2.1.7

🚀 Aether v2.1.7 Changelog

✨ New Features

• Phone Use on Android: Added foreground phone control through Accessibility, with element-tree and screenshot strategies, on-screen feedback, and Root/Shizuku Virtual Display options.
• Model Capabilities: Integrated models.dev capabilities, thinking levels, and context/output limits into provider selection and the Pi runtime on Android and iOS.
• Usage Statistics: Added cache read/write tokens, whole-turn token totals, and generation speed, including deferred follow-ups.
• Files & Demos: Added an Android Alpine documents provider, native file previews on both platforms, and offline showcase conversations.
• Localization: Added Russian translations across Android and iOS.

🛠 Improvements & Optimizations

• Streaming Replies: Added shared overlapping fades for text fragments, complete headings, and code blocks on Android and iOS, with reduced-motion support and continuity when replies finish.
• Pi Runtime: Updated bundled Pi dependencies to 0.99.2 and improved Node bundle loading.
• iOS Startup: Restored chat sessions lazily and optimized showcase seeding to reduce launch work.
• iOS Experience: Integrated PostHog analytics, improved settings and Markdown rendering, and added keyboard dismissal controls.
• Builds: Improved pull-request checks, bundled extensions into nightly APKs, and separated Android debug and nightly applications.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Phone Use Responsiveness: Moved Accessibility observations off the main thread, prevented stale snapshots after cancellation, warmed overlay resources, and restored permission prompts after access is revoked.
• Conversation History: Preserved Pi entry references and context during synchronization, edits, and retry branching, while retaining unchanged messages.
• Android Phone Control: Improved taps, focus, Unicode input, clipboard fallback, secondary-user handling, service startup, and configuration without Termux.
• Runtime: Fixed Termux command-result delivery, Alpine package installation, and Unix socket paths.
• iOS Terminal: Corrected UTF-8 OSC titles and scrollback synchronization, and capped bridge heap usage.
• Settings: Isolated extension settings by category and aligned settings presentation.

🔀 Merged Pull Requests

• Build Automation: improve pull request checks and nightly Android builds by @Chumor in #77
• Termux Results: fix: deliver Termux RUN_COMMAND results via pending intent by @Chumor in #80
• History Synchronization: fix(history): preserve unchanged messages during sync by @Chumor in #83
• Pi Branch References: fix(history): preserve Pi entry refs across branches by @Chumor in #86
• iOS Reliability: iOS: bug fixes, crash prevention & performance improvements by @CN00K in #97
• Agent Mode Setup: fix(agent-mode): allow configuration without Termux by @yumiru11 in #98
• Usage Statistics: feat(statistics): show cache tokens and report whole-turn totals by @yumiru11 in #104

🧾 Included Commits

• 476d0cb feat(pi): upgrade pi kernel to 0.85.1
• 7e7498d fix(pi): update Node bundle loader patch
• f275ca5 ci: check changed areas in pull requests
• 0a932fd ci: build nightly APKs with bundled extensions
• 091d855 fix(android): separate debug and nightly variants
• 7d3eb3c feat: integrate iOS PostHog analytics, improve settings and markdown rendering, and fix unix socket path handling
• 8c225d9 feat: add App Store link
• 4dbd72d fix(ci): resolve PR checks and nightly inheritance
• bd3c1bc fix(ci): skip removed Android SDK tools package
• 4723e81 feat: add Alpine documents provider, offline showcase mode, and iOS keyboard dismissal
• 54583f2 Merge pull request #77 from Chumor/ci/builds
• b94a46c feat: upgrade pi kernel to 0.87.1 and add clipboard paste fallback for agent mode
• b59e3b5 fix: deliver Termux RUN_COMMAND results via pending intent (#80)
• 8bff84d fix(history): preserve unchanged messages during sync (#83)
• d8e9ee3 fix(runtime): allow package installs in Alpine runtime
• a30a157 fix(history): preserve Pi entry refs across branches (#86)
• de24304 fix(history): preserve Pi context when editing messages
• f69a2bb fix(agent-mode): make taps, focus and Unicode text input reliable
• 8e99984 fix: align settings ui
• 7dac1ba fix(settings): isolate extension settings state per category (#90)
• b46388d fix(agent-mode): allow configuration without Termux (#98)
• 22496bc fix(ios): decode OSC titles as UTF-8, fix scrollback desync, cap bridge heap (#97)
• 8d7abc1 fix(agent-mode): act on the calling Android user on secondary users (#100)
• 78c57fa feat(models): integrate models.dev capabilities and upgrade Pi dependencies
• 722a6de fix(agent-mode): start the service without requiring Aether on the owner user (#100)
• 20afc11 feat(statistics): show cache read and write tokens
• e1193db feat(statistics): report whole-turn token totals and generation speed
• cb6151b fix(statistics): keep turn totals across deferred follow-ups
• ea0f6f8 Merge pull request #104 from yumiru11/main
• 47860cf perf(ios): speed up launch by lazily restoring chat sessions and seeding demos
• 474bb98 fix(chat): preserve retry branches and add native file previews
• c80cb81 feat(phone-use): add accessibility phone use, Russian localization, and Pi session branching
• b028e42 feat(phone-use): add accessibility phone use, Russian localization, and Pi session branching (@Leostrange)
• 5327164 Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main'
• 6542bfe chore: finalize 2.1.7

Full Changelog: 2.1.6...2.1.7