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Latest Releases (13)
v0.26.9NewBreaking Change
November 6, 2026
- •Adds PUT /skills/activation and setUserSkillsActivation to enable or disable 1-100 user Skills in one request, with saved preferences and propagation status. (#16186)
- •Prepares Skill installation for larger archives by adding disk-based ZIP handling and recovery-backup protection to the installer. (#16421)
- •Adds daemon API routes for installing large Skill ZIPs by upload or host file path and querying installation receipts after failures. (#16422)
- •Adds TypeScript SDK support for installing Skill ZIPs from File, Blob, bytes, or host path, with attempt IDs and receipt lookup. (#16423)
- •WebShell can now upload Skill ZIP archives from the Skills page, show daemon limits, and check uncertain installation results. (#16424)
- •Keeps Web Shell sidebar session titles visible when a transcript is rebuilt, preventing session names from disappearing. (#16299)
- •Polishes the Web Shell composer Add menu with consistent icons, labels, descriptions, spacing, and improved accessibility for actions and Plan state. (#16181)
- •WebShell now preserves unsent drafts when ArrowUp or ArrowDown moves through wrapped prompt lines before history navigation. (#14909)
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- •web-shell: batch session deletions at the route limit (#14637)
- •listSessions pagination no longer skips sessions when multiple session files share the same modification time. (#16024)
- •managed-agent: support durable structured user questions (#16433)
- •managed-agent: enable automation by default (#16448)
- •Managed agent activation renewals now locate the activation lease more efficiently, reducing renewal lookup overhead. (#16336)
- •Improves managed-agent performance by removing tenant guard locks from native journal snapshot publication. (#16410)
- •Managed Session history rebuilds now cache message bodies per process, reducing repeated reads and improving performance for hosted turns. (#16337)
v0.26.8NewBreaking Change
November 5, 2026
- •feat(mods): run prompt.submit hooks in the OpenTUI terminal (#16195)
- •feat(cli): run the Ink TUI's model rounds on the shared loop's round (#16206)
- •feat(web-shell): collapse channel editor tuning behind advanced settings (#16239)
- •feat(web-shell): link GitHub PR/Issue targets in channel events (#16226)
- •feat(channels): role-aware action templates for GitHub bound-session delivery (#16258)
- •feat(cli): run the Ink TUI's tool batches on the shared loop's batch (#16304)
- •feat(mods): let a Mod submit a prompt of its own in headless runs (#16302)
- •feat(managed-agent): allow concurrent workspace rewinds (#16369)
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- •feat(channels): edit bound-session action templates on demand (#16349)
- •feat(serve): allow configuring the Conversations working-directory root (#16105)
- •feat(cli): end the Ink TUI's shared tool batch on the TUI's own stops (#16365)
- •feat(web-shell): link channel event rows to their sessions (#16375)
- •feat(mods): run the prompts a Mod submits in the Ink terminal (#16373)
- •feat: add Qwen subscription support across CLI, VS Code, and Desktop (#16378)
- •Makes linter archive downloads resume after stalls so CI lint installs fail less often on slow or throttled releases. (#16067)
v0.26.7NewBreaking Change
November 4, 2026
- •Adds an operator-scoped model.catalogRefresh setting and lets privacy.usageStatisticsEnabled: false stop background catalog refreshes while local metadata remains available. (#16066)
- •feat(managed-agent): support full model configuration at session creation (#16153)
- •When experimental.unifiedAgentLoop is enabled, ACP Goal turns run on the shared agent loop with shared rounds, tool batches, and stop points. (#16131)
- •Adds a Channel events page to Web Shell with a filterable, auto-refreshing timeline of Channel activity, skip reasons, replies, task transitions, and poll results. (#16106)
- •Adds a local /verify-pr Docker recipe that runs untrusted PR code in a container while keeping model credentials on the host through a chat-completion proxy. (#16077)
- •Runs Mods prompt.submit hooks in the Ink terminal before typed prompts are processed, allowing hooks to see composer text with pasted content expanded. (#16180)
