OpenHands v1.7.0 Changelog

This update is all about making the OpenHands AI platform easier to use and more powerful. It matters to developers and tinkerers who use OpenHands to build software, giving them better visual cues, faster performance for heavy tasks, and stronger security behind the scenes.

What's new

• See your AI model at a glance: The app now shows the name of the AI model (the "brain" you are talking to) right on the conversation cards and at the top of the screen, so you always know which one is doing the thinking.
• Faster virtual machines: There is a new setting (SANDBOX_KVM_ENABLED) that lets the app run virtual computers inside its secure sandbox much faster. It does this by using your computer's actual hardware instead of pretending to run them, which can be slow.
• Easier tool settings: The app now exposes its "SDK settings schema." This is basically a map that helps developers understand exactly what options they can tweak when writing code to connect their own tools to OpenHands.

Improvements

• Better organization for search tools: The settings for the Tavily search tool (which lets the AI look things up on the web) have been moved into the MCP settings area. MCP (Model Context Protocol) is just the system the app uses to connect outside tools to the AI, so it makes sense to keep all those settings in one place.

Fixes

• Security updates: The team fixed several CVEs. A CVE is a publicly known security flaw in software. By updating the app's behind-the-scenes code, they patched these holes to keep your system safe from attackers.
• UI fixes: They squashed several bugs in the user interface (the buttons, menus, and screens you actually click on) to make the app look and feel smoother.

Breaking changes

No breaking changes in this release.