Factory Droid v0.241.0
Factory Droid v0.241.0 was released on .
Summary
CLI v0.241.0, Desktop v0.198.0: Design mode comment batching, Slack follow-up guidance, plus CLI and app fixes New features - Batched design mode comments - Design mode now queues several comments...
Release Context
- This was the 45th Factory Droid release of 2026 tracked by Havoptic.
- It shipped 1 day after Factory Droid v0.239.0 (October 12, 2026).
Shipped around the same time
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Release Notes
CLI v0.241.0, Desktop v0.198.0: Design mode comment batching, Slack follow-up guidance, plus CLI and app fixes New features - Batched design mode comments - Design mode now queues several comments in the browser panel or file preview and sends them as one message (app) Improvements - Slack follow-up guidance - A Slack direct message from Droid now tells you to reply in the thread to follow up Bug fixes - Windows input wrapping - Long input on Windows now wraps after the mode label, and accented characters and emoji stay whole - Script startup fallback - Droid now runs commands directly for the rest of a turn when Script fails to start - Context usage after compaction - The context breakdown now measures the active conversation after a compaction instead of the whole history - Sidebar update badge - The update badge now aligns with the sidebar buttons and collapses to an icon when narrow (app) - Cut-off model responses - A response cut off mid-stream is now retried instead of running a tool with incomplete input - Command output after reload - Tool details in a reloaded session now expand again when hooks ran during it (app) - Remembered New Chat picks - The model, effort, autonomy, and mode you pick for a new chat now persist (app) - Duplicate Slack error - An error about a Slack account that cannot be matched no longer appears twice
Other Recent Factory Droid Releases
- v0.245.0 (October 20, 2026)
- v0.243.0 (October 16, 2026)
- v0.244.0 (October 16, 2026)
- v0.242.0 (October 15, 2026)
- v0.239.1 (October 12, 2026)
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