What's Changed
0.181.3 - 2026-11-03
Highlights
Bug Fixes
- Cycle tab focus instead of fixed counts in review/settings tests (ee7579c2) (@vinhnx)
- Drop composer prompt marker, align draft with action row (b80c78b7)
- Send stable x-opencode-session on every request (d1db0098)
- Relax settings spacing and pin rows to the title frame (dba5c997)
- Add Confirm button to HITL choice panels (edbff6cd)
- Use unwrap_or for clippy unnecessary_lazy_evaluations (49524483)
- Persist file viewer settings across launches (3b6a09af)
- Apply saved shortcuts live and quarantine corrupt preferences (0f963afa)
- Builtin presets cover every provider; implement qwen presets (5d7e2c1d)
- Resolve model routes through canonical provider identity (019408ce)
- Show only the editing profile's theme grid (0e45c4cb)
- Align turn-timer fallback with config default (5b7e3210)
- Export config schema with --locked (4e2750ac)
- Pin expanded diagnostic details while streaming (691275b3)
- Use camo-safe shields.io badge for DeepWiki (454e0820)
- Fork-based desktop/CLI handoff with auto-run terminal (983ccd95)
Documentation
- Fix totality test name in builtin presets comment (1c2691f6)
Features
- Add icons to settings navigation with shared rail entry builder (8b79c84f)
- Add scrolling content page title to settings tabs (d9934752)
- Filterable newest-first activity, changes, and output panes (140c6728)
- Transcript CTAs that open the inspector (711447ab)
- Transcript navigation and TUI follow-state (00f42199)
- Guide GitHub queries to gh CLI fallback (67984abc)
- Refine HITL confirmation hierarchy, hover, and rhythm (a2fc55d5)
- Weakest-sufficient fills, crisper muted text, Noir option (25863bfa)
- Threads keyboard nav, vim layer, unified reset (e401d2c4)
- Human-readable provider names with frontier-first order (27f5f00c)
- Composer alignment pass with extended icon bundle (c1697338)
- Group settings theme picker by light/dark modes (e2282391)
- Keyboard navigation for thread surfaces and activity (1c9a52b5)
- Vertical effort rail with labeled stops in model options (8077bf67)
- Quiet processing-tier readout in Zen composer (9b598de4)
- File-tree context menu with open, reveal, rename, delete (7143dff5)
- Stamp each agent response with a wall-clock footer (35a8d85b)
- Restyle HITL panel to Questionnaire visual language (2ce88225)
Other Changes
Refactors
- Converge settings screens on Kit Settings rhythm and split panes per module (665488f4)
- Converge remaining settings sections and items on shared builders (6f190ecc)
- Split oversized inspector and review test modules (b6a6f564)
- Single-lock PlanningWorkflowState with atomic transitions (ba054fc1)
- Typed LocalAgentStatus replacing string matching (387cbb01)
- Share consent title row across confirm modals (b3bcaec1)
Tests
- Pin inspector MIN clamp through divider drag (96539c6c)
- Pin profile caption contrast under contrast boost (0156ef10)
- Align model-switch test with frontier-first order (968ad2a0)
Full Changelog: https://github.com/vinhnx/vtcode/compare/0.181.2...0.181.3
Desktop app (macOS)
- Download
vtcode-desktop-0.181.3-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-0.181.3-aarch64-apple-darwin.zip.sha256orchecksums.txt.
