock, whether you want Stream Proof on, and which page to open on. Two minutes, and you can redo it from Settings whenever.
Hides the launcher from screen capture — it stays perfectly visible to you and comes out as a blank window in OBS, Discord shares and recordings. Toggles on and off live, no restart. Off by default.
Home now opens with the experiences you actually played, most recent first, straight from your Roblox history — so sessions you started anywhere else show up too. Player counts are live rather than whatever they were when you left. Drag it wherever you want it like any other section.
Setting a custom banner used to mean hoping it framed well. There is now a proper editor — drag to move, scroll or use the slider to zoom up to 4×, reset if you make a mess. The framing is stored relative to the image, so it stays right when you resize the window.
Choosing a scene saved the setting but the old one kept running, and it came back after a restart. Fixed. All fourteen — snow, rain, hail, sakura, embers, fireflies, bubbles, confetti, starfield, retro grid, aurora, waves, lava orbs and matrix — switch instantly and stay switched.
Two things people asked for, and one thing that was quietly broken since launch.
Your Discord profile now shows what you are doing — Browsing in Discover, Avatar, Catalog and the rest — and switches to Playing <experience> with a button through to the game page when you launch one. It clears itself when you close Roblox. There is a switch in Settings if you would rather it did not.
The X in the title bar now tucks the launcher into the system tray instead of quitting it, so it is one click away when you come back. Click the tray icon to bring it up, right-click it to quit properly. Turn it off in Settings and X goes back to closing the app.
The list was quietly filtering out every server worth joining. It walked the emptiest servers first, and threw away anything more than three quarters full — so a 10 / 15 got discarded and a 1 / 15 got shown. It now reads the busiest servers first and keeps anything with real room left. Full servers still never appear.
The music player and its settings panel are gone. It was half-finished, nobody was using it, and it made the install bigger for no reason.
Unfriend Select reads clearly against every theme now. The launcher no longer keeps a second copy of itself alive after you quit from the tray.
The initial release. One window covering everything you do around actually playing.
Browse the live public servers for an experience, sort by how full they are, and join the one you chose instead of whichever one Roblox hands you. Private servers you have access to are listed too.
The real Roblox home rows, search, favourites and full experience pages — votes, badges, passes, events, screenshots — without a browser in the way.
See who is online and what they are playing, handle friend requests, read your group walls, and go through your inbox and trades.
Look at your avatar in 3D, go through everything you own, and browse the catalog with real prices.
Sign several accounts in and switch between them without signing anything out. Sessions are encrypted against your machine before they touch the disk.
Detach the sidebar, snap it left, right or top, reorder the sections, pick a theme, set your own banner, and turn the background effects up or off.
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