v1.17.0 28 juil. 2026 18 modifications
- **Context panel: ** a new surface rail brings Changes, pull requests, files, terminal, notes, plans, previews, and side chats into one resizable panel. The pull-request surface now shows live checks and comments, and can attach failed checks or comments to a chat draft.
- **Desktop/Linux: ** official AppImage releases for x64 and arm64, with in-app updates, frameless window controls, system tray minimize, launch at login, multi-window support, and “Open in” for discovered installed apps. Missing update manifests are treated as “no update” instead of a hard failure, and updater errors surface in About/sidebar (thanks to @jibanez-staticduo, @makeittech).
- **Sidebar: ** sessions are organized into Recent and project zones with worktree-grouped or flat views. Scheduled tasks, archived sessions, multi-run, and worktree management now open as full-page views from the sidebar.
- **Agents/CLI: ** agents on managed local instances can now create, send to, fork, inspect, and wait for sessions; create isolated worktrees; and manage scheduled tasks through the OpenChamber tool. The CLI adds matching
session, schedule, projects, and models commands, and a new Schedule a Task starter guides task setup from chat. - Chat composer: prompts now render Markdown emphasis, attention lines, file and agent mentions, slash commands, snippets, attachment citations, and
~path references directly while you type. File mentions can be edited in place, and the mobile composer grows with its content instead of using a separate fullscreen gesture. - Desktop/Linux: fixed an intermittent freeze or crash while chats were streaming with the system tray enabled (thanks to @kydorn).
- Small Model: GitHub Copilot models now use their supported API, fixing summaries, goal audits, commit messages, and other Small Model actions for models that do not support Chat Completions (thanks to @jakoss).
- Chat: selecting text from Markdown code blocks now preserves the code fences, language, and surrounding block structure when adding it to the composer or starting a new session (thanks to @ChangeHow).
- Chat: code blocks no longer shift line layout or merge adjacent text while rendering, and copied code keeps its original text (thanks to @ChangeHow).
- Chat/Permissions: sending a message while a permission prompt is open now denies pending requests in the session and its subagents, then queues the message for the next turn (thanks to @tomzx).
- Chat/Subagents: subagent chats can be prompted when direct subagent prompting is enabled, even if the parent session has not loaded.
- Chat: jumping to messages in long conversations now lands on the intended message when earlier rows have not been rendered yet.
- Settings: added an option to hide starter suggestions on the new-session screen.
- Mobile/Android: terminal taps now open the keyboard, text and backspace input work with Android keyboards, and closing a focused terminal no longer leaves the app unresponsive.
- Shortcuts: fixed a regression where double-Escape could be primed when the current session was not active.
- Mobile/iOS: push notifications now use Apple’s production service by default (thanks to @natheihei).
- Mobile/iOS: notifications now work for development builds installed from Xcode — the app detects its Apple push environment and the server delivers each device to the matching endpoint, so dev (sandbox) and TestFlight/App Store (production) installs both receive pushes.
- Usage: added Crof and NeuralWatt quota tracking with subscription kWh, independent key-allowance windows, and credits-balance fallback across the web server and VS Code extension (thanks to @kydorn).
v1.16.3 22 juil. 2026 14 modifications
- **Chat attachments: ** added Office and OpenDocument files (
.docx, .pptx, .xlsx, .odt, .odp, and .ods), with readable text and supported embedded images extracted before sending. Attachments also support more source-code formats, notebooks, HAR files with credentials and cookies removed, SVG and Draw.io files, and HEIC/HEIF images; the composer warns when the selected model may ignore an attachment type. - **Performance: ** opening and switching sessions now prioritizes the selected and visible chats in large workspaces. Failed refreshes keep the existing session list, parent sessions no longer disappear when their sub-sessions load first, and session data no longer crosses between instances, projects, or worktrees.
- **Sessions/Worktrees**: idle root sessions can now be moved with their sub-sessions and uncommitted changes into a new worktree. Worktree creation also recovers when an earlier Git operation left the repository locked.
- Desktop: the app can now start directly with a saved remote instance, URL, or pairing link without requiring a local OpenCode installation or local server.
