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# 2026-10-13

## New <Badge type="info" text="New" />

- **Tasks created from a comment link to their source task**: creating a Task from a comment in the Activity links the new Task to the Task that comment belongs to with a "relates to" relation, with no manual step. Creating a sub-task from a comment makes it a sub-task of the source Task instead (HF-13466).
- **New Agent chat from the home "+" menu**: the + menu at the top of the home page gains **New Agent chat** below the task types — pick an Agent and the chat opens (HF-13883).
- **Connected MCPs can be edited**: an already-connected MCP can be edited in place — name, address or launch command, auth method, credentials, headers, and environment variables — without deleting and re-adding it. Secrets are never echoed back; leave the field blank to keep the stored value (HF-13419).

## Improvements <Badge type="warning" text="Improvements" />

- **One wording for conversation states**: states are unified — the person a hand-off waits on sees **Needs your reply / Needs your review**, everyone else sees **Needs reply / Needs review**; a wording inversion that showed "Needs your review" to the wrong person is fixed (HF-13906).
- **"Needs review/reply" follows the run's triggerer**: person and state colors on boards, lists, and the Inbox now follow the human who triggered the run, not the Assignee (HF-13641).
- **Videos in task attachments play inline**: playable video attachments render as videos instead of file cards (HF-12922).
- **Skill details get a two-pane layout**: the skill file preview becomes a file tree on the left and content on the right, with a collapsible tree; single-file skills skip the tree. The in-Space skill dialog follows the same layout and keeps editing (HF-13916).
- **Avatar stacks on task-conversation entries**: entries now show every human and Agent that took part — main Agent first, starter second, the rest folded as "+N" (HF-13904).
- **Automation chats stay out of the sidebar**: task conversations started by an automation no longer appear in the sidebar's **Task Chats** module; they remain on their task's chat panel (HF-13951).
- **No more needless queuing**: commenting to @ an Agent that is already working in that task no longer queues the conversation behind the current run (HF-13761).
- **Faster first load**: slow task-conversation list queries and DB pool pressure are fixed — requests no longer hang for tens of seconds on first load (HF-13720).
- **Path redaction covers more surfaces**: Activity, conversation records, and the session panel now redact paths consistently; the OS username is hidden (`~/…`) as elsewhere (HF-13722).
- **Workflow webhooks gain Atom/XML and WebSub**: webhook triggers parse Atom/XML payloads (with safety limits), answer WebSub subscription challenges and verify push signatures; the Google Translate connector supports service-account auth via platform credentials (HF-13442).
- **The pi Runtime trims its output**: pi Agents no longer repeat the full list of supported skills and extensions in every reply (HF-11566).

## Fixes <Badge type="danger" text="Fixes" />

- **Switching organizations no longer hangs the page**: fixes a hang after switching organizations and back, and the source org's filter expression leaking into the current org's task page URL (HF-13910).
- **The Create Space dialog closes**: the × button works again (HF-13920).
- **Markdown URLs render correctly** again (HF-13918).
- **Windows image viewer**: no more double × buttons in the large-image view (HF-13915).
- **A memory leak in `<relative-time>`** triggered by iframe teardown is fixed (HF-13917).
- **The hourly update prompt stops**: "cannot stop the local service before updating" no longer reappears every hour after choosing Later (HF-13890).
- **Install-time update errors are caught** by the fallback (HF-13874).
- **pi Agent with an empty specified directory**: a new chat no longer reuses a stale directory and crash on skill overwrite (HF-13846).
- **No more false "handled by" notices** when sending messages, steering, or @ mentioning an Agent in a comment (HF-13840).
- **Crew members share the task directory again**: "share the task directory among crew members on the same computer" takes effect — members reuse the leader's worktree instead of each creating one (HF-13752).
- **Windows storage migration sticks**: "Repair and reconnect" no longer resets the migrated .hifox storage path back to the C: default (HF-13679).
- **The selected conversation stays selected** when several conversations are opened from comments (HF-13517).
- **`skill list` returns Space-bound skills**: the CLI no longer returns only the organization's default-Space skills (HF-13456).