v1.2.0-alpha

New: Benchmark

A model leaderboard inside the app, replacing the navigation entry that used to
open an external website.

• Overview, leaderboard and comparison tabs
• Overall Elo plus Coding, Math, Creative Writing, Instruction Following,
  Multi-Turn, Longer Query and Non-English
• Search, organisation and open-weight filters, sorting, incremental loading
• Rank, percentile, vote count, confidence interval, licence and evaluation
  date; Hugging Face metadata where available
• Side-by-side comparison of up to four models

Data comes from the Parquet files in lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset on the
Hugging Face Hub. Snapshots are cached locally and refreshed daily.

News

Articles can be saved per user, anthropic.com is a new source, and the feed
screen has been reworked around provider and category filters.

Marketplace

Layout and filter work in the frontend, continuing the rework from 1.1.2.

Documentation

The README is now a documentation tree in English and German — installation,
architecture, features, privacy, transparency, troubleshooting, development,
roadmap and contribution guide. The privacy page lists every external
connection the application can make, including the ones that are easy to miss.

Platforms

Linux x64, macOS on Apple Silicon, Windows x64. Intel Macs are not built.

Alpha.

v1.1.2-alpha

Fixed

Filtering the marketplace by provider alone capped OpenRouter at 24 models.
Pagination only ran when a further filter was active, so browsing a single
provider was the one path that silently truncated the list.

Changed

The marketplace is reworked: filters sit in one row, card badges are grouped,
and local downloads are visually separated from API models. An indicator shows
whether any filter is active.

The light theme is removed, including the native splash screens on Android,
iOS, macOS and Windows. Dark only.

v1.1.1-alpha

Maintenance release. Nothing changes in the interface.

The manifest schema now accepts a reserved signature field. Clients before
this version reject a manifest containing unknown fields, so a signed manifest
would stop them updating altogether — and they could never receive the client
that understands signatures. Nothing is verified yet; this only keeps the path
open.

v1.1.0-alpha

First release with automatic updates. Download the quickinstall archive for your
platform, extract it once and start myphiloengine. Later versions install
themselves.

New

• Planning mode — a large task is split into numbered steps you see before
  anything runs, each executed by its own subagent with a fresh context
• Web search through DuckDuckGo, Brave, Google, Bing or Wikipedia, also
  available as the philosearch command
• German and English interface, switchable per user account
• Classic and Lite layout — Lite reduces the sidebar to Chat, Engine,
  Marketplace, News and Benchmark
• PhiloX is replaced by PhiloBot

Updates

The launcher checks the declared size and SHA-256 of an archive before
activating it. A version that installs but fails to start is rolled back and
recorded, so it is not downloaded again on the next launch. Superseded bundles
are pruned.

Platforms

Linux x64, macOS on Apple Silicon, Windows x64. Intel Macs are not built.

Alpha.