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Firebender Changelog

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[0.9.19] - 2025-04-15

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Added

• Search text box with @ button popup for improved file navigation

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Improved

• Linter errors now visible on code edit panel for better feedback
• Enhanced history feature with thinking tokens support
• Better image persistence in chat history

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Fixed

• Fixed parsing of user messages as text content objects
• Improved content handling in chat session parsing

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[0.9.18] - 2025-04-14

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Added

• Support for GPT-4.1 - the latest LLM from OpenAI
• Support for Grok 3 Fast Beta with custom API key configuration
• Improved thinking tokens with redacted thinking support for better agent experience

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Improved

• All-new chat UI with enhanced model selection and mode controls
• Smart file search for @ mentions that prevents duplicate searches
• File search only runs when popup is actually visible for better performance

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Fixed

• Fixed cancellation error handling to only show relevant errors
• Fixed content block handling for better streaming experience with newer models
• Improved popup UI consistency and responsiveness

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[0.9.17] - 2025-04-07

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Added

• Support for Gemini 2.5 Pro! See benchmark results.
• Support for Claude 3.7 Sonnet thinking agent!
• Wider agent support for more models: o1, o3-mini, gpt-4o!
• Nested file support when adding folders to chat (limited to 25 files)
• Auto-removal of unused imports setting

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Improved

• Simplified lint checker for faster file editing and improved performance
• Enhanced terminal command execution with instant auto-run
• Optimized agent file tracking for better resource management

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Fixed

• Fixed file selection UI when AI is confident about file names
• Fixed text deletion issues with @ mentions in text area
• Improved handling of deleted files in agent mode
• Better file handling with improved document management
• Enhanced terminal component lifecycle for better resource handling

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[0.9.16] - 2025-04-05

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Added

• Diff hunks can be accepted/rejected per chunk

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Fixed

• Improved editor performance by preventing unnecessary renders
• Fixed freezing caused while agent is making edits
• Fixed scrolling behavior in query box
• Enhanced scroll handling for agent diff panel to only scroll to largest diff when explicitly clicked
• Optimized linting process and improved cancellation on user actions to prevent IDE freezing
• Improved grep result performance
• Fixed terminal component lifecycle management
• Fixed file search resource handling
• Improved message handling in MCP
• Fixed editor and document disposal for better memory management
• Better exception handling by removing file paths from thrown exceptions

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[0.9.15] - 2025-03-28

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Improved

• Enhanced UI responsiveness with improved editor text field
• Smoother auto-scrolling in chat interface
• Improved checkpoint and diff handling performance
• Git Diff is more accurate and more responsive

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Fixed

• Fixed copy/paste functionality between query boxes
• Fixed chat focus and text selection issues
• Improved file creation error handling
• Fixed text jittering in the editor
• Eliminated duplicate suggestions in file mentions
• Enhanced file path handling for more reliable file operations

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[0.9.14] - 2025-03-26

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Added

• Agent supports checkpointing for reverting to intermediate changes
• Support for @ mentions in chat to easily reference code files
• Added ability to clear chat history

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Fixed

• Optimized editor text field experience
• Markdown renderer now supports copying text across blocks
• Better scrolling behavior in agent diff panel
• Improved command execution in different shell environments
• Enhanced error handling in agent and editor interactions
• Fixed agent diff panel issues including freezing on rejection
• Improved file creation experience by agent
• Fixed issues with checkpoint panel and file handling in diffs

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[0.9.13] - 2025-03-19

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Added

• Web search capability to access real-time information
• Automatic terminal command execution from agent suggestions
• Automatic code formatting when making code changes

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Improved

• Enhanced terminal UI with cleaner interface and copy button
• Auto-scrolling in agent mode for better content visibility
• Added scroll pane to agent diff panel for improved content handling

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Fixed

• Authentication token refresh when offline
• Auto-running terminal commands and cancellation behavior
• Shell argument handling based on shell type
• Empty message filtering from agent responses
• Keybinding conflicts CMD/CTRL + BACKSPACE when text component has focus

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[0.9.12] - 2025-03-12

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Added

• Terminal support for agent commands with improved UI
• MCP support (see docs). Zach was able to order pizza in Android Studio!
• Agent code edits are more reliable with less weird changes like delete large portions of code and replacing with existing code comments
• Better cursor context for code completion and navigation
• Agent can start terminals in the background

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Fixed

• Improved performance for code navigation and autocomplete

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[0.9.10] - 2025-03-06

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Fixed

• Limit chat history to last 50 to prevent leaks
• Apply dropdown selector tries to find the correct file if its not open
• Optimized large file applies
• Removed unnecessary tags in UI
• Proper error message padding in UI