- Scheduled Tasks: tasks can now start with permission auto-accept enabled, and the permission and Run as goal controls use the same compact toggles as the chat composer.
- Chat: assistant turns now show model, agent, thinking level, duration, and time together in the footer, and replies separated by hidden system or subagent prompts display as one continuous turn. The working indicator shows the model actually producing the active response, streaming at the bottom no longer jitters, and new user messages finish their entry animation instead of snapping into place.
- Chat/Tools: attachments returned by plugin and custom tools remain visible after streaming and refreshes, with the same image previews and file chips as chat attachments (thanks to @FrostiDrinks).
- Sidebar: projects now default to manual ordering instead of recent-activity order; explicit sorting choices remain unchanged.
- Desktop/macOS: added a setting to hide the menu bar item.
- Desktop/Windows: SSH remote instances now connect through native Windows OpenSSH without relying on unsupported connection sharing. Password authentication and port forwarding work through hidden background processes, and connection failures now show the underlying SSH error instead of a generic message.
- VSCode/Cursor: opening a chat no longer crashes when the editor webview does not expose its usual messaging APIs, and disposed editor tabs no longer receive late streaming messages (thanks to @makeittech).
- VSCode: the active workspace is now detected before startup state is restored, preventing projects outside the editor workspace from replacing it.
- Mobile/Terminal: opening the terminal in a mobile browser or PWA now focuses its input and opens the keyboard without an extra tap (thanks to @bashrusakh).
- Context Panel: delayed file-open requests no longer switch the panel back to a file after you select another tab.
v1.16.2 18 juil. 2026 9 modifications
- **Terminal: ** rebuilt terminal sessions across the Web, Desktop, and Mobile apps with faster rendering, retained scrollback after reconnecting, shell and login-shell selection, restart and selected-output attachment actions, live theme changes, and more accurate Unicode and full-screen app rendering. Mobile now includes a full-screen terminal workspace with touch scrolling and selection, quick keys, and Ctrl/Alt input.
- **Pinned messages: ** pin important user or assistant messages to restore their text to the agent after conversation compaction.
- **Settings: ** pages now use a consistent responsive layout, navigation is grouped into OpenChamber, Workspace, OpenCode, and Library sections, and save failures are shown in the page header. Agent tool permissions now distinguish inherited and explicit rules and show session-granted rules separately (thanks to @makeittech).
- Session goals: audits now wait while direct subagents are still active, and goal details show the model used for the latest successful evaluation.
- Chat: if creating a session fails, the new-session draft stays open and restores the submitted prompt instead of discarding it.
- Sessions: new drafts and sessions now stay with the project selected in the sidebar, including workspaces with nested or sibling projects (thanks to @bashrusakh).
- Small Model: provider API keys referenced through environment variables or files now work for summaries, goal audits, and other Small Model features; Gemini 3 Flash models now use their supported thinking setting.
- VSCode: per-session permission auto-accept works again, persists across extension restarts, and applies to subagent sessions while an OpenChamber view is open.
- Mobile/Android: update downloads now select an APK when a release also includes an Android App Bundle.
v1.16.1 13 juil. 2026 7 modifications
- **Performance: ** large session sidebars stay responsive while chats stream, including setups with many projects, worktrees, and sessions. Opening a long chat after an empty or aborted agent turn also no longer repeatedly loads larger portions of its history.
- Chat: an optional Prompt Navigator adds a marker rail beside desktop chats; hover to preview prompts, click to jump between them, or assign a shortcut in Keyboard Shortcuts settings (thanks to @makeittech).
- Chat: shell-mode command cards now update their status and output while the command runs, with syntax highlighting for the command and output.
- Chat/Subagents: task cards now track the correct subagent when several run at once, preventing one subagent's activity or "Open subtask" action from pointing to another session.
- Chat/Subagents: "Open subtask" now works for nested subagents inside the side-panel chat, with a Parent action to return to the previous subagent (thanks to @ameshkov).
- Sessions: temporary project lookup failures no longer remove worktree groups from the sidebar.
