Factory Droid v0.228.0

Factory Droid v0.228.0 was released on .

Summary

CLI v0.228.0, Desktop v0.185.0: Command palette rebuild, migrate command, mid-message skills, in-place compression, plus terminal and app fixes New features - Migration files view - When a /migrate...

Release Context

  • This was the 32nd Factory Droid release of 2026 tracked by Havoptic.
  • It shipped 1 day after Factory Droid v0.227.0 (September 25, 2026).

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Release Notes

CLI v0.228.0, Desktop v0.185.0: Command palette rebuild, migrate command, mid-message skills, in-place compression, plus terminal and app fixes New features - Migration files view - When a /migrate workflow is active, the files panel can show its plan and validation documents (app) - Delegation audit events - Audit logs now record who started a Droid session from a connected tool - Image generation model choice - You can now choose which model Droid uses when it generates an image - Expand attached images - You can now open an attached image at full size before you send it (app) - Skills anywhere in a message - You can now complete and highlight a skill anywhere in your message, not only at the start - Migrate workflow command - Run /migrate to take large work from an agreed plan to a verified outcome Improvements - Slack post attribution - Slack messages Droid posts outside your conversation now name the person who asked - Command palette coverage - The command palette now reaches every page and setting, with category tabs and ranked results (app) - Mid-session plugin discovery - Entering a repository during a session now loads that project's plugins - In-place context compression - /compress now summarizes your current session, and /handoff starts a summary-only successor - Faster file suggestions - Mentioning a file now returns suggestions faster, including in very large repositories Bug fixes - Custom model fallback - A session set to a custom model you no longer have now falls back to an available one - macOS sign-in reliability - Signing in now succeeds on macOS when the system keychain cannot be used - Newlines during startup - Text with newlines typed before Droid finishes starting now stays in your draft - App zoom persistence - Your zoom level now survives page changes, reloads, and new windows (app) - Slack file uploads - Files you upload in a Slack channel now reach Droid instead of being dropped - Connection list refresh - Disconnecting an integration now updates your connection lists right away (app) - Session resume memory use - Resuming a long session no longer runs out of memory while loading its history - Plan kept across compaction - Your open plan now survives context compaction instead of disappearing - Background task reports - A session now stays loaded until its background task work finishes, so reports arrive - Windows startup stalls - Droid no longer stalls at startup while it looks for PowerShell on Windows - Repository and template lists - Repository and computer template lists no longer fail to load for some organizations - Queued messages on disconnect - A queued message now stays put when another computer's connection drops - Shifted key combinations - Ctrl+Shift+C inside a terminal pane no longer interrupts your session

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