openchamber/changelog/1.17.0.md

version, date

version	date
1.17.0	2026-07-28

App

New

• Agents/CLI: agents on managed local instances can now create, send to, fork, inspect, and wait for sessions; create isolated worktrees; and manage scheduled tasks through the OpenChamber tool. The CLI adds matching session, schedule, projects, and models commands, and a new Schedule a Task starter guides task setup from chat.
• Chat: selecting text from Markdown code blocks now preserves the code fences, language, and surrounding block structure when adding it to the composer or starting a new session (thanks to @ChangeHow).
• Settings: added an option to hide starter suggestions on the new-session screen.
• Usage: added Crof and NeuralWatt quota tracking with subscription kWh, independent key-allowance windows, and credits-balance fallback across the web server and VS Code extension (thanks to @kydorn).

Improvements

• Sidebar: sessions are organized into Recent and project zones with worktree-grouped or flat views. Scheduled tasks, archived sessions, multi-run, and worktree management now open as full-page views from the sidebar.
• Chat composer: prompts now render Markdown emphasis, attention lines, file and agent mentions, slash commands, snippets, attachment citations, and ~path references directly while you type. File mentions can be edited in place, and the mobile composer grows with its content instead of using a separate fullscreen gesture.
• Chat/Permissions: sending a message while a permission prompt is open now denies pending requests in the session and its subagents, then queues the message for the next turn (thanks to @tomzx).
• Chat/Subagents: subagent chats can be prompted when direct subagent prompting is enabled, even if the parent session has not loaded.
• Chat: jumping to messages in long conversations now lands on the intended message when earlier rows have not been rendered yet.
• Mobile/iOS: push notifications now use Apple’s production service by default (thanks to @natheihei).
• Mobile/iOS: notifications now work for development builds installed from Xcode — the app detects its Apple push environment and the server delivers each device to the matching endpoint, so dev (sandbox) and TestFlight/App Store (production) installs both receive pushes.

Fixes

• Context panel: a new surface rail brings Changes, pull requests, files, terminal, notes, plans, previews, and side chats into one resizable panel. The pull-request surface now shows live checks and comments, and can attach failed checks or comments to a chat draft.
• Desktop/Linux: official AppImage releases for x64 and arm64, with in-app updates, frameless window controls, system tray minimize, launch at login, multi-window support, and “Open in” for discovered installed apps. Missing update manifests are treated as “no update” instead of a hard failure, and updater errors surface in About/sidebar (thanks to @BestSithInEU, @jibanez-staticduo, @makeittech).
• Desktop/Linux: fixed an intermittent freeze or crash while chats were streaming with the system tray enabled (thanks to @kydorn).
• Small Model: GitHub Copilot models now use their supported API, fixing summaries, goal audits, commit messages, and other Small Model actions for models that do not support Chat Completions (thanks to @jakoss).
• Chat: code blocks no longer shift line layout or merge adjacent text while rendering, and copied code keeps its original text (thanks to @ChangeHow).
• Mobile/Android: terminal taps now open the keyboard, text and backspace input work with Android keyboards, and closing a focused terminal no longer leaves the app unresponsive.
• Shortcuts: fixed a regression where double-Escape could be primed when the current session was not active.

VS Code

New

• Chat: selecting text from Markdown code blocks now preserves the code fences, language, and surrounding block structure when adding it to the composer or starting a new session (thanks to @ChangeHow).
• Settings: added an option to hide starter suggestions on the new-session screen.

Improvements

• Chat composer: prompts now render Markdown emphasis, attention lines, file and agent mentions, slash commands, snippets, attachment citations, and ~path references directly while you type. File mentions can be edited in place.
• Sessions: the sidebar now uses clearer project zones and single-line session rows, with folders shown after ungrouped sessions and archived sessions kept in their existing workspace sections.
• Chat/Permissions: sending a message while a permission prompt is open now denies pending requests in the session and its subagents, then queues the message for the next turn (thanks to @tomzx).
• Chat/Subagents: subagent chats can be prompted when direct subagent prompting is enabled, even if the parent session has not loaded.
• Chat: jumping to messages in long conversations now lands on the intended message when earlier rows have not been rendered yet.

Fixes

• Context panel: a new surface rail brings Changes, pull requests, files, terminal, notes, plans, previews, and side chats into one resizable panel. The pull-request surface now shows live checks and comments, and can attach failed checks or comments to a chat draft.
• Sessions: fixed missing activity-based sorting; chats now move in the list when they start or finish instead of repeatedly reordering while a response streams.
• Chat: code blocks no longer shift line layout or merge adjacent text while rendering, and copied code keeps its original text (thanks to @ChangeHow).
• Shortcuts: fixed a regression where double-Escape could be primed when the current session was not active.
• Usage: added Crof and NeuralWatt quota tracking, including the missing Crof switch arm that previously fell back to "Unsupported provider" (thanks to @kydorn).