Factory Droid v0.246.0
Factory Droid v0.246.0 was released on .
Summary
Factory Droid 0.246.0 is here: step through message images in a full-screen gallery, read any public URL with FetchUrl, and see usage in credits. Plus faster transcripts and a bunch of fixes. Ready to look?
Release Context
- This was the 51st Factory Droid release of 2026 tracked by Havoptic.
- It shipped 1 day after Factory Droid v0.245.0 (October 20, 2026).
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Release Notes
CLI v0.246.0, Desktop v0.203.0: Chat image gallery navigation, faster transcripts, authentication progress, browser panel safety, and CLI and app fixes New features - Chat image gallery - Step through the images of one message in the full-screen preview with arrow keys, buttons, or dots Improvements - Session transcript rendering - Long session transcripts now stay responsive while the session page updates - Credits in usage notices - The high-cost model notice and limits modal now describe usage in credits instead of tokens - Planning status for actions - Droid now shows one planning status with the number of actions instead of a row per guessed call - Fetching public URLs - Droid can now read any public URL with FetchUrl instead of only URLs you supplied Bug fixes - Buy Extra Usage notice - The Buy Extra Usage modal now asks for a payment method instead of promising to charge a card - Download save dialog - Downloading a file from a remote session now opens the save dialog right away - Questions written as text - Droid now asks its question when a model writes the request as plain text instead of showing markup - Unarchive button size - The Unarchive button in an archived session's bar now matches the size of the other controls - Selector menu icons - Icons in the project, branch, and machine selector menus now sit centered in their rows - Authentication progress - A session now shows when it is authenticating instead of looking idle - Terminal tab title - The terminal tab now keeps the current session's title instead of taking one from another session - Slack session titles - A session started from Slack no longer shows raw mention codes in its title - Desktop sign-in retries - The desktop app now retries a connection instead of reporting a failed sign-in when verification is unreachable - Subagents on Auto model - A subagent left on Auto now keeps the tools its chosen model needs instead of running without them - Tables on narrow screens - Tables in settings now keep their columns readable on narrow screens instead of collapsing Security - Browser panel link rules - Links a page opens in the browser panel now follow the same rules as the address bar
Other Recent Factory Droid Releases
- v1.12.0 (November 14, 2026)
- v1.10.1 (November 13, 2026)
- v1.11.0 (November 13, 2026)
- v1.10.0 (November 12, 2026)
- v1.8.0 (November 11, 2026)
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