Factory Droid v0.229.0

Factory Droid v0.229.0 was released on .

Summary

CLI v0.229.0, Desktop v0.186.0: Custom model management, PDF viewer, quoted replies, voice dictation key, plus terminal and app fixes New features - Custom models in terminal - You can now add, edi...

Release Context

  • This was the 34th Factory Droid release of 2026 tracked by Havoptic.
  • It shipped 1 day after Factory Droid v0.228.1 (September 28, 2026).

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Release Notes

CLI v0.229.0, Desktop v0.186.0: Custom model management, PDF viewer, quoted replies, voice dictation key, plus terminal and app fixes New features - Custom models in terminal - You can now add, edit, and remove your own custom models from the terminal - Scheduled loops indicator - A pill above the chat input lists a session's loops and can pause, resume, or stop them (app) - Quote a Droid reply - Select text in a Droid response and add it to your next message as a quote (app) - Voice dictation key - Pick a single key that starts and stops voice dictation, or turn the shortcut off (app) - PDF viewer - PDF files now open in a scrolling viewer with a page rail, thumbnails, and zoom (app) - Save files outside the workspace - The Files panel can now save a file that lives outside your workspace folder (app) Improvements - Custom model JSON editing - You can now edit one of your own custom models as a form or as raw JSON (app) - Session list edge fades - The session list now fades at its top and bottom edges while you scroll (app) - Smoother file opening - Opening a file from a tool call no longer stutters as the side pane slides in (app) - Faster repository lists - Pages that list your repositories now load much faster - Side chat controls - Side chat now shows its tool calls live and lets you stop or clear a question (app) - Idle Slack channel archiving - Channels Droid opens for a session in Slack are archived once they sit idle - Migration files pill - A Migration pill above the chat input opens the files for an active migration (app) Bug fixes - Mobile onboarding payment - Onboarding on a phone now walks through plan selection and billing as separate steps - Diagram pan and zoom - Panning an expanded diagram no longer shrinks it, and pinch and arrow keys work (app) - Leftover subagent processes - Subagent runs no longer leave stray processes behind when they finish - Droid Shield false positives - Droid Shield no longer blocks a commit on identifiers or secrets already in the repository - Failed delegation replies - Droid now reports a failed turn in Slack and Linear instead of leaving the thread silent - Sidebar resize handle - Dragging the sidebar edge near the top of the window now resizes it (app) - Truncated diff rendering - A very large set of uncommitted changes now renders the files it can instead of nothing (app) - File preview flicker - A file preview no longer flickers while Droid runs terminal commands in the background (app) - Missing GitHub App errors - A repository without the Factory GitHub App installed now returns a clear not-installed error - Custom models per session - A session now lists the custom models from your settings and from its own project - Setup scripts on Droid Computers - Setup scripts now run for repositories cloned onto a Droid Computer

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