What’s new

New

• Show running sidebar status as ping

Fixed

• Refresh model selectors after hosted catalog updates

Fixed

• Preserve Codex app-server transcript order

New

• Refresh + apply hosted config on startup (once per launch)
• ModelCatalogProvider front door + payload parsing
• ResolvedCatalog snapshot + bundled catalog fallback
• Hosted-config fetch, atomic cache, cold-boot re-verify
• Hosted-config verification core (sha256 + Ed25519 + version gate)
• Align bundled model catalog with current model lineup

Fixed

• Hide agent CLI console window on Windows

New

• Improve telemetry consent and agent turn handling

New

• Add session-limit auto-resume setting

New

• AI name generation, font picker, window overflow fix

Fixed

• Route Claude subagent lifecycle events
• Restore native shell window behavior

Fixed

• Restore chat markdown rendering

New

• Choose chat tab launch mode

Fixed

• Remove fable 5 lol, added auto-resume on session limit option

New

• Ctrl + Tab to cycle active project in groupped workspace
• Service-synced console strip with running chip and all-actions menu
• Create group workspaces from palette and Cmd+N
• Service switcher dropdown in group detail panel
• Retargetable detail panel for group member switching
• Surface runtime port re-allocation in run consoles
• Group run consoles honor member projects' nonconcurrent run gates
• Inject group env vars into agent spawns and archive scripts
• Per-service group consoles with run-all and port re-validation
• Allocate group service ports at creation and self-heal on load
• Add GroupEnvironment builder with convention vars and template resolution
• Add GroupPortAllocator with reservation and OS-probe scanning
• Parse ports and env templates from kalauz.json
• Run per-member archive scripts for group workspaces
• Linked-projects map in agent system prompt
• Project groups in sidebar with group workspace creation
• Allow scoping detail panel to an explicit worktree path
• Resolve sanitized, deduplicated group service names
• Add GroupWorktreeService with umbrella layout and rollback
• Allow explicit worktree target path in GitWorktreeService
• Extend Workspace with GroupId and member worktrees
• Parse serviceName from kalauz.json
• Add ProjectGroup entity with store CRUD

Fixed

• Keep rooted prompt paths platform-stable
• Close all-actions flyout on item click; lucide collapse chevrons
• Non-counting Peek for transient search consumers, umbrella ROOT_PATH stability
• Prevent concurrent switch-option refreshes
• Post-switch refresh race, ref-counted file search registry
• Identity re-apply walks group layout; empty group parent dirs removed
• Solo port blocks avoid group member port reservations
• Repair or delete groups when a member project is removed
• Make group port allocation all-or-nothing on failure
• Hide archived workspaces from group sidebar node (match project nodes)
• Always create group umbrella dir so the agent can start
• Group context gathering - skip umbrella git calls, parallelize members, derive relative paths
• Group node lifecycle - edit in place, re-home unlinked workspaces, pin coverage
• Lucide chevrons and PlaceholderText in group sidebar UI
• Scope group detail panel to first isolated member worktree
• Clean up temp dir in GroupServiceNames kalauz.json test
• Normalize trailing separators on explicit worktree target path
• Clarify DeleteGroup doc and make GetGroups test a persistence round-trip

Maintenance and under-the-hood improvements.

Maintenance and under-the-hood improvements.

New

• Resolve interactive shell (prefer pwsh over powershell on Windows)
• Clickable worktree file links in chat
• Add Ctrl/Cmd+P quick-open file palette
• Refresh FileSearchPalette rows on theme/appearance change
• Add FileSearchPalette quick-open control
• Power sidebar Files filter with FFF flat ranked results
• Power @ composer file search with FFF service
• Add FffFileSearchService registry with native probe and fallback
• Add FffFileSearch native binding
• Add LegacyFileSearch managed fallback with tests
• Add IFileSearchService abstraction and FileSearchResult
• Add FffNative P/Invoke surface for libfff_c

Fixed

• Guard stale @ search results and faulted search task
• Guard null native envelopes in FffFileSearch

Fixed

• Restore macOS window chrome
• Ghost button text position

Fixed

• Correct Windows custom chrome

Fixed

• Handle legacy null conductor import values (#17)

New

• Support non-worktree workspace creation; fix changes selector close

Fixed

• CI positioning

Maintenance and under-the-hood improvements.

New

• Support scoped commit handoff and source-based workspace creation
• Settings importer, close all commands, model selector & enter pla

Fixed

• Toggle plan mode

New

• Change git button behaviour, add app env vars for workspace ports

Fixed

• Update PR-args test for mergeable field; use Releases dir casing in release CI

New

• Sidebar context menu added, emoji as lucide icon
• Merge conductor.json project scripts under kalauz.json
• Read Conductor settings.managed.json via merged precedence chain
• Add ConductorModelMap for defaultModel translation
• Add field-level Merge to ManagedSettingsData

Fixed

• Tolerate trailing commas in project config; test malformed conductor.json

Maintenance and under-the-hood improvements.

