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Orca changelog: what's new each month

Every stable Orca release summarised by month: the highlights, new features, improvements, fixes and anything you need to act on. 2 months covered; the current month updates daily.

September 2026

22 releases: 1.4.194 → 1.4.218

September brought major performance improvements across worktrees, Git operations, and rendering, alongside significant enhancements to native chat with better image handling and agent activity visibility. The month also introduced notebook support and refined many workflows for remote, WSL, and Windows environments.

Highlights

  • Jupyter notebook editing and execution now available with persistent kernel support and automatic virtual environment setup.
  • Improved native chat with Claude subagent activity display, file change summaries, and task checklist rendering with diffs.
  • Structured Chat UI redesign with inline file diffs, clearer tool output, and individual task stops when enabled in experimental settings.
  • Performance optimizations across worktree switching, Git metadata scans, terminal startup, and renderer updates.
  • GitHub Projects Roadmap views now render as interactive timelines with improved tab management.

New

  • Jupyter notebook support with seamless click-to-edit cells and persistent kernel execution.
  • Launch prompts for terminal agents.
  • Copy button added to code blocks in chat.
  • Opt-in setting for collapsed unchanged regions in file diffs.
  • Multi-line range selection with drag and keyboard in diff comments.
  • Option to disable preview tabs in the editor.
  • Codex shared server can be toggled on or off via settings for different terminal types.
  • AI vault search with public session search contract and transports.

Improved

  • Native chat now shows Claude subagent activity and Codex background tasks in the chat strip.
  • Workspace names are preserved across branch changes.
  • Sidebar create actions unified into single dropdown menu.
  • GitHub Projects views include tab scrolling, narrower tabs, and refreshed notifications.
  • File explorer can now find files by name in large local workspaces.
  • Search results sorted by newest with recency as tiebreaker.
  • Artifacts list and conflict file trees virtualized for better performance with large datasets.
  • Markdown files can now be opened from the operating system in the floating workspace.

Fixed

  • Fixed 135 cookies silently lost per profile due to Chromium SameSite storage value decoding.
  • Browser now loads newly opened background tabs correctly.
  • Worktree creation now completes even when post-create steps throw exceptions.
  • Fixed stale listings when search queries change.
  • Terminal recovery improved for Windows/WSL workflows with safer path handling.
  • Fixed CJK text rendering in PDF documents.

August 2026

26 releases: 1.4.165 → 1.4.193

August brought major improvements to remote connectivity, agent reliability, and terminal handling, alongside new features for artifact sharing, stacked pull requests, and workspace management. The month focused on fixing reconnection issues, input method editor support, and session persistence across various platforms.

Highlights

  • Stacked pull requests: create and work with GitHub stacked PRs directly from Orca.
  • Artifact sharing: manually share artifacts from HTML and Markdown views, with a new management UI.
  • Remote workspace recovery: significantly more reliable reconnection after outages, host handoffs, and restarts.
  • Terminal input reliability: improved support for input method editors across Windows, macOS, and Linux.
  • Cmd+J improvements: search results now ranked by recency, with Recent Chats & Terminals accessible via digit shortcuts.

New

  • Choose microphone for desktop dictation instead of always following OS default.
  • Microphone selection for voice input on desktop.
  • Korean Won (₩) to backquote key mapping for Korean keyboards.
  • Native chat history restoration across transcript formats.
  • Per-source worktree visibility controls.
  • Account-backed artifact sharing and management UI.
  • Filter and sorting on automations page.
  • Choose worktree location during creation rather than after.

Improved

  • PDF tabs restore scroll position when switching between them.
  • Linear and Jira issue creation dialogs preserve drafts if dismissed.
  • SSH host add/edit opens in a modal for better accessibility with long host lists.
  • Diagnostics renderer OOM breadcrumbs show memory by bytes.
  • Remote pane reconnection and reattachment more reliable across daemon upgrades.
  • Worktree parent picker performance with conditional mount and lazy status loading.
  • Cmd+J palette unmounts closed content to free renderer resources.
  • Long branch names truncate instead of overlapping UI elements.

Fixed

  • Chinese IME edge cases and Korean composition handling in terminal.
  • Windows IME issues: cleared stale modifiers, blocked shortcuts during composition, prevented cancelled compositions from replaying.
  • Remote terminals failing to reattach or stay live through proper handle liveness and session restoration.
  • SSH sessions stuck on dead multiplexers now recover automatically without manual intervention.
  • Rejected PTY frame deliveries no longer kill the entire relay channel.
  • Google sign-in in in-app browser no longer opens a blank tab.

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