devswha/ovis v0.4.17

Ovis v0.4.17

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Added

• In the Android app, a long press on a link in a chat reply or other rendered Markdown opens a
  sheet with Copy link and Open link, and Share link where the phone's WebView can share. A tap
  still opens the link. Browsers and the iOS app keep their own link menu.
  (#1925)
• A picture Claude Code reads (a Read of a screenshot or any PNG, JPEG, GIF or WebP) shows inside
  that tool's row in Chat, loaded only once the row is opened.
  (#1935)
• Installed GitHub Copilot CLI is offered in the agent picker for new workspaces, tabs and worktrees
  (#1650 by @YuuuXie).
• Copilot CLI conversations can show native text, tool activity, recorded model, question choices
  and Autopilot completion summaries in chat on Linux when the foreground session is verified.
  Verified new sessions can show an empty chat before the first message; resumed sessions
  follow process-owned foreground lifecycle records with bounded, revalidated log reads.
  A trusted Herdr report and unique held marker can identify history only without conflicting
  lifecycle evidence. Unverifiable sessions use Terminal; interactive answers stay there too.
  (#1652 by @YuuuXie)
• Grok Chat on macOS follows the session Herdr reported when that Grok process holds its
  events file and the file is newer than every other session it still has open. Windows
  stays on the terminal view.
  (#1858 by @345ml)
• Settings → Remote PCs → Show in sidebar hides a PC on this device: it leaves the sidebar, the
  Agents list and the command palette, stays connected, and a link or an alert still opens its
  panes. The choice stays in this browser, one PC is always shown, and a line under the PCs says
  how many are hidden and brings them back.
  (#1947)
• Settings → Appearance → Typography has an Interface font again: Default, System (this device's
  own interface font, whose kanji match its kana), Noto Sans or a typed list. It applies to menus,
  lists, dialogs and the sidebar, and to the chat until the chat has a font of its own; the terminal
  and code keep theirs.
  (#1946)
• A tab with one pane moves to another workspace: Move to workspace… in its right-click menu
  lists the workspaces, and the palette offers Move tab to {workspace}. The tab keeps its name
  and its pane's running process, and the view follows it, in either half of a split, with what
  was typed into it and not sent.
  (#1427 by @sergiorademacher)
• Dropping a pane's title on another pane's title in the same tab makes the two panes trade places
  (herdr's swap). The title under the pointer is highlighted, and no split view half is offered there.
  (#1818 by @Noobear)
• A picture sent to pi, alone or with words, shows in that message in Chat. A message that is only a
  picture is a turn of its own, so older pages can start at it.
  (#1945)

Changed

• The Beta page on ovis.sh tells Android testers, in all four of its languages, to sign in to
  Google with the account on their phone before opening the testers group: signed out, Google
  shows only a "no permission" page, and signing in from there opens the Groups home instead of
  the group.
  (#1933)

