Changelog

What's Changed

• Fix explicit model unload and cache telemetry continuity (#2248) by @jjang-ai
• i18n(zh-Hans): call Osaurus's own server 服务端, not 服务器 (#2246) by @YspritanHyzygy
• i18n: split the "Server" key, which three unrelated UI elements share (#2243) by @YspritanHyzygy
• i18n(zh-Hans): keys that differ only in casing should not say different things (#2230) by @YspritanHyzygy
• Fix four reported runtime and model metadata issues (#2235) by @jjang-ai
• Unify subagent and server batching concurrency (#2234) by @jjang-ai

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Harden AgentDB imports and saved views (#2255) by @tpae
• Exclude warm-up calls from Insights (#2254) by @tpae
• Stabilize execution modes, prompts, and cache warmup (#2253) by @tpae
• Prevent stale whole-file rewrites after targeted edits (#2252) by @tpae
• fixed text selection in agent responses (#2247) by @RaajeevChandran
• fix tool permission panel sizing and card appearance issues (#2244) by @RaajeevChandran
• fix tool approval dialog overflow and add auto-allow all tools setting (#2241) by @RaajeevChandran

🧰 Maintenance

• Make the Mac harness leaner and more reliable (#2250) by @tpae
• Keep notch overlay pinned to the screen edge (#2240) by @tpae
• Eliminate app hangs: unblock MainActor, bounded cancellation, killable plugin host (#2239) by @tpae
• Add localized Channels What's New announcement (#2238) by @tpae

Full Changelog: https://github.com/osaurus-ai/osaurus/compare/0.22.13...0.22.14

What's Changed

• fix(i18n): lint-zh-style.py refuses to run again — the catalog gained a final newline (#2229) by @YspritanHyzygy
• i18n: add 16 UI strings localized inside helper functions but never in the catalog (#2224) by @YspritanHyzygy
• i18n(zh-Hans): one word per concept, where the rest of the catalog already agrees (#2225) by @YspritanHyzygy
• fix(i18n): make lint-zh-style.py runnable, and stop it breaking shell commands (#2223) by @YspritanHyzygy
• Add safe heterogeneous subagent batching and delegation controls (#2221) by @jjang-ai
• i18n(zh-Hans): use one Chinese word for a UI tab (#2215) by @YspritanHyzygy
• i18n(zh-Hans): one second-person pronoun, and translate "Insights" (#2218) by @YspritanHyzygy
• Fix selected-chat idle warmup recovery (#2216) by @jjang-ai
• i18n(zh-Hans): use one Chinese word for "transcription" (#2207) by @YspritanHyzygy
• i18n(zh-Hans): add the missing space between Chinese and Latin runs (#2209) by @YspritanHyzygy
• i18n: add 22 UI strings that are localized indirectly but never entered the catalog (#2213) by @YspritanHyzygy

🚀 Features

• Add native iMessage agent channel with download-only imsg helper (#2227) by @tpae
• added chat import guide (#2222) by @RaajeevChandran
• import conversations from chatgpt, claude, grok and gemini (#2217) by @RaajeevChandran
• fix fireworks providers only showing 6 models (#2214) by @RaajeevChandran

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Make headless dispatches follow the agent's current default model (#2232) by @tpae
• Make web_search schema immutable so tool payloads never invalidate the KV-cache prefix (#2226) by @tpae
• fix app freeze when saving channel tokens in keychain (#2208) by @RaajeevChandran

🧰 Maintenance

• Make the model-selector dot reflect true model residency (#2231) by @tpae
• Fix plugin layout at compact widths (#2220) by @tpae
• Fix OsaurusAI model catalog cutoff (#2219) by @tpae
• Harden keychain reliability on relaunch; add identity restore from recovery phrase (#2212) by @tpae
• Redesign channels UX: name-first destinations, DM identity, intent-based setup (#2210) by @tpae

