Orbit v1.2.0
Orbit v1.2.0 — Release Notes
The IDE release. Orbit grows from a developer command center into a genuine,
local-first IDE — multi-file editing, universal search, a full git power center,
Docker/database/API tooling, a testing panel, and live language-server
diagnostics — wrapped in a new red identity with a launch splashscreen.
Still everything you'd expect: local-first, no account, no telemetry, fast, and
cross-platform.
Highlights
✍️ A real code editor
- Multi-file tabs — every file you open gets its own tab with its own
unsaved draft; reopening focuses the existing tab, closing picks a neighbour. - Find, replace & go-to-line in-editor (
Ctrl/Cmd+F·Ctrl/Cmd+H·
Ctrl+Alt+G), a live Ln, Col readout, and editor preferences (font
size, tab size, word wrap) that apply live and persist. - Document outline — jump around a file by symbol.
- File operations in the Explorer — create, rename and delete, with guards.
🔎 Search everywhere
- Workspace search — fast find-in-files, click a result to open at the line.
- Quick-open —
⌘/Ctrl+Kand type to fuzzy-find any file in the project.
🌱 Git, as a first-class panel
A complete Source Control tab: staged/unstaged groups with one-click
stage/unstage, an inline coloured diff, commit, history with per-commit
patches, branches (switch/create), fetch / pull / push, stash, and
tags — all on the git binary you already have.
🐳 Containers · 🗄 Database · 🌐 APIs
- Containers — list Docker containers and images, start/stop/restart.
- Database — open a SQLite file and browse tables, view rows, run
SELECTs. - APIs — a REST client: method, URL, headers, body, and a JSON-aware
response viewer.
🧪 Testing & Problems
- Testing — run a project's test command with a parsed pass/fail summary
(cargo, Jest/Vitest, pytest). - Problems — a unified, navigable diagnostics view that now includes live
language-server diagnostics for your open files (rust-analyzer,
typescript-language-server, pylsp, gopls) when a server is installed.
🎨 New identity + launch experience
- A red visual identity matched to the website, a redesigned glowing logo,
and a black-and-red launch splashscreen. - A fourth theme: High Contrast for low-vision use.
⬆️ Updates
Orbit checks for signed updates on launch, and Settings now has an on-demand
"Check for updates" that downloads, installs and relaunches.
Under the hood
Multiple new, unit-tested engine modules — search, docker, db, http,
testing, outline, and an lsp client (framing + JSON-RPC + a Session
state machine + a driver that spawns real servers). 100+ engine tests stay
green, and the desktop bundle builds on macOS (Intel + Apple Silicon), Windows
and Linux.
Still to come
Split editors, the LSP go-to-definition/hover gestures, a debugger, and a plugin
SDK — tracked honestly in the roadmap.
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