docs: sort and consolidate the unreleased changelog

Highlights trimmed to the four genuinely major entries and ordered by
user impact; the markdown-preview comment surface folded into the chat
comment bullet, Cmd+P path matching folded into the unified search
matcher bullet, the instant session-open and uncached fade-in clauses
folded into their owning entries; fixes grouped after features, visual
polish last.

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -4,41 +4,38 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
-- **Faster session switching in large workspaces** (thanks @c-w-xiaohei): switching sessions no longer rebuilds the whole sidebar, returning to a recently viewed session restores its rendered messages instead of re-rendering them (file links included), and scrolling long conversations costs less. In a workspace with thousands of loaded sessions, end-to-end switch time dropped by roughly half.
-- Fixed the selected project or session briefly jumping back to a previous choice when settings responses arrived out of order.
-- **Chat scrolling rebuilt around your message.** Sending a message now parks it near the top of the view and the reply streams into the space below it, so you read from where you asked instead of chasing the bottom. While a reply streams, text arrives a paragraph at a time (code blocks line by line) with a soft fade, and the view glides after it in one continuous motion instead of snapping per line. Scrolling up during a stream immediately hands you the wheel — nothing yanks the view back — and the scroll-to-bottom pill appears on the left, carrying the model's working status while you're away from the live edge. Sending from anywhere mid-conversation jumps you straight to your new message.
-- Chat: a new "Follow new content while streaming" checkbox (Settings → Chat → Streaming, on by default) turns the automatic following off entirely — your message still parks at the top on send, but the view never moves on its own afterwards.
-- Chat: streamed code blocks are now syntax-highlighted while they stream, and finished messages no longer jump when a code block's line numbers fill in at the end of a reply.
-- Chat: finished replies no longer flicker — tool cards stopped re-rendering (and replaying their reveal animation) when they completed, and resizing the window no longer throws the conversation up and down while you're at the bottom.
-- Chat: clicking the last item in the prompt rail now always lands on it, and rail jumps teleport instead of a long smooth scroll that could stop halfway.
-- Chat: opening a session goes straight to the newest message with no scroll animation, and the first uncached open fades the conversation in instead of popping.
-- Mobile: scrolling during a streaming reply works again — a drag immediately takes over, the scroll-to-bottom pill shows up, and the load-older button no longer throws you to the bottom of the chat.
-- UI: the chat's top and bottom scroll fades are back.
-- Fixed file links in messages being checked twice against the filesystem, and against the wrong project directory on the first pass.
+- **Chat scrolling rebuilt around your message.** Sending a message parks it near the top of the view and the reply streams into the space below it, so you read from where you asked instead of chasing the bottom. Streamed text arrives a paragraph at a time (code blocks line by line) with a soft fade, and the view glides after it in one continuous motion instead of snapping per line. Scrolling up during a stream immediately hands you the wheel — nothing yanks the view back — and the scroll-to-bottom pill appears on the left, carrying the model's working status while you're away from the live edge. Sending from anywhere mid-conversation jumps you straight to your new message, and opening a session goes straight to the newest message with no scroll animation.
 - **Chat context attachments:** everything you attach to a message — diff/file/plan comments, terminal selections, browser annotations, PR comments and failed checks, linked issues and PRs — now shows up in the conversation as a compact context card: a header naming the source, the captured content behind an expander, and your comment below it. Previously most of these arrived as a wall of raw text inside your message.
-- **Chat: comment on a reply.** Select text in a chat message and choose Comment to attach that quote with your note to the next message. The selection stays highlighted while you type, and the selection menu itself was restyled — Add to chat is now Add to input.
-- **Diff: comment like a review.** Hovering a line shows a + button in the gutter; clicking it, clicking a line, or dragging across lines opens the comment editor for that line or range. The comment editor and saved-comment cards now match the chat's comment style.
-- Files: in a rendered markdown preview, select text and choose Comment to attach exactly that fragment (with a source line range when it can be located) plus your note to the next message.
+- **Faster session switching in large workspaces** (thanks @c-w-xiaohei): switching sessions no longer rebuilds the whole sidebar, returning to a recently viewed session restores its rendered messages instead of re-rendering them (file links included), and scrolling long conversations costs less. In a workspace with thousands of loaded sessions, end-to-end switch time dropped by roughly half.
+- **Session tabs (opt-in):** the web/desktop header can show your open sessions as browser-style tabs — turn them on in Settings → General → Navigation → Session tabs. Every session you open joins the strip, clicking a tab switches the whole workspace (chat, project, panels), and closing one (its × button, middle-click, or Alt+W — rebindable in Shortcuts) never touches the session itself. Tabs reorder by drag, scroll behind the header buttons when there are many and carry the sidebar's running/unread dot. Each tab has the full session menu — on the "..." button or right-click — plus Close other tabs; renaming works right in the tab.
+- Chat: comment on a reply — select text in a chat message (or in a rendered markdown preview in Files) and choose Comment to attach exactly that quote, with a source line range when it can be located, plus your note to the next message. The selection stays highlighted while you type, and the selection menu was restyled — Add to chat is now Add to input.
+- Diff: comment like a review — hovering a line shows a + button in the gutter; clicking it, clicking a line, or dragging across lines opens the comment editor for that line or range. The comment editor and saved-comment cards match the chat's comment style.
 - Composer: hovering or tapping a context chip above the input opens a stacked preview of everything attached, where a comment can be edited in place or an item removed before sending.
 - Mobile: the chat comment input overlays the composer exactly and rides the keyboard; Enter makes a new line there, with attach on the button.
