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Changelog

Release notes for Dropstone CLI, including new features, improvements, and bug fixes by version.

Run dropstone --version to see your installed version. The native installer keeps you on the latest release automatically; Homebrew and the install script do not auto-update (run brew upgrade dropstone or re-run the install script to refresh).

1.0.8 · May 22, 2026

  • Hid the redundant "Variant cycle" command from the Ctrl+P palette. variant.cycle and variant.effort target the same control (reasoning depth), so showing both was duplicate noise. The Ctrl+T keybind still cycles through low / medium / high / xhigh for power users.
  • release.ts now auto-prunes older versions from R2 after a successful latest.txt bump. Keeps the last three versions (current plus two rollback targets); pruning runs after the new version is serving so there is no install gap.

1.0.7 · May 21, 2026

  • Windows pending-update mechanism. The Windows binary can no longer overwrite itself while running. install.ps1 now stages the new exe alongside the old one and renames on next launch (the same approach Chrome and VS Code use). No more "file in use" errors during in-process upgrades.
  • The /upgrade endpoint now surfaces the real subprocess stderr in the failure dialog instead of an empty string. When an upgrade fails, the dialog also includes the exact manual-recovery command for your platform.
  • install.ps1 is now ASCII-only so PowerShell 5.1's default cp1252 parser does not choke when the script is run via ./install.ps1 (rather than piped through irm | iex).

1.0.6 · May 20, 2026

  • Tips on the home screen no longer disappear inside fresh workspaces. They were hidden whenever the current project had zero prior sessions, which was the default state for every new clone. Tips now show until the user explicitly dismisses them with /tips.
  • Collapsed the five /effort priority tips into one focused entry: "Use /effort to adjust the model's reasoning capability." Same 40% surface rate, less repetition.
  • Removed the broken /update slash command. The shell command dropstone update and the one-second-after-launch auto-upgrade cover the same need.

1.0.5 · May 19, 2026

  • Branded upgrade UX. Replaced the four-line retro DROPSTONE bitmap logo with a single-line cyan brand header (>> Dropstone CLI). ASCII-only so it renders identically on Windows PowerShell 5.1's cp437 console.
  • dropstone update is now an alias of dropstone upgrade.
  • The upgrade confirmation prompt no longer falls through to "Unknown method" when you press Escape. Escape and Ctrl+C both exit cleanly via prompts.isCancel().
  • Auto-upgrade fix for Windows and non-brew installs. The "latest version" lookup now fetches from download.dropstone.io/latest.txt for every install method (curl, scoop, choco, unknown), not just Homebrew. The previous fallback was the GitHub releases API, which always 404'd because Dropstone does not tag GitHub releases.

1.0.4 · May 18, 2026

  • Windows auto-upgrade fix. upgradeCurl now dispatches to PowerShell on win32 instead of bash, which does not exist on Windows by default. Installer URLs switched to www.dropstone.io so PowerShell's redirect-shy default behaviour does not 308.
  • Every step of the upgrade flow now logs to dev.log instead of silently failing. When Installation.upgrade fails for any reason, we fall back to firing the "Update Available" toast so the user sees a manual step is available.

1.0.3 · May 17, 2026

  • Home-screen tips now always render unless dismissed via /tips. The previous gate (only show on connected non-first-session workspaces) hid them from the exact users who would benefit most.
  • Added a PRIORITY_TIPS pool surfacing the /effort family (low / medium / high / xhigh reasoning depth) roughly 40% of the time. Previously /effort had a ~3% per-load chance of being shown; now it is ~12× more visible.
  • Removed the standalone "tab agents" chip from the right-hand status line. The rotating hint below it already surfaces the tab keybind via "tab plan/build mode."

1.0.2 · May 16, 2026

  • SDK bump to align with the next CLI release. No user-visible changes.

1.0.1 · May 15, 2026

  • Dropstone-only model picker. The picker now lists only the three branded tiers (dropstone/dropstone-fast, dropstone/dropstone-pro, dropstone/dropstone-heavy). Previously, raw upstream model catalogues leaked into the picker and broke billing for any model picked outside the branded entries.
  • The sidebar now starts hidden on wide terminals. Toggle it back with the "Show sidebar" command; the preference sticks across sessions.

1.0.0 · May 14, 2026

  • General availability. Dropstone CLI hits 1.0 with the three-tier model lineup (Fast / Pro / Heavy), interactive and one-shot modes, MCP server support, agent and skill plugins, and self-updating binaries for macOS, Linux, and Windows.

Pre-release notes

Versions before 1.0.0 were preview builds and are not documented here. Pre-release binaries are no longer hosted on download.dropstone.io.

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