Changelog

New updates and improvements to hob.

v1.3.0

Release 1.3.0

hob 1.3.0 includes the updates listed below.

Added

  • Added first-class issue panes with GitHub-style issue views, threaded comments, and attachment image support
  • Added Send to agent actions for issue panes, with per-backend routing choices
  • Added an agent technical details modal with copy controls for inspecting session and backend state
  • Added keyboard navigation across Home, Changes, Workflows, Saved, Settings, History, and titlebar popups
  • Added account default controls at both global and project scope
  • Added headless-mode local docs and refreshed the bundled docs snapshot

Changed

  • Polished backend account settings, variant labels, login-state detection, and default indicators
  • Reworked file and folder pickers to use the normal modal stack with native-picker backdrops
  • Updated workspace and tool-panel hotkeys to avoid browser-reserved shortcuts
  • Improved agent mention path search, pasted-text expansion, and pane overflow actions
  • Improved Home workspace navigation, active-workspace visibility, and new-workspace access

Fixed

  • Fixed pane resurrection by closing panes atomically with their grid sync
  • Fixed repeated git credential toasts
  • Fixed trash badge counts and local issue tab counts
  • Fixed Home middle-click paste behavior
  • Fixed duplicate headless launches and aligned headless startup restore behavior
  • Fixed source-control header spacing and commit-history keyboard navigation
  • Fixed account login state checks to use credential-file presence instead of identity matching
v1.2.0

Release 1.2.0

hob 1.2.0 includes the updates listed below.

Added

  • Added DB-backed agent conversation search with quoted phrases, `|` and `&` operators, relevance ranking, and CLI access
  • Added backend accounts so multiple subscriptions or config directories can use one conversation corpus
  • Added saved workspaces with capture, edit, restore, folders, trash support, and bulk actions
  • Added bidirectional handoff artifacts for carrying context between agent workflows
  • Added pasted-text pills with themed previews for large pasted content
  • Added multi-select and bulk import to the conversation import flow

Changed

  • Renamed workspace snapshots to saved workspaces and reworked the Saved panel around folders, selection mode, and subtab hotkeys
  • Unified backend profiles, variants, and accounts into one account picker model with keyboard support
  • Improved pane drag previews, drop overlays, tab color behavior, and pane menu polish
  • Improved terminal history recall so ArrowUp starts from the last command and predicts likely successors
  • Improved search snippets, highlighting, cancellation, and non-blocking query behavior across activity and conversation search

Fixed

  • Fixed live panes vanishing from stale workspace snapshots
  • Fixed fresh agent handoff state, handoff draft initialization, and restored-pane resume marker anchoring
  • Fixed workflow stop races that could let child processes outlive cancellation
  • Fixed terminal session, project manager, and app test-suite data races
  • Fixed sticky scroll drift, restored pane focus after picker dismissal, and cursor handling around pasted-text pills
  • Fixed pane-drag-to-add freezes caused by non-string workspace timestamps
  • Fixed import list scroll performance under streaming contention and made conversation import once-only
v1.1.1

Release 1.1.1

hob 1.1.1 includes the updates listed below.

Fixed

  • Fixed agent panes on custom backend profiles incorrectly showing "Backend unavailable." with input disabled, even when the profile's CLI resolves correctly
v1.1.0

Release 1.1.0

hob 1.1.0 includes the updates listed below.

Added

  • Added bundled local docs for agents, including quickstart, customization, and core feature guides
  • Added a centralized backend model registry with Claude Sonnet 5 support
  • Added onboarding checks that detect unsupported or unauthenticated agent CLIs
  • Added a Windows shortcut for opening a new hob window

Changed

  • Preserved custom backend profiles in agent panes and improved custom config directory setup
  • Refreshed the bundled quickstart docs and managed agent instructions
  • Deferred non-critical project loads during project switches for faster workspace changes
  • Improved streamed markdown rendering and agent pane scroll performance

Fixed

  • Fixed workflows panel blinking twice during project switches
  • Fixed stale attention targets when replacing panes in place
  • Fixed Linux dock new-window behavior
  • Fixed macOS development codesigning so TCC permissions persist
  • Fixed several CLI context, help text, and command behavior edge cases
v1.0.1

Onboarding polish

A focused follow-up release that sharpens first-run onboarding, restores scheduled git refreshes, and hardens roam relay enrollment.

Added

  • Agent-instructions onboarding step

Changed

  • Updated onboarding theme previews, the no-project launcher, and onboarding settings call to action
  • Hid the titlebar during onboarding
  • Refined the agent-instructions onboarding step
  • Restored scheduled git fetches

Fixed

  • Hardened roam relay enrollment handling
v1.0.0

General availability

hob is now generally available: an agent-first workspace for coding with tiled agent sessions, terminals, file viewers, source control, roam access, and signed desktop updates.

Added

  • Agent panes for Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode
  • Terminal panes with block mode and command history
  • Render panes for code, images, diffs, and markdown
  • Tiled workspaces for arranging agent sessions, terminals, and reference material
  • Source Control with branch controls, commit graph views, stashes, and per-repo change stats
  • Local issues, workflows, activity, stats, bookmarks, and saved items panels
  • Remote IDE and roam access for browser and mobile workflows
  • Signed self-updates for macOS, Windows, and Linux

Changed

  • Centered the app around panes and workspaces instead of a file-first layout
  • Polished onboarding, titlebar, project switching, keyboard shortcuts, and command surfaces for launch
  • Improved source control, terminal, agent transcript, and issue workflows across the desktop and roam interfaces

Fixed

  • Stabilized pane restore, terminal restore, git refreshes, license migration, and startup behavior for the launch release
  • Fixed platform-specific polish across macOS, Windows, Linux, WebKitGTK, and roam