Release 1.4.255 · stablyai/orca

Faster session search, agents on your phone & smoother chat switching ✨

We shipped two releases in quick succession: 1.4.254 yesterday and 1.4.255 today. See the 1.4.254 release notes for Git Graph, chat forks, on-device phone dictation, more resilient mobile work, and pairing and trust improvements.

A little less waiting, a little more flow. This update makes large session histories easier to search, brings your agents together on your phone, and smooths out the everyday work of switching accounts, models and workspaces.

⚡ Find past work without slowing down: Session History searches run off the app’s main thread, keep results visible while you type, and show your last list immediately after a restart while it refreshes. Search also works on SSH and remote-server hosts.
📱 Your agents, together on your phone: A new Agents tab lists agents across your connected desktops. Mark them read or clear them from the list, with activity status supplied by the desktop. Saved task lists and host labels appear sooner when you reopen the app.
💬 Keep your chat moving: Switching Codex accounts moves your open Codex chats to the account you choose. Forks preserve the chat’s history, pasted rich text keeps its links, and queued messages resume after a restart.
🎛️ A clearer way to choose your setup: Agent speed is now one button, model setup opens with your current choice highlighted, and searching for “codex” puts the Codex agent ahead of other agents’ Codex-named models—including when you press Enter.
🌳 Do more from where you are: Check out, cherry-pick or revert commits from Git Graph. Open the branch picker directly from the branch name under your chat composer, and choose your next action from a simpler empty split pane.

Highlights

Session History & performance: Large histories stay responsive while search runs in a worker. Workspace and Project filters query their own sessions, unchanged history rows avoid extra rendering, and search indexing and profile saves do less disk work.
Chat & agents: Open Codex chats follow account switches, newly installed skills appear in Codex’s $ menu before your first message, and Antigravity Chat shows installed skills. OpenCode 2 starts with the model you picked. Clearing a chat hides the old transcript immediately, and a failed model or effort change affects its message rather than the whole chat.
Phone & remote hosts: The Agents tab brings activity across desktops into one place. Pages open sooner through prewarming, Review refreshes branch comparisons when Git changes, and the file-preview restore bar stays above the keyboard. A stalled LAN reconnect can fall back to Relay, and resumed VMs keep their device pairing when the host key is unchanged.
Workspaces & source control: Git Graph gains checkout, cherry-pick and revert actions. You can preserve eligible child workspaces when deleting a parent, create a worktree for each repository from an empty folder workspace, and clone into a separate folder when a repository name is already taken. The sidebar divider resizes the sidebar reliably.
Browser, editor & terminal: Remote browser tabs show site favicons, website links open in new tabs, and the CLI can list and reload installed browser extensions. PDFs fit the preview pane’s width. Terminal panes explain when another window is holding their size and offer a way to undo it.
Everyday polish: Long Settings lists use searchable pickers, older chat messages show dates, and live agents stay visible in the unread filter. This release also fixes stale browser, Linear toolbar and usage-tooltip displays, plus the first Enter keypress after turning off Japanese IME.