Full Changelog: https://github.com/osaurus-ai/osaurus/compare/0.22.12...0.22.13

What's Changed

• Match assistant and user chat text sizing (#2201) by @hkay-dev
• fix(i18n): two render sites that bypass localization (#2199) by @YspritanHyzygy
• Pin Nanbeige vMLX runtime (#2198) by @jjang-ai
• Wire remaining OsaurusCore network call sites into global proxy (#2169) by @peterlodri-sec
• i18n(zh-Hans): unify Computer Use naming, fix a label collision and four mistranslations (#2195) by @YspritanHyzygy
• Fix stale settings warmup and add SSD cache regression eval (#2194) by @jjang-ai
• i18n(zh): fix malformed format specifier in channel member count (#2176) by @YspritanHyzygy
• i18n: add 43 Settings-search strings that never entered the catalog (#2193) by @YspritanHyzygy

🐛 Bug Fixes

• fall back to lenient decode for nonstandard streaming chunks during tool calls (#2205) by @RaajeevChandran
• fixed app hangs (#2203) by @RaajeevChandran
• added guardrails for factory reset auto quit (#2200) by @RaajeevChandran

🧰 Maintenance

• Native channel presence, formatting, and reactions (#2202) by @tpae
• Clarify channel messaging UX with Replies/New Messages model and localize the channel surface (#2196) by @tpae

Full Changelog: https://github.com/osaurus-ai/osaurus/compare/0.22.11...0.22.12

What's Changed

• Fix stale Todo agent-loop completion and strengthen cache proof (#2192) by @jjang-ai
• i18n(zh-Hans): quality pass — 859 fixes across eight defect classes + style linter (#2188) by @YspritanHyzygy
• Add scored agent-loop and disk-cache proof gates (#2179) by @jjang-ai
• Update Traditional Chinese translations (#2178) by @ftzahao
• Stop completed agent runs from reopening on stale todos (#2175) by @jjang-ai
• Update Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese translations (#2172) by @ftzahao
• Fix tracked tool completion and prompt cache stability (#2171) by @jjang-ai
• fix: don't install CLI symlink into Homebrew's managed bin directory (#2166) by @peterlodri-sec
• Add connectivity-driven offline mode for chat (#2170) by @tpae
• Unify runtime policy and bounded subagent delegation (#2165) by @jjang-ai
• Redact secret tool arguments across agent surfaces (#2157) by @mimeding
• Report MCP tool envelope failures (#2156) by @mimeding
• Preserve SSD warmup across chat lifecycle transitions (#2161) by @jjang-ai

🚀 Features

• inject current date and timezone into the latest user turn (#2173) by @RaajeevChandran

🐛 Bug Fixes

• fix factory reset hanging indefinitely and add reset progress ui (#2191) by @RaajeevChandran
• Fix Gemma and Qwen post-tool completion (#2167) by @jjang-ai

🧰 Maintenance

• Add proactive agent channel publishing with zero-config destinations (#2190) by @tpae
• Channels: focused setup UX, scalable access lists, and autosave (#2164) by @tpae
• improved chat UX (#2163) by @RaajeevChandran
• Channels: multi-agent routing and guided setup across all providers (#2162) by @tpae

Full Changelog: https://github.com/osaurus-ai/osaurus/compare/0.22.10...0.22.11

What's Changed

• Remove binary prefill proof artifacts (#2135) by @jjang-ai
• Fix Bonsai DB recovery and SSD prefix reuse (#2153) by @jjang-ai
• Fix TextEdit AppleScript state and completion handling (#2151) by @jjang-ai
• Fix tool finalization and SSD cache warmup (#2146) by @jjang-ai

🚀 Features

• auto generate chat titles (#2144) by @RaajeevChandran
• group consecutive thinking and tool activity into one expandable row (#2142) by @RaajeevChandran

🐛 Bug Fixes

• fix settings window opening offscreen with stale saved frame (#2154) by @RaajeevChandran
• fix streaming error on deepseek and other openai compatible providers (#2150) by @RaajeevChandran
• fix mcp tool calls failing after invoking a skill via slash command (#2149) by @RaajeevChandran
• fix settings window not opening on sequoia (#2147) by @RaajeevChandran

