Bohdan Triapitsyn
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Release notes now live in changelog/<version>.md (front matter with version and date, then ## App and ## VS Code sections grouped into New, Improvements, Fixes, Misc) plus changelog/unreleased.md for what has not shipped. `bun run changelog:build` renders CHANGELOG.md, packages/vscode/CHANGELOG.md, and changelog/index.json from them; `changelog:check` fails when the outputs are behind and runs in CI and in release:prepare. `oc-dev create-release` promotes unreleased.md to the versioned file dated today and rebuilds. The existing history was split mechanically: every bullet kept, sorted into groups by keyword, five hand-typed headers with one-digit days normalised to YYYY-MM-DD (the update dialog matched none of them). The generated files keep today's release headers, which the update dialog, the release workflow, and the website match by regex. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VqV56Hez25hTxXH4ipJfzH
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version, date
| version | date |
|---|---|
| 1.18.2 | 2026-08-10 |
App
New
- Observability panel: a new panel near to the chat brings the active goal, tasks, subagents, pinned context, MCP servers, and context usage into one live view. The session list also shows how long an agent has been working.
- Scheduled Tasks: projects can now define recurring tasks as Markdown files in
.agents/loops; opening the task list discovers file changes without a restart, and loop tasks can be edited, enabled, disabled, deleted, or run from the app (thanks to @makeittech). - Performance: the initial web download is about 58% smaller and startup memory use is about 22% lower; heavy Settings and syntax-highlighting code now loads only when opened (thanks to @makeittech).
- Git/Worktrees: prompts now wait for a new worktree to finish checkout before sending, and sessions resolve to the worktree that owns them instead of occasionally opening or sending against the parent repository (thanks to @ftzi).
- Projects: new project directories can now be created outside the current workspace, and adding, creating, or cloning a project opens a new-session draft targeted at that project instead of leaving the previous session context active.
- Usage: added xAI quota reporting (thanks to @iamhenry).
Improvements
- Chat: messages submitted before switching sessions stay with the session and workspace they were sent from, and are cancelled rather than crossing into a different instance (thanks to @Wsyjq).
- Chat: shell command output is expanded by default, and adding a message to context returns focus to the composer (thanks to @pascalandr, @makeittech).
- Chat: the composer caret is now easier to see.
- Terminal: default tab names remain unique after tabs are closed, Escape reaches terminal applications instead of closing the context panel, and background connections send fewer keepalives (thanks to @makeittech).
- Desktop/macOS: choosing a folder after denying filesystem access now recovers correctly instead of leaving the app unable to open the directory (thanks to @deatheros).
- Desktop/Windows: minimizing from the taskbar now remains a native minimize while the app's own minimize action can still hide to the tray (thanks to @pascalandr).
- Desktop: overlay scrollbars auto-hide again after scrolling instead of remaining permanently visible.
- Mobile/Android: pairing QR codes now work in older WebViews that misread
openchamber://links (thanks to @CMBill). - Mobile: pending agent questions now reappear after a cold start instead of leaving the session waiting without an answer prompt.
- Files: removing an attached Office or OpenDocument file also removes the images extracted from that document, and Linux reveal failures now surface as an error instead of escaping in the background (thanks to @chiamsun, @pascalandr).
- VSCode: notebook links now open in the notebook editor when a compatible extension is installed (thanks to @TTTPOB).
- Walkthrough: branch comparisons now use the repository's actual remote default branch instead of assuming its name (thanks to @RyderAsKing).
- Server: foreground installs managed by a user systemd service now update through a separate transient service instead of being interrupted by the server restart (thanks to @SYU8384).
- Security: updated archive extraction to address GHSA-xcpc-8h2w-3j85 (thanks to @mel0nyrame).
- UI: dialogs, dropdowns, popovers, and tooltips now use consistent glass styling; the macOS vibrancy option was removed to reduce rendering overhead.
Fixes
- Settings: OpenCode configuration changes now accumulate behind a single Apply & Restart action instead of restarting OpenCode after every edit; the confirmation warns when active chats will be stopped (thanks to @makeittech).
- Remote access: paired devices that use the private relay no longer lose relay access when no browser client is currently connected or device-state loading temporarily fails.
- Git/Worktrees: setup now runs the repository's
post-checkouthook after creating a worktree, and deeply nested worktrees no longer fail with “Filename too long” on Windows (thanks to @ftzi, @makeittech). - Chat: queued messages no longer send into a response that is still streaming, and tool cards left running by an interrupted response settle instead of remaining stuck (thanks to @makeittech).
- Chat: fresh messages no longer replay their entry animation after they have already been shown, and iOS users can insert a newline with Shift+Enter again (thanks to @makeittech).
- MCP: authorization now handles browser callbacks more reliably, settings distinguish available and unavailable servers more clearly, and failed connections expose a retry action.
- Settings: rapid edits to notification templates no longer overwrite one another, and the collapsed-user-message preference now persists correctly (thanks to @AmanTahiliani, @pascalandr).
VS Code
New
- Usage: added xAI quota reporting (thanks to @iamhenry).
Improvements
- Chat: messages submitted before switching sessions stay with the session and workspace they were sent from, and are cancelled rather than crossing into a different runtime (thanks to @Wsyjq).
- Chat: shell command output is expanded by default, and adding a message to context returns focus to the composer (thanks to @pascalandr, @makeittech).
- Chat: the composer caret is now easier to see.
- Attachments: removing an attached Office or OpenDocument file also removes the images extracted from that document (thanks to @chiamsun).
- Notebooks: notebook links now open in the notebook editor when a compatible extension is installed (thanks to @TTTPOB).
- Security: updated archive extraction to address GHSA-xcpc-8h2w-3j85 (thanks to @mel0nyrame).
- UI: dialogs, dropdowns, popovers, and tooltips now use consistent glass styling.
Fixes
- Settings: OpenCode configuration changes now accumulate behind a single Apply & Restart action instead of restarting OpenCode after every edit; the confirmation warns when active chats will be stopped (thanks to @makeittech).
- Chat: queued messages no longer send into a response that is still streaming, and tool cards left running by an interrupted response settle instead of remaining stuck (thanks to @makeittech).
- Chat: fresh messages no longer replay their entry animation after they have already been shown (thanks to @makeittech).
- MCP: authorization now handles browser callbacks more reliably, settings distinguish available and unavailable servers more clearly, and failed connections expose a retry action.
- Settings: rapid edits to notification templates no longer overwrite one another, and the collapsed-user-message preference now persists correctly (thanks to @AmanTahiliani, @pascalandr).