Warp August 27, 2026 Changelog

This update is all about making Warp smoother and easier to use, especially if you rely on its AI features or use it on Windows. It introduces a brand-new way to build software with "Warp Factories," gives you clearer insights into how much your AI tools actually cost, and fixes a massive pile of bugs that used to cause crashes, frozen screens, and weird glitches.

What's new

• Warp Factories (Early Access): A brand-new feature for setting up a "software factory"—a connected environment with all the tools and automation you need to build and ship code. It's in Early Access, meaning it's ready to test but still being actively developed.

Improvements

• Cleaner shared links: When someone views a shared chat or session on the web, they won't get bombarded with annoying pop-up banners asking them to download the app or check notifications.
• Clearer team status: If a teammate's account is disabled, they now show up grayed out with a tooltip explaining why, rather than looking like they are still active.
• Simpler settings: The "Oz Cloud API Keys" settings page is now just called "API keys" to make it less confusing.
• Better multilingual typing: "IME marked text" (a way to type complex characters in languages like Chinese, Japanese, or Korean where you type parts of a word and select the final character) is now supported on Windows and Linux. It used to only work on macOS.
• Quick right-click paste: You can now set your terminal so that a simple right-click pastes text from your clipboard. If you still want the normal right-click menu, just hold Shift while right-clicking.
• No more accidental AI searches: If you type a # at the start of a line to leave a comment in your terminal, it will no longer trigger the AI Command Search.
• Real-world cost tracking: Usage screens now show a breakdown of actual dollar costs per category, right next to your "credits" (Warp's in-app currency).
• Easier pasting in blocks: There is now a "Paste" option when you right-click inside a terminal block.
• Smoother markdown viewing: When reading a Markdown file (a simple way to format text), switching between the pretty "Rendered" view and the "Raw" code view now keeps your exact scroll position.
• Visible keyboard shortcuts: When you hold down a modifier key (like Cmd or Ctrl), little keyboard shortcuts now pop up on your tabs to help you quickly switch between them.
• Smoother scrolling: Chat histories with a lot of AI blocks won't lag when you scroll through them anymore.

Fixes

• Bash plugin detection: Warp wasn't noticing shell plugins (like Starship, which customizes your terminal prompt) in Bash sessions. It now reports them correctly.
• Mismatched web icons: On the web version, the tiny icons showing keyboard shortcuts (like Shift, Command, Option) were mismatched. They are now correct.
• Windows Remote Desktop freeze: On Windows, Warp used to completely freeze if you disconnected and reconnected a Remote Desktop session. It now handles this smoothly.
• Centered pop-ups: The warning pop-ups in Team settings (like "delete team" or "remove member") used to appear at the very top or bottom of the window. They now stay centered.
• Windows PowerShell plugins: Automatic installation for command-line plugins was failing in Windows PowerShell 5.1. It now works.
• Huge memory spikes: Editing or opening very large files used to cause massive memory spikes (sometimes multiple gigabytes!) because Warp was doing too much background work at once or making unnecessary copies of the file. This is now fixed.
• Stuck AI agent runs: Sometimes, cloud-based AI agents (automated tools that run tasks for you) would get stuck showing "in progress" forever if they were interrupted or finished at the exact wrong moment. They now correctly report when they are done, failed, or cancelled.
• Ctrl-C in third-party agents: Pressing Ctrl-C to stop an attached third-party AI agent (like Claude Code) now correctly marks it as "cancelled" instead of leaving it stuck.
• Smarter command completions: Warp was suggesting the wrong arguments for many commands (like git branch, rsync, cargo fmt, or ln -s). It now understands multi-argument commands correctly and won't offer you the wrong options.
• Mangled PowerShell commands: If you used the "vi" edit mode in PowerShell, submitting commands would scramble them. Commands now submit correctly.
• Runaway Git output: Running Git history commands (like git log) in a cloud agent environment used to spam endless "cloning" text and freeze. It now behaves normally.
• Crash on non-UTF8 characters: Fixed a rare crash that happened when Warp tried to process text that didn't follow standard UTF-8 character rules.
• Accurate cost totals: The total dollar amount shown at the bottom of a chat used to look higher than the costs listed for each individual message. The math now adds up perfectly.
• Agent grep tool errors: The AI's grep tool (used to search files) used to break if a file path had a colon in it (like some Windows paths). It now handles colons correctly.
• Better server retries: If a managed MCP server (an external tool connection) had a tiny network blip, the whole AI run would fail. It now retries instead of giving up immediately.
• Hidden keyboard shortcut fixed: A hidden Alt+1 (or Ctrl+1 on Mac) shortcut for the Project Explorer couldn't be changed in settings. You can now remap or disable it.
• MCP server startup bug: Standard input/output MCP servers were failing to start on fresh runs because Warp couldn't find their file path. This is fixed.
• Missing zsh descriptions: Tab completions in zsh (a popular shell) lost their helpful descriptions when using clustered short options. They are back.
• Memory leak in config search: Rapidly changing your configuration files used to cause memory to grow endlessly because the search index kept rebuilding. It now handles rapid changes safely.
• WSL symlink autocomplete: Tab autocomplete now correctly follows "symlinks" (shortcuts to folders) in WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) sessions.
• Double cursor glitch: A finished terminal block would sometimes show a blinking cursor next to the new one. The extra cursor is gone.
• Annoying "(1)" badges: A stray "(1)" notification badge was popping up on certain settings pages during a search. It's gone.
• Cloud agent retries: Cloud agents now have a better "recovery budget" to automatically retry if their connection drops mid-task, instead of just failing.

Breaking changes

No breaking changes in this release.