Grove 1.0.4

Improvements

• Refine sidebar and session layouts, with clearer session titles and a refreshed macOS backdrop.
• Keep worktree launch actions visible without clipping.
• Refresh shell environments for session launches.
• Preserve pending update restarts and add an explicit restart action.
• Use gitfudge as the default signing identity for local macOS installs, while retaining the identity override and ad-hoc fallback.

Downloads

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Full changelog: v1.0.3...v1.0.4

Grove 1.0.3

Improvements

• Collapse or expand the sidebar with ⌘B. Switch between tree and sessions with ⌘⇧B.
• Keep your current project, list, or grid view when switching workspaces, while restoring each workspace’s navigation state.
• See branch names beneath worktree names, with launch actions aligned at the top.
• Find centered session-start panels and worktree guidance with cleaner styling.
• Enjoy a lighter frosted sidebar and clearer confirmation dialogs without titlebar dimming.

Downloads

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Full changelog: v1.0.2...v1.0.3

Grove 1.0.2

Highlights

• Collapse the sidebar into a compact rail and expand it when you need project and session details.
• Move projects between workspaces while keeping their worktrees and sessions together.
• Confirm before closing running sessions, including from the compact sidebar and keyboard shortcuts.
• See a media-first highlights carousel on the first launch of this release, including an animated expand/collapse demo. Reopen it from Settings → Changelog.

Improvements

• Switch workspaces directly from the compact sidebar without expanding it.
• Keep compact sidebar controls aligned and project menus and confirmations available in place.
• Use clearer, consistent tooltips for sidebar controls and session tools.
• Reorder session tiles in grid view with drag and drop.
• Improve terminal arrow keys in applications that use application cursor mode.
• Forward mouse clicks to terminal applications with mouse reporting enabled.
• Align terminal selection highlighting with the selected text.

Downloads

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Full changelog: v1.0.1...v1.0.2

Grove 1.0.1

Changes

• Improve multi-project session picking with clearer selection, keyboard guidance, and a shared agent choice beside Launch selected.
• Distinguish the selected and focused launcher options.
• Fix frosted sidebar session launch controls.

Grove 1.0.0

Grove 1.0.0 is the first stable release of the native desktop app. Run grove to open the app directly.

What's new

• A rebuilt workspace UI and first-run onboarding put projects, worktrees, and sessions in one place. Use the project tree, activity list, or persistent home terminal.
• Add a local project, create a worktree, and start Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, or a shell in the selected checkout. Each agent runs in an embedded terminal session.
• Keep sessions side by side in the resizable grid, or dock a shell beside an active agent. With tmux installed, sessions can survive an app restart and be restored; native sessions work without tmux.
• Choose System, Dark, or Light appearance in settings. The 22-second Grove UI preview shows the worktree-to-session flow with fictional project data.

Windows support remains alpha. See the README for platform and installation details.

Maintenance: updated rustls to address a security advisory and cleaned up dependency licensing.

Full changes since v0.54.0

grove 0.54.0

Grove v0.54.0

This release includes the work since v0.53.0.

Session workflow

• Add multi-project session context and persistence, keeping project identities and session labels correct across reattach and rename flows.
• Warm project worktree caches so the session launcher can surface projects and worktrees more reliably.
• Launch agents through a fresh login shell.
• Improve contextual titles in the session sidebar and grid.
• Add session launcher and modal flows for creating, selecting, and managing agent sessions.

Terminal and tmux

• Improve tmux selection, scrolling, quoting, cache probing, and session naming.
• Add terminal mouse selection support outside the visible tmux viewport.
• Improve session teardown, reattachment, and terminal routing behavior.

Interface

• Refine workspace, sidebar, row, launcher, confirmation, and modal interactions for the updated session workflow.
• Add the multi-project session UI mock for design reference.

Upgrade and release

• Improve GitHub release asset download handling and release parsing.
• Bump the workspace and crate versions to 0.54.0.

Validated with cargo test --workspace and ./install.sh.

Full diff from v0.53.0 to v0.54.0

grove 0.53.0

Grove v0.53.0

This release spans the work since v0.45.0. It moves Grove to the GPUI application shell and adds a substantial set of workflow, terminal, and interface improvements.

Grid and session workflow

• Resize Agent View grids directly: drag a column or row seam, or double-click a seam to reset that split. Sizing is kept for the current Grove run and returns to equal shares when the grid shape changes.
• Press mod+r in the grid to enter keyboard resize mode. Arrow keys or h/j/k/l move the split beside the focused tile by 5%; hold Shift for 1% adjustments. Enter or Escape exits the mode.
• Keep the focused session and tile ordering stable while resizing, with terminal-aware minimum tile sizes.
• Show contextual session titles and diff statistics in grid tiles and session headers.
• Add a sessions-oriented sidebar rail, grouping cards by who work is waiting on; mod+b toggles the rail mode.
• Improve grid focus synchronization, visible-order session navigation, tile titles, and the side-terminal Zen workflow. Side-terminal Zen state is remembered per session.

