Aether v0.2.2

What's new: plans as editable files, health-aware model routing for chat and agent runs, the crash safety net (route guards, process guards, request validation, foreign-origin 403), the new run-status line, minimizable cards, and the auto-scroll fix.

Aether 0.2.1

Aether now picks its own models, updates itself, and says hello properly. This is the stable release of the model-integration and onboarding work — updating from 0.2.0 is recommended.

Automatic model assignment

• No more dead models on a fresh install. Aether fetches the catalog, drops everything that can never answer a chat request, removes duplicates, probes what's left with per-provider throttling, and assigns a role only to a model that actually replied. On a brand-new data directory this replaces the previously hard-coded picks, which included providers with no credentials.
• It runs when it needs to, not on a schedule. Startup, a provider catalog change, the Re-check models now button in Settings, and the terminal-provider guard — which now repairs the broken role instead of just logging a warning.
• Your own choices are never overwritten. Roles record whether they were auto-assigned or picked by hand. A role you chose yourself is left alone in both directions, even when its model is dead, and is reported as user-pinned rather than silently replaced.
• “Nothing connected” is a clear state, not a silent void. An empty catalog reports No models are connected — connect a provider in OmniRoute and writes nothing.
• One implementation, not two. The whole pipeline lives in server/modelSweep.ts and runs from server/modelAssignments.ts; the operator CLI delegates to the same engine.

Agent task reliability

• Tool schemas are valid JSON Schema. The parameter builder emitted type: "optional", which some providers reject outright — failing the entire request before the model ran. Optionality is now a separate flag from the type, and the registered tool surface is asserted provider-valid by test.
• Verification runs the project's declared scripts. The verifier previously hardcoded npm run build / npm test, so a workspace without a root package.json failed every task after correct work. It now runs only the scripts the project actually declares, and says so when there are none.

Desktop updates

• The auto-updater is live. It checks the release feed on boot after the window paints, exposes its full state to the UI, and installs only when you click. AETHER_AUTO_UPDATE=0 disables it for operators.
• Settings → App updates shows the real state — not checked, available, downloading with progress, ready to install, up to date, or the failure — with the one action valid for each, plus a status-line chip that opens it.
• The installer carries its own release notes, and What's new announces them after an update, naming the version it replaced. Dismissing it is permanent for that version.

First-run setup

• The setup wizard is a real welcome. It is now a two-panel onboarding window with a brand rail (the app's own icon, the wordmark, and the four steps as a numbered list) and, on the first step, a proper hero with three highlight cards explaining what Aether is — models with zero config, your work in your own folder, agents rather than autocomplete.
• The layout adapts instead of collapsing. The mark scales fluidly with the window and the rail folds into a compact header on narrow windows, so the brand never shrinks to an unreadable speck.

Verification

• 222 unit tests passing, including new suites for the sweep engine, the assignment service, provider health, the update state machine, and the updater bridge contract.
• Model assignment validated end to end in a clean, independent data directory: 16/16 checks across six scenarios — a real gateway, a groq-only catalog, a gemini+mistral catalog, an empty catalog, a provider going terminal mid-session, and a user-pinned role — every assigned model confirmed by a real request, not just a liveness ping.
• Typecheck, Prettier, and the audit gate all clean.

Downloads

• Aether-Setup-0.2.1.exe — 126.9 MB
  • SHA-256: 19b1ba03769479d717f1e7fbd829b7c62551773c476c9a32dadcbefb5558c994
• Aether-Setup-latest.exe — the same bytes under a fixed name, so the website download link stays stable

Every release ships a .sha256 beside each installer, a .blockmap for delta updates, and latest.yml for the auto-update feed.

v0.1.3

Fixed

• Startup crash on packaged app. better-sqlite3 native module import is now graceful — if loading fails, the app runs with DB features disabled instead of crashing (exit code 4294930435).

Release v0.1.2

Release v0.1.2

Zero-config first run

• SQLite replaces Postgres. No Docker, no database setup.
• OmniRoute auto-setup. First-run installer automates OmniRoute installation and configuration end-to-end.
• OmniRoute lifecycle management. Spawns as child process, killed cleanly on shutdown.
• Port conflict fallback. If port 20128 is occupied, kills the blocker and retries once.

UI polish

• X close buttons on all modals. Settings, Confirm, and Command Palette.

Release engineering

• Stable download filename. Website points to Aether-Setup-latest.exe.
• Website fallback text. Version/changelog/checksum auto-fetch from GitHub API.

Build

• Installer: Aether-Setup-0.1.2.exe (137.5 MB)
• Checksum: 4fd887cb4c701383d1979f35d1dd95e44a3ed08011b215231a48bcaeffecdb61

Full Changelog: v0.1.1...v0.1.2

Aether v0.1.1

Sessions survive restarts

Chat threads persist per workspace — conversations are mirrored to disk (atomic, debounced writes) and restored on boot. Closing the app no longer loses your threads, active chat, or task bindings.

Terminal tabs come back after a restart — titles, working directories, and workspace scoping persist; shells respawn fresh with scrollback restored from the client's replay cache.

No more restart ghosts — any task that was running, planning, or queued when the backend died is marked failed on boot before anything restores from disk, so a dead task can never come back looking alive.

New confirm modal for destructive actions

Reworked settings modal, terminal panel (command history with exit codes and output tails), composer, agent chat, and status bar
Brand mark and welcome-screen polish; expanded glass design tokens

Aether v0.1.0

System requirements: Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. Aether is currently Windows-only; macOS and Linux builds are not available yet.

What's new in 0.1.0: First public release — the Aether coding IDE with agent mode, built-in terminal, and git support. Includes packaging fixes so the app starts reliably on a fresh install.