v1.0.20

🚀 Highlights

• CodeMirror 6 Diff Editor — Side-by-side diffs with syntax highlighting, collapsed unchanged regions, and search — all rendered inline in chat (#507)
• AI-Powered PR Reviews — /review slash command dispatches expert reviewers across 12 PolyPilot-specific dimensions with multi-model consensus (Opus + Sonnet + Codex) (#593, #597, #601–#603)
• Mac Catalyst on TestFlight — PolyPilot is now available for Mac App Store beta testing via TestFlight (#541–#556)

✨ New Features

• Upgrade to GitHub.Copilot.SDK v0.2.2 with background-tasks-changed tracking and filesystem handler support (#641)
• Automated NuGet dependency update agent — checks SDK, DevFlow, and CLI versions weekly and opens PRs (#616, #625, #634)
• Interactive tutorial overhaul — progress dots, keyboard nav, tip callouts, and "Continue Tour" for new users (#576)
• Build PolyPilot against a local copilot-sdk from source for SDK development (#566)
• Existing Folder workflow reuses local repo clones instead of bare clone (#527)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Reduce stuck-session recovery from 600s → ~90s after app restart via file-size staleness detection (#589)
• TurnEnd fallback now checks events.jsonl freshness — prevents premature completion during active tool execution (#619)
• ClearProcessingState increments ProcessingGeneration to prevent zombie resurrection (#612)
• Preserve IsProcessing through sibling reconnect instead of force-completing (#600)
• Preserve stale shell fingerprint across CompleteResponse to prevent 10-min delays (#574)
• Event delivery race on resume + stale worker detection after relaunch (#559)
• Phantom sessions from lazy-resume fallback eliminated (#584)
• Prevent duplicate groups via race condition in GetOrCreateGroup (#638)
• Don't promote URL-based groups to local folder groups (#648)
• Preserve group name when promoting to local folder group (#607)
• Prevent duplicate URL groups for local-only repos (#613)
• Windows worktree creation falls back gracefully instead of using temp dirs (#440)
• Mobile session menu — ⋯ button, scroll, and keyboard fixes for iOS & Android (#639)
• Fix context menus rendering behind floating sidebar toolbar (#580)
• Preserve draft text when navigating command history with arrow keys (#581)
• Add existing repo clones locally and avoid duplicate sidebar groups (#533)
• Persist provider reasoning history (#534)
• Skip provider sessions during SDK reconnect (#569)
• Wire up file picker change handler for attach button (#558)
• Route orchestrator messages through dispatch pipeline even with image attachments (#590)

🔧 Infrastructure

• Prevent stale CHANGES_REQUESTED reviews + refactor gh-aw docs into reusable skills (#635)
• Dep-update agent runs nightly with auto-merge (#624, #627–#632)
• Update Xcode requirement from 26.2 to 26.3 (#649)
• Fix relaunch.ps1 RID detection for unpackaged Windows builds (#650)
• Remove broad home-directory and temporary-exception entitlements rejected by App Store (#577, #578)
• Update GitHub Actions to Node.js 24-compatible versions (#546)
• Proper version sorting for ADO feed prerelease packages (#636)

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Full Changelog: v1.0.19...v1.0.20

Install / Update:

• macOS: brew upgrade polypilot — or download PolyPilot.zip
• Windows: PolyPilot-Windows.zip
• Android: PolyPilot-Android.apk
• Linux: .deb · .AppImage · .flatpak
• Mac (TestFlight): Now available — join the MAUI Team beta group in TestFlight 🎉

v1.0.19

🚀 Highlights

• Scheduled Tasks — Set up cron-like recurring prompts for daily stand-ups, periodic reviews, and automated checks with interval, daily, or weekly schedules (#380)
• Session Reliability Overhaul — Eliminated stuck sessions, phantom "(previous)" entries, and false-positive recovery alerts through a comprehensive 3-bug audit (#531)
• CI Fixed — Release Artifacts Are Back — Windows build has been broken since v1.0.18 (zero artifacts shipped). Fixed by excluding dev-only MauiDevFlow packages from Release builds (#532)

✨ New Features

• Scheduled tasks with cron expression support, CRUD UI, run history, and background timer (#380)
• Handle SessionBackgroundTasksChangedEvent and SystemNotificationEvent SDK events for better state tracking (#514, #523)
• Reasoning effort control — choose low/medium/high/xhigh per session (#504)
• Lightweight model switching via SDK Model.SwitchToAsync — no more session recreation (#503)
• Automatic context compaction via InfiniteSessionConfig (#501)
• Orphaned worker diagnostic scan after session restore (#521, #525)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Eliminate stuck sessions from companion-field desync — new ClearProcessingState() atomic method (#531)
• Remove phantom "(previous)" session entries after worker revival (#531)
• Unstick prompts blocked by stale shell carry-over from prior turns (#530)
• Fix reflect resume dropping orchestrator @worker dispatch after restart (#528)
• Abort stuck SDK tool state on force-complete; add reflect loop worker timeout (#526)
• Preserve sessions on name collision + treat abort as terminal (#508)
• Queue bridge prompts when session is busy (#510)
• Expire zombie subagents blocking IDLE-DEFER after 20 minutes (#511)
• Force-complete IsProcessing siblings during client recreation (#384)
• Reset IsOrphaned after lazy-resume to unblock stuck mobile sends (#522)
• Revive watchdog when events arrive but watchdog is dead (#505)
• Fix mobile CSS — safe-area, dead code, sidebar overlap, input layout (#498, #500)
• Queue bridge prompts during session restore (#488)
• Re-check PR badge when session becomes active (#469)
• Prevent Maintenance Sleep to keep WebSocket bridge alive (#512)

