Kilo Code Release Notes

7.4.11

Minor Changes

• #12254 30e7ec4 - Improve project-memory activity in VS Code with a task-header menu, quick actions, and optional verbose details.
• #12250 bd69158 - Support verbose project-memory settings and show recalled memory snippets in conversation markers when enabled.

Patch Changes

• #12287 bb75928 - Use distinct icons for context, project memory, and code indexing, and group context controls to preserve task titles in narrow VS Code sidebars.
• #12285 9fa2e18 - Prevent sessions from freezing after submitting or dismissing a question.
• #12274 5180c10 - Show newly submitted messages immediately after reverting a conversation.

Updated dependencies [319f159, bb75928, 9fa8a13, 30e7ec4, bd69158]:

• @kilocode/[email protected]
• @kilocode/[email protected]
• @kilocode/[email protected]
• @kilocode/[email protected]
• @opencode-ai/[email protected]
• @kilocode/[email protected]
• @kilocode/[email protected]
• @opencode-ai/[email protected]

7.4.9

Patch Changes

#12194 46fe0a9 Thanks @sylwester-liljegren! - Toggle chat search from the Command Palette, jump focus back to the chat input when it closes, and auto-expand the collapsed tool call or reasoning block containing the current search match.

#11977 a76dc77 Thanks @sylwester-liljegren! - Fix file @mentions for filenames containing spaces or non-ASCII characters. Such mentions now stay fully highlighted in the sent message and are read correctly instead of failing with "File not found".

7.4.8

Minor Changes

• #12159 1083bb8 - Report active CLI and VS Code app and session presence.
• #12065 2040f6c - Hovering or focusing a bar in the task timeline now highlights the matching tool call in the transcript, making it easier to see which bar belongs to which tool.
• #11687 c8047e6 - Add the prompt enhancer to the New Worktree dialog, so prompts can be enhanced before creating worktree sessions.

Patch Changes

• #11868 5b97ba1 Thanks @Tamsi! - Improve agent behaviour setting descriptions for Temperature, Top P, and Max Steps.
• #12183 751cac5 Thanks @AmariahAK! - Move "Browse files..." to the end of the @-mention dropdown so the closest matching file is the default selection instead of the file picker.
• #12211 b478786 - Correct the token usage summary's cache-read indicator and group cached input with other input tokens.
• #11922 07dab7b Thanks @LEN5010! - Improve question option visibility in light VS Code themes.
• #11783 6a3e5f3 - Inherit sandbox state when a sandboxed agent starts new Agent Manager sessions.
• #12174 3ba4c33 - Inspect managed Agent Manager sessions and send a targeted prompt to an idle existing session from the native Agent Manager tool. Require a separate explicit approval before prompting another managed session.
• #12212 38d7608 - Preserve the current local commit when moving a session into a worktree.
• #11536 be7418f - Keep Task tool subagents out of Agent Manager tabs.
• #1201 51848c4 - Remember initial session prompts when navigating chat input history with the arrow keys.
• #12158 3b1e07c - Enforce read and ignore permissions when file mentions add content to a prompt.
• #12177 e372cb3 - Keep keyboard focus on the active sidebar tab after closing an inactive session tab.
• #11424 3a4438e - Stop active Agent Manager sessions and their subagents when a session tab or the Agent Manager tab closes.

Updated dependencies [6a3e5f3, 227c65d, 3ba4c33]:

• @kilocode/[email protected]
• @kilocode/[email protected]
• @kilocode/[email protected]
• @kilocode/[email protected]
• @opencode-ai/[email protected]
• @opencode-ai/[email protected]
• @kilocode/[email protected]

Added

• Add an elapsed-time indicator to the session progress footer so long-running tasks show how long they have been active.
• Support importing legacy JetBrains v5 data directly from raw storage when the previous consolidated migration file is unavailable.

Fixed

• Restore the v5 migration wizard for users whose legacy provider, OAuth, MCP, mode, setting, or session data was not detected during upgrade.
• Improve migration reliability by preserving checklist todos, importing legacy tool calls as assistant parts, validating raw session IDs, and reducing migration memory usage.
• Polish session controls with more native prompt icons, progress footer spacing, auto-hiding prompt scrollbars, and improved rollback/redo scrolling.

Changed

• Keep the JetBrains plugin pinned to Kilo Core 7.4.5 for this release.

7.4.7

Patch Changes

• #12176 b740152 - Focus the sidebar prompt after closing an active session tab.