Fixed

• Antigravity usage consults the official CLI only when the HTTP quota summary omits Gemini
  limits, keeping complete HTTP readings fast while recovering missing Gemini quotas.
  (#1678 by @Davesaggio)
• An assistant answer no longer disappears inside the collapsed work summary when it is followed by
  a tool call or another answer.
  (#1780 by @odfalik)
• Chat no longer drags a tool you opened up and away while the agent keeps working: opening a tool,
  a folded block or a whole output stops following the end, as scrolling up does, until you go back
  to it. A GJC session that writes its file again with the same turns (when it trims old tool
  outputs) no longer folds what you opened or moves you, and a todo update you opened stays open
  when the next one joins it in a Plan row.
  (#1937)
• A Claude Code message that is only a picture is its own turn in Chat: after a rewind it no longer
  leaves the abandoned turns on screen, and older pages start at it like at any other prompt.
  (#1935)
• Command Code: a permission prompt whose footer wraps or uses the ctrl+e / ctrl+y variants now
  shows its card in Chat, and an ordinary numbered menu (a theme picker) no longer shows as one.
  (#1934)
• Command Code chat, where herdr reports the pane's session, shows the pane's current model right
  after you switch it, not only after the next message.
  (#1934)
• A message sent while Codex works in Fast mode is confirmed as steering again, instead of timing
  out as unconfirmed: the check now accepts the <model> <effort> fast · footer under the composer.
  (#1923 by @bonecool999)
• Codex Chat now opens a session resumed through the codex resume picker from another folder on
  Linux and macOS, with Codex's default terminal title. Codex keeps every conversation a TUI shows
  loaded and locked; when nothing of the pane's own folder matches, the chat looks among those and
  shows one while the pane's screen shows one of its longer answers that no other open conversation
  ever said. Only Codex's answers on screen count, never a prompt, an answer to one of its
  questions, a queued message, a tool's output, the status line, the input box or the picker's
  list. It is not remembered: once the screen no longer shows such an answer, the chat says it
  cannot tell, as it does while another open Codex conversation is answering, or was interrupted
  or failed since it was opened. On Windows the "thread-id" title item is still needed.
  (#1941)
• Chat recognizes Codex's collapsed question queue again when reasoning effort is Ultra, where Codex
  0.164 draws the main prompt as » instead of ›.
  (#1930 by @bonecool999)
• A command sent from Chat to a pi session larger than 16 MiB shows its result once pi records it,
  instead of staying "Accepted" until "No result seen" while pi kept writing to the session.
  (#1936)
• A command sent from Chat to an OmO pane whose program Chat cannot find (native Windows) keeps its
  row once OmO's session starts, instead of disappearing with it.
  (#1936)
• While a command sent from Chat waits for its result, each Chat refresh asks herdr for the pane's
  processes and sessions once instead of up to four times, and checking a long agent transcript that
  grew since the last refresh takes about a third of the time.
  (#1936)
• The message box is drawn in Settings → Chat → Chat font, as the transcript is, not in the
  interface font.
  (#1946)
• An option picked by typing its number in the message box can now be confirmed from the keyboard:
  in the empty box, the send key is the question card's Confirm (Enter, or Ctrl/⌘+Enter when
  "Enter sends" is off), and Escape its Cancel. Before, only a click on the card's button sent it.
  (#1919 by @phirschybar)
• GJC question cards expose Other as a custom-answer field and verify the same inline editor
  before pasting and submitting a single-line reply, including replies that wrap in a narrow pane.
  Checks use the live screen rather than scrollback; changed or dismissed questions stop delivery.
  (#1669 by @Kinetic27)
• Reopening an image after the file was overwritten shows its latest version, including in
  Firefox, by versioning the preview URL with the file's modification time and size.
  (#1659 by @Kinetic27)
• In Ovis for Mac's window, the terminal no longer draws Korean larger than its cells, or rows over
  each other, on a Mac with fonts such as JetBrains Mono or D2Coding installed: the app's web view
  draws an installed font but cannot measure it, so the terminal now uses the system's fonts there,
  as in Safari.
  (#1942)
• In a split view, an item of the tab menu opened in the inactive half (Rename tab, say) acts
  again: the press on it made the half active, which closed the menu before the item ran.
  (#1427 by @sergiorademacher)
• A PC whose own Ovis is newer than this app no longer says to update that Ovis through its own
  Settings, which it already is: it now says to update this app (Settings → Updates), then
  reconnect. An older one still points to its own Settings.
  (#1938)
• In a pi pane, a picture that is not really a PNG, JPEG, GIF or WebP, or is over 8 MiB, is no longer
  offered as a broken image, and a picture from before a clear can no longer be fetched.
  (#1945)
• Keep messages submitted from Ovis Chat to Pi visible until Pi records the matching user turn, including messages staged during streaming or automatic compaction.
  (#1795 by @odfalik)
• Pi's rpiv ask-user-question questionnaires show their real choices in Chat instead of only
  arrow, Enter and Escape controls. Single choices, typed answers, multiple choices and the final
  review use the widget's cursor and submit keys, with a fresh check before answering. Incomplete
  lists, side-by-side previews and terminal-owned notes or multi-choice custom drafts stay in Terminal.
  (#1714 by @767251930)
• Pi questionnaires retain multi-paragraph question text and accept model footers with thinking
  disabled or model names containing "working". Typed answers reject control characters before
  sending any input, so a newline cannot prematurely submit a question or affect the next screen.
  (#1714 by @767251930)
• Pi's system theme identifies the active tab by neutral text versus dim/green inactive tabs,
  not only a colored background. Reviews use Ovis's existing answer summary; an unanswered
  question stays visible and can be revisited, without falling back to arrow/Enter buttons
  or offering a partial submission.
  (#1714 by @767251930)
• Pi multi-question cards show question chips and Back, including returning from review to edit
  saved choices or custom answers. Switching verifies the native current tab and never submits an
  answer. Unsent web edits must be submitted or cleared before switching, rather than lost.
  (#1714 by @767251930)
• After a Pi questionnaire answer, Chat no longer briefly replaces the closing widget with generic
  arrow/Enter/Escape controls while Herdr's blocked state catches up. Recognized next questions
  still appear immediately, and a persistent unknown blocker remains available after settling.
  (#1714 by @767251930)
• Pi's /thinking selector now opens a Chat card for the levels it offers, changing the
  current session without saving a new default.
  (#1670 by @IdrisGit)
• Settings dropdown arrows have a consistent inset instead of sitting against the right border.
  (#1836 by @duarteocarmo)
• Remote PC connections on macOS no longer fail when a long temporary directory makes the SSH
  control socket path exceed the Unix socket limit.
  (#1756 by @mulatta)
• Updates allow more time to prepare and build a release on slow filesystems or busy PCs,
  instead of cancelling healthy Git, dependency installation, or build commands too early.
  (#1820 by @vincrichard)
• A terminal whose attach stream ends while its pane is still live reconnects without showing a
  false terminal-ended screen or dropping held input.
  (#1783 by @odfalik)
• On Linux, a Chinese candidate picked with a number key in the terminal (fcitx4 with Sogou
  Pinyin, and other input methods with no in-app preedit) is typed instead of the number.
  (#1654 by @imurfutur3)
• A Windows PC whose bridge install was interrupted (its dialog closed, the SSH link dropped, the
  app killed) no longer keeps install.lock forever: the next setup reclaims it, so
  "Another installation is in progress; retry shortly" no longer survives the failure that left it.
  (#1759 by @CharleoYang)

Maintenance

• Document the existing launcher for source installs under a service manager, so a restricted
  PATH does not hide user-local agents such as Grok from the new-session picker.
  (#1896 by @jimbb)