What's New

Lody Release Notes 2026-04-17 ​

🧠 Claude Opus 4.7 Support ​

👥 Safer Team Collaboration ​

• New team machine visibility controls: your machines are fully private by default to other members — joining someone else's Workspace no longer means worrying that your own dev machine gets exposed or used
• Explicitly share a machine with the team from Settings; un-shared machines never appear in other members' machine lists, and conversations on them never reach other members' sidebars
• "Joining someone's Workspace" and "using your own machines" are now fully decoupled — invite teammates without second-guessing

🔐 Sign In on Any Machine With One Command ​

• Non-interactive CLI auth: lody login --auth <api-key> connects on any machine, or lody start --auth <api-key> to log in and start in one step
• Electron desktop adds an account settings panel to generate and copy a CLI API key

🆕 Full Access Mode ​

• New Lody Full Access mode auto-approves permission requests for agents without a native full-access mode (e.g. Kimi, OpenCode)

🤖 More Agent Integrations ​

• Better integration with OpenCode and Kimi
• Fixed parsing and display of Kimi terminal, file read, and edit notifications in history

📱 Mobile Experience ​

• Reworked soft-keyboard handling: the keyboard no longer pushes the whole UI up — only the input area floats, with a smooth transition
• Mobile keyboards show a "Send" key on chat inputs that submits the message
• Fixed iOS Safari clipping bottom controls, mobile PWA bottom safe-area, toast safe-area, and invite page safe-area

🚀 Performance & Startup ​

• Eliminated the white screen at startup for returning users; UI no longer blocked by network queries
• Long-conversation search indexing is now lazy + incremental — no more jank when a conversation ends
• Sync service caching added to reduce cold-start cost

🌐 Browser Compatibility ​

• Expanded support to Safari 14+ / Chrome 80+ / Firefox 78+; older browsers no longer white-screen due to regex or ESM loading failures

🛠️ Other Fixes ​

• Fixed Docker containers reusing the host machine ID causing event stream conflicts
• Worktree creation now reuses the selected non-default branch
• Desktop opens the GitHub install link in the external browser
• Fixed workspace 404 when signing in again on Electron
• Session sidebar toggle aligned with the header
• Improved Switch toggle contrast across VS Code themes

Lody Release Notes 2026-04-13 ​

Breaking Changes and Migration ​

• After updating, you may need to sign in again.
• If you are using GitHub WorkTree, the machine running the Agent must be configured with your GitHub identity (via gh auth); otherwise, we will default to using the lody identity to create the Pull Request.
• Lody has switched to a new sync engine and data structure. Old workspaces will no longer be available, so you need to create a new workspace to use Lody.
• Lody no longer requests users' GitHub personal identity permissions. As a result, we no longer provide the ability for the same GitHub repository to be authorized once and shared across multiple workspaces. A repository is now associated with only one workspace.

✨ Multi-Tab Sessions ​

You can now open multiple conversation tabs and file viewers within a single session. Like VSCode's tab bar, you can chat with the Agent on the left while viewing files and diffs on the right without interrupting either side. Child tabs inherit the parent's working directory, with drag-to-reorder and rename support.

💬 Line-Level Diff Comments ​

You can now add comments directly in the diff viewer. Supports Markdown, threaded replies, marking threads as resolved, sync to GitHub, and one-click send to the conversation window.

🎨 UI Improvements & VSCode Theme Support ​

• Added VSCode Theme compatibility, with several excellent open-source themes integrated out of the box (Vitesse, Gruvbox Material, Tokyo Night, One Dark Pro, and more). Huge thanks to the open-source authors for their amazing work!

• Improved Markdown rendering and diff loading experience

• Search within the conversation

🖥️ Daemon Mode ​

The CLI now supports Daemon mode, keeping Lody running in the background with automatic restart:

lody daemon start     # Start the background daemon
lody daemon status    # Check status
lody daemon logs      # View logs
lody daemon stop      # Stop the daemon

🔗 GitHub Integration Improvements ​

• PR CI check status syncs in real time to the session UI, so you do not need to switch to GitHub to see build results
• PR-linked sessions support automatic commit and push

🌐 Sync & Stability ​

• Replaced the sync engine for improved reliability
• cgroup-aware CLI resource limits to prevent lockups in Linux container environments
• ACP idle timeout reduced to 30 minutes to save resources
• Automatic session memory pressure eviction

🛠️ Fixes and Improvements ​

• Added Google, Apple, and Discord third-party login.
• Fixed diff loading and sync issues
• Fixed GitHub auth token refresh timing
• Fixed Safari < 16.4 boot crash
• Fixed various mobile UI layout issues
• Reduced CLI log noise and disk usage
• Sessions use prompt prefix as initial title instead of "Untitled"

New Features and Capabilities ​

• Added a new lody export CLI command to export session data, including JSON, Markdown, attachments, and usage stats. We're switching to a new sync backend next week, and older historical data will not be compatible, so export anything you want to keep in advance
• Added support for custom title-generation models for all ACP Agents
• Permission request banners now stay pinned above the input box while a session is waiting for approval, so they do not get lost when you scroll
• The machine picker is now separate from the Agent Config dropdown, making it easier to choose a machine on its own
• Clicking a file path in chat now correctly opens the full file

Platform and UI Experience ​

• Session configuration buttons no longer get squeezed or clipped on narrow screens
• On mobile, the bottom area of the chat input now wraps properly instead of crushing the buttons together
• Usage charts and stat cards on mobile now fit small screens without horizontal overflow
• Added an experimental fix for unexpected input scrolling when using an external keyboard in iOS PWAs

Fixes and Stability ​

• ACP errors now show the specific underlying reason
• Fixed desktop authentication failures on Linux environments outside GNOME, including Sway, Hyprland, and Niri, by automatically detecting the available keyring backend
• Fixed worktree creation failures for empty remote repositories
• Fixed CPU stalls caused by too many concurrent git show operations when large numbers of files changed
• Fixed stale Issue and PR metadata being reused when # mentions failed to refresh the cache

New Features and Capabilities ​

• Added slash command support in the chat input. Type / to browse and insert commands exposed by the Agent, such as review, compact, and undo
• Agent configuration options are now loaded dynamically, with support for displaying all available modes and model options. After upgrading, refresh the options on the Agent Config page

Fixes and Stability ​

• Fixed a blank-screen issue when entering an email address in the Windows desktop app
• Fixed an issue where expired local CLI server connections could not recover