v0.1.2

Changed

• The /resume picker scrolls like the /model list: on a list taller
  than the screen the highlighted session rides the middle row, so the
  sessions above and below it stay in view and each ↑/↓ scrolls the next
  one in. It used to pin the highlight to the edge it had crossed, so
  scrolling down showed one new row at the bottom and nothing beyond it,
  and scrolling back up moved the highlight over the rows already on
  screen without scrolling at all.
• The bash tool's run_in_background now says what the flag is for — a
  dev server, a watch build, a full test suite — rather than only how it
  works, and notes that it defaults to false (the agent tool's own
  run_in_background defaults the other way). And both background launches,
  a command and a subagent alike, now answer with you will be notified with
  the final output when it finishes in place of you will be re-invoked: a
  result to expect rather than an internal event to brace for. Between them,
  fewer long commands run in the foreground, and fewer rounds are spent
  re-reading the interim output file for a result that arrives on its own.

Fixed

• Telemetry now reports an update the day it happens. The daily ping names
  the app version, but its once-a-day throttle was keyed on the day alone, so
  the first launch after alter-zero update sent nothing until midnight UTC
  — and the collector's INSERT OR IGNORE dropped a same-day ping outright
  (answering 204), so even a forced one left the day's row, and the
  dashboard's Versions panel, on the old version. telemetry.json now records
  last_ping_version beside last_ping_day, a launch on a different version
  pings again, and the collector's (day, id) row is an upsert that moves the
  install onto its new version. The install id survives an update, so an
  update is still one user, never a new install. Redeploy the collector
  (cd telemetry && npx wrangler deploy); no database migration is needed.

Full changelog: v0.1.1...v0.1.2

v0.1.1

Added

• Venice as a direct provider. /login → Use an API key →
  Venice takes a key from your own Venice.ai account, and /model lists
  Venice's catalog straight from api.venice.ai — the same private,
  uncensored models the Agent Zero API reaches through its proxy, over the
  same request: the thinking mode still drives
  venice_parameters.disable_thinking, the session's prompt_cache_key
  still pins Venice's implicit prompt cache, and each model's context
  window, vision, and reasoning support are still read off its model_spec
  record. Set VENICE_API_KEY (or ALTER_ZERO_PROVIDER=venice with the key
  in .env) to launch on it directly.

Fixed

• The running bash cell's +N lines (Ns) footer now counts from the
  moment the command started instead of copying the status indicator's
  turn timer, so a command launched a minute into a turn opens on (0s)
  rather than (60s). A subagent's session view counts its own running
  command the same way, from that call's start rather than the agent's
  whole runtime.

Full changelog: v0.1.0...v0.1.1

v0.1.0

Alter Zero Initial Release

Added

• An agent that works in your project. The model reads files, writes
  and edits them, and runs shell commands through an agentic tool loop.
  Parallel tool batches are announced before they run, command output
  streams live into the conversation and folds into an expandable preview,
  and long-running commands move to the background with Ctrl+B (or
  start there), with a manager band on ↓ from an empty composer.
• Control over what runs. An inline approval prompt shows the whole
  file, diff, or command before it executes, with "allow once", a session
  or per-project rule, or a rejection carrying your instructions (Tab).
  Four permission modes — manual, edit, auto (an LLM safety
  classifier reviews routine commands), master — cycle with
  Shift+Tab and persist per project. Shell children are detached from
  the terminal so a sudo prompt fails fast instead of hijacking the UI.
• Checkpoints and rewind. Per-directory filesystem checkpoints snapshot
  the working tree into an isolated git store each turn; Esc Esc steps
  back to an earlier message and restores the files with it.
• Extensibility. Subagents defined in agents/*.md (built-in
  general-purpose and explore), each with its own context, model, and
  tool allowlist, and an inline session view to chat with a running one;
  skills as SKILL.md folders with a $ mention picker, the /skills
  browser, and a built-in skill-creator; MCP servers over stdio, HTTP,
  and SSE (OAuth included) managed with /mcp and alter-zero mcp;
  Claude Code-compatible lifecycle hooks in hooks.json; AGENTS.md
  project instructions with /init to write one; structured task lists
  with a live checklist; mid-turn questions to the user; a per-session
  scratchpad for temporary files.
• Project trust. Project-level .alter-zero/ hooks and MCP servers are
  fingerprinted and inert until approved with /trust.
• Model providers. OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions (OpenRouter, the
  Agent Zero API, Ollama Cloud), GitHub Copilot by device-code sign-in,
  OpenAI ChatGPT by browser sign-in over the Responses API, Anthropic by
  API key or Console sign-in over the Messages API, and local Ollama over
  its native /api/chat. /login connects, /model picks a model, each
  provider's catalog reports context windows, vision, and reasoning
  support, Ctrl+T cycles the thinking mode, and prompt caching is
  requested wherever the provider offers it.
• Context management. A footer gauge of the context window, /compact
  with automatic compaction past 90%, and the Ctrl+D view of exactly
  what the next request carries (including the classifier's own context).
• A native terminal UI. Conversation flows into the terminal's real
  scrollback under a pinned composer; streaming Markdown with tables and
  syntax-highlighted code; collapsible reasoning; clickable URLs and file
  paths (OSC 8); inline images in kitty, iTerm2, and sixel terminals with a
  half-block fallback; Ctrl+V image paste; the Ctrl+O full
  transcript; a readline-style composer with Shift+Enter newlines,
  cross-session input history, and Ctrl+R search; @ file picker and
  ! shell commands; messages that steer the running turn (Enter) or
  queue a follow-up (Tab).
• Looks. Eleven colour themes (/theme), six banner mascots
  (/mascot), nine spinner styles (/spinner), and a searchable
  /settings menu, all remembered per directory.
• Sessions and the command line. Every conversation is recorded;
  /resume opens a searchable picker, --continue reopens the latest
  session in the directory, --resume <id> a specific one, and a quoted
  [PROMPT] argument starts a turn directly. --help and --version are
  available, as is the mcp subcommand family.
• Telemetry, disclosed. One anonymous daily ping (install id, version,
  OS, architecture) described in full in TELEMETRY.md, shown once at
  startup, and switched off with the Telemetry setting,
  ALTER_ZERO_TELEMETRY=0, or DO_NOT_TRACK=1.
• One-line install. curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/linuztx/alter-zero/main/install.sh | sh
  picks the build for the machine, verifies its SHA-256 against the
  published checksum, and installs alter-zero into ~/.local/bin.
• Update notice. Once a day the app asks the repository's releases page
  whether a newer version is out — one request, carrying nothing about you
  — and says so under the banner, naming the release and alter-zero update, which installs it over the running binary through the same
  checksum-verified installer. Off with the Update check setting or
  ALTER_ZERO_UPDATE_CHECK=0; TELEMETRY.md states the request in full.
• Release tooling. A CI workflow running the project's gate (fmt,
  clippy, test, doc), the smoke suite, and the release tooling's own
  tests; a release workflow that, on a vX.Y.Z tag, verifies the version
  against this changelog, builds Linux (x86_64, arm64) and macOS (Intel,
  Apple silicon) archives with SHA-256 checksums, and publishes a GitHub
  release whose notes come from this file — driven end to end by
  scripts/release.sh, which also rehearses a release locally.

Full changelog: https://github.com/linuztx/alter-zero/commits/v0.1.0