Tabs v2.3.0

Guided workspace setup and a refreshed editor

Start with a project and follow a hands-on tour of Tabs. The embedded editor now runs Code OSS 1.145.0 and restores Markdown editing and preview in the installed app.

What changed

• Open or create a local project, or clone into the current tab using a Git URL or a supported host such as GitHub or GitLab.
• Explore Code, Dock, Git, and Browser at your own pace. Minimize the tour while you work and click the Tabs mascot to resume.
• Follow optional setup through saving a Browser tab, Terminal tab, or Dock preset. The tour also walks through Quick Actions and shows where to connect a coding agent.
• Turn off Quick Actions without losing your layout or shortcuts. Longer labels wrap inside the action wheel.
• Edit thread titles from the thread list or conversation header. Titles are trimmed and blank titles are rejected.
• Switch between Text Editor, Markdown editing, and Preview. The embedded browser stays with its owning project when you switch tools.

Tabs v2.2.2

Quick Actions refinements and smaller editor caches

Quick Actions makes searching and temporary clipboard items easier to manage. This update also reduces accumulated editor caches and improves backup recovery.

What changed

• Use the refreshed Quick Actions search panel, clearer action icons, and updated radial layouts.
• Work with the updated temporary clipboard and manage kept browser and terminal tools from Workspace settings.
• Get clearer backup and recovery controls, including separate feedback for refreshing snapshots and retrying startup.
• Create backups when runtime sockets or temporary pipes are present in application data.
• Reclaim legacy editor resource caches automatically and prevent the embedded editor from retaining separate resource and JavaScript disk caches for every project.
• Improve Windows update extraction when packaged files are checked through virtual directories.

Tabs v2.2.1

Quick actions and temporary workspace tools

Open frequent actions beside your pointer, keep scratch browsers and terminals organized, and manage worktrees and storage from Settings. This release also improves Windows installation and fixes logo selection on Windows.

What changed

• Choose Halo Fade, Glass Dial, or Pie Sectors for Quick Actions, with configurable shortcuts beside each action and highlights that follow its color.
• Open Quick Actions from the editor, browser, or terminal with Command-Option-K on macOS or Ctrl-Alt-K on Windows and Linux. The workspace remains visible beneath the blurred overlay.
• Create temporary browser and terminal tabs, then rename, configure, keep, hide, or remove them from Workspace settings. Closing a tab asks for confirmation.
• Paste text, links, and images into Clipboard, search recent items, and pin snippets to keep on your device.
• Inspect Git worktrees and application storage, open isolated workspaces, and clean eligible logs with protection for checkouts that contain local work.
• Open agent conversations in separate windows and return them to the workspace.
• Use clearer settings navigation and a compact editor for configuring Quick Actions shortcuts.
• Install and upgrade Windows with a smaller bundled editor payload and better handling of running app processes.
• Apply the selected logo treatment to Windows window and taskbar icons and existing Tabs shortcuts.

Tabs v2.2.0

Tabs 2.2.0: A refreshed workspace for code and agents

Tabs brings a more cohesive Code workspace together with richer agent controls, project scripts, local commit drafting, and data recovery. This release also refreshes theme and typography collections and reduces work during desktop startup.

What changed

• Switch between Run, Git, and Agents in Workspace Actions, with remembered sections and a layout that adapts to your chat pane.
• Follow agent relationships, fork work into another conversation, and bring results back into the parent thread.
• Discover project scripts and inspect linked pull requests from the workspace, with clearer readiness and checkout behavior.
• Work in the updated Code OSS 1.143 editor with a wider Go to file control, connected tabs, coordinated panel corners, and more restrained menus, tooltips, and notifications.
• Draft commit messages with a local Ollama model and choose the model in settings.
• Review saved Tabs data backups and restore compatible snapshots from the recovery settings.
• Browse refreshed theme and typography collections and preview combinations before applying them.
• Reach the workspace sooner as optional services and startup resources load when needed.
• Explore the website's new interactive footer and updated product presentation.
• See refreshed response rail animations, clearer branch menus, and updated Dock interaction styling.
• Use keyboard shortcuts more reliably during startup and switch focus between embedded editor and chat inputs more consistently.

