Hover v5.0.8

macOS: download Hover-5.0.8-macos-arm64.dmg (Apple silicon) or -macos-x64.dmg (Intel), open it and drag Hover to Applications. The app isn't notarized yet, so the first time, open it with right-click → Open (or System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway).

An automatic nightly build of every change merged to main: a pre-release, never the Latest.

What's Changed

• Chat and windows: fix clicks, wheel, Enter, Ctrl+C, wide code blocks and a high-DPI crash by @4regab in #60

Full Changelog: v5.0.7...v5.0.8

Hover v5.0.7 (nightly)

macOS: download Hover-5.0.7-macos-arm64.dmg (Apple silicon) or -macos-x64.dmg (Intel), open it and drag Hover to Applications. The app isn't notarized yet, so the first time, open it with right-click → Open (or System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway).

An automatic nightly build of every change merged to main: a pre-release, never the Latest.

What's Changed

• Faster notch and office; Claude-style tool calls in the chat by @4regab in #59

Full Changelog: v5.0.6...v5.0.7

Hover v5.0.6 (nightly)

macOS: download Hover-5.0.6-macos-arm64.dmg (Apple silicon) or -macos-x64.dmg (Intel), open it and drag Hover to Applications. The app isn't notarized yet, so the first time, open it with right-click → Open (or System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway).

An automatic nightly build of every change merged to main: a pre-release, never the Latest.

What's Changed

• Chat in order like Claude's app; office stops under the chat view; menus scroll; faster clicks by @4regab in #58

Full Changelog: v5.0.5...v5.0.6

Hover v5.0.5 (nightly)

macOS: download Hover-5.0.5-macos-arm64.dmg (Apple silicon) or -macos-x64.dmg (Intel), open it and drag Hover to Applications. The app isn't notarized yet, so the first time, open it with right-click → Open (or System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway).

An automatic nightly build of every change merged to main: a pre-release, never the Latest.

What's Changed

• Chat: stream the answer, fix the lag on long chats, keep tool output readable by @kiro-agent[bot] in #56
• CI: release every merge to main as a nightly build by @kiro-agent[bot] in #55

Full Changelog: v5.0.4...v5.0.5

Hover v3.9.0

macOS: download Hover-3.9.0-macos-arm64.dmg (Apple silicon) or -macos-x64.dmg (Intel), open it and drag Hover to Applications. The app isn't notarized yet, so the first time, open it with right-click → Open (or System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway).

Roadmap #30 (issues #31 to #41), the Compact at slider, and two fixes from PR #44. Windows and
Linux only: the Mac app and the web office are not changed. Checked on Linux with stand-in agents
and a real Git repository; not run on Windows or a Mac.

Added

• A new task that edits files gets its own Git worktree and branch (#31). The new-task box says so
  before you start. Read-only tasks, Kiro Web, folders that are not Git projects and repositories
  with no commit yet work in the folder itself; Hover never runs git init. Settings → Automation →
  "Work in the project folder itself" switches it off.
• Expand chat (#41). The desk card and the chat header have an Expand button that opens the same chat
  large in the app window: a session list (open and saved chats, hideable and resizable), Files &
  changes beside it, the status, branch, model, Stop and Open in editor in the header, and a wide reply
  box. It is the same session, draft, queue and place in the thread; nothing restarts, and approvals
  and questions stay answerable. Esc or the shrink button goes back to the office.
• Open in editor (#40): the desk card and the expanded chat open the task's own folder in the editor
  chosen in Settings → Automation. Hover a line in Files or Diff and press "Open ↗" to open the file at that line.
• Queued replies can be edited, sent now, or cancelled in the chat (#36). Stop now keeps the replies
  waiting behind the run, held, instead of dropping them, and a note over the reply box offers "Send them now".
• A usage-limit note over the reply box (#39): what the agent said, when it lifts, and Continue at the reset,
  Retry now, Snooze, Cancel. Settings → Automation → "Continue when a usage limit lifts" arms it for you.
• A More menu in the chat header (#35): continue with another agent, fork the chat, and bring a fork's
  findings back to the original. A fork gets a worktree of its own, as a new task does.
• Context chips (#33): Attach on a file (a copy, or "As reference"), on each changed file in Diff, and on
  each command in Terminal. The chips show above the reply box with an ×, and go with the message.
• Watch this pull request (#38): a button in the PR panel. The task is told of new reviews, failed checks, a
  conflict, and when the pull request is done or closed. "Stop watching" ends it.
• Let a task ask other agents for help (#32, Linux and Mac): a switch in the new-task box, a chat menu item,
  and the helpers listed in the Agents tab. Limits are in Settings → Automation.
• Settings → Automation (#34, #37): custom ACP agents and the ACP Registry, saved tasks that run on a
  schedule or a webhook, a webhook address, and the background service (hoverai --service), which runs
  saved tasks when the app is closed. The service is written for systemd, launchd and Task Scheduler; only
  the systemd unit text was checked, none of the three was run.
• Kiro → Compact at is a slider from 20 % to 100 %. It replaces the five buttons (50 to 90 %). A saved
  number under 20 is read as 20 and the file is left as it was.

