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Open. Open URLs, files, and programs from your code on any operating system.

github.com/sindresorhus/open

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Updates

July 2026

Meta tweaks Jul 21

November 2025

Release — Nov 15
11.0.0 Nov 15
Refactor Nov 15
Fix app launch failure detection for fallback support Nov 14
Add `chromium-browser` fallback for Linux Nov 13
Require Node.js 20 Nov 12
Automatically detect PowerShell accessibility in WSL Nov 12
Fix WSL access via remote SSH Nov 12
Fix handling of `import.meta.url` not being available Nov 12
Suppress PowerShell progress messages on Windows Nov 12
Fix spawn handling Nov 12
Fix WSL2 local file opening Nov 12
Fix PowerShell argument escaping Nov 12
Ignore stdio on Windows when not waiting for process Nov 12
Link to related project Nov 12
Document `wait` limitation with browsers Nov 12

July 2025

Minor tweak (#365) Jul 20
Throw `AggregateError` instead of only latest error (#364) Jul 20
Release — Jul 14
10.2.0 Jul 14
Add support for Brave browser (#362) Jul 14

May 2025

Release — May 1

April 2025

Release — Apr 15

March 2024

Release — Mar 8

February 2024

Release — Feb 26

January 2024

Release — Jan 7

December 2023

Release — Dec 28
Release — Dec 22
Release — Dec 19