Kagi has stopped active development of Orion for Linux and Windows and will release both codebases as open source, handing maintenance to the community. The company will publish the source within 30 days and has contacted open-source foundations about long-term stewardship, but it will not serve as principal maintainer. The current Linux beta will continue to run but will stop receiving updates from Kagi after October 2, 2026, and users are warned not to rely on it as a daily browser because security and maintenance updates will cease. Kagi is refocusing its limited resources on Orion for macOS and iOS.
The decision stems from a small, user-funded development team and the complexity of supporting non-Apple platforms without using Chromium; Orion uses WebKit, making it one of the few alternatives to Chromium-based browsers. The future of Orion on Linux and Windows now depends on whether developers or organizations adopt the released code and provide ongoing maintenance. Without an active community or institutional backing, the beta’s lack of security updates will quickly make it unsuitable for everyday use, but open-sourcing the work preserves a path for continuation if contributors step forward.
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