Changelog
A complete list of updates across QuadcodeAI releases.
Version 0.16960
August 12, 2026- Added a local IDE API server that lets supported external websites open an existing QuadcodeAI project or create a new one directly in the desktop app.
- Expanded Seedance with ByteDance 2.5 video generation, including multiple reference inputs, video editing and extension tasks, and additional BytePlus output options.
- Large copied text is now handled before it reaches chat, preventing freezes and failed sends when pasting oversized content.
- Redesigned sub-agent task cards with a cleaner, more compact header that keeps the collapsed and expanded states visually consistent.
- Sub-agent cards now show the agent name before the role, preserve natural role capitalization, and provide a clearer information hierarchy when scanning several running tasks.
- Action-result headers are now easier to use: click anywhere on the header to expand or collapse the result, with clearer hover feedback and tighter spacing around status decorations.
- Updated agent detail controls in Preferences with stable button widths, preventing labels and actions from shifting between different agents or window sizes.
- Refined embedded browser proportions with taller toolbar and address controls, plus corrected window sizing so the browser chrome no longer feels cramped.
- Refreshed form controls used by embedded interfaces: checkboxes now appear as animated pill toggles, while flat text-field variants provide a cleaner visual hierarchy.
- Improved dropdown selection styling so selected rows no longer keep a conflicting hover or selectable highlight.
- Changed online-status indicators from teal to familiar green, making connected states easier to recognize at a glance.
- Updated embedded-interface design guidance around a restrained monochrome primary and secondary palette for more consistent generated tools and panels.
Version 0.16941
August 11, 2026- Brush mode buttons now use theme-aware selected states, making the active brush clearly visible in both light and dark themes.
- Refined Git management and multi-file preview layouts with cleaner splitters and compact status labels.
- Improved image-viewer grid contrast so transparent areas remain visible over light and dark images.
- Improved synchronization and diagnostics for locally stored thumbnails.
- Local skills are now refreshed when they change while the template selector is open.
- Made crop controls adapt their size when crop mode is opened or closed, avoiding clipped or oversized controls.
- Improved Preferences button sizing and made project connection status easier to read.
- Refined selected-text colors in the gray theme and corrected checked file-tab text contrast.
- Updated embedded panel tabs, text fields, and combo boxes to match native application controls more closely.
- Improved large secondary-button hover feedback and corrected border colors in the electric dark theme.
Version 0.16929
August 10, 2026- Corrected setup instructions for the Reve and Lyria integrations.
- Refined chat input styling and made primary and secondary actions more consistent.
- Improved the chat context editor layout and its action buttons.
- Standardized labels to sentence case and corrected sizing in MCP settings tabs.
- Polished the cancel action in the sub-agent request dialog.
- Refined the image editor with cleaner labels, sentence-case metadata, and a simpler header without the redundant icon.
- Updated progress bars to use the active primary palette more consistently.
- Improved black, gray, and light-gray themes with stronger contrast, clearer borders, separators, menus, and secondary text.
- Made text boxes and text areas render theme-aware borders and backgrounds more consistently.
- Compacted tab controls with smaller dimensions, softer corner radii, and more consistent padding.
- Fixed button text sizing so horizontal padding is respected instead of clipping or misaligning labels.
- Standardized favorite-model containers with the same panel-section styling used elsewhere in Preferences.
Version 0.16912
August 9, 2026- Refreshed Preferences with clearer theme choices and a more readable shortcut editor.
- Standardized control heights across project settings, Preferences, Git management, and scheduled tasks.
- Improved rounded button rendering so textures no longer extend beyond button corners.
- Adjusted switch, submenu, and secondary-button colors for better consistency in the light theme.
- Improved stability of Find in Files result rendering.
- Replaced legacy checkbox visuals with animated, theme-aware toggle switches while preserving compatibility where needed.
- Updated agent-detail tabs and project/section tabs with a unified pill-shaped design.
- Added compact info icons with hover explanations to generation fields, reducing long inline descriptions and simplifying forms.
- Unified generation-field layouts into cleaner single-row controls with consistent label and input alignment.
- Refreshed secondary buttons and exploration-mode controls for clearer visual hierarchy.
