What's Changed
0.181.1 - 2026-11-02
Highlights
Bug Fixes
- Publish vtcode-desktop-protocol to crates.io (59edae70) (@vinhnx)
- Pin desktop workflow nextest to repo-required version (723c7175) (@vinhnx)
- Skip Liquid Glass catalog on SDKs older than macOS 26 (827f8929) (@vinhnx)
- Allow iTerm2 icon install from any macOS terminal; refresh stale VS Code icon docs (505af907)
- Accept edit/edits in scope-review expectations (3cad2153)
- Adapt desktop to gpui-pre 0.3.10 and re-vendor macos cursor patch (0a1b4026)
- Preserve thread across config changes (7c88841c)
- Keep thread on config responses (93ffa224)
- Interview the user when plan validation exhausts (2c4c6c3e)
- Diagnose missing-toolchain verification failures and scope markdown checks (eeee8f24)
- Preserve installer errors and guide manual install (b59b4e44)
- Bump rio-vt to 0.5.29 for RUSTSEC-2026-0430 (033d608d)
- Correct display width and shimmer test probe (70b27de1)
- Let a latched stop win over queued overlay input (5d88c1a4)
- Persist model selection and map effort on config/select (b09755b5)
- Proceed degraded on deterministic failures instead of wedging turns (837735cf)
- Give settings panels and sections horizontal air (c94cb8f9)
- Make cancel reliably stop the active run (5fc386d4)
Documentation
- Link desktop app download, fix admonitions for crates.io (1e477501) (@vinhnx)
- Add copy-paste Rex program-registry icon request (01df8728)
- Polish README wording and add desktop demo video (716ed219)
- Thread-preserving model switch (c0abb618)
- Docs: update README and desktop workspace with demo video and appearance images (cdcb3cca)
- Update README for clarity and consistency, improve demo video description (3343a325)
- Reflow workspace guide tables and fix lint errors (c6700608)
- Correct stale gpui-kit 0.8.0 references to pinned 0.8.1 (c87525e3)
Features
- Build and upload macOS desktop app with release.sh (30a3f0b9) (@vinhnx)
- Link the desktop app from release notes automatically (26c67eae) (@vinhnx)
- Emit ConEmu OSC 9;4 tab progress on allowlisted terminals (d78ef6e1)
- Offer prebuilt macOS app install in installer and updater (94ab8f09)
- Install command, startup nudge, Gatekeeper notes, install docs (1b8995fb)
- Proceed with recorded exclusions instead of blocking turns (9a625d29)
- Share default search paths between pipe and PTY commands (b89bf22a)
- Add in-app license and open-source viewer (23c5c2d2)
- Sync inspector visuals and add rail close control (65a9c636)
- Add force-cancel and background exec controls (e0e3d693)
- Add bidirectional CLI thread handoff (/desktop, /cli) (69bc1744)
- Navigate history with horizontal trackpad scroll (7ff3634d)
Other Changes
Performance
- Collapse consecutive transcript remeasures (9ef69a9f)
Refactors
- Split over-budget session event modules (267abea4)
- Move desktop request router into dispatch module (78fd7b81)
- Route settings rows and nav selection through shared builders (c31d008b)
Tests
- Pin chat font-size scaling with geometry regressions (d2648bf1)
- Cover stepper e2e and production-frame font sync (1a1d1421)
Full Changelog: https://github.com/vinhnx/vtcode/compare/0.181.0...0.181.1
Desktop app (macOS)
- Download
vtcode-desktop-0.181.1-aarch64-apple-darwin.zip(Apple Silicon, macOS 15+), unzip, and drag VT Code.app to Applications. - This build is ad hoc signed (no Developer ID): on first launch, right-click VT Code.app and choose Open (or allow it in System Settings > Privacy & Security). See FIRST-LAUNCH.txt inside the zip.
- The bundle includes its matching
vtcodeCLI helper; open the app anytime withvtcode desktop. - Verify with
vtcode-desktop-0.181.1-aarch64-apple-darwin.zip.sha256orchecksums.txt.