7.4.6

Minor Changes

• #12155 7a7c28c - Add in-chat search to the VS Code sidebar and editor tabs. Click the search icon in the session header to find text across the current conversation, with match case, whole word, and regular expression options, then step through highlighted matches with the next/previous controls.
• #10466 4051eec - Open multiple same-repository sessions as tabs from Kilo sidebar and editor-tab chats.
• #12075 1e0b25a - Support configuring network destinations that sandboxed tools can reach while network access is otherwise restricted.
• #12028 b2831c2 Thanks @sylwester-liljegren! - Add a "Browse files..." option to the @ mention dropdown in the VS Code extension prompt input. Selecting it opens a native file picker and mentions the chosen file, so you can point Kilo Code at files outside the current workspace. Files outside the workspace are not auto-attached; Kilo Code reads them on request through the normal Read tool, respecting your file access permissions.

Patch Changes

• #12093 8b46601 - Speed up VS Code settings saves by draining pending prompts and disposing worktree instances concurrently.
• #12162 3ee9144 - Show troubleshooting and migration guidance when Google Gemini rejects API credentials.
• #12040 93c209b Thanks @rakshith1928! - Hide gpt-5.5-pro from the model picker when using ChatGPT OAuth login, since Codex rejects it with HTTP 400.
• #12059 7e7ab7e - Support rollback and redo controls in JetBrains sessions and clarify when reverted changes can be redone.
• #12089 e674cdf - Load expanded diff previews consistently when opening a review.
• #12077 39468b0 - Show effective permission defaults and clarify external-directory approvals in VS Code.
• #12078 09f12c2 - Show sandbox controls only after sandboxing is enabled in settings.
• #12105 e0bfed3 - Shut down the headless kilo serve process automatically when the editor client that launched it exits without a clean signal, preventing orphaned CLI processes.
• #12152 f6149e8 - Start Agent Manager local sessions on Windows when workspace drive-letter casing differs.

Updated dependencies [039b73d, 1e0b25a, 94b553b]:

• @kilocode/[email protected]
• @kilocode/[email protected]
• @kilocode/[email protected]
• @kilocode/[email protected]
• @opencode-ai/[email protected]
• @kilocode/[email protected]
• @opencode-ai/[email protected]

Minor Changes

• #12155 7a7c28c - Add in-chat search to the VS Code sidebar and editor tabs. Click the search icon in the session header to find text across the current conversation, with match case, whole word, and regular expression options, then step through highlighted matches with the next/previous controls.
• #10466 4051eec - Open multiple same-repository sessions as tabs from Kilo sidebar and editor-tab chats.
• #12075 1e0b25a - Support configuring network destinations that sandboxed tools can reach while network access is otherwise restricted.
• #12028 b2831c2 Thanks @sylwester-liljegren! - Add a "Browse files..." option to the @ mention dropdown in the VS Code extension prompt input. Selecting it opens a native file picker and mentions the chosen file, so you can point Kilo Code at files outside the current workspace. Files outside the workspace are not auto-attached; Kilo Code reads them on request through the normal Read tool, respecting your file access permissions.

Patch Changes

• #12093 8b46601 - Speed up VS Code settings saves by draining pending prompts and disposing worktree instances concurrently.
• #12162 3ee9144 - Show troubleshooting and migration guidance when Google Gemini rejects API credentials.
• #12040 93c209b Thanks @rakshith1928! - Hide gpt-5.5-pro from the model picker when using ChatGPT OAuth login, since Codex rejects it with HTTP 400.
• #12059 7e7ab7e - Support rollback and redo controls in JetBrains sessions and clarify when reverted changes can be redone.
• #12089 e674cdf - Load expanded diff previews consistently when opening a review.
• #12077 39468b0 - Show effective permission defaults and clarify external-directory approvals in VS Code.
• #12078 09f12c2 - Show sandbox controls only after sandboxing is enabled in settings.
• #12105 e0bfed3 - Shut down the headless kilo serve process automatically when the editor client that launched it exits without a clean signal, preventing orphaned CLI processes.
• #12152 f6149e8 - Start Agent Manager local sessions on Windows when workspace drive-letter casing differs.

Updated dependencies [039b73d, 1e0b25a, 94b553b]:

• @kilocode/[email protected]
• @kilocode/[email protected]
• @kilocode/[email protected]
• @kilocode/[email protected]
• @opencode-ai/[email protected]
• @kilocode/[email protected]
• @opencode-ai/[email protected]

Added

Add rollback redo controls in JetBrains sessions so reverted changes can be restored from the chat UI.

Add inline revert progress in JetBrains sessions, including localized status text and safer cancellation handling.

Add Kilo Core support for localized commit-message generation, AI image generation, large bash-output pruning, and improved model-usage display.

Fixed

Harden Kilo Core startup and shutdown so startup failures show clearer diagnostics, app close stops the CLI process, and lingering child processes are cleaned up more reliably.

Fix workspace reload recovery so stale reload state no longer disrupts the session connection.

Fix JetBrains rollback and revert flows so prompt focus, scroll state, diff order, and turn state are preserved more reliably.

