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0.181.6
What's Changed
0.181.6 - 2026-11-08
Highlights
Bug Fixes
- Keep trash tests out of the real ~/.Trash (84115cb)
- Unify nav glyph size and localize custom themes (a40ffb7)
- Answer recorded tool calls abandoned by dispatch (d47a588)
- Resolve dangling symlinks instead of treating them as missing (d0c61b4)
- Fail closed on unresolvable additional-permission roots (afc4afd)
- Validate custom theme ids and contrast on load (a69fabe)
- Harden event log sync, rollback, and separator handling (34e324e)
- Make the quick-profile gate pass again (d93f826)
- Harden diagram previews from review (CSP, UTF-16 gate, sweep) (2f01c6e)
- Generate license notices for the whole workspace (0c0c338)
- Full-size maximized launch, redeliver windowless handoffs (0e120d2)
- Bound outbound clients, jitter all retry backoffs (d76edf1)
- Announce release notes once per release, inline on desktop (0b6e65b)
- Stop per-frame native calls and clones in settings (4ea6955)
- Validate nested agent temperature ranges (aa308ba)
Documentation
- Tighten overview install usage and docs index flow (23fd155)
- Component review, maintainer notes, module guide (30f4129)
- Preview editing review notes and module guide (73dc680)
- Fix markdown lint in Pele provenance and webmcp notes (d096b31)
- Re-confirm dropdown verdict, fix stale run-cluster prose (d71c72b)
- Regenerate field reference for 0.181.5 (145946e)
- Tighten overview, usage, desktop, and documentation prose (75ff45c)
Features
- Open latest changelog from update notification (e2f76d6)
- Post-update what's-new moment and changelog deeplink verb (b6819a6)
- Keep approved plan visible in sidebar for the plan session (ff186b6)
- Add inline TODO tracker viewers synced via typed tracker.updated events (6a61db6)
- Guarded outside-click dismiss, launch-at-login, zen attach (281bdc8)
- Empty actions, modal focus traps, title-bar responsive collapse (d938cee)
- Main-relative title-bar collapse with sidebar rail yield (d3ef93d)
- Markdown preview toggle, highlighted source, header toolbar (b814db5)
- Editable markdown preview with Cmd+S save (32ba1cd)
- Host settings surface on Kit Settings for wide viewports (d56380d)
- Preview Mermaid diagrams in the browser via Pele (b774d09)
- Reorder settings rail and add About page (76e6f31)
- Render mermaid diagrams in preview dialog via Pele (ad7bf76)
- Render mermaid diagrams inline via vendored Pele (c0bae57)
- Glass button tier and inline reverse search (bde97db)
- Roll glass primaries out to popover and secondary seats (8dd244f)
- Debounced swipe navigation, off by default (34d8566)
- Extend swipe navigation gating and reset coverage (1f76514)
Other Changes
Performance
- Apply memory-latency lessons to indexer and memory query (32fa921)
- Apply sysinfo read-and-apply lessons to tree, digests, walker docs (3d5568a)
Refactors
- Drop shimmer from composer run button (314f929)
- Share license-viewer row builder across settings pages (5001cf8)
- Secret-store accessor, theme hoist, policy-match flatten (8b516bf)
- Hoist repeated theme lookups in transcript render (6b0c47a)
- Narrow module-local visibilities to private (b56f9f5)
- Split handle_backend_event into backend_events/handle.rs (9cc6b00)
- Drop redundant Fuse; document async completion-state rules (10fea64)
- Centralize byte-length heuristic in vtcode-commons (b0bab3c)
- Deduplicate timeout resolution, harden converters (46942c7)
- Canonicalize duplicated TTY and LLM contracts (ba99d97)
Tests
- Trap and escape pins for every modal (f33b3ef)
Full Changelog: 0.181.5...0.181.6
Desktop app (macOS)
- Download
vtcode-desktop-0.181.6-aarch64-apple-darwin.zip(Apple Silicon, macOS 15+), unzip, and drag VT Code.app to Applications. - One-time macOS security step: this build is ad hoc signed (no Developer ID), so Gatekeeper blocks the first launch. Allow it once in System Settings > Privacy & Security (Open Anyway), then open the app again. See FIRST-LAUNCH.txt inside the zip.
- The bundle includes its matching
vtcodeCLI helper; open the app anytime withvtcode desktop. - Verify with
vtcode-desktop-0.181.6-aarch64-apple-darwin.zip.sha256orchecksums.txt.