Changelog

Release notes

User-facing notes for Vortex releases, from the first closed-beta cut to the latest improvements in the agent loop.

0.2.0-beta.6 — August 29, 2026

Chat stays pinned to the live tail, and a discarded retry draft is replaced in place instead of becoming a second bubble.

Explicit upward scrolls always disengage follow; the live tail only reclaims the viewport when you are actually at the bottom.
Rejected answer drafts no longer duplicate on retry — the overlay holds the old text until the replacement stream starts, then swaps it.

Code search is now on-demand and deterministic. Chrome is slimmer, automations are first-class, and updater signatures are verified before install.

Replaced the local embedding index with parser-backed code graph search (symbols, references, outlines, callers/callees). No index warmup and no corpus to keep in sync.
Dedicated Automations panel with schedules, plus an in-place workspace editor. Mission Control and run templates are gone.
Chat shows live task progress instead of a separate todo list; planning cards and the transcript stay denser.
Workspace tree, sidebar chrome, and toasts (including the updater) are lighter and more consistent.

Release manifests now carry minisign text signatures, and the client verifies them against the trusted public key before download/install.

Updater UX polish so a beta A→B cut shows real download progress, does not flash a false restart, and keeps the update channel on Settings → About.

Download progress streams into the About UI and the install toast; the status flips to installing when the download finishes.
Restart is only treated as success after install actually started — a hung or failed invoke no longer looks like a restart.
Update channel lives on Settings → About (not General). Launch toast uses Keep / Update now and a one-line notes snippet.

First closed-beta cut for macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel).

Agentic coding platform: you describe the work; Vortex plans, edits, verifies, and ships inside your workspace.
Chat sessions, saved workspaces, and subagent inspection ship as the beta baseline.
Report a bug from the command palette (⌘K) or Settings → General. Crash reports are opt-out.

In-app updates on the Beta channel. The Stable option stays hidden until a stable feed exists.
Check, download, and install from Settings → About. The app restarts once after install.
Installing while an agent run is in progress asks before restarting.