Full Changelog: https://github.com/osaurus-ai/osaurus/compare/0.22.9...0.22.10

What's Changed

• Update Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese translations (#2141) by @ftzahao
• Fix stream finalization and model-picker thinking control (#2140) by @jjang-ai
• Drain cancelled prefill before the next chat (#2136) by @jjang-ai
• Pin LFM SSD prefix restore (#2134) by @jjang-ai
• auto categorize knowledge documents and soften the uncategorized warning (#2132) by @RaajeevChandran
• Fix Computer Use and AppleScript completion regressions (#2131) by @jjang-ai
• Context-optimization harness: attribution, experiment profiles, staged optimizer, strict promotion gate (#2130) by @tpae
• Wire Laguna S2.1 runtime and live cache controls (#2127) by @jjang-ai
• seatbelt sandbox fallback for macos 15 and earlier (#2126) by @RaajeevChandran
• Restore SSD warmup prefixes across new chats (#2124) by @jjang-ai
• Fix launch-time SSD prefix cache misses (#2119) by @jjang-ai
• Fix AppleScript completion and persistent SSD warmups (#2118) by @jjang-ai
• knowledge base improvements (#2117) by @RaajeevChandran

🚀 Features

• Native Browser Use: replace the osaurus.browser plugin with a built-in browser feature (#2123) by @tpae

🐛 Bug Fixes

• fixed app hangs (#2128) by @RaajeevChandran
• Attach SSD cache before publishing loaded models (#2122) by @jjang-ai
• fix settings window not opening on sequoia (#2121) by @RaajeevChandran

🧰 Maintenance

• Add Browser Use What's New and prune older release notes (#2139) by @tpae
• Expand BrowserUse eval suite to 10 cases (safety, tool coverage, error recovery) (#2125) by @tpae

Full Changelog: https://github.com/osaurus-ai/osaurus/compare/0.22.8...0.22.9

What's Changed

• Pin explicit Gemma 4 paged cache support (#2109) by @jjang-ai
• Preserve visible generation telemetry across chat warmups (#2106) by @jjang-ai
• fix: honor reasoning toggle across agent tool loops (#2105) by @jjang-ai
• Preserve explicit Thinking mode across agent tool turns (#2101) by @jjang-ai

🚀 Features

• multi select chats to delete/archive in sidebar with Cmd+Click shortcut (#2114) by @RaajeevChandran
• pin chats in sidebar (#2113) by @RaajeevChandran
• add openai compatible tts server support (#2099) by @RaajeevChandran

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Continue cap-truncated file_read to the end of the file (#2112) by @tpae
• Fix truncated remote tool arguments (#2108) by @tpae
• fix prompt text deleted when escape dismisses the slash command popup (#2103) by @RaajeevChandran

🧰 Maintenance

• Adopt native macOS theme defaults with system accent following (#2115) by @tpae

Full Changelog: https://github.com/osaurus-ai/osaurus/compare/0.22.7...0.22.8

What's Changed

• Pin paged cache eviction fix (#2097) by @jjang-ai
• Pin Bonsai hybrid cache replay and disk quota fixes (#2093) by @jjang-ai
• Fix Nemotron AIFF routing and hybrid cache restore (#2087) by @jjang-ai
• Pin ZAYA cache fix and enable Nemotron Omni multimodal routing (#2086) by @jjang-ai
• Publish plugin active version atomically (#1844) by @mimeding
• Bound skill archive subprocesses (#1840) by @mimeding
• Correct Gemma QAT cache settings and TQ telemetry (#2085) by @jjang-ai
• Fix built-in Data Visualizer chart tool activation (#2084) by @jjang-ai
• Update Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese translations (#2076) by @ftzahao
• Fix JANG AppleScript success finalization (#2075) by @jjang-ai

🚀 Features

• Add combined-mode file_copy bridge for binary files between workspace and sandbox (#2080) by @tpae
• Track chat file changes with undo, and add writable combined mode (#2078) by @tpae
• added knowledge base introduction modal (#2077) by @RaajeevChandran

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix release job: reuse sentry-cli installed by the dSYM step (#2096) by @tpae
• fixed app hangs (#2095) by @RaajeevChandran
• Fix Gemma cache telemetry and Bonsai chart parsing (#2091) by @jjang-ai
• Fix skill discovery metadata loss and MCP capability-load reliability seams (#2089) by @tpae
• detect mcp server urls pasted into the api provider form and offer a redirect (#2082) by @RaajeevChandran

