This week in software: Jul 27 – Aug 2, 2026

Name new sessions with /new or /clear, pin important threads, and switch between side conversations without closing them; Support Agent Plugins manifests, workspace plugin publishi…

Fixed an MLX Metal bug that could reduce output quality for NVFP4 models, particularly Laguna

Bug-fix and salvage waves across the gateway, voice subsystem, desktop app, and installer; Continued platform work on Buzz/Nostr channel, FLUX3 video generation and delivery, Teleg…

Import security audit risk reporters with a file extension; Save execution data only after tool call completes in MCP Server Trigger Node

Stop MCP SSE connections from getting stuck in reconnect loops after server error responses; Fix provider model configs that use interleaved reasoning fields like reasoningtext or…

Configurable transcription endpoints in CoPilot; Add Most Recently Ran sorting in the Library; Paste images from clipboard into CoPilot chat; Surface skipped webhook presets when a…

Added predictions, fantasy, and supporter bundles for The International; Added a chance to prove your skills and win new Immortals and unlock terrains; Released patch 7.41e with ga…

Avoid O(n^2) value lookups in PPTX chart conversion; Fix invalid LaTeX macros for mu, nu, tau, and down-arrow in equation conversion; Fix typos and formatting in comments, docstrin…

Address a startup crash on Windows that could occur after updating Firefox when some of the application's internal files could not be loaded; Fix audio playing silently on some mus…

We’ve been hard at work making Discord better for you. This includes bug fixes and performance enhancements. For more detailed information, go to your profile in the app and scroll…

The Dev channel has been updated to 153.0.7979.3 for Windows, Mac and Linux. A partial list of changes is available in the Git log . Interested in switching release channels? Find…

Add package-specific pre-release policies with --prerelease-package; Support local HTML files as flat indexes; Add Xonsh virtual environment activation scripts (activate.xsh); Add…

Bug fixes and small improvements.

Fixed crash that occurred when persistent snackbar messages were displayed on the New Tab Page

Just a little tune-up to keep everything running smoothly!

escape Rich markup in workflow resolve output; support tar archives for installs; eliminate TOCTOU race in file unlink calls; tolerate an unusable integration.json in the Python he…

Support direct connection for DeepSeek, Volcano Ark Coding Plan, and Tencent Hunyuan in Codex without requiring local routing; Official vendor model catalog mirroring mechanism for…

Fix crashes within messaging experiences; Improve performance to reduce latency in core experiences; Add iOS 26 support

This version made no changes to documented features or interfaces. Some implementation updates were made to support ecosystem changes and/or fix regressions.

Made --auto-commit flag the default for gcloud database-migration conversion-workspaces seed, convert, and import-rules operations

Fixed a bug where an invalid ~/.docker/config.json caused Docker Desktop to hang with high CPU/memory and show no error dialog by surfacing an error dialog prompting the user to co…

Do not send default params in gemini genconfig; Fix tool name in flash prompts from replacefilestr to replacefile; Handle file:// URLs in extractstarturl; Stop auto-inheriting outp…

fix(patch): cherry-pick f47d6c6 to release/v0.53.0-pr-28566 [CONFLICTS] by @gemini-cli-robot in https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/pull/28610

bump botocore dependency specification to support "botocore = 1.43.3, < 1.43.57"; bump aiohttp dependency specification to support "aiohttp = 3.14.0, < 4.0.0"; run the optional htt…

Incremental extraction and rebuildcode no longer drop a file's other tier; merge is now tier-aware so AST re-extract replaces only AST nodes and keeps the semantic layer, and vice…

View a running subagent's model, elapsed time, and active tool call in the Agents window without opening its conversation; Built-in dictation across chat inputs, text editors, and…

Add a ninth observation type called sensitive for information that is internal but not strictly private, such as internal URLs, unreleased plans, personal details, business metrics…

Add pi auth print-api-key and pi auth print-bearer-token commands for exporting configured credentials to external clients, including automatic OAuth refresh and configurable minim…

Bug fixes and improvements

Resolve a regression when using Rollup on older Linux distributions

Fixed additional cases preventing local network game transfers from starting; Improved video color range in Remote Play; Added support for HDR streaming on Steam Deck OLED; Added s…

Add WEBP compress case when writing; Update dependencies; Make sure we read the bitspersample before using it; Only set the TIFFTAGWEBPLEVEL when the quality is not undefined; Add…