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What's new
Everything that changed in Octopus, version by version, from the newest to the first. The apps update themselves and show each version's notes when they update.
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- Windows and Linux: when a new version is ready, the notice gets "What's new", which shows what changed in it, as on the Mac. Settings › Updates shows the list too.
- "All release notes" opens the site's timeline of what changed in each version, from the update window and Settings › Updates, on all three systems.
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- “Octopus Documentation” opens the app's manual on the site, in your language: in the Mac's Help menu and, on Windows and Linux, in the palette and the tray.
- The commit and branch sheets show the folder as ~/app, not the whole path.
- Draw: on a narrow card, the whole drawing shows between the bars.
- Mac: “Role…” and “Take the Maestro's team along?” open on the Octopus window, without holding up the rest of the Mac.
- Note colors have names in your language, and deleting a note of an outside file says the file stays where it is.
- Windows and Linux: the Leader key shows in your language, and the notices name the right keys (Ctrl+Shift+V, Ctrl+Shift+Q).
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- Octopus now belongs to Smartery LLC: the name shows in the app, on the privacy and terms pages and at checkout.
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- Octopus's servers (licenses, updates and downloads) moved to the new infrastructure. Nothing changes for you: your license and your data stay the same.
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- In voice dictation, "Insert as is" and "Clean up text" now show up while you speak: one click ends the dictation and does it, with no Done step.
- Voice never presses Enter: the text stays in the chat's field or at the terminal's prompt for you to check and send. After Clean up, a single button inserts the cleaned text.
- In Tabs, a note has the microphone on its bar, to dictate with the octopus.
- In Tabs, the "+1" of a split tab no longer breaks into two lines when the name is long.
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- With the sidebar open, the workspace's groups sit in its Groups folder on the canvas too; with it closed, they stay in the footer bar.
- Cards with no group show up as "No group", on the canvas and in Tabs.
- A one-card group picked by its name shows the group's bar (with Save group). Moving the view to another group clears the card's selection.
- Tabs now show alerts: a green dot when the agent is done, the pane's edge in the alert's color, and the counts on the groups. Showing a group or switching to Tabs clears the alert of the tab that opens.
- Back from Tabs to the canvas, the view goes to the open tab's card. A tab on a server shows its whole name.
- The chat is no longer blurred when you switch to Tabs right after a zoom, and the chat's and files' scroll bar shrinks with the canvas's zoom.
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- "Move to its own tab" keeps you on the split: the card becomes a tab right after it and you stay on the split, with the keyboard on the pane beside it. You can take several cards out in a row.
- Switching to Tabs opens where you were on the canvas: the selected card becomes the open tab, in its group; with nothing selected, the group that was in view opens.
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- Tabs mode: at the top right, Canvas | Tabs turns the whole workspace into tabs, like an app, with no canvas. Each card becomes a tab of its group and fills the window to the bottom. Back on the canvas, everything is where it was.
- Termius-style splits: drag a tab to a side of another and the two share the screen. The side it will take lights up, the dividers can be dragged, and each pane has buttons to split it off again or close it.
- Groups without the canvas: in the sidebar, the Groups folder shows the workspace's groups. You can move a tab to a group, create a new group, and rename, save or ungroup a group. You can also drag a tab onto a group.
- ⌘K, "Open on a server…": type part of the name. ↩ opens a shell, ⌘↩ Claude Code and ⌥↩ Codex on that server; ⇥ picks the folder. It also lists recent folders and the cards running or waiting for you. Clearing the terminal moved to ⇧⌘K.
- Each card's menu (right click and ⋯) has everything its bar has, with the same icons: Shell beside, Duplicate, View as chat, Open in editor, the note's formatting and the new "Copy folder path".
- Standard mode leaves the same room around any card.
- The top band of the window no longer moves the window when you grab a tab or a card there: only its empty parts move it.
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- Sharp text on regular (non-Retina) external monitors: the terminal, the chat and the files open in the tree stay sharp at any zoom, not only at 100%.
- Zoom stops at exactly 100%: the mouse wheel, the pinch and the + and − buttons stop there on the way; + and − go in 10% steps.
- Standard mode, focus and framing stay at 100% whenever things fit.
- Changing the zoom keeps the chat and the files at the same place, with no gray bands and no jumping text.
- Dragging the canvas follows your fingers without jerks, and the terminal no longer flashes big letters as the drag starts.
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- In the chat, the agent's questions come one at a time: a tab per question, Previous and Next, and Reply on the last one.
- The question sits at the end of the conversation and scrolls with it: you can scroll up and read everything before it.
- Windows and Linux: Google sign-in works in the portal.
