v2026.03.07.02

Release Notes - February 23, 2026

New Features

UI Improvements

This update is mostly about making long running work easier to track and easier to interrupt.

• Live turn activity strip with a running timer and a quick cancel link.
• Reasoning display is cleaner and more reliable in-flight because it keys off task boundaries instead of timing quirks.
• Sidebar status is more trustworthy: processing badges and timestamps reflect real updates, not attach time.

• Easier model selection with reasoning level controls in one place.

• Notification bubbles on tasks when they complete.

Server Improvements

• The server now runs on a stronger orchestrator, so it is more stable under load (lots of active sessions) and recovers better after restarts.
• New server state page at /server with a runtime snapshot view, plus some usability cleanup (labels, badges, refresh button contrast).

New Developer Features

• Realtime logs screen at /logs showing live Codex to server communication over the app-server JSON-RPC protocol.

• Watcher screen at /watcher for monitoring CLI or Web sessions using the same timeline style as the main UI.

• Server state screen at /server for visibility into what the orchestrator thinks is happening (websocket connections and app-server communication).

Reliability and Sync Improvements

• Improved session message handling and timeline sync for assistant response events.
• Hardened the UI and websocket event pipeline against message floods and redundant updates.
• Better recovery for stuck turns: core completion signals are used to unwind state, and task_complete is treated as authoritative turn completion (with updated core tests).