Upgrade notes

Local commit drafting requires Ollama and a downloaded model, such as qwen3:1.7b. Tabs data backups cover application data, not project source files outside Tabs.

macOS builds are not Apple Developer ID signed or notarized. After attempting to open a downloaded build, use System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway.

Tabs v2.1.0

Tabs 2.1.0: A new identity for Tabs

Tabs has a new app icon and five distinctive treatments, with desktop sizing that fits more comfortably beside other applications. This release also refreshes typography controls, the Mac installation guide, and the website introduction.

What changed

• Choose Blueprint, Daybreak, Carbon Copy, Moonstone, or Afterglow in Themes, or follow your system appearance from General settings.
• Use corrected icon spacing on macOS, with transparent margins in Windows and Linux exports too.
• Explore saved typography mixes, separate interface and editor font choices, and updated appearance controls.
• Follow the refreshed drag-to-Applications guide in the Mac installer.
• Meet the new mascot in the website introduction: its eyes look around and follow a loose piece into place.
• Find consistent new branding across the desktop app, website, Exchange header, browser icons, and shared-link previews.

Upgrade notes

macOS builds are not Apple Developer ID signed or notarized. After attempting to open a downloaded build, use System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway.

Tabs v2.0.4

Tabs 2.0.4: A more cohesive Code workspace

Tabs refines the embedded editor, chat panels, workspace icons, and typography controls. Switching the Code toolbar between Tabs Agent and GitHub Copilot now closes the previous chat surface.

What changed

• Keep one Code toolbar chat provider open at a time when switching between Tabs Agent and GitHub Copilot.
• Bring connected assistant tabs, rounded built-in controls, and more comfortable Chat spacing to the Code workspace.
• Blur the full Code workspace behind native dialogs, including its toolbar and activity rail, while keeping the dialog clear.
• Match the editor status bar and settings control to the workspace theme, including when the window loses focus.
• Add expressive workspace tool icons and animations, with larger Dock artwork.
• Expand local font choices and heading presets, with live typography previews in appearance settings.
• Add a clearer drag-to-Applications layout to the Mac installer.

Upgrade notes

macOS builds are not Apple Developer ID signed or notarized. After attempting to open a downloaded build, use System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway.

Tabs v2.0.3

Tabs 2.0.3: Curated workspace typography and upstream editor sync

Tabs 2.0.3 introduces ten distinctive, handcrafted typography presets across the setup experience and workspace, alongside upstream Code-OSS editor engine updates for enhanced performance and rendering stability.

What changed

• Personalize workspace aesthetics with ten bespoke typography pairings featuring Halo Grotesk, Nauryz Redkeds, Exotica, Mantranaga 36dot, Angst, Equilla, Deserta, Arck, Darker Grotesque, Moche, Urbanist, Sato Sans, Rebel Type Dog, Neutral Face, Hashira Mt, Stigma, and Sun Seed.
• Preview typography selections live in the setup walkthrough with accurate weights, optical sizes, and integrated open font licensing.
• Upgrade the embedded Code-OSS editor engine with upstream improvements to editor rendering, platform services, and workbench contributions.
• Improve Agent Sessions layout responsiveness and titlebar appearance during multi-pane navigation.

Upgrade notes

macOS builds are ad-hoc signed and update via the built-in preview updater. When opening a fresh manual download on macOS for the first time, use System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway.

Tabs v2.0.2

Tabs 2.0.2: Code-OSS 1.142.0 runtime and startup polish

Tabs 2.0.2 upgrades the embedded Code-OSS editor runtime to VS Code 1.142.0 with complete native host coordination, refines the startup experience with a full tile sequence and smooth reveal, resolves cold-launch authentication timing, and ensures approved extensions remain available with automatic metadata renewal.

