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name: Release notes
slug: release-notes
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source_url: https://docs.factory.ai/changelog/release-notes
organization: Factory
organization_slug: factory
total_releases: 14
latest_date: 2026-06-02
last_updated: 2026-06-03
tracking_since: 2026-05-13
canonical: https://releases.sh/factory/release-notes
organization_url: https://releases.sh/factory
---

<Release date="June 2, 2026" published="2026-06-02T16:48:27.000Z" url="https://docs.factory.ai/changelog/release-notes#june-1">
## CLI Updates

`v0.138.0`

## New features

- **Interactive MCP management** - Add, remove, and list MCP servers interactively
- **MCP credential variables** - MCP server configs can now expand credential variables at runtime
- **Configurable MCP call timeout** - Set a custom timeout for MCP tool calls
- **`mcp off` shortcut** - Quickly disable MCP servers with a new shortcut
- **MCP servers for custom droids** - Choose which MCP servers are available to custom droids
- **Per-server MCP risk** - Configure command risk levels for each MCP server
- **Mermaid export** - Export Mermaid diagrams from chat (app)

## Improvements

- **Highlighted new models** - New models now appear highlighted at the top of `/models`
- **MCP embedded resources** - MCP servers' embedded resources are now surfaced in chat
- **Composer loading state** - The message composer now shows a loading state (app)
- **Session archiving** - Unified the session archive flow across the app and desktop (app)
- **Pinned messages** - Clicking a pinned message now scrolls to its source (app)

## Bug fixes

- **Turn cancellation** - Canceling a turn now takes effect immediately
- **Session rename** - Renamed session titles are now trimmed of extra whitespace (app)
</Release>

<Release date="June 1, 2026" published="2026-06-01T17:10:54.000Z" url="https://docs.factory.ai/changelog/release-notes#may-28">
## CLI Updates

`v0.136.0`

## New features

- **Deep review skill** - New `/deep-review` skill for a more thorough, multi-pass code review
- **Side questions in the app** - The `/btw` side questions panel is now available in the app (app)
- **Auto-compression toggle** - Turn automatic session compression on or off to manage long sessions
- **Configurable compression model** - Choose which model handles automatic session compression

## Improvements

- **Org details in `/status`** - The `/status` command now shows your organization details
- **Standardized hooks config path** - Hooks configuration now uses a standardized file path with automatic migration
- **Faster large pastes** - Sped up pasting large amounts of text
- **Tool summary hover affordance** - Tool summaries now show a hover affordance for available actions (app)

## Bug fixes

- **Autoscroll fixes** - Fixed several autoscroll issues in the session view (app)
- **Reasoning-only turns** - Fixed sessions stalling when the assistant returned only reasoning
- **DeepSeek tool calls** - Improved reliability of multi-step tool calls when using DeepSeek models
</Release>

<Release date="June 1, 2026" published="2026-06-01T17:01:35.000Z" url="https://docs.factory.ai/changelog/release-notes#may-27">
## CLI Updates

`v0.135.0`

## New features

- **Adaptive terminal theme** - The CLI now auto-detects your terminal background and picks a matching theme

## Improvements

- **Agent-browser update** - Updated the bundled `agent-browser` skill to a newer release with better automation reliability
- **Subagent type badges** - Subagent type badges in `TaskOutput` now render in PascalCase for easier reading

## Bug fixes

- **Message draft attachments** - Message draft attachments are now preserved when switching contexts (app)
- **Session activity indicator** - Improved the activity indicator in the session panel (app)
- **Enterprise Controls forms** - Empty arrays and records are no longer written when saving Enterprise Controls (app)
- **Enterprise Controls layout** - Aligned control heights across Enterprise Controls forms (app)
</Release>

<Release date="May 31, 2026" published="2026-05-31T08:15:15.000Z" url="https://docs.factory.ai/changelog/release-notes#may-29">
## CLI Updates

`v0.137.0`

## New features

- **Airgapped BYOK** - New `FACTORY_AIRGAP_ENABLED` option lets you bypass Factory auth when using your own model keys

## Bug fixes

- **Duplicate thinking output** - Thinking output no longer renders twice
- **MCP permission persistence** - MCP permissions now persist across all confirmation paths
- **Context usage meter** - Fixed alignment of the context usage meter
</Release>

<Release date="May 29, 2026" published="2026-05-29T18:40:24.000Z" url="https://docs.factory.ai/changelog/release-notes#may-26">
## CLI Updates

`v0.134.0`

## Improvements

- **Figma helper skill** - The built-in Figma skill has been renamed from `figma-mcp-promotion` to `figma-mcp-helper`
- **System-managed settings** - System-managed settings are now loaded from standard platform paths

