VOOL 0.7.4-beta

VOOL 0.7.4-beta

A security update for VOOL 0.7.3. Everyone on 0.7.x should install it.

What's changed

• Security hardening for workspace file tools. VOOL's file tools (writing, editing and patching files, and undoing those changes) no longer change a project's git settings or the hook files git runs. To change those, edit them yourself.
• Patches. A patch is checked in full before anything is written. If any part of it is refused, nothing in it is applied. Old-style "context" diffs are no longer accepted; VOOL uses the standard unified format.

Everything else is the same as 0.7.3.

Downloads

File	For	SHA-256
VOOL-0.7.4-beta-macos-arm64.dmg	Apple Silicon Macs (M1 and later), macOS 14 or newer	c25c1ffdf9d38ea3dc067b820e98932c82e243bef5312d9afea6c55818676458
VOOL-0.7.4-beta-macos-x86_64.dmg	Intel Macs, macOS 14 or newer	9769dfa4bfc4fb6f56117e54d361be7e867aeaf5ceec4849da4b99eb2fd378ed
vool-0.7.4-beta-linux-x86_64.tar.gz	Linux x86_64 (Ubuntu 22.04 / 24.04)	e5c59d8cf7dac7ffdab74436ccbd97484656e17e38ab350effad3bbccc9bd420

Sizes: arm64 239.7 MB, Intel 241.5 MB, Linux 100.1 MB. Each download has a .sha256 file next to it. To build it yourself, use the Source code links GitHub adds at the bottom of this release.

Updating from 0.7.3, 0.7.2, 0.7.1 or 0.7.0: download 0.7.4 below and install it over your current version. Your chats and settings live in your profile, outside the app.

Install on a Mac (Apple Silicon or Intel)

1. Pick the download that matches your chip: Apple menu > About This Mac.
2. Optional: check the download in Terminal with shasum -a 256 VOOL-0.7.4-beta-macos-<arm64 or x86_64>.dmg. Compare the result with the table above.
3. Open the DMG and drag VOOL to Applications.
4. The app is not notarized. On first open, double-click VOOL and click Done. Then go to System Settings > Privacy & Security, click Open Anyway, and confirm with your password. On macOS 14, Control-click VOOL and choose Open instead.
5. Before a local model can write answers, open Settings > Models & Providers > Local models and press Certify for it once.

Install on Linux (x86_64)

curl -fLO https://github.com/Parad0x-Labs/vool/releases/download/v0.7.4-beta/vool-0.7.4-beta-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
curl -fLO https://github.com/Parad0x-Labs/vool/releases/download/v0.7.4-beta/vool-0.7.4-beta-linux-x86_64.tar.gz.sha256
sha256sum -c vool-0.7.4-beta-linux-x86_64.tar.gz.sha256
tar -xzf vool-0.7.4-beta-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
bash vool-0.7.4-beta-linux-x86_64/install.sh
~/.local/bin/vool

No sudo or system Python is needed. VOOL appears in your application menu and opens the chat in your browser. To remove it, run bash ~/.local/share/vool/current/uninstall.sh. Your profile is kept.

Known limits in this beta

• Skill Codex: Browse Skill Codex shows the skills listed for your exact VOOL version, and you review a skill before it installs. To share a skill you made, press Publish to Skill Codex. VOOL checks the skill on your computer, then opens the Skill Codex website with it filled in. You sign in there and press Send; VOOL sends nothing itself. For now only the skill's text goes along, so a skill with extra files cannot be shared yet.
• After a forget, VOOL keeps the words you asked it to forget in a short list on your computer, so it can keep refusing them.
• On Intel Macs, local models run on the processor and are slow. A long memory answer can time out, so use a cloud model there for now.
• Paying websites through Solana pay-kit is not included in the downloads. That channel shows as not usable on this install.
• No live mainnet payment has been made yet with x402 or pay-per-answer AI services.
• Before a local model can write answers, press Certify for it once (Settings > Models & Providers > Local models).
• Scanned-PDF reading works on Macs only.
• The Mac app is not notarized (see the first-open steps above).