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- Portal on Windows and Linux: signing in with your Google account works. Google refused the sign-in, saying the browser might not be secure.
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- A new sound for Octopus alerts (Settings › Alerts › Sound: Octopus).
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- New annual license price: US$ 97 per year (R$ 497 in Brazil), for purchases and renewals. The license you already have stays valid until it expires.
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- Draw card (X key): an Excalidraw board on the canvas where you and your agents draw. Ask an agent linked to it to "make a login flowchart". With the Draw selected, the mouse wheel, pinch and middle button zoom and move the drawing.
- The portal as a real browser: logins are shared between portals (and kept in profiles if you want them apart), Google and Facebook sign-in pop-ups work, and there are shortcuts for WhatsApp, Instagram, Gmail and more. Agents click, type, wait and read any page, even with the window hidden.
- WhatsApp for agents: turn on "Let linked agents use this WhatsApp" on the card. They read chats, summarize the day or a group, search old messages, tell you when a message arrives and send with your approval, in batches too (one approval per batch, with hourly and daily limits in Settings › Portals).
- Folder picker: shortcuts to Desktop, Documents, Downloads, iCloud and OneDrive, and "New folder…" without leaving it. On Windows, OneDrive folders now show up.
- Less energy: on Windows and Linux, Octopus with its window hidden or minimized barely uses anything; hidden portals sleep on all three systems and wake only when an agent uses them.
- Fixes: the portals' "no window open" error on Windows and Linux, and the first WhatsApp chat list that took over a minute.
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- Keep awake (Settings › Energy): the computer does not sleep on its own while an agent works or waits for your approval, and for 10 more minutes after that. The display turns off as usual. You can choose "Always" or turn it off.
- With the lid closed too (optional): agents keep working with the laptop lid closed. On the Mac, Octopus asks for the administrator password once each time it opens; when you quit, or if it closes suddenly, the computer sleeps normally again.
- Protections: minimum battery (20%), only when plugged in, stop if it gets hot, and a time limit. When one of them stops it, Octopus tells you in a notification.
- Keep running when the window is closed: alerts, the agents' watch and keep awake go on. On the Mac, the Dock icon opens the window again; on Windows and Linux, the tray icon (Open · Keep awake · Quit).
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- Switching workspaces: the workspace you click is marked at once and, if the switch takes a moment, "Opening…" shows up. The switch is also faster with many chats and terminals open: the new canvas arrives in about a third of the time.
- Compacting the conversation in chat (/compact, or when the context fills up): the chat shows "Compacting the conversation…" with the time, instead of "No word from Claude… Reconnect", which looked like an error. The "Conversation compacted" line still shows at the end. This works for Claude and for Codex.
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- Octopus now exists for Windows and Linux, and your license works on all three systems.
- Portal in phone mode: the "Type an address above…" hint and the error messages, with Try again, stay inside the phone's screen, wrapping into lines, and read well in the light and dark themes. Before, they ran across the phone's body.
- octo run in a shell: the whole output shows up in the card, down to the last line, even on a busy machine.
- Copying files between the Mac and a server, or between servers: cancelling never leaves the item in place, a connection that drops halfway no longer leaves a half-copied folder, and when replacing an item that already exists, the old one only goes once the new one is in.
- Chat on a server with a network disk or inside a container: replies arrive without the one-second delay.
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- Buy the license from Octopus itself: the Buy button opens the payment (card, Apple Pay or Google Pay; Pix and boleto in Brazil) and the app activates by itself once the payment is confirmed, no key to copy.
- A bought license is valid for a year. If you're on the free trial, the year starts when the trial ends, so no days are lost.
- Settings › License shows how long the license is valid, with Renew. With 30, 7 and 1 day left, Octopus lets you know; renewing adds one more year to what's left.
- Licenses you already have stay as they are.
- The welcome screen shows its close button in a small window too.
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- Cloud accounts: the cloud beside the pulse (⇧⌘U) keeps your gcloud accounts, each signed in on its own, all at the same time, none pushing another out. Your Mac's gcloud doesn't change.
- "New account" signs in with Google in the browser and picks the default project and region. The account is valid in every workspace, without signing in again.
- An account's card on the canvas shows the account, the project and how long its session has left, with Renew. Near the end it turns amber; ended, red, with "Sign in again". A Google Workspace session's length is learned the first time it ends.
- On the card itself you choose what the agents linked to it may do: Ask (every command shows up for you to allow), Free reading or Unlocked for a while. Even unlocked, the account asks before deleting or changing IAM, and a token of the account always asks.
- The agent uses the account with octo gcloud, from an SSH server too: the command runs on your Mac, with the card's account. The card lists what the agents asked for and how it ended.