Full Changelog: v1.4.254...v1.4.255

What's Changed

more accurate chat ui invocation count by @AmethystLiang in #39784
test: remove 988 low-value tests by @OrcaWin in #39797
feat(cli): one enclosing-workspace rule, --environment local, copyable addresses, and --parent-environment by @Jinwoo-H in #39733
fix(mobile): prevent duplicate queued sends after chat remount by @nwparker in #39809
Preserve the chat's history when forking by @brennanb2025 in #39168
Simplify delete workspace dialog by @nwparker in #39801
Use Appearance's searchable picker for terminal themes by @nwparker in #39800
test: stop worker-teardown console race from failing unit shards by @OrcaWin in #39813
test: remove 154 low-value tests and redundant relay checkpoints by @OrcaWin in #39814
Open a landing instead of a terminal when splitting a Chat UI pane by @brennanb2025 in #39234
fix(agent-hooks): let the last-status throttle apply to routine hook events by @nwparker in #39826
Use searchable pickers for long Settings lists by @nwparker in #39815
fix(shell): keep a user's claude/codex function when the cwd has a matching entry by @nwparker in #39820
fix(bitbucket): list required API token scopes in the connect dialog by @1aifanatic in #39118
fix(settings): line up an agent's launch fields on one type scale by @luisgonzaleznf in #39199
fix(sidebar): don't wake a sibling Hide sleeping keeps hidden when the active workspace is deleted by @yohangwak in #39230
Create a worktree per repository from an empty folder workspace by @brennanb2025 in #39575
fix(packaging): run the terminal host PTY probe in /bin/sh by @mancunianez in #39602
Git Graph: commit actions (checkout, cherry-pick, revert) by @brennanb2025 in #39069
fix(antigravity): detect Orca Chat sign-in via antigravity-acp/acp_token.json by @Manho in #39398
test: remove 712 low-value tests by @OrcaWin in #39829
fix(browser): keep native popup minimum content size and first Windows fixture error by @RoastFried-RF in #39319
test: split GitHub and GitLab mocks out of runtime setup.spec to fix main lint by @nwparker in #39837
perf(orchestration): back off failing federation relays instead of polling every second by @OrcaWin in #39734
perf(skills): read skill folders ahead of the walk, three reads at a time by @OrcaWin in #39836
perf(test): default check:changed unit tests to two Vitest workers by @OrcaWin in #39849
perf(mobile): warm WebKit's processes on iOS before the first page opens by @OrcaWin in #39851
perf(main): overlap independent fs probes; skip per-entry copies by @nwparker in #39729
test: remove 231 low-value tests by @OrcaWin in #39850
perf(codex): bridge account history with async directory diffs by @AmethystLiang in #39805
test: remove 128 low-value tests by @OrcaWin in #39853
fix(hermes): tolerate a deleted cwd in the status hook so pre_tool_call isn't blocked by @nwparker in #39833
fix(ime): don't swallow the first Enter after toggling Japanese IME off with Hankaku/Zenkaku by @nwparker in #39834
test: remove four redundant terminal tests by @OrcaWin in #39858
test: remove 95 low-value renderer tests by @OrcaWin in #39859
test: remove 27 low-value hook and terminal tests by @OrcaWin in #39866
fix(codex): do not count a dangling link raced into the target as bridged by @OrcaWin in #39862
fix(window): cancelling a quit prompt clears the quit latch so later closes aren't treated as quits by @tomarai85 in #39597
chore(lint): oxlint 1.91, cheap perf/correctness rules, return-await fixes by @nwparker in #39730
test: remove 14 low-value renderer tests by @OrcaWin in #39871
perf(tasks): look up the GitLab comment viewer only on phone reads by @OrcaWin in #39860
refactor(shared): organize execution and automation defining owners by @nwparker in #39776
test: hover the grab target before clicking in the split grab e2e by @OrcaWin in #39868
test: remove 5 low-value agent launch tests by @OrcaWin in #39875
test: remove 6 low-value resume and lifetime tests by @OrcaWin in #39881
refactor(mobile): organize pairing, session, RPC and host owners by @nwparker in #39846
test: remove 6 low-value renderer tests by @OrcaWin in #39885
refactor(skills): group discovery, install, cloud, and transfer owners by @nwparker in #39874
test: remove 23 low-value hook tests by @OrcaWin in #39889
test: remove 13 low-value hook tests by @OrcaWin in #39892
test: remove 11 low-value agent-status tests by @OrcaWin in #39893
test: remove 7 low-value workspace-store tests by @OrcaWin in #39896
refactor(acp): group transport, session, launch, and timeline owners by @nwparker in #39897
