Codeburn changelog: what's new each month
Every stable Codeburn 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.
September 2026
8 releases: 0.9.24 → 0.9.25
September brought major expansions to quota tracking across platforms and new analytical capabilities for understanding coding spend. The desktop app gained drill-through analysis, period comparisons, and multi-language support.
Highlights
- Live quota display for ten coding tool providers with JSON output and platform-specific docks on Windows and macOS.
- Desktop app now offers drill-through analysis on any aggregate, including pull request rows, to see underlying sessions.
- Period and cohort comparison views show side-by-side spend analysis with biggest movers identified.
- Support added for six languages across desktop and menu bar interfaces.
- Spend tracking by branch and worktree to see project costs broken down by git branches.
New
- Capacity Dock on Windows with hover detail and tray switch, matching macOS menubar functionality.
- Projects pane to scope the desktop app, with --project and --exclude flags for reporting commands.
- Spend by branch feature to track costs per project branch and worktree.
- Grok Bot added as a provider with live session support.
- WSL agent detection for Windows to read agents running inside Windows Subsystem for Linux.
- Hover dollar amounts to see tokens behind them.
- Kimi Code sessions with context ring support.
- Plugins page card for installing and managing macOS menu bar and Windows tray.
Improved
- Bundled pricing refreshed with 71 models added and 18 repriced.
- Providers that record tokens but no cost now stay visible in agent tabs instead of disappearing.
- Hermes flat subscription no longer reports $0.00 and settled days re-derive on first run after upgrading.
- Trend and Spend charts now group models the same way as codeburn models command.
- Plan estimates now include Copilot AI credits and indicate when totals are incomplete.
- Model rows keyed on their billing route for clearer cost attribution.
- macOS menu bar adds Grok Build, Z.ai Coding Plan, Cursor quota, and hover detail as glance card.
- Desktop app menu bar and tray managed from dedicated Plugins page card.
Fixed
- Quota display now shows live capacity across all signed-in coding tools instead of stale data.
- Settled days re-derive correctly after upgrading from earlier versions.
- Windows SmartScreen warning clarified with updated guidance for first run.
August 2026
15 releases: 0.9.20 → 0.9.23
August brought substantial performance improvements and new visibility features across Codeburn's desktop, web, and CLI interfaces. The month focused on faster panel rendering, expanded spend tracking, and better support for AI provider integrations.
Highlights
- Desktop panel fetches now complete in milliseconds instead of seconds by using a single resident CLI process instead of spawning fresh processes per panel.
- Spend punchcard added to desktop app, showing hour-of-day and weekday spend patterns previously available only in the web dashboard.
- New Capacity Dock floating widget for macOS menubar provides real-time usage display with provider-specific tracking.
- Interactive dashboard now opens on Today by default and handles cold starts without freezing, with responsive UI during background data loads.
- Optimize command now re-measures applied fixes and reports plainly whether they worked.
New
- Top pull requests display in menubar, showing the period's three highest-spend PRs under Models.
- Mouse-wheel scrolling support in terminal dashboard with SGR mouse reporting.
- Credit metering display for ChatGPT Business, Education, and Enterprise plans showing admin-set monthly allowances.
- Combined-device scope toggle in desktop dashboard and menubar, aggregating paired-device usage.
- Cline CLI provider support for scanning npm cline 3.x sessions stored in ~/.cline/data/sessions/.
- Copilot AI Credit plan options including copilot-pro, copilot-pro-plus, and copilot-max.
- Sessions report grouping by work units with deterministic resolver for provider-recorded lineage.
- Automatic sync option with opt-in consent for additive usage-span field uploads via CB-3 spec.
Improved
- Codex throughput now tracked per-model in tokens per second, excluding tool wait time.
- Dashboard warns about unpriced models and provides easy access to the model list via CLI.
- Optimize command detects recurring context blocks at session starts and groups sessions accordingly.
- OrcaRouter sessions now price and label correctly to their routed models instead of gateway identities.
- Models command respects period filters, attributes costs correctly, and prices Grok 4.6 at proper tier.
- Menubar status can serve from disk-persisted snapshots when corpus hasn't changed, improving responsiveness.
- Desktop app immediately shows last exact totals while selected period refreshes in background.
- All desktop destinations persist versioned, compressed reports across restarts including Sessions, Spend, Optimize, Models, Compare, and Plans pages.
Fixed
- Desktop CLI now recovers safely when its resident stdio child dies instead of misrouting commands.
- Quitting CodeBurn properly reaps the resident CLI's entire process tree instead of leaking background processes.
- Menubar now launches mise-installed CodeBurn correctly from Spotlight with proper PATH resolution.
- Interactive dashboard stays responsive during cold-start background fill and Ctrl+C exits at any time.
- Dashboard opens on Today as default instead of 7 days, with fallback to 7 days only when today is empty.
- Provider-recorded session lineage now captured and preserved instead of discarded.
July 2026
8 releases: 0.9.15 → 0.9.19
July brought major improvements to cost tracking accuracy and a new desktop application. Codeburn now unifies all usage numbers across every interface and adds comprehensive spend management tools.
Highlights
- New CodeBurn Desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux with full CLI integration and all core features.
- Spend budgets let you set daily, weekly, or monthly caps with progress tracking and CI integration.
- All surfaces (CLI, web, desktop, menubar) now show identical numbers from a unified aggregation path.
- History preservation ensures data survives cache updates and schema changes.
- Granular dashboard timelines display cost and token data at 15-minute, hourly, or daily resolution.
New
- codeburn context browser to see what fills your session's context window by role and block type.
- codeburn doctor diagnostics showing provider detection paths, sessions found, and parse health.
- Zed provider tracking with per-request token usage and cache fields.
- codeburn audit table breaking down every number by provider and model with full cost details.
- Desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux bundling the CLI.
- True Lifetime period option showing real all-time data instead of a 6-month window.
- codeburn models --by-agent command showing which agent drove which model's spend.
- Act apply-model with quality tripwire to apply model defaults and monitor one-shot rates.
Improved
- Browser dashboard is now fully mobile responsive.
- Cursor tokens now use Cursor's own numbers instead of text-length guesses.
- Copilot Chat users no longer see $0.00 costs; token counts read from VS Code chat sessions.
- User price overrides available for any model via codeburn price-override.
- Estimated costs are marked with a tilde across all surfaces to distinguish from measured data.
- Local/Combined usage toggle backed by combined multi-device data.
- MCP tool-deferral coverage detection with optimization recommendations.
- Granular attribution so per-provider sums always equal daily totals.
Fixed
- Windows bundled-CLI path resolution that broke every Windows installation.
- Rare over-count on image-heavy sessions when streamed messages restated across append boundaries.
- Repo grouping now case-correct on macOS and Windows.
- Days before recorded history now show "No data recorded" instead of currency zeros.
- File-churn paths now separator-normalized for correct Windows privacy redaction.
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