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# 2026-10-16

## Improvements <Badge type="warning" text="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).

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

- **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).