Release v2026.8.0-beta.1 · OpenHeaders/open-headers-releases

This is a beta build for early testing. It may contain bugs.

Desktop App

Git tool window — a workspace bound to a git repository gains a
full Version Control tool window. The log pane draws the commit
graph with ref labels for branches and tags, per-pane toolbars with
filter chips and view options, a sticky branch scope, and a details
pane for the selected commit.
Branches rail — an activity-bar rail lists local and remote
branches with checkout, create, and compare verbs; comparing two
refs opens as its own tab.
Commit window — a changes tree with tri-state checkboxes,
keyboard navigation, and per-row context menus stages exactly what
you pick; commit and amend run from the tree, and the working diff
sits beside it. Single-chain directories compress to one row, the
IDE way.
Ignore management — Add to .gitignore and Stop Ignoring live on
the tree's context menus, and ignored rows say which ignore file
and pattern claimed them.
Console tab — every git command the app runs is visible in a
console tab, so nothing happens behind your back.

Capture sessions — the Traffic monitor can record what it
observes into sealed, encrypted session archives: auto-named at
seal, deduplicated storage for bodies, a retention budget with
garbage collection, and recovery of interrupted recordings on next
launch.
Replay — a sealed session opens back up in the same viewer the
live Traffic monitor uses — rows, timings, and bodies resolve from
the archive even after the browser tab is long gone.
Sessions in the sidebar — recorded sessions live in a SESSIONS
section of the sources rail: search, sort, folders, rename and
organize verbs, and open-on-click replay.
Redesigned monitor — the Traffic monitor moves into the dock as
a tool window with a per-source tab row, a sources rail, and a
start/stop capture control in the header.
Clear names — the wire vocabulary is now Traffic Interception,
the system proxy settings group reads Proxy · System, and Install
CA takes you straight to the trust pane.

Observe traffic over MCP — with an explicit workspace grant, an
AI agent connected to the app's MCP server can observe captured
traffic: list sources and requests, pull failures with their
bodies, diff two requests, wait on traffic matching a predicate,
and read redirect chains.
Redaction first — sensitive fields are redacted in everything
an agent reads, and redacted markers say so honestly; turning a
captured request into a rule forces a draft whenever redacted
fields are involved.
Session tools — agents can list and read sealed capture
sessions; raw unredacted reads sit behind their own grant, off by
default, and every raw read is stamped in the observe feed.

Compact sidebar — denser rows, hover-gated controls, one global
focus tint, and slimmer dividers across the sidebar trees.
Speed-search — the sidebar gains an on-demand filter/search
mode; filtering prunes empty folders and highlights no-match state.
Tool windows keep their state — switching dock tabs no longer
resets a tool window's scroll and selection; bodies stay mounted
and pick up where you left them.