Cherry Studio 0.5.0

✨ Features

• [Larger Screens] Add a persistent sidebar, file previews beside local chats, expanded reading, and fold layouts on supported iOS devices.
• [Files] Add on-device scanned-PDF recognition, RTF previews, DOCX text copying, bulk moves, and adding files to the current chat.
• [Tool Details] Highlight code in parameters and results, with full-content copying.
• [Multi-Model Answers] Allow parallel calls to MCP and plugin tools explicitly marked as read-only.
• [Web Search] Add Yuanbao search and improve Crawl4AI Cloud configuration.
• [Provider Settings] Support API key rotation ordering and connection tests for individual keys.
• [Desktop Connections] Support custom domains, ports, and secure connections, with clearer failure reasons.
• [App Updates] Unify package and store update entry points, show release notes, and support download progress and retries.

🐛 Fixes

• [iOS] Fix iOS 17 startup crashes and improve formatted pasting and duplicate insertion handling.
• [Android] Fix file previews, back navigation, background notifications, and feedback uploads.
• [Image Generation] Fix reference-image compatibility, size labels, and ineffective retries after generation failures.
• [Chat] Fix skipped content in long-file reads and lost model-provider error details.
• [Permissions and Health] Correct permission buttons and purpose descriptions, refine per-call health consent and recipient disclosure, and include both blood-pressure authorization types.

⚙️ Architecture Upgrades

• [Native Framework] Upgrade to Expo SDK 58, React Native 0.88, and React 19.3, with corresponding native dependency adaptations.
• [Conversation Runtime] Upgrade Pi to 1.4.0, improving task queues, pause/recovery handling, and compaction budgets for smaller context windows.
• [Tool System] Discover and load tools on demand and streamline fixed prompts to reduce context overhead per request.

Upgrade Notes

Before upgrading, finish or cancel running and queued work, then use Clear conversation runtime cache in Data settings. Conversation history is retained. Install the new app package; downgrading cannot reuse the newer runtime working file.

Download and Installation

• Android: cherry-studio-0.5.0-android.apk for ARM64 devices. Verify it with the accompanying SHA256SUMS.
• Google Play and App Store review and availability are independent. Play and direct APK installations use different signing certificates; back up your data before switching channels.