Biorouter v1.92.0

Biorouter v1.92.0

This minor release introduces Crew, a shared workspace where a lab chats, shares
files and gives tasks to AI agents. It also changes how the desktop app starts on
macOS and Linux, adds GPT-6, Claude Opus 5.5 and Fable 5.1 to the API providers,
and makes Copy work again.

Crew

Open Crew in the sidebar. A workspace holds teams, teams hold channels, and
agents read and post in a channel only when you allow it. See the
Crew user manual.

• Where it runs. One lab member, the host, runs the workspace on a Linux server
  in their own account, with no root access, system service or open port.
  Biorouter connects each member over SSH with their own server account.
• Joining. The host invites people by server username. A member pastes the
  invitation (valid 24 hours) and sends back the code Crew shows, which the host
  enters with Let in….
• Messages and files. Messages support Markdown and @mentions. Files up to
  1 GiB can be attached, dragged or pasted; credential files such as private keys
  are refused.
• Agents. Ask my agent gives your agent a task the whole channel sees; it
  runs on your computer with your model. Typing /crew in a regular chat lets
  that chat's agent use a channel for up to one hour.
• Privacy. Privacy decides which AI models may read a workspace, not which
  people see it. A new workspace is Private with no institution, and no agent can
  work until the host sets one. Then agents in a Private workspace use only a
  local model or one approved for that institution. Public models never
  read Restricted channels, and Claude Code and Codex are always refused.
• Command line. biorouter crew does what the Crew view does, on macOS and
  Linux. It needs biorouterd in the same folder as biorouter.

Requirements and limits

• The server must run x86_64 Linux with glibc 2.31 or newer and keep the workspace
  on a local disk, not NFS, CIFS or SMB. Crew has been tested on Debian 11
  and Ubuntu 24.04.
• Every account that connects, the host's included, needs its own copy at exactly
  ~/.local/bin/biorouter-crew on the server. The 1.92.0 biorouter-cli .deb and
  .rpm install /usr/bin/biorouter-crew, which Crew does not use; each person
  copies it to their own ~/.local/bin.
• Each member needs the OpenSSH client, a server account and the server's SSH
  fingerprint from IT. Crew connects only to servers in your known hosts file.
• Crew does not work in a biorouter serve browser, and biorouter crew does not
  run on Windows. Live Crew workspace testing did not cover the Windows or
  Linux desktop apps; package build and startup checks are separate.
• A workspace holds fewer than 15,360 messages of 1 KiB, and archiving frees
  nothing. The host role, a workspace's institution and a channel's label cannot
  be changed later.
• The host's server account and the server's administrators can read everything.
  Keep patient, sample and study IDs out of workspace, team and channel names.
• Crew has no direct messages, threads, edits, deletions, export or backup tools.

A shared background service on macOS and Linux

The desktop app and the biorouter crew commands (and
biorouter session --shared-daemon) now share one background service, which
keeps running after you quit the app so Crew stays connected.

• There is nothing to set up or type. The app and the commands start the
  service when it is not running and connect to it by themselves.
• If the service restarts while the app is open, Biorouter reconnects by itself
  and keeps open windows and drafts.
• After you update Biorouter, the new version replaces the older service the
  next time you open the app.
• Setting up or unlocking an optional Crew encrypted vault still asks for its
  passphrase when you choose that action. Normal app startup asks for nothing.
• The Linux desktop packages now need zenity, which shows that vault
  passphrase dialog.
• Windows is unchanged.

Models and providers

• OpenAI adds gpt-6-sol (default), gpt-6-luna (fast model) and
  gpt-6-astra. Azure OpenAI defaults to gpt-6-sol-2026-09-22 and sends GPT-5.4
  and later to the v1 Responses route.
• Claude Opus 5.5 and Fable 5.1 are added on Anthropic, Bedrock and Vertex AI. The
  Anthropic default stays claude-opus-4-8.
• Claude Opus 4.7 and later, Sonnet 5, Fable and Kimi K3 no longer fail on a
  rejected temperature through GitHub Copilot, OpenRouter, Databricks and similar
  gateways, nor do reasoning models on OpenAI's Responses route.
• On Vertex AI, models that no single region serves now go to the global
  endpoint, and GCP_LOCATION can be set to global, us or eu.
• Most providers get refreshed model lists and defaults. A new main
  model applies only when a provider is set up without one, but OpenAI now sends
  background calls such as titles to gpt-6-luna in every setup.
• Versa API Azure drops o4-mini and the GPT-4.1 models, which Azure is retiring;
  existing chats work until the retirement date.
• Claude Code defaults to claude-opus-5-5, which needs claude 2.1.280 or newer.
  Codex adds gpt-6-sol and gpt-6-luna, which need codex 0.156.1 or newer.
• Cost estimates use vendor list prices.
• Where the provider allows, a new key is checked before replacing the saved one.
• Azure OpenAI no longer fills in UCSF's gateway as its endpoint. UCSF users should
  choose Versa API Azure.

Chat and preview panel

• Copy works again on chat code blocks and in the preview panel. In the installed
  app it did nothing in either place from 1.90.4 through 1.91.2.
• The preview panel centres narrow HTML previews, PowerPoint slides, and Word and
  PDF pages.
• In a new chat, before you send its first message, the model chip changes only
  that chat unless you tick Also use for new chats.
• Clearing Max turns no longer stops every new chat before its first reply.

Security

• The credential guard now also protects .netrc, .pgpass, .git-credentials,
  Docker and Kubernetes configuration files, and the GitHub CLI's hosts.yml.
  Name searches without a known path, such as find . -name '*.yml' or
  find . -name config, are now refused too; a .biorouterignore negation
  reopens one store.
• With the keyring off, or on headless Linux, secrets.yaml is now created
  readable only by you and a looser existing file is tightened. Earlier versions
  could leave it readable by other accounts.
• An Agent Drafter app now opens only through a launch link from Biorouter. Old
  bookmarks and launchers exported before 1.92.0 no longer open it; use
  Applications or biorouter apps open.