Version 1.38.0 August 25, 2026

Release Date: August 25, 2026

Summary

This release adds tags and richer categories for organizing the catalog, and cleans up day-to-day app management. Apps can now carry admin-applied tags and belong to more than one category, and categories stay in sync with Microsoft Intune in both directions. Editing an app happens in one place, the App settings wizard, which is also where you set the app icon, and you can control how many category rows the store home page shows. Store administration is reorganized into focused nodes, retiring the single Settings tab and moving each setting onto the surface it configures. App Management gains a Delete from Intune button that removes an app from Intune, deletes its requests, and removes it from the portal in one step. Reliability fixes cover bulk publishing, upgrades on the stable channel, categories kept across an upgrade, and the store category filter.

New Features

• App tags. Apply tags to apps to organize and filter the catalog. An app can have up to 10 tags, reused from a shared list with type-ahead as you apply them. Give tags colors under Store Admin and they appear as colored chips on catalog cards, app detail, and the admin app list, and you can filter both the catalog and the admin app list by tag. Tags are applied by administrators and are separate from categories: a category is the shelf an app browses under and is shared with Microsoft Intune, while a tag is a portal label for organizing the catalog.
• Delete an app from Intune. Opening an app in App Management now shows a Delete from Intune button. It removes the app from Intune, deletes the app’s associated requests, and removes the app from the portal. For an app the portal published with its own deployment group, a second prompt asks whether to also delete that group and its assignment; choose No to keep the group for reuse. The button is hidden for apps with no Intune app to remove.

Product Enhancements

• Categories stay in sync with Microsoft Intune, and an app can have more than one. An app can belong to several categories instead of one. Set them as chips in the App settings wizard’s Visibility and Store step, the same way you set tags. Categories reconcile with Microsoft Intune in both directions: categories set in App Management reach Intune on the next sync, categories set in Intune appear in the portal, and each sync compares both sides against the last synced state, so a change on one side is not overwritten by the other. The category picker now lists the full set of categories from your Intune tenant, not just the ones already in use.
• App settings are edited in one place. Editing an app now opens the App settings wizard, the same wizard the other property sections use, instead of a separate dialog. The app icon (upload a custom image, choose one from the icon library, or reset to the Intune default) is set in the wizard’s Visibility and Store step, alongside categories, tags, and cost. The standalone Edit App dialog has been removed.
• The number of category rows on the store home page is configurable. A new Categories on Home Page setting on the App Catalog page, in the Catalog Settings panel, controls how many category rows the home page shows. The default is 3.
• Store administration is reorganized into focused nodes. The single Settings tab is retired. Store Administration now reads Permissions, Categories, Tags, Branding, Deployment, Integrations, Communications, System, and License, one node per domain. Settings that have a working surface moved onto it: catalog sourcing and storefront display are on the App Catalog page, update cadence is on the App Updates page, the help-desk cost-per-ticket ROI input is on the Analytics report, the require-manager-approval default is in the Approval Workflows builder, and dark mode is under Branding. The Setup Wizard is now a top-level Getting Started entry.

Bug Fixes

• Resolved bulk publishing failing partway through on GitHub rate limits. Publishing many apps at once could exhaust the GitHub request budget and leave some apps unpublished. Publishing now works from the published catalog index and completes without rate-limit errors.
• Resolved a deployment or in-place update on the stable channel failing to start with a 503. A promoted build could report a version whose package was not on the stable channel. Stable builds now carry the correct version and point at a package that exists on the channel, and the app confirms the package is reachable before switching to it.
• Resolved categories set in the app store being lost on upgrade. An upgrade could clear categories that existed only in the portal. The portal now keeps those categories on upgrade and adds them to Intune on the next sync.
• Fixed the store category filter listing empty categories. Only categories that have at least one visible app now appear in the filter.