LibreChat-AI/LibreChat v0.8.8 on GitHub

https://www.librechat.ai/changelog/v0.8.8

🏞️ Highlights

Meet Lia: Building LibreChat with LibreChat.
Agent control: Interrupt, steer, queue messages, answer questions, and approve tool calls.
Unified Agent Builder: Same-run Skill authoring, opt-in Programmatic Tool Calling, and background tools.
Background tasks: Clearer task cards, header controls, and automatic delivery of supported results.
Scheduled Chats: Cron, time zones, and Project destinations. In beta: experimental and disabled by default.
Code workspaces: Stateful sessions, attached machines, recovery, and guarded permissions. Highly experimental; compatible services required.
Beta Agents API: Improved compatibility with Chat Completions, Open Responses, Agent/Skill management, and introduced Agent Events
Experimental Agent Plugins: Bundle Skills and MCP servers, with opt-in command hooks.
Execution visibility: Live activity, tool timing, Context Usage, optional costs, and a configured Langfuse Trace Viewer.
Chat improvements: Draggable pins, chat filtering, manual compaction, mobile polish, and automatic attachment routing.
Model updates: GPT-6 and GPT-6.1 Sol, Claude Opus/Sonnet 5.5, and Gemini 3.8 Flash. GPT-6.1 Sol uses family-fallback limits and pricing.
Performance and security: Faster rendering and streaming and long-thread sends, stronger credential boundaries, tenant-scoped endpoints, and 2FA management limits.

Click to expand Release Notes

For detailed changes in the release candidates, see:

Operator configuration changes: Config v1.3.15, v1.3.16, and v1.3.17.

Changes Since v0.8.8-rc4

✨ Features

🏚️ feat: Recover Coding Chats With Missing Workspaces by @lia-by-librechat in #16273
🌫️ feat: Add Bounded PII Text Transformation (library groundwork only; message ingress still blocks matches) by @lia-by-librechat in #16295
📋 feat: View and Stop Background Tasks From the Chat Header by @danny-avila in #16348
🧲 feat: Attach or Leave a Workspace on a Saved Chat by @lia-by-librechat in #16124
🪜 feat: Title an Open Activity Fold and Reach Failed Calls in One Click by @danny-avila in #16390
💭 feat: Bring the Streaming Thought Peek Back Under a Collapsed Live Card by @danny-avila in #16394
🎴 feat: Render Background Tasks as Native Tool Cards by @lia-by-librechat in #16407
🎼 feat: Add Claude Sonnet 5.5 Support by @danny-avila in #16460
🕘 feat: Distinguish Tool Preparation From Tool Call Time by @lia-by-librechat in #16455
🛤️ feat: Route Linked Worktree Requests into Per-Worktree Lanes by @danny-avila in #16477
🎯 feat: Tolerant Workspace Edits with Host-Rendered Conflict Diagnostics by @danny-avila in #16520
🧬 feat: Resolve GPT Point Releases to Their Family and Add GPT-6.1 Sol by @danny-avila in #16526
🏝️ feat: Scope YAML Custom Endpoints by Tenant by @danny-avila in #16537

