ChatGPT web models, faster /model search, and a calmer TUI
Highlights
- New browser-backed ChatGPT web route adds gpt-5.6-pro[web], letting Pro-tier web models run through your logged-in browser
- /model fuzzy search is dramatically faster and no longer lags while typing
- Opening the / slash-command palette no longer shifts the screen, and the menu renders as an overlay
Improvements
- Platform-API-only GPT Pro models now appear in the /model picker
- All providers now expose their complete reasoning effort ladders
- macOS menu bar sessions are labeled by their active work and show only your root sessions
- New display.overscroll_status config (off/on/overscroll) and overscroll now requires a gesture starting at the transcript bottom
- New JCODE_PERF_TIER environment variable forces a performance tier for one invocation
- Auto-poke stops after consecutive provider guardrail refusals instead of retrying forever
- Tool calls show a short intent line by default, with technical detail behind display.tool_call_details
- Long-idle sessions periodically release retained memory back to the OS
Fixes
- Copy uses native Linux and macOS clipboards before falling back to OSC 52
- Update checks authenticate to GitHub when possible, avoiding rate-limit failures on shared IPs
- /fast set to off now persists instead of reverting to the default
- Memory tool results are scoped to the session working directory instead of leaking across projects
- PascalCase OAuth tool aliases now resolve inside batch subcalls
- Windows server spawn no longer times out prematurely on slow machines
- Desktop attach no longer blocks on a busy session
- PowerShell install scripts no longer break from a UTF-8 BOM
- Logging in no longer activates the same profile twice
- Split-pane launches keep their elapsed-time display
- Bash commands no longer spill onto a second line when an intent is shown
Full changelog: v0.51.1...v0.52.0
Platform availability
- Linux x86_64: available
- Linux aarch64: available
- macOS Apple Silicon: available
- macOS Intel: available
- Windows x86_64: available
- Windows ARM64: available
- FreeBSD x86_64: not available in this release