Version 0.16902
August 7, 2026- Updated project and MCP settings tabs with a more compact, consistent pill-style layout.
- Refined the Add Project dialog with clearer field labels and spacing.
- Improved File History path highlighting and timeline colors.
- Adjusted model and knowledge-sync controls in Preferences for better readability.
- Increased chat-search and code-search field heights so text and icons are easier to scan and click.
- Improved generation-form descriptions with smaller text, consistent wrapping, and cleaner alignment.
- Made generation text areas borderless and added rounded, fit-to-area image previews.
- Made editor line-number gutters transparent so they blend naturally with the surrounding theme.
- Improved file-history timeline and highlighted-path colors for clearer revision navigation.
Version 0.16891
August 6, 2026- Added Flux 3 to the image-generation model catalog.
- Fixed shutdown crashes by coordinating the cleanup of embedded browser pages before the app exits.
- Removed line numbers from chat diff blocks to reduce visual clutter and make changes easier to read.
- Standardized labels and capitalization across toolbars, buttons, skill selectors, and settings.
- Improved user and role presentation in chat with a consistent avatar size and clearer hierarchy.
- Refined folder-tree connector lines and selection indicators.
- Updated folder and Git views with hollow folder icons, unified icon/text colors, and visual indication of modified files.
- Refined Find in Files results with clearer filename/path coloring and more reliable case-insensitive match highlighting.
- Standardized spacing, control heights, margins, and section styling across generation editors.
- Improved action-result cards with a permanent status-icon position and clearer action-name/status colors.
- Introduced the new high-contrast design palette foundation, including monochrome accents and expanded text-color levels.
Version 0.16857
August 5, 2026- WebSocket connections now retry automatically with backoff when the service is temporarily unavailable.
- Connection failures now show clearer, more actionable messages instead of failing silently.
- Corrected Reve integration instructions.
- Improved file inspection so unknown binary files are not accidentally returned as unreadable text.
- Redesigned major dialogs and server-configuration forms around consistent 36-pixel controls, clearer sections, and aligned field widths.
- Refined Project Settings with larger, more readable inputs, rounded text fields, and a cleaner borderless chat-context editor.
- Improved text-box and text-area rendering with state-aware borders and backgrounds for focused, disabled, and normal states.
Version 0.16848
August 4, 2026- Added Lyria music generation to the interface.
- Fixed the terminal panel jumping or resizing unexpectedly on macOS.
- Reduced terminal margins so more space is available for command output.
- Support, profile, and cluster indicators in the status bar are now clearly clickable.
- Redesigned the profile popup with clearer account information and more consistent action styling.
- The profile settings action now opens Preferences directly on the relevant Profile tab.
- Fixed rounded borders on icon and textured buttons so their state remains visible in every theme.
- Adjusted main tab spacing and folder-tab styling as the first stage of the refreshed application design.
Version 0.16839
August 3, 2026- Added Reve v2 image generation and editing, including prompt, layout, reference-image, command, and fit options.
- Added optional access-token authentication for local and OpenAI-compatible model endpoints; tokens are stored securely and sent as bearer credentials.
- Fixed a freeze in the local file cache.
- Made long chat messages render faster.
- Chat input history now changes only when the cursor is at the beginning, preventing accidental replacement while editing a prompt.
- Improved handling of project files requested through absolute local paths.
- Converted chat-sidebar actions to compact icon-only controls, freeing more room for chat titles and reducing menu width.
- Made status-bar support, profile, and cluster arrows clickable and added the expected pointer cursor.
- Improved embedded-browser error pages by removing raw Chromium markup and showing safer, clearer messages.
Version 0.16805
July 29, 2026- Fixed several situations where chat could freeze while processing or displaying a response.
- Fixed a crash when closing a window that contained an embedded web page connected to the IDE bridge.
- Added deployment presets to Project Settings, including preset selection, synchronization, confirmation, and automatic command filling.
- The microphone control now toggles recording with a click instead of requiring press-and-hold.
- Added Tab completion for skill aliases in the chat input, with matching syntax highlighting.
- Status-bar progress is now shorter and easier to understand, using messages such as “Working…” and “Done” together with the current tool description.
