Changelog

Every release, as it shipped.

Orbit Pi moves fast. This page mirrors the repository's changelog and release feed, so the notes you read here are the ones that shipped.

Download v0.0.16

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Latest: v0.0.16 · Sep 23, 2026
Source: github.com/imrj05/orbit

v0.0.17Latest

Sep 25, 2026

Added

Workflow modes — plan, build, or answer instead of one undifferentiated chat. A session is scoped Plan, Build, or Ask from the New Task page or the composer chip, per session. Plan and Ask are read-only: the bundled orbit-workflow-extension disables the write tools, gates bash to a read-only allowlist, and injects mode guidance, re-arming live sessions from ~/.orbit-pi/workflow.json with no restart.
AI review agent — a read-only reviewer over the current change set or the whole project, from the Review pane's sparkles menu or the command palette. It runs on its own pi process scoped to Ask mode (so the chat session and transcript are untouched), launched with ORBIT_REVIEW=1 so the access guard never blocks its read-only git diff. Findings parse from a fenced JSON block into severity-chipped rows that scroll the diff to the offending file; the answer's prose is kept when no findings parse.

v0.0.16

Sep 24, 2026

Added

Add structured data, harden headers, and extend cache windows
Rebuild landing around story sections and refresh OG

Changed

Feat/UI refinement (#23)

v0.0.15

Sep 23, 2026

Added

Per-tool glyph badges in the transcript, tinted by work kind, with a chip-style folded activity group
Surface pi's capped-result facts on tool cards as a truncated chip
Success check on the session-details Update button after a rename commits

Changed

Refactor the transcript UI: readable tool labels, a real shared spinner, shared button hover/press feedback, and redesigned git issue/PR details

v0.0.14

Sep 23, 2026

Changed

Auto-apply pi RPC patches and harden custom UI surfaces

v0.0.13

Sep 22, 2026

Changed

Feat/GitHub page features (#21)
Feat/main updates (#20)
Feat/GitHub page features (#19)
Remember Open in preferences per workspace and add Rider support (#17)
Update GitHub Sponsors username in FUNDING.yml (#18)
Update GitHub Sponsors username in FUNDING.yml (#16)

v0.0.12

Sep 22, 2026

Added

Add ten new light palettes and toggle_knob role

Fixed

Keep the update modal's footer inside the card

v0.0.11

Sep 22, 2026

Added

Ten more palettes — the appearance catalog grows from 32 to 42. Two new Orbit-family light palettes join the set: Orbit Paper, a cooler neutral paper canvas that is the light counterpart to Orbit's warm off-white (same ember accent), and Orbit Contrast, a near-white, high-contrast palette with deeper ink and a stronger hairline for maximum legibility. The curated light counterparts of the editor themes also land — Ayu Light, Catppuccin Latte, Flexoki Light, Gruvbox Light, Nord Light, One Light, Solarized Light, and Tokyonight Light — so light is a family in the Appearance dropdown rather than a single option. The picker partitions the catalog by mode, so every choice it offers matches the active mode.
`toggle_knob` palette role — a mode-aware token for the knob of a toggle switch, kept light in both modes so it reads on the accent (on) and the raised track (off). The knob previously used text, which painted a black dot on the light track in light mode.

Changed

The saved theme keys one-light and flexoki-light now resolve to the real One Light and Flexoki Light palettes instead of being folded into Orbit Light; the generic light alias still maps to Orbit Light.

Fixed

Clicking a radio row no longer leaves a stray accent focus ring behind. gpui 0.2 has no :focus-visible, so the automatic focus transfer on mouse-down is suppressed; the ring appears only for keyboard focus, while the row's own click still selects on mouse-up.
Dumitru Moloșnic (#11) — light, dark, and system appearance modes; transcript table sizing, streaming scroll-position, and multiline command-preview fixes.

