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Thank you so much for using Orca and for your continued support! ❤️

Please note: It usually takes 48–72 hours for a landed PR to be released (except P0 fixes). We have many more exciting PRs and features coming in later versions!

Notable changes

• Google sign-in in the in-app browser no longer opens a blank tab.
• Chat UI now has Extra-high Grok effort. Codex is less likely to drop your first prompt on a slow start, and a briefly locked file on Windows no longer logs you out or opens the session under the wrong account. You can set global defaults for which worktree sources are shown, and folder projects become git repos after you git init outside Orca.

UI / workspace

• Add global worktree visibility source defaults by @brennanb2025 in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/14276
• fix(repos): keep the desktop-owned manual project order authoritative across paired clients and SSH catalog publishes (STA-4850) by @Jinwoo-H in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/15538
• Keep other-client workspace filter visible for remote hosts by @Jinwoo-H in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/14579
• Keep other-client workspace filter visible during catalog hydration by @Jinwoo-H in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/14595
• refactor(renderer): decompose App.tsx into an app-shell module by @nwparker in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/14607
• fix(workspace-cleanup): make the Filters panel scrollable by @brennanb2025 in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/14629
• Split worktrees slice by @AmethystLiang in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/14643
• preserve agent badges when searching for tabs by @AmethystLiang in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/14677
• fix(worktree): never reissue a generated workspace name by @brennanb2025 in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/14350
• feat(shortcuts): warn when macOS Mission Control captures digit chords by @pythonstrup in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/14734
• fix(workspace-cleanup): refuse removal when the owning host is not certain (STA-4343) by @brennanb2025 in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/14731
• fix(i18n): correct Chinese translations by @DaQun in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/14299
• fix: keep remote visibility hydration off local startup path by @brennanb2025 in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/14674

Orchestration

• fix(orchestration): wait for Codex composer render by @Jinwoo-H in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/14575
• fix(orchestration): stop fencing fresh-run callers and accept revoked coordinator after takeover by @leofmarciano in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/11582
• fix(orchestration-cli): point dropped mutations at --retry-request by @brennanb2025 in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/14586
• fix(orchestration): preserve mailbox delivery identity by @Jinwoo-H in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/13717

Agents / native chat

• feat(native-chat): Extra high grok effort per model by @AmethystLiang in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/14577
• fix(codex): stop a transient filesystem error from logging out the active account by @brennanb2025 in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/15046
• fix(codex): stop resuming a session under the wrong account when a sessions tree is locked by @brennanb2025 in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/15093
• feat(computer-use): support macOS middle click and stop the silent left-click fallback by @brennanb2025 in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/14721
• fix(devin): preserve JSONC comments when writing hook config by @brennanb2025 in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/14199
• fix(codex): resolve the launch preflight to a verified absolute Orca CLI path (STA-4270) by @brennanb2025 in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/14458
• STA-4276: preflight Codex in Command Prompt and Git Bash by @brennanb2025 in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/14441
• fix(agent-map): commit slider changes once (STA-4281) by @brennanb2025 in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/14442
• fix(agent-launch): wait longer for cold-boot Codex composer before dropping prompt (STA-3367) by @brennanb2025 in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/12853
• fix(native-chat): stop glued rapid sends from pinning queued bubbles by @brennanb2025 in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/14663
• fix(agent-launch): preserve cold Codex startup drafts by @brennanb2025 in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/14688

Windows / WSL

• Kill hung WSL transcript filesystem operations via child process with route quarantine by @OrcaWin in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/15381

Terminal

• fix(daemon): persist the pending-output counter across empty incremental takes (STA-4297) by @brennanb2025 in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/14496
• fix(daemon): bound the caller's wait on final durable-history checkpoints (STA-4228) by @brennanb2025 in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/14497
• fix(daemon): harden checkpoint admission after per-session isolation by @brennanb2025 in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/14385
• fix(terminal): bracket agent-pane pastes so a pasted newline can't submit the draft by @brennanb2025 in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/14456
• fix(macos): stop reporting every app update as severed TCC attribution by @brennanb2025 in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/14655
• fix(terminal): hold a cursor chord until the composing syllable commits by @nwparker in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/14730
• fix(terminal): make close and handles incarnation-stable (STA-4327) by @Jinwoo-H in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/14590
• fix(terminal): stop the hidden-output restore re-arming itself after dispose by @nwparker in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/14749

Remote server / SSH

• fix(vm): preserve runtime sidecar rollback compatibility by @Jinwoo-H in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/14444
• fix(vm): keep failed cleanup retryable by @Jinwoo-H in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/14476
• fix(vm): harden provisioned root ownership and cleanup by @Jinwoo-H in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/14477

Browser

• fix(browser): stop the auth-host UA write from cancelling redirects by @choihjin in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/15221
• fix(browser): grant storage-access so requestStorageAccess() stops rejecting by @brennanb2025 in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/15481
• fix(browser): keep browser guests painting when the workbench is hidden by @brennanb2025 in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/14599
• fix(browser): align anti-detection identity signals by @brennanb2025 in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/14685

GitHub / source control

• fix(source-control-ai): stop duplicating singleton CLI flags in agent argv by @brennanb2025 in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/14585
• fix(git): allow bounded override of worktree-add timeout by @innocarpe in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/12823
• fix: detect external git init on folder projects and upgrade to git repo by @fsdwen in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/11480
• fix(workspaces): gate the Jira palette match on the issue's tenant by @nwparker in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/14671
• fix(repos): forget remote-identity deadlines for removed repo locations by @nwparker in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/14672

Performance

• perf(usage): index repos for worktree metadata by @nwparker in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/8077
• perf: coalesce SSH git status reads by @nwparker in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/11696
• perf(renderer): index web session tab reconciliation by @nwparker in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/8098
• fix(skills): cancel and bound abandoned skill discovery scans by @nwparker in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/14670

Mobile (mobile has its own release cycle, so here is just a reference, not actual release for mobile)

• fix(mobile): match desktop project and run target picker by @brennanb2025 in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/14457
• fix(mobile): keep polling session tabs while an active terminal is pending-handle (STA-4256) by @brennanb2025 in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/14623
• Update mobile 0.0.43 Android download links by @brennanb2025 in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/14696
• fix(mobile-native-chat): retire pending bubbles glued into one transcript row (mobile half of [#14262]) by @brennanb2025 in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/14665

Tests / CI

• test(wsl): account for the route quarantine in stalled-mount tests by @brennanb2025 in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/15408
• refactor(tests): split every oversized test file off the max-lines suppression list by @nwparker in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/14728
• fix(e2e): unblock golden file-link hover and Windows worktree activate by @AmethystLiang in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/14720
• ci: post test vs non-test LoC on pull requests by @nwparker in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/14738
• fix(ci): unbreak static analysis on main (restrict-template-expressions) by @nwparker in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/14755
• test(daemon): stop mutating process-global cwd in the daemon cwd-repair tests by @nwparker in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/14750
• fix(deps): bump transitive nanoid to 3.3.18 (GHSA-2v37-7h3g-55p8) by @nwparker in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/14723

New Contributors

• @leofmarciano made their first contribution in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/11582
• @DaQun made their first contribution in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/14299
• @pythonstrup made their first contribution in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/14734

Full Changelog: https://github.com/stablyai/orca/compare/v1.4.185...v1.4.186