diff --git a/AppImage/ProxMenux-1.2.3.AppImage b/AppImage/ProxMenux-1.2.3.AppImage
index 5aaacf21..66283868 100755
Binary files a/AppImage/ProxMenux-1.2.3.AppImage and b/AppImage/ProxMenux-1.2.3.AppImage differ
diff --git a/AppImage/ProxMenux-Monitor.AppImage.sha256 b/AppImage/ProxMenux-Monitor.AppImage.sha256
index ad1abc7d..a894706c 100644
--- a/AppImage/ProxMenux-Monitor.AppImage.sha256
+++ b/AppImage/ProxMenux-Monitor.AppImage.sha256
@@ -1 +1 @@
-7b5dd3ff6fe70a190caf00d1ce5198dfe1917af53d01ab4fd1a3908f3204c0ff  ProxMenux-1.2.3.AppImage
+b6c602eb3bc056e8d8baddab98cf87d3897b8ff974395c2a32e28cf89e0238be  ProxMenux-1.2.3.AppImage
diff --git a/AppImage/components/pwa-register.tsx b/AppImage/components/pwa-register.tsx
index 4af78246..94196a59 100644
--- a/AppImage/components/pwa-register.tsx
+++ b/AppImage/components/pwa-register.tsx
@@ -12,63 +12,27 @@ import { useEffect } from "react"
 // PWA-installability check from no-to-yes.
 //
 // Mounted from app/layout.tsx so it runs on every route.
-//
-// On every `visibilitychange` back to visible we call
-// `registration.update()`. Mobile browsers (Brave / Firefox
-// Android/iOS) are aggressive about deferring the SW's
-// scheduled 24h `sw.js` re-check to save battery, which
-// stranded users on the pre-v2 SW after the Cache Storage
-// fix shipped — they saw the dashboard freeze until they
-// force-stopped the browser. Forcing an `update()` on every
-// return-to-foreground brings the SW check inline with
-// user attention so future SW_VERSION bumps propagate at
-// the first regreso a la pestaña instead of hours later.
 // ===========================================================
 export function PwaRegister() {
   useEffect(() => {
     if (typeof window === "undefined") return
     if (!("serviceWorker" in navigator)) return
-
-    let registration: ServiceWorkerRegistration | null = null
-
+    // Wait for the load event to avoid competing with the
+    // initial render — the SW registration is not on the
+    // critical render path.
     const register = () => {
       navigator.serviceWorker
         .register("/sw.js", { scope: "/" })
-        .then((reg) => {
-          registration = reg
-        })
         .catch((err) => {
           // Surface the failure only in DevTools — silent in prod.
           console.warn("[pwa] service worker registration failed:", err)
         })
     }
-
-    const onVisible = () => {
-      if (document.visibilityState !== "visible") return
-      // Prefer the captured registration from the initial register()
-      // call; fall back to `getRegistration()` in case that promise
-      // hadn't resolved yet on the first visibility change.
-      if (registration) {
-        registration.update().catch(() => {})
-      } else {
-        navigator.serviceWorker
-          .getRegistration()
-          .then((reg) => reg?.update().catch(() => {}))
-          .catch(() => {})
-      }
-    }
-
     if (document.readyState === "complete") {
       register()
     } else {
       window.addEventListener("load", register, { once: true })
-    }
-
-    document.addEventListener("visibilitychange", onVisible)
-
-    return () => {
-      window.removeEventListener("load", register)
-      document.removeEventListener("visibilitychange", onVisible)
+      return () => window.removeEventListener("load", register)
     }
   }, [])
   return null
diff --git a/AppImage/public/sw.js b/AppImage/public/sw.js
index 2e1d5c9e..324873bf 100644
--- a/AppImage/public/sw.js
+++ b/AppImage/public/sw.js
@@ -8,14 +8,12 @@
 // so we do NOT cache pages or API responses — caching them
 // would only cause stale-data bugs after an AppImage update.
 //
-// The install / activate handlers wipe every cache in Cache
-// Storage (no allow-list) so stale entries from any previous
-// Monitor version — including ones that shared this SW's
-// version name — cannot survive an upgrade and haunt the
-// dashboard as frozen `/api/*` responses.
+// The install / activate handlers clean up old SW caches from
+// previous Monitor versions so a beta-to-stable upgrade never
+// strands the browser on a cached old shell.
 // ==========================================================
 
-const SW_VERSION = 'proxmenux-monitor-v2';
+const SW_VERSION = 'proxmenux-monitor-v1';
 
 self.addEventListener('install', (event) => {
   // Take over as soon as installed; no skipWaiting handshake.
@@ -24,19 +22,12 @@ self.addEventListener('install', (event) => {
 
 self.addEventListener('activate', (event) => {
   event.waitUntil((async () => {
-    // Scorched earth: wipe EVERY cache, regardless of name. This
-    // SW never writes to Cache Storage, so nothing here should
-    // ever be authoritative. The previous version kept caches
-    // that matched SW_VERSION exactly, which stranded old cached
-    // /api/* responses across upgrades and manifested as a
-    // dashboard that never refreshed until the user manually
-    // cleared Cache Storage from DevTools.
-    try {
-      const names = await caches.keys();
-      await Promise.all(names.map((n) => caches.delete(n)));
-    } catch (_) {
-      // caches API unavailable — nothing to clean.
-    }
+    // Wipe any cache name that isn't ours — survives renames /
+    // version bumps without piling up stale entries.
+    const names = await caches.keys();
+    await Promise.all(
+      names.filter((n) => n !== SW_VERSION).map((n) => caches.delete(n))
+    );
     await self.clients.claim();
   })());
 });