v0.0.10

Sep 21, 2026

Added

Explorer — a Zed-style file-and-folder explorer for the active workspace. A left project panel (cmd-shift-e, top-bar folder toggle, or the ⌘P row) renders the workspace as a virtualized tree: expand/collapse, case-insensitive filter, a hidden-files toggle, devicon glyphs, M/A/D/R/U git-status badges, and keyboard navigation (arrows, home/end, cmd-←/cmd-→, enter/space). The walk is gitignore-aware (nested .gitignore/.ignore, global and repo excludes; symlinks never followed) and runs off-thread with a bounded entry cap surfaced honestly as "truncated". Right-clicking a row offers Open, Open in Default App, Reveal in File Manager, and Copy Path / Relative Path. Clicking a file opens a full-page Files editor: a tab strip over syntax-highlighted code with line numbers, editable Markdown (with an Edit/Preview toggle), or an image, with a path/size/line-count toolbar and a save-status chip. Code, text, and Markdown files are editable and autosave to disk (debounced; cmd-s saves now); unsaved tabs carry a dot, and external changes are flagged rather than silently overwriting edits. Binary files, oversized files (2 MiB), truncated files, non-UTF-8 files, and directories get an honest notice instead of a lossy dump, and never enter the editor. The workspace watcher refreshes the tree and the open file on change. cmd-w closes the active tab (the last tab, or cmd-shift-w, closes the surface), and the toolbar X returns to the chat.
Editing — the Explorer's editor (and the chat composer) supports undo/redo (cmd-z / cmd-shift-z), where a run of typing within 400 ms coalesces into a single undo step and a caret move starts a new one. History is bounded by both step count and total bytes so a whole-file buffer cannot balloon memory.
Explorer file operations — create, rename, and delete files and folders from the project panel. New File and New Folder sit in the panel header and in a directory's right-click menu; Rename edits a row's name in place; Delete asks first and moves the item to the OS Trash on macOS (permanent delete elsewhere, with the confirmation worded to match). Names are validated before anything touches disk, a create never clobbers an existing file, and a rename refuses an occupied name. An operation is refused while an open Files tab under the target has unsaved edits, so it can never race an autosave or silently discard a buffer; a renamed file's open tab follows the new path, and a deleted one closes.
More code fonts — the Code font picker now offers seven more bundled faces alongside the existing set: DM Mono, IBM Plex Mono, Inconsolata, Noto Sans Mono, Space Mono, Anonymous Pro, and Martian Mono. Like the rest of the catalog they ship as subset static TTFs, so a picked face resolves without an OS dependency.

Fixed

Explorer rows now fill the panel width, matching the Review pane's file tree. The selection/hover highlight no longer collapses to a narrow pill around the devicon, and git badges align to the right. This also fixes the inline rename and new-file prompts, which rendered as an empty bubble: the prompt input is a ComposerInput, which has no intrinsic width, so on a content-sized row its flex_1 collapsed to zero. A regression test renders the real panel and asserts the prompt input keeps a usable width.
The Explorer's row context menu opens at the pointer, flipping above/left when it would overflow the window. It was pinned to the panel's top-left, so a row's menu always appeared at the top of the tree regardless of where the row was right-clicked.
Closing a file tab keeps keyboard focus inside the Files surface: it moves to the newly active editor, or to the surface itself for preview/read-only tabs, instead of being dropped with the removed editor. Previously focus was lost after the first close (when the next tab did not paint an editor), so cmd-w stopped working. Closing a tab to the left of the active one also selected the wrong neighbour.
Search and filter placeholders (provider, model, settings, plugins, skills, side pane, git panel, usage, in-transcript find, branch/workspace pickers) now follow a language change immediately instead of keeping the language they were created in. Placeholders are resolved from translation keys at paint time.
With no saved language preference, System now walks the OS's ordered preferred-language list and picks the first language Orbit ships (falling back through unshipped choices such as Hindi) instead of defaulting to English. The macOS bundle also declares its supported localizations.
The setup page's dependency descriptions follow a language change without re-probing the host.

v0.0.9

Sep 21, 2026

Added

Version History in the update modal, opened from the update and up-to-date dialogs: every release the feed carries, newest first, each with its changelog and the running build marked Current. Appcasts now accumulate across releases (the newest 20 signed items), so the list grows with each release.