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- The whole Mac stays smooth again while agents work: the "working" indicators made macOS redraw the screen 120 times a second, and animations such as the genie effect stuttered.
- Panning the canvas with two fingers is much lighter.
- The selected card has a light ring around it, easy to see in dark mode too; an alert's color stays on the card's own edge.
- Restoring a saved group or a card from the history no longer drops cards on top of others: they go back to their place or to the nearest free space.
- Attachments (pictures, files) drag from anywhere on them; a double-click opens the file.
- The text cursor no longer shows over the sidebar, panels and Voice when a note is underneath.
- Chat: /btw in Claude Code (a quick side question that doesn't interrupt the conversation), command aliases (/new, /review…), and Codex skills and /compact in the / menu.
- Settings › Voice: a button to restore the factory settings (the API key stays).
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- Sending an image (or pasting a long text) to a Claude Code chat on this Mac no longer freezes the conversation: the image arrives and the chat keeps answering.
- If the connection drops while an image is being sent, the agent no longer quits with an error.
- Less energy: chats with a working agent used a lot of CPU (the fans could spin up). Now "Thinking…" gently pulses and costs almost nothing.
- The Voice octopus is lighter while you dictate.
- Large screenshots attached to a chat are scaled down and sent as an image.
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- Octopus Voz: speak instead of typing. Click the microphone of a terminal (in its footer), a chat (next to send) or a note (on its tab), or the octopus in the corner for the selected card. The text shows up while you speak, with Google's Gemini.
- Speak freely: at the end, "Clean up text" removes hesitations, repetitions and backtracking ("no, wait") and writes dictated file names properly. Or insert it as you said it.
- In a terminal the text stays at the prompt for you to check; ⌘↩ presses Return. In a chat it goes to the field; ⌘↩ sends.
- In Settings › Voice: the Gemini API key (kept in the Keychain), the model that cleans up, how much it reasons and changes, extra instructions, your own vocabulary, the spoken language and finishing by itself after a silence. You can test the cleanup right there.
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- When Claude Code stops on an error, such as the usage limit, an account or login problem, or the API being down, the card now shows it in "Needs you": "Stopped: usage limit", "Stopped: account or login" or "Stopped: API error", with Claude's message. Before, the working indicator just went off with no alert. It applies to agents opened from now on.
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- The pulse at the top of the sidebar shows alerts and what is running at the same time: with an alert pending, a small indicator says agents are still working.
- Each workspace in the sidebar shows an indicator when an agent is working in it, without opening the workspace.
- After a network or VPN drop, workspaces that are not open show what is running again much sooner.
- A chat that reconnects in the middle of an answer tells you when it ends.
- When a subagent comes back and Claude Code goes on by itself, tests still running behind it hold the alert: "Done" no longer comes too early.
- More Claude Code requests become "Needs you": a permission asked by a helper agent, an MCP server's question with a link, and a usage limit that will not resume on its own.
- New in the menu of Claude Code and Codex cards: "Copy alerts diagnostics", with what the card received and decided, to explain an alert that did not come.
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- Free trial: anyone who installs Octopus now can use everything for a few days, with no sign-up and no card, with one click on "Start 7-day free trial". If you already have a key, use "I already have a key".
- During the trial, the sidebar shows how many days are left, and Settings › License shows when it ends. When the trial ends, nothing is deleted: workspaces, conversations and servers are all kept.
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- Claude Code or Codex opened outside Octopus: the card shows "external" and a Convert button, which reopens the same conversation in the same tmux with alerts, chat (⌘J), resume and Maestro. In a server's sessions list, "Bring and convert" does it as it comes in.
- "Now" (the pulse) lists what runs in the workspace you are in again, with the others.
- A new icon, on the app's dark background.
- The sidebar's footer reads Settings, Theme and Language.
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- The chat/terminal switch on a card's bar uses the app's colors.
- The pulse's number in the sidebar is no longer cut off.
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- Focused card: behind it you see the canvas itself, dotted and slightly blurred, instead of the system's gray.
- Renaming a group, the note's and the board's color choices and the look in New terminal now follow the app's style.
- The "Reconnect" button on a card, "Try again" in the portal and the activation screen's buttons follow it too.
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- The update windows are now Octopus's own: the release notes in your language, the progress in coral and the app's buttons. They show from the next update on.
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- New install: the first time, Octopus moves itself to Applications and shows a quick setup. Install only what you use (tmux, Claude Code, Codex) while watching the terminal, sign in to your accounts in the browser and activate the license. "Set Up This Mac…", in the Octopus menu, opens it again.
