Locust 0.831.0

Released October 23, 2026.

New

• Your teammates in Telegram. Write to your teammates from Telegram, wherever you are, while Locust is open on your computer. Make a bot of your own with Telegram's @Botfather, paste its token in Settings > General > Telegram, and press Start in the chat its link opens: /ada and a message reaches Ada, and the answer comes back in the chat as a reply, with the bot typing while Ada works. After that, just write; it goes to the same teammate and carries the conversation on, and a reply to an older answer carries that one on. /new starts a fresh conversation, /who lists your teammates and /waiting shows the cards waiting on you. A card from a turn you started there comes to the chat with Allow once and Deny; Always stays on your computer. Only the chat that paired is answered, and anyone else who finds the bot is ignored. The token is kept encrypted on your computer. Telegram's servers can read what is written there, so Locust takes out anything shaped like a key before it sends, and Settings says so. A message that arrived while Locust was closed starts nothing; the chat says so, and you send it again.
• A new teammate interviews you. An empty Instructions box asked you to know how to brief a teammate before it had done anything. Now the New teammate window offers Let it interview you instead: the teammate's first conversation opens with your ask, it asks you a few short questions one at a time, and then writes its own standing instructions. They come on a card under its answer, in a box you can change, with Save; nothing is kept until you press it, and a key in them is refused. The interview's first turn runs in Ask, so it reads and changes nothing. An existing teammate's window offers the interview again.

Download

Your computer	File
Windows 10 or 11	Locust-0.831.0-setup.exe
Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or later)	Locust-0.831.0-mac-arm64.dmg
Mac with an Intel chip	Locust-0.831.0-mac-x64.dmg
Ubuntu, Debian or Mint	Locust-0.831.0-linux-amd64.deb
Fedora or openSUSE	Locust-0.831.0-linux-x86_64.rpm
Any other Linux	Locust-0.831.0-linux-x86_64.AppImage

Or download it at locust.lol. After that, Locust tells you when a new version is out, and on Windows, Mac and the AppImage it installs it for you. The Windows and Mac builds are not signed by a publisher yet, so each asks once before it opens: what to press.

The SHA-256 sum of every file is in SHA256SUMS.txt.

Full changelog: 0.830.0...0.831.0