Factory Droid v1.5.0
Factory Droid v1.5.0 was released on .
Summary
Droid 1.5.0 is here: a new automation menu, cleaner custom model setup, environments filtered by your org's policy, and fixes for loading older messages. Ready to see what changed?
Release Context
- This was the 63rd Factory Droid release of 2026 tracked by Havoptic.
- It shipped 1 day after Factory Droid v1.4.0 (November 5, 2026).
- Factory Droid: ships every 1.6 days — 23 releases in the last month.
Why it matters: Create automations from templates, Droid, or manually.
Shipped around the same time
Within 3 days of this release, other AI coding tools also shipped:
- Lovable 2026.11.09 (November 9, 2026)
- Amp 2026.11.09 (November 9, 2026)
- Devin Desktop v3.12.43 (November 9, 2026)
- Devin 2026.11.09 (November 9, 2026)
- Grok Build v1.0.79 (November 8, 2026)
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Release Notes
CLI v1.5.0, Desktop v1.5.0: New automation menu, older message loading fixes, connectors, and safer Environment choices New features - New automation menu - New automation on the Automations list now offers Create from template, Create with Droid, or Create manually Improvements - Simpler custom model form - Adding a custom model now keeps Behaves like under Advanced options instead of the main form - Tool rows in light mode - Tool labels in light mode now sit back from Droid's text the way they do in dark mode Bug fixes - Saved pull request titles - The environment panel now shows a saved pull request's own title instead of a placeholder - Environment choices in New Session - New Session now offers only Environments your organization's computer policy allows, and explains a failed launch - Connector logos and categories - Splunk, Elasticsearch, and Google BigQuery now show their logo, description, and category in Connectors settings - Older messages after compaction - Reopening a session whose history was compacted now loads all of its older messages - Older messages on short sessions - Short transcripts now load their older messages instead of leaving a button that never loads - Environment names on shared automations - Automations shared by other members now name their Environment instead of showing Unknown environment Deprecations - PR Babysitter template removed - The automation template gallery no longer offers the PR Babysitter guided setup
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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