-- **Terminal:** terminals no longer vanish or die behind your back. Opening the app in another browser tab, on another device, or after a reload now shows the terminals already running on the server instead of an empty list, and terminals sitting in background tabs are no longer closed by the server's idle cleanup while the app is open.
-- Chat: @ file mentions now rank files and directories together by how well they match, so the file you typed is at the top instead of below unrelated directories. Multi-word queries match in any order, and long paths keep the folder next to the file name visible so identical-looking index.md rows are distinguishable.
-- Search: Ctrl/Cmd+P now matches the whole file path, not just the file name — searching a folder name like "solo-is-a" finds the file inside it.
-- **Session tabs (opt-in):** the web/desktop header can show your open sessions as browser-style tabs — turn them on in Settings → General → Navigation → Session tabs. Every session you open joins the strip, clicking a tab switches the whole workspace (chat, project, panels), and closing one (its × button, middle-click, or Alt+W — rebindable in Shortcuts) never touches the session itself. Tabs reorder by drag, scroll behind the header buttons when there are many and carry the sidebar's running/unread dot. Each tab has the full session menu — on the "..." button or right-click — plus Close other tabs; renaming works right in the tab.
-- Files: the editor toolbar is now always docked under the file tabs; the floating hover toolbar and its setting were removed.
-- **Search in dropdowns:** every searchable picker — branches, projects, agents, models, providers, stashes, SSH hosts, skills, archived sessions — now uses one matcher: best matches come first, multi-word queries match in any order, and punctuation doesn't matter (so "gpt4o" finds "gpt-4o"). The git branch and gitmoji pickers also stopped silently dropping rows that a second, built-in filter didn't like. Sidebar session search and the Todos/Memory/Plans/Notes filters match the same way now.
+- Terminal: terminals no longer vanish or die behind your back. Opening the app in another browser tab, on another device, or after a reload shows the terminals already running on the server instead of an empty list, and terminals sitting in background tabs are no longer closed by the server's idle cleanup while the app is open.
+- Search: every searchable picker — branches, projects, agents, models, providers, stashes, SSH hosts, skills, archived sessions — now uses one matcher: best matches come first, multi-word queries match in any order, and punctuation doesn't matter (so "gpt4o" finds "gpt-4o"). Ctrl/Cmd+P also matches the whole file path, not just the file name, and the git branch and gitmoji pickers stopped silently dropping rows a second built-in filter didn't like. Sidebar session search and the Todos/Memory/Plans/Notes filters match the same way.
+- Chat: @ file mentions rank files and directories together by how well they match, so the file you typed is at the top instead of below unrelated directories. Multi-word queries match in any order, and long paths keep the folder next to the file name visible so identical-looking index.md rows are distinguishable.
+- Chat: a new "Follow new content while streaming" checkbox (Settings → Chat → Streaming, on by default) turns the automatic following off entirely — your message still parks at the top on send, but the view never moves on its own afterwards.
+- Mobile: narrowing a browser window past phone size switches into the mobile app layout (and back when widened) instead of squeezing the desktop layout. The old/new mobile layout setting is gone — phones always get the mobile layout.
+- Chat: streamed code blocks are syntax-highlighted while they stream, and finished messages no longer jump when a code block's line numbers fill in at the end of a reply.
+- Chat: finished replies no longer flicker — tool cards stopped re-rendering (and replaying their reveal animation) when they completed, and resizing the window no longer throws the conversation up and down while you're at the bottom.
+- Chat: clicking the last item in the prompt rail now always lands on it, and rail jumps teleport instead of a long smooth scroll that could stop halfway.
+- Mobile: scrolling during a streaming reply works again — a drag immediately takes over, the scroll-to-bottom pill shows up, and the load-older button no longer throws you to the bottom of the chat.
+- Fixed file links in messages being checked twice against the filesystem, and against the wrong project directory on the first pass.
+- Fixed the selected project or session briefly jumping back to a previous choice when settings responses arrived out of order.
 - Terminal: mobile keyboards no longer capitalize the first letter of every command on iOS and Android.
-- Mobile: narrowing a browser window past phone size now switches into the mobile app layout (and back when widened) instead of squeezing the desktop layout. The old/new mobile layout setting is gone — phones always get the mobile layout.
 - Desktop: a freshly installed or updated build no longer keeps loading the previous version's interface from cache.
+- Devices: re-pairing a phone (or logging in again) keeps the device's existing name in Connected Devices instead of resetting it to "OpenChamber Mobile".
+- Relay: paired devices no longer get logged out when the app restarts (for example during an update) while another local OpenChamber process is running — the restarted app keeps serving them instead of a bystander process taking over.
+- Sessions: headers now find archived sessions too, so an archived session's title no longer goes missing.
+- Files: the editor toolbar is now always docked under the file tabs; the floating hover toolbar and its setting were removed.
+- UI: the chat's top and bottom scroll fades are back, and the first uncached open of a session fades the conversation in instead of popping.
+- UI: the timeline dialog now fits small screens instead of squeezing the message list to a couple of rows (thanks to @gaojunran).
 - Chat: OpenCode notices now share one style.
 - UI: draft target menus stay inside the chat area instead of overlapping the header.
 - UI: Linear and Cloudflare tools now show their own icons.
 - UI: sidebar item tooltips no longer appear instantly on passing hover.
-- Sessions: headers now find archived sessions too, so an archived session's title no longer goes missing.
-- UI: the timeline dialog now fits small screens instead of squeezing the message list to a couple of rows (thanks to @gaojunran).
 - UI: the btw panel's shadow is lighter, matching the composer.
-- Devices: re-pairing a phone (or logging in again) keeps the device's existing name in Connected Devices instead of resetting it to "OpenChamber Mobile".
-- Relay: paired devices no longer get logged out when the app restarts (for example during an update) while another local OpenChamber process is running — the restarted app keeps serving them instead of a bystander process taking over.
 
 ## [1.20.0] - 2026-08-23