test: remove 8 low-value skills tests by @OrcaWin in #39899
test: remove 5 low-value skills tests by @OrcaWin in #39903
refactor(skills): retire test-only removal service by @nwparker in #39902
test: remove 12 low-value skill tests by @OrcaWin in #39911
Show CI results as one-line cards on desktop and phone, following the desktop setting by @brennanb2025 in #39658
Open the branch picker from the branch name under the chat composer by @brennanb2025 in #39692
Open search-result agent setup as a hover submenu by @brennanb2025 in #39569
Update README downloads badge by @buf0-bot[bot] in #39922
test: remove 19 low-value skill and renderer tests by @OrcaWin in #39921
fix(github): stop PR pages and GitHub requests from hanging forever when the rate-limit cache expires by @brennanb2025 in #39581
fix(runtime): send a terminal's first screen before closing its stream on exit by @AmoabaKelvin in #39681
feat(runtime): tell phones when git status changes by @AmoabaKelvin in #39672
test: remove 6 low-value test cases by @OrcaWin in #39925
test: remove 10 low-value mobile test cases by @OrcaWin in #39927
Reduce maximum height of model picker by @AmethystLiang in #39774
feat(runtime): tell phones which settings changed by @AmoabaKelvin in #39718
test: remove 8 low-value test cases by @OrcaWin in #39934
test: remove 8 low-value mobile test cases by @OrcaWin in #39939
feat(agents): share the desktop Agents list with paired phones by @AmoabaKelvin in #39243
feat(mobile): add an Agents tab listing every agent across your desktops by @AmoabaKelvin in #39244
fix(ai-vault): cut session search index disk writes with wider FTS merges and fewer vacuums by @AmoabaKelvin in #39314
fix(ai-vault): keep search results on screen while typing in Session History by @AmoabaKelvin in #39325
fix(session-history): match more Claude and Pi folder names in scope recovery by @AmoabaKelvin in #39936
fix(toasts): match toast action buttons to Orca's Button by @brennanb2025 in #39935
feat(mobile): mark agents read and clear them from the Agents tab by @AmoabaKelvin in #39245
test: remove 17 low-value mobile test cases by @OrcaWin in #39941
Display private GitHub attachment images in fetched items by @brennanb2025 in #39250
Let native chats finish slow agent startup by @brennanb2025 in #38727
test: remove 9 low-value IPC and SQLite tests by @OrcaWin in #39947
perf(ai-vault): skip re-rendering unchanged Session History rows by @AmoabaKelvin in #39944
fix(native-chat): drop Open in new tab from the file link menu by @AmoabaKelvin in #39950
test: remove 6 low-value query and cache tests by @OrcaWin in #39953
Organize SSH and managed-server modules by concrete owner by @nwparker in #39937
Allow disabling plugins from the activity bar by @AmethystLiang in #39956
test: remove 92 low-value mobile tests by @OrcaWin in #39957
test: remove 61 low-value mobile tests by @OrcaWin in #39955
perf(runtime): drop old terminal resume output through a head index instead of splicing by @AmoabaKelvin in #39931
perf(mobile): keep task lists on the phone between launches by @AmoabaKelvin in #39948
fix(mobile): refresh native Home when worktree rows change by @AmoabaKelvin in #39929
test: remove 26 low-value mobile tests by @OrcaWin in #39961
perf(notebook): bound retained output from noisy cells by @OrcaWin in #39888
test: remove 21 low-value CLI and GitHub tests by @OrcaWin in #39963
fix(native-chat): send queued messages after resuming a chat interrupted by a restart by @AmoabaKelvin in #39965
test: remove 15 low-value SSH tests by @OrcaWin in #39968
refactor: organize agent hook installation and server owners by @nwparker in #39969
Open agent setup with the current model highlighted by @brennanb2025 in #39923
test: remove 2 low-value vault and restart tests by @OrcaWin in #39970
chore(ratchets): fail PRs that add sync fs calls on Electron main or new setInterval polls by @brennanb2025 in #39930
test(perf): render and identity contracts for agent status, sidebar, tab strip and chat by @brennanb2025 in #39954
refactor: organize browser extension requests and rule owners by @nwparker in #39975
chore(ratchets): point the sync fs baseline at the moved agent-hooks files by @OrcaWin in #39986
test: remove 18 low-value SSH and managed-server tests by @OrcaWin in #39979
fix(terminal): keep subpixel text on the retained replay frame by @OrcaWin in #39981
test(e2e): update five stale or racy terminal and agent specs by @OrcaWin in #39982
test: remove 31 low-value performance, SSH and image tests by @OrcaWin in #39994
