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version: 1.10.3
date: 2026-05-08
title: Mini Chat windows
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## App

### New
- Desktop/Electron: added Mini Chat windows for focused conversations without the full workspace shell, including session/draft handoff back to the main window, always-on-top pinning, and quick access from the header, session list, command palette, and keyboard shortcuts.

### Improvements
- Desktop/Startup: show the splash window earlier while the local runtime starts.
- Chat/Scrolling: rebuilt auto-follow behavior for active responses.
- Chat/UI: tightened scroll-to-bottom behavior and code-block scrolling handoff.

### Fixes
- Chat/Scrolling: saved scroll positions restore consistently after session switches, hydration, and draft-to-session transitions.
- Chat/Input: fixed attachment-only queued sends, stale attachment restores, stale file-search results, autocomplete tab handling, and focusable removal controls (thanks to @isanchez404).
- Reliability/Sync: reduced stale and duplicate live-state updates across request arrays, retry metadata, streaming indicators, and session status events, cutting unnecessary rerenders and stuck activity states during long-running chats (thanks to @isanchez404).
- Files/Skills: ignored stale directory refreshes and outdated skills catalog/repo scans.
- Git/Terminal/Desktop: fixed sandbox database loading in ESM, forwarded lightweight Git status mode across runtimes, preserved Electron SSH desktop hosts when saving instances, and made terminal UTF-8 locale fallbacks platform-aware (thanks to @isanchez404, @liyiopener).
- UI/Reliability: added smaller polish fixes for mobile Settings Escape handling, Multirun model limits, text-selection cleanup, and upstream event-stream cancellation (thanks to @isanchez404).

## VS Code

### Improvements
- Chat/Scrolling: rebuilt auto-follow behavior for active responses.
- Chat/UI: tightened scroll-to-bottom behavior and code-block scrolling handoff.
- Skills/Reliability: ignored outdated skills catalog and repo scans.

### Fixes
- Chat/Scrolling: saved scroll positions restore consistently after session switches, hydration, and draft-to-session transitions.
- Chat/Input: fixed attachment-only queued sends, stale attachment restores, stale file-search results, autocomplete tab handling, and focusable removal controls (thanks to @isanchez404).
- Reliability/Sync: reduced stale and duplicate live-state updates across request arrays, retry metadata, streaming indicators, and session status events, cutting unnecessary rerenders and stuck activity states during long-running chats (thanks to @isanchez404).
- Chat/Reliability: added smaller polish fixes for text-selection cleanup (thanks to @isanchez404).