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[0.9.9] - 2025-03-05

• Fixed Claude 3.7 errors when using custom key

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[0.9.8] - 2025-03-04

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Fixed

• broken key events are fixed as there were competing handlers
• Improved error handling for file operations and panel display
• Fixed assertion errors related to line ending formatting
• Fixed stack overflow error in code rendering in streaming response
• Fixed index out of bounds error in selection listener
• Enhanced execution of actions on EDT thread

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[0.9.7] - 2025-03-03

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Fixed

• Improved error handling for streaming content (direct reaction to recent Anthropic outages)
• Improved error handling across plugin
• Better handling of cancelled chats in UI
• Fixed memory issues with history results
• Improved agent tool calling accuracy
• Fixed Read Action issues with PSI file handling
• Improved handling of large user prompts
• Fixed commit panel and selection listener errors

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[0.9.6] - 2025-03-02

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Added

• Improved Claude 3.7 agent making code changes

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Fixed

• Cancel button and command+backspace work reliably
• Improved IntelliJ stability and performance
• Fixed issue with deleted files in diffs
• Better handling of background tasks

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[0.9.5] - 2025-02-27

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Added

• Chat GPT 4.5 preview support
• Image support in agent
• Autocomplete is enabled by default

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Fixed

• Collapsed edit panel by default with +/- diff count for better UI experience
• Improved handling of socket timeout issues with Retrofit
• Eager cancellation to prevent socket timeout issues
• Fixed Read Action issues
• Improved IntelliJ compatibility
• More graceful handling of auto import failures

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[0.9.4] - 2025-02-26

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Added

• Claude 3.7 Sonnet support! Try it with agent mode!
• Agent support for terminal ./gradlew commands
• New chat button for quick conversation reset

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Fixed

• Improved test run feedback and support for Android tests
• More reliable error handling in the UI
• Better handling of large files in agent mode
• Prevent UI focus loss during conversations
• Improved completion suggestions visibility

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[0.9.3] - 2025-02-20

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Fixed

• improved autocomplete speed
• fixed UI freezing on error output in chat
• prevent chat box from refocusing when scrolling through the answer
• prevent chat box from auto scrolling to the bottom when focusing
• agent diff requires approval/reject whenever starting new chat
• reduce context pollution from various tools to improve accuracy
• stable import resolver

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[0.9.2] - 2025-02-18

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Fixed

• Auto import stability
• History loads agent runs properly
• Better error output for agent and chat
• Improved auto scroll on queries
• Improved UI resizing performance to not “lag” on load
• Improved UI layout to avoid flickering issues on query
• OLD_EDT error balloon throwing
• Fix with AI and quick fix use agent
• Don’t show a file in agent diff panel if there isn’t a diff
• Restore deleted files by agent properly

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[0.9.1] - 2025-02-17

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Fixed

• Auto import stability and timing out
• Improve agent tool calling on code edits and finding files
• Deleted hunks in an applied git diff no longer get cut off when scrolling
• Improved UI resizing for agent

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[0.9.0] - 2025-02-13

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Added

• Agent! Give it a task and it will create or edit files, run gradle configurations directly, and iterate against the output
  • access to grep, directory tree, file search, reference search, usage search
  • editing/creating files
  • gradle configurations and output
• History: your chats and agent tasks stored locally, access any lost history with a simple UI
• Apply: major improvements for larger file changes (700+) and avoids irrelevant changes (e.g. whitespace/rearranging files)
• Autocomplete now understands argument types and has better understanding of ongoing changes
• Autocomplete can be instant in many cases (latency <100 ms) with smarter caching
• Support o3-mini
• o1 streaming support
• Lightning model intelligence improvements with thinking tokens and maintaining speed
• Quick fix button with any syntax error
• Hotkey CMD+; to do a followup chat quickly

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Fixed

• Autocomplete no longer spams suggestion on one line
• Auto importing has better understanding of what imports are relevant
• Auto imports works on missing extension functions
• Fix with AI temporarily disabled due to spamming logcat; we’ll bring back improvements next release
• IDEAVim support
• Adding file context dropdown doesn’t for open the file
• Autoscroll sporadically not working
• Context chips not sizing properly on follow up chat
• Autocomplete supports dart files

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[0.8.0] - 2025-01-23

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Added

• Chat now has full codebase agentic search - AI will scan through the code graph (5 layers deep) from the current file and find the most relevant code.
• Deepseek R1 added support without compromising on privacy mode
• AI auto-imports for in line changes and chat
• Improved caching behavior in autocomplete which should reduce latency
• AI quick edit handles follow up prompts better and tracks history of changes
• Right click any file in the file viewer, and select Add File to Firebender Chat to add to context
• Improve the prompts of Chat and inline AI changes for better accuracy
• Add docs quick link