## Bug fixes

- **File tool rendering** - File tool inputs now wait for streaming to complete before rendering to avoid showing partial data
- **Slash command suggestions** - Slash command suggestion rows now keep a consistent height
- **Pending command approvals** - Capped the number of pending command approvals shown at once
- **New session sidebar animation** - Smoothed the animation when starting a new session from the sidebar (app)
- **Session titles in sidebar** - Session titles are now preserved correctly in the sidebar (app)
- **AskUser question labels** - Question labels now pluralize correctly when multiple questions are asked
</Release>

<Release date="May 26, 2026" published="2026-05-26T21:54:45.000Z" url="https://docs.factory.ai/changelog/release-notes#may-21">
## CLI Updates

`v0.131.0`

Maintenance release with under-the-hood improvements.
</Release>

<Release date="May 26, 2026" published="2026-05-26T21:54:45.000Z" url="https://docs.factory.ai/changelog/release-notes#may-22">
## CLI Updates

`v0.132.0`

## New features

- **Deploy to Render** - New `/deploy-to-render` skill helps you deploy projects to Render

## Improvements

- **Security review scope confirmation** - The `/security-review` skill now confirms the scope and audit branch with you before running
- **Faster EU connections** - Reduced connection latency for users in the EU region

## Bug fixes

- **Disabled model selector rows** - Restored disabled rows in the model selector so all options are visible
- **Missions across reconnects** - Active missions now keep running through network reconnects
- **Mission computer in mission control** - The active mission computer now appears on the mission control page (app)
- **Windows desktop setup** - Fixed setup and scripts for the Windows desktop app (app)
- **Rich text autofocus** - Improved autofocus reliability for rich text inputs (app)
</Release>

<Release date="May 26, 2026" published="2026-05-26T21:54:45.000Z" url="https://docs.factory.ai/changelog/release-notes#may-20">
## CLI Updates

`v0.130.0`

## New features

- **Model favorites** - Mark and quickly access your preferred models from the model selector
- **Spec save directory** - Configure where specs are saved with a new setting
- **Expand pasted placeholders** - Press Alt+Shift+V (Opt+Shift+V on macOS) to expand truncated paste placeholders inline

## Improvements

- **Refined model selector** - Streamlined the model selector submenu
- **BYOK model parity** - Brought the BYOK model experience in line with the rest of the model picker
- **Clearer help output** - Improved formatting of the `help` command output

## Bug fixes

- **Image paste on Linux** - Pasting images now works on Linux, with a graceful fallback when clipboard data is unavailable
- **MCP OAuth clients** - Static MCP OAuth clients are now supported during authentication
- **OAuth provider errors** - 4xx responses from connected OAuth providers are now surfaced as user-facing errors
- **ApplyPatch new files** - New files in ApplyPatch results now render correctly as creates
- **CLI update reliability** - Prevented restart races during CLI daemon updates
- **PowerShell under `exec`** - PowerShell commands now run non-interactively in `exec` mode
- **Slack first-mention indicator** - Slack now shows the typing indicator from the very first mention
- **Daemon auth on reconnect** - Daemon auth tokens now refresh when reconnecting (app)
- **Desktop paid onboarding** - The onboarding finish screen is now skipped on the desktop paid flow (app)
</Release>

<Release date="May 26, 2026" published="2026-05-26T18:23:58.000Z" url="https://docs.factory.ai/changelog/release-notes#may-25">
## CLI Updates

`v0.133.1`

## New features

- **Context window** - New `/context` slash command and modal for inspecting the current session's context usage
- **Audio cues** - Optional sounds when a session finishes or is awaiting your input (app)
- **Sidebar session menu** - Right-click sessions in the sidebar for quick actions (app)

## Bug fixes

- **Final output visibility** - The final output now stays visible above the input box
- **New session draft cleared** - New session drafts now clear after submitting (app)
- **Linear Computer setup link** - The "set up Computer" call to action in Linear now points to the correct settings page
- **Desktop zoom stability** - Hardened desktop zoom handling against host zoom errors (app)
</Release>

<Release date="May 24, 2026" published="2026-05-24T22:42:23.000Z" url="https://docs.factory.ai/changelog/release-notes#may-18">
## CLI Updates

`v0.129.0`

## New features

- **Streaming file hook events** - File hook execution events now stream so you can follow progress as hooks run

## Improvements

- **Faster large session rendering** - Large session transcripts now render faster by trimming at the cutoff before derivation

