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Release	Highlights
v0.28.60	Click a word to highlight it, a one-time Themes dialog, Settings → Rows rebuilt, tell your agent how you want your rows, starred threads as pills above the list, a pill for new messages out of view, a half-circle face picker with ten Glass colours, a new phone sidebar and reply box
v0.28.59	A quieter Agents section in the sidebar, machine names only when agents run on more than one machine, agent icons that are always gently alive and lean toward your pointer
v0.28.58	Start Codex from New message, an Agents section in the sidebar, start an agent in a folder on any drive, play audio attachments and comment at a moment, Claude Code's Plannotator tools work on Windows
v0.28.57	Pin artifacts, and see every artifact on one page, filter the list by project, date or agent, a thread shows its pull requests and their state, choose what the sidebar shows, and in what order, Ask AI starts from Side in the selection bar
v0.28.56	Questions can show trade-offs and a prototype to try, a thread with many big pictures no longer crashes the tab, Escape closes New message and keeps your draft, read threads stop being bold and keep their place, agent messages that name no thread start a new one
v0.28.55	Floating reply drafts, now a setting under Experimental, open questions sit next to Reply again, a comment box that keeps unsent comments as Drafts, choose how your list looks: Minimal, Balanced or Detailed, update an older linked machine from this Inbox
v0.28.53	Start an agent in a new folder, or from a git URL, "+" on each project row starts a session there, a reaction tray, a thread's Links, Settings → Activity, New message offers the open thread's files, Bro mode: agents write to you in plain words
v0.28.52	Start agents from the Inbox, on by default, a new reply box, Ask AI for everyone, Insights in Settings → Decision data, Plannotator reloads itself after an update
v0.28.51	Starred threads, a note when an agent's session has ended, "Back from snooze", Ask about a past decision, expand arrows in guided reviews
v0.28.50	A faster, lighter Inbox, session names across the Inbox, initiatives on the Board, earlier comments on a file, global comments on Guided Reviews
v0.28.49	A checklist for each thread, a pill that shows who gets your reply, a calmer full screen, Inbox replies in T3 Code, `--title` for review and annotate
v0.28.48	Reply attachments that follow the draft, links to any web page on Board cards, instant theme switches, a daily anonymous ping, a faster Inbox

What's New in v0.28.61

TL;DR

Fixed: Updates now update the Claude Code plugin too
New: An agent's chosen face shows on every icon of it
New: Filter the Inbox list by pull request state
Fixed: Modern dark shows section bands and the Reply button
Fixed: One conversation no longer shows as two agents

0.28.61 is a small patch release. Its main fix makes an update bring the Claude Code plugin along with the app, and the Inbox now tells you when your plugin is behind. It has 10 PRs, all from @backnotprop.

Updates now update the Claude Code plugin too

An update could finish with the app on the new version and the Claude Code plugin left on its old one, with nothing to tell you. The install script updates the plugin only when it can run claude, and it looked for claude only on your PATH. Claude Code's own installer puts claude in ~/.local/bin, and that folder is often missing from the PATH an update runs with: for example when you pressed Update now in an Inbox or review window that was started from an app, at login or over SSH. The script then wrote the manual steps into the update log and reported success.

If you updated that way, your app is current but your Claude Code sessions may still run an older plugin. Features that need a newer plugin, such as Side (Ask AI) in the Inbox and session names, were then missing with no reason given.

The install script now also looks in ~/.local/bin and ~/.claude/local, the folders Claude Code installs itself into, on macOS, Linux and Windows. From the next update on, Update now in the Inbox also hands the installer the PATH of your login shell, which covers claude installed with npm or Homebrew. #3070

The sidebar tells you when your plugin is behind

The sidebar's "Reload Claude Code" row used to count only sessions that a reload alone would fix, so it read 0 when the plugin itself was old. It now also counts sessions whose plugin needs an update, and it opens the steps in Settings → Agents: update the plugin, then run /reload-plugins. Once the plugin is updated, the row stays only for the reload. When every session is reloaded, the row is gone. #3071

If your plugin is already behind

Updating to 0.28.61 repairs it: this update finds claude and brings the plugin up to date by itself. Afterwards, run /reload-plugins in each Claude Code session that is open, or restart Claude Code. The sidebar's "Reload Claude Code" row lists the sessions that still need it.