- •Adds a managed Web Shell host entry, improves managed empty-state layout, and consolidates session-failure and unconfirmed-submission notices above the composer. (#15928)
- •Adds Settings → Connections → Allow remote connections to qwen serve, enabling remote access, token use, and client disconnects without restarting. (#15887)
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- •With experimental.unifiedAgentLoop enabled, ACP cron and background-notification turns now use the shared agent loop for consistent rounds, tool batching, and stopping. (#16190)
- •Workspace uploads can now proceed concurrently while still rejecting occupied destinations and preserving directory occupancy protections. (#16212)
- •GitHub events for bound PRs now go to the associated session as untrusted prompts, and replies stay private unless published. (#16117)
- •Web Shell channel editor can now edit GitHub repository access, mention behavior, and notification polling settings instead of requiring manual settings changes. (#16149)
- •Pins the RHEL 10 EPEL bootstrap RPM and makes desktop smoke teardown treat Linux zombie processes as stopped while still reporting live daemon failures. (#16154)
- •Compacts live ACP tool-result displays for session replay, so large file edit results show a saved-session preview instead of full old and new contents. (#16172)
- •Fixes PR review endpoint routing by selecting the cohort before the model and reports the final bucket, cohort, model, and endpoint hostname. (#16151)
v0.26.6NewBreaking Change
November 2, 2026
- •Adds a Web Shell sidebar activity view for trusted workspace conversations, showing approval/input/error states, unread completions, running work, and bulk read/archive controls. (#16022)
- •Adds an "Add to Split View" option to eligible sidebar session menus in web shell, making it easier to open sessions side by side. (#15956)
- •Adds request success rate, output speed, per-model success indicators, and distinct model colors to the Web Shell token usage panel. (#16108)
- •Web Shell composer shows a dismissible Workflow chip that turns Workflow mode off, warns when tools are unavailable, and summarizes the mode in the + menu. (#16107)
- •Web Shell Token Usage now plots per-request output speed, first-token latency, and failure details by model, making session performance and errors easier to inspect. (#16111)
- •With experimental.unifiedAgentLoop enabled, more ACP turns, including channel prompts and Goal-proposal approvals, run on the shared loop. (#15902)
- •Mods can now run prompt.submit hooks in headless runs for -p prompts and stream-json user messages, allowing prompt inspection or rewriting before submission. (#15905)
- •Desktop releases now publish Fedora 44 and RHEL 10 x64 RPM installers alongside existing Linux packages. (#16060)
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- •feat(web-shell): make GitHub channel configuration usable (#16096)
- •feat(verify-pr): inherit --publish consent on same-session re-verification (#16112)
- •feat(ci): let the PR review canary cohort carry its own endpoint (#16130)
- •OAuth refresh lock cleanup now removes the lock only when the current process owns it, preventing exiting processes from deleting active refresh locks. (#15661)
- •MCP tool discovery now skips duplicate tool names but keeps all uniquely named tools, preventing one name collision from hiding an entire server's tools. (#15757)
- •The Web Shell Plugins page now shows a back control when the navigation rail is unavailable, letting users return to chat from compact layouts. (#15651)
- •LSP code-navigation queries now fail with an explicit reason when no language server is ready instead of returning empty results. (#15946)
v0.26.5Breaking Change
November 1, 2026
- •Adds bounded SQL history queries for Managed local H2 and Hosted MySQL, enabling paged recent messages, journal transactions, and exact operation or command lookups. (#15839)
- •Enables Generated UI by default and lets users continue chatting with interactive card values attached as removable context above the composer. (#15856)
- •feat(web-shell): keyboard shortcuts for Session Overview and Split View (#14179)
- •Adds a Russian locale for the Web Shell Goal card and Goals dialog, with English fallback for untranslated strings. (#13685)
- •Extends Web Shell one-click daemon updates to pnpm, yarn, bun, and sudo-prefixed npm installs, and shows manual steps when automatic update is unavailable. (#15849)
