Buzz changelog: what's new each month
Every stable Buzz release summarised by month: the highlights, new features, improvements, fixes and anything you need to act on. 3 months covered; the current month updates daily.
October 2026 · so far
2 releases: 0.5.27 → 0.5.28
October brought improvements to agent configuration, community management, and cross-platform pairing, alongside fixes for desktop notifications, code detection, and workflow handling.
Highlights
- Claude effort levels now available when creating and editing agents.
- Mobile users can now enter desktop pairing codes directly.
- Community limit increased to fifty for hosted instances.
- Admin Console now supports browsing and moderating all communities.
- Windows notification handling corrected to avoid false denials.
New
- Claude effort levels selection in agent edit and create workflows.
- Desktop code entry capability on mobile devices for pairing.
- Summarized Claude thinking requests in agents.
- Community limit raised from previous to fifty.
- Browse and moderate every community from Admin Console.
- Empty row labeling in agent responses.
- User-Agent header on LLM requests from Buzz Agent.
Improved
- Inline markdown images now display correctly using object-scale-down.
- Claude Code model names and descriptions now display in readable format.
- Kimi Code detection extended to default install paths.
- MCP Goose discovery handshake support added.
- Workflow deletion now correctly targets the workflow's actual owner.
- OpenAI-compatible endpoint settings visibility in baked-env UI.
- Handoff steering synchronized with tool approval.
Fixed
- Windows notification shim false denial on read.
- Workflow deletions now processed at correct owner.
- OpenAI-compatible endpoint settings now visible in configuration UI.
- MCP Goose discovery handshake support.
- Claude Code model display formatting.
September 2026
5 releases: 0.5.22 → 0.5.26
September brought improvements to Buzz Desktop's stability and user experience, along with new features for agent discovery, canvas versioning, and thread organization. The month focused on fixing UI rendering issues, enhancing mention handling, and expanding agent capabilities.
Highlights
- Canvas now supports version history with atomic restore for tracking and reverting changes.
- Added opt-in newest-first thread windows for alternative thread viewing.
- Improved agent discovery with alternate Buzz ACP commands and humanized Databricks model labels.
- Enhanced video playback with persistent speed preference and fixed message table rendering.
- Better Inbox management with remembered unread-only filter preference.
New
- Canvas version history with atomic restore functionality.
- Opt-in newest-first thread windows for reverse chronological viewing.
- Discover alternate Buzz ACP commands for better agent exploration.
- Invite owned agents from standalone forums.
- Native HPKE encryption for nsec backups.
- NIP-AR channel artifacts implementation.
- Updated base prompt for Pi agents with Buzz context and skills.
Improved
- Message tables now wrap within available pane for better layout.
- Sidebar unread indicators simplified to emphasize priority activity.
- Agent availability now derived from relay presence for accuracy.
- Mention sends now publish before waking agents for performance.
- Databricks Opus UC model reasoning and tool continuation preserved.
- Video playback speed preference now persists across sessions.
- Startup request bursts bounded and quota refusals handled gracefully.
- Workflow deletion made persistent and retryable.
Fixed
- Fixed message table wrapping within the available pane.
- Restored mention chip identity icons.
- Fixed spacing after multi-word mentions.
- Corrected Grok Build setup guide URL.
- Fixed unlisted project channel requests resolution.
- Resolved Windows asset embedding by keeping packaged frontendDist relative.
August 2026
13 releases: 0.5.4 → 0.5.20
August brought significant performance improvements, enhanced agent management, and better messaging features to Buzz Desktop. The month focused on stability, user experience polish, and backend efficiency.
Highlights
- Agent addressing now persists across composer messages, making it easier to maintain context when drafting multiple messages.
- New rich link previews show metadata for Buzz entities like repositories, pull requests, and issues directly in messages.
- Desktop performance improved substantially with storage optimization, polling reduction, and faster channel loading.
- Projects navigation and context chrome completed, streamlining workspace organization.
- GIF search via KLIPY integration added to message composers.
New
- Buzz entity links with rich preview cards and in-app navigation for repositories, pull requests, and issues.
- Paste composer text without formatting option.
- Channel activity hover menu.
- Send to channel option for thread messages.
- Glass appearance setting for cohesive UI styling.
- Image navigation across message threads.
- Search term highlighting in results and messages.
- KLIPY GIF search integration in composers.
Improved
- Agent usage now reports per provider round instead of once per turn.
- Channel template discovery improved on desktop.
- Agent settings now show saved Run configurations when editing.
- Desktop search scoping enhanced.
- Agent onboarding flows unified.
- Projects fast loading and activity feed polished.
- Member invitations to private channels restored.
- Recent channel sorting restored.
Fixed
- Windows Defender blocking and orphaned Node issues hardened.
- Key backups now save to authorized paths.
- OpenAI key re-entrancy after first save in card mint dialog.
- Databricks model discovery reauthentication.
- Agent mention autocomplete now retains distinct agent instances.
- Performance regressions in version 0.5.9 removed; channel retrieval sped up.
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