Releases

• Improved reliability for long, multi-step chats across different hosting request limits.
• Improved live response responsiveness while reducing unnecessary database work.
• Fixed stalled-run recovery, queued message replay, and cancellation edge cases.
• Improved OpenCode Go conversation continuity and updated ChatGPT compatibility.
• Improved persistent shell worker startup and dead-worker recovery for long-running chats.

• Fixed chat continuation after switching between AI providers, API formats, or models.
• Fixed reasoning and tool-call history handling for OpenAI Responses-compatible providers.
• Fixed Anthropic and OpenAI-compatible tool requests containing empty or nested object fields.

• Improved Gutenberg content validation and section editing, including safer handling of nested and existing blocks.
• Improved streaming responses with smoother Markdown rendering and less visual movement.
• Added distraction-free chat mode and improved transcript/composer sizing across desktop and mobile.
• Improved message composer controls, permission-state visibility, and responsive chat configuration.
• Added clearer guidance for reliable block-content workflows.

• Added Grok subscription sign-in and xAI API-key provider support.
• Added immediate message sending feedback and draft restoration when sending fails.
• Improved streaming responses for smoother reading with less visual movement.
• Improved Projects with searchable working roots, project icons and colors, direct project chat creation, and Pro plugin/theme scaffolding.
• Added chat movement between projects and simpler project navigation.
• Reworked Pro PHP schedules to run in isolated CLI workers with validation, durable run state, watchdog recovery, and file-backed diagnostics.
• Added Pro schedule management tools and guidance for listing, inspecting, updating, testing, activating, and deleting schedules safely.
• Improved Pro schedule verification with paused-first creation, manual test runs, longer configurable timeouts, silent status refreshes, completion notices, and human-readable durations.
• Improved chat layout across desktop and mobile, including wider transcripts and clearer run controls.
• Improved long, tool-heavy chats with compact turn summaries, two-level expandable activity, lazy loading, and preserved message order.

• Added private Projects for organizing chats, sharing persistent instructions, and selecting plugin, theme, MU-plugin, or custom working roots.
• Added project-aware file, validation, shell, and PHP tools that default to and remain scoped to the selected working root.
• Added focused project code search with ripgrep, grep, and portable PHP fallback support.
• Added approval-gated unified patching for creating, updating, and deleting multiple files atomically.
• Improved file inspection and mutation with bounded reads, file hashes, and stale-write protection.
• Improved npm typecheck and build execution from the correct project working directory.
• Expanded plugin-development guidance for structured plugins, responsibility-based architecture, and protecting third-party plugin code.
• Added dedicated guidance and bundled documentation for building OctoPress extensions with tools, skills, and agents.
• Expanded WordPress UI design guidance for responsive, accessible, task-focused admin interfaces.
• Improved the mobile chat experience with compact configuration controls, responsive dialogs, and better handling of long messages.
• Added discovery of GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna for eligible ChatGPT OAuth accounts and updated hosted OpenAI tools accordingly.
• Improved Settings so Pro skills are clearly labeled separately from Core skills.

• Added image attachments for compatible vision models.
• Added image preview, reuse, and Media Library save actions.
• Added Retry for failed chat turns.
• Expanded approval-gated content updates with slug, status, taxonomy, and featured image support.
• Added compact block content outlines and section zooming for focused long-content edits.
• Improved block content patching so sections can be replaced, inserted, or removed with stale-content checks.
• Improved long-form content handling on hosts with tight request timeouts by guiding agents to write smaller sections incrementally.
• Improved provider/model capability detection and filtered unsupported OpenAI API models.
• Improved attachment validation and WordPress.org Plugin Check compatibility.

• Added image attachments for compatible vision models.
• Added image preview, reuse, and Media Library save actions.
• Added Retry for failed chat turns.
• Expanded approval-gated content updates with slug, status, taxonomy, and featured image support.
• Improved provider/model capability detection and filtered unsupported OpenAI API models.
• Improved attachment validation and WordPress.org Plugin Check compatibility.

• Added a guided provider connection wizard with presets for ChatGPT, OpenAI API, DeepSeek, OpenRouter, OpenCode Go, and ZAI.
• Improved provider model management with searchable synced models and clearer enable/default controls.
• Added more built-in free guidance skills for content planning, content refresh, accessibility/readability, WordPress site management, and WooCommerce content help.
• Improved long chat handling with automatic context compaction and visible context usage.
• Improved chat message loading and provider setup UI polish.
• Updated the WordPress.org readme and plugin page assets to better explain available features.

OctoPress 0.4.1

This release focuses on WordPress.org review hardening, privacy/data-control cleanup, and packaging correctness after 0.4.0.

Changes

• Hardened chat REST permissions so chat reads and message creation verify ownership before returning or writing private conversation data.
• Added direct WordPress capability checks immediately before content creation and content update tool writes.
• Added a privacy policy helper and administrator-only Data Control setting for deleting OctoPress data on uninstall.
• Added uninstall cleanup for OctoPress custom tables and core options when Data Control cleanup is enabled.
• Fixed release packaging so uninstall.php, LICENSE, and changelog.txt are included and validated in the distributable zip.
• Added package metadata and compatibility cleanup for WordPress.org review, including Text Domain, GPL license file, and direct-access guards.
• Improved use of WordPress core helpers for JSON parsing, excerpts, plugin activation checks, and core skill caching.

• Replaced the free package runtime with WordPress-native request ticks and WP-Cron watchdog recovery.
• Removed free-package dependence on PHP CLI, shell spawning, and process execution.
• Moved shell runtime code out of the free build and into the Pro feature layer.
• Added Stop support for active chat runs, including cleanup of pending approvals, interactions, leases, dispatch state, and watchdog work.
• Added long-poll run updates to reduce repeated run/event polling while keeping chat state responsive.
• Improved request-tick timeout recovery and active-run reload behavior for long generations.
• Improved block content updates with chunk-oriented write modes and reduced persisted streaming noise.
• Aligned internal loopback HTTP requests with WordPress HTTP API SSL verification defaults.
• Fixed PHP 8.1 compatibility issues and Plugin Check/WPCS review findings.
• Updated free tool availability and release/readme metadata for 0.4.0.