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Installation

For installation instructions, please visit: - Desktop: https://askimo.chat/docs/desktop/installation/ - CLI: https://askimo.chat/docs/cli/installation/

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Askimo Release Notes

This release delivers a major upgrade to the Askimo chat and desktop experience, with new workflow features, stronger customization, and improved CLI and infrastructure support.

✨ Highlights

• Organize and manage chats with folders, starring, deletion, and history export
• Richer desktop app with theming, settings, improved UI, and tooltips
• New keyboard shortcuts, better search highlighting, and refined keymap handling
• File attachment support and more robust provider validation
• Improved CLI workflows (stdin recipes, session deletion, release workflows)
• More reliable Windows keychain integration and streamlined CI

🗂 Chat & Session Management

• Folders & starring for sessions
  Organize chats into folders and star important sessions for quick access.
  PR: #112

• Session deletion (UI & CLI)
  Delete chat sessions from both the desktop UI and CLI.
  PRs: #88, #91

• Chat cancellation & streaming feedback
  Cancel in‑progress chats and see clearer streaming state feedback.
  PR: #93

• Chat history export
  Export chat history for backup or analysis.
  PR: #106

• File attachments & standardized tool responses
  Attach files in chats and get more consistent tool responses across features.
  PR: #92

• Chat directives
  Add structured directives to steer chat behavior and workflows.
  PR: #100

• New Session execution modes
  Introduced new execution modes and related factory methods for more flexible session handling in code.
  PR: #94

🎹 Keyboard & Productivity

• Keyboard shortcuts & search highlighting
  Added global shortcuts and enhanced search result highlighting to navigate and work faster.
  PR: #104

• Unified keymap management
  Consolidated keymap handling across views for consistent shortcut behavior.
  PR: #111

💻 Desktop Application

• Refactor to multiple modules
  Restructured the codebase into multiple modules to improve maintainability.
  PR: #86

• New desktop module & dependencies
  Introduced a dedicated desktop module and refreshed dependencies.
  PR: #87

• Settings view & desktop UI enhancements
  Added a settings view and improved multiple desktop UI components and interactions.
  PR: #89
  (Also touches: #91, #115)

• Desktop tooltips & copy actions
  Unified tooltip styling and improved copy actions across the desktop app.
  PR: #115

• Fat JAR build for desktop
  Added a fat JAR build process to simplify packaging and running the desktop application.
  PR: #108

🎨 UI, Theme & Branding

• Theme support & session deletion (UI)
  Added theme support along with session deletion in the UI.
  PR: #88

• Theme management
  New theme management workflows to control and switch themes.
  PR: #96

• UI theme refactor & colors
  Refined theme structure and improved component colors.
  PR: #97

• Font scaling & color customization
  Better font scaling and color customization for improved readability and accessibility.
  PR: #107

• Icons & branding refresh
  Updated icons and branding across modules for a more cohesive experience.
  PR: #90

🧩 Core & Integrations

• AI provider validation
  Added connection validation to the provider validator for safer AI provider configuration.
  PR: #103

• General feature improvements
  Miscellaneous improvements related to newly added features across the app.
  PR: #95

🖥 CLI Improvements

• CLI session deletion
  Manage and delete sessions directly via the CLI.
  PR: #91

• Recipe input from stdin
  Allow CLI recipes to read input from stdin for better scripting and automation.
  PR: #105

• CLI release preparation
  Updated workflows and resources to support CLI releases.
  PR: #98

📦 CI/CD & Release Engineering

• Release workflows & pipelines
  Updated release workflows and related pipeline resources.
  PR: #101

• Prepare for next release
  General cleanup and configuration changes to get ready for this release.
  PR: #109

• Remove obsolete desktop release job
  Simplified CI by dropping an outdated desktop release job.
  PR: #110

🐛 Fixes

• Windows keychain secret retrieval
  Fixed an issue where secrets could not be retrieved from the Windows keychain.
  PR: #99

📚 Documentation

• README updates
  Refreshed README content, links, and text to align with current capabilities.
  PRs: #84, #85

Full Changelog: https://github.com/haiphucnguyen/askimo/compare/v0.2.0...v1.0.0