- Fixed a race condition when multiple tools were called over the binary communication protocol.
- Updated the built-in terminal to version 1.5.0.
- Added a complete deployment-preset form with synchronized command previews and confirmation before replacing custom commands.
- Improved the disconnected-model state with a more suitable warning color.
- Made compact and micro status-bar layouts keep their labels and values aligned without hiding important state.
Version 0.16779
July 27, 2026- Renamed “Local LLM” to “Local / API Models” so it is clear that both models running on your computer and remote OpenAI-compatible endpoints are supported.
- Increased the output limit for local models while preventing the model context size from being incorrectly used as the output-token limit.
- Added automatic retry for interrupted local-model streams.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when audio-processing threads were still running during cleanup.
- Added optional detailed WebSocket protocol logging for troubleshooting connection problems.
- Improved status-bar controls in compact and micro layouts.
- Clarified model-related labels and provider grouping throughout Preferences after renaming Local / API Models.
- Made status-bar caret labels and values adapt independently in narrow windows, preventing crowded or clipped controls.
Version 0.16772
July 25, 2026- Added a Local / API Models manager for configuring multiple Ollama or OpenAI-compatible endpoints instead of a single local model.
- The model picker now groups models by provider and shows compact price or local-status information on each row.
- Added Google and GitHub sign-in buttons to the login dialog, connected to the browser-based OAuth flow.
- Improved highlighting for Git-style diffs shown inside code blocks.
- Added Seedream 5 Pro to the image-model pricing catalog.
- Improved project knowledge synchronization with request timeouts, retry cancellation, and visible reporting of files that could not be uploaded.
- Fixed files whose names contain different Unicode space characters not being found by file, image, and remote actions.
- Improved native window dragging on macOS to avoid a stuck drag state.
- Redesigned the model picker into compact one-line rows with provider headers, readable prices, and clear local/remote status.
- Added recognizable Google and GitHub icons to the login screen so social sign-in choices are immediately distinguishable.
Version 0.16753
July 23, 2026- The selected theme is now applied before the application UI starts, eliminating the brief flash of the wrong theme during launch.
- Git patch text pasted into chat is automatically recognized and displayed as a formatted diff code block.
- Screen-recording scenarios gained controls for resizing the main window and side panel, making repeatable product demos easier to prepare.
Version 0.16746
July 22, 2026- Added “New window” so you can launch multiple independent QuadcodeAI windows from the application menu.
- Fixed a crash that could occur while closing a window with an embedded browser by making bridge and web-channel cleanup asynchronous and safe.
Version 0.16743
July 21, 2026- Reworked chat storage to use compact metadata and line-based message files, improving startup speed and reliability for large chat histories.
- Existing chats are migrated automatically when first opened, with safer autosave and flush behavior.
- Fixed lag while assistant responses are streaming into chat.
- Added scenario-defined central video panels with custom chrome, viewport sizing, and fit-to-video behavior.
- Added manual embedded-viewport resize controls and same-origin iframe scaling for dynamic interfaces.
Version 0.16721
July 20, 2026- Added support for running chat requests through your own Ollama server or any compatible OpenAI-style API endpoint.
- Local/API model responses stream into chat just like hosted models and appear as local workers in model selection.
- Added binary protocol support for more efficient communication between the application and backend services.
- Improved embedded-page detection so IDE-integrated pages can hide the URL bar more reliably.
- Agent request forms now apply their hidden prompt wrapper consistently before sending.
Version 0.16707
July 17, 2026- API keys supplied from your user profile are now refreshed for every request instead of reusing stale values.
- Fixed request environment handling so automatically supplied keys no longer modify the caller’s environment.
- Image stitching now supports overlap and crossfade blending, producing smoother transitions between joined images.
Version 0.16704
July 16, 2026- Long text returned by tools is now paginated consistently, keeping very large results usable without overwhelming chat.
- Fixed a selection-window bug that could use the wrong execution context while generating a resource.
- Updated the built-in terminal to version 1.4.8.
Version 0.16697
July 15, 2026- Added Seedream image generation and editing with v5 Pro, v5 Lite, v4.5, and v4 options plus support for up to ten reference images.