Not in this release

• The Mac Swift app and the web office are not changed.
• Worktree choices beyond the default (start from another branch, use an existing worktree, remove, make
  again, bring the branch back) are in the code and tested, but the app has no screen for them.
• Agents helping agents has no socket on Windows.
• Send-a-selection: context chips take a whole file, a whole file's change, or a command's whole output,
  not a selected part.

Changed

• The office draws on one flat 60 fps schedule, and no longer slows down when idle (PR #44, half of
  the stutter in #27). Linux still reads each frame back and composes it on the CPU, which is the
  rest of #27. Two office tests that expected the old 10 fps idle pace now expect the flat one.
• Rewind starts a replacement conversation from an account of the kept turns, instead of telling the
  agent it still remembers.
• hover-agents depends on sha2, which is already in the build. AgentTool has a sixth value,
  Custom: going back to 3.8 with a custom-agent chat leaves that chat unreadable.

Fixed

• The office thread no longer spins when its channel closes without a quit message (#43, PR #44).

Hover v3.6.1

[3.6.1] - 2026-10-05

Added

• Session history lists your Kiro Web sessions started outside Hover (the browser, your phone,
  the terminal), by date with a "Kiro Web" mark. Click one to read the whole chat and reply.
  The list is fetched each time history opens, so it follows the account you're signed in to.
• Settings → Kiro → "Continue when high usage encountered": when Kiro stops because too many
  people are using the model, Hover sends "continue" until it works or you press Stop. Off
  by default.
• The repository menus for Kiro Web (the new-task box and the voice preview) have a search box.

Changed

• With Kiro Web on, the voice preview hides the folder pick and its default-workspace note.
• The voice ring reacts more to your voice, with small dots and ripples.

Fixed

• The office in the notch froze when the app window was open behind other windows or
  minimised.
• Kiro Web chats showed dozens of empty "Working" rows.
• The notch said "Working on Cloning repository"; it now says "Cloning repository".
• The "Compact automatically" switch and its percent in Settings → Kiro did nothing.
• Pictures pasted into a Kiro Web task never reached it; they are now sent with the prompt.
• A Kiro Web task cut off by a dropped connection, or by closing Hover, now picks up again.

Hover v3.6.0

macOS: download Hover-3.6.0-macos-arm64.dmg (Apple silicon) or -macos-x64.dmg (Intel), open it and drag Hover to Applications. The app isn't notarized yet, so the first time, open it with right-click → Open (or System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway).

What's Changed

• Release 3.6.0: voice folder pick and Kiro Web by voice, the chat's own PR in the desk by @4regab in #23

Full Changelog: v3.5.0...v3.6.0

Hover v3.5.0

[3.5.0] - 2026-10-05

Added

• Kiro tasks can run in Kiro Web, in Kiro's cloud, instead of on this computer: the cloud
  button in the new-task box and in voice's preview (Kiro only). The task clones the folder's
  GitHub repo, another connected one, or none. Replies reach the same session, also after a
  restart, and the chat's cloud chip opens it in Kiro Web. Windows and Linux.
• Voice's listening and working cards show only an aura now (a glowing ring of light, after
  LiveKit's Aura visualizer), with no words and no Esc chip. The Esc key still cancels. It swirls and swells with your voice
  while listening, and swirls faster with a pulse while Hover works on what you said. Pick its colour
  in Settings → Voice → Aura colour, or type any hex colour.

Fixed

• Voice's preview card was cut off below the task box when the agent menu was open
  over a long task (Start and Cancel out of view), most on the Small office size. The card
  now stays inside the notch: the menu and the task box give up height first, and scroll.

Hover v3.4.2

macOS: download Hover-3.4.2-macos-arm64.dmg (Apple silicon) or -macos-x64.dmg (Intel), open it and drag Hover to Applications. The app isn't notarized yet, so the first time, open it with right-click → Open (or System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway).

What's Changed

• Release 3.4.2: desk card fits, one send-again, PR Markdown by @4regab in #18

Full Changelog: v3.4.1...v3.4.2

Hover v3.4.1

macOS: download Hover-3.4.1-macos-arm64.dmg (Apple silicon) or -macos-x64.dmg (Intel), open it and drag Hover to Applications. The app isn't notarized yet, so the first time, open it with right-click → Open (or System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway).

Full Changelog: v3.4.0...v3.4.1