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version: 1.8.6
date: 2026-03-13
title: Steadier streaming and redesigned sidebar
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## App

### New
- Chat/Settings: added richer chat render controls, including sorted/live behavior, compact live Activity previews, and options to keep Bash/Edit outputs open by default.
- Sessions/GitHub: overhauled sidebar session loading and GitHub PR tracking, and added a new minimal sidebar sessions mode on Desktop/Web.

### Improvements
- Tunnel/CLI: rebuilt tunnel workflows around clearer managed modes and provider-aware lifecycle commands, with safer startup checks, improved diagnostics, and cleaner CLI output for everyday remote access (thanks to @yulia-ivashko).
- Chat: completed a turn-based rendering pipeline that keeps streaming, activity rows, and tool progress more stable in long runs, with smooth auto-follow and fewer jumpy updates.
- Sessions: worktrees with active sessions now surface earlier in the sidebar (thanks to @GhostFlying).
- Projects/Desktop: project action inputs now submit with Enter, and Desktop settings now include a spell-check toggle for writing comfort (thanks to @DocterZed).
- Mobile/PWA: install metadata now honors orientation lock consistently.

### Fixes
- Chat: fixed narrow-layout send behavior for modified Enter shortcuts (thanks to @eengad).
- Chat: fixed queue-button behavior and focus-mode composer sizing.

## VS Code

### New
- Chat/Settings: added richer render controls with sorted/live modes, compact Activity previews, and default-open Bash/Edit options.

### Improvements
- Chat: completed a turn-based render pipeline with steady streaming, smooth auto-follow, and more stable activity/tool progress behavior during long responses.
- Reliability: switched extension event streaming to an SDK-based SSE proxy path.
- Settings: chat display changes now sync across sidebar and session editor views right away.
- Sessions: worktrees with active chats are now prioritized in the sidebar (thanks to @GhostFlying).
- Sessions: archived-session behavior in the extension is now scoped to the active workspace with cleaner sidebar presentation.
- Diff: edit result comparisons now preserve original file extensions in virtual "before" files.

### Fixes
- Chat: fixed modified Enter send shortcuts in narrow layouts (thanks to @eengad).
- Chat: fixed queue button behavior and focus-mode composer sizing (thanks to @shekohex).