- Chats can now be renamed or deleted directly from a compact chat list grouped by date.
- Added chat search based on the visible chat title and restored the last focused chat between sessions.
- Fixed application height and window-layout issues on macOS.
- Improved bridge request completion and error handling to prevent duplicated local requests and exhausted connections.
- Fixed startup errors when an authenticated profile does not contain an email address or user ID.
- Added clearer WebSocket connection diagnostics when a namespace cannot connect.
- Newly created empty files are no longer stored as meaningless revisions in File History.
- Redesigned chat selection into compact rows grouped by date, with visible rename and delete actions and preserved scroll position.
- Improved the chat list so the current conversation remains visible and identifiable while switching chats.
Version 0.16671
July 12, 2026- Added Ideogram V4 image generation, including standard and seamless tiling modes.
- Added Grok as an available coding agent in the CLI tools and interface.
- Embedded pages can now call allowed MCP tools and read MCP resources through the IDE bridge without locking the main interface.
- Added custom HTTP headers for MCP servers, with encrypted storage and connection validation.
- Fixed paused videos showing a black frame after their player panel was reopened.
- Sound playback now pauses when its player is hidden, preventing overlapping audio.
- Added bridge controls for enabling, disabling, or pausing automatic page reload.
- Fixed MCP calls failing when an automatically generated short description was removed.
- Restored the sub-agent panel header’s active status color when an action resumes, making running work easier to spot.
Version 0.16656
July 8, 2026- Added Gemini Omni video generation.
- Expanded HappyHorse video generation with versions 1.0 and 1.1, resolution choices, nine aspect ratios, and up to nine character references.
- Added optional automatic cropping around visible video content, with padding and centering controls.
- Transparent WebM/VP9 videos can now be exported with a checkerboard background for easier previewing.
- Added optional sprite-sheet generation as a video post-processing step.
- Added remote and local background-removal options for generated images with clearer failure handling.
- Empty files are no longer uploaded to the project knowledge base.
- Improved image-processing reliability during concurrent generation tasks.
Version 0.16636
July 7, 2026- Added a ready-to-use PostHog MCP server template.
- Added the Flash Lite option to Nanobanana image generation.
- Fixed Ctrl+Enter sending a message when the relevant send button was not available.
- Scheduled and manually queued agent requests now always run in Build mode.
- Added validation and clear error hints for recurring, daily, and weekly schedule fields.
- Fixed missed schedule slots being executed unexpectedly after restart.
- Improved MCP server port settings and kept command-line context files synchronized.
- Updated the built-in terminal to version 1.4.4.
- Long schedule names now stay on one line, shorten gracefully, and show the full name in a tooltip.
Version 0.16622
July 6, 2026- Redesigned scheduled-task editing with a clearer agent selector and prompt editor.
- Scheduled tasks now show their previous run, next run, and a live countdown.
- Added an “Add Request” dialog to manually send a task to a selected sub-agent from the Actions panel.
- Fixed attached-document icons appearing blurry or incorrectly scaled on high-DPI displays.
- Replaced the scheduler’s generic dropdown and textarea with the same agent picker and prompt editor used elsewhere in the app.
- Refined the manual sub-agent request dialog with clearer sizing, actions, and agent selection.
Version 0.16618
July 5, 2026- Added project-level scheduled AI tasks: configure a sub-agent prompt to run repeatedly, daily, or weekly from Project Settings.
- Scheduled tasks retain their runtime state and can be started or stopped with the project.
- Screen recording now uses physical display pixels and respects display scaling, fixing incorrect resolution on high-DPI screens.
- Fixed closing a file or dynamic-panel tab sometimes removing the wrong tab.
- MCP IDE servers now start without blocking the interface and avoid unnecessary restarts that could disconnect active clients.
- Added automatic MCP and Claude Code project configuration for CLI sub-agents.
- Model prices are now written directly in each model row instead of represented by a separate price icon.
- Attached-document cards were simplified to a small file-type icon and clickable filename that opens the document viewer.
- Added one-time startup configuration for applying theme and device settings before the project opens.
Version 0.16595
June 2026- Added browser-based authentication: sign in on the web and return automatically to the desktop application after success.
