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title: Install XGen Release Tool on Linux | Snap Store
description: Get the latest version of XGen Release Tool for Linux - btop-style terminal
  UI to release and deploy services safely
url: https://snapcraft.io/xgen-release-tool
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# XGen Release Tool

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latest/edge 0.2.0

Install latest/edge of XGen Release Tool

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**Install using the command line**

```
sudo snap install xgen-release-tool --edge
```

Don't have snapd? [Get set up for snaps](https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snapd).

XGen Release Tool is only available on the unstable edge channel. It could break and change often.

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### Package name

* xgen-release-tool

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### License

* Proprietary

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### Last updated

* 25 September 2026 - latest/edge

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##### Report a Snap Store violation

* [Report this Snap](https://snapcraft.io/xgen-release-tool#report-snap-modal)

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* [Description](https://snapcraft.io/xgen-release-tool#tab-description)
* [Security](https://snapcraft.io/xgen-release-tool#tab-security)

#### btop-style terminal UI to release and deploy services safely

**XGen Release Tool** is a keyboard-driven terminal dashboard for the two
GitHub Actions pipelines behind a component deploy API: **release** (build
images, tag, publish) and **deploy** (roll an environment to a released
version). It has the same panels-and-shortcuts feel as btop.

**Highlights**

* **Release and deploy in one screen.** Press `m` to switch modes. A
  release is one per repo (no environment); a deploy targets development,
  staging or production (`d` / `s` / `p`).
* **Profiles.** Frontend and backend are managed separately. Each has its
  own ref, version and parameters per environment, plus a release block.
  Every edit shows a live preview of the exact request.
* **Stops a dangerous duplicate release.** The release workflow pushes
  images before it creates the git tag. Re-releasing an existing version
  would overwrite those images and then fail. The version field turns red
  when the tag already exists, and the release is blocked.
* **Checks before anything is sent.** Missing branches, unknown services
  and releases already in progress are blocked. You're warned about a
  version that isn't newer, a branch with no new commits, a partial release
  whose deploys would fail, or deploying a version that was never released.
* **Confirm with a full summary.** Releases ask you to type the version;
  production deploys ask you to type `production`.
* **Release, then deploy.** `n` suggests the next version after the latest
  GitHub release. When the release succeeds, `P` puts that version into the
  deploy form.
* **Live run tracking.** Each dispatch is matched to its GitHub Actions run,
  with status and per-job results. If a release pushed images but failed to
  tag, the run is flagged as a mismatch.
* **Sessions renew themselves.** Paste your Cognito refresh token once (the
  DevTools curl or response JSON works too). The tool renews the 1-hour id
  token before it expires or when the API returns 401, and asks again only
  when the refresh token itself expires.

**Design decisions**

* Nothing runs without an explicit confirm. Anything that can't be undone
  (a git tag, a GitHub Release, a production rollout) needs a typed
  confirmation.
* Checks come from how the workflows really behave, not generic rules.
* If a check can't reach GitHub, it becomes a warning rather than silently
  passing.
* Credentials stay on your machine: tokens are saved with 0600 permissions
  in the snap's own data folder. Access tokens are refused, because the API
  needs the id token.
* Config, token and run history live in
  `~/snap/xgen-release-tool/common/`, so they survive snap updates.
  Press `o` to edit the config in nano from inside the app.

**Snap note:** strict confinement can't run the `gh` CLI. In the snap, the
tag and branch checks become warnings and run status comes from the API
endpoint. Install the tool with `uv tool install` for full GitHub checks.

Press `?` inside the app for every keyboard shortcut.

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## Install XGen Release Tool on your Linux distribution

Choose your Linux distribution to get detailed installation instructions. If yours is not shown, get more details on the [installing snapd documentation](https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snapd).

[### Arch Linux](https://snapcraft.io/install/xgen-release-tool/arch)

[### CentOS](https://snapcraft.io/install/xgen-release-tool/centos)

[### Debian](https://snapcraft.io/install/xgen-release-tool/debian)

[### elementary OS](https://snapcraft.io/install/xgen-release-tool/elementary)

[### Fedora](https://snapcraft.io/install/xgen-release-tool/fedora)

[### KDE Neon](https://snapcraft.io/install/xgen-release-tool/kde-neon)

[### Kubuntu](https://snapcraft.io/install/xgen-release-tool/kubuntu)

[### Manjaro](https://snapcraft.io/install/xgen-release-tool/manjaro)

[### Pop!\_OS](https://snapcraft.io/install/xgen-release-tool/pop)

[### openSUSE](https://snapcraft.io/install/xgen-release-tool/opensuse)

[### Red Hat Enterprise Linux](https://snapcraft.io/install/xgen-release-tool/rhel)

[### Ubuntu](https://snapcraft.io/install/xgen-release-tool/ubuntu)