# Kimi Code 0.22.0

- Product: Kimi Code (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/kimi-code)
- Vendor: Moonshot AI
- Date: 2026-07-02
- Version: 0.22.0
- Original notes: https://github.com/MoonshotAI/kimi-code/releases/tag/%40moonshot-ai/kimi-code%400.22.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/kimi-code/releases/0.22.0
- Labels: Platforms: Desktop

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- **added** — Automatically compress oversized images before they reach the model, downsampling to longest edge ≤ 2000px and re-encoding to fit a per-image byte budget, with screenshots staying lossless PNG and degrading to JPEG only when necessary
- **added** — Add model alias overrides so manual thinking effort levels and model metadata survive provider catalog refreshes
- **changed** — Refresh the web UI with a new design system, including updated colors, typography, spacing, light and dark palettes, restyled tooltips, and subtle enter/exit and expand/collapse animations
- **changed** — Replace the Explore and Native theme options with a single chat layout and a Blue or Black accent-color setting
- **changed** — Reduce the default TUI transcript window to keep long sessions responsive
- **fixed** — Show draft pull requests with a distinct draft status instead of displaying them as open
- **fixed** — Fix the transcript jumping to the top when scrolling up through history during streaming output
- **fixed** — Fix plan, swarm, and goal modes being shared across sessions in the web UI; each session now keeps its own toggles
- **fixed** — Release pasted images and streaming timers once they are no longer shown, so memory stops growing in long sessions
- **fixed** — Fix the terminal being left in raw mode with a hidden cursor and disabled flow control after a crash or abrupt exit
- **fixed** — Fix an active workspace showing only its five most recent sessions on load, so it now keeps loading older sessions from the last 12 hours
- **fixed** — Fix ArrowUp recalling the previous message while editing a multi-line draft; ArrowUp now recalls only from the very start of the text and is disabled in the expanded editor
- **fixed** — Fix the Thinking-by-default setting not taking effect, so new sessions correctly start with thinking enabled
- **fixed** — Fix spurious errors from the web question, approval, and task actions when the action was already complete, and add loading feedback so each click is acknowledged immediately
- **fixed** — Hide the unsupported Off option in the /model thinking switcher for always-on models that already expose multiple effort levels
- **changed** — Show time, duration, connection, and stack details in web error and warning toasts
- **changed** — Reduce the web composer's default height for a more compact empty state
- **changed** — Show queued prompts inline below the running turn in the web chat, and split Stop into its own button so Send no longer interrupts
- **changed** — Hide the conversation outline when there is not enough room to expand its labels, so it no longer clips against the window edge

###### Minor Changes

- [#1243](https://github.com/MoonshotAI/kimi-code/pull/1243) [`ace7901`](https://github.com/MoonshotAI/kimi-code/commit/ace79010669d19ad175bc25443b6efb41ca2e2ac) - Automatically compress oversized images before they reach the model. Whatever the source — pasted into the CLI, uploaded from the web/desktop client, sent over ACP, read via `ReadMediaFile`, or returned by an MCP tool — images are downsampled (longest edge ≤ 2000px) and re-encoded to fit a per-image byte budget, cutting vision-token cost and avoiding provider image-size errors. Screenshots stay lossless PNG and only degrade to JPEG when the byte budget cannot otherwise be met. Compression runs as an input-stage step at each ingestion point (while the content part is built), and guards against decompression bombs by skipping absurdly large pixel/byte payloads before decoding. Best-effort: if it fails for any reason the original image is sent unchanged.

- [#1262](https://github.com/MoonshotAI/kimi-code/pull/1262) [`c070fbe`](https://github.com/MoonshotAI/kimi-code/commit/c070fbeddeb1c147d8859a76046f9465f696c9cb) - Add model alias overrides so manual thinking effort levels and model metadata survive provider catalog refreshes. Set them under `[models."<alias>".overrides]`.

- [#1258](https://github.com/MoonshotAI/kimi-code/pull/1258) [`b905dd4`](https://github.com/MoonshotAI/kimi-code/commit/b905dd49108c567d0fecd38a096808c121672795) - Refresh the web UI with a new design system, including updated colors, typography, spacing, light and dark palettes, restyled tooltips, and subtle enter/exit and expand/collapse animations.

###### Patch Changes

- [#1258](https://github.com/MoonshotAI/kimi-code/pull/1258) [`b905dd4`](https://github.com/MoonshotAI/kimi-code/commit/b905dd49108c567d0fecd38a096808c121672795) - Show draft pull requests with a distinct draft status instead of displaying them as open.

- [#1254](https://github.com/MoonshotAI/kimi-code/pull/1254) [`7859b0a`](https://github.com/MoonshotAI/kimi-code/commit/7859b0afe8898852806e5a0c21b9dd52cb82f834) - Fix the transcript jumping to the top when scrolling up through history during streaming output.

- [#1258](https://github.com/MoonshotAI/kimi-code/pull/1258) [`b905dd4`](https://github.com/MoonshotAI/kimi-code/commit/b905dd49108c567d0fecd38a096808c121672795) - Fix plan, swarm, and goal modes being shared across sessions in the web UI; each session now keeps its own toggles.

- [#1264](https://github.com/MoonshotAI/kimi-code/pull/1264) [`003733c`](https://github.com/MoonshotAI/kimi-code/commit/003733c751584ce30d8ebae4f5e608f0df049d32) - Hide the unsupported Off option in the /model thinking switcher for always-on models that already expose multiple effort levels.

- [#1272](https://github.com/MoonshotAI/kimi-code/pull/1272) [`54703d9`](https://github.com/MoonshotAI/kimi-code/commit/54703d9457dcda7bc782301fc2dbb41a2c8d7293) - Release pasted images and streaming timers once they are no longer shown, so memory stops growing in long sessions.

- [#1272](https://github.com/MoonshotAI/kimi-code/pull/1272) [`54703d9`](https://github.com/MoonshotAI/kimi-code/commit/54703d9457dcda7bc782301fc2dbb41a2c8d7293) - Fix the terminal being left in raw mode with a hidden cursor and disabled flow control after a crash or abrupt exit.

- [#1265](https://github.com/MoonshotAI/kimi-code/pull/1265) [`8cfb165`](https://github.com/MoonshotAI/kimi-code/commit/8cfb1657ad7bf525269df4ab6cf5c12aa1d406a9) - Reduce the default TUI transcript window to keep long sessions responsive.

- [#1258](https://github.com/MoonshotAI/kimi-code/pull/1258) [`b905dd4`](https://github.com/MoonshotAI/kimi-code/commit/b905dd49108c567d0fecd38a096808c121672795) - Replace the Explore and Native theme options with a single chat layout and a Blue or Black accent-color setting.

- [#1258](https://github.com/MoonshotAI/kimi-code/pull/1258) [`b905dd4`](https://github.com/MoonshotAI/kimi-code/commit/b905dd49108c567d0fecd38a096808c121672795) - Show time,

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