stablyai/orca v1.4.203 on GitHub

Thank you so much for using Orca and for your continued support! ❤️

Please note: It usually takes 48–72 hours for a landed PR to be released (except P0+ fixes). We have many more exciting PRs and features coming in later versions!

The short version

Reliability & security: Electron is updated to address a glibc environment use-after-free, browser cookie migration is more reliable, and worktree creation now completes cleanly after post-create failures.

Agents & chat: Native chat recovers restart-stranded sends from provider history, agent status no longer depends on a retained runtime row store, and provider/model validation is more resilient.

Workspaces & mobile: Folder workspaces retain their saved names and groups, sidebar nesting is easier to work with, and mobile restores push, cold-start, notification, Markdown, and workspace-routing behavior.

Performance: Orca reduces cold-switching, browser, terminal, SSH, mobile, history, plugin, and relay overhead across a broad set of targeted improvements.

Product experience

Workspaces, tabs & browser

Safer workspace creation, more reliable browser data, and clearer navigation around your projects.

fix(browser): decode Chromium SameSite storage values (135 cookies silently lost per profile) by @brennanb2025 in #20076
fix(workspaces): complete a worktree create when a post-create step throws by @brennanb2025 in #20175
Fix landing footer menu placement by @nwparker in #20360
Make sidebar nesting easier while preserving animated reordering by @nwparker in #20412
fix(browser): move cookie scoping off psl's stale suffix list by @nwparker in #20421
fix(tabs): cancel split drags when the window loses focus by @OrcaWin in #20323
fix(resource-manager): show saved folder workspace names and groups by @OrcaWin in #20324
fix(sidebar): show agent activity before workspace activation by @Jinwoo-H in #20398

Agents & workflow

Agent reliability & native chat

Agents recover more gracefully, and chat makes safer decisions when provider state or configuration changes.

refactor(agent-status): delete the runtime's retained row store (PR 1b) by @brennanb2025 in #19785
fix(source-control): pass the Antigravity prompt to agy --print by @nwparker in #20147
fix(hooks): stop orphaned managed markers from consuming user TOML by @nwparker in #20148
fix(codex): reconcile marketplace and plugin tables through the config mirror by @nwparker in #20150
feat(ai-vault-search): session search query engine over the index by @Jinwoo-H in #20029
fix(native-chat): shrink skill pill text by @brennanb2025 in #20254
fix(claude): refuse a structured model the provider does not list by @brennanb2025 in #19946
fix(claude-accounts): stop path resolution from creating the config directory by @makoto-developer in #12309
fix(ai-vault): close OpenCode handles when query_only setup fails by @bbingz in #14134
fix(skills): evict removed runtime discovery cache by @bbingz in #11489
fix(automations): isolate the scheduler tick and refuse oversized cron steps by @nwparker in #20152
fix(runtime): stop a name-only agent title from satisfying tui-idle by @nwparker in #20155
fix(agent-hooks): stop navigation Escape from inferring completion by @nwparker in #20149
fix(ai-vault): re-read a transcript rewritten to its previous size by @Jinwoo-H in #20261
refactor(native-chat): give each structured dispatch state exactly one meaning by @brennanb2025 in #20133
feat(native-chat): decide a restart-stranded send against provider history by @brennanb2025 in #20139

Mobile

Mobile restores its notification and startup paths while keeping workspace and Markdown handling responsive.

Restore mobile push and fix cold-start dismissals by @Jinwoo-H in #20068
feat(mobile): add typed RPC operations and fence raw requests by @Jinwoo-H in #20018
fix: prevent infinite loops in mobile Markdown rendering by @nwparker in #20313
fix(mobile): reuse current workspace on notification taps by @Jinwoo-H in #20310

Relay & cloud

Rollout gates, monitoring, and relay rehoming have stronger compatibility and failure handling.

feat(relay): support protocol 3 in cell rollout gates by @Jinwoo-H in #20174
fix(relay): bound idle rehome polling and skip disabled scans by @Jinwoo-H in #20203
fix(relay): reuse canary across completed rollout batches by @Jinwoo-H in #20214
fix(cloud): tolerate sparse director errors in rollout monitor by @Jinwoo-H in #20238
fix(cloud): diagnose wrapped relay trust probe failures by @Jinwoo-H in #20403
test(relay): differential coverage for the single-pass host-data owner lookup by @nwparker in #20426
test(rpc): add a compile-time params catalog parity gate by @Jinwoo-H in #20281

Quality & delivery

Nothing here changes what you see — it changes how smoothly Orca behaves under real workloads. Expanded below if you want the detail.

Performance improvements

Targeted optimizations reduce unnecessary work across the interface, terminals, SSH and relay paths, browser and workspace indexing, mobile rendering, chat/history scans, Git, plugins, and AI-vault searches.

Highlights include faster cold worktree switching, bounded remote transcript and terminal scans, fewer browser and tab inventory copies, lighter mobile Markdown and Linear grouping work, and more efficient Git, plugin, and session indexing.

Reliability, tests & delivery

fix(deps): take Electron 43.7.0 for the glibc environ use-after-free (#20081) by @nwparker in #20089
fix(terminal): re-run deferred tab admission when a plan installs mid-activation by @brennanb2025 in #20176
fix(e2e): remove four real flake sources and one caret race by @brennanb2025 in #20169
fix(e2e): run worktree first-paint probe on a mapped window by @brennanb2025 in #20197
test: replace fixed UI waits with observable readiness by @nwparker in #20369
ci: reuse immutable package setup across shutdown checks by @nwparker in #20368
ci: narrow pnpm cache keys and shallow development checkouts by @nwparker in #20370
ci: balance existing unit and E2E shards using recorded timings by @nwparker in #20367
refactor(renderer): improve IPC error handling with clamped and unclamped variants by @AmethystLiang in #20340
refactor(preload): drop the unused raw electron IPC bridge by @nwparker in #20419
fix(runtime): GC expired proven-absent leaf PTY verdicts by @innocarpe in #12810
fix(editor): eliminate multi-second Markdown blank-run scans by @nwparker in #20231
fix(chat): bound journal replay memory by live history by @nwparker in #20247
chore: remove 20.7 MiB of duplicate and unused media by @nwparker in #20416
fix(updater): open background check errors from the status bar by @OrcaWin in #20270
refactor(windows): vendor the registry addon as @orca/windows-registry by @nwparker in #20438
chore(deps): pin serve-sim to an exact version by @nwparker in #20446
Add code quality lint for type assertions by @AmethystLiang in #19462
fix(ci): cache the vendored addon where node-gyp actually writes it by @nwparker in #20445
fix(ci): match the truncated windows-process-tree virtual store dir by @nwparker in #20447
build(macos): parallelize native helpers with complete cancellation by @espetro in #19651
Reduce native dependency installs to the host platform by @nwparker in #20420
test(scripts): widen the Windows shim ratchet to catch package bin spawns by @Jinwoo-H in #20285

New contributors

@espetro made their first contribution in #19651

Full Changelog: v1.4.201...v1.4.203