- •Web Shell and Qwen Code Desktop now show active background agent counts in the status-bar task pill while agents are running. (#14002)
- •Managed WebShell now reads the latest 100 live items directly and pages upward for older messages, while live updates continue. (#15865)
- •The /verify-pr local flow now reuses the current working tree only when it is a clean checkout of the PR head and records round details. (#15913)
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- •Archived conversations in Settings now show Export conversation and Restore inline beside More, making archive management faster. (#15872)
- •PR watch now merges a stale base before attempting fixes when CI failures may be caused by the branch being behind. (#15922)
- •Adds an experimental one-command Helm deployment for Managed Agent with Hosted Harness, MySQL, local execution, and an authenticated gateway. (#15492)
- •Adds --in-place mode to the PR-watch skill to co-drive in your checkout, push the branch, and reply on the PR. (#15929)
- •Keeps skill slash-command argument hints visible while typing and shrinks them to missing arguments. (#15930)
- •Makes context memory files in the Context Usage panel clickable to open read-only previews such as AGENTS.md. (#15932)
- •Makes autofix-pr post a pull-request comment when a round is blocked, stating what was attempted, what blocks it, and what human action is needed. (#15978)
v0.26.4Breaking Change
October 29, 2026
- •feat(generated-ui): follow the host theme in generated views (#15798)
- •feat(ci): bound autofix takeover with a round budget (#15388)
- •feat(verify-pr): make "re-verify after update" a follow-up trigger (#15816)
- •feat(extensions): support unscoped npm installation and updates (#15781)
- •feat(web-shell): move no-workspace sessions beside workspaces (#15319)
- •feat(managed): add independent worktrees for main sessions (#15745)
- •feat(web-shell): allow embedding hosts to pick workspace directories (#15296)
- •feat(generated-ui): localize and reshape the card frame (#15803)
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- •feat(web-shell): show model timing inline in Token Usage (#15774)
- •feat(cli): raise workspace skill install limits (#15030)
- •feat(dws): configure quoted replies by conversation type (#15019)
- •feat(web-shell): present Generated UI cards as interactive views (#15831)
- •feat(autofix-pr): root watches at the session worktree under the daemon (#15817)
- •feat(managed-agent): add a phased upgrade command to the reference distribution (#15792)
- •feat(desktop): extend the PATH of the daemon the Desktop spawns on macOS (#15190)
v0.26.3Breaking Change
October 28, 2026
- •Generated UI cards keep inputs and state across navigation and split views, show live views after initial calculation, and appear only for clients that can render MCP Apps. (#15611, #15787, #15720, #15790)
- •Persistent session Workflow mode can be enabled with --workflow-mode on, /workflows mode on, SDK, or ACP, and workflow switches now reach the CLI sandbox. (#15422, #15743)
- •Tool results shrink to remaining headroom before auto-compaction, and qwen-latest-series- or qwen4 aliases are detected with 1M-token context windows. (#13599, #15758, #15762)
- •Valid XML tool calls are recovered when parameters quote other call markup, malformed blocks are isolated, and quoted examples are not dispatched. (#13579)
- •ACP and daemon clients keep rewind identity consistent across retries, cancellations, checkpoints, recordings, and notifications, while SDK frames preserve subagent identity. (#15441, #15657)
- •/autofix-pr start stops when the PR head branch has unpushed commits or uncommitted changes, preventing the watch from overwriting unseen work. (#15736)
- •feat(memory): opt-in extraction cadence after a no-op run (#13571)
- •Shrinks tool results to remaining headroom before auto-compaction, respecting explicit truncation settings and protected content to reduce unnecessary compaction. (#13599)
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- •Keeps eligible Generated UI cards alive across history navigation, session switching, and split-view changes in the same page, preserving inputs, controls, and runtime state. (#15611)
- •Adds persistent session Workflow mode through --workflow-mode on, /workflows mode on, SDK, and ACP controls, with saved mode shown in Ink and OpenTUI. (#15422)
