Release v0.0.5 · solnikhil/ZuraAI

Highlights

Added a dedicated always-on-top Overlay window for quick AI access outside the main app.
Added compact and expanded overlay modes with improved sizing, positioning, and visual polish.
Added global shortcut support for opening the Overlay directly at the cursor.
Added Overlay settings for enablement, startup behavior, sizing, anchoring, hotkey configuration, and prompt auto-hide.
Added a lightweight Prompt Popup flow that can submit prompts directly into the Overlay.

Added Fireworks AI as a first-class provider across chat, model selection, settings, usage metrics, and title generation.
Added Fireworks model discovery support.
Improved OpenRouter custom model setup with automatic model metadata autofill.
Added provider dashboard shortcut buttons in Provider Hub.
Improved Alibaba model handling, including automatic deep-thinking capability inference.
Improved OpenRouter image-generation support in chat streaming, including persistence and inline rendering of generated images.

Rebuilt the built-in web search system into a modular main-process service.
Added Tavily and DuckDuckGo fallback support.
Added configurable Tavily search depth / search speed preferences.
Added batched web search support for parallel research queries.
Improved research-loop recovery when providers return blank, repeated, or tool-only responses.
Improved web search logging, fallback behavior, query trimming, and validation.
Added optional image inclusion preference for web research results.

Unified provider streaming through a shared provider runtime and normalized streaming pipeline.
Send and regenerate now use the same streaming orchestration path.
Improved tool-call visibility during active responses.
Persisted tool-only assistant responses correctly.
Improved reasoning/search/tool timeline rendering.
Improved final answer synthesis after research/tool rounds.
Improved token usage reporting so stats reflect the final visible answer round.

Refactored the message renderer into smaller, focused components.
Improved response info popovers, usage stats, and assistant message actions.
Improved model selector layout, keyboard navigation, provider rail, and capability badges.
Flattened settings cards, dropdowns, popovers, and menu surfaces for a cleaner visual style.
Improved sidebar behavior, titlebar controls, shell navigation, and mouse-button navigation.
Added scoped Select All behavior for chat content.
Improved copy/paste reliability with clipboard utility fallbacks.

Removed the deprecated terminal bridge.
Enabled sandboxing for Electron windows.
Tightened preload and IPC boundaries.
Added safer external URL handling.
Added atomic writes for chat and secure storage to reduce corruption risk.
Required encrypted secure storage for secrets where OS-backed encryption is available.
Added clipboard read IPC through a narrow trusted bridge for context-menu paste fallback.

Split MCP manager logic into smaller helper modules.
Improved MCP runtime metadata persistence and reduced redundant disk writes.
Improved MCP tool exposure policy handling.
Improved approval handling and renderer payload behavior.
Added tests around MCP storage, manager behavior, transports, and approval flows.

Switched project scripts and CI workflows toward Bun.
Added reusable Bun setup for GitHub Actions.
Updated release workflow to use Bun-based commands.
Removed Playwright dependency and unused Settings barrel exports.
Added more tests across provider runtime, streaming, MCP, model selector, settings, overlay, and web search behavior.

Windows installer artifact:

ZuraAI-Setup-0.0.5.exe

SHA-256:

8EBEA455375CE7B2B99F41E0ECC0F0FCDD21F9F4DF4035E7E204A48EF6401E3C