This week in software: Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

Fixed Astra's visibility in the bundled model picker and made it the bundled default when no model is explicitly configured; Updated Astra's guidance to use asynchronous questions…

Support for using Ollama models directly in ChatGPT Desktop with setup available from the Ollama app on macOS; Improved structured output performance on Apple Silicon; Support for…

Support for GPT-6 Astra model selection with OpenAI API-key profile or eligible ChatGPT/Codex account, including text and image input, Responses tool calls, and supported…

Bot Mode is now bundled and default-on in the desktop app, featuring named agent profiles with deterministic avatar faces, shared roster, group chats, and @-mention support…

Scope integrations per expert and surface them in the UI; Surface agent work on the homepage via an activity event log; Let a user pick the connection every new chat starts on…

Allow Codex OAuth model filtering to recognize integer GPT versions like gpt-6; Fix issue of gpt-6-astra not showing up for openai subscription users; Add quota reset support…

Fixed a pending read on a net.request chunked upload stream inside a protocol handler never settling when the request failed or was aborted; Fixed a potential crash when using…

Check uninvoked signal aliases in extended diagnostic; Cancel stale debounce timers to prevent timer leaks; Don't fail NgModule checks for a pipe that extends a base class…

Add langchain.mcp namespace and MCPAdapter for Model Context Protocol support; Add runnable langchain.mcp examples to documentation; Omit middleware trace inputs in anthropic and…

Bug fixes and reliability improvements

Accessibility mode now marks the menu entry you are pointing at and the model already chosen with a stronger background across dropdown menus, submenus, and the model picker with…

Remove support for acc_policy="balanced" in torch.nn.LinearCrossEntropyOptions; use "compact" instead; Clamp and min/max boundary subgradients now follow the selected dispatcher…

Fixed a crash in Django 5.2 when combining distinct(fields) with order_by and values and using two lookup paths resolving to the same column; Fixed a regression in Django 6.1…

Stop wrap composition looping on a token in core content; Update Charter extension to v0.6.1; Keep non-ASCII text readable in written overlay files; Report overlay operation keys…

Add per-host api_host configuration to route GitHub API traffic through a custom gateway; Expose api_host through gh config get and gh config set commands; Add webhook as an…

FRED macro requests now pin the data vintage to the as-of date so backtests no longer see later revisions; Social sentiment from StockTwits and Reddit is trimmed to the analysis…

Fix SMTP attaching valid images as files when content sniffing fails; Warn that removing an app deletes its data in repair flows; Fix receive backup streaming; Fix potential…

Revert launch browsers in detached mode on Windows to fix flakiness

Install cn package and generate export { cn } from "cn" for lib/utils on init; Registry components now import cn from the cn package; Use twMerge from cn instead of tailwind-merge…

Allow later enum aliases to overwrite in C custom JSON enum mapping; Optimize pure Python parse path for custom JSON enum names; Include runtime version details in assertion error…

Module docstrings preceded by a leading comment (shebang, coding declaration, or license header) are now extracted instead of being silently dropped; Two Python definitions whose…

New AWS REVIEW mode as supported data retention mode for Bedrock models; Support for ValidateSecurityGroupQuotasForInterface API for authorized AWS services to validate security…

Upgrade Browser Harness to 0.1.13; Exact-pin all declared runtime, optional, development, and build dependencies; Upgrade and migrate to MCP Python SDK 2.1.1; Add…

CLI bindings for agent tools and skills; Angular-Vite MCP and skills support with improved docgen and snippets (experimental); Vue MCP and skills support with improved docgen and…

ensure consistent symlink evaluation in ignore path handling; remove eslint-disable and type-asserts from shellExecutionService; isolate Docker and container runtime sockets and…

Tests can now declare a named lock to prevent concurrent execution of tests sharing the same lock name across files, workers, and projects; page.frameLocator and…

Advanced per-agent configuration guide for keeping SKILL.md frontmatter portable and pushing vendor-specific runtime controls into metadata or per-agent adapters; Rejected…

To install Bun v1.4.2

Add GPT-6 Astra support through OpenAI API keys and OpenAI Codex subscriptions; Add five-times-faster mouse wheel scrolling while holding Alt in fullscreen mode; Fix configurable…

Fix import options, circular reexport severity and namespace writes; Skip ESM interop when require targets a module outside the concatenation; Fix concatenated require in a…

Update @modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem to version 2026.8.31; Update @modelcontextprotocol/server-memory to version 2026.8.31; Update @modelcontextprotocol/server-sequential…

Onboarding no longer gets stuck on the organization step when the company-created list refresh causes the app to adopt the just-created organization before the create request's…

Attempt to revoke short-lived PyPI trusted-publishing tokens after uv publish completes, including when publishing fails; Omit exclude-newer-package settings for packages outside…

Signed Caveman runtime companions for macOS, Linux, and Windows.

Long-press a toolbar shortcut to edit its setting directly; Tab groups can now be ungrouped and shared more easily; Shake to summarize feature now allows adjustment of shake…