🧰 Maintenance

• Move Thinking toggle into the model picker's Model Options section (#2094) by @tpae
• Isolate working-folder context per chat session (#2092) by @tpae
• Fix Bonsai hybrid detection and add 16 GB eval coverage (#2090) by @tpae
• Harden Agent DB tool contracts for import modes and saved views (#2083) by @tpae
• Fix management-window sheet-swap crash and wire Sentry release telemetry (#2081) by @tpae

Full Changelog: https://github.com/osaurus-ai/osaurus/compare/0.22.6...0.22.7

What's Changed

• Fix AppleScript Computer Use finalization and failure containment (#2071) by @jjang-ai
• Add eval watcher scoreboard artifacts (#1708) by @mimeding
• Stabilize Watchers pane layout (#1794) by @mimeding
• Add runtime installation doctor (#2043) by @mimeding
• Reliability audit: install integrity, loader/ABI validation, route timeouts, lifecycle ordering, CI coverage (#2061) by @tpae

🧰 Maintenance

• Fix singular and plural count labels (#2074) by @tpae
• Overhaul Tools management UX around an everyday-user catalog (#2073) by @tpae
• Redesign agent detail navigation and restyle the Tools tab (#2072) by @tpae
• Normalize Bonsai recommendations for onboarding (#2069) by @tpae
• Improve Models catalog browsability and tuck runtime diagnostics away (#2070) by @tpae
• Polish context budget popover (#2068) by @tpae

Full Changelog: https://github.com/osaurus-ai/osaurus/compare/0.22.5...0.22.6

What's Changed

• Recover observed Bonsai chart argument drift (#2065) by @jjang-ai
• Fix AppleScript query completion outcomes (#2064) by @jjang-ai
• Fix spawned agent tool execution scope (#2062) by @jjang-ai
• Harden manual plugin receipt metadata (#1842) by @mimeding
• Handle empty voice transcriptions (#1852) by @mimeding
• Pin schema-1 JANG loader fix (#2047) by @jjang-ai

🚀 Features

• knowledge collections (#1815) by @RaajeevChandran
• added cmd+= and cmd+- font zoom shortcuts (#2054) by @RaajeevChandran
• Premium web search through the Osaurus router with search credits (#2055) by @tpae
• Redesign agent feature flags into an Abilities overview with live context estimate (#2053) by @tpae
• Universal skills library and tools-only agent UX (#2050) by @tpae

🐛 Bug Fixes

• updated knowledge empty state copy (#2067) by @RaajeevChandran
• mcp bearer 401 classification (#2048) by @RaajeevChandran
• Enforce selected memory safety limits during model loads (#2045) by @jjang-ai
• Fix Bonsai structured charts and hybrid memory safety (#2041) by @jjang-ai

🧰 Maintenance

• Redesign agent Database workspace and settings navigation UX (#2052) by @tpae
• Reduce redundant agent prompt context (#2051) by @tpae
• improved AppleScript model search UX (#2046) by @RaajeevChandran

Full Changelog: https://github.com/osaurus-ai/osaurus/compare/0.22.4...0.22.5

What's Changed

• added bonsai models (#2040) by @RaajeevChandran
• Pin vmlx for native 1-bit JANG support (#2037) by @jjang-ai
• Update Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese translations (#2034) by @ftzahao
• fixed window maximize bug (#2028) by @RaajeevChandran
• updated readme (#2025) by @RaajeevChandran
• Update README.md (#2024) by @RaajeevChandran

🚀 Features

• Upgrade notch task navigation and follow-ups (#2036) by @tpae

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix spawn_model target contract (#2033) by @jjang-ai
• Computer Use: open apps foreground so the window is visible and the model doesn't misreport failure (#2032) by @jjang-ai
• fixed main thread hangs across launch, storage, tts, and streaming (#2030) by @RaajeevChandran
• fix scheduled runs never completing by evicting finished headless tasks (#2031) by @RaajeevChandran
• Computer Use AX bounding + AccessibilityBoundedElement test fix + vmlx repin (SpecDec tail flush #148) (#2029) by @jjang-ai
• read the hugging face keychain outside the token cache lock (#2027) by @RaajeevChandran

🧰 Maintenance

• make the chat window responsive down to narrow widths (#2038) by @RaajeevChandran
• Agent request lifecycles independent of the chat window (#2023) by @tpae

