I have been unable to update Launcher to 1.7. Click to update 1.7, just hangs for hours.

This release focuses on the Core: a redesigned sidebar, a round of optimizations, and many fixes across the board. New sidebar organization: Chats and scheduled tasks now live in collapsible project folders. You can filter, sort, reorder with drag and drop, move items between projects, and pin the folders you use most. Deeply nested workers are shown in the sidebar, and subordinate names plus project and profile model presets are preserved when delegating or continuing work. Speed and optimizations: The prompt cache is more stable across turns, and each model call carries less overhead thanks to faster preset and plugin lookups, fewer unnecessary processing steps, and reused Codex connections. Settings save faster while preserving complete API-key pools, escaped and multiline secrets, and masked values across key-name casing changes. Large source files open much faster in the Editor. Files: Breadcrumb and text path modes, folder autocomplete, a configurable starting folder, clickable rows, and inline creation and renaming. Open browsers are reused and picker state is preserved. The UX of the file browser has improved substantially after the recent redesign. Models and providers: Native model commentary is displayed as streamed thoughts and preserved during Responses history replay. Provider refusals are surfaced clearly, and blocked requests are no longer retried automatically. Saved credentials for local model providers are no longer overridden (this was a huge blocker for local model enthusiasts). Integrations: Telegram and WhatsApp slash commands expanded with command menus, permissions, plugin settings, confirmed compaction, transcript exports, and chat selection. Project- and agent-profile-scoped configuration for Telegram, WhatsApp, and Email, with simpler integration settings. Browser, UI, and reliability: Better mobile composer sizing, terminal readability, touch behavior, and settings navigation, with chat controls accessible through overflow menus.

File browser rebuilt: The File browser now has directory trees, list and icon views, sorting preferences, and its own Settings category. The Editor unifies text and code editing with syntax highlighting, line numbers, search, Markdown previews, and protection against conflicting saves. Remote file access: Browse and edit folders exposed by connected A0 CLI and Launcher instances directly from the Web UI, with granular permission checks. Transfers are hardened with streaming, integrity checks, atomic writes, configurable limits, and safe archive handling. Beta, feedback wanted - A0 Tag: With an Agent Zero instance open in a Launcher tab, press Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + Enter and ask A0 to do anything on your computer from the app you are in. It can also type text directly in place, currently in text editors, email clients, and custom fields. Credential fields are intentionally not supported for security reasons. Tell us what works and what does not. Browser and Desktop: Safari host-browser setup on macOS, Browser tabs that no longer get stuck loading, faster Browser and Desktop startup, and a draggable canvas rail that remembers its position with per-panel desktop and mobile visibility. Security: Fixed WhatsApp media path traversal, Telegram webhook authentication bypass, and IMAP sender-whitelist parsing bypass. If you use these integrations, please update. How to update CLI: open a terminal and type 'a0 update' Web UI: open Settings -> Check for updates -> Review update Launcher: close and reopen the app, then click the Update button New here? Install guide: https://www.agent-zero.ai/p/docs/installation Full changelogs: github.com/agent0ai/agent-zero

From hours of troubleshooting, I used 3 different configs to test. "The Verdict: You proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that this is an Agent Zero bug with how it handles local/utility model API keys in version 2.12. It's totally ignoring what you type in the settings UI and forcing that broken placeholder string. Since the UI won't let you clear its localStorage through devtools, your two options are: 1. The Nuke: Quit Agent Zero entirely, delete or move ~/Library/Application Support/a0-launcher to force the app to rebuild its cache from scratch, and type the settings in fresh. 2. 3. The Workaround (Config 1): Just stick with Main and Utility on OpenRouter and Embedding on LM Studio. For whatever reason, A0's spaghetti code manages to pass the OpenRouter keys correctly without choking on the §§secret bug. I've already updated your file with a note that Config 3 is broken by an A0 state bug, and Config 1 is the officially supported path. You successfully chased the ghost out of the machine. It's a bug in their app, not your homelab. I'm glad to help the Agent Zero group. They only need to reach out to me....

This is the speed release, with some serious resilience work underneath. We halved the time between your prompt and the first token in Agent Zero. In the Launcher, startup time is also cut in half, and saving settings and Instance operations are about 30x faster. Context Doctor: A brilliant community contribution that brings a new recovery layer that repairs malformed tool-call JSON and recovers from empty, repeated, or misformatted model responses. If you run small local models or providers that occasionally misbehave, your runs stop derailing. Context-window indicator: You can now see live token usage, remaining context space, provider-reported costs, cache hits, and generation updates while the agent works. No more guessing what a run costs or when compaction will kick in. Vision sidecar: Another community contribution. Configure a separate vision model alongside your main model. Perfect when your favorite text model has no vision support, or when you want a cheaper model handling images. Also in Core: - The WebUI is faster and steadier during high-rate streaming with progressive Markdown and LaTeX rendering. - Transports now default to Chat Completions, which makes life easier for plugin developers bringing in new providers. - The interactive Browser gets configurable keyboard layouts with better macOS Option and AltGr handling. CLI: - WebSocket recovery keeps running through long outages with safe ownership transfer during reconnects, host changes, and shutdown. - Authorized Chrome/CDP sessions are more stable with persistent browser identities. - Now you get terminal-native ready notifications when TUI or headless runs complete. Launcher: - Startup, Versions, Settings, and Instance operations reuse current data, so everything feels instant while explicit refreshes stay authoritative. - There is a brand new Advanced section for power users: a file-first workspace for Dockerfiles and Compose files with fixed build, run, and teardown actions. - Running local Instances get a native Restart that waits for the Agent Zero UI to be ready.