perf(profile-state): store large domains as per-entry rows so saves rewrite only what changed by @nwparker in #39974
fix(claude): ask before matching Claude Code's theme in every profile by @brennanb2025 in #39978
test(e2e): follow setup review dialog, GitLab work-item listing, chat sign-in probe and onboarding trust prompt by @OrcaWin in #39983
fix(browser): validate a guest whose ID is unreadable at dom-ready by @OrcaWin in #39984
fix(editor): keep a late autofocus frame from moving the Markdown caret by @OrcaWin in #39985
fix(runtime): move the local RPC socket to a short path when userData is too long by @OrcaWin in #39972
perf(session-history): answer Workspace and Project from their own sessions by @AmoabaKelvin in #39971
perf(agent-hooks): save agent status as per-pane SQLite rows, every few minutes by @nwparker in #39995
perf(persistence): save the GitHub cache as per-entry SQLite rows every few minutes by @nwparker in #39993
fix(runtime): keep the restored tab selected after a serve restart; update stale paired e2e specs by @OrcaWin in #39980
fix(orchestration): refuse a reply to a finished worker's report and name the follow-up that works by @Jinwoo-H in #39802
test(ai-vault): restore the sameFolder helper the merged scope-only case uses by @OrcaWin in #40005
Show dates on older chat messages by @AmethystLiang in #40001
relay edge: host-sent keepalive answered without waking the object by @nwparker in #40010
fix(orchestration): refuse worker-start on a busy terminal before any wait by @Jinwoo-H in #39962
test: remove 54 low-value agent-hook, SSH and PTY tests by @OrcaWin in #39998
update log efficiency by @AmethystLiang in #40011
fix(orchestration): wake idle Hermes workers after a runtime restart by @gsxdsm in #37732
test: remove 23 low-value cache, model-picker and SSH tests by @OrcaWin in #40015
Allow preserving child workspaces when deleting a parent by @AmethystLiang in #39795
fix(activity): keep live agents visible in unread filter by @AmethystLiang in #40016
fix(browser): open website links in new tabs by @AmethystLiang in #40019
refactor: organize browser guest lifecycle owners by @nwparker in #39996
Prevent background agents from mislabeling terminal tabs by @AmethystLiang in #39778
test(runtime): cover several clients sharing one runtime terminal by @nwparker in #39246
fix(native-chat): keep links when pasting rich text, and link selected words when pasting a URL by @AmoabaKelvin in #39213
test: remove 19 low-value chat, inventory and SSH tests by @OrcaWin in #40021
perf(persistence): store notification dismissals and the model catalog as SQLite rows by @nwparker in #39997
Show honest liveness for chat-mode orchestration workers by @Jinwoo-H in #39804
feat(vm-recipes): optional per-step timeouts for recipe lifecycle commands by @nwparker in #39238
test: remove 37 low-value PTY and browser tests by @OrcaWin in #40029
test(notebook): keep polling when the save read lands mid-write by @OrcaWin in #40031
Start OpenCode 2 with a picked model by @brennanb2025 in #39991
refactor(browser): organize automation, cookies and session policy owners by @nwparker in #40002
Fork copied replies from their original chat by @brennanb2025 in #39823
fix(remote-runtime): keep a resumed VM's device pairing while its host key is unchanged by @nwparker in #39225
test: remove 10 low-value tests and three suites by @OrcaWin in #40035
fix(source-control): match the Git Graph button to the Commits header actions by @brennanb2025 in #40025
feat(terminal): explain and undo a pane held at another window's size by @nwparker in #39249
Show installed skills in Antigravity Chat by @brennanb2025 in #40027
refactor(settings): use concrete mobile pairing and state owners by @nwparker in #40037
fix(vm-recipes): record each VM before create runs so a quit or crash can't leak it by @nwparker in #39241
fix(mobile): race Relay when a mid-session LAN redial stalls (STA-14363) by @Jinwoo-H in #40026
Rotate the server pairing identity when ORCA_INSTANCE_ID changes by @nwparker in #39217
refactor(sqlite): share one row cache across the SQLite-backed caches by @nwparker in #40028
fix(worktrees): keep long-path and WSL-root Claude history names retired by @AmoabaKelvin in #40008
fix(session-history): show the last list at once after a restart while it rescans by @AmoabaKelvin in #39380
Update README downloads badge by @buf0-bot[bot] in #40045
refactor(browser): connect commands and contracts to defining owners by @nwparker in #40042
test: remove 12 low-value tests by @OrcaWin in #40041
Add protected telemetry milestones by @AmethystLiang in #40043
