OpenCode v1.18.16 Changelog
What changed in OpenCode CLI v1.18.16, released 2026-08-10 — explained in plain English.
TLDR
- The app is now more forgiving if your settings file has extra, unrecognized text.
- Projects opened from your home screen are now properly recognized by the whole app.
- Mac users get a fix that stops the app from quitting when all windows are closed.
- You can now right-click in the Home view to quickly open the project menu.
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This update is all about making the app more stable and less frustrating to use. It matters most to people who use the desktop app—especially Mac users—and anyone who has ever been annoyed by the app crashing over a tiny typo in their settings.
What's new
- Right-click project menus: You can now right-click on a project in your Home view to open its menu. It’s a small but handy shortcut to manage your work faster.
Improvements
- Smarter local search: When you go to search for a project, the app usually asks a background server for help. If that server doesn't support search, the app is now smart enough to just search through your local folders instead, so you can still find what you need.
Fixes
- No more crashing over unknown settings: Before, if your configuration file (the text file that tells the app how to behave) had an extra, unrecognized line of text, the app would completely fail to load. Now, it just ignores the unknown stuff and opens anyway.
- Home screen projects now work everywhere: If you opened a project from the Home screen, the rest of the app used to act like it wasn't there. That link is now fixed, so the whole app recognizes your project.
- Mac app stays alive in the background: On a Mac, closing all your open windows usually means the app quits. This update fixes that behavior so the app keeps running in the background, making it much faster to pop a window back open when you need it.
- Better Chinese translation: A community contributor fixed a translation issue in Simplified Chinese. The word used for "token" (a piece of data, like an AI's word count or a security key) was changed from a confusing term to a much clearer one.
Breaking changes
No breaking changes in this release.
How to upgrade
Update to OpenCode v1.18.16 by running:
npm install -g opencode-ai
This is our plain-language summary. Read the complete, official notes on the OpenCode official changelog ↗.