📝 Documentation

• Agent implementation guidelines from PR review lessons — explore first, avoid companion-pair state, prefer behavioral tests (#524)
• SDK-first migration guidance added to orchestration and processing-state skills (#486)
• Audit and update stale SDK claims in copilot-instructions.md (#497)
• Update skill docs with dead event recovery and timestamp conventions (#515)

🔧 Infrastructure

• Exclude MauiDevFlow from Release builds — fixes Windows CI and reduces production bundle size (#532)
• Structural guard for SavePendingOrchestration ordering (#520)
• Revalidate PR number when opening prompt picker (#506)
• Sidebar floating controls and DiffParser improvements (#485)

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Full Changelog: v1.0.18...v1.0.19

Install / Update:

• macOS: brew upgrade polypilot — or download PolyPilot.zip
• Windows: PolyPilot-Windows.zip
• Android: PolyPilot-Android.apk
• Linux: .deb · .AppImage · .flatpak

v1.0.18

Changes

• Bump GitHub.Copilot.SDK 0.2.0 → 0.2.1
• Migrate MauiDevFlow from Redth.* to Microsoft.Maui.DevFlow.* (dotnet/maui-labs)
• Update CLI tool from redth.mauidevflow.cli to microsoft.maui.cli (maui devflow)
• Update all skill docs and command references
• Bump Markdig 1.1.1 → 1.1.2, QRCoder 1.6.0 → 1.7.0, ZXing.Net.Maui.Controls 0.4.0 → 0.7.4

v1.0.17

🚀 Highlights

• No more macOS Keychain password prompts — Fixes the recurring "allow copilot-cli" dialogs that interrupted every 1-2 hours on macOS (#462, #463)
• 1M Context model selection works — Selecting "Claude Opus 4.6 (1M Context)" from the dropdown now correctly applies the model (#457)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix recurring macOS Keychain password prompts on server recovery — TryRecoverPersistentServerAsync no longer clears the cached auth token (#462)
• Fix transient auth failures triggering Keychain reads — set sentinel on successful auth so the lazy resolution path doesn't re-fire (#463)
• Fix model selection for 1M Context variant — NormalizeToSlug now handles multi-parenthetical display names like "Claude Opus 4.6 (1M Context)(Internal Only)" (#457)

📝 Documentation

• Add release-notes skill for curated changelogs and README updates (#458)
• Add social/announcement post generation to release-notes skill (#461)

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Full Changelog: v1.0.16...v1.0.17

Install / Update:

• macOS: brew upgrade polypilot — or download PolyPilot.zip
• Windows: PolyPilot-Windows.zip
• Android: PolyPilot-Android.apk
• Linux: .deb · .AppImage · .flatpak

v1.0.16

🐛 Bug Fix

• Fix hourly Keychain password prompts — Lazy-load Keychain reads so macOS stops asking for your login password every hour after auth token storage was introduced in v1.0.15 (#456)

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Full Changelog: v1.0.15...v1.0.16

Install / Update:

• macOS: brew upgrade polypilot — or download PolyPilot.zip
• Windows: PolyPilot-Windows.zip
• Android: PolyPilot-Android.apk
• Linux: .deb · .AppImage · .flatpak

v1.0.15

🚀 Highlights

• Fiesta Mode — Multi-Machine Orchestration — Discover other PolyPilot instances on your LAN, pair with a compact string or push-to-pair button, and dispatch work across machines via @mention routing (#322)
• Mixed-Model PR Review Squad — Redesigned preset with 5 Opus workers, each internally dispatching 3 parallel sub-agent reviews (Opus, Sonnet, Codex) and synthesizing 2-of-3 consensus reports (#451)
• CLI Subagent Visibility — See when Copilot's built-in agents (code-review, security-review) activate, plus a new /agent command to list, select, and deselect agents (#445)

