✨ New Features

Git Repository Monitoring 🆕

• Real-time Git Status - Session rows now display git information including branch name and change counts
• Visual Indicators - Color-coded status: orange for branches, yellow for uncommitted changes
• Quick Navigation - Click folder icons to open repositories in Finder
• GitHub Integration - Context menu option to open repositories directly on GitHub
• Smart Caching - 5-second cache prevents excessive git commands while keeping info fresh
• Repository Detection - Automatically finds git repositories in parent directories

Enhanced Command-Line Tool

• Terminal Title Management - `vt title` can set the title of your Terminal. Even Claude can use it!
• Version Information - `vt help` now displays binary path, version, build date, and platform information for easier troubleshooting
• Apple Silicon Support - Automatic detection of Homebrew installations on ARM Macs (/opt/homebrew path)

Menu Bar Enhancements

• Rich Session Interface - Powerful new menu bar with visual activity indicators and real-time status tracking
• Native Session Overview - See all open terminal sessions and even Claude Code status right from the menu bar.
• Sleep Prevention - Mac stays awake when running terminal sessions

Web Interface Improvements

• Modern Visual Design - Complete UI overhaul with improved color scheme, animations, and visual hierarchy
• Collapsible Sidebar - New toggle button to maximize terminal viewing space (preference is remembered)
• Better Session Loading - Fixed race conditions that caused sessions to appear as "missing"
• Responsive Enhancements - Improved adaptation to different screen sizes with better touch targets

🚀 Performance & Stability

Terminal Output Reliability

• Fixed Output Corruption - Resolved race conditions causing out-of-order or corrupted terminal output
• Stable Title Updates - Terminal titles now update smoothly without flickering or getting stuck

Server Improvements

• Logger Fix - Fixed double initialization that was deleting log files
• Better Resource Cleanup - Improved PTY manager cleanup and timer management
• Enhanced Error Handling - More robust error handling throughout the server stack

Simplified Tailscale Setup

• Switched to Tailscale's local API for easier configuration
• Removed manual token management requirements
• Streamlined connection UI for minimal setup

🎯 Features

Real-time Claude Activity Monitoring

• See Claude's live status directly in the VibeTunnel sidebar - Know exactly what Claude is "Thinking", "Crafting", or "Searching" with real-time progress indicators showing duration and token counts.
• Activity status persists across browser refreshes - Works seamlessly with external terminal sessions.
• Faster sidebar updates - Sidebar now refreshes every second (previously 3 seconds) for more responsive activity tracking.

Comprehensive Terminal Title Management

• Dynamic, context-aware terminal titles - Terminal windows display your current directory, running command, and live activity status.
• Choose your title mode - Select between static titles (path + command) or dynamic titles that include real-time activity indicators.
• Automatic directory tracking - Terminal titles update automatically when you change directories with cd commands.
• Session name integration - Custom session names are reflected in terminal titles for better organization.

🌏 International Input Support

• Fixed Japanese/CJK input duplication on iOS - Typing Japanese, Chinese, or Korean text on mobile browsers no longer produces duplicate characters. IME composition is now handled correctly.

⌨️ Enhanced Terminal Experience

• Shell aliases now work properly - Commands like claude, ll, and other custom aliases from your .zshrc/.bashrc are now recognized when launching terminals through VibeTunnel.
• Prevented recursive VibeTunnel sessions - Running vt inside a VibeTunnel session now shows a helpful error instead of creating confusing nested sessions.
• Fixed critical race condition in terminal output - Terminal sessions now handle high-volume output without corruption or out-of-order text.

🤖 