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version: 1.8.5
date: 2026-03-04
title: Faster app startup
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## App

### Improvements
- Desktop: startup now opens the app shell much earlier while background services continue loading.
- VSCode: edit-style tool results now open directly in a focused diff view.
- UI/Theming: unified loading logos and startup screens across runtimes, with visuals that better match your active theme.
- Projects/UI: project icons now follow active theme foreground colors consistently.
- Reliability: improved early startup recovery.
- Mobile/PWA: respected OS rotation lock by removing forced orientation behavior in the web app shell (thanks to @theluckystrike).

### Fixes
- Desktop/macOS: fixed early title updates that could shift traffic-light window controls on startup.
- VSCode: cleaned up extension settings by removing duplicate display controls and hiding sections that do not apply in the editor environment.
- Chat: fixed focus-mode composer layout.
- Tunnel/CLI: fixed one-time Cloudflare tunnel connect links in CLI output for `--try-cf-tunnel` (thanks to @plfavreau).

## VS Code

### Improvements
- Chat/Files: edit-style tool results now open in a VS Code diff editor with focus on the first changed line.
- Chat: improved focus-mode input layout.
- UI/Theming: aligned startup/loading branding with the active theme for a more consistent look during connection and auth states.
- Reliability: improved startup recovery for provider/model/agent loading.

### Fixes
- Settings: removed duplicate chat display options from Appearance and hid extension-irrelevant sections.