Release v1.2.2 — Thinking Streams, Google OAuth & UI Refinements

🚀 What's New in OrbiterX v1.2.2

🧠 Thinking & Reasoning Stream

• Interactive Thought Streaming: Real-time thinking blocks with live thought token streaming and collapsible views.
• Reasoning Effort Selection: Configurable reasoning depth (low, medium, high) passed directly to supported models.
• Duration Tracking: Live elapsed-time counter during thought generation with clean collapse on completion.

✨ Shiny "Working" Status Animation

• Animated Shimmer Text: Replaced the legacy orb with an engineered shiny "Working" text effect.
• Zero-Overhead GPU Compositing: Lightweight CSS keyframe gradient sweep running on the compositor thread.
• Dark & Light Adaptive: Theme-aware contrast levels ensuring crisp readability across all workspaces.

🔐 Google OAuth & Edge Gateway

• Edge Authentication: Complete Google OAuth sign-in flow powered by the ultra-low latency Cloudflare Rust Gateway (gateway.orbiterxai.online).
• Persistent Sessions: Edge session verification and polling for instant, secure desktop authentication.
• Refined Welcome Experience: Deep crimson ambient visual styling on the welcome screen with direct Google login.

📂 Streamlined Sidebar Profile Menu

• Essential Options Only: Simplified the bottom-left user menu to strictly display Usage stats and Login / Logout.
• De-cluttered Interface: Removed redundant submenus (Upgrade, Language, Theme, Work mode, Zoom) from the profile popup.

🛡️ Sandbox & Stream Resilience

• Network Proxy Daemon Liveness: Automatic health check and relaunch recovery for dead loopback proxy daemons.
• Top-Level Managed Networks: Enforced seatbelt and Landlock sandbox network profiles for secure terminal execution.
• SSE Stream Compatibility Layer: Robust stream transformers for OpenAI-compatible and Anthropic-compatible model endpoints.

Release v1.2.1 — Mission Control Settings & Brand Polish

🚀 What's New in OrbiterX v1.2.1

⚙️ Mission-Control Settings Redesign

• Interactive Bento Dashboard: Replaced the legacy navigation rail with an engineered, numbered Bento card dashboard with instant search filtering.
• In-Section Navigation: Added horizontal quick-nav chip strips, allowing one-click jumping between settings sections without losing context.
• Engineered Console Styling: High-contrast dark console aesthetic featuring amber accent indicators, monospace group labels with leader lines, and hairline borders.
• Work Mode Selection: Streamlined workspace interface settings into customizable operational modes (Coding and Productivity).

📦 Model Provider Card Grid

• Modern Provider Management: Replaced split-panel views with an organized provider card grid and drill-down configuration panels.
• OrbiterX Brand Iconography: Updated official model provider integrations with the custom OrbiterX orbital app mark.
• Inline Model Addition: Replaced modal popups with inline model configuration panels and IME commit handlers.

🖥️ Desktop & Identity Refinements

• Unified App Identity: Removed development suffixes from desktop builds (OrbiterX Dev → OrbiterX).
• Computer Use Integration: Re-enabled desktop computer-use capability cards for local host automation.

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Release v1.2.0 — Edge Gateway & Runtime Optimization

🚀 What's New in OrbiterX v1.2.0

🌐 High-Performance Edge Gateway

• Edge Worker Migration: Transitioned update delivery and API connectivity to an ultra-low latency Cloudflare Worker edge gateway (gateway.orbiterxai.online).
• Consumer Build Optimization: Clean isolation and optimization of production release packages for minimal binary footprint.

🔧 Provider & Stability Enhancements

• Enhanced Provider Formatting: Cleaned up start plan metadata displays and sanitized internal provider naming across the UI.
• Node 24 Production Runtime: Upgraded internal build matrix and execution toolchain to Node 24 for superior packaging performance.
• Long-Running Session Stability: Improved process recovery and background task execution reliability across long autonomous workflows.

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Release v1.1.0

🚀 OrbiterX v1.1.0 Release Notes

🌟 Highlights & Improvements

• Comprehensive English Localization: Full localization of code comments, UI settings, and metadata across UI, services, and CLI.
• Universal Multi-Architecture Support: Native DMG and ZIP packages for Apple Silicon (arm64) and Intel (x64) Macs, and standalone installer for Windows 64-bit (win-x64).
• Visual Polish & Asset Enhancements: Updated DMG background layout, NSIS installer graphics, and application styling.
• Auto-Update Delivery: High-speed updates with architecture-aware manifests served by the production gateway.

📦 Downloads

• macOS (Apple Silicon M-Series): OrbiterX-1.1.0-mac-arm64.dmg
• macOS (Intel): OrbiterX-1.1.0-mac-x64.dmg
• Windows (x64): OrbiterX-1.1.0-win-x64.exe

Release v1.0.0

🚀 What's New in OrbiterX v1.0.0

• Autonomous Engineering Core: Complete end-to-end loop to plan, write, test, debug, and verify code directly in your workspace.
• Native Cross-Platform Builds: Official, optimized packages for macOS (Apple Silicon M-series) and Windows x64.
• Seamless Gateway Auto-Updates: Background update channel wired through Railway Gateway for zero-interruption version sync.
• Unified OrbiterX Design Language: Sleek, modern desktop interface with integrated Monaco code diffs and real-time execution feedback.
• Flexible Model & Provider Support: Bring your own API keys for Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepSeek, and custom OpenAI-compatible providers.