v4.9.6

4.9.6 - 2026-10-20

Highlights: Find, inspect and capture apps that re-exec themselves on launch, such as Xcode's Device Hub, whose PID AppKit reports as -1; report window close as closed when an app keeps the closed window alive or quits; use the Mac app's saved Vision model for image analysis; and keep the Mac chat's Stop button, follow-ups, transcript, menu bar and recent sessions reliable.

• See, inspect, list and capture apps that re-exec themselves on launch, such as Xcode's Device Hub, whose PID AppKit reports as -1, by recovering one verified live process with matching executable and application metadata. Thanks @lukemyself-hub! #1121, fixes #1119.
• Report window close as closed when the app keeps the closed NSWindow alive, such as Calculator's About panel: an off-screen WindowServer row no longer counts as the window remaining once Accessibility no longer exposes it. Thanks @jandubois! #1116, fixes #1106.
• Report window close as closed when the owning process exits during close verification (for example the last window of an app that quits) instead of failing with a changed-identity error; a reused PID still counts as a replacement. #1109, refs #1106.
• Use the Mac app's saved Vision model for screenshots and image analysis: a custom choice is written to agent.visionModel in config.json (as provider/modelId) and used by see/analyze when no model is given, while "Same as agent model" removes it. Thanks @SebTardif! #1110.
• Save the Mac app's Ollama base URL to config.json so the CLI uses it, and clear it when reset to http://localhost:11434 instead of restoring the old URL on the next launch. Thanks @SebTardif! #1104.
• Keep the Mac chat's Stop button attached to the running task when you send follow-ups: follow-ups now queue behind the active task and run in order, Stop cancels the in-flight provider request and discards queued follow-ups, and a queued prompt stays with the session it was sent from. Thanks @SebTardif! #1095.
• Stop recording Mac chat prompts twice from the menu bar or queued follow-ups, stop appending a combined copy of the reply after multi-step runs, and title a new chat from its first prompt again. #1117.
• Open the chat you clicked under Recent Sessions in the Mac menu bar instead of the one already selected; that window can continue or retry its chat without first switching the menu bar's selection. Thanks @SebTardif! #1108.
• Keep the Mac menu bar's chat in sync with the conversation: new messages, streamed replies, generated titles and summaries now show up there, and deleting that chat no longer leaves it selected. Thanks @SebTardif! #1107.
• Keep the Mac app's chat history when sessions.json cannot be decoded: move the unreadable file aside instead of overwriting it, save atomically, and show a notice while saves are blocked. Thanks @SebTardif! #1102.
• Keep underscores inside words, such as WINDOW_NOT_FOUND or browser_wait_for, literal on the documentation site instead of rendering them as emphasis. Thanks @rudycelekli! #1112.
• Move macOS CI and qualification jobs to Xcode 27 runners (except CodeQL Swift tracing), retain macOS 15 deployment and runtime-symbol checks, and smoke-test Intel artifacts under Rosetta.

Verification

Run: https://github.com/openclaw/Peekaboo/actions/runs/39500615980

Verified on xcode-27: arm64, x86_64 under Rosetta, and an independent arm64 runtime audit.

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npm

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• Homebrew: openclaw/homebrew-tap formula updated to v4.9.6, with arm64 and x86_64 checksums matching the release assets.