- •Adds opt-in composerVariant simple to Web Shell, providing a compact input with a limited add menu and shared editor, attachments, and session actions. (#15663)
- •/autofix-pr start now stops if the PR head branch has unpushed commits or uncommitted changes, preventing the watch from overwriting unseen work. (#15736)
- •Adds administrator-driven reclamation and reuse of idle resident CSI Workspaces with cleanup verification and atomic release. (#15729)
- •OpenTUI terminals now draw the Mods band above the prompt and run Mod ui.render hooks there, matching the Ink terminal experience. (#15699)
- •ACP live frames, persisted replays, SDK normalization, and transcript reduction now preserve subagent identity for thoughts, messages, and tool frames. (#15657)
v0.26.2Breaking Change
October 27, 2026
- •fix(managed-agent)!: simplify Web Shell controls and retire cwd submissions (#15616)
- •feat(managed): add session permission rules and Auto approval (#15448)
- •feat(core): add an experimental shared agent loop and run headless on it (#15369)
- •Adds X-DashScope-Source-Config to matching QwenCloud and Qianwen AI Platform requests to identify site and client, without changing authentication or retries. (#15041)
- •Resumed OpenTUI sessions now retain recorded text, images, tool results, and prompt identities, while rewind restores transcript, request, and draft. (#15384)
- •OpenTUI now captures complete checkpoints at edit approvals and restores them safely, preserving conversation metadata and blocking stale or cancelled owners. (#15389)
- •Adds automation.scanner-threads to run managed automation scanner rows on a dedicated pool and leases rows from claim time. (#15442)
- •Adds Continue analysis with current parameters so Generated UI users can review and send frozen parameters to the original session. (#15333)
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- •Adds an opt-in external-scratch Runtime provider that lets an operator-run HTTP service place Session workers while preserving attestation and recovery. (#15261)
- •Adds a prompt argument hint for /verify-pr so users can see the PR number and supported flags such as --publish and --watch. (#15463)
- •Adds a durable queue for messages sent during a Managed Turn, allowing queued text and file references to be delivered, edited, withdrawn, or resumed safely. (#15449)
- •Adds /autofix-pr status to list all watches in a clone and lets users resume a watch in a later session. (#15510)
- •Adds a Git URL source to the Web Shell Add-workspace dialog so users can clone a repository and open it as a workspace in the browser. (#15361)
- •Enables image and PDF delivery for managed runtime providers with a 768 KiB base64 media limit and a 896 KiB tool-result limit. (#13606)
- •feat(managed-agent): give the Hosted Harness its Broker through the environment (#15244)
v0.26.1Breaking Change
October 24, 2026
- •fix(qqbot)!: restore per-group session isolation under thread scope (#13882)
- •Adds opt-in daemon token persistence: qwen daemon start --save-token stores the bearer token in an owner-only file, qwen daemon token manages it, and daemon stop removes it. (#15023)
- •Adds idle-only manual context compression for Workspace-bound Managed Sessions via public API and the WebShell context-usage popover, preserving audit history. (#15104)
- •Aligns OpenTUI input, editing, drafts, and /statusline behavior with Ink, adding configurable status lines and more predictable completion, queue, and cancel handling. (#14964)
- •feat(shell): remind the model to record files a command writes (#15055)
- •Managed Workspace recovery now waits for durable settlement before continuing, shows recovery reasons and valid actions in WebShell, and gates message sending. (#15131)
- •Embedding hosts can now show unavailable models as disabled rows in the composer picker, with hover or focus hints and optional host-provided actions. (#15015)
- •feat(managed-agent): Add session lifecycle UI and reading exports (#15100)
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- •feat(generated-ui): expose interaction outcomes and applied parameter snapshots (#15004)
- •feat(managed-agent): expose durable capacity observations (#15162)
- •Pages Managed checkpoint history, adds durable model API error codes, and shows running indicators in Managed sidebar rows for clearer session feedback. (#15170)
- •feat(core): gate scheduled tasks on a shell command run outside the model (#15069)
