What's new
- Faster across the board. Loach cold-starts quicker, replies begin sooner, and long answers stream more smoothly even in big sessions with large transcripts. Under the hood: lazier startup and hydration, cached model and MCP catalogs, windowed transcript rendering, chunked markdown while streaming, a pooled database reader, and a leaner release build.
- In-app updates for Linux
.deband.rpm. Debian and RPM installs now update from within Loach the way AppImage already did — Loach downloads the signed package, elevates to install it, and keeps your package database consistent. (Updating to this release still needs one manual download; after that, updates are in-app.)
Fixes
- Ollama keep-alive now saves. Changing how long models stay resident in memory now persists instead of silently reverting to the default.
- "Open in VS Code" on macOS. The Code Canvas's Open in VS Code button now works when Loach was launched from Finder.
- More accurate tokens/sec readout, plus assorted stability hardening under the hood.