Changelog

Weekly updates and changes to start.chat

Week of February 17, 2026

8a116b75d

Features

• External AI agent system with agent configuration, user identity creation, avatar/name editing, and a settings pane for managing agents
• Per-channel AI profiles with model, abilities, and system prompt configuration, plus server-level AI defaults that inherit to channels
• User type field and people sidebar filter for categorizing and filtering users
• OpenClaw plugin integration alongside SDK and API improvements
• Channel mentions now display the channel slug for clarity

Improvements

• Unified mention handling into a single messageMentionEffects module, removing scattered mention logic across the codebase
• AI code reorganized with *Ability.ts naming pattern and architecture documentation for easier iteration
• Moderation actions added directly to the members pane for server admins
• E2e tests improved with better helpers, faster execution, backend isolation, and improved reliability

Bug fixes and chores (8)

Week of February 10, 2026

bbfacc60e

Features

• Shared channels between servers with overlapping server icons in sidebar, custom shared channel header, and creation dialog
• GDPR compliance with account deletion (30-day grace period), plus privacy and terms pages
• Waitlist and private beta signup flow at /beta/signup
• Full-text docs search with cmd+k dialog, search API endpoint, and migration-based content ingestion
• Google Calendar app with OAuth-per-user integration, data schema, and temporal columns
• PostHog analytics app with webhooks and API actions
• Generic webhook receiver app for reusable third-party integrations
• Start SDK with REST queries, realtime subscriptions, typed SDK generation, and API schema whitelist
• Home page pipes section with dedicated provider
• Keyboard shortcuts system with global shortcuts, help menu, and hold-to-preview
• Tiered model system with provider fallback and ModelOrTier abstraction for AI model selection
• Tabbed browsing in Tauri desktop app via child webview system
• Custom domain auth via popup handover flow for custom domains
• SVG, HEIC, WebP, TIFF file support with preview and tauri drag/drop permissions
• Sidebar channel groups with drag-and-drop
• Moderation system with server-level moderation pane and actions
• Full-scroll dialog variant with gradient mask fades
• Auto-thread channel setting for channels that create threads per message
• Sync safeguard system with 6 safety checks gating cloud-to-filesystem writes

Improvements

• Complete task-to-pipe rename across the codebase with database migration
• Menu system refactored with unified context menu, popover menu, shared types, normalized padding, and destructive dialog support
• Homepage redesign with new scroll nav, showcase sections, responsive paragraphs, and scroll animations
• Settings panes reorganized with clean import structure for user and channel settings
• Query optimization: denormalized channel unread status, reduced message query relations, fixed N+1 in invite processing, consolidated public/server queries
• Scripts reorganization: merged 100 package.json scripts down to 63 using tko groups, standardized script structure
• Thread improvements: soft delete, clear threadId on message delete, filter deleted threads from relations
• Invite dialog reworked with better UX
• Data queries aligned with permission model, removed redundant queries
• E2e test speed and reliability improvements with shorter timeouts and parallel test files

Performance

• Gate 20+ production console.log sources behind NODE_ENV checks across notifications, presence, editor, pagination, chat, AI, and sync
• Memoize useCurrentServer, sortAttachments, recentThreads, and message highlight components
• Wrap MainMessagesListContainer in memo
• Lazy loading for attachment images
• Isolate gallery useWindowDimensions to only run when visible

Security

• Dev-only guards on sensitive endpoints
• Server membership check on search endpoint
• Auth and SSRF protection on unfurl endpoint
• Fix action name injection in runApp
• JWT expiration reduced to 1 day

Upgrades

• Tamagui upgraded
• One framework upgraded
• Bun upgraded to v1.3.9

Bug fixes and chores (65)

Week of February 3, 2026

a57e64553

Features

• Tamagui v2 migration with liquid glass homepage, zero auth, and permissions tests
• Pipedown DSL language draft with CLI, grammar, and monaco support
• Early Tauri tabbed browsing with child webviews

Improvements

• CI split into build-and-test + deploy jobs with parallel builds
• Two-phase deploy to protect postgres from WAL corruption by deploying DB and app services separately with proper stop timeouts
• Deploy health checks with restart loop detection, secure smoke test auth flow, and playwright verification
• Deploy concurrency fix, env parser fix for values with =, deploy lock with 15-min auto-expiry
• Environment loading consolidated, moved to @take-out/scripts for env generation
• Scripts rewritten to use cmd pattern
• Migration runner improvements: wait for migrate to complete before starting zero, resilient runner from @take-out/postgres
• Dev speed improvements with rolldown compatibility and vite config optimizations

Upgrades

• @take-out/* and on-zero bumped to 0.0.89
• @take-out/postgres upgraded with sanitized savepoint names
• One framework upgrade

Bug fixes and chores (18)

Week of January 27, 2026

a57e64553

Features

• Infrastructure shift from AWS/SST to Hetzner/Uncloud deployment
• Uncloud deploy pipeline with health checks and smoke tests

Improvements

• Shared deploy health helpers with restart loop detection for safer deployments
• Migration timeouts for easier debugging of hanging migrations
• Env vars simplified and centralized through package.json env defaults

Bug fixes and chores (8)

Week of January 6, 2026

561ee0c66

Upgrades

• One framework upgraded to 1.2.51
• Tamagui upgraded to 1.144.1
• Zero upgrade attempted, then reverted due to issues

Bug fixes and chores (5)