v0.5.0

New things you can do

• Manage tabs across devices in one workspace — The new Tabs view shows local and remote tabs together, lets you label devices, and reopen remote tabs as local copies when you want to keep working on another machine.
• Set up remote access with guided flow — A built-in setup wizard plus network settings now walk you through LAN/VPN access, firewall checks, and shareable links/QR so phone and tablet access is faster to get working.
• Use touch-first mobile navigation — On mobile, you can swipe between tabs, open/close the sidebar with edge gestures, use a tab-switcher overlay, and long-press to open context menus.
• Search terminal output in-pane — You can open terminal search with keyboard shortcuts, jump through matches, and keep command output exploration inside the active pane.
• Control clipboard behavior from terminal apps — OSC52 clipboard handling now supports Ask/Always/Never policy so you decide how remote terminal copy requests are handled.

Things that got better

• Mobile terminal controls are much easier to use — Touch targets were increased, headers and tab bars were tuned for small screens, and mobile key rows now support press-and-hold repeat for arrow navigation.
• Session and resume behavior is more reliable — Provider/session ownership and restore flows were hardened to prevent duplicate or misassigned sessions during reconnects and cross-device handoff.
• Session updates are faster and lighter — Session sync now supports incremental patches so large histories refresh with less churn.
• Security defaults and validation are stronger — Auth checks were tightened (including timing-safe comparisons), settings/file APIs were validated more strictly, and path sandboxing was hardened.
• Freshclaude chat interaction is more polished — New context-aware copy actions, cleaner message presentation, and better status/streaming behavior make transcript reading and extraction smoother.

v0.4.5

What's New

New things you can do

• See your active directory, repo, and context left (roughly...) in the title — Every pane header now shows your working directory, git branch with dirty indicator, and how much context your coding CLI has left. Updates live as you work.
• Split panes freely — Right-click any pane to split right or down. Closing a pane promotes its sibling — your layout is preserved, not rebuilt.
• Zoom any pane — Maximize a pane to fill the tab, then restore your layout with Escape or the header button.
• Replace a pane — Right-click "Replace pane" to swap content without changing layout. The replaced terminal keeps running in background.
• Snap dividers — Pane dividers snap to their original position and to aligned dividers. Drag intersections to resize in both directions. Hold Shift to bypass.
• Turn-completion attention indicators — Tabs and pane headers glow when a coding CLI finishes its turn in the background. Choose style and dismiss mode in Settings.
• Sidebar opens panes, not tabs — Clicking a session in the sidebar splits a pane in the current tab.

Things that got better

• Sessions survive server restarts — Session repair properly awaits file scanning, and graceful shutdown gives CLIs time to flush.
• Claude and Codex terminals reattach on refresh — Both Claude and Codex terminals now reconnect to their running process on page refresh instead of spawning duplicates.
• Large scrollback no longer crashes WebSocket — Terminals with big buffers send snapshots in chunks.
• Worktree sessions show correct labels — Each git worktree gets its own project group in the sidebar.
• Token usage is more accurate — Codex and Claude percentages now track closer to what the CLIs report.
• Better pane dividers — Wider hit area, visible grab indicator on hover, cursor lock during drag.
• Session indexer is faster — Debounced and throttled refresh cycles reduce latency under load.

v0.4.1

What's New

New things you can do

• See what's running at a glance — Tabs now show a row of icons for each pane type (Claude, Codex, Terminal, Browser, Editor) with color-coded status: green for running, red for error, gray for exited, pulsing while creating. A new "Icons on tabs" setting lets you switch back to the classic dot.
• Rename pane titles inline — Double-click a pane title to rename it in place. No more popup dialog — works just like tab renaming, with Escape to cancel and Enter to confirm.

Things that got better

• Tab and pane titles are independent — Renaming a tab no longer prevents the pane title from updating when the terminal sets its own title via escape sequences.
• Session restore is dramatically more reliable — Deep overhaul of persistence and cross-tab sync: terminal assignments survive cross-tab sync, session IDs are preserved during reconnection, rate-limit bypass works correctly for all reconnecting terminals, and orphaned pane data is cleaned up automatically.

v0.4.0

What's New

New things you can do

• Know when an agent is done — Turn-complete bell and tab attention indicator notify you when a coding CLI finishes its turn in a background tab. No more polling.
• Pick a directory when launching a CLI — Directory picker with fuzzy search when creating a Claude Code or Codex terminal. Includes recently-used directories.
• Copy a resume command — Right-click any session (sidebar, pane header, or tab) and copy the CLI command to resume it (e.g., claude --resume <id>).
• Filter out noise in the sidebar — New toggles to hide subagent and non-interactive sessions. On by default — flip them in Settings to see everything.
• State syncs across browser tabs — Open Freshell in multiple browser tabs and tab/pane state stays synchronized. Create a tab in one, see it appear in the other.
• Browser panes work over the network — When accessing Freshell remotely, browser panes that point at localhost dev servers now work via authenticated TCP port forwarding with per-IP isolation.

