Factory Droid v0.218.0
Factory Droid v0.218.0 was released on .
Summary
CLI v0.218.0, Desktop v0.175.0: Faster CLI startup, a role setting, delegation help, session resume, and chat fixes New features - Work role preference - You can now see and change the work role yo...
Release Context
- This was the 20th Factory Droid release of 2026 tracked by Havoptic.
- It shipped 2 days after Factory Droid v0.215.1 (September 9, 2026).
Shipped around the same time
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Release Notes
CLI v0.218.0, Desktop v0.175.0: Faster CLI startup, a role setting, delegation help, session resume, and chat fixes New features - Work role preference - You can now see and change the work role you picked during onboarding in settings (app) - Delegation help command - Sending !help in a connected Slack or Linear thread now replies with usage guidance Improvements - Faster first response - Droid now starts your first reply without waiting on usage limit checks to finish Bug fixes - File citation line ranges - File citations written with an en dash between line numbers are now clickable in chat (app) - Large session resume - Large sessions now resume with their latest messages and page back through older history (app) - Find in focused panel - Pressing find in a diff or file view now searches that panel instead of the transcript (app) - Startup theme detection - Terminal theme detection no longer waits for settings to load, so startup finishes sooner
Other Recent Factory Droid Releases
- v0.245.0 (October 20, 2026)
- v0.243.0 (October 16, 2026)
- v0.244.0 (October 16, 2026)
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- v0.240.0 (October 13, 2026)
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