Changed

The update modal leads with the app icon, checks against an indeterminate progress bar, and names the current version when up to date.
Check for Updates always opens the modal. A build that can't check (debug, or a binary outside a managed install) says so there instead of posting a toast; with ORBIT_FORCE_UPDATER=1 and the signing key compiled in, such a build runs a real check-only flow without Update now.
The update flow now runs through a single modal. A staged release and Check for Updates… both open it: the check shows a search progress bar, then the release's changelog with Cancel / Update now, while an already-staged release offers Later / Update now. The Settings update control is an icon-only download button, and the sidebar shows a 20px download glyph that expands to Update on hover (the reference app's pattern); the changelog rides in each appcast item's <description> (written from CHANGELOG.md at release time).

v0.0.8

Sep 20, 2026

feat: update adapters and adapters.
Updated adapters,
update ui of view, context meter, git panel, main, providers, sidepane, terminal, transcript, transcript view, heatmap, quota rpc, and i18n glossary sidebar.
Added pin and pins.

v0.0.7

Sep 20, 2026

Added

Interface localization via rust-i18n, shipped with ten locales — English, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, German, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, and Italian — plus a System option that follows the OS preferred language. Settings → Appearance → Language switches it live (including the native menu bar); locales/en.yml is the source of truth and scripts/gen_locales.py regenerates the other files from the glossary.

v0.0.6

Sep 19, 2026

Added

Clone a session straight from the sidebar — each session row's … menu gained Clone session, which duplicates that session on disk (fresh id, pi's <timestamp>_<id>.jsonl naming, entries copied verbatim) and drops the copy into the list to branch off. Unlike Delete, it only reads the source, so it works on any row — including one with a live pi process — without switching away from what you're doing. The ⌘P "Clone Session" command still clones the open session through pi.
Usage page — a full-width Daily activity calendar heatmap: one cell per day across a trailing 12 months, shaded by the active metric (tokens, requests, cost, …), with month/weekday axes, a less→more legend, a hover readout, and click-to-scope to a single day (click again to restore the range). It is independent of the date range — a contribution graph needs a year to read — but the active workspace / model / provider / errors filters apply to every cell.

Fixed

App and composer shortcuts now bind GPUI's cross-platform secondary modifier (Cmd on macOS, Ctrl on Windows/Linux). They previously used cmd-*, which GPUI maps to the Windows/Super key on Windows, so copy/paste/cut/select-all and every other primary shortcut did nothing there. Shortcut hint chips now render the platform-correct label too.

v0.0.5

Sep 17, 2026

Added

Windows releases attach the bare orbit-pi.exe alongside the .zip, so the executable is a direct single-file download (scripts/bundle-windows.ps1).
Linux releases attach a native .deb alongside the .tar.gz, installable with apt install ./orbit-pi_*.deb (scripts/bundle-linux.sh).

v0.0.4

Sep 17, 2026

Fix the Terminal Issue
UI Fixes.

v0.0.3

Sep 16, 2026

Added

Integrated terminal — a real login shell in a resizable bottom panel (⌘J or the top-bar toggle), independent of the right side pane. Built on alacritty_terminal for PTY and VT/ANSI emulation, rendered natively by GPUI: scrollback, click-drag selection with ⌘C/⌘V, bracketed paste, a blinking cursor, and a per-theme ANSI palette. The shell follows the active workspace and restarts when it changes.

v0.0.2

Sep 16, 2026

Added

Native macOS menu bar (Orbit / File / Edit / View) wired to the app's existing actions; ⌘N and the About surface now have a real home.

v0.0.1

Sep 14, 2026

Added

Chat-style pi sessions — streaming transcript, model selection, thinking effort, follow-up queueing, mid-run steering, and cancel.
Sessions grouped by project, reopenable and clonable, with an Orbit-owned project list that leaves pi's own session store untouched.
Access guard — Supervised / Auto-accept edits / Full access, enforced by a bundled tool_call extension with an inline Allow once / Always allow this tool / Deny bar.
Review pane with a live git diff HEAD, and a Git page for Changes / History / Graph with staging and commit.
Workbench pages — usage, skills, plugins, models, providers, and appearance, read from pi's on-disk data.
In-transcript find (⌘F) and a full-window image lightbox.
Native macOS app bundle, Developer-ID signed and notarizable.