- Small Model: custom OpenAI-compatible providers now use the base URL and API key from OpenCode configuration (thanks to @ameshkov).
v1.16.0 12 juil. 2026 20 modifications
- **Session goals: ** arm the new target button in the composer and your next prompt becomes a [goal](https://docs.openchamber.dev/session-goals/) — the session keeps working toward it on its own, with an independent small-model audit checking each finished turn, until the objective is verifiably complete, blocked, or over its optional token budget. The loop runs on the server, so it continues with the app closed and survives restarts. A goal strip above the composer shows progress with pause/resume; goals can also start from the plan-implement dialog, from scheduled tasks ("Run as goal"), or with the new "Craft a Goal" starter and
/craft-goal command. While a goal runs, per-turn "ready" notifications are replaced by a single notification when it settles. - **Usage: ** OpenCode Go usage tracking is here, and Codex quota windows now show the correct reset times.
- **Remote access: ** connecting over the relay got much faster — the app no longer waits for a stale local address to time out before trying the relay (previously up to ~20 seconds on a phone away from home). When your computer gets a new local IP, paired devices now learn the new address over the relay and quietly move back to the local network on their own — no re-pairing. The phone's launch screen shows which device it is connecting to.
- Remote access: running several OpenChamber instances on the same machine no longer makes paired devices land on a random one of them — only one process per machine serves the relay now. This was behind intermittent "Unable to reach server" errors on paired phones.
- Permissions: per-session auto-accept now lives on the server — sessions keep auto-accepting tool calls while the app is closed and after a server restart, subagent sessions inherit the setting, and it can be enabled on a draft before the first message (thanks to @bashrusakh for the draft fix).
- Chat: subagent sessions can now be prompted directly — open a subagent from the context panel and send it follow-up messages (off by default, available in settings).
- Chat: queued messages now send when the session is already idle instead of waiting forever in some cases, pending agent questions stay answerable after a server restart, and session renames no longer flicker back to the old title (thanks to @bashrusakh).
- Files: the file viewer has a markdown preview toggle (thanks to @greghaynes).
- Sidebar: projects can be sorted by different modes with a direction toggle, pinned sessions survive refreshes, and the file tree stays expanded while it refreshes (thanks to @bashrusakh).
- Command palette: projects are included in the fuzzy search alongside sessions and files (thanks to @bashrusakh).
- Settings: chat visual settings are grouped into labeled sections, and a new editor font size setting for the code editor (thanks to @bashrusakh).
- GitHub: PR and issue context now resolves against the source repository in fork workflows (thanks to @bashrusakh).
- Agents: saving agent settings from the UI no longer drops custom YAML frontmatter fields (thanks to @bashrusakh).
- Notifications: session errors and subagent completions now notify reliably across desktop, web, and mobile.
- Editor: "Open in" now recognizes VS Code Insiders.
- Windows: paths no longer mismatch on drive letter casing, which could split one project into duplicates (thanks to @bashrusakh).
- Mobile: the sessions sidebar opens instantly instead of taking many seconds on some devices (thanks to @tomzx).
- Mobile: renaming a saved instance no longer breaks its connection — the stored access token was getting lost on edit.
- Mobile: on Android 15 the app no longer draws under the status bar.
- Security: requests that spoof local host headers to look like same-machine traffic are rejected.
v1.15.0 10 juil. 2026 23 modifications
- **Remote access: ** a new [private relay](https://docs.openchamber.dev/private-relay/) lets you reach your instance from anywhere — no open ports and no third-party tunnel, over an end-to-end-encrypted tunnel. It turns on by itself when you pair a device over it and turns off once no paired device uses it (thanks to @yulia-ivashko).
- **Mobile: ** the native iOS and Android apps open for testing — join the [iOS public beta on TestFlight](https://testflight.apple.com/join/5ek6GU1E) or grab the Android APK from the [latest release](https://github.com/openchamber/openchamber/releases/latest). Connect by scanning a QR code from "Add a device" on your server; the app then moves between your local network and the private relay on its own — leaving home carries the open session onto the relay and coming back returns it to Wi-Fi, no re-pairing. Saved instances show a live Connected status with the active transport, iPad gets a split layout with a persistent sessions sidebar and a resizable Changes/Files sidebar, and the app checks for OpenChamber updates itself (Android shows a download toast).
