Factory Droid v1.7.1
Factory Droid v1.7.1 was released on .
Summary
Your next message no longer gets blocked by old thinking. Droid 1.7.1 now keeps sessions going after context changes on both CLI and Desktop. Curious what else changed under the hood?
Release Context
- This was the 65th Factory Droid release of 2026 tracked by Havoptic.
- It shipped 3 days after Factory Droid v1.6.0 (November 7, 2026).
- Factory Droid: ships every 1.6 days — 23 releases in the last month.
Why it matters: Your next message no longer fails after stale thinking.
Shipped around the same time
Within 3 days of this release, other AI coding tools also shipped:
- Replit Agent 2026.11.13 (November 13, 2026)
- GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.110 (November 12, 2026)
- Claude Code v2.1.323 (November 12, 2026)
- Grok Build v1.0.84 (November 12, 2026)
- Antigravity CLI v1.5.7 (November 12, 2026)
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Release Notes
CLI v1.7.1, Desktop v1.7.1: Stale thinking no longer fails the next message in a session Bug fixes - Thinking after context changes - Droid now continues a session whose earlier thinking went stale instead of failing your next message
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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