stablyai/orca v1.4.235 on GitHub

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

This release makes conversations easier to revisit, keeps more of your agent's work, and cuts background editor activity when you're juggling workspaces.

The short version

Rewind Claude chats: Use Rewind to here on a message that started a turn, edit your prompt, and take the conversation in a new direction. Claude continues from the history you kept.
Your chat, your settings: Each conversation remembers its own model, effort and Fast settings. Switching models keeps compatible choices, and changes to an agent's defaults no longer silently move a chat that has recorded its settings.
Keep more of your agent's work: Completed replies and tool results are saved in full rather than cut off at the preview limit. Use Show full output on desktop or phone, or Show full message on phone, to load more content from shortened previews.
Less waiting, less background work: New Chat opens the composer immediately, Codex chats get the time they need to start, and the workspace jump palette is preloaded. The editor watches active, recent and at-risk workspaces instead of every workspace with an open tab.
A better phone experience: Live chats reconnect from where they left off, project groups stay in step with desktop, and ready cloud dictation models can be selected from the phone. Workspace creation starts preparing the checkout while you fill in the form.
Everyday polish: Edit images in queued desktop messages, see machine labels only when project names collide, and get more reliable workspace lists, file-conflict handling and remote workflows.

Phone updates: Updating Orca on your desktop also updates the app on your connected phone—the phone loads it directly from your desktop.

Compatibility & upgrade notes

Native chat (experimental): Keep paired and SSH hosts updated alongside Orca for the latest chat features. Full-content loading requires host support; content discarded by older versions cannot be recovered. Very large items may still be shortened for display or delivery.

Cloud dictation: Select a ready cloud model from the phone's dictation setup or Settings → Voice. Configure its API key on the computer serving the phone first.

Product experience

Native chat (experimental)

Revisit Claude conversations, keep each chat’s settings consistent, and work with images and long outputs more comfortably.

Rewind Claude chats from messages that started a turn, continuing with the conversation you kept by @brennanb2025 in #30400
Remember model, effort, speed and Fast choices per conversation, including across restarts by @brennanb2025 in #30561
Save completed replies and tool results in full, with controls to load more from shortened previews by @brennanb2025 in #29982
Edit images in queued desktop messages: remove, paste, drop or attach by @brennanb2025 in #30815
Open the New Chat composer immediately while the host gets ready by @brennanb2025 in #29358
Wait for Codex when opening or resuming a chat instead of failing after 30 seconds by @brennanb2025 in #30395
Name chats from the first message immediately, even if automatic title generation fails by @brennanb2025 in #30392
Avoid starting user MCP servers and hooks for background Claude runs by @brennanb2025 in #30939
Clarify labels for switching agents between terminal and chat by @AmethystLiang in #31134
Polish the appearance of chat question options by @AmethystLiang in #31219

Phone

Keep conversations and project groups current, create workspaces with less waiting, and select cloud dictation models directly from your phone.

Reconnect a chat’s live feed from its last received row when the stream ends by @brennanb2025 in #29007
Update projects, project groups and workspace rows together so phone grouping stays in sync by @Jinwoo-H in #31102
Prepare the worktree checkout while the new-workspace form is open by @AmoabaKelvin in #31167
Select ready cloud dictation models from setup and Settings → Voice by @nwparker in #31221
Show mobile home statistics when connected to an orca serve host by @nwparker in #31197
Keep chat composer controls inside their row by @brennanb2025 in #28983
Keep session tab icons full size beside long titles by @AmoabaKelvin in #31169

Editor, performance & file safety

Reduce background file watching, speed up workspace navigation, and make reloads and save conflicts more dependable across tabs and devices.

