v1.4.185

Thank you so much for using Orca and for your continued support! ❤️

Please note: It usually takes 48–72 hours for a landed PR to be released (except P0 fixes). We have many more exciting PRs and features coming in later versions!

UI / workspace

• feat(worktrees): add per-source visibility controls by @brennanb2025 in #14189
• Move worktree labels to right badge rail with truncation tooltips by @AmethystLiang in #14313
• feat(sidebar): replace the external-worktrees inbox list with one card by @brennanb2025 in #14341
• feat(workspaces): rework cleanup discovery and dialog by @brennanb2025 in #13413
• Remove icons from Non-Orca worktree sources by @brennanb2025 in #14345
• fix(skills): use exported recipe id in environment guide by @erishforG in #14280
• fix(updater): recover renderer shutdown checkpoint by @brennanb2025 in #14373
• Center newly opened tabs at end, keep close controls visible by @AmethystLiang in #14314
• fix(stats): wrap long usage breakdown model names by @AmethystLiang in #14065
• Revert "Center newly opened tabs at end, keep close controls visible" by @AmethystLiang in #14450
• refactor(sidebar): split WorktreeList into a worktree-list module by @nwparker in #14465
• fix(sidebar): satisfy extracted hook quality gates by @nwparker in #14467
• fix(linear): label Start workspace and add Open on Linear by @AmethystLiang in #14492
• fix(workspace-cleanup): refuse removal when the owning host is not certain (STA-4343) by @brennanb2025 in #14731

Orchestration

• fix(agent-map): hold orchestration chevrons at a fixed pitch by @brennanb2025 in #14256
• fix(orchestration): preserve direct user authority after worker_done by @brennanb2025 in #14192
• fix(orchestration): retry silent mail pointers by @brennanb2025 in #14332
• fix(orchestration): wait for Claude composer render by @Jinwoo-H in #14342
• fix(orchestration): mark late dependents ready when deps already completed by @bbingz in #14163
• fix(orchestration): resolve explicit worker worktrees directly by @DTSFO in #14275
• fix(orchestration): release federation ack checkpoints once a dispatch settles by @nwparker in #14380

Agents / native chat

• feat(agent-map): make an unread finish visible and let a glance demote it by @brennanb2025 in #14197
• feat(dashboard): give the agent question state its own color and glyph by @brennanb2025 in #14248
• feat(agent-map): flare fresh questions and finishes by @brennanb2025 in #14349
• feat(dashboard): give the agent map a real filter panel by @brennanb2025 in #14338
• fix(worker-start): allow max effort on the gpt-5.6 Codex family by @kespineira in #14281
• Fix native chat watcher identity race by @brennanb2025 in #14344
• fix(agent-status): preserve Codex escape interruption by @brennanb2025 in #14372
• Fix Codex hook trust before manual shell launches by @brennanb2025 in #14326
• fix(native-chat): keep caller abort ahead of WSL gate refusal by @AmethystLiang in #14445
• fix(agent-teams): require an absolute Orca CLI for the tmux shim by @nwparker in #14438
• fix(agent-status): stop start-less child stops from minting phantom working by @brennanb2025 in #14375
• fix(agent-map): commit slider changes once (STA-4281) by @brennanb2025 in #14442
• STA-4276: preflight Codex in Command Prompt and Git Bash by @brennanb2025 in #14441
• fix(codex): resolve the launch preflight to a verified absolute Orca CLI path (STA-4270) by @brennanb2025 in #14458

Windows / WSL

• Kill hung WSL transcript filesystem operations via child process with route quarantine by @OrcaWin in #15381

Terminal

• fix(terminal): clear the SGR pen on hidden-output restore and abandon by @brennanb2025 in #14241
• fix(daemon): isolate durable-history checkpoints per session (STA-4173) by @brennanb2025 in #14346
• fix(terminal): resolve legacy wrapper fallbacks from PATH only (STA-4169) by @nwparker in #14365
• fix(terminal): make the bold font weight its own setting by @brennanb2025 in #14368
• fix(terminal): reject cwd-resolving PATH entries and harden the legacy wrappers by @nwparker in #14370
• fix(macos): recover severed terminal TCC attribution after updates by @OrcaWin in #13992
• fix(terminal): bake the wrapper interpreter and emit CRLF for cmd by @nwparker in #14382
• fix(terminal): name the POSIX interpreter directly when generating on Windows by @nwparker in #14386
• fix(terminal): clear CDPATH when resolving the wrapper directory by @nwparker in #14387
• fix(terminal): stop leaking raw PTY lifecycle tokens into the error toast by @nwparker in #14415
• fix(terminal): deliver Ctrl+C when a non-Latin input source rewrites the key by @nwparker in #14462
• fix(terminal): resolve Ctrl chords positionally on a non-Latin layout by @nwparker in #14469
• fix(terminal): keep split error when rejected cleanup throws by @AmethystLiang in #14463
• fix(terminal): strip the captured shim dir across trailing-separator spellings by @nwparker in #14439
• fix(terminal): ground the emulator to the snapshot's baseline after a byte gap by @nwparker in #14374
• fix(macos): stop reporting every app update as severed TCC attribution by @brennanb2025 in #14655
• fix(daemon): bound the caller's wait on final durable-history checkpoints (STA-4228) by @brennanb2025 in #14497
• fix(daemon): persist the pending-output counter across empty incremental takes (STA-4297) by @brennanb2025 in #14496
• fix(daemon): harden checkpoint admission after per-session isolation by @brennanb2025 in #14385

Remote server / SSH

• feat(vm): define the provisioned-root recipe contract by @Jinwoo-H in #14352
• feat(vm): add main-owned provisioned SSH root adoption by @Jinwoo-H in #14353
• feat(vm): create workspaces from provisioned SSH roots by @Jinwoo-H in #14359
• feat(relay): prefer the closest available region by @Jinwoo-H in #14366
• revert(ssh): back out #13326 and #13928 — reconnect loses every tab by @nwparker in #14361
• fix(serve): exit cleanly after headless Linux signals by @Jinwoo-H in #14334
• Fix paired remote terminal browser link creation by @OrcaWin in #14363
• fix(vm): make hidden SSH cleanup retryable by @Jinwoo-H in #14351
• fix(ssh): reapply the reattach-identity work and stop the fallback fence stranding moved panes by @nwparker in #14384
• Revert "fix(ssh): reapply the reattach-identity work and stop the fallback fence stranding moved panes" by @nwparker in #14395
• Forward Unix launcher signals to orca serve supervisor by @Boulea7 in #14071
• fix(runtime): cap remote git.diff and file previews at the transport budget by @nwparker in #14160

Browser

• fix(browser): fence the cookie-clear fallback to the pre-clear snapshot (STA-4170) by @brennanb2025 in #14343
• fix(browser): acknowledge paired tab before navigation by @Jinwoo-H in #14402
• fix(browser): restore replaced cookies through CDP identities by @brennanb2025 in #14383

GitHub / source control

• fix(workspaces): gate the GitLab palette number match on repo identity by @nwparker in #14381
• fix(repos): re-probe git remote identity so a stale snapshot stops misjudging identity gates by @nwparker in #14414
• fix(workspaces): gate the GitHub palette number match on repo remote identity by @nwparker in #14413
• refactor(shared): group worktree, github, and linear modules into folders by @nwparker in #14437
• fix(renderer): stop git history hover from showing two tooltips by @AmethystLiang in #14468
• revert: restore git history tooltip change for community PR by @AmethystLiang in #14485
• fix(renderer): remove duplicate git history tooltips by @dngur6344 in #14453

Performance

• fix(ai-vault): make the merged scan stamp independent of leg order by @nwparker in #14270
• perf(worktrees): bound the duplicate-id scan in reuseEqualCatalogRows by @nwparker in #14271
• fix(worktree-scan): stop a stalled admin probe from poisoning repo refresh by @nwparker in #14379
• refactor(store): unify the duplicated catalog equality and identity-key helpers by @nwparker in #13804
• fix(worktree-scan): keep the admin-fingerprint probe inside the caller's per-repo budget by @nwparker in #14454
• perf(renderer): parallelize runtime catalog and worktree refresh by @nwparker in #14138
• perf(runtime): resolve an explicit worktree id without scanning every repo by @nwparker in #14399
• Terminate renderer graph reload generations and contain disposed-frame notifications by @Boulea7 in #14070
• fix(skills): cancel and bound abandoned skill discovery scans by @nwparker in #14670

Mobile (mobile has its own release cycle, so here is just a reference, not actual release for mobile)

• Fix mobile HTML report rendering by @brennanb2025 in #14196
• fix(mobile): stop republishing stale launch agent identity by @brennanb2025 in #14244
• fix(mobile): keep terminal identity scoped to leaves by @brennanb2025 in #14247
• fix(mobile): self-heal host opens and harden session liveness by @Jinwoo-H in #14333
• fix(mobile): render pairing QR at scanner-safe scale by @Jinwoo-H in #15058

Tests / CI

• Add golden E2E tests for fresh terminal and shell commands by @AmethystLiang in #14302
• test(e2e): stabilize triaged release failures by @AmethystLiang in #14242
• test: add golden E2E tests for source control workflows by @AmethystLiang in #14260
• test(e2e): add golden E2E tests for workspace session management by @AmethystLiang in #14304
• test: add golden e2e tests for agent TUI launch and shell recovery by @AmethystLiang in #14258
• test(e2e): stabilize release triage coverage by @AmethystLiang in #14328
• test(renderer): cover Agent Dashboard status replay fanout by @Jinwoo-H in #14036
• Deflake native chat watcher rebind test by @brennanb2025 in #14335
• fix(docs): replace stale preload typecheck reference by @HoonDongKang in #14298
• test(terminal): pin the wrapper security properties that survived mutation by @nwparker in #14394
• ci(windows): cover the worktree admin fingerprint on the Windows runner by @nwparker in #14378
• test(terminal): fix ordering pins that pass when the needle is absent by @nwparker in #14409
• refactor(shared): split shared/types.ts into per-domain type modules by @nwparker in #14397
• refactor(preload): split the preload contract into per-domain api modules by @nwparker in #14403
• fix(test): deflake relay exec env, project boundary, and speech resume tests by @nwparker in #14446
• refactor(shared): drop the shared/types barrel and import from the real modules by @nwparker in #14447
• test(e2e): stabilize terminal failure coverage by @AmethystLiang in #14466
• test(e2e): headless preedit-geometry coverage for Korean and CJK terminal input by @nwparker in #14500
• fix(e2e): unblock golden file-link hover and Windows worktree activate by @AmethystLiang in #14720

New Contributors

• @HoonDongKang made their first contribution in #14298
• @DTSFO made their first contribution in #14275
• @Boulea7 made their first contribution in #14071
• @dngur6344 made their first contribution in #14453

Full Changelog: v1.4.184...v1.4.185