v1.4.195

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 worktree creation and smoother performance across terminals, large diffs, Git operations, and the app UI.
• A more capable native chat experience, with image paste and attachment previews plus improved send and response reliability.
• More reliable remote/SSH and Windows/WSL workflows, including safer terminal recovery, path handling, and updater downloads.

UI / workspaces

• perf: overlap independent worktree create preflight by @nwparker in #17386
• perf(worktree): prepare checkouts while the composer is open by @nwparker in #17290
• fix(worktree): complete a create Git can confirm but cannot list by @nwparker in #17388
• perf(worktree): overlap finalization head probes by @nwparker in #17443
• perf(worktree): parallelize head identity metadata reads by @nwparker in #17449
• perf(diff): defer large diffs until user loads them by @AmethystLiang in #17521
• Add show-more button for recent tabs in empty-query palette by @AmethystLiang in #17693
• fix(tasks): keep the remembered GitHub scroll offset instead of clobbering it (STA-5949) by @nwparker in #17433
• fix(tasks): restore scroll position when reopening GitHub item details by @AmethystLiang in #17524
• feat(browser): edit a page annotation's comment and intent inline in the tray by @Sahir619 in #17511
• fix(browser): show immediate feedback during reload by @Jinwoo-H in #17635

Agents / native chat

• Fix select all in the native chat composer by @brennanb2025 in #17294
• fix(native-chat): keep agent responses selectable by @brennanb2025 in #17437
• fix(native-chat): recover a transport-unconfirmed send instead of wedging the queue by @brennanb2025 in #17383
• fix(native-chat): preserve structured chat across rollback by @brennanb2025 in #17439
• fix(native-chat): paste images in structured Codex chat by @brennanb2025 in #17498
• feat(native-chat): preview pending image attachments by @brennanb2025 in #17517
• Fix duplicated Codex startup command in new agent tabs by @nwparker in #17488
• fix(agents): keep OMP identity and forward ask/approval events by @brennanb2025 in #15713
• fix(omp): read Pi/OMP static state-title markers and retire stale spinners by @brennanb2025 in #14602

Terminal

• perf(terminal): assemble queued output chunks linearly by @nwparker in #17500
• perf(terminal): fast-path chunks without agent status markers by @nwparker in #17514
• fix(paste): exclude xterm helper textareas from text ownership by @nwparker in #17475
• Upgrade xterm to 6.1.0-beta.303 and generate the addon patches by @nwparker in #17335

Windows, remote server / SSH

• fix(updater): accept GitHub release asset redirects on Windows by @nwparker in #17369
• perf(wsl): place worktrees inside the distro when the project runs in WSL by @nwparker in #17387
• fix(cli): resolve a WSL shell's Linux path to the UNC-stored worktree by @nwparker in #17440
• fix(cli): resolve WSL mounted-drive worktree paths by @nwparker in #17474
• fix(ssh): match the exact worktree created by @nwparker in #17472
• fix(remote): preserve standing host reconnect intent by @brennanb2025 in #17067
• fix(remote): re-activate the pending host surface on paired PTY attach (STA-5291) by @nwparker in #17429
• fix(relay): reap owned PTYs when the daemon dies on an uncaught exception (STA-5697) by @brennanb2025 in #16894
• fix(daemon): bound the whole boot-recovery sequence with one budget (STA-5732) by @nwparker in #17427

Performance / reliability

• perf(git): bound git subprocess execution with an atomic admission scheduler by @brennanb2025 in #16874
• fix(session): deduplicate editor records during restore by @nwparker in #17370
• fix(persistence): stop rejected UI trailing flush loops by @Jinwoo-H in #17378
• perf(packaging): ship one native runtime per target by @nwparker in #17528
• perf(build): minify desktop JavaScript bundles without dropping crash context by @nwparker in #17527
• ci(release): publish main-process source maps with each release by @nwparker in #17630
• feat(docs): publish OSS docs with stable releases by @nwparker in #17622

New Contributors

• @Sahir619 made their first contribution in #17511
• @NiZZioN made their first contribution in #17456
• @trs-80 made their first contribution in #16089
• @2sumtech made their first contribution in #17226

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