Full Changelog: https://github.com/osaurus-ai/osaurus/compare/0.22.3...0.22.4

What's Changed

🐛 Bug Fixes

• fixed find bar crash when scrolling to a match in a partially rendered message (#2020) by @RaajeevChandran
• fixed mcp tool discovery dropping paginated tools/list results (#2017) by @RaajeevChandran
• A request may only execute the tools it exposed (#2018) by @jjang-ai
• Stop TTS from going silent after the output device changes (#2016) by @jjang-ai
• Checkpoint: stop the gemma tool-loop, two crashes, and lying tok/s (#2015) by @jjang-ai

🧰 Maintenance

• Faster, stronger sandbox runtime: resumable delivery, CoW rootfs, per-agent egress (#2022) by @tpae
• Repin vmlx-swift: tool-call delimiter leak + batch prose cut (#2021) by @jjang-ai

Full Changelog: https://github.com/osaurus-ai/osaurus/compare/0.22.2...0.22.3

What's Changed

• Harden plugin and registry archive extraction (#1987) by @mimeding
• HY3 official: repin vmlx + fix the load path that kept 94 GB packs from ever serving (#1984) by @jjang-ai
• evals(compat): leaderboard redesign — latest-run precedence, skip accounting, strengths (#1982) by @tpae

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Refuse background model loads inside the actor, not before it (#1994) by @jjang-ai
• Fix Product Hunt launch window to 24 hours (#2000) by @tpae
• Key the prefix cache to the weights, not just the model's name (#1989) by @jjang-ai
• Repin vmlx (for real this time) and push the memory-safety level to the cache-store gate (#1988) by @jjang-ai
• Background work must never evict the model the user is using (+ vmlx repin) (#1986) by @jjang-ai
• fix: support Codex Responses Lite for GPT-5.6 models (#1983) by @tpae

🧰 Maintenance

• Show the Product Hunt kitty next to the dinosaur in the launch dialog (#2011) by @tpae
• Make local-first onboarding immediately usable (#2008) by @tpae
• Add one-time Product Hunt launch dialog (July 2026) (#1998) by @tpae
• evals: hermetic run storage — eval runs can never touch the user's real contexts (#1992) by @tpae
• feat: catalog-driven reasoning controls + unified model options in the picker (#1991) by @tpae

Full Changelog: https://github.com/osaurus-ai/osaurus/compare/0.22.1...0.22.2

What's Changed

• evals(community): OsaurusAI/Ornith-1.0-35B-MXFP8 on Apple M4 Max (#1979) by @mimeding
• added cli like @ filesystem menu to chat input (#1980) by @RaajeevChandran
• evals(community): OsaurusAI/gemma-4-12B-it-MXFP8 on Apple M4 Max (#1977) by @mimeding
• evals(community): OsaurusAI/Ornith-1.0-9B-MXFP8 on Apple M4 Max (#1975) by @mimeding
• Add measured per-model prefill step tuning (osaurus bench --tune-prefill) (#1905) by @mimeding
• Add ModelCapabilityLedger skeleton; migrate the production blocklist to it (#1913) by @mimeding
• Fix residency-default doc, expose batch diagnostics in /health, log effective policy (#1865) by @mimeding
• Add ChipProfile hardware capability detection, surface in /health (#1861) by @mimeding
• evals(community): OsaurusAI/gemma-4-E4B-it-8bit on Apple M4 Max (#1974) by @mimeding
• docs: refresh translator leaderboard and promote Traditional Chinese to community-maintained (#1972) by @tpae

🐛 Bug Fixes

• fix: Codex model discovery returned unusable gpt-5.5-*-wm slugs (#1981) by @tpae
• Update Kagi, You.com, and Tavily search providers to current APIs (#1978) by @tpae
• spawn_agent: carry the target agent's own tool policy into the child run (#1976) by @jjang-ai

