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Version 1.6.2

Finch 1.6.2

A full-window session header with breadcrumbs, quick text quoting, and built-in Mermaid rendering; parallel mini program activation and MCP Resources/Prompts support, Linux desktop integration with GPT-6 Astra, plus more stable usage persistence and SQLite-backed storage.

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1.6.2 Changelog

New

Sessions & interaction

  • Full-window session header: overview, mini program panel, and session menu move into the title bar.
  • Session breadcrumbs: the top level is a scope dropdown that jumps straight to a new conversation or recent sessions.
  • Quick text quoting: select text inside a timeline reply to create a quote snippet, with hover preview and more accurate scroll positioning.
  • Built-in Mermaid rendering: diagrams support fullscreen zoom and panning, with an on-demand engine that cuts the main bundle from 1199 kB to 572 kB.
  • Fullscreen table view: dialogs keep uniform safe margins on all four sides instead of overlapping system buttons.
  • Panel-tab context menu: supports Close, Close Others, and Close to the Right.

Mini programs & extensions

  • Parallel capability activation: mini programs start in parallel according to manifest capability dependencies for faster launches.
  • Session Turn cancellation: mini programs gain a Session Turn cancellation API.
  • Per-item AgentEvent authorization: full event permissions are double-checked against both manifest and persisted grants; newly added permissions are highlighted on update.
  • MCP Resources & Prompts: the MCP client adds resource and prompt capability integration.
  • Stable MCP configuration: config and business secrets move to a stable data directory and survive install-source switching.
  • Canvas capability: adds a display-change event API and rounds out the game Canvas runtime.
  • AppView breadcrumbs: preview/Diff return to the navigation stack, with page-owned breadcrumbs capped at depth 5.
  • File picker: the Space switcher joins the search/sort row for smoother operation.

Platform & models

  • Linux desktop integration: windows use a Finch-logo title bar, support Wayland, fall back automatically without a compositor, and gain an rpm packaging target.
  • New model: GPT-6 Astra is available.
  • Settings entry: Settings becomes its own sidebar button; the About page links straight to Settings and adds a "Learn more" link.

Under the hood & stability

  • Persistent usage stats: model usage is written to a local cache and stays compatible across version rollbacks.
  • SQLite migration: Space and session state move into SQLite storage for more stable history restoration.

Improvements

  • Faster startup: workspace and model startup states are fetched in parallel with module loading.
  • Renderer architecture refactor: reworks Renderer layering and long-session runtime resource ownership.
  • Structured logging: fills in main-process log coverage for easier diagnosis.

Fixes

Follow-ups & compression

  • Fixes interrupted follow-ups leaving old tasks running and stale round content behind.
  • Fixes summary loss during repeated compression of very large contexts and duplicate reruns of manual and automatic compression.
  • Fixes missing auto-compression when the context exceeds the limit and leftover state after compression failures.
  • Fixes compression reruns mistaking cross-session reference material for a task to execute.

Background tasks & notifications

  • Fixes background task results appearing after the wrong message.
  • Fixes background notifications delivered across the wrong workspace, lost on reconnect, and per-message reply triggers.

Sessions & messages

  • Fixes the UI not updating dynamically after switching the session language.
  • Fixes new sessions stuck on skeleton loading and scrambled history-edit positioning and appends.
  • Fixes blank Timeline restoration, lost progressive rendering, and trailing blank space after images load.
  • Fixes anomalous LaTeX formula delimiter rendering.
  • Fixes uncleared input after skipping an interaction and leftover answers after switching sessions.

UI & platforms

  • Fixes stacked dialogs where Escape closed the wrong underlying dialog and inner dialogs were obscured; text areas now fill their container by default.
  • Fixes Windows/Linux session layout and title-bar drag regions covering control buttons.
  • Fixes sub-pixel gaps between diff lines and missing timeline dialog animations.

Models & accounts

  • Corrects oversized GPT context-window configuration and misleading Kimi quota-exhaustion messaging.
  • Fixes Finch Cloud usage grouping, vision capability, and address concatenation.

Mini programs & MCP

  • Fixes mini program pages missing a cwd fallback and being unrecoverable when the directory name and identifier mismatch.
  • Fixes MCP tool-list truncation, state cross-contamination with the mini program list, and missing reactivation after recovery.
  • Fixes today's usage not refreshing after reopening and reconnect/overload copy covering run status.