- Project settings now live in project-specific configuration files and use safer saving, reducing the chance of one project overwriting another’s setup.
- Added image and video background removal with local or remote processing options.
- Added Grok Video 1.5 Preview and expanded Seedance generation modes.
- File History gained expandable inline diffs, clearer timelines, and safer handling of newly created or empty files.
- Added ready-made PowerShell command support for Windows workflows.
- Improved browser recording startup and conversion-state feedback.
- Improved project list rendering and time formatting across operating systems.
- Added richer controls for IDE demo and recording scenarios, including panels, camera movement, labels, console simulation, and chat actions.
- Fixed multiple crashes and race conditions related to closing windows or embedded browser pages.
- Improved dynamic UI panels and required unique panel names to prevent ambiguous behavior.
- Refined the project list with responsive card widths and consistent local-time formatting across operating systems.
- Added a central panel and clearer panel toggles to the IDE layout, with reliable restoration after restart.
- Improved demo and recording visuals with configurable shadows, background dimming, camera easing, and smoother label placement.
Version 0.16355
May 2026- Added Meshy-powered 3D model generation for creating project-ready 3D assets.
- Added Foley and sound-effect generation controls with clearer audio parameters.
- Expanded the catalog of image, video, speech, and sound models and refreshed their pricing information.
- Improved Windows and Linux crash reporting so failures can be diagnosed more reliably.
- The built-in browser can now open local project paths directly from its URL bar.
- Remote pages can load IDE assets through the local bridge without cross-origin errors.
- Improved browser compatibility by using platform-appropriate browser identification and language settings.
- Added richer favicon handling for browser tabs.
- Improved terminal behavior and syntax highlighting, including JavaScript and CSS embedded in HTML.
- Fixed sizing and layout problems in the chat input area.
- Improved template update and publishing behavior so the server’s published state is preserved.
- Improved the browser address bar so local project paths can be entered and opened like regular URLs.
- Added more reliable website icons to browser tabs and clearer fallbacks when a site has no favicon.
- Refined chat-input sizing to prevent controls from jumping, overlapping, or wasting vertical space.
- Improved terminal and editor syntax colors, including embedded JavaScript and CSS inside HTML files.
Version 0.15994
April 2026- Added a dedicated diff view for sub-agent requests so proposed code changes can be reviewed before they are applied.
- Improved project discovery with sorting, grouping, and cleaner project cards.
- Added native desktop notifications on macOS.
- Added Topaz video upscaling and WAN 2.7 multi-mode video generation.
- Added Gemini text-to-speech generation to the model catalog.
- Model costs are now displayed in credits instead of dollars for consistency with account balances.
- Project knowledge synchronization is faster, reports failed files more clearly, and can be cancelled while running.
- Added drag-and-drop tab movement and improved tab behavior across multiple windows and panels.
- Improved window maximize, restore, and native window controls.
- Find in Files was updated for faster and more reliable searching.
- Improved chat switching, saving, and handling of very large tool results or image data.
- Fixed double scrolling in diff views and improved list selection and hover behavior on macOS.
- Code snippets in chat can now run through the standard command tool with consistent permission handling.
- Added a visual diff panel to sub-agent requests so proposed changes can be inspected without opening a separate file.
- Refined project cards with clearer sorting and grouping, responsive widths, and more consistent metadata placement.
- Improved tab dragging between panels and saved the resulting panel, splitter, and tab-group layout.
- Refined native window controls and maximize/restore behavior so frameless windows behave more like standard desktop apps.
- Improved hover, selection, and scrolling behavior in diff and list views, especially on macOS.
Version 0.15725
March 2026- Added email-and-password sign-in alongside the existing authentication options and redesigned the login experience.
- The built-in browser now supports multiple tabs and remembers browser settings per project.
- Added Grok Image with multiple reference images and resolution controls.
- Added Seedance 2 and expanded Seedance with additional modes and up to nine image references.
- Added Luma image generation.
- Added File History so you can inspect earlier versions of changed files and understand what was modified.
- Project knowledge synchronization now retries failed uploads automatically and handles temporary service failures more safely.
- Background code indexing makes symbol lookup and code navigation faster.