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Fixed

• fix: inline edit bug where green highlight isn’t removed even after accepting/rejecting a change
• fix: improve fix with AI button to get more stack trace, logs, files
• fix: improved onboarding experience
• fix: improve auto-complete scaling issues

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[0.7.5] - 2025-01-15

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Added

• firebender.json supports rules for AI on specific file pattern matching (see docs)
• fix: remove unnecessary continue chat shortcut

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[0.7.4] - 2025-01-13

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Added

• Autocomplete will automatically add imports and use AI to quickly resolve imports in (~200ms)
• Add support for firebender.json to provide custom AI rules, and files to ignore (see new docs)

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Fixed

• fix: Chat doesn’t clear unecessary when user wants to add another code snippet to it
• fix: pasting a single line into Chat doesn’t create an unecessary snippet
• fix: Apply not responding to key events (ie. cmd+enter) sporadically
• fix: inline AI changes not responding to key events (ie. cmd+enter) sporadically
• fix: inline AI changes will correctly select one line, if it was double clicked

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[0.7.3] - 2025-01-08

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Added

• Crashlytics “fix with AI” button, will automatically add stack trace, relevant files to context
• Autocomplete is 2x faster and more accurate
• CMDK streams better instead of rewriting the entire output
• Added Deepseek v3, without compromising on privacy mode (thanks @mhss1 - Mohamed for suggesting!)

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Fixed

• fix: Chat UI chips sometimes use old file, now it should always use the latest
• fix: cmd+backspace works whenever deleting full lines in chat
• fix: line numbers are correctly displayed (thanks @vulag for suggesting!)

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[0.7.2] - 2025-01-01

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Added

• Cancelling query in chat is easier with with cmd+backspace or ctrl+backspace

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Fixed

• fix: cancelled queries are not cleared or included in conversation history
• fix: push all content up in chat on new message to improve readability
• fix: simplify prompt construction, reduce extra spacing characters that confuse AI
• fix: auto complete enabling experience is much simpler
• fix: add settings link to quickly change firebender settings
• fix: auto scroll is more aggressive to show larger content

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[0.7.1] - 2024-12-31

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Added

• Chat is pinned to bottom right on subsequent prompts
• Improved auto scroll so streamed output is readable

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[0.7.0] - 2024-12-20

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Added

• Chat UX improvements
• Apply UX improvements
• Autocomplete bug fixes

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[0.6.9] - 2024-12-10

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Added

• Autocomplete accuracy improvements and more robust to duplicate code
• Large improvement to accuracy of Lightning model for coding
• updating no longer fails in the background
• cmd+l apply increased speed for larger file merges

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[0.6.8] - 2024-12-09

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Fixed

• fix: cmd+l apply uses a smarter model for larger file merges

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[0.6.7] - 2024-12-09

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Fixed

• fix: cmd+l reduce rate limit issues

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[0.6.6] - 2024-12-08

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Fixed

• fix: cmd+k rerun fail
• onboarding gifs are dark mode corrected

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[0.6.5] - 2024-12-06

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Fixed

• clean up onboarding

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[0.6.4] - 2024-12-06

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Added

• cmd+l fast apply is now beta! It supports any open file and shows all the time

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[0.6.3] - 2024-12-05

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Added

• add support for custom prompts (alpha)!

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Fixed

• fix: cmd+l fm is null error

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[0.6.2] - 2024-12-05

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Fixed

• fix: cmd+l apply header doesn’t get clobbered by other headers
• fix: autocomplete ux cleanup
• fix: cmd+l auto scroll for first 10 lines
• fix: cmd+k history properly resets place

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[0.6.1] - 2024-12-03

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Fixed

• fix: cmd+k selection highlight doesn’t clobber git diff highlight
• fix: cmd+l duplicate instances don’t overwrite eachother
• fix: cmd+l more stable char streaming
• fix: cmd+l o1 output works

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[0.6.0] - 2024-12-03

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Added

• Firebender Autocomplete in Alpha! Try by going to settings and enabling

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Fixed

• fix: cmd+k sometimes includes changes that already exist in surrounding code
• fix: make it easier to update Firebender
• fix: cmd+k can get in a bad state where git diff shows but there is no active UI
• fix: cmd+k can get in a bad state where there are multiple instances going at the same time
• fix: apply reliability and speed is improved
• fix: apply git diff double clicking causes it to break