## Bug fixes

- **Esc cancels tool activity** - Pressing Esc now reliably cancels in-progress tool activity
- **MCP tools with complex schemas** - Listing MCP tools no longer fails when schemas contain unresolvable references
- **Claude Code subagent import** - Subagent import is now skipped when there is no project root to import into
- **Session load file snapshots** - File snapshots are now initialized when reloading a saved session
- **ACP todo updates** - Hardened parsing of todo updates over ACP against missing fields
- **Read-only badge layout** - Read-only badges no longer get compressed in narrow layouts (app)
- **Pinned group new session action** - Removed an unintended new-session action on pinned groups (app)
- **Desktop session recovery** - Desktop sessions now recover after a period of daemon inactivity (app)
</Release>

<Release date="May 16, 2026" published="2026-05-16T18:50:23.000Z" url="https://docs.factory.ai/changelog/release-notes#may-15">
## CLI Updates

`v0.128.0`

## Bug fixes

- **Stale Computer registrations** - Sessions now reconcile stale Droid Computer registrations automatically
</Release>

<Release date="May 15, 2026" published="2026-05-15T01:29:41.000Z" url="https://docs.factory.ai/changelog/release-notes#may-14">
## CLI Updates

`v0.126.0`

## New features

- **Bulk session archiving** - New settings page for managing and bulk-archiving sessions (app)
- **EU data residency** - Sessions and LLM inference for EU customers now stay within an EU-only data plane
- **Built-in security review** - The `/security-review` skill is now bundled with the CLI by default
- **Copy bug report ID** - Added a copy button next to bug report IDs (app)

## Improvements

- **Faster Computer restarts** - Sped up restarting Droid Computers (app)
- **Lighter CLI startup** - Reduced redundant requests during CLI startup
- **Persistent desktop preferences** - Desktop preferences are now saved alongside other settings (app)
- **Windows pending update cleanup** - Cleaned up stale pending updates on Windows

## Bug fixes

- **Structured output validation** - Strengthened validation of structured tool output
- **Task token count** - Removed an incorrect zero token count from Task tool results
- **Windows installer packaging** - Repaired Windows installer packaging
- **Limits reset on plan change** - Plan changes now correctly reset usage limits (app)
- **MCP servers for running sessions** - MCP servers now load when reopening already-running sessions (app)
- **Local daemon warning during setup** - Suppressed a spurious local daemon warning during initial setup (app)
- **Session not found errors** - Fixed spurious session not found errors (app)
- **Code block styling** - Aligned code block styling in chat (app)
- **Cross-surface integrations** - Prevented integrations from sending duplicate postbacks across surfaces
- **QA droid CLI auth** - QA droid CLI now pairs with the matching Factory API host
</Release>

<Release date="May 14, 2026" published="2026-05-14T18:28:49.000Z" url="https://docs.factory.ai/changelog/release-notes#may-13">
## CLI Updates

`v0.125.0`

## New features

- **ACP config options** - The CLI now advertises configuration options to ACP clients and supports `session/set_config_option` for per-session overrides

## Improvements

- **Larger Task tool results** - Raised the truncation limit on Task tool results so more output is preserved

## Bug fixes

- **Stale tool shimmer** - Tool calls no longer leave a stale shimmer behind in the transcript
- **Stale Slack shimmer heartbeat** - Stopped a stale shimmer heartbeat from lingering in Slack threads
- **Return to session on interaction prompt** - The CLI now returns to the session view when a user interaction box surfaces
- **Gemini thinking signatures on replay** - Gemini thinking signatures are now preserved when sessions replay
- **Title bar path on hover** - The title bar now shows the full working directory path on hover (app)
</Release>

<Release date="May 13, 2026" published="2026-05-13T06:34:31.000Z" url="https://docs.factory.ai/changelog/release-notes#may-12">
## CLI Updates

`v0.124.0`

## New features

- **Deep and shallow security review modes** - `/security-review` now supports dedicated deep and shallow review modes
- **Login redirect URIs** - The login flow now supports a redirect URI so you land where you started after signing in (app)

## Improvements

- **Sharper fuzzy search** - Refined fuzzy search behavior in the CLI
- **Minimum context savings shown** - Context savings now display a clear minimum percent for easier interpretation
- **Aligned MCP status indicators** - MCP server status indicators now line up consistently
- **Faster setting updates** - Settings changes are applied in place, avoiding unnecessary MCP and skill refetches (app)
- **Light mode polish** - Small component styling refinements in light mode

## Bug fixes

- **Bounded resume history** - Resume now renders a bounded history so large sessions stay responsive
- **Message send flash** - Fixed a visual flash when submitting a message (app)
- **Desktop tutorial in desktop app** - The "install desktop" onboarding step is now skipped when you're already in the desktop app (app)
</Release>