- •Session lists now support case-insensitive title filtering before pagination, with archive filtering and a WebShell title search box. (#15157)
- •feat(managed-agent): read the Harness credentials from one file (#15063)
- •feat(managed-agent): manage MCP servers without recreating sessions (#15119)
v0.26.0Breaking Change
October 22, 2026
- •feat(daemon): support session-targeted Skill and Extension refresh (#14050)
- •feat(runtime-broker): Session-create warm for Workspace-isolated bound Sessions (#14599)
- •feat(managed-agent): ship a configuration template in the reference distribution (#14631)
- •feat(serve): run private CSI file turns through Hosted Harness (#14487)
- •feat(managed-agent): support local and SSH workspace file references (#14639)
- •Adds a read-only --check preflight that prints PASS, WARN, FAIL, or SKIP for managed-agent deployment checks and exits nonzero on failure. (#14632)
- •Lets a successor Hosted owner finish private CSI file turns that already have durable receipts, preserving tool responses and avoiding repeated file operations. (#14523)
- •Managed Agent submissions now accept up to 8 MiB of attachment input, preserve large pending requests across refresh, and let users discard unrecoverable drafts. (#14628)
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- •Hosted Turn recovery now asks the Runtime Broker for execution evidence and treats unprovable outcomes as unknown instead of transient faults. (#14669)
- •Adds systemd units and setup guidance for single-host managed-agent deployments so Runtime workers stay running when Broker restarts (#14633)
- •Parks managed-agent turns with unknown Runtime outcomes for later rechecks instead of repeatedly retrying cancellation, keeping them active and avoiding false FAILED results (#14681)
- •feat(artifacts): record files the agent creates or edits (#14292)
- •Adds a managed-agent credential bootstrap that generates required deployment tokens and writes protected configuration to simplify secure setup. (#14634)
- •Completes private CSI cold recovery so settled file work can resume from saved results without repeating file effects or extra model requests. (#14695)
- •Adds an optional Generated UI extension that renders model-generated HTML/CSS cards with bounded local JavaScript, letting users adjust inputs without another model turn. (#14338)
v0.25.3Breaking Change
October 19, 2026
- •Adds optional model-generated layouts to Test Failure Explorer, with validation and fallback to the fixed view (#14269)
- •The Web Shell mobile composer no longer shows the ↑ and ↓ history buttons, reducing clutter while keeping history search available. (#14220)
- •The Web Shell trajectory panel now includes a collapsible Recent executions section that shows live requests and tools with elapsed time and final durations. (#14071)
- •Managed sessions created from published AgentDefinitions can now load static Skills and pass pinned MCP server and Hook catalog selections to Hosted Runtimes. (#14319)
- •Files now offers New file and New folder actions, and folder Delete asks for a second confirmation before permanently removing the folder and its contents. (#14169)
- •Eligible legacy cancellations now require confirmation through the daemon or WebShell Continue flow before continuing, while explicitly user-cancelled work stays blocked. (#14087)
- •Hosted parent agents can launch snapshot-isolated child agents that read a frozen workspace copy without changing files, running commands, or affecting the parent. (#14265)
- •Clicking the workspace folder beside the chat title now opens and selects the Files tree in the right panel, with keyboard and focus preserved. (#14344)
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- •Managed sessions now integrate into the home and sidebar, supporting workspace creation, approval policy and model selection, and context usage in the composer. (#14316)
- •The Files panel adds a Delete menu for regular files, requiring a permanent-deletion confirmation for the selected trusted local workspace. (#14158)
- •Adds resident Kubernetes Workspace file sessions that retain an original Pod and fixed CSI PVC so configured Workspaces preserve files across sessions. (#14340)
- •Adds Shell Full Access and default/auto-edit/yolo switching for built-in Workspace-bound qwen-code Sessions without losing history, Workspace, or drafts. (#14323)
