herdr

Preview build 2026-10-14-fbd2ae23927f

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Added

• herdr plugin update updates plugins installed from GitHub, all at once or by name. Running plugin panes keep working on their old files, and new runs pick up the update without a config reload. Locally linked plugins are left alone. (#4245, thanks @JJLiebig)
• Windows notifications stay in Notification Center. Clicking one jumps to its pane and brings the terminal window forward. (#4773, #4803, thanks @JJLiebig)

Changed

• An elevated Windows server now only accepts administrator clients by default. To let normal clients from the same account in, set [server] allow_unelevated_clients = true or start the server with --allow-unelevated-clients. Permission errors now say how to fix them, and sessions you can't reach show as unavailable instead of stopped. (#4717, #4769, #4777, #4779, thanks @JJLiebig)
• On Linux and macOS, closing the shell that started Herdr no longer stops the server. Scripts that stopped Herdr with SIGHUP should use herdr server stop or SIGTERM. The server log now says why the server stopped. (#4920, #4965)
• With mouse capture on, plugins that handle a link get first pick when you click it. Turn capture off to use your terminal's own link shortcuts, like Command-click on macOS. (#4874, #5064, thanks @JJLiebig)
• Antigravity and Grok count as idle once they are back at their prompt, even if their own background tasks or subagents are still running. (#3530, #4735, #4959)
• Ctrl+Shift+letter reaches plain shells as the Ctrl key, like in Alacritty and WezTerm. Super, Hyper and Meta shortcuts no longer type escape-code junk into apps that can't read them. (#4356, #5017)

Fixed

• Restarting a Mac or shutting down Windows keeps your agents' sessions. Herdr saves before the system starts closing apps, so agents come back where they were. (#4414, #5013, #5057, #5092, thanks @JJLiebig)
• Session saves are written to disk before they replace the old file, so a crash or power cut can't leave an unreadable save. (#5150, #5152, thanks @JJLiebig)
• The server keeps running when the machine runs out of processes or threads, instead of taking every pane down with it. (#3324, #4958)
• An out-of-range workspace number returns workspace_not_found instead of crashing the server. (#5096, #5171)
• Suspending an agent with Ctrl+Z and bringing it back with fg keeps its name and saved conversation. (#1647, #4964)
• Restoring a session stays responsive when a checkout's Git data is slow or missing. Worktree groups survive checkouts that are temporarily unavailable, and opening the same repository twice no longer nests one workspace inside the other. (#4926, #4736, #4945, #4770, #4772, thanks @minatoaquaMK2 and @JJLiebig)
• Closing a workspace's only pane asks first, like closing its last tab already does. Turn this off with ui.confirm_close = false. (#5143, #5173)
• Ctrl shortcuts like Ctrl+W work on non-Latin keyboard layouts such as Russian, Greek or Hebrew. Latin layouts and AltGr characters keep their normal meaning. (#1079, #4961)
• Accent keys and AltGr shortcuts work on Windows. (#4688, #5021, thanks @JJLiebig)
• Shift+Enter and other enhanced keys keep working after the outer terminal resets, for example after VS Code's Reload Window. (#4985, #5088)
• Quick Escape taps work on macOS with WezTerm's Kitty keyboard mode. (#1266, #5089)
• Kitty keyboard apps get key releases and F1, F2 and F4 correctly, and Backspace works when the terminal sends Ctrl+H for it. (#4184, #4403, #3244, #5017)
• Keyboard and terminal color replies no longer leak stray characters into pane input, and a half-finished color reply no longer freezes typing. (#4856, #4025, #5052, #5017, #5087)
• Fish no longer repeats prompt fragments while you resize a pane. The same problem with zsh and Powerlevel10k is still open, waiting on a Ghostty fix. (#3672, #4977)
• Apps that ask for pixel mouse coordinates get them, and clicks land in the right place on terminals that only report cells. (#4750, #3675, #5017, #4971)
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Preview build 2026-10-12-6d697e1e75ff

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This is a hotfix release for v0.9.2. See the v0.9.2 notes for the full feature release: https://github.com/herdrdev/herdr/releases/tag/v0.9.2

Fixed

• Terminal shortcuts that send Escape followed by a key work again in panes. On macOS, Option+Left/Right and Option+Backspace from Ghostty's defaults or iTerm2's Natural Text Editing preset move and delete by word again, instead of typing b and f or deleting one character. Escape-based Shift+Enter bindings insert a newline in Claude Code instead of submitting. Clicking a pane still doesn't send a stray Escape. (#4751)
• Alt+[ followed quickly by another key no longer merges into a different key. (#4751)