- Opened a Claude Code or a Codex where it is not installed? Octopus offers to install it right there, on a server too, and opens the agent when it is done.
- The install disk now looks like Octopus.
- Alerts with many buttons grow to fit them all, on the app's background.
- Notes have the close X on their tab too; the empty portal and the activation screen follow the app's style.
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- A new canvas look: a dotted background, cards with a tab on top, tentacle cables, groups as islands and the selected card lifted with a shadow.
- Folders: join cards as tabs of a single card ("Join in folder", ⌥⌘G, or drop a card on another's tabs); "Spread out" puts them back on the canvas.
- Every window in one style: the sidebar, Settings (with pages on the side), New terminal, server, workspace, All sessions, alerts and Octopus's own choice lists. Dark is the default theme.
- Clicking a server opens New terminal right away, with the sessions already running there listed below.
- In the chat, what you typed and did not send is kept and comes back when Octopus opens again.
- Closed shells no longer stay in the history (Claude Code and Codex still do).
- Standard mode: a file tree with a file open and a portal in computer mode take the whole view.
- Switching workspaces right after moving the view no longer loses where the view was.
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- License: Octopus now asks for a license key the first time it opens. Ask whoever recommended Octopus to you for yours and paste it on the "Activate Octopus" screen. Without internet it keeps working for up to 14 days; nothing on the Mac is deleted. The license lives in Settings › License.
- A Claude Code terminal with something running behind it (a shell, a monitor, agents) keeps its group's spinner while that runs.
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- Alerts: a Claude Code terminal that stops waiting for work of its own in the background (tests, a long run) keeps its group's spinner while that work runs. If the work ends and it does not go on by itself within 30 s, you get the "Done" alert. Before, it could end up with neither spinner nor alert.
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- Now (⇧⌘O): each row starts with the workspace, its icon in its color, and the group, in bold; the card's name sits below.
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- Now (the pulse button, ⇧⌘O): shows only what needs you and what is running outside the current workspace, one card per row, with what it is doing and for how long. Click, 1–9 or ↑↓ and ↩ open the card; Esc closes.
- Organizing a group of 3 cards or more lays out a work table: the card you used last in the middle, the ones cabled to it beside it, notes and attachments on the shelf.
- Switching workspaces goes back to where the view was in it.
- Clicking a group's name selects the group again, as before.
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- Server connections: Octopus closes the ssh connections it opened when you quit, including those it reused from a previous run, and ends a connection that stopped answering (network drop, Mac asleep) before opening another. Before, they could keep running for days.
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- Chat: a box above the message shows the agents at work, like the terminal's footer. Each workflow (Ultracode) has its bar of agents done, time and tokens; opened, its phases and each one's agents. The status line says how many agents are running.
- Chat: the Workflow has a card of its own (name, description, script and how much is written); a model refusal, the usage limit and an MCP server or plugin that failed show as a line; a subagent's report, messages between agents and other tools read clearly.
- Alerts: a chat shown as a terminal (⌘J) alerts again when it finishes; an agent Claude Code sent to the background talks to Octopus again (linked notes, alerts).
- Groups: clicking the name of a group with an agent at work opens that card in standard mode, as the bottom bar does. "Shell beside" and what the Maestro creates stay near the card, not over another group.
- History, saved groups and the overview close with a click outside them.
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- Saved groups: save a group (name and description) to open later, with its notes, files and agents' conversations, which resume where they stopped. They live in the workspace (⇧⌘Y) and are never lost when it is deleted.
- Move between workspaces: a card or a whole group, sessions still running; its history, saved group and alerts go along. "Undo" brings it back.
- Messages between agents: long ones (over 4 KB) no longer get lost on the way; what doesn't arrive alerts you instead of waiting; each request has a number, and the answer finds who asked.
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- Standard mode fits cards to the screen: 1 centered, 2 side by side, 3 with one big, 4 in 2 × 2; a whole group at once. It adapts to the monitor and covers nothing.
- Dragging to select takes only the cards it touches; the whole group, by its name. Grouping a loose card with a grouped one puts it in that group.
- The Maestro creates smaller terminals, beside it.
- Shell beside an agent (⌥⌘T) and a chat | terminal switch in the bar.
- Chat: long questions scroll; stopping before the answer gives the message back; copy the answer and the session ID.
- Alerts: the card you're looking at doesn't alert; opening an alert clears it.
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- Terminals, agents (Claude Code and Codex), notes, files and portals on an infinite canvas, on your servers and on your Mac.
- Agent chat in the style of Claude Code, with a context panel and plan limits.
- An overview of every workspace and group; alerts when an agent needs you.
- In Portuguese, English and Spanish; automatic updates.
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