v3.11.0 / released October 30, 2026 / what’s new
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Installer for x64 · 140 MB · v3.11.0
Signed and notarized · No ads or bundleware · Open source (MIT) · Updates itself
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Step 2
Run Kudu Setup
Open the file and follow the prompts. Kudu keeps itself up to date after that.
Step 3
Run your first scan
Pick Simple mode and Kudu shows you what it found before anything changes.
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Recent releases
Kudu ships fixes and new tools often, and updates itself in the background.
- v3.11.0LatestOctober 30, 2026· 5 new· 4 fixes
New
- i18n: add Persian language support
- i18n: improve Turkish translations and fix locale encoding issues for v3.10.0
- i18n: localize hardcoded malware scanner and UI strings
- rules: add Antigravity, Hugging Face, LM Studio, Ollama, and Insomnia cleaner rules
- windows: add native ARM64 release support
Fixed
- disk: show honest loading feedback for disk operations
- release: use a compatible Angular changelog preset
- startup: report renderer startup failures with native diagnostics
- threat-monitor: enable search links and text copying
- v3.10.0October 21, 2026· 2 fixes
Fixed
- dashboard: prevent more space goal from crashing
- security: resolve code scanning and dependency alerts
- v3.9.0October 18, 2026· 1 new· 2 fixes
New
- cleaner: add custom cleaning folders
Fixed
- sidebar: keep protection totals off child badges
- updater: clarify package manager update availability
- v3.8.0October 10, 2026· 2 new
New
- cleaner: add shareable cleanup result cards
- performance: add CPU and GPU temperature monitoring
- v3.7.0October 10, 2026· 6 new· 1 fix
New
- cleaner: expand safe Windows app cache coverage
- cleaner: search scan results and manage filtered selections
- performance: add app memory insights and Windows memory context
- privacy: audit Windows app access records
- storage: add app space breakdown and cleanup review
- storage: add old downloads and installers review
Fixed
- sidebar: prevent menu item text from wrapping
- v3.6.1October 6, 2026· 2 fixes
Fixed
- icons: add missing Windows DPI sizes to the app icon
- malware: stop flagging validly signed binaries with the PE heuristic
- v3.5.0September 29, 2026· 8 new· 15 fixes
New
- cleaner: add Privacy Traces category with shell history cleaning
- privacy: clean macOS and Linux activity traces
- privacy: clean Windows activity traces
- privacy: make every macOS Privacy Shield setting reversible
- recovery: restore targeted registry backups from the Recovery Centre
- rules: clean old GPU driver installers, pipenv and sccache caches
- rules: fill cache coverage gaps across platforms
- updater: suggest the command that works when winget cannot upgrade
Fixed
- cleaner: honour global exclusions in duplicate, large-file, empty-folder and shortcut tools
- cli: mask the cloud API key in all config get output
- debloater: remove packages the scan matched by suffix
- duplicates: always keep one copy and re-verify before deleting
- recovery: remove a backup's seal only when its file was actually pruned
- rules: add Epic cache paths and retain recent Electron downloads
- rules: stop overlapping cleaner targets on macOS and Linux
- schedules: never auto-apply cache resets or native maintenance
- shortcuts: detect broken drive-letter shortcuts on Windows
- shredder: don't delete or count a file when shredding is cancelled mid-overwrite
- trash: remove orphaned Linux trash metadata after emptying
- uninstaller: honour exclusions when removing leftovers
- uninstaller: protect shared components and clarify launch history
- updater: accept winget ids that contain '+'
- updater: judge winget upgrades by exit code, not localised text
- v3.4.0September 22, 2026· 1 new· 3 fixes
New
- drivers: allow ignoring driver updates and hide them from Windows Update
Fixed
- game-mode: make Nagle restore idempotent and surface the real PowerShell error
- scanner: suppress noisy SUSP_XORed_URL_In_EXE false positives
- updater: surface winget scan failures and parse localised tables
- v3.3.0September 17, 2026· 1 new· 3 fixes
New
- sidebar: make schedules promo card dismissible
Fixed
- darwin: check privacy settings without root-only tools
- recovery: treat tasks without Settings/Enabled as enabled
- repair: decode UTF-16LE sfc.exe output so non-Latin logs render correctly
- v3.2.0September 16, 2026· 3 fixes
Fixed
- cve: recompute summary after multipage CLI merge
- cve: skip MSI SystemComponent apps in installed inventory
- repair: parse WinRE status without English labels
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