stablyai/orca v1.4.205 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

Agents & chat: Native chat adds a message rail for jumping between your prompts, keeps a resumed transcript pinned to its end, holds a detached reader in place as messages grow, and cancels pending prompts precisely. OMP conversations resume from session history under their saved names, agent-status ingress moves behind a single admission point, and a timed-out hook now actually terminates its process tree.

Workspaces, editor & source control: A failed archive hook blocks worktree removal instead of deleting anyway, and worktree registrations survive prunable git-file states. Stage, unstage and discard failures surface with retry, automations repair cron step expansion and stop tick latency counting against the missed-run grace, code blocks gain a copy button, and Tiptap moves up behind Markdown compatibility guards.

Terminal & remote: Terminal renames survive pane hydration, handles persist across PTY incarnation rotation, and PTY child-process checks preserve an unverifiable verdict instead of guessing. Relay failures become diagnosable by acquisition versus execution phase, and streamed remote records are bounded.

Performance: Codex usage scans do far less work — attribution resolved once per scan, and grown rollouts resumed at the last parsed byte — which takes a large cold scan from minutes to under a minute. They still run on the main process; the worker-thread move lands in a later release.

Product experience

Workspaces, tabs & editor

Safer worktree removal, clearer failure reporting, and a Tiptap upgrade with Markdown compatibility guards.

Add copy button to code blocks by @AmethystLiang in #20357
fix(composer): clarify failed attachment drops by @AmethystLiang in #20704
Distinguish pane load failures from empty states by @AmethystLiang in #20735
fix(worktrees): safely remove prunable git-file registrations by @nwparker in #20617
fix(worktrees): preserve unverifiable disk witness by @AmethystLiang in #20713
fix(worktree): block removal when the archive hook fails by @nwparker in #20153
fix(automations): repair cron step expansion and day restriction [HELD — semantic half] by @nwparker in #20202
fix(automations): stop tick latency counting against the missed-run grace by @nwparker in #20819
Improve microphone permission errors and drop failure reporting by @AmethystLiang in #20801
Report clipboard and composer drop failures by @AmethystLiang in #20795
fix(deps): migrate Tiptap security updates with Markdown compatibility guards by @OrcaWin in #19376
feat(design-system): gate renderer UI with @shadcn/lint by @nwparker in #20731
fix(ui): contain idle caret paint so agent panes stop burning CPU by @innocarpe in #10554

Source control

Staging failures are recoverable and Git spawn errors say what actually went wrong.

Surface stage, unstage and discard failures with retry capability by @AmethystLiang in #20423
fix(source-control): prevent text wrapping in section headers and action buttons by @AmethystLiang in #20046
fix(git): distinguish binary absence from missing cwd on spawn ENOENT by @AmethystLiang in #20798

Agents & workflow

Agent reliability & native chat

Chat navigation and transcript positioning improve, and agent state is reported through one ingress point.

fix(native-chat): bound a dispatch reason before it reaches the journal row by @brennanb2025 in #20654
fix(native-chat): keep a resumed transcript pinned to its end by @brennanb2025 in #20651
fix(codex): settle a structured send on admission, and stop minting a colliding identity by @brennanb2025 in #20138
fix(omp): preserve status after terminal title owner rewrite by @nwparker in #20610
fix(agents): find OMP by its full project name by @nwparker in #20647
fix(omp): preserve saved conversation names in session history by @nwparker in #20636
fix(agent-session): honour the backup-recovery fence floor on surface release by @brennanb2025 in #20708
fix(hooks): actually terminate a timed-out hook's process tree by @nwparker in #20576
fix(native-chat): cancel pending prompts precisely by @brennanb2025 in #20601
fix: resume OMP child conversations from session history by @nwparker in #20629
fix(ai-vault): expand nested OMP session history by @nwparker in #20663
fix(native-chat): let a reader park just above the latest message by @brennanb2025 in #20709
fix(native-chat): preserve detached transcript position during growth by @brennanb2025 in #20710
feat(native-chat): add a message rail for jumping between your prompts by @brennanb2025 in #20719
refactor(agent-status): isolate legacy status ingress behind one admission point by @brennanb2025 in #20716
fix(runtime): apply the tui-idle evidence ranking to mailbox delivery by @nwparker in #20578
fix(orchestration): require the registered pane key to prove structured worker identity by @brennanb2025 in #20664

