Factory Droid v0.231.0

Factory Droid v0.231.0 was released on .

Summary

CLI v0.231.0, Desktop v0.188.0: Transcript history paging, legacy models toggle, side chat shortcuts, template refresh, plus terminal and app fixes Improvements - Side chat keyboard shortcuts - Sid...

Release Context

  • This was the 36th Factory Droid release of 2026 tracked by Havoptic.
  • It shipped 1 day after Factory Droid v0.230.0 (September 30, 2026).

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Release Notes

CLI v0.231.0, Desktop v0.188.0: Transcript history paging, legacy models toggle, side chat shortcuts, template refresh, plus terminal and app fixes Improvements - Side chat keyboard shortcuts - Side chat now takes multi-line messages and keeps its keys from acting on the main session (app) - Compression progress spinner - A spinner now shows while a session's history compresses (app) - Scheduled template refresh - Droid Computer templates now refresh on their own once they fall out of date - Legacy models toggle - The model picker now groups older models under a legacy toggle and marks them clearly - Faster first response - Droid now starts answering your first message sooner because setup work no longer blocks it - Transcript history paging - Alt or Option with the arrow keys now pages a session's full saved history in the terminal Bug fixes - Session settings at launch - Launching a session on a Droid Computer now keeps the model and settings you chose (app) - Readable model errors - A model that cannot be served now reports it is temporarily unavailable instead of an empty error - Workflow task identifiers - Droid Shield no longer flags a workflow task identifier in a commit as a secret - Service account session privacy - Sessions you do not operate on a service account's computer stay out of your list and open read-only - Starting local sessions - You can now start a local session without waiting for the template list to load (app) - Questions written as text - A question Droid writes as raw markup now appears as a question you can answer - Interrupted reply handling - A reply cut off mid-stream is now discarded instead of running unfinished tool calls - Resumed session failures - A resumed session no longer fails when earlier reasoning cannot be reused - Self-hosted host errors - Setting up a self-hosted GitHub or GitLab host now shows why its hostname failed to resolve - Session titles from Slack - A session started from Slack no longer shows thread markup in its title - Slack image attachments - Images attached in Slack no longer add a raw file listing to the conversation - Sidebar section width - Expanded sidebar sections no longer run past the sidebar edge and hide project actions (app) - Scoped Git secret scans - Droid Shield now checks only the content a Git command includes, so fewer clean commands are blocked - Custom model tool calls - Droid no longer drops a tool call when a custom model reports several at once - MCP server recovery - An MCP server that exited now restarts on the next call instead of failing - Dropped streamed replies - Droid no longer drops a streamed reply or its error when the stream is compactly formatted - Locked settings while provisioning - The model and autonomy controls are now disabled while a Droid Computer provisions from a template (app) Security - Private Slack channel names - Slack channel settings no longer show private channel names to members who are not in them

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