Projects, worktrees, and diffs

• Choose a base branch when creating a worktree.
• Reliably focus and open a newly created worktree without changing unrelated expansion state in the project tree.
• Add project archiving, guarded when live sessions are still present.
• Rename projects from the scripts editor, and make scripts run consistently from every entry point.
• Add a syntax-highlighted diff modal with resizable, internally scrollable file and content panes.
• Keep worktree lists attached to the correct project and improve tree selection, expansion, long-name, and branch-chip behavior.

Interface and command palette

• Complete the GPUI app experience: grid, terminal tab, worktree panel, sidebar, attention pipeline, app bar, status bar, toasts, command palette, settings, editors, upgrade flow, telemetry, and quit paths.
• Rebuild Settings and project settings around shared card primitives; standardize modal styling and improve modal focus and input handling.
• Add full command-palette row actions, recency ordering in the switch drill-in, scrolling for longer palettes, and an always-discoverable Add Project action.
• Make UI zoom scale Grove chrome as well as terminal cells, and improve title truncation and responsive sidebar row layout.

Terminal and session reliability

• Introduce the dedicated grove-terminal crate and a dual-parser golden test harness as part of the GPUI terminal implementation.
• Improve terminal rendering performance with one-character cells and a memoized per-row scene.
• Create PTYs at the correct size, keep normal shells out of tmux, and cleanly terminate children when terminal sessions are dropped.
• Improve tmux startup and reattachment: cache availability checks, shorten attach fallback delays, and avoid an arithmetic failure at the cached-probe TTL boundary.
• Harden keyboard dispatch, shifted shortcuts, Escape handling, and native input/content-type handling.

Platform, builds, and fixes

• On macOS, compile Metal shaders at runtime so a local Xcode installation is no longer required.
• Install the GPUI native build dependencies in the release workflow.
• Stop repeated macOS TCC permission prompts while idle.
• Fix crashes and interaction regressions around modals, focus, key dispatch, persistence defaults, sidebar close confirmation, and worktree/project selection.
• Move Grove from the legacy Iced and vt100 application stack to GPUI while preserving and extending the core terminal workflows.

grove 0.45.0

What's changed since v0.44.0

Features

• New setting: Claude in Chrome. When enabled, Grove launches Claude sessions with --chrome, so the agent can read and control your Chrome tabs. Off by default — existing configs are unaffected until you turn it on. Available in the settings modal and in the command palette under AGENTS / TERMINAL, alongside Permissions.

Internal

• Launch flags now accumulate rather than short-circuiting on the first match, so Skip permissions and Claude in Chrome can be enabled together without one dropping the other.
• Extracted SettingRow::is_toggle(), replacing the set of toggle rows that had been hardcoded in four separate places.

grove 0.44.0

What's changed since v0.43.0

Features

• Launch-agent picker moved to an icon bar in the Tab row-actions strip: ←/→ rings an agent, ⏎ or click launches with it. Replaces the root-list agent cycler and the "OPEN WITH" drill-in pane; root-level ←/→ now do native caret movement in the search field.

grove 0.43.0

What's changed since v0.42.0

Security

• Updater hardening: redirect pinning and SHA-256 verification of downloaded assets; source updates pin the commit SHA.
• Project-name validation in worktree creation; worktree dirs created 0700; atomic writes go 0600-before-rename.
• Tmux env-key validation; GROVE_CONFIG_DIR honored everywhere.
• Telemetry stays off until the stored preference loads; panic reports reduced to file:line; PostHog key moved to a build secret.

Performance

• Focus/dirty-gated 60ms tick (1s when idle), lazy terminal scraping, off-thread worktree cache rebuild, attention-file mtime cache, per-frame sidebar session bucketing, thread-local icon cache.

Internals & tooling

• grove-core split into its own crate with typed errors; monolithic modules split into directories.
• clippy::pedantic enabled workspace-wide with a curated allow-list; CI now runs cargo-nextest (+ doctests) and a hygiene job (typos, cargo-machete); lefthook pre-commit hooks; stricter cargo-deny (wildcard versions banned).
• Dropped dead dependencies (keepawake, grove-core's anyhow); removed the HTML design mocks and stale planning docs.

Rebuilt bundles after a windows packaging fix (cargo-wix needs -p grove since the workspace split).