- **Pairing: ** a redesigned ["Add a device"](https://docs.openchamber.dev/connect-devices/) dialog asks where you'll use the device — Anywhere (relay with local network preferred at home), Home network only, or This computer only — then shows a large scannable QR code with a copyable link, and closes itself once the device connects. Links are single-use expiring codes redeemed on connect instead of embedding a long-lived token in the QR (thanks to @yulia-ivashko).
- Devices: the "Connect to this server" list now shows each paired device with a live status — Connected · Local network or Relay — and a platform badge (iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, Linux). Re-pairing or re-entering the password on the same device updates its existing entry instead of adding a duplicate.
- Devices: a paired phone or desktop names the connection after the server's hostname; the name typed when creating the link labels the device in the server's list.
- Desktop: saved servers keep every transport their pairing link carried — the app connects directly on your network and falls back to the relay away from it, including when opening a server in a new window and when restoring the connection after a restart.
- Desktop: the header dropdown (instance / usage / MCP) was restyled with cards — usage grouped per provider, hosts showing a colored status line with ping and the active host highlighted, and MCP servers in one card. Host statuses persist between openings instead of flashing "Unknown", and switching to an already-checked host is immediate.
- Desktop: the servers list in Settings shows live per-server reachability, and importing a pairing link is the primary way to add a server.
- Desktop: Windows builds can launch at login and minimize to the system tray (thanks to @achcyano).
- Chat/Tools: every tool call now expands to show its input, result, and errors, including MCP, plugin, and custom tools; Read and Skill stay compact links to their files. JSON results open in a new navigable summary view with linked URLs and expandable nested data, alongside tree and raw JSON views.
- Chat/Tools: expanded file-edit and patch results now include per-file buttons to open the diff or jump to the first changed line in the file editor.
- Chat/Thinking: reasoning parts stay separate and in chronological order instead of merging into one block, and collapsed previews no longer show empty trailing HTML comments.
- Projects: each project can now set its own default model (thanks to @makeittech).
- Diff/Chat: added a Last turn mode to the Diff view, and latest-turn changed-file chips in chat now open that snapshot while older turn chips stay read-only.
- Chat: Mermaid diagrams now have zoom controls (thanks to @c-w-xiaohei).
- Chat: code blocks can show line numbers that stay aligned while streaming, and a new Wrap Code Block Lines setting (Settings → Chat) controls long-line wrapping.
- Chat: with Sticky User Header enabled, user messages no longer float over earlier messages in long conversations.
- Chat: if sending a message times out or loses the connection after OpenCode accepted it, the app now keeps the sent message instead of rolling it back as failed.
- Mobile: selecting local files from the composer now attaches the picked files even if the composer switches between compact and expanded layouts while the file picker is open.
- Browser: links clicked inside an embedded browser tab now keep the tab on the navigated page instead of remounting the frame.
- Context Panel: raw message rows now keep token and time columns aligned without showing shortened message IDs.
- UI: closing the right sidebar after resizing no longer leaves stale width constraints behind.
- Server: remote clients with non-ASCII project paths connect again (thanks to @FanFan4204).
v1.14.1 6 juil. 2026 12 modifications
- Chat: finished agent replies can now show a short recap and a suggested next message, with separate settings for each and a Small Model setting for choosing the utility model used for those helpers.
- Notes/Todos: adding selected chat text to notes now uses the Small Model to summarize it automatically.
- Voice: read-aloud can now use the Small Model to summarize long text before speaking it.
- Git/GitHub: commit message and pull-request generation now use the Small Model from setting instead of sending message to chat.
- Chat: the timeline dialog can now load older messages when the current session history has not all been fetched yet.
- Chat: file references with line ranges like
src/file.ts:10-20 are now clickable in messages (thanks to @Catan). - Git/Diff: opening a changed file now jumps to the first changed line instead of the start of the diff hunk.
- Mobile: the composer stays focused more reliably when the keyboard opens, and the dictation transcript grows the composer like typed text.