Full Changelog: https://github.com/osaurus-ai/osaurus/compare/0.22.0...0.22.1

What's Changed

• Improve Telegram channel recovery diagnostics (#1942) by @mimeding
• evals(community): OsaurusAI/gemma-4-E2B-it-8bit on Apple M4 Max (#1970) by @mimeding
• speed up onboarding model downloads via authenticated proxy (#1965) by @RaajeevChandran
• Update Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese translations (#1947) by @ftzahao
• Polish Russian localization (#1822) by @DrMaks22
• added get_current_time built-in tool (#1956) by @RaajeevChandran
• added in-app github token to fix plugin update rate limit errors (#1955) by @RaajeevChandran

🚀 Features

• added toggle for notch overlay placement on or below the menu bar (#1957) by @RaajeevChandran

🐛 Bug Fixes

• fixed crashes and hangs (#1971) by @RaajeevChandran
• fixed in-chat search bar focus, per occurrence navigation, and current match highlighting (#1969) by @RaajeevChandran
• Fix Router 409 IDEMPOTENCY_CONFLICT on refunded agent-loop iterations (#1968) by @tpae
• Size model fit against the GPU working set, not physical RAM (#1958) by @jjang-ai
• Flush pending stream text before tool-call frames; repin vmlx (stall + prose-cut fixes) (#1963) by @jjang-ai

🧰 Maintenance

• minor tweak in favorite models UI (#1973) by @RaajeevChandran
• Evals harness overhaul: new domains, runtime fixes, community contribution flow (#1967) by @tpae
• Remote provider hardening: crash/hang fixes, endpoint trust, Router spend safety, streaming perf (#1961) by @tpae
• Credits UI improvements: composer wallet panel and refreshed Credits page (#1959) by @tpae

Full Changelog: https://github.com/osaurus-ai/osaurus/compare/0.21.13...0.21.14

What's Changed

🚀 Features

• added an option to update all plugins in one go instead of individual update (#1949) by @RaajeevChandran

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix ChatGPT/Codex test-button model count mismatch; add grok-4.5 to xAI catalog (#1954) by @tpae
• Fix warm-up KV cache misses and sandbox tool-registration thrash (#1953) by @tpae
• Repin vmlx to 0d3444ca (gemma4 parser fix #128) + fix reasoning-toggle default display (#1950) by @jjang-ai
• fixed main thread hangs (#1948) by @RaajeevChandran

Full Changelog: https://github.com/osaurus-ai/osaurus/compare/0.21.12...0.21.13

What's Changed

• Harden search diagnostics and extraction (#1944) by @mimeding
• Support installing plugin project directories (#1843) by @mimeding
• Harden plugin repository refresh diagnostics (#1845) by @mimeding
• Decouple startup completion from plugin loading (#1838) by @mimeding
• Add recoverable agent backup restore path (#1837) by @mimeding

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix Privacy Filter false "URLs were not scrubbed" send block (#1946) by @tpae

🧰 Maintenance

• Fix RAM banner false positives for resident and in-flight models (#1941) by @tpae

Full Changelog: https://github.com/osaurus-ai/osaurus/compare/0.21.11...0.21.12

What's Changed

• added timestamps to user message cells (#1939) by @RaajeevChandran
• Onboarding: recommend Ornith MXFP8 + official OsaurusAI Gemma; drop Gemma QAT/MXFP4 (#1936) by @jjang-ai
• speed up Hugging Face model downloads (#1937) by @RaajeevChandran
• Polish release UX details (#1931) by @mimeding
• Add provider connectivity issue triage (#1895) by @mimeding
• Add osaurus bench: standardized TTFT/prefill/decode benchmark CLI (#1863) by @mimeding
• Add Agent Channels live proof readiness (#1882) by @mimeding
• Repin vmlx-swift: default-on hybrid-SSM prefix cache reuse (#1930) by @jjang-ai

🚀 Features

• Native web search: pluggable providers + Search settings tab (#1938) by @tpae

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix DeepSeek thinking-mode tool_choice HTTP 400 (#1940) by @tpae

🧰 Maintenance

• chat UI polish (#1932) by @RaajeevChandran

Full Changelog: https://github.com/osaurus-ai/osaurus/compare/0.21.10...0.21.11

What's Changed

• Update Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese translations (#1909) by @ftzahao
• added ram banner dismiss button (#1924) by @RaajeevChandran

Full Changelog: https://github.com/osaurus-ai/osaurus/compare/0.21.9...0.21.10