0.52.0
May 7, 2026Sounds & colors
New sounds
We added an SNCF jingle, a Paris Métro chime, and a Paris Métro pickpocket announcement as completion sounds.
New colors
You can now choose from nine code syntax highlighting themes in Settings > Appearance, including Catppuccin, Dracula, Nord, Tokyo Night, Gruvbox, and Solarized.

Conductor now includes colorblind-friendly, accessible color options in Settings > Appearance.

Improvements
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- Queued messages now show why they're waiting when blocked by workspace setup or attachment processing
- Added a guided sample project onboarding flow
- Updated sidebar grouping labels to use projects and tasks
- You can now include recent app logs when sending feedback
- App logger entries can now be filtered by workspace and session tags
- Added more workspace city names, including Canadian capitals, Kelowna, and Newport Beach
/restartand/mcpslash commands now work in Codex chats- Terminal panel buttons (Open / Run / Stop / Spotlight) now collapse to icon-only when the right sidebar is narrow
- Conductor now captures your shell environment from fish and falls back to zsh for unsupported shells
Fixes
- Fixed an issue where cloning GitHub Pages repositories could give them incorrect names in Conductor
- Fixed an issue where "Open in Terminal" would not bring the Terminal window to the foreground
- Fixed a rare crash when rendering chat messages
- Open-in button now picks up the port from dev-server URLs that use ANSI styling, such as Vite
- Fixed an issue where selecting multiple lines in a diff to comment on would show two comment boxes
- Fixed an issue where the Conductor skill could not be discovered by the skills CLI
- Fixed an issue where the sidebar repo filter could show workspaces from the previously selected repo
- Fixed an issue where the chat panel could go fully blank after switching tabs while zoomed out
- Failed send attempts now show an error in the chat
- Fixed an issue where Claude grep summaries showed one match when no matches were found
- Fixed an issue where enabling terminal render debug logging did not emit terminal logs
- Fixed an issue where stopping a just-sent message could leave a session stuck as working
- Removed resource usage attachments from in-app feedback
- Fixed "Use Claude Code with Chrome"
- Fixed terminal freeze for certain shell configurations
- Thinking blocks and other expanded tool blocks now stay open when the next agent action arrives
- Fixed an issue where clicking the chat timeline would scroll to a position where the prompt was hidden behind the top bar
- Expanded tool calls no longer auto-collapse when new tool calls arrive during streaming
- Fixed a case where the update notification could show contradictory information about running agents
- Fixed an issue where an active agent turn could be interrupted and reported as "aborted by user" when unrelated sessions triggered a workspace config change
- Fixed the add-comment button in diffs appearing below the line number instead of inline
- Fixed an issue where the entire chat could temporarily go blank
- Stopped the disabled "Files to copy" textarea from scrolling behind the .worktreeinclude overlay
- Fixed an issue where shell environment capture could misread paths from CRLF output
- Fixed an issue where the git panel could get stuck showing no PR info for a workspace