- •feat(mods): support commands in interactive terminals (PR4a) (#14268)
- •feat(providers): add QwenCloud as the first /auth entry (#14073)
- •feat(ci): route the release lane's hosted stragglers onto ECS runners (#14336)
v0.25.2Breaking Change
October 15, 2026
- •feat(managed-agent): H4e-b2 the lead's mailbox over Session messages (#13892)
- •A new private extension imports Vitest 3.2 JSON reports and exposes failures, errors, counts, and diagnostics through MCP tools with search and pagination. (#13854)
- •Opt-in headless Mods now support TypeScript authoring, relative imports, typed non-secret configuration, and dependency validation before startup. (#13890)
- •Adds a default-off option allowing authorized public REST and WebShell sessions to use foreground Shell with mandatory approval. (#13674)
- •feat(managed-agent): Introduce the EventTransport seam behind the after-commit publisher (#13909)
- •feat(managed-agent): Stop Hosted team members with request_shutdown (H4e-b3a) (#13923)
- •Opt-in headless Mod runtime gains ordered middleware dispatch, command interception, and bounded failure recovery without resetting module state. (#13915)
- •Adds a Test Failure Explorer app that lets users browse, search, page through, and copy analysis requests for up to 20 selected test failures. (#13916)
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- •Enables H3 Monitor and background Shell capabilities, allowing background runs to outlive their turn and output artifacts. (#13889)
- •Adds a Java mirror of the managed-event-envelope contract with derivation, validation, deduplication, and fixture tests, without changing runtime behavior. (#13940)
- •Adds a selection menu to completed Web Shell assistant replies with Copy plain text and Copy Markdown actions while preserving selected formatting. (#13833)
- •Adds Web Shell task reminders for tool approval or AskUserQuestion answers, with notification controls, authorization prompts, and in-panel help. (#13832)
- •Enables opt-in Mods in trusted headless main sessions to intercept tool calls, rewrite arguments, refuse calls, return synthetic results, and check permissions. (#13950)
- •feat(managed-agent): verify tool publications asynchronously (#13654)
- •feat(web-shell): add Managed child Agent task panel (#13936)
v0.25.1Breaking Change
October 11, 2026
- •Restores the selected text-only connection and validated session or workspace route after Android Activity recreation, while preserving explicit retry screens after failures. (#12247)
- •Improves mobile profile screen accessibility with clearer connection actions, editor labels, validation announcements, and scrollable storage recovery. (#12129)
- •Adds an experimental Kubernetes CSI-backed runtime that validates workspaces, persists pod identity, and records durable worker acknowledgements for managed sessions. (#13289)
- •Adds background Shell and Monitor capabilities to the Managed Agent runtime, enabling durable background shell sessions and task event reporting. (#13265)
- •Web Shell /btw side can now create independent side-task conversations in a parent session's secondary workspace, including while the parent is responding. (#13468)
- •Agent and Goal coordination tools are now deferred by default and discovered on demand, reducing unnecessary tool declarations in ordinary tool-call sessions. (#13033)
- •Local Managed Agent runtime tool outcomes are now durably recorded, including parameters, receipts, and checkpoints, before results are returned to the model. (#13291)
- •Hosted approval requests can now include bounded previews of file and shell input, exposed through public and WebShell APIs with truncation metadata. (#13400)
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- •Lets creators change a Workspace-bound Managed Session's working directory through a durable, idempotent operation. (#13247)
- •Adds read-only glob file discovery to Hosted Workspace /2 profiles while keeping searches inside the session working directory. (#13166)
- •Adds planned Stage H5 agent channel API route shapes and persistence tables for channel routes and outbound deliveries. (#13497)
- •feat(web-shell): take back a cancelled prompt that produced nothing (#13488)
- •feat(hosted): show captured inputs in native approval cards (#13407)
- •feat(managed-agent): EventTransport message-envelope contract (#13498)
- •feat(managed-agent): adopt the next Hosted Harness generation (G3) (#13174)