Factory Droid v1.2.0
Factory Droid v1.2.0 was released on .
Summary
Droid 1.2.0 is here: settings search finally finds what you're looking for, API keys can't be revoked by a misclick, and blank windows fix themselves. Curious what else changed?
Release Context
- This was the 60th Factory Droid release of 2026 tracked by Havoptic.
- It shipped 4 days after Factory Droid v1.1.0 (October 30, 2026).
- Factory Droid: ships every 1.1 days — 21 releases in the last month.
Why it matters: Revoking API keys now needs confirmation.
Shipped around the same time
Within 3 days of this release, other AI coding tools also shipped:
- GitHub Copilot in VS Code v1.145 (November 4, 2026)
- Antigravity CLI v1.5.0 (November 4, 2026)
- Claude Code v2.1.318 (November 3, 2026)
- Amp 2026.11.03 (November 3, 2026)
- Kiro CLI v3.0.0 (November 3, 2026)
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Release Notes
CLI v1.2.0, Desktop v1.2.0: Settings search fixes, safer API key actions, screen reader labels, and sturdier desktop windows Improvements - Exec startup with many tools - Starting a non-interactive run no longer slows down when hundreds of tools are available - Screen reader tab names - Screen readers now announce tab lists by name instead of an unnamed list (app) Bug fixes - Settings search results - Searching settings now matches row descriptions and finds rows that never appeared before (app) - Closing a restarting computer - You can now dismiss the restart confirmation and close the manage computer dialog while a computer reboots (app) - Remote machine reconnects - Droid now redials a remote machine whose connection died during sleep instead of failing your message - Organization policy load timeouts - Droid no longer reports an organization policy timeout when the answer arrives at its deadline - Stopping during turn wrap-up - Stopping Droid as a turn finishes now ends the turn instead of starting another one - Progress after interrupted thinking - Droid now takes a concrete next step when a long thinking stretch is cut short - Wiki search accessibility - Screen readers now name the wiki search dialog and announce the restricted access notice (app) - API key reveal dialog - A newly created API key stays on screen until you deliberately close it (app) - API key revoke confirmation - Revoking an API key now asks you to confirm, so a misclick cannot remove it (app) - Blank window recovery - A window whose view crashes now reloads itself instead of staying blank until you relaunch (app) - Editor selection in VS Code - Focusing the Droid terminal now keeps your current editor selection as the shared context
Other Recent Factory Droid Releases
- v1.0.0 (October 29, 2026)
- v0.250.0 (October 27, 2026)
- v0.251.0 (October 27, 2026)
- v0.249.0 (October 24, 2026)
- v0.248.0 (October 23, 2026)
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