✨ New Features

• Surface auth errors with actionable guidance — no more opaque "session was not created with authentication info" messages (#446)
• Add mobile sync button with diagnostic logging for remote mode (#438)
• Expose GPT-5.4 model and recover restored session models from event logs (#448)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix mobile streaming: content now renders in real time instead of requiring manual sync (#447, #449)
• Fix cleared input fields re-filling with stale draft text on re-render (#435)
• Fix orchestrator over-dispatching all 5 workers for single-task prompts (#429)
• Fix multi-agent group creation from mobile in remote mode (#437)
• Forward full system environment to CLI child process — fixes missing PATH on Windows (#439)
• Force sync now bypasses streaming guard for active sessions (#444)
• Use .git/info/exclude instead of .gitignore for worktree exclusions — no more dirty working tree (#434)
• Remove RESUME-ABORT: sessions are no longer killed on app restart (#452)

🔧 Infrastructure

• Fix structural tests to find call sites instead of method definitions (#453)
• Fix flaky ProcessHelper test catching leaked exceptions from other tests (#454)

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Full Changelog: v1.0.14...v1.0.15

Install / Update:

• macOS: brew upgrade polypilot — or download PolyPilot.zip
• Windows: PolyPilot-Windows.zip
• Android: PolyPilot-Android.apk
• Linux: .deb · .AppImage · .flatpak

v1.0.14

What's Changed

• fix: improve mobile history sync during active turns by @PureWeen in #430
• fix: Homebrew install can't find bundled copilot CLI + enable diagnostics in Release by @PureWeen in #433

Full Changelog: v1.0.13...v1.0.14

v1.0.13

What's Changed

• fix: detect dead connections in watchdog Case B via file size growth check by @PureWeen in #426
• feat: Manual Focus ordering + Mac sleep/wake resilience by @PureWeen in #415
• fix: improve error diagnostics, log exposure, and session error display (issues #420, #424, #425) by @PureWeen in #427

Full Changelog: v1.0.12...v1.0.13

v1.0.12

What's Changed

• Improve bridge startup reliability and token validation by @PureWeen in #341
• fix: handle stale CLI process error during worker session resume by @PureWeen in #374
• fix: restore Direct Sharing persistence on Mac Catalyst by @PureWeen in #377
• fix: flush active-sessions.json after restore to persist recreated session IDs by @PureWeen in #378
• Fix session history loss on restart: detect session ID mismatch and find best events source by @PureWeen in #382
• Strengthen multi-agent skills, Fix flow, and stability tests by @PureWeen in #375
• fix: abort interrupted tools on session resume + Settings cleanup by @PureWeen in #393
• fix: auto-recover persistent server when auth token expires causing all sessions to hang by @jfversluis in #390
• Sort repository dropdown by most recently used by @StephaneDelcroix in #394
• Fix multi-agent worker failures, session persistence, server health, and history recovery by @PureWeen in #391
• Fix premature idle: check BackgroundTasks before completing by @PureWeen in #399
• Add orchestration completion notification and visible indicator by @PureWeen in #401
• Add keepalive ping to prevent server idle timeout (#396) by @PureWeen in #402
• Add MCP server error detection, auto-recovery, and /mcp reload command by @Copilot in #381
• feat: External session monitoring & dashboard UX improvements by @PureWeen in #370
• Fix ExternalSessionScanner cache thread safety by @PureWeen in #407
• fix: throttle sibling re-resume + faster dead-event-stream detection (#406) by @PureWeen in #409
• Fix inconsistent repo picker: use dropdown in both new session and multi-agent flows by @StephaneDelcroix in #404
• Fix iOS TestFlight build: remove hardcoded signing identity, clean up plist injection by @jfversluis in #411
• fix: comprehensive self-healing for multi-agent groups lost on restart by @PureWeen in #412
• fix: set FullyIsolated worktree strategy for Implement & Challenge and Skill Validator presets by @PureWeen in #410
• feat: Add existing folder as repository by @PureWeen in #405
• Dashboard session management: Focus strip, enriched cards, and grid controls by @PureWeen in #413
• fix: add missing iOS privacy purpose strings (ITMS-90683) by @PureWeen in #414
• fix: distinguish session lock vs SDK errors in resume handling by @PureWeen in #417
• fix: migrate stranded sessions when URL group is promoted to local folder by @PureWeen in #419
• chore: update all NuGet packages to latest versions by @PureWeen in #418
• fix: make 'Service not initialized' retryable in worker dispatch by @PureWeen in #422
• fix: eliminate false-positive premature idle detection that delayed multi-agent synthesis by ~16s by @PureWeen in #421
• fix: improve mobile streaming sync by debouncing server broadcasts by @PureWeen in #423

Full Changelog: v1.0.11...v1.0.12

v1.0.11

What's Changed

• fix: standardize typography system with semantic CSS variables by @bsakel in #363
• fix: break positive feedback loop for sessions stuck with large history by @PureWeen in #354
• fix: prevent duplicate instance on notification tap (Mac Catalyst) by @StephaneDelcroix in #369
• fix: Add tool-honesty instructions to prevent workers from fabricating results by @PureWeen in #371
• fix: session stability hardening by @PureWeen in #373

New Contributors

• @bsakel made their first contribution in #363

Full Changelog: v1.0.10...v1.0.11