v0.7.1

Added

• Added [update].version_check and [update].manifest_check so background Herdr version checks and remote agent-detection manifest checks can be disabled independently. Manual herdr update and bundled/local detection manifests still work when the background checks are disabled. (#677)
• Added HERDR_AGENT=<agent> as a Linux foreground-process hint for agents hidden behind wrappers such as VMs, Bubblewrap, or fence, allowing Herdr to use the named agent's screen manifest when /proc cannot expose the real command. (#679)
• Added ui.pane_borders and ui.pane_gaps to make split pane dividers and spacing configurable. (#271)

Changed

• Removed the Agents panel workspace/all filter. The panel now always shows all agents, defaults to grouped-by-space ordering, and can switch to priority ordering with ui.agent_panel_sort = "priority". (#318)
• User keybindings now displace conflicting built-in defaults during config load, so overriding a default binding no longer leaves both actions attached to the same key. (#747)
• Worktree creation now checks out an existing local branch when the requested branch already exists instead of failing by trying to create it again. (#729)
• Worktree operations started through the socket API and plugin/UI flows now defer long-running Git work until the app runtime can drive it, keeping clients responsive and preserving plugin lifecycle events for worktree-created panes. (#657, #662, #686)
• OMP, OpenCode, Pi, Devin, and other official hook integrations now scope lifecycle and session reports to the intended root agent process more reliably, reducing stale or cross-process session adoption after restarts, nested commands, and new sessions. (#614, #712, #719, #765)

Fixed

• Windows Terminal multiline text paste now reaches pane apps as one bracketed paste, so OMP, Pi, and similar prompts no longer submit each pasted line separately. Plain Esc, Shift+Enter, mouse, focus, resize, and Unicode paste handling are preserved on the Windows client path. (#670)
• Local Herdr clients no longer treat raw Ctrl+V as a clipboard-image paste trigger, so pane apps such as Vim and Neovim receive block-visual Ctrl+V even when the desktop clipboard contains an image. herdr --remote keeps keys.remote_image_paste = "ctrl+v" by default. (#647)
• Herdr now refreshes cached host terminal colors when terminals report a light/dark color-scheme change, so pane apps that query OSC 10/11 no longer need detach/attach to see updated default colors. Opt-in [theme].auto_switch can also switch Herdr's own UI between configured dark_name and light_name themes. (#675)
• Full-lifecycle hook agents can now recover when an old release/report sequence belongs to a previous agent generation. Herdr keeps process-exit validation active under lifecycle authority and re-anchors hook sequence guards after fresh session references or proven process exits. (#684)
• OMP now reports a native session reference, so an OMP pane reappears in the Agents panel after exiting and rerunning omp in the same pane, and Herdr can resume it with omp --resume=<session>. Previously the released lifecycle hook stayed suppressed until a server restart. (#614)
• Host terminal color query (OSC 10/11) replies that arrive split at their escape introducer no longer leak as text like 11;rgb:... into the focused pane, most visible when launching agents that probe terminal colors on startup. (#549)
• Long CJK Git branch names in the sidebar now truncate by display width instead of overflowing or cutting at the wrong cell boundary. (#644)
• Temporary pane commands launched from API flows no longer steal focus from the previously focused pane after they finish. (#658)
• Root agent session restore now ignores child process reports that would otherwise overwrite the saved session for the owning pane. (#712)
• Kitty file-transfer media queries are now answered, allowing pane apps that rely on kitty graphics file support to detect image/file media capability correctly. (#732)
• Idle or slow clients no longer block server writes to other clients while the blocked client is waiting for output. (#726)
• GitHub Copilot CLI ask_user accept prompts are now detected as blocked so the Agents panel shows that the pane is waiting for input. (#725)
• Pane reads now skip wide-character spacer cells, avoiding duplicated or malformed output around double-width characters. (#698)
• Split pane border intersections now use the active pane color consistently. (#742, thanks @cullendotdev)
• The Windows installer checksum fallback no longer depends on Get-FileHash, improving compatibility with constrained PowerShell environments. (#751)
• Pi launched through npm wrappers on Windows is now detected as Pi instead of a generic wrapped process. (#754)
• Windows builds now force the system ConPTY path through a vendored portable-pty patch, avoiding the bundled-path startup failure seen in affected Windows environments. (#761)
• Key release events that fall back to encoded input no longer double-send text into pane apps. (#769)
• Remote clients now allow a longer initial handshake, improving herdr --remote startup over high-latency links. (#753)