Fix Kilo Core Bedrock SSO credential resolution and commit-message error handling when no changes are available.

Changed

Update the JetBrains plugin to download Kilo Core 7.4.5.

7.4.2

Minor Changes

• #11826 dfa712d Thanks @vkeerthivikram! - Add experimental AI image generation tool. Enable via experimental.image_generation in config. Supports text-to-image generation and image editing through the Kilo Gateway or a BYO OpenRouter API key.
• #12010 2184888 - Render images inline in the chat view when the agent reads an image file. Images appear below the read tool card and can be clicked to open a full-size preview.
• #11954 b0348cb Thanks @johnnyeric! - Integrate project memory into the VS Code extension: memory status and controls in the Context settings tab, task-header and assistant-message affordances, the /memory prompt command, and Show/Toggle Project Memory command-palette entries.
• #11631 0734e3d - Enable autocomplete across supported languages in Jupyter notebooks.
• #12004 cef3dc7 - Add a reload action that reboots the per-directory instance, picking up config, skills, agents, commands, and MCP prompts changed on disk. Sessions and history are preserved. Surfaces: /reload in the CLI palette and editor chat, a reload button in the task header and settings panel, the Kilo Code: Reload Config and Skills command, and a POST /instance/reload HTTP endpoint. The endpoint returns 409 while a session is actively running.
• #12025 2d724f1 Thanks @sylwester-liljegren! - Click or press Enter/Space on a bar in the task timeline to jump the transcript to that message.

Patch Changes

• #12007 a5df5bc - Fix the reasoning-variant and mode dropdowns being clipped inside the New Worktree dialog. The dialog's scroll-container overflow escape now covers all inline selector popovers, not just the model picker, so dropdowns render fully above the prompt input.
• #12033 9fc1a1d - Show a clear "No changes found to generate a commit message for" error instead of a generic "Unexpected server error" when there is nothing to commit. The endpoint now returns a typed 422, and the extension surfaces the real message directly.
• #11825 0b78469 Thanks @jackson-zhou! - Support marking custom provider models as image-capable in VS Code settings.
• #12002 885a994 - Defer Agent Manager automatic branch naming until the conversation shows a durable task. The first user message no longer renames the branch; naming waits for a second message (up to four) or for the worktree to contain changes, and renames only run while the session is idle. Read-only verification questions (for example "is X fixed?") no longer claim the branch name.
• #12015 4dc994d Thanks @mjnaderi! - Support bidirectional text in the Agent Manager new worktree prompt.
• #12006 5c41d65 Thanks @mjnaderi! - Fix multiline bidirectional prompt input rendering and file mention arrow navigation.
• #12032 e4ae1c7 - Fix settings sidebar truncating localized section labels in non-English languages.
• #12042 22b9f7f Thanks @shssoichiro! - Respect nested .gitignore and .kilocodeignore files during codebase indexing.
• #11936 3d16f29 Thanks @mjnaderi! - Allow Shift+Arrow selections in the prompt input to shrink back across file mentions.
• #12000 dfce405 - Fix the model usage panel showing just "free" for auto-routed sessions. The routed model id (e.g. tencent/hy3:free) is now displayed correctly instead of being collapsed to its :free suffix.
• #12008 e29196c - Widen the Additional Writable Paths input in the Sandboxing settings so longer filesystem paths are easier to read while typing.
• #11994 eefd891 Thanks @IOLOII! - Generate commit messages in the user's selected UI language instead of always using English.
• #12043 8ff2a16 - Fixed dismissed question tool content not showing in chat history. Dismissed questions now render with a "Dismissed" label and "N dismissed" subtitle instead of being invisible.
• #12009 130b256 - Preserve the selected mode when sending the first message in a new VS Code task so the chosen model is paired with the correct agent instructions.
• #12001 6ad16cd - Wait for microphone capture to start before showing voice input as recording.

Updated dependencies

• [b976b5a, 22b9f7f, 61b9e09, adcbe0f]:
  • @kilocode/[email protected]
  • @kilocode/[email protected]
  • @kilocode/[email protected]
  • @kilocode/[email protected]
  • @kilocode/[email protected]
  • @kilocode/[email protected]
  • @opencode-ai/[email protected]
  • @opencode-ai/[email protected]

Minor Changes

• #11826 dfa712d Thanks @vkeerthivikram! - Add experimental AI image generation tool. Enable via experimental.image_generation in config. Supports text-to-image generation and image editing through the Kilo Gateway or a BYO OpenRouter API key.
• #12010 2184888 - Render images inline in the chat view when the agent reads an image file. Images appear below the read tool card and can be clicked to open a full-size preview.
• #11954 b0348cb Thanks @johnnyeric! - Integrate project memory into the VS Code extension: memory status and controls in the Context settings tab, task-header and assistant-message affordances, the /memory prompt command, and Show/Toggle Project Memory command-palette entries.
• #11631 0734e3d - Enable autocomplete across supported languages in Jupyter notebooks.
• #12004 cef3dc7 - Add a reload action that reboots the per-directory instance, picking up config, skills, agents, commands, and MCP prompts changed on disk. Sessions and history are preserved. Surfaces: /reload in the CLI palette and editor chat, a reload button in the task header and settings panel, the Kilo Code: Reload Config and Skills command, and a POST /instance/reload HTTP endpoint. The endpoint returns 409 while a session is actively running.
• #12025 2d724f1 Thanks @sylwester-liljegren! - Click or press Enter/Space on a bar in the task timeline to jump the transcript to that message.

