Wisp 0.6.7

Wisp 0.6.7

Wisp 0.6.7 gives Wisp its own look and a smoother feel. A small flame spirit
with two eyes replaces the glass icosahedron as the mark, and the interface
moves with one quick, calm motion throughout.

• A new mark. The Desktop app icon, the phone's home-screen icon, the
  browser favicon and the mark in the top bar are the spirit now.
• Tooltips that unfold. Hovering or keyboard-focusing a control shows
  Wisp's own tooltip, instead of the browser's.
• A composer that grows with your message. The message box grows line by
  line as you type, instead of scrolling inside a fixed box.

What changed since 0.6.6

The spirit, Wisp's new mark

• The spirit replaces the glass icosahedron (#359): a small flame with two
  eyes and no mouth. It is the Desktop app icon, the phone's home-screen and
  touch icons, the browser favicon and the mark in the app's top bar. Small
  sizes use a flat drawing of the same silhouette, so it stays legible at
  16 px.

Motion

• Tooltips (#358). Every control that names itself on hover now shows
  Wisp's own tooltip. The first one waits a moment, so a pointer crossing a
  toolbar shows nothing, and the next one along a row opens at once.
  Focusing a control from the keyboard shows it too; a field you are typing
  in never gets one. Touch screens keep their usual long-press.
• Menus, popovers and dialogs (#358) open from the control that opened
  them and settle into place, then close a little faster than they opened.
• The composer (#358) grows with your message, up to its usual limit, and
  glides to each new height. Before, a long message scrolled inside a fixed
  box three lines tall (two on a phone).
• Reduced motion turns all of it off: with the system setting on,
  everything appears and disappears at once, as before.

Fixes

• A connection tab carries one mark (#364): its connection's health, the
  same on a selected tab and an inactive one. Before, an inactive tab could
  also show the dot of its busiest task, so two dots sat side by side and
  their colours collided: the amber of delayed live updates beside the amber
  of a task waiting for input. Delayed or dropped live updates are now a
  hollow grey ring. Which task needs you still shows in the connection
  switcher's menu, and desktop notifications are unchanged.
• DOMPurify 3.4.16 (#363). The sanitizer that cleans mermaid diagrams
  moves past a low advisory
  (GHSA-p98j-92pf-mc4p)
  affecting 3.4.13 to 3.4.15.

Also

• The project README and the social preview are rewritten (#360, #361), with
  a short film of what Wisp does.

Install or upgrade

Apple Silicon macOS (12.3 configured minimum):

brew install Pepewitch/tap/wisp Pepewitch/tap/wisp-desktop
open -a Wisp

The Cask installs the separate daemon Formula as a dependency. Name both:
Homebrew trusts only the fully qualified names you install from a non-official
tap, so the Cask alone refuses to load that Formula. Existing updater-capable
Desktop builds can use Updates → Check now, then Update Desktop and
relaunch. Update Local daemon separately. The legacy alpha
channel URL remains compatible and advertises the regular 0.6.7 version.
For Homebrew recovery or older builds without an updater:

brew update
brew upgrade Pepewitch/tap/wisp
brew upgrade --cask --greedy Pepewitch/tap/wisp-desktop
brew services restart wisp
open -a Wisp

Linux (Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, x86_64, glibc):

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -fsSL \
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Pepewitch/wisp/v0.6.7/scripts/install.sh | sh

Back up task state and the original Git repositories before upgrading.
Follow backup and restore; copying .wisp
alone does not preserve linked worktrees or unpublished Git objects.
This release adds no database migration.

Scope and known limits

This release is for a trusted single OS user. Worktrees separate checkouts;
they do not sandbox agents or their credentials. There is no multi-user
permission boundary. Closing Desktop leaves daemons and agents running.
Intel macOS and non-Apple-Silicon Desktop builds are unsupported.

Desktop publication requires Developer ID signing, notarization, a stapled
ticket, and a verified updater signature. The public macOS daemon application
also requires Developer ID signing, notarization, and a stapled ticket.
Automated release gates verify immutable downloads and promote the Formula,
Cask, daemon channel, and Desktop channel together. At source
preparation, the 0.6.7 artifact gates are pending; the qualification ledger
records the final outcome separately from these immutable release notes.

Specific to this release:

• An existing Desktop install can keep showing the old icon in the Dock or
  Finder until macOS refreshes its icon cache, for example after a restart.
• Tooltips need a device with a pointer that can hover. On a phone or tablet
  Wisp shows none, keyboard focus included, and leaves long-press to the system.

The Autopilot-tab, background-process, wisp audit and GitHub-use limits
listed for
0.6.6,
the updater-signing, Linux update manifest, error-boundary and older-daemon
composer limits listed for
0.6.5,
the task-brief limits listed for
0.6.4,
the shell-tab, plan-limit, and Desktop first-launch limits listed for
0.6.3,
and the auto-merge, auto-fix, review judge and draft limits listed for
0.6.2,
still apply.
Native dependency advisories still include upstream maintenance notices and a
locked Linux-only glib warning. Full clean-machine provider journeys, a
human-observed Desktop upgrade across this version, broad OS coverage, and
cross-machine restore remain incomplete. Task export excludes repositories and
provider sessions; it is not a complete backup or an import format. Permanent
deletion is logical, not forensic erasure. This release is not a security
certification.

Release assets

The release contains these ten immutable assets:

• wisp-v0.6.7-linux-x86_64
• release-manifest.json
• SHA256SUMS
• wisp-v0.6.7-darwin-arm64.tar.gz
• release-manifest-darwin-arm64.json
• SHA256SUMS-darwin-arm64
• wisp-desktop-v0.6.7-darwin-arm64.tar.gz
• wisp-desktop-v0.6.7-darwin-arm64.tar.gz.sig
• release-manifest-desktop-darwin-arm64.json
• SHA256SUMS-desktop-darwin-arm64