- Mobile: iOS PWA safe areas, keyboard overlays, and app-resume connection checks were tightened up.
- Desktop: password-protected instances opened from desktop or a browser no longer take the mobile-only unlock path.
- VSCode: favorite models now stay saved after restarting the extension (thanks to @Catan).
- VSCode: closing Settings returns to the previous extension view instead of always showing the sessions list (thanks to @Catan).
v1.14.0 5 juil. 2026 18 modifications
- Voice: voice input was rebuilt around live streaming transcription — the composer mic shows a live transcript with a volume meter and timer while you speak, and a recording can be cancelled, inserted, or inserted and sent; failed transcriptions keep their audio so you can retry or accept the partial text.
- Voice: local speech-to-text works out of the box — models (Parakeet for English and 25 European languages, Whisper for a lighter multilingual option) download on demand from a new picker in Settings → Voice, or any OpenAI-compatible Whisper endpoint can be used instead; a configurable shortcut (mod+alt+v by default) toggles dictation.
- Voice: read-aloud can now use a local Kokoro voice (11 English voices), and long replies start speaking after roughly a sentence instead of waiting for the whole message.
- Voice: the Voice settings page was simplified — a single read-aloud toggle owns the playback options, and a new "Enable voice input" toggle hides the composer mic entirely.
- Mobile: the composer collapses into a compact input bar while the keyboard is closed, with a round new-session button beside it (hidden on the new-session screen); tapping the bar expands it and opens the keyboard, and the mic starts voice input straight from the compact bar.
- Mobile: the model and agent selectors moved into a row above the message text, the attachment menu and the new-session project/branch pickers open as bottom sheets with search, and a drag handle above the composer swipes it into a fullscreen editor — swiping down shrinks it back or dismisses the keyboard.
- Mobile: long conversations now load older history with a button at the top of the chat, which disappears once everything is loaded; loading older messages keeps your scroll position steady on all platforms.
- Mobile: the branch/worktree picker on the new-session screen lists all worktrees right after a cold start, and the GitHub connection status is recognized without re-running the connect flow.
- Mobile: opening the web app in a phone browser against a password-protected instance shows the password unlock page again (regressed in 1.13.9).
- Mobile: returning to the app no longer briefly flickers the session list.
- Mobile: continued polish ahead of the native app release — the chat and composer ride the keyboard in one smooth motion (including in long conversations), bottom sheets enter cleanly while the keyboard dismisses, the text cursor stays in place when the keyboard opens, starter suggestions on the new-session screen step aside while the keyboard is up, and switching instances no longer leaves the previous instance's sessions in the sessions list.
- UI: lists across the app were moved to one virtualization engine, so long lists scroll more consistently.
- Mobile: the slash-command, file/agent, skill, and snippet autocompletes were tuned for touch — they can grow up to the top of the chat area, the keyboard-hint footer and description lines are gone, row icons line up, list scrolling no longer bounces the page behind, and picking a command keeps the keyboard open.
- Mobile: in phone browsers the composer now keeps itself above the keyboard on the new-session screen and in the fullscreen editor, and opening the app shows the logo while it connects instead of flashing an unreachable-server error.
- Chat: the stop button now aborts sessions running in a different project or worktree than the currently open one — previously those aborts silently did nothing.
- Desktop: a local instance with a UI password and LAN access no longer gets stuck on "Auth required" and an unreachable-server screen (the app's client tokens are now reliably recognized as local, including for 0.0.0.0-bound servers).
- Desktop: the app prefers your own OpenCode install again — the bundled CLI is used only when no OpenCode is installed anywhere on the machine.
- Windows: OpenCode installed via npm now launches from paths with spaces (such as C:\Program Files\nodejs), binary paths pasted with surrounding quotes work, and discovery also checks the system-wide npm prefix and Scoop's shims — in the web/desktop app and the VS Code extension.
v1.13.9 2 juil. 2026 10 modifications
- Mobile: added the native iOS and Android app projects ahead of the mobile app release, with continued polish for saved connections, password unlock, QR-code connection scanning, push notifications, iOS widgets, app resume, and native layout details.
- Desktop: the app can now use a bundled OpenCode CLI, or you can choose your own CLI path in settings.
