2026-10-16

Improvements

Faster task search: task search now matches through a pg_bigm-backed candidate set and looks task numbers up by id directly, making search noticeably quicker (HF-13935).
Clearer Agent commit identity: commits an Agent makes in a task are now authored as the triggering person and the Agent (for example "Jane & Thor"), or the Agent alone when an automation with no human triggers the run; on a machine with no commit email configured, the author email falls back to the platform's noreply address so commits never fail for a missing identity. The committer still comes from this machine's own git config, and the platform Co-authored-by trailer is kept (HF-13901).
Steadier task claiming: the top slow query on the task-claiming path is optimized, cutting database load and keeping dispatch steady at peak (HF-13961).

The local service starts again after upgrading on Windows: fixes the daemon failing to start after a Windows upgrade because its singleton lock was never released — reinstalling or re-registering from the command line could not recover it; startup now uses exclusive arbitration instead of the mutual deadlock (HF-14079).
My Docs are separate per Space: fixes the same My Docs list appearing under every Space for one user; each Space's My Docs is now independent (HF-13971).
Conversation output no longer vanishes: fixes a turn's output appearing empty in the app when the session times out, only to show up after a refresh (HF-13965).
Inbox unread badge updates promptly: marking everything read now updates the sidebar badge immediately (HF-13749).
Crew retries reach the right Agent: a follow-up message after a crew member's failure (for example "try again") is now routed to the Agent that just failed, not to the previous successful one (HF-13741).
Calmer task conversations: fixes collapsed tool output suddenly re-expanding and the state flipping between "Needs your reply" and "Working" during a task conversation (HF-13939).