Factory Droid v0.167.0 Changelog

This release is all about speed and smoothness. It’s a great update for anyone who uses the app daily, especially if you’re on Windows or Linux, because it fixes several frustrating glitches while making the whole program launch and search much faster.

What's new

• Port-forwarding for droid computers: There’s a new command that lets you take a network port (a specific channel data uses to travel) from a remote "droid computer" and connect it directly to your own computer. This makes it much easier to test or interact with remote software as if it were running right on your machine.

Improvements

• Faster app startup: The app now runs its startup steps at the same time (in parallel) instead of one by one, so it opens and becomes usable much quicker.
• Faster session search: Searching through your past sessions is quicker and gives you better, more relevant results.
• Full-screen help: The help menu now opens over your whole screen. You can easily close it by pressing the ? or Esc key.
• Cleaner slash menu: When you type a / to see command options, the filtered results are organized into clearer categories.
• Cleaner model names: The names of the AI models you can choose from are displayed much more clearly everywhere in the app.
• Cleaner chat transcript: The app no longer clutters your chat with background "tool lookups" (the steps the AI takes to search for information), so you only see what matters.
• Update rollback: If a new update breaks something, the app can now automatically roll back to the previous, working version.

Fixes

• Image paste on Windows: Fixed an issue where pasting images into the text box wouldn't work on Windows.
• Safe exit during updates: You can now safely close the app while an update is downloading in the background without corrupting anything.
• SessionStart hooks: Fixed a bug where a "hook" (a custom script that runs when you start a session) would freeze and stop the session from loading.
• Completion sound: Brought back the sound that plays when a task finishes.
• Windows home directory: Fixed a bug that broke things for Windows users with special characters (like accents) in their usernames.
• Draft attachments: Fixed a glitch where files you attached to a draft would disappear when the screen refreshed.
• Sandboxed hooks: Fixed custom scripts so they run correctly inside the "sandbox" (a secure, isolated area meant to keep things safe).
• Detailed transcript freeze: Capped the amount of detailed background data shown in the transcript view so it no longer freezes up when you press Ctrl+O.
• New session shortcut: The keyboard shortcut to start a new session now works correctly even if you are holding the Shift key.
• Truncated sessions: Fixed how the app handles context (the memory of the conversation) when a session gets too long and has to be shortened.
• Linux clipboard: On Linux, copying and pasting text now defaults to Wayland (a modern system for managing windows and clipboards) instead of older systems.
• Special characters: Fixed a bug where typing letters like å, Å, or ´ accidentally triggered keyboard shortcuts.
• Unavailable tools: If the AI tries to use a tool that isn't available, it now clearly shows up as an error instead of failing silently.
• Highlighted code: Fixed a bug where the color highlighting on code blocks would get lost.
• Airgap mode: Made "airgap mode" (a highly secure setting where the app has no internet connection) more reliable.

Breaking changes

No breaking changes in this release.