v0.0.10

Sep 21, 2026

Added

Explorer — a Zed-style file-and-folder explorer for the active workspace. A left project panel (cmd-shift-e, top-bar folder toggle, or the ⌘P row) renders the workspace as a virtualized tree: expand/collapse, case-insensitive filter, a hidden-files toggle, devicon glyphs, M/A/D/R/U git-status badges, and keyboard navigation (arrows, home/end, cmd-←/cmd-→, enter/space). The walk is gitignore-aware (nested .gitignore/.ignore, global and repo excludes; symlinks never followed) and runs off-thread with a bounded entry cap surfaced honestly as "truncated". Right-clicking a row offers Open, Open in Default App, Reveal in File Manager, and Copy Path / Relative Path. Clicking a file opens a full-page Files editor: a tab strip over syntax-highlighted code with line numbers, editable Markdown (with an Edit/Preview toggle), or an image, with a path/size/line-count toolbar and a save-status chip. Code, text, and Markdown files are editable and autosave to disk (debounced; cmd-s saves now); unsaved tabs carry a dot, and external changes are flagged rather than silently overwriting edits. Binary files, oversized files (2 MiB), truncated files, non-UTF-8 files, and directories get an honest notice instead of a lossy dump, and never enter the editor. The workspace watcher refreshes the tree and the open file on change. cmd-w closes the active tab (the last tab, or cmd-shift-w, closes the surface), and the toolbar X returns to the chat.
Editing — the Explorer's editor (and the chat composer) supports undo/redo (cmd-z / cmd-shift-z), where a run of typing within 400 ms coalesces into a single undo step and a caret move starts a new one. History is bounded by both step count and total bytes so a whole-file buffer cannot balloon memory.
Explorer file operations — create, rename, and delete files and folders from the project panel. New File and New Folder sit in the panel header and in a directory's right-click menu; Rename edits a row's name in place; Delete asks first and moves the item to the OS Trash on macOS (permanent delete elsewhere, with the confirmation worded to match). Names are validated before anything touches disk, a create never clobbers an existing file, and a rename refuses an occupied name. An operation is refused while an open Files tab under the target has unsaved edits, so it can never race an autosave or silently discard a buffer; a renamed file's open tab follows the new path, and a deleted one closes.
More code fonts — the Code font picker now offers seven more bundled faces alongside the existing set: DM Mono, IBM Plex Mono, Inconsolata, Noto Sans Mono, Space Mono, Anonymous Pro, and Martian Mono. Like the rest of the catalog they ship as subset static TTFs, so a picked face resolves without an OS dependency.

Fixed

Explorer rows now fill the panel width, matching the Review pane's file tree. The selection/hover highlight no longer collapses to a narrow pill around the devicon, and git badges align to the right. This also fixes the inline rename and new-file prompts, which rendered as an empty bubble: the prompt input is a ComposerInput, which has no intrinsic width, so on a content-sized row its flex_1 collapsed to zero. A regression test renders the real panel and asserts the prompt input keeps a usable width.
The Explorer's row context menu opens at the pointer, flipping above/left when it would overflow the window. It was pinned to the panel's top-left, so a row's menu always appeared at the top of the tree regardless of where the row was right-clicked.
Closing a file tab keeps keyboard focus inside the Files surface: it moves to the newly active editor, or to the surface itself for preview/read-only tabs, instead of being dropped with the removed editor. Previously focus was lost after the first close (when the next tab did not paint an editor), so cmd-w stopped working. Closing a tab to the left of the active one also selected the wrong neighbour.
Search and filter placeholders (provider, model, settings, plugins, skills, side pane, git panel, usage, in-transcript find, branch/workspace pickers) now follow a language change immediately instead of keeping the language they were created in. Placeholders are resolved from translation keys at paint time.
With no saved language preference, System now walks the OS's ordered preferred-language list and picks the first language Orbit ships (falling back through unshipped choices such as Hindi) instead of defaulting to English. The macOS bundle also declares its supported localizations.
The setup page's dependency descriptions follow a language change without re-probing the host.