Kilo Code v7.3.50 Changelog

This update is all about making the AI assistant feel more connected and easier to manage. It matters especially to developers who are juggling multiple AI coding tasks at once, giving them better ways to organize their work, understand what the AI changed, and bring their old projects over from other tools.

What's new

• Import from Roo Code: Added a button in the "About" settings to easily bring in your past conversation history from another tool called Roo Code.
• Attention Sounds: You can now turn on sound alerts that notify you when an AI task finishes, hits an error, or needs you to answer a question.
• Better Custom Providers: If you connect your own AI providers (the services that power the AI), you can now use advanced features like adaptive thinking and different levels of output effort.
• Agent Manager Upgrades: You can now search and switch between local sessions and "worktrees" (isolated folders for different features) right from the sidebar. You can also right-click a tab to close others, or press Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+R to quickly open a pull request tied to your work.
• Image Diffs: When the AI changes an image file, you can now actually see those changes in the comparison view and open them using VS Code's normal image previewer.
• Quick Switch Links: Added support for special links in VS Code that instantly switch you to a specific Kilo AI model or agent.
• Privacy Filter: Added a setting to hide AI models that might use your prompts for training, keeping your data more private.

Improvements

• Wider Chat: The chat area is now wider, letting conversations and code changes use more of your screen space so they are easier to read.
• Better Code Highlights: When looking at code changes, the exact characters that were changed are now highlighted, making it much easier to see what the AI actually did.
• Clearer Errors: If you hit a rate limit (meaning you're sending requests too fast), the chat now shows a clear, retryable error message instead of confusing computer code.
• Faster Hover Cards: The little info boxes that pop up when you hover over worktrees in the Agent Manager now appear and disappear much faster.
• Screen Reader Support: Improved how the model picker menu works with screen readers, making the tool more accessible.
• Easier Codebase Indexing: If you're using a local, unsecured AI setup to scan your codebase, you no longer need to enter a fake password just to make it work.

Fixes

• Frozen Screen: Fixed a bug where multiple background tasks updating at the same time would make the Agent Manager screen go completely blank.
• Broken Chat After Rewinding: Fixed an issue where using the "rewind" button to go back to an older chat message and resubmitting it would cause the chat output to stop updating entirely.
• Hidden Redo Button: Fixed a problem where rewinding a session would accidentally hide the "Redo" button behind old error messages.
• Startup Crashes: The Agent Manager will no longer fail to start just because another VS Code extension already registered similar panel commands.
• Messy Code Comparisons: Fixed a bug where highlighting changed code would accidentally mess up the names of variables. Also removed weird rounded corners that appeared between files in the diff viewer.
• Typing Bug: Fixed an issue where pressing Enter while using an IME (a tool for typing languages with complex characters) would accidentally submit your text before you were finished.
• Migration Bug: Fixed an issue when moving old bash (command line) permissions over by properly handling text-based permission values.

Breaking changes

No breaking changes in this release.