Patch Changes

• #12007 a5df5bc - Fix the reasoning-variant and mode dropdowns being clipped inside the New Worktree dialog. The dialog's scroll-container overflow escape now covers all inline selector popovers, not just the model picker, so dropdowns render fully above the prompt input.
• #12033 9fc1a1d - Show a clear "No changes found to generate a commit message for" error instead of a generic "Unexpected server error" when there is nothing to commit. The endpoint now returns a typed 422, and the extension surfaces the real message directly.
• #11825 0b78469 Thanks @jackson-zhou! - Support marking custom provider models as image-capable in VS Code settings.
• #12002 885a994 - Defer Agent Manager automatic branch naming until the conversation shows a durable task. The first user message no longer renames the branch; naming waits for a second message (up to four) or for the worktree to contain changes, and renames only run while the session is idle. Read-only verification questions (for example "is X fixed?") no longer claim the branch name.
• #12015 4dc994d Thanks @mjnaderi! - Support bidirectional text in the Agent Manager new worktree prompt.
• #12006 5c41d65 Thanks @mjnaderi! - Fix multiline bidirectional prompt input rendering and file mention arrow navigation.
• #12032 e4ae1c7 - Fix settings sidebar truncating localized section labels in non-English languages.
• #12042 22b9f7f Thanks @shssoichiro! - Respect nested .gitignore and .kilocodeignore files during codebase indexing.
• #11936 3d16f29 Thanks @mjnaderi! - Allow Shift+Arrow selections in the prompt input to shrink back across file mentions.
• #12000 dfce405 - Fix the model usage panel showing just "free" for auto-routed sessions. The routed model id (e.g. tencent/hy3:free) is now displayed correctly instead of being collapsed to its :free suffix.
• #12008 e29196c - Widen the Additional Writable Paths input in the Sandboxing settings so longer filesystem paths are easier to read while typing.
• #11994 eefd891 Thanks @IOLOII! - Generate commit messages in the user's selected UI language instead of always using English.
• #12043 8ff2a16 - Fixed dismissed question tool content not showing in chat history. Dismissed questions now render with a "Dismissed" label and "N dismissed" subtitle instead of being invisible.
• #12009 130b256 - Preserve the selected mode when sending the first message in a new VS Code task so the chosen model is paired with the correct agent instructions.
• #12001 6ad16cd - Wait for microphone capture to start before showing voice input as recording.

Updated dependencies

• b976b5a, 22b9f7f, 61b9e09, adcbe0f:
  • @kilocode/[email protected]
  • @kilocode/[email protected]
  • @kilocode/[email protected]
  • @kilocode/[email protected]
  • @kilocode/[email protected]
  • @kilocode/[email protected]
  • @opencode-ai/[email protected]
  • @opencode-ai/[email protected]

Added

First GA release of the native Kilo extension for JetBrains IDEs.

Download the pinned Kilo Core release at runtime instead of bundling CLI binaries, keeping the JetBrains plugin smaller while verifying downloaded archives before use.

Show Kilo Core runtime details from the JetBrains plugin so users can see which Core release is active.

Fixed

Improve JetBrains runtime CLI download reliability by pruning stale binaries, using the shell environment for PATH resolution, and surfacing exact release-resolution failures.

Changed

Polish JetBrains chat UI with auto-collapsing reasoning previews, clearer retry/offline footer state, and more balanced prompt, code, question, todo, history, and popup spacing.

Show the active routed model name and remote status more consistently in CLI runtime surfaces.

Added

Show compact previews for collapsed reasoning blocks so long assistant reasoning stays readable without taking over the transcript.

Add clearer Kilo Core runtime information and diagnostics for release download failures.

Fixed

Resolve the CLI executable using the user's shell environment so custom PATH setups work when sessions start from JetBrains.

Keep retry and offline status visible in the session footer while preserving transcript context.

Prevent oversized header popups by capping preview content.

Changed

Download the required Kilo Core release at runtime and prune stale cached runtime binaries automatically.

Polish JetBrains chat spacing, prompt input behavior, question/todo layout, history scrolling, code block padding, and session background colors.