What changed

• Upgrade the embedded Code-OSS runtime to VS Code 1.142.0, supporting active editor state coordination, cancellation-aware native ZIP archiving, and GPU compositing detection.
• Preserve new-session composer drafts and reveal targets across Agents window handoffs while keeping focus-only window reuses undisturbed.
• Allow the airport flip-board animation to complete its full tile settle and highlight sequence before smoothly sliding upward to reveal the ready workspace.
• Synchronize startup loading concurrently behind the splash screen so elapsed animation time never fakes readiness, and respect reduced-motion preference changes.
• Wait for the local backend listener before initiating desktop authentication, eliminating cold-start connection-refused errors and reconnect delays.
• Keep approved extensions continuously available with automatic metadata renewal across sleeping and waking servers.
• Display verified publisher seals and expanded click targets on marketplace extension cards.

Upgrade notes

macOS builds are ad-hoc signed and update via the built-in preview updater. When opening a fresh manual download on macOS for the first time, use System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway.

Tabs v2.0.1

Tabs 2.0.1: extension tools and workspace reliability

Tabs 2.0.1 refines extension tools with package icons, per-project workspace tool visibility, restored Git staging actions, and verified Linux desktop backend startup.

What changed

• Manage installed extensions with package logos, detail previews, and installation review in the Extensions settings view.
• Choose which extension tools appear in the workspace toolbar for each project from Project Workspace Settings.
• Remember the selected extension tool across project switches, and retry extension tool panels safely if an error occurs.
• Stage and unstage files reliably with restored Git staging controls and acknowledged action progress in the Git workspace.
• Start the bundled workspace backend reliably on Linux AppImage installations.
• Package native dependencies accurately for each target desktop architecture.

Upgrade notes

macOS builds are ad-hoc signed and update via the built-in preview updater. When opening a fresh manual download on macOS for the first time, use System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway.

Tabs v2.0.0

Tabs 2.0: a connected workspace for agents and tools

Tabs brings conversations, queued work, project tools and source control into a shared workspace. This release also introduces the Exchange developer ecosystem and more focused appearance controls.

What changed

• Download large macOS updates without a two-minute total limit, and resume interrupted downloads after retrying.
• Restore Git actions and account operations, repository cloning, keybinding imports and support-bundle export in the connected workspace.
• Apply the selected audit mode, depth and folder scope to AI reviews, with findings marked as unverified for your review.
• Schedule queued messages, edit their delivery time, reorder them, or send them next from the conversation's Queue panel.
• Use companion panels to keep files, browser pages and pull requests alongside agent conversations.
• Navigate a redesigned Git workspace with dedicated views for changes, history, branches and accounts.
• Try Interface Study in Labs across the app, or enable Settings page only and choose its light or dark appearance independently of your workspace theme.
• Open Tabs Exchange from the website to browse developer documentation and download extension development tools. Public publishing remains disabled during the pilot.
• Get clearer startup guidance when a workspace database belongs to an incompatible build. Supported legacy upgrades preserve conversation history, and development uses a separate default data directory.
• Fix Intel Mac and Linux startup when the desktop app hands settings to the bundled workspace backend.

Upgrade notes

This refreshed 2.0.0 replaces the initial 2.0.0 download. If you already installed 2.0.0, download and install the refreshed installer manually; the version number is unchanged. Users on 1.3.34 whose in-app download times out should also use the manual installer.

This release updates the workspace runtime and database schema. Back up your Tabs data before upgrading; older builds may not be able to open a database upgraded by Tabs 2.0. Keep the backup if you need to return to an earlier version.

Extension authors: check that engines.tabs includes 2.0.0, test your extension, then repack it. Existing packages restricted to Tabs 1.x will remain incompatible until their authors publish an updated package.

macOS builds are not Apple Developer ID signed or notarized. After attempting to open a downloaded build, use System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway.