v1.4.194

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!

Notable changes

• Faster, smoother everyday use through Markdown, worktree, terminal, and renderer performance improvements.
• More reliable agent sessions, native chat, remote/SSH connections, and Windows/WSL workflows.
• Refined browser, automation, mobile, onboarding, and cross-platform infrastructure.

UI / workspaces

• Improve worktree palette layout with flex-1 titles by @AmethystLiang in #17273
• perf(markdown): skip closed-search update renders by @nwparker in #17162
• perf(markdown): skip unmatched list tokenizer scans by @nwparker in #17134
• perf(markdown): update code highlighting incrementally by @nwparker in #17147
• perf(markdown): cache repeated syntax highlighting by @nwparker in #17158
• Make worktree palette hint rows keyboard-clickable by @AmethystLiang in #17272
• Raise rich Markdown size limit to 600 KB by @nwparker in #17288
• Clarify automation history unavailability and improve recovery UX by @AmethystLiang in #17284
• fix(browser): close guest-owned split tab by @AmethystLiang in #17281
• perf(worktrees): resolve watcher targets concurrently by @nwparker in #17166
• perf(editor): skip unchanged review-note reflows by @nwparker in #17212
• perf(markdown): reuse rich-mode eligibility per render by @nwparker in #17219
• perf(browser): release popup origin bar contents by @nwparker in #17234
• perf(automations): narrow status observer updates by @nwparker in #17249
• perf(worktrees): batch-prune stale local metadata by @nwparker in #17278
• Split external automation manager by @nwparker in #17149
• Split automation dispatch event handling by @nwparker in #17155
• Split settings navigation metadata by @nwparker in #17157
• Split Linear item drawer responsibilities by @nwparker in #17231
• Split Git worktree responsibilities by @nwparker in #17253
• Split Settings page responsibilities by @nwparker in #17271
• Split Activity page responsibilities by @nwparker in #17283
• Split accounts pane responsibilities by @nwparker in #17286
• fix(sidebar): keep project header labels from switching to the repo name by @nwparker in #16877
• fix(linear): collapse duplicate per-team status rows in the Tasks filter by @nwparker in #16879
• fix(add-project): use the entered group name when opening a folder by @nwparker in #16881
• feat(browser): address-bar convergence — previews and browser tabs convert in place (STA-5681) by @Jinwoo-H in #16998
• fix(linear): surface truncation when a deduplicated status exceeds the state-id cap by @nwparker in #17342
• fix(diagnostics): count case-only worktree nesting on macOS by @nwparker in #17364
• fix(browser): apply the app-wide HTTP proxy to embedded browser sessions by @brennanb2025 in #15536
• Open linked reviews in Orca browser by @Jinwoo-H in #17360

Agents / native chat

• perf(renderer): gate pending agent-status retries by @nwparker in #17254
• Split speech session lifecycle by @nwparker in #17123
• Split Codex hook service responsibilities by @nwparker in #17260
• refactor: split Codex account service modules by @nwparker in #17277
• fix(windows): stage node-addon-api headers before process-tree rebuild by @nwparker in #17332
• refactor(native-chat): isolate resolved bridge view by @nwparker in #17339
• fix(orchestration): recover stripped task deps by @Pr1p in #16743
• fix(wsl): scan agent sessions only in running distros by @OrcaWin in #17072
• Revert waiting for setup before agent startup by @AmethystLiang in #17418

Terminal

• fix(terminal): complete OMP stale cwd recovery by @nwparker in #17154
• perf(terminal): bound stalled setup-split grid polling by @nwparker in #17228
• perf(renderer): index unread completion tabs once per snapshot by @nwparker in #17246
• perf(terminal): index accepted input pane ownership by @nwparker in #17287
• perf(terminals): drop disposed queued inspections by @nwparker in #17187
• fix(memory): hydrate retained PTYs before diagnostics by @nwparker in #17308
• Prime native cache before E2E fanout by @nwparker in #17280
• Split terminal output scheduler pipeline by @nwparker in #17131
• Split runtime file client layers by @nwparker in #17188
• Split runtime environments pane layers by @nwparker in #17198
• Split local PTY provider responsibilities by @nwparker in #17206
• Split remote terminal multiplexer responsibilities by @nwparker in #17248
• Split web runtime session responsibilities by @nwparker in #17263
• Split Claude runtime auth responsibilities by @nwparker in #17268
• Split runtime RPC server responsibilities by @nwparker in #17270
• chore(deps): bump electron 43.4.1 and other meaningful runtime deps by @nwparker in #17330
• fix(native-chat): keep a tab launch draft out of split sibling composers by @nwparker in #16883
• fix(pi): stop the titlebar spinner on settlement and idle compaction by @nwparker in #16880
• test(e2e): cover session upgrade and Windows terminal recovery by @AmethystLiang in #17289
• STA-5496: offer Orca Browser for SSH terminal links by @Jinwoo-H in #16503
• Enable React static component and purity lints by @nwparker in #17337
• fix(terminal): restore lossy initial remote snapshots by @Jinwoo-H in #17113
• test(cross-version-wire): compare published fields per frame by @nwparker in #17301
• fix(diagnostics): measure reconciled IME typing latency by @nwparker in #17171
• fix(native-chat): preserve IME composition across async updates by @nwparker in #17169
• perf(rpc): compile Zod request schemas lazily by @nwparker in #17353
• Revert "perf(rpc): compile Zod request schemas lazily" by @nwparker in #17368
• docs(ime): codify desktop composition regression checks by @nwparker in #17172
• fix(terminal): render the IME caret and give the candidate anchor one owner by @nwparker in #17170
• fix(terminal): mask the agent composer's dim placeholder during a preedit by @nwparker in #17377
• fix(linear): stop the filter coverage warning firing on complete selections by @nwparker in #17376
• fix(native-chat): replay a draft clear dropped mid-composition by @nwparker in #17392

Windows, remote server / SSH

• test(cross-version-wire): derive skew expectations from the baseline under test by @brennanb2025 in #17178
• test(shared): stop two suites asserting POSIX separators on Windows by @JahyunBaek in #16511
• fix(worktree): ignore orphan remote-tracking refs in branch conflicts by @JahyunBaek in #16699
• perf(ssh): cache legacy worktree clean fallback by @nwparker in #17213
• Split hosted review creation checks by @nwparker in #17152
• Split daemon initialization lifecycle by @nwparker in #17161
• Split relay dispatcher layers by @nwparker in #17174
• Split CDP bridge responsibilities by @nwparker in #17215
• Split relay Git handler responsibilities by @nwparker in #17217
• fix(bench): report counterbalanced WSL Git medians by @OrcaWin in #13474
• fix(remote): focus host-delegated split panes by @Jinwoo-H in #16886
• perf(preflight): cache WSL CLI probes per distro by @nwparker in #17350
• fix(cli): name PowerShell when it strips quotes from JSON flags by @nwparker in #17351
• test(wsl): guard probes that report failure as a negative answer by @nwparker in #17352
• refactor(preflight): rename execCommandInWsl to execCommandInWslOrThrow by @nwparker in #17375

Mobile

• Split mobile browser pane modules by @nwparker in #17141
• Extract mobile troubleshoot screen styles by @nwparker in #17146
• Split mobile host screen layers by @nwparker in #17181
• perf(mobile): slow certified terminal inventory sweeps by @nwparker in #17182

Performance / reliability

• build: upgrade to pnpm 12 by @nwparker in #17156
• chore: update oxlint and oxfmt by @nwparker in #17150
• perf(startup): skip disabled diagnostic serialization by @nwparker in #17176
• perf(startup): stop rescanning persisted pane tabs by @nwparker in #17179
• Fix md file rendering 2 by @AmethystLiang in #17295
• test(persistence): give the 130k-leaf pane alias scale test headroom by @nwparker in #17323
• fix(crash): suppress Linux namespace SIGTERM reports by @nwparker in #17315
• Prune resolved max-lines suppressions by @nwparker in #17142
• Split pane tree equalization logic by @nwparker in #17145
• Split main window service attachments by @nwparker in #17151
• Split GitLab item dialog by @nwparker in #17165
• Split ports panel layers by @nwparker in #17194
• Split telemetry event schema responsibilities by @nwparker in #17235
• Split resource usage status responsibilities by @nwparker in #17244
• Split GitHub project view read path by @nwparker in #17266
• Split filesystem watcher responsibilities by @nwparker in #17274
• fix(ci): stop hourly/adhoc mac builds from executing native pnpm via node by @nwparker in #17331
• chore: enable React correctness lints by @nwparker in #17285
• test(vitest): adapt happy-dom OffscreenCanvas canvas mocks by @nwparker in #17336
• fix(build): preserve Electron during binary repair by @nwparker in #17334
• fix(window): keep automated Electron launches out of the foreground by @nwparker in #17347
• fix(scripts): stop pnpm-cli-invocation test leaking npm_execpath into the fallback case by @nwparker in #17340
• fix(tests): match showInactive() in paired-client-window-reveal spec by @nwparker in #17362
• test(e2e): match the paired-client reveal assertion to showInactive() by @nwparker in #17363
• Consolidate the renderer now-clock and drop the epoch setState round-trip by @nwparker in #17358
• ci: gate PRs on a real input method, and prove the lane engaged one by @nwparker in #17365
• refactor(preflight): rename execLocalPreflightCommand to execLocalPreflightCommandOrThrow by @nwparker in #17380
• chore(deps): remove pdfjs-dist release exception by @nwparker in #17372
• chore(deps): restore pdfjs-dist release-age exception until it ages out by @nwparker in #17385
• chore(deps): pin the pdfjs-dist release-age exception to 6.3.289 by @nwparker in #17389

New Contributors

• @JahyunBaek made their first contribution in #16511
• @Pr1p made their first contribution in #16743

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