Townlight Windows public beta 1.7.2.1 is available

Municipal software cities can actually own.

Townlight's signed Windows x64 public beta is available now. It brings municipal work into connected local workspaces, with a record of the sources, staff review and decisions behind it. The installer was published on 5 November 2026; this announcement covers the exact signed Windows 1.7.2.1 candidate.

Download the signed Windows MSI · Release, corresponding source and checksums · Read the manual · Get help or report a problem

What you can evaluate

Records: public-records request, review and export workflows.
Meetings: meeting and agenda preparation, packets, motions and votes, minutes, archives and proceedings readback.
Code: proposal and adoption work connected to Meetings.
Access: saved accessibility reviews, local-model rewrite and Spanish translation drafts, retained provenance and Records exports for human review.
Notice: content-bound review and approval, posting proof, verified archives and Records readback.
Zoning, Planning, Permitting and Inspections: staff workspaces whose exercised paths and limits are described in the manuals and acceptance.
Station: meeting media and the Meetings â†’ Station â†’ Records handoff. Standalone CivicCast remains separate.

Core supplies shared platform services. Current owned code and manuals are AGPL-3.0-only; retained historical grants and third-party notices still apply.

What was verified

Windows 1.7.2.1 changes installer metadata and displays Townlight as the installed product name. Its new outer MSI is Azure-signed by Scott Converse and independently verified. The signed application/runtime cabinet is unchanged from 1.7.1.1. Functional and fresh-install evidence is reused from 1.7.1.1; no full-suite or independent fresh-install rerun is claimed for this metadata revision. See the release for separately dated installed upgrade evidence. Upgrade from 1.7.0.1 is not established. Station requires separate setup.

The MSI, desktop executable and portable Access launcher are signed by Scott Converse with valid timestamps. This changes only installer metadata; the signed application/runtime bytes and their original source identity are unchanged. The 1.7.1.1 release remains intact. Read the acceptance summary for the exact new and reused evidence. AI output remains a draft requiring staff review.

Install this beta on a fresh profile

Download Townlight-Windows-x64-1.7.2.1.msi and the published checksums from this exact release.
In PowerShell, run Get-FileHash .\Townlight-Windows-x64-1.7.2.1.msi -Algorithm SHA256. The MSI SHA-256 must be 10f811c2e19db1e11ddfd0dc89e082b164c1b9c3942bba91c8b170225b91cc73.
Check the installer signature with Get-AuthenticodeSignature .\Townlight-Windows-x64-1.7.2.1.msi. It must report Valid; confirm the signer matches the publisher named on the release page before installing.
Follow the first-run guide and evaluate with synthetic data first.

This MSI does not upgrade an existing legacy profile. Preserve existing data and backups; follow the manual's recovery guidance. Use the explicit download above: GitHub's Latest download now resolves to this public beta.

Portal and branding

The resident portal is a separately deployed beta with its own release and deployment guide. Installing this Windows MSI does not deploy a public website.

The website and documentation now use the selected Open Hall identity. Application and installer icons will adopt it in the next software update. This separately versioned installer changes the installed name to Townlight and preserves the accepted signed application and runtime cabinet without rebuilding them. The previous Windows release and its evidence remain intact.

Try it and tell us what happened

Start with the Windows download and Suite manual. Report reproducible problems through the support page, including version 1.7.2.1 and redacted evidence. Report vulnerabilities privately through the security policy.