This week in software: Aug 3–9, 2026

Install portable Agent Plugins and search across local, personal, workspace, and remote plugin catalogs; Organize conversations into persistent, manually ordered sections and brows…

Qwen3.5 is faster on Apple GPUs as the MLX engine now uses the model's MTP head for speculative decoding automatically; /v1/chat/completions streaming now matches OpenAI's wire for…

Fixed a case where grenades could be thrown through level geometry; Fixed various gaps in Cache map; Fixed collision in various spots across Cache map; Fixed flickering on some ass…

Streaming conversational voice with barge-in support allowing users to interrupt mid-sentence; On-device wake word detection with open-vocabulary customization and multi-profile vo…

Make diagnosing-bugs redact secrets by adding a Redact section to SKILL.md that shows how to redact commands, outputs, and artifacts, and update Phase 1 completion criterion to req…

Bug fixes and reliability improvements

Fix task runner health check failing; Handle out-of-scope display option dependencies; Make DropdownMenus more obviously scrollable

Chronological message ordering now stays correct even when imported or legacy message IDs are out of order; Revert and fork actions now use real message chronology instead of messa…

Amazon SageMaker adds maintenance lifecycle statuses for Notebook Instances; Support for updating the task template associated with in-progress task contacts using the new UpdateCo…

Smart Window suggestion list now shows more results, making it easier to find history and switch to open tabs; Smart Window assistant can now answer questions directly using web se…

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…

Add CPython 3.13.15; Add --output-format to select automatic, human-readable, or raw-byte output for uv cache size; Preserve JSON output from uv workspace metadata --quiet while su…

The Dev channel has been updated to 153.0.7993.0 for Windows, Mac and Linux. A partial list of changes is available in the Git log . Interested in switching release channels? Find…

Bug fixes and small improvements.

Migration of browser level extension settings for Brave-hosted MV2 extensions; getSupportedExtensions overlap between WebGL and WebGL2

eval:list CLI test now spawns from a neutral directory with absolute script path so slug detection cannot route reads away from the fixture store it seeds; benchmark CLI remediatio…

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

Wrap a non-UTF-8 catalog response in integrations; Skip an unreadable command template in events; Wrap malformed YAML in a local .zip bundle manifest; Recurse for nested plans in P…

Fixes for crashes within messaging experiences; Performance improvements to remove latency in some of the core experiences; iOS 26 support

Remove gcloud api-registry mcp enable and gcloud api-registry mcp disable commands as MCP server enablement is no longer required

Create bottles when the template carries two profiles

Native crash reports are no longer uploaded to Bugsnag when analytics is disabled by the user; File content previews and diffs are now visible in the Gordon confirmation card when…

fix(patch): cherry-pick 56f9688 to release/v0.54.0-pr-28700 to patch version v0.54.0 and create version 0.54.1 by @gemini-cli-robot in https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/p…

Wheels for Python 3.15.0rc1 are now included; PyArrayStringDTypeObject is now opaque under the abi3t stable ABI, preventing access to struct fields in free-threading-compatible bui…

Fix tree shaking bug that could incorrectly tree-shake imports used in TypeScript type aliases with import assignment; Fix CSS minification bug where the & selector was incorrectly…

Newline-separated keywords and platforms fields are now handled forgivingly with each line treated as a separate item and a deprecation warning emitted; Extension is now a dataclas…

Add a public VersionRange API and SpecifierSet.torange(), representing the versions a specifier set accepts as an interval set that supports intersection, union, difference, comple…

Minimize internal Python API usage for interpreter and thread state sampling to avoid breaking ABI change in Python = 3.15.0b4

Callback-body local names are now scoped to that body instead of unioned under the shared declaration, so a real indirectcall in one sibling closure is no longer dropped because an…

Commenting in the integrated browser to give agents precise feedback by commenting on specific web page elements; Multilingual dictation with an on-device model that follows langua…

Add /ponytail default <mode command to persist the default mode across restarts; Add Qoder hooks support (UserPromptSubmit + PreToolUse); Add opt-in agent-type scoping for Subagent…

/caveman-stats now reports net savings by subtracting skill costs (~1–1.5k input tokens per turn) instead of only counting output saved; Compress no longer loses data on Windows th…

CMEM Pro is now the first option in the installer provider prompt, ordered by cost per 1,000 observations; Provider prompt now displays the cost per 1,000 observations for each mem…