If the plugin is still behind after the update, run these two commands in a terminal, then /reload-plugins:

claude plugin marketplace update plannotator
claude plugin update plannotator@plannotator --scope user

An agent's chosen face shows on every icon of it

The face you pick for an agent in the sidebar's Agents section (its own mark, a Glass colour, Transparent or Face) now shows on every icon of that agent, with no reload: list rows, message authors, the thread's participants, the reply box's "to" pill, the @ menu, New message, Board cards and more. Every Inbox window open on this computer shows it at once, including a phone or tablet connected to it. A face belongs to one conversation, so two Claude Code sessions keep two faces. A conversation that goes on under a new session id keeps its face, and so does an agent that has ended, so its old threads look as they did.

Places that name a kind of agent rather than one agent, such as Settings and "New Claude Code session", keep the plain mark. No row changes size. #3059

Filter the Inbox list by pull request state

The list filter has a Pull request group: Open, Draft, Merged, Closed, Has a PR and No PR. You can pick several. It reads the same pull request marks the rows already show, and appears once a thread in the list has a pull request. A thread whose pull request has not been read yet counts under Has a PR only. #3020

Modern dark shows section bands and the Reply button

On Plannotator Modern in dark mode, several surfaces had the same colour as the card behind them, so they could not be seen: the list's section bands (Waiting on you, New since you looked and the others), the Reply and open questions buttons at a thread's foot, row hovers, chips, menus, and in plan review the inline code chips, table headers and toolbar buttons. Each one now stands a step off the card, about as far as in Plannotator dark. Modern light and every other theme are unchanged. The Themes dialog's two Modern dark pictures are retaken with the new greys. #3058, #3061

One conversation no longer shows as two agents

0.28.60 joined a Claude Code conversation that moved to a new session id into one row in Agents, but some still showed twice: the same name on two rows, both selected when its thread was open. The plugin now finds Claude Code's hand-over record anywhere in the old conversation, and it follows a chain of several hand-overs. Sessions already running pick this up after the update without a restart. Two separate sessions in one folder are still two agents. #3057

Additional Changes

A signed-out machine says what to do. In New message's folder menu, a linked machine where Claude Code or Codex reads as signed out now shows what to do under its line: sign in on that machine, or restart Plannotator from that machine's own Terminal when it was started over SSH. #3060
Diff library 1.6.4. The library that draws code review diffs is updated to 1.6.4. Highlighting stays the same, and nothing you see changes. #2990

Install / Update

macOS / Linux:

curl -fsSL https://plannotator.ai/install.sh | bash

Windows:

irm https://plannotator.ai/install.ps1 | iex

Claude Code Plugin: The install script above also updates the plugin when claude is on your PATH. Otherwise, in a terminal:

claude plugin marketplace update plannotator
claude plugin update plannotator@plannotator --scope user

Then restart Claude Code. Inside Claude Code, run /plugin marketplace update plannotator, then open /plugin → Installed → plannotator → Update now.

Pi:

pi update npm:@plannotator/pi-extension

OpenCode: Re-run the install script above. It also clears the OpenCode 2 plugin cache.

What's Changed

ui 0.63.0 and core 0.25.22: versions for what is already on main by @backnotprop in #3054
Agents: find a hand-over record anywhere in the old transcript by @backnotprop in #3057
Modern dark: give the quiet surfaces a step off the card, so section bands and the Reply button show by @backnotprop in #3058
Inbox: an agent's chosen face on every icon of it, in every window by @backnotprop in #3059
Themes dialog: retake Modern dark's pictures with its new greys by @backnotprop in #3061
Say what to do under a signed-out machine's line in the folder menu by @backnotprop in #3060
Inbox list filter: turn the Pull request group on by @backnotprop in #3020
Pierre diffs 1.6.4, highlighting stays on Shiki by @backnotprop in #2990
Updates find claude in its own install folders, so the plugin update is not skipped by @backnotprop in #3070
Inbox: Reload Claude Code also counts sessions whose plugin needs an update by @backnotprop in #3071

Full Changelog: v0.28.60...v0.28.61