fix(browser): show site favicons on browser tabs running on a remote host by @AmoabaKelvin in #40049
test: remove 10 low-value tests by @OrcaWin in #40053
Keep Session History responsive on large histories: move session search SQLite to worker threads by @brennanb2025 in #38945
refactor(settings): place shared host features and terminal catalogs with owners by @nwparker in #40051
fix(native-chat): hide the old transcript the moment /clear is sent by @AmoabaKelvin in #40054
perf(terminal): index sleeping-record and launch-agent tabs once per parking pass by @brennanb2025 in #40009
perf(terminal): group park-exempt sleeping records once per map; index captured panes by leaf by @brennanb2025 in #40014
chore(claude): update the Claude Agent SDK to 0.3.318 by @brennanb2025 in #39940
fix(codex): recognize the 16 app-server notifications added through Codex 0.167 by @brennanb2025 in #39943
test: remove low-value smoke scripts, verifier, and benchmark by @OrcaWin in #40060
refactor: organize provider and repository settings owners by @nwparker in #40059
Let Continue in Chat UI switch when Orca can't prove the terminal stopped, and start unsaved conversations fresh by @brennanb2025 in #40033
An unanswered model or effort change fails only its message, and each agent process end is logged with its cause by @brennanb2025 in #40038
test: share a worker's module cache across unit files that can be reset between files by @OrcaWin in #40067
refactor(mobile): move the shell's web view into a document object the screen holds by @AmoabaKelvin in #39946
feat(cli): list and reload installed browser extensions by @ggpepperstech in #39613
feat(viewer): fit PDF previews to pane width by @AmoabaKelvin in #39966
perf(mobile): prewarm one page while Home is shown so opening a page skips the WebView start by @AmoabaKelvin in #40018
fix(native-chat): show newly installed skills in the Codex $ menu before the first message by @AmoabaKelvin in #40012
fix(mobile): translate the Markdown reader's status labels and delete the unused reader by @AmoabaKelvin in #40068
fix(mobile): lift the file preview restore bar above the keyboard by @AmoabaKelvin in #40075
fix: repair main's session registry import and isolate the popup Electron fixture by @AmoabaKelvin in #40074
fix(mobile): paint host labels and relay server rows from the phone's store on relaunch by @AmoabaKelvin in #40086
fix(mobile): refresh Review's branch compare when the desktop reports a git change by @AmoabaKelvin in #40088
fix(clone): let a clone use its own folder when the repo's name is taken by @AmoabaKelvin in #40066
test: isolate watcher capacity state and drop RPC call inventory by @OrcaWin in #40076
fix(serve): keep the crash notice across an identity reset; drop stray staged identity files by @nwparker in #40081
perf(mobile): read new-workspace host labels through the stored host-list query by @AmoabaKelvin in #40096
Guard child preservation when eligibility changes by @AmethystLiang in #40094
build: enable React Compiler for the renderer and web build by @OrcaWin in #39811
refactor: organize settings and account defining owners by @nwparker in #40070
test: remove 45 low-value suites and redundant cases by @OrcaWin in #40072
perf(native-chat): give the old agent 1 s to exit on /clear by @AmoabaKelvin in #40103

Cherry-picked fixes

fix(agent-picker): list agents named by the search before other agents' model setups by @nwparker in #39806
Show agent speed as one button instead of a Standard/Fast switcher by @brennanb2025 in #40052
fix(sidebar): let the divider resize instead of scrolling the workspace list by @nwparker in #40087
feat(tab-group): redesign the empty split pane as one list of actions by @AmoabaKelvin in #40113
fix(orcad): ship session search worker entry to remote hosts by @nwparker in #40133
fix(session-search): bound tool-row purge to rowids above a persisted high-water mark by @nwparker in #40134
fix(native-chat): move open Codex chats to the account you switch to by @AmoabaKelvin in #40148
fix: stale renders React Compiler introduced in the browser run button, Linear toolbar and usage tooltip by @brennanb2025 in #40162
Fix the speed button's unknown, Flex and chat-options Escape cases by @brennanb2025 in #40173

New Contributors

@luisgonzaleznf made their first contribution in #39199
@yohangwak made their first contribution in #39230
@mancunianez made their first contribution in #39602
@RoastFried-RF made their first contribution in #39319
@ggpepperstech made their first contribution in #39613

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