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Lighter on memory, Claude subagents a click away, and remote servers that remember 🪄

This release is lighter on memory, with lower memory use in the terminal host and WSL connections, plus less idle CPU use in terminals. It also lets you open Claude subagents straight from the sidebar, makes Codex chats in Ask mode ask before editing, and helps paired servers, SSH and WSL hosts keep your tabs and explain failures. This release also fixes problems across Windows, Linux and macOS.

The short version

  • Open Claude subagents from the sidebar: Click a Claude subagent row in the sidebar or dashboard to open its transcript in the same terminal, then click the parent to go back. An eye marks the one you’re viewing.
  • Chats that ask first: Codex chats in Ask mode now ask before editing your workspace, remote Claude terminals on paired servers can continue in Chat, and chats that can’t start tell you why.
  • Agents resume as you left them: Resumed Claude sessions keep their effort level and launch flags, Codex keeps the permission you last gave it, and Session History finds chats in more folders and on servers.
  • Remote servers that remember: Paired servers keep your tabs across restarts, closed tabs stay closed, WSL hosts stop re-pairing after each restart, and SSH failures say what actually went wrong.
  • Lighter on memory: Terminals use far less idle CPU, the terminal host uses less memory once it next restarts, WSL connections need much less memory, and the resource panel now matches Activity Monitor on macOS.
  • Fixes from the community: Spaced Windows launcher paths, Korean input, DST in automations, focus-follows-mouse, tab dragging and Linux packages all work better.

Phone & web updates: Phones now explain an unreachable computer instead of spinning forever, and streaming replies and long web chats redraw less. Terminal programs that ask the terminal a question also keep working while a phone watches at desktop size.

Compatibility & upgrade notes

  • Codex chats in Ask mode: Ask now runs read-only and asks before workspace edits; Approve for me and Full access are unchanged, and work already running keeps its grant. Chats on a paired server keep the old behavior until that server is updated.
  • Claude subagent navigation: On by default with Claude status hooks. Orca loads its plugin only into Orca panes and adds one shortcut, the first free of Ctrl+Alt+G, H or V, to keybindings.json in each Claude folder it uses. Turn it off in Settings → Agents → Claude subagent navigation to remove that shortcut. Claude sessions already running need a fresh launch.
  • Paired servers: Moving a pane into a new tab and continuing a remote Claude terminal in Chat need the server to run this release. On older servers the move stays in this window only, as before, and Continue in Chat UI shows disabled with an update hint.
  • Claude account switching: Switching accounts now also offers to restart sessions running in your System default Claude folder when that folder is signed in to the old account. The dialog groups sessions into those on the old account, others, and ones it can’t move.
  • WSL hosts: Connections to a WSL host’s server now go through bash and fall back to Node when bash is missing or too old. This needs no server update and works with any server version.

Product experience

Native chat (experimental)

Codex asks before editing, remote terminals continue in Chat, and chats that can’t start say why.

Agent launch, status & accounts

Navigate Claude subagents, resume agents with the settings they had, and see the right status and history.

Orchestration & CLI

Workers report to the right coordinator and read all their mail, and CLI commands fail clearly.

Terminals

Lighter terminal hosts, cleaner repaints, and fixes for Windows, Linux, macOS and Korean input.

SSH, WSL & remote servers

Paired servers keep your tabs, WSL hosts stay paired and lighter, and SSH errors say what went wrong.

Workspaces, sidebar & everyday polish

The right workspace stays selected, quitting and reloading behave, and Orca uses less memory.

Phone & web

Phones explain an unreachable computer, chats redraw less, and terminals keep answering while you watch.

Tests, builds & maintenance

Faster local lint, builds and dev setup, more behavioral coverage with fewer low-value tests, continued module organization, groundwork for the cloud connector service, and relay service improvements.