Watch active, recent and at-risk workspaces; refresh open files when you return to an unwatched workspace by @nwparker in #30415
Preload the workspace jump palette before first use by @brennanb2025 in #30935
Improve save-conflict checks, Undo after reload, autosave during heavy file activity and chat-start error messages by @nwparker in #31216
Release superseded and closed editor-tab watch probes and disk-check records by @nwparker in #31128
Avoid reapplying terminal bindings that already match when saving state by @AmethystLiang in #31033

Workspaces, SSH & remote servers

Keep workspace lists current, make same-named projects easier to distinguish, and improve remote server transitions and permissions.

Show machine labels only when projects have the same name by @nwparker in #31233
Keep the desktop workspace list current while hidden and include workspaces created on paired servers or other clients by @Jinwoo-H in #31090
Refuse ambiguous same-path project routing instead of following the Active Server selection by @nwparker in #31119
Allow an older SSH host to move to its managed server while a relay shell identified by its tab remains running by @Jinwoo-H in #31093
Make orca open-url on a manually started server ask for a paired desktop rather than an SSH setting by @Jinwoo-H in #31120
Respect the login umask for remote worktrees instead of making them owner-only by @AmethystLiang in #31135
Improve WSL migration checks for path casing, panes without restore folders and stale agent records by @nwparker in #31211

Settings & security

Keep Experimental settings accessible after language updates and tighten permissions for newly created Codex configuration files.

Prevent Experimental settings from crashing after language-pack updates by @nwparker in #31202
Create new Codex config.toml files with owner-only permissions by @nwparker in #31228

Relay service

Give each relay director revision its own instance limit during rollouts.

Use a separate instance maximum per director revision rather than splitting a shared service cap by @Jinwoo-H in #31178

Tests, CI & maintenance

Expanded compatibility and regression coverage, leaner release builds, and continued terminal-layout groundwork. Layout-owner changes below remain behind a feature switch and are not enabled product features in this release.

Layout groundwork (disabled): open CLI- and phone-requested files in the visible tab group by @Jinwoo-H in #31123
Layout groundwork (disabled): surface running terminals without visible panes and determine startup reconnections by @Jinwoo-H in #31118
Test custom terminal titles with older phone layouts by @Jinwoo-H in #31127
Include headless server specs in the manually enabled layout CI run by @Jinwoo-H in #31108
Layout groundwork (disabled): advertise layout-change support to paired desktops by @Jinwoo-H in #31131
Test terminal readiness after a layout-owner server restart loses a pane binding by @Jinwoo-H in #31132
Test file opening from older phone layouts against a layout-owner build by @Jinwoo-H in #31138
Layout groundwork (disabled): use consistent file identities in layout updates by @Jinwoo-H in #31140
Test that windowless host reloads preserve terminals created by main by @Jinwoo-H in #31144
Layout groundwork (disabled): apply individual layout records instead of rebuilding the whole session by @Jinwoo-H in #31152
Layout groundwork (disabled): render paired-server workspaces from the server’s layout stream by @Jinwoo-H in #31181
Format the files changed by the full chat-output update by @Jinwoo-H in #31184
Layout groundwork (disabled): let main create, start and close terminal tabs and panes by @Jinwoo-H in #31130
Update nine end-to-end specs to match intended product behavior by @brennanb2025 in #30897
Bump the mobile app to 0.0.58 and Android versionCode to 22 by @Jinwoo-H in #31194
Keep Windows daemon teardown tests from counting processes with reused parent IDs by @Jinwoo-H in #31192
Layout groundwork (disabled): restore each terminal pane once at its saved size and identify sleeping or held panes by @Jinwoo-H in #31171
Add checks for host-aware repository routing and migrate existing callers by @nwparker in #31096
Test that SSH health probes stay responsive while the SSH layer is stuck by @nwparker in #31193
Update Zod to 4.6.7 for recursive schema type compatibility by @nwparker in #31222
Test Claude dispatch metadata received after stopping a turn by @nwparker in #31229
Reduce duplicate release builds and history downloads by @nwparker in #31227

Full Changelog: v1.4.233...v1.4.235