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v1.8 makes skills easier to activate with a built-in selector directly in the chat composer, strengthens memory integrity and filtering safeguards, and restores reliable handling for tool calls that legitimately send no arguments.
v1.7 tightens default prompts to a compact assembled stack while preserving guardrails, dispatches tool calls as soon as a complete JSON object appears in the model stream, and adds discovery cards on the welcome experience so new users can find the Plugin Hub and messaging integrations quickly.
v1.6 introduces a powerful new WhatsApp integration plugin, major UI server restructuring into modular components, Settings enhancements ensuring API keys aren't overwritten, and update system improvements.
v1.5 ships a deep WebSocket architecture rewrite with stronger routing and buffering primitives, lower initialization complexity, and multiple security and memory-leak fixes. It also includes model prompt optimization, upload-path robustness, and UI/installer quality improvements.
v1.4 focuses on first-run usability and plugin ecosystem quality. It adds API-key onboarding guidance, improves model preset UX in chat, and hardens markdown rendering pipelines in plugin documentation views.
v1.3 improves long-conversation handling and plugin extensibility. It introduces a dedicated chat compaction plugin and adds a native page-head extension point so plugins can load scripts and styles without brittle DOM workarounds.
v1.2 is a focused release that improves plugin index refresh reliability, centralizes model summary state, and modernizes the release-note generation flow used in Docker publishing.
v1.1 is a major milestone that transforms Agent Zero into a plugin-first platform. It introduces a full extensibility model, app-store-like plugin workflows, stronger model/prompt management, and broad reliability and security hardening.
v0.9.8.3 continues the v0.9.8 patch line with a UX refinement for chatbox expansion. It also carries forward the stability improvements from v0.9.8.1 and v0.9.8.2 , without repeating the full v0.9.8 feature set.
v0.9.8.2 is a focused maintenance patch in the v0.9.8 stream. It keeps all major functionality from v0.9.8 and v0.9.8.1 , while tightening skills loading reliability.
This patch refines the major v0.9.8 release with targeted reliability and performance updates. The core Skills, UI redesign, and Git Projects rollout remains the same, while this release improves model behavior and day-to-day stability.
One of the largest releases in Agent Zero history. The entire UI has been redesigned with process groups and real-time WebSocket state sync, a new Skills framework replaces the legacy Instruments system, new LLM providers, a message queue, Git-based projects, and dozens of bug fixes round out a release that touches nearly every part of the codebase.