Things that got better

• Better session titles — Title extractor skips system context and IDE boilerplate to show what you actually asked.
• Codex sessions survive server restarts — Codex terminals re-associate with sessions after restart.
• Faster sidebar updates — Session changes arrive as incremental WebSocket patches instead of full re-sends.
• Auth persists across tabs — Opening a new browser tab no longer requires re-authenticating.
• Paste works correctly — All paste paths (keyboard shortcuts, context menu, terminal action) flow through a single pipeline. No more double-pastes.
• Tab close cleans up split panes — Closing a tab with splits now kills all terminal processes, not just one.
• Terminal resize on reattach — Refreshing no longer causes terminals to render at 80x24 before fitting to the viewport.
• Mobile keyboard handling — Terminal correctly resizes when the soft keyboard appears.
• Recency-pinned is the default sort — Sidebar pins sessions with open panes to the top by default.

v0.3.2

What's New

Features

• Coding CLI options in pane picker with per-provider settings (cwd, icons, scoped shortcuts)
• Inline tab rename via context menu
• Deterministic Claude session restore
• Idle terminal warnings before auto-kill
• Comprehensive accessibility (a11y) refactor
• Responsive pane picker with CSS container queries
• Web Audio synthesizer demo
• Browser-use LLM-driven smoke testing

Fixes

• WebSocket correctness (backpressure handling, reconnect on hello timeout, snapshot race prevention)
• Terminal respawn loop prevention with rate limiting
• Session repair normalization and legacy migration
• Server startup issues (duplicate logs, wrong port, proxy errors)
• node-pty Node.js 25 compatibility
• Mobile sidebar and browser refresh fixes

v0.3.1

What's New

WSL2 LAN Access

• Automatic port forwarding setup for accessing Freshell from other devices on your LAN when running in WSL2
• Smart detection of WSL2 environment and Windows host IP
• Integrated into bootstrap with UAC elevation when needed

UI Improvements

• Recency (pinned) is now the default sidebar sort mode
• Added Ctrl+V paste support in terminal panes
• Increased inactive pane opacity from 70% to 85%
• Fixed pane focus behavior with xterm.js

Bug Fixes

• Fixed default working directory handling for Windows shells in WSL
• Fixed runaway terminal creation loop on exit
• Improved session handling and project path detection
• Fixed fs/promises import for Claude provider
• Made terminal font local-only and bulletproof

Developer Experience

• Better WSL shell spawning with full paths for cmd/powershell
• Performance logging now gated on runtime switch
• Added npm run serve command documentation

v0.3.0

A major feature release focused on session discovery and terminal UX.

Features

• Full-text session search — Search across all your Claude sessions from the sidebar. Search operates in tiers: first matches titles, then recent session content, then full history. Toggle between tiers for speed vs. thoroughness.
• Terminal activity indicators — Each terminal tab now shows its state: ready (idle), working (output streaming), or finished (work complete). Great for monitoring background tasks.
• Audio notifications — Get a sound alert when a terminal finishes work and the browser tab isn't focused—never miss when Claude finishes a task.
• Right-click context menus — Tabs and sidebar items now have context menus for quick actions like close, rename, and duplicate.
• Restyled tabs — Tabs now have a traditional tab appearance with better visual hierarchy and improved light/dark mode contrast.
• Terminal visibility optimization — Inactive terminals now use CSS visibility instead of display:none, improving performance when switching tabs.

Fixed bugs with tab renaming keyboard handling, settings merging for new properties, duplicate panes in edge cases, and streaming detection for activity indicators.

v0.2.5

Fixed: The Freshell emoji is now correctly displayed as 🐚🔥 everywhere.

v0.2.4 - Friendly Startup Message

Startup now displays a friendly message with the full URL you can use to access Freshell, including your machine's hostname for LAN access.

v0.2.3 - Fix Serve Precheck

Fixed: Port availability check now only runs in dev mode, not when running npm run serve in production.