v0.8.0

Added

• Added herdr --skill to print the agent skill bundled with the running Herdr binary.
• Added ui.pane_scrollbars = false to hide terminal pane scrollbars and reclaim their reserved column. (#2167)
• Added ui.tab_bar_position = "bottom" to place the desktop tab row below terminal panes. (#2117)
• Added live filtering to the keybind help with /, Backspace, and Ctrl+U. (#1825, #1832, thanks @corrius)
• Added Windows support for experimental.switch_ascii_input_source_in_prefix with Korean IMEs. (#1802, #1823, thanks @joonhwan)
• Added Grok CLI session reporting and native restore with grok --resume <id>. (#1800, #1807, thanks @carlesso)
• Added Antigravity CLI session reporting and native restore with agy --conversation <id>. (#1011, #1571, #2087, thanks @ludoo)
• Added automatic text history reads for idle alternate-screen agents, with the application viewport restored after collection.
• Added workspace.move_block, the workspace.reordered event, and atomic worktree-group reordering. (#1694)
• Added a Simplified Chinese README. (#1990, thanks @patrick-xin)

Changed

• Experimental options are no longer exposed in the Settings TUI and remain available through the config file.
• Agent status indicators now use the same static workspace marks across the sidebar, navigator, and mobile views, eliminating continuous spinner rendering while agents work.
• Hidden pane output no longer triggers unnecessary TUI rendering.
• Windows preview downloads now include Herdr and a modern app-local ConPTY runtime in one archive. (#1533, #1644, #1828)
• Worktree parents and children now stay packed together in the sidebar, including while groups are reordered.
• Public documentation now separates stable, preview, and immutable versioned release snapshots.
• Repository and installation links now use herdrdev/herdr after the GitHub organization migration.
• Relicensed Herdr from AGPL-3.0-or-later to Apache-2.0.