All test, build and maintenance changes * Retire a pooled relay database connection that turned slow or lossy by @Jinwoo-H in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/33900 * Log the relay director’s TCP retransmits per runtime window by @Jinwoo-H in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/34027 * feat(connector): wire contract between Orca and the cloud connector service (inert) by @Jinwoo-H in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/33670 * feat(connector): connector service skeleton that checks auth-service tokens by @Jinwoo-H in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/33723 * feat(connector): inbox with held long poll, two confirmations and expiry, on connector tokens by @Jinwoo-H in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/33734 * feat(connector): Slack edge: signed ingress, owner-only routing, thread starts, post queue and agent replies (PR 5a) by @Jinwoo-H in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/33779 * feat(connector): cloud-assigned hello revisions, stale requests refused with 409, contract size caps, snapshot turn ids by @Jinwoo-H in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/33821 * feat(connector): Slack answer buttons: the owner answers the agent's approval or question from the thread (PR 5b) by @Jinwoo-H in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/33856 * feat(connector-contract): conversations from Slack, Discord or Linear; machines list the sources they take; replies name a messageId by @Jinwoo-H in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/33862 * refactor(cloud): share push's database layer as a package by @Jinwoo-H in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/33714 * chore(mobile): bump to 0.0.59 and Android versionCode 23 by @Jinwoo-H in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/33764 * perf(daemon): skip drain-waiter filter when none are pending by @ctolkien in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/30996 * fix(ci): localize the chat font family search keywords by @nwparker in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/33715 * fix(i18n): reject duplicate keys in localization catalogs by @nwparker in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/33950 * fix(build): keep index.js source map aligned with the bootstrap banner by @nwparker in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/33899 * fix(build): pin the native SwiftPM build system for the computer-use universal binary by @eatmoreduck in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/21146 * fix(terminal): split link-routing dialog context out of the component module so Fast Refresh doesn't crash terminals by @a-rookie-of-C-language in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/29740 * feat(tools): resize the PTY mid-capture with --resize-at by @nwparker in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/33781 * build(deps): bump vite 8.3.5, oxlint 1.89.0, oxlint-tsgolint 7.0.2005 by @OrcaWin in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/33794 * perf(lint): skip JS plugin rules on files that cannot match (lint:js-plugins 17s → 4s) by @OrcaWin in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/33813 * perf(devex): parallel pnpm lint (169s → 50s), capped typecheck threads, fresh shard timings by @OrcaWin in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/33817 * perf(build): cap Rolldown threads (−24% build CPU); don't block pnpm dev on the pairing web build by @OrcaWin in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/33828 * perf(dev): −1.2 GB idle RSS per pnpm dev instance (Rolldown threads + mimalloc purge) by @OrcaWin in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/33836 * perf(ci): shorten preflight's serial tail (~24s median), parallel ratchets, allow 2–10 unit shards by @OrcaWin in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/33887 * perf(lint): one ast-grep scan for the lint gate and the flaky-test ratchet (11s → 6s) by @OrcaWin in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/33903 * docs: stop promising cross-worktree split panes and Shift-Enter split in Jump Palette by @nwparker in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/33902 * docs(settings): describe the GitHub integration as the local gh CLI login, not OAuth by @eatmoreduck in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/26609 * docs: use the full `stablyai/orca/orca` cask name in install instructions by @innocarpe in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/14777 * Remove obsolete reference documentation by @AmethystLiang in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/34008 * refactor(renderer): group agent-status records and reducers by @nwparker in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/33665 * refactor: colocate task page composition hooks by @nwparker in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/33808 * refactor: colocate task page list presentation rules by @nwparker in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/33830 * refactor: colocate task page PR presentation rules by @nwparker in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/33890 * refactor(task-page): colocate cross-provider composition owners by @nwparker in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/33913 * refactor(mobile): colocate native chat composer and drafts by @nwparker in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/33922 * test(vitest): run-scoped temp dir, removed on exit, so test fixtures stop leaking into /tmp by @OrcaWin in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/33834 * test(vitest): stop orphaned node-runtime workers when Vitest is killed (150s+ → 53ms) by @OrcaWin in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/33848 * test(wsl): cover the bash bridge's argv, backpressure, fallbacks and cleanup by @nwparker in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/33907 * test(layout): stop rebuilding the runtime and RPC registry per test by @nwparker in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/33919 * test(layout): load the runtime graph once before the layout capability tests by @nwparker in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/33923 * test(layout): drop the warm-up that calls a helper [#33919] removed by @nwparker in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/33934 * test(startup): stop paying the ready graph's cold transform inside the first test by @nwparker in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/33925 * test(e2e): wait for the catalog failure past a slow conversion by @nwparker in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/33960 * test(daemon): use platform-native daemon endpoints and cwds in Windows-sensitive tests by @innocarpe in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/18289 * test: strengthen Git and session assertions; remove copied pathspec replay by @OrcaWin in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/33669 * test: remove redundant cases and strengthen audit assertions by @OrcaWin in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/33686 * test: remove low-value suites and copied test oracles by @OrcaWin in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/33708 * test: remove low-value wrapper and inventory suites by @OrcaWin in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/33736 * test: remove wrapper replays and test fixture inventories by @OrcaWin in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/33745 * test: remove redundant browser and transport coverage by @OrcaWin in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/33757 * test: remove redundant browser, runtime and secret registry coverage by @OrcaWin in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/33767 * test: remove redundant configuration, shortcut and recovery coverage by @OrcaWin in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/33770 * test: remove 29 low-value renderer suites by @OrcaWin in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/33772 * test: remove low-value predicates, inventories and helper echoes by @OrcaWin in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/33778 * test: remove low-value inventories, passthroughs and redundant cases by @OrcaWin in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/33796 * test: remove low-value renderer predicates and wrapper suites by @OrcaWin in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/33811 * test: remove low-value renderer suites and redundant shared cases by @OrcaWin in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/33819 * test: remove low-value renderer helper and presentation tests by @OrcaWin in https://github.com/stablyai/orca/pull/33876

Full Changelog: https://github.com/stablyai/orca/compare/v1.4.241...v1.4.242

Source: README.md, updated 2026-10-26