- Improved the built-in terminal with better performance, prompt detection, ANSI colors, theme integration, and reliable command readiness.
- Improved diff syntax highlighting and removed obsolete highlighters.
- Fixed path handling when saving generated sound and video files.
- Improved links and interactive content inside text areas.
- Redesigned the login dialog around clear email/password and token tabs, with Enter-to-continue and a visible loading spinner during sign-in.
- Added provider logos, price indicators, recommended markers, and NEW badges to the model picker, making models easier to compare.
- Improved browser tabs with favicons, reliable back/forward states, automatic scrolling to the active tab, and better new-window handling.
- Refined chat attachment and send controls into compact groups with clearer icons, hints, and spacing.
- Added configurable notification volume and mute controls in Preferences.
- Added light-theme artwork for the subscription banner and improved its discount-label layout.
- Moved terminal stop and interrupt controls into the main console toolbar and clarified command-running states.
- Standardized console captions and added recognizable icons for Claude, Ollama, and Gemini commands.
- Added layout presets and saved panel visibility, splitters, and tab-group placement between sessions.
Version 0.15432
February 2026- Added a built-in debugger with breakpoints, step-by-step execution, variable inspection, variable editing, source lookup, and cleaner disconnect handling.
- Added a safe project-level command allowlist that can be edited in Project Settings.
- Improved startup speed and shutdown safety.
- Improved login and session recovery, including a required-update flow for releases that cannot safely continue on an older version.
- Added WhisperX audio transcription with model, language, compute, and batch-size controls.
- Expanded speech and audio support with Whisper, IndexTTS, Stability Audio, and Zonos-related catalog options.
- Added Linux automatic updates.
- Made Find in Files faster and more responsive.
- Added GLB 3D model generation and preview workflows.
- Added Nanobanana Pro and Flash model variants.
- Added Flux 2 Klein 9B support for image generation.
- Added a confirmation warning before typed text is removed from an editor.
- Moved support and feedback controls to the status bar and improved compact-mode indicators.
- Improved code and note editors so large content blocks can expand to use the available height.
- Added a dedicated Debug panel with call stacks, variables, watches, breakpoint markers, active-line highlighting, and hover evaluation in the editor.
- Improved generation forms with aligned labels, consistent spacing, numeric sliders, selectors, and image, sound, and video inputs.
- Added drag-and-drop file input for image and sound generation fields.
- Added NEW and recommended badges plus price indicators to the model picker, with spacing adapted to different icon sizes.
- Added one-click select-all control to the changed-files tree and preserved file selections when the tree refreshes.
- Replaced the blocking knowledge-save popup with a lightweight toast notification.
- Improved status-bar compact mode with clear caret indicators and direct feedback/support controls.
- Reworked plain-text editors for smoother line-by-line scrolling and more reliable placeholders, menus, and links.
Version 0.15050
January 2026- Improved startup performance by deferring expensive updates until they are needed.
- Added a resizable chat message box with a clearer placeholder.
- Added Ctrl+W to close the active file tab and improved keyboard navigation through previous chat input.
- Selected code can now be used directly as the starting text for code search.
- Improved diff highlighting and fixed related interface errors.
- Added voice input with live transcription and corrected microphone icon behavior.
- Added automatic fallback to a working Claude Sonnet worker when no preferred model is configured.
- Template descriptions can now include inline images.
- Model details from Civitai now show tags, activation words, and important disclaimers in the selector.
- Improved dominant-color extraction for transparent images, producing cleaner and more representative palettes.
- Improved handling of images attached to chat messages.
- Fixed a crash while scanning R language files.
- Shortened overly verbose model names in chat while preserving the important model identity.
- Made the entire chat area accept drag-and-drop attachments instead of requiring a small dedicated target.
- Refined loader animations into a consistent grid indicator with optional status text and better alignment.
- Fixed clipped chat icons and inconsistent button margins in compact layouts.
- Simplified file-change rows and made diff views refresh only when shown, improving both clarity and responsiveness.
- Added previous/next file navigation inside folders and keyboard shortcuts for faster review.
- Improved editor focus behavior and external-file-change handling.
- Added an explicit Discard action for unsaved manual edits and hide it again after a successful save.