Fixed

• Pane applications now receive semantic light/dark query responses and live Mode 2031 updates when the host appearance changes. (#714)
• Remote attach now falls back to sh when the login shell cannot perform path discovery. (#1201)
• PTY output continues to be read while pane input is temporarily blocked. (#1295)
• Worktree CLI help and docs no longer advertise the redundant --json flag; worktree commands remain JSON-only and continue accepting the flag for compatibility. (#2171)
• OpenCode 2 preview panes now appear as OpenCode agents and use the existing OpenCode status detection. (#2169)
• Pane text copied through VS Code Remote Tunnels now reaches the viewing machine's clipboard instead of overwriting the remote host clipboard. (#2015)
• Windows agent detection now follows Git Bash-launched agents across emulated exec process boundaries. (#2107)
• Detached Windows servers and pane processes now survive logout from the OpenSSH session that started them. (#2008)
• Windows agent start now launches agents without native arguments instead of timing out on an invalid empty PowerShell argument list. (#2072)
• Headless servers now resume restored agent sessions without waiting for a TUI client to attach. (#2064)
• Vibe and other Kitty-keyboard pane applications now receive shifted letters and punctuation when they request associated text. (#2020)
• Kitty-keyboard pane applications now receive printable key releases without duplicate text input. (#1746)
• Kitty graphics remain visible during host repaints. (#1628)
• Pane applications now receive correct XTWINOPS terminal and cell-size query responses. (#835)
• WSL clients query the host cell size when the terminal ioctl reports no pixels, keeping graphics sharp instead of using the 8x16 fallback. (#2146, #2160, thanks @WakaTaira)
• Linux runtimes without terminal foreground process groups can opt into child-group agent detection with HERDR_PROCESS_DETECTION=child-groups. (#1982)
• Installing the Herdr agent skill with the skills CLI no longer copies the entire repository. (#2022)
• Nix builds now include the bundled agent skill required by herdr --skill. (#1889, #1890, thanks @olafkfreund)
• Agent prompts now wait briefly after sending text before pressing Enter, preventing prompts from remaining in agent composers without starting a turn. (#1878)
• Empty clipboard writes from pane applications no longer erase existing clipboard contents or show a copied confirmation. (#1893)
• Plain mouse movement no longer triggers continuous full renders while preserving Herdr menu hover and pane application mouse tracking. (#1865)
• Extended-button drags now preserve Herdr hover state while applications receive the drag.
• ui.copy_on_select = false now retains drag and double-click word selections without copying; Ctrl+C, or Cmd+C when the host terminal forwards it, copies and clears the selection. (#1782)
• Pane and agent read responses now report truncated: true when older terminal rows were omitted. (#1717)
• Pane applications that query OSC 4 palette colors now inherit the host terminal palette. (#1752)
• Ctrl-clicking a pane URL no longer forwards an unmatched mouse release to alternate-screen applications, preventing duplicate browser tabs. (#1761)
• Known-agent integrations now leave pane ownership to confirmed process exit, so restarting Pi with the same saved session restores lifecycle state even with custom working UI. (#1648, #1792)
• Nested or ephemeral Codex sessions no longer replace the owning pane's resumable session. (#1789, #1927, thanks @Pimpmuckl)
• Pi RPC, JSON, and print processes no longer claim pane lifecycle state intended for Pi TUI sessions. (#2159, thanks @rhjoh)
• Hermes state now comes from screen detection while its plugin reports resumable session identity, avoiding stale lifecycle authority from incomplete hooks.
• OMP integration install, status, and uninstall now respect PI_CONFIG_DIR when PI_CODING_AGENT_DIR is not set, and installation refuses extension-directory collisions with Pi. (#1696)
• OMP integrations now preserve Windows absolute session paths for native restore. (#2092, thanks @art-wiedzmin)
• Claude integration updates preserve existing settings key order and formatting. (#2066)
• Physical Escape key records on native Windows now bypass raw VT report framing, so pane applications receive Escape immediately and reliably. (#1736)
• Native Windows key presses, grouped repeats, and releases now preserve their physical lifecycle and stay with the pane that received the initial press. (#2077)
• Windows pane send-keys and agent send-keys now deliver semantic Escape as a complete key tap, preventing a following key from being interpreted as an Alt chord.
• Shift+Enter now reaches native Windows pane applications with its modifier intact. (#1743, #1909, thanks @Pimpmuckl)
• Ctrl+_ input bytes now decode as Ctrl+_ instead of Ctrl+-. (#2164, #2165, thanks @Sertug17)
• Prefix and navigate modes now recognize non-US shifted keybindings while retaining legacy US punctuation support. (#1870)
• Closing a non-focused workspace no longer changes the focused workspace. (#1328, #1877, thanks @yianL)
• A background workspace that closes after its last pane exits no longer moves focus or hides the current workspace. (#1621, #1912, thanks @season179)
• Directional pane focus now keeps Navigate mode active. (#1850, #1993, thanks @we11adam)
• Closing a workspace's last tab through the CLI or API now closes the workspace like the TUI does. (#1760, #1899, thanks @season179)
• Linked worktree workspaces retain their labels during Git metadata refreshes.
• Clients repaint after transient terminal resizes instead of leaving stale or missing rows.
• Repeated workspace Git discovery and foreground-cwd checks no longer block rendering or API handling. (#1838, #2206)
• Relative plugin commands now resolve from the plugin root. (#1949)
• Windows installation preserves inherited PATH and related environment variables. (#1947)
• Windows agent process discovery preserves the owning parent agent across wrapper processes. (#1514)
• The Rose Pine surface_dim color remains visible when the outer terminal uses a matching theme. (#1946, #2002, thanks @brabli)
• CLI socket commands now report a clear server_not_running error instead of a raw I/O error. (#1941, #1963, thanks @season179)
• Non-UTF-8 CLI arguments now produce a usage error instead of panicking. (#2207, thanks @VialFlorian)
• Copy-mode e now crosses long soft-wrapped CJK lines when a read window ends on a wide glyph. (#2145, thanks @kiakiraki)
• Clients restore terminal state when they receive SIGHUP or SIGTERM. (#2041, thanks @MattJColes)
• Windows now shows system notifications and completes MP3 notification sounds without leaving PowerShell players waiting for a timeout. (#1330)