- Desktop: added a Keep awake setting for the upcoming desktop app release to prevent the computer from sleeping while the app is running.
- Desktop: you can now specify optional custom headers when adding a remote OpenChamber instance to the desktop app, including for Cloudflare Access-style setups; settings and environment variables can still override them, and the bundled CLI can be replaced by setting a direct OpenCode CLI path.
- Desktop: SSH remote instances with a saved UI password now open directly after the tunnel connects instead of showing the unlock screen again.
- Chat: fixed edge cases where late-loading tool content, subagent content, or streaming Thinking blocks could pull the conversation away from the latest message or fight manual scrolling.
- Chat: embedded JSON examples in messages no longer render as generated-result cards.
- Sync: chat state now recovers after idle reconnects instead of leaving sessions stuck in a stale busy state.
- VSCode: clearing optional agent fields now removes them from agent config instead of saving
null values. - VSCode: the extension no longer picks OpenCode desktop app installs when looking for the standalone OpenCode CLI.
v1.13.8 28 juin 2026 6 modifications
- Startup: launching the app no longer hangs for around 20 seconds before you can open a session, load a diff, or send a message — GitHub pull request status checks no longer tie up the connection to the server during startup.
- OpenCode: when a separate OpenCode is already running (the TUI,
opencode serve, or a daemon on the default port 4096), the app now starts its own server instead of attaching to it. This fixes the "OpenChamber could not finish initialization" error and stops the app from opening or closing your separate OpenCode when it starts and quits. Connecting to an external OpenCode now requires setting OPENCODE_HOST, OPENCODE_PORT, or OPENCODE_SKIP_START. - Chat: a new Follow-up behavior setting (Settings → Chat) controls what happens when you press Enter on a message while the agent is still responding — Steer inserts it into the agent's current turn, or Queue holds it until the turn finishes. Replaces the previous queue-mode toggle (thanks to @bashrusakh).
- Sessions: deleting a worktree group from the sidebar, or permanently deleting an archived session that has subagent sessions, now removes those subagent sessions too instead of leaving them behind (thanks to @bashrusakh).
- Sessions: clicking a session inside a worktree group no longer briefly jumps the selection to the project's first session while the sidebar data catches up (thanks to @bashrusakh).
- Sync: a connected but quiet session (for example an agent running a long tool call) no longer triggers repeated background refreshes every ~15 seconds (thanks to @tomzx).
v1.13.7 28 juin 2026 6 modifications
- Chat: with tool calls (such as Bash and Edit) shown expanded by default, scrolling no longer twitches, and slow scrolling no longer jumps past several messages.
- Mobile: in long conversations, older messages now load before you reach the very top, and fast scrolling no longer leaves blank gaps where messages briefly disappear until you scroll back.
- Mobile: the model and agent buttons in the composer are now borderless and cleaner, show the provider logo next to the model name, and shorten long names with an ellipsis; in the model picker the thinking-variant control is plain text with a chevron and each row's controls line up.
- Mobile: interface labels (the model and agent selectors and other small labels) are back to their previous size after 1.13.6 shrank them too much.
- Providers: the Add provider form stays open while provider data refreshes or a model is picked in the background, instead of snapping back to an existing provider.
- CLI:
openchamber update works again after a missing helper broke the command.
v1.13.6 27 juin 2026 6 modifications
- Chat: scrolling in conversations now stays steady while sending, queueing, streaming, switching sessions, and loading older messages.
- Chat: selecting a user-installed skill from the slash command menu now invokes the skill and injects its content, instead of inserting the skill name as plain text.
- Context Panel: chat tabs now use the session title and mark the open chat as seen while you are viewing it.
- Desktop/macOS: the Dock icon can now show a badge count for chats with unseen activity, with a new Appearance setting to turn it off.
- Context Panel: Browser and Preview tabs no longer accumulate duplicate auth tokens in their URLs after reloads or navigation.
- UI: typography classes (ui-header, ui-label, meta, micro) now actually shrink on mobile viewports — they previously rendered at the same size as desktop despite the mobile clamp rules (thanks to @foundryseven).