New

• Ui changes
• PR and CI monitor

New

• Codex streaming, new commit UI, general fixes

Fixed

• Sidebar footer button infinite refresh
• UI font sizes, code colours

Fixed

• Use Kalauz app icons across platforms
• Avoid layout churn in ascii spinner

Fixed

• Unblock 0.2.17 release
• Add new codex models, fix archive shortcut on windows

New

• Group consecutive tool calls
• Shimmer active tool labels
• Render copyable code blocks
• Preview and copy image attachments

New

• Theming system, remove easter egg for now
• Dynamic rendering
• Refresh renderers and support diff markers
• Propagate configurable fonts and cursors
• Apply window appearance preferences
• Add appearance theme editor
• Inject live Avalonia resources
• Manage profile theme libraries
• Validate JSON theme packages
• Add 3-step onboarding overlay
• Derive injectable semantic palettes
• Reap closed-tab keep-alive sessions on a 1-minute idle window
• Add persisted appearance model
• Keep-alive Claude CLI sessions (opt-in)
• Add persisted appearance model

Fixed

• Refresh overlays on theme changes
• Coalesce renderer refreshes
• Rebuild diff tab on reattach
• Scale code renderer line heights
• Marshal window appearance updates
• Preserve invalid theme edits
• Harden Avalonia theme reapply
• Wire fast mode and xhigh reasoning

New

• Refresh live status and improve console controls
• Add markdown preview and path affordances
• Improve file references and markdown navigation
• Preserve context and use native Claude ultracode
• Add ultracode toggle — max effort + dynamic workflow orchestration
• Quick-link cards to open Claude/Codex settings
• Surface effective setup/run scripts to system prompt

Fixed

• Preserve native tab strip wheel scrolling
• Publish project rows as native text
• Retry transient branch ref locks

Fixed

• Use public ModelSelector property and Lucide glyph for terminal icon
• Dedicated hook thread, EVENT_OBJECT_CREATE, off-screen banish, correct SetWinEventHook flags
• Pass prompt via argv, add --auto flag, handle error events, clamp negative token deltas
• Use kilo/-prefixed model IDs matching kilo models output
• Replace deprecated Watermark with PlaceholderText in ModelSelectorPopover

New

• Add Kilo Code as a 4th agent provider

New

• Animate rolling wheels in ASCII loading screen
• Drag files from tree into chat input
• Add 'Open in' menu for VS Code, Explorer, and Terminal
• Replace ad-hoc model list with reusable ModelSelectorPopover
• Add Lucide name-based markup extension

Fixed

• Update permission mode label text

New

• Tab drag-reorder, middle-click close, and scroll-wheel cycling
• Sidebar sort, grouping, thread visibility, and drag-reorder
• Update toasts with user-consent restart for Kalauz and Claude CLI

Fixed

• Stop orphaned child processes on archive and app shutdown
• Map PowerShell tool calls to terminal icon

Performance

• Fix memory leaks driving ~1GB idle RAM

New

• Workspace checkpoints, direct PR creation, runtime approval modes

New

• Image tab view, window and routing refinements

New

• Design fixes for window selector and internal tool mapping updates
• Gemini, separate windows, fixes

Fixed

• Changelog link points to kalauz.app/changelog

New

• Caffeinate while agents run, MCP tool labels, click-to-open links
• Window geometry persistence + remove plain-text diff tab

New

• Subagent monitoring, project removal, clickable links, detail tab icons

Fixed

• Multi answer questions
• Force UTF-8 on CLI streams + unblock image-paste deadlock

New

• Changelog pipeline + ⌘N new-workspace shortcut
• Move version, resizable sidebar

Fixed

• Show real app version in sidebar footer

Signed macOS installer

New

• The macOS build now ships as a signed and notarized .pkg installer, so it opens without Gatekeeper warnings.

Maintenance and under-the-hood improvements.

First public cut

New

• Parallel workspaces you drive from a command palette (⌘K) — jump between agents without leaving the window.
• Diff and editor tabs with syntax highlighting, so every change is reviewable in place.
• Multiple profiles, Chrome-style: each carries its own git identity, agent keys, and model provider.
• Cross-platform builds for macOS, Windows, and Linux, with deep-link registration and single-instance IPC.
• Native macOS notifications when an agent needs you.
• In-chat permission approval and rich user messages, including AskUserQuestion support.
• A train map of Hungary easter egg — because kalauz.