0.4.2

ARIL 0.4.2 adds in-chat Mermaid / SVG / ASCII diagram rendering and a /update command to install the latest notarized DMG from GitHub.

Builds are signed with Developer ID and notarized by Apple — no Gatekeeper workaround needed.

Requirements

• Apple Silicon Mac (M-series) with macOS 14 (Sonoma) or newer
• An OpenRouter API key (sk-or-v1-…) with a small credit balance — add a few dollars at openrouter.ai before your first chat

Install

1. Download ARIL-0.4.2.dmg
2. Open the disk image and drag ARIL into Applications
3. Launch ARIL (Solo mode starts the bundled gateway)
4. Open Preferences → General and paste your OpenRouter API key

If you already have ARIL 0.4.1+, you can also run /update in chat to download and install this release into /Applications.

What's new

Diagrams in chat

• Fenced mermaid, svg, and ascii blocks (plus inline <svg> and SVG image links) render in assistant replies
• Mermaid uses WebKit (network needed once for the Mermaid library)
• SVG is sanitized before display; ASCII art gets a monospaced panel with copy

Self-update

• Slash command /update (alias /upgrade) checks GitHub Releases for a newer ARIL-*.dmg
• Confirms, downloads, replaces /Applications/ARIL.app, and relaunches
• /status points you at /update when you’re behind the latest release