openchamber/changelog/1.17.2.md

---
version: 1.17.2
date: 2026-08-01
title: OpenChamber theme by default
---

## App

### New
- **Sessions:** move a root session and all its sub-sessions into a new worktree from the session header menu.
- Desktop: the active session header has a menu with rename, share, export, archive, delete, and copy ID. A share link lands on your clipboard as soon as it is created.
- UI: OpenChamber, in dark and light, is the new default theme.
- Files: Settings → General has an Auto-save switch. Binary, PDF, and Office files are left out of it (thanks to @makeittech).
- Desktop/Linux: a Window Controls Style setting switches between classic rectangular buttons and macOS-style traffic lights (thanks to @kydorn).

### Improvements
- **Mobile:** the app navigates by two swipe drawers now. The left one lists sessions across projects and lets you rename, archive, or delete with a swipe; the right one holds Changes, Files, Terminal, Notes, and MCP. Tapping the title in the header opens recents with live status, and a cold launch reopens your last session or shows a connect screen when it cannot.
- Performance: the first session after startup opens faster, because background requests no longer get in front of the message load (thanks to @yulia-ivashko).
- Terminal: switching terminal tabs keeps the connection instead of building it again on every open (thanks to @makeittech).
- Chat: a tool description shows the glob pattern when the tool was given one.
- Sidebar: a session with an agent working shows a live activity dot even while the sidebar is collapsed (thanks to @pascalandr).

### Fixes
- Git/Diff: symlinks show as links in the diff instead of dumping the content of the file they point at.
- Chat: clicking the padding around the composer puts the cursor in the text (thanks to @IbrahimKhan12).
- Chat: the `/` menu lists a skill once when a command shares its name (thanks to @IbrahimKhan12).
- Usage: every Z.ai usage window shows up in the usage view.
- VS Code: per-session auto-accept answers permission requests as they arrive when it is turned on.
- Desktop: sticky session headers in the sidebar stop blinking and jumping while pages change (thanks to @ChangeHow).

### Misc
- Desktop/Windows: Windows ARM64 builds are available (thanks to @airtaxi).

## VS Code

### Improvements
- Chat: a tool description shows the glob pattern when the tool was given one.
- Sessions: a session with an agent working shows a live activity dot even while the sidebar is collapsed (thanks to @pascalandr).

### Fixes
- Permissions: per-session auto-accept answers permission requests as they arrive when it is turned on.
- Chat: messages that arrive right after the connection opens no longer disappear.
- Chat: clicking the padding around the composer puts the cursor in the text (thanks to @IbrahimKhan12).
- Chat: the `/` menu lists a skill once when a command shares its name (thanks to @IbrahimKhan12).
- Usage: every Z.ai usage window shows up in the usage view.