Terminal

Renames, handles and PTY verdicts survive rotation, hydration and uncertainty.

fix(omp): preserve zsh startup with global aliases by @nwparker in #20621
fix(terminal): retain renames before renderer pane hydration by @nwparker in #20619
fix: keep OMP terminals when folder workspaces become Git repos by @nwparker in #20653
Fix PTY child process verdict to preserve unverifiable state by @AmethystLiang in #20729
fix(runtime): preserve terminal handles across PTY incarnation rotation by @nwparker in #20779
fix(pty): preserve child-process inspection uncertainty by @AmethystLiang in #20756

Mobile

Mobile continues its typed-RPC migration.

Bump mobile app.json to 0.0.50 by @brennanb2025 in #20661
refactor(mobile): migrate the small domains onto RpcOperation (step 4) by @Jinwoo-H in #20705

Relay & cloud

Relay failures are diagnosable by phase, and streamed remote records are bounded.

fix(ai-vault): bound streamed remote JSONL records by @nwparker in #20700
feat(runtime): stream file uploads instead of buffering whole files by @mmarabel in #16106
Expose preloaded PostgreSQL statement statistics for relay diagnostics by @Jinwoo-H in #20712
Diagnose relay PostgreSQL failures by acquisition versus execution phase by @Jinwoo-H in #20749
fix(relay): open the real null device when detaching Windows stdio by @nwparker in #20808

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 remove repeated work from the Codex, OpenCode and Claude usage scanners and from no-op store updates. These reduce the cost of a scan; they do not yet move it off the main process.

Highlights include resolving each cwd's worktree once per scan rather than per event, resuming grown Codex rollouts at the last parsed byte behind a boundary digest and inode check, and preserving state identity across no-op updater paths so selectors stop re-running.

fix(store): stop two no-op writes from re-running every selector in the app by @OrcaWin in #20641
fix(store): preserve state identity across no-op updater paths by @nwparker in #20703
perf(usage): resolve each cwd's worktree once per scan by @Jinwoo-H in #21130
perf(codex-usage): resume rollout scans at the last parsed byte by @Jinwoo-H in #21102

Reliability, tests & delivery

fix(ci): stop hourly versions dropping below a tagged or already-shipped build by @nwparker in #20699
test: add a verified OMP native-chat mock scenario by @nwparker in #20655
test(mobile): pin each RPC golden to the recorder inputs that can reach it, not the whole directory by @Jinwoo-H in #20662
ci: keep the baseline Git build off the compatibility matrix lanes by @nwparker in #20733
fix(ci): stop defining pilot mutant tests inside a conditional by @nwparker in #20755
test(native-chat): split the windowing test harness out of the suite by @nwparker in #20773
chore(lint): add anti-slop oxlint plugin (pinned, all rules off) by @nwparker in #20726
chore(lint): enable anti-slop no-reduce-accumulator-copy and no-widen-then-assert by @nwparker in #20780
fix(lint): keep root postinstall as the sole Electron binary install owner by @nwparker in #20788
test(package): let the postinstall contract allow unrelated chained steps by @nwparker in #20787
fix(lint): enable anti-slop/no-unknown-type-aliases by @nwparker in #20784
refactor(lint): enable anti-slop/no-reflect-apply by @nwparker in #20782
fix(lint): enable anti-slop/no-module-mocking by @nwparker in #20783
test(package): reject an Electron install takeover by exact command by @nwparker in #20799
fix(lint): enable anti-slop/no-reflect-get by @nwparker in #20786
fix(lint): enable anti-slop/no-object-parameters by @nwparker in #20781
fix(lint): enable anti-slop/no-shape-in-symbol-names by @nwparker in #20785
fix(git): avoid Windows tree kills after the command has exited by @nwparker in #20606
build(release): compile the Windows relay process-table addon by @nwparker in #20809

Full Changelog: v1.4.204...v1.4.205