🐛 Fixes

🫖 fix: Skip Blank RAG Queries Before Embedding by @lia-by-librechat in #16231
🪚 fix: Restore Measured Width to Virtualized Model Lists by @lia-by-librechat in #16252
🚉 fix: Keep Queue Controls with the Starting Turn by @lia-by-librechat in #16268
🔘 fix: Sync Workspace Choices When Chats Start by @lia-by-librechat in #16266
🚸 fix: Scope Queued-Turn Deletion to Selected Conversations by @lia-by-librechat in #16270
📏 fix: Constrain the Agent Selector to 480px and 10 Own Agents by @berry-13 in #16256
🤖 fix: Accept GitHub App bot commit identities by @danny-avila in #16253
🎈 fix: Restore Bedrock GPT Context for Long Prompts by @lia-by-librechat in #16284
🦺 fix: Skip Redundant MCP OAuth Probes and Teardown Cancellations by @lia-by-librechat in #16298
🪁 fix: Keep Workspace Discovery Reactive by @lia-by-librechat in #16296
🪴 fix: Surface Persistent Memory Before First Save by @lia-by-librechat in #16301
🥞 fix: Keep Tool Glyphs Behind Approval Reviews by @lia-by-librechat in #16307
🦉 fix: Quiet Idle Subagent Discovery While Preserving Child Wakeups by @lia-by-librechat in #16308
🪚 fix: Count Large Prompts in Bounded Tokenizer Chunks by @lia-by-librechat in #16305
🪀 fix: Preserve Coding Approval Mode on Background Returns by @lia-by-librechat in #16322
🐢 fix: Back Off Waiting Completion Wake-ups and Keep Their Trace Out of Requests by @danny-avila in #16349
⚡ fix: Deliver Waiting Completion Wake-ups the Moment They Are Ready by @danny-avila in #16339
🛍️ fix: Discover Managed Agents in Marketplace Search by @lia-by-librechat in #16324
📣 fix: Surface MCP Credential Failures During Tool Loading by @lia-by-librechat in #16323
🧷 fix: Wait for Long Dispatch Turns Before Giving Up Background Code Results by @danny-avila in #16345
📮 fix: Count Undelivered Background Results as Outstanding by @danny-avila in #16343
🚥 fix: Pause Rejected Steer Recoveries by @lia-by-librechat in #16306
🍱 fix: Carry Coding Approval Mode With Queued Turns by @lia-by-librechat in #16326
🧷 fix: Anchor Background Results Onto Tool Calls a Resumed Turn Saved Without Step IDs by @danny-avila in #16353
🐳 fix: Fail the Docker Build When the Frontend Build Fails by @danny-avila in #16388
🧗 fix: Keep Manual Compactions on the Active Branch by @lia-by-librechat in #16386
📬 fix: Show Background Results Still Waiting for the Agent by @danny-avila in #16363
🛃 fix: Project Only Accepted Agents API Tool Calls by @lia-by-librechat in #16384
🧨 fix: Reject Invalid AES Credentials Before Startup by @lia-by-librechat in #16402
🚞 fix: Route Accepted Tool Calls Through the Live Agents API by @lia-by-librechat in #16401
🛬 fix: Settle Background Tool Results Before the Server Shuts Down by @danny-avila in #16365
🫸 fix: Right-Align User Message Images by @lia-by-librechat in #16404
💬 fix: Show a Thought on the Live Header Only as Finished Sentences by @danny-avila in #16392
🏷️ fix: Title an Open Live Card by Its Newest Label, Not a Line of Its Text by @danny-avila in #16393
🫂 fix: Keep Legacy Background Results Until Durable by @lia-by-librechat in #16405
🖊️ fix: Persist Skill Subfile Edits by @lia-by-librechat in #16362
🗂️ fix: Stop Telling Attached Workspaces That Uploads Are at /mnt/data by @danny-avila in #16389
🚩 fix: Preserve Client Tool Call Finish Reason After Text by @lia-by-librechat in #16408
🪁 fix: Prioritize Running Chats in Sidebar History by @lia-by-librechat in #16406
🏺 fix: Preserve Last Good Config on Reload by @lia-by-librechat in #16383
📏 fix: Keep the Context Gauge's Used Count Above Its Own Breakdown by @danny-avila in #16368
🏷️ fix: Title an Open Live Card Only by a Generated Label by @danny-avila in #16412
🫖 fix: Keep Sidebar Search Results Visible During Refetch by @lia-by-librechat in #16411
📡 fix: Explain Model Streams That Die Mid-Response by @danny-avila in #16415
🥧 fix: Reserve Execution Time in Workspace Admission by @lia-by-librechat in #16421
📴 fix: Surface Missing Scheduled OBO Authorization by @lia-by-librechat in #16416
🗄️ fix: Fall Back to In-Memory Storage When Web Storage Is Denied by @berry-13 in #16431
🥤 fix: Keep Pending Code Steers Within the Composer by @lia-by-librechat in #16446
🧻 fix: Clear Stale Draft Text After Sending by @lia-by-librechat in #16444
🎚️ fix: Apply librechat.yaml Rate Limits to Route Limiters by @berry-13 in #16432
🔒 fix: Guard 2FA Deep-Link Redirects Against Blocked Session Storage by @berry-13 in #16439
🔁 fix: Retry Code API Rate Limits That Reject Before a Workspace Call Starts by @danny-avila in #16453
🔲 fix: Anchor Quote Popup to Visible Selection by @lia-by-librechat in #16458
📶 fix: Ride Out Transient Worker Status Failures Within the Worker's Lease by @danny-avila in #16463
🧾 fix: Validate Principal Config Overrides Against configSchema by @berry-13 in #16433
fix: Enforce Tool Approval Policy on Headless Agent Runs by @lia-by-librechat in #16467
🔀 fix: Resolve SplitText Direction From Its Own Text Under RTL by @shukiv in #16454
🔩 fix: Raise Vulnerable Dependency Floors by @lia-by-librechat in #16474
⏱️ fix: Fit Workspace Command Timeouts Inside the Configured Request Budget by @danny-avila in #16464
🧧 fix: Redeem Admin OAuth Codes Only Once by @lia-by-librechat in #16513
🫸 fix: Keep Historical Artifacts Closed During Regeneration by @lia-by-librechat in #16511
🪸 fix: Restore File Search on Later Agent Turns by @lia-by-librechat in #16516
↪️ fix: Block Unsafe MCP OAuth Redirects and Private IPs by @lia-by-librechat in #16514
🎨 fix: Color Pressed MCP Tool Option Toggles With Their Series Role by @berry-13 in #16524
🛶 fix: Keep Trigger Bans Off Shared Loopback IPs by @lia-by-librechat in #16535
🦫 fix: Bound Error Text Before URL Redaction by @lia-by-librechat in #16532
👫 fix: Keep Firecrawl and SearXNG Credentials Paired by @lia-by-librechat in #16538
🧘 fix: Keep Prose Mounted While Activity Labels Update by @lia-by-librechat in #16531
🦮 fix: Bind Per-User MCP API Keys to Their Destinations by @lia-by-librechat in #16536
🚿 fix: Strip Code Approval Modes From Imported Chats by @lia-by-librechat in #16542
🟰 fix: Normalize File Edits Before Approval by @lia-by-librechat in #16543
✂️ fix: Keep Parts After a Summary in the Summary-Bounded History Read by @berry-13 in #16434 (summary-bounded history path; does not enable a new history mode)
🗳️ fix: Defer Thread Approval Card to the Open Composer Review by @berry-13 in #16437
⏹️ fix: Cancel MCP OAuth From the Tool Dialog by @lia-by-librechat in #16561
🛂 fix: Rate Limit Authenticated 2FA Management by @danny-avila in #16565
🔐 fix: Keep the MCP OAuth Prompt Open While a Stale Status Says Connected by @danny-avila in #16569

🔧 Refactoring and Performance

🛝 refactor: Route Packaged Chat Completion Frames Through a Writer by @lia-by-librechat in #16267
🔕 perf: Back Off Idle Durable Agent Recovery Polls by @lia-by-librechat in #16303
📐 style: Set the Reasoning Header at the Shared Row Scale by @danny-avila in #16391
🐢 perf: Collapse Settled Reasoning Text in AnimatedText by @berry-13 in #16403
📟 refactor: Present Background Task Checks as a Distinct Activity by @lia-by-librechat in #16414
📃 style: Match File Activity Icons To File Rows by @lia-by-librechat in #16445
⏩ refactor: Clarify Steering Timing and First-Response Fallback by @lia-by-librechat in #16465
🥧 refactor: Show Failed Call Fractions and Preview Age by @lia-by-librechat in #16468
🪮 perf: Match Tolerant Edit Lines Without Rebuilding Windows by @lia-by-librechat in #16562
🏎️ perf: Re-render Only the Tail Rows When a Message Is Sent by @danny-avila in #16572

📦 Dependencies, Chores & CI

🚡 chore: Bump Agents SDK to v3.9.3 by @lia-by-librechat in #16261
🔐 ci: Gate the Legacy Mirror Behind an Environment by @danny-avila in #16238
🚚 chore: Point Repository and Image References at LibreChat-AI by @danny-avila in #16005
🏝️ ci: Keep Canary Pull Requests on Canary by @lia-by-librechat in #16285
🐤 docs: Clarify Maintainer-Directed Canary Pull Requests by @lia-by-librechat in #16291
🧪 ci: Count System Instructions in Mock Model Usage by @danny-avila in #16350
📦 chore: bump @librechat/agents SDK to v3.9.6 by @danny-avila in #16354
🐙 ci: Spread Playwright Coverage Across Isolated Shards by @lia-by-librechat in #16358
📦 chore: bump agents SDK to v3.9.7 by @danny-avila in #16425
🧤 docs: Define Safe Backend Error Contracts in AGENTS.md by @lia-by-librechat in #16443
🚀 v0.8.8 by @danny-avila in #15735
📦 chore: bump agents SDK to v4.0.0 by @danny-avila in #16558; includes the streaming OpenAI-on-Bedrock reasoning-replay fix
📦 chore: npm audit fix by @danny-avila in #16559
🆙 chore: Bump Packages and Helm for v0.8.8 by @lia-by-librechat in #16573
🏰 ci: Gate Main Promotions on Approved Dev Commits by @lia-by-librechat in #16570
📦 chore: npm audit fix + bump agents SDK to v4.0.1 by @danny-avila in #16581

New Contributors

@shukiv made their first contribution in #16454

Full Changelog: v0.8.8-rc4...v0.8.8