Orrery v0.2.0

[Hankanman]

Linux builds of Orrery — every repo in orbit. This is a big step up from v0.1.0: a second AI backend, a fleet of new workflow tools, desktop notifications, and a much smarter sidebar.

✨ Highlights

Local AI, now with a bundled engine

• llama.cpp inference backend alongside Ollama. Pick your engine in Settings → AI. (#21)
  • Runs a local llama-server sidecar — no Ollama install required.
  • A llama-server engine is bundled in these release builds, so the backend works out of the box; download a model from Settings and go.
  • Spun up lazily and shut down cleanly with the app (no orphaned process).
  • Powers summaries, commit messages, changelogs, the daily briefing, and the resume catch-up. (Semantic search still uses Ollama embeddings.)

Get more done across your fleet

• Fleet bulk actions — multi-select repos and run batch git ops (fetch, pull, stash, checkout default, or a constrained custom command) with live per-repo progress and cancel. (#63)
• Agent & terminal session dashboard — see every agent/terminal you've launched, with terminate / reopen / open-in-IDE / open-folder. (#68)
• PR / CI action panel in the repo drawer — per-PR checks, reviews, mergeability, and quick-merge (squash/rebase/merge, respecting what the repo allows). (#67)
• Quick-create — spin up a new project or clone anything straight from the header. (#71)
• Per-repo notes + "resume where I left off" — jot notes per repo and get an AI catch-up of what changed since you last looked. (#69)
• Cross-repo code search in the command palette, backed by ripgrep. (#65)
• Worktree manager — create, open, and remove git worktrees. (#62)
• Branch janitor (Cleanup) — find and prune merged/gone branches. (#64)
• Project grouping / tags and saved filter views for Mission Control. (#66)
• Dev Tools page — a small utility belt for common dev chores. (#72)

Stay in the loop

• Desktop notifications + tray quick-glance for new PRs, review requests, and CI failures — Orrery now closes to the tray and keeps watching in the background. (#70)

A smarter shell

• Contextual sidebar with count badges, a collapsible rail, and per-view slots for Inbox & Feed, including a "new since last visit" glance. (#81, #82)
• Faster Feed — parallel sources with an instant stale-while-revalidate render. (#84)

🐞 Fixes & hardening

• Fixed VirtualList row overlap when the item set changes. (#83)
• Hardened cross-repo code search against ripgrep flag smuggling. (#77)
• Stopped tracking the .cate/ editor workspace. (#89)
• Dependency refresh (dirs, which, toml majors) and pnpm pinned to 10.x.

📦 Install

Grab the artifact for your distro below:

• AppImage — chmod +x Orrery_0.2.0_amd64.AppImage && ./Orrery_0.2.0_amd64.AppImage
• .deb — sudo apt install ./Orrery_0.2.0_amd64.deb
• .rpm — sudo dnf install ./Orrery-0.2.0-1.x86_64.rpm

The AppImage is larger this release (~93 MB) because it now ships the bundled llama-server engine.

See the documentation for setup and the feature tour.

What's Changed

• Document the PR-only workflow by @Hankanman in Document the PR-only workflow #58
• Bump dirs, which, toml to latest majors by @Hankanman in Bump dirs, which, toml to latest majors #59
• Bump pnpm 10 → 11 by @Hankanman in Bump pnpm 10 → 11 #60
• Pin pnpm 10.33 (revert pnpm 11) by @Hankanman in Pin pnpm 10.33 (revert pnpm 11) #61
• Dev Tools page (utility belt) by @Hankanman in Dev Tools page (utility belt) #73
• Complete git worktree manager by @Hankanman in Complete git worktree manager #74
• Saved filter views (Mission Control) by @Hankanman in Saved filter views (Mission Control) #75
• Cross-repo code search in the command palette by @Hankanman in Cross-repo code search in the command palette #76
• Harden code search against ripgrep flag smuggling by @Hankanman in Harden code search against ripgrep flag smuggling #77
• Revert direct-pushed tags commit (re-land via PR) by @Hankanman in Revert direct-pushed tags commit (re-land via PR) #78
• Project grouping / tags (re-landed via PR) by @Hankanman in Project grouping / tags (re-landed via PR) #79
• Branch janitor (Cleanup view) by @Hankanman in Branch janitor (Cleanup view) #80
• Leverage the sidebar: contextual slots, count badges, collapsible rail by @Hankanman in Leverage the sidebar: contextual slots, count badges, collapsible rail #81
• Contextual sidebar slots for Inbox & Feed + "new since last visit" by @Hankanman in Contextual sidebar slots for Inbox & Feed + "new since last visit" #82
• Fix VirtualList row overlap when filtering the Feed by @Hankanman in Fix VirtualList row overlap when filtering the Feed #83
• Speed up the feed: parallel sources + instant stale render by @Hankanman in Speed up the feed: parallel sources + instant stale render #84
• PR/CI action panel + quick-merge (PR/CI action panel + quick-merge #67) by @Hankanman in PR/CI action panel + quick-merge (#67) #85
• Desktop notifications + tray quick-glance (Desktop notifications + tray quick-glance #70) by @Hankanman in Desktop notifications + tray quick-glance (#70) #86
• Per-repo notes + "resume where I left off" (Per-repo notes + "resume where I left off" #69) by @Hankanman in Per-repo notes + "resume where I left off" (#69) #87
• Quick-create: new project / clone-anything (Quick-create: new project / clone-anything #71) by @Hankanman in Quick-create: new project / clone-anything (#71) #88
• Untrack .cate/ editor workspace by @Hankanman in Untrack .cate/ editor workspace #89
• Agent/terminal session dashboard (Agent/terminal session dashboard #68) by @Hankanman in Agent/terminal session dashboard (#68) #90
• Fleet bulk actions: multi-select + batch ops (Fleet bulk actions (multi-select across repos) #63) by @Hankanman in Fleet bulk actions: multi-select + batch ops (#63) #91
• Extract an AiBackend seam (Embed llama.cpp inference engine #21, groundwork) by @Hankanman in Extract an AiBackend seam (#21, groundwork) #92
• llama.cpp backend: sidecar + model download (Embed llama.cpp inference engine #21) — DO NOT MERGE until verified on-device by @Hankanman in llama.cpp backend: sidecar + model download (#21) — DO NOT MERGE until verified on-device #93
• Ship llama-server in release bundles via CI fetch (Embed llama.cpp inference engine #21) by @Hankanman in Ship llama-server in release bundles via CI fetch (#21) #94
• Release v0.2.0 by @Hankanman in Release v0.2.0 #95

Full Changelog: v0.1.0...v0.2.0

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