Factory Droid v0.227.0
Factory Droid v0.227.0 was released on .
Summary
CLI v0.227.0, Desktop v0.184.0: Model selector improvements, inline settings in chat, Droid Shield Git scanning, and transcript and compaction fixes Improvements - Settings search focus - Opening s...
Release Context
- This was the 31st Factory Droid release of 2026 tracked by Havoptic.
- It shipped 1 day after Factory Droid v0.226.1 (September 24, 2026).
Shipped around the same time
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Release Notes
CLI v0.227.0, Desktop v0.184.0: Model selector improvements, inline settings in chat, Droid Shield Git scanning, and transcript and compaction fixes Improvements - Settings search focus - Opening settings now puts your cursor in the search box so you can type right away (app) - Light mode diff colors - Syntax colors in light mode diffs are now dark enough to read comfortably (app) - Sessions awaiting your confirmation - The sidebar now bolds sessions that are waiting for you to confirm a tool call (app) - New model badge - The model selector now marks recently added models as new (app) - Skill activation in chat - Chat now shows a skill activation as a muted skill row instead of an ordinary message (app) - Inline settings editing - You can now review and apply more settings changes in chat instead of opening the settings page (app) - Diagram zoom steps - The expanded diagram view now zooms in ten percent steps for finer control (app) - Tool schemas from the SDK - The SDK can now require input schemas when listing the tools a session offers - Recent models in composer - The composer model selector now lists the models you picked most recently (app) - Running subagent indicator - Droid now shows an indicator in the terminal and app while your subagents keep running Bug fixes - Model choice in Spec Mode - Your main model now stays as you chose it while Spec Mode runs with its own model - Context limit compaction - Reaching the context limit now compacts your session instead of failing to summarize it - Droid Shield staged commits - Droid Shield now scans what a staged commit records instead of refusing to run it - Leftover hook sessions - Sessions that leftover hook entries created are now archived out of your session list - Transcript after compaction - Your earlier messages now stay in the transcript after compaction and when you resume a session - Organization managed connector setup - Saving an organization managed Databricks or ServiceNow app no longer fails - Spec Mode subagent resume - Resuming a subagent from a Spec Mode session now keeps the mode it started with instead of switching to read-only
Other Recent Factory Droid Releases
- v0.245.0 (October 20, 2026)
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- v0.240.0 (October 13, 2026)
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