Factory Droid v0.224.0

Factory Droid v0.224.0 was released on .

Summary

CLI v0.224.0, Desktop v0.181.0: Computer management in sessions, onboarding plan selection, specification downloads, and CLI and chat fixes New features - Manage computer from session - You can now...

Release Context

  • This was the 27th Factory Droid release of 2026 tracked by Havoptic.
  • It shipped 2 days after Factory Droid v0.223.0 (September 19, 2026).

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Release Notes

CLI v0.224.0, Desktop v0.181.0: Computer management in sessions, onboarding plan selection, specification downloads, and CLI and chat fixes New features - Manage computer from session - You can now check usage, update Droid, reconnect, or reboot a session's computer from the session (app) - Computer secrets settings - Computer secrets settings now separate personal and organization secrets with search and role-aware controls (app) - Plan selection during onboarding - Onboarding now lets you choose a plan before entering payment details (app) - Download specification proposals - You can now download a specification proposal as a Markdown file from its review panel (app) Improvements - QA setup self review - The QA setup command now reviews the files it generates before showing you the summary - Review action version findings - Reviews no longer report a finding only because the review action version is pinned or older - Steadier session list - The session list now stays responsive while sessions update, instead of redrawing every row (app) - Composer during streaming - The composer now stays responsive while a reply streams in (app) Bug fixes - Diagram label wrapping - Diagram labels now wrap correctly when the display is scaled, in previews, lightboxes, and exports (app) - Standalone browser sessions - The browser pane now stays closed when Droid starts a browser it does not manage (app) - Session repository row - Sessions on a computer with no cloned repository no longer show a repository row (app) - Specification review comments - Comments you leave on a specification are now kept when you request changes (app) - Open sessions in VS Code - Opening a session's files in VS Code now works in the desktop app (app) - Specification iteration status - Choosing to keep iterating on a specification now shows a neutral changes requested status instead of an error (app) - Composer clearing on send - The composer now clears your message and attachments as soon as you send instead of after delivery (app) - Sidebar menu layering - Sidebar menus now open above page overlays and stay clickable (app) - Streaming inactivity timeouts - Long responses no longer fail as inactive while data is still arriving - Resumed session history - Resuming a session from the startup picker now keeps its earlier messages - Reasoning kept in transcript - Chat now keeps a reply's reasoning visible when its tool runs are grouped into one row (app) - Markdown blockquote rendering - Quoted blocks in Droid replies now render with continuous borders and keep their paragraph breaks - Voucher redemption in onboarding - Onboarding now lets you switch between entering a card and redeeming a voucher to finish setup (app) Security - Whole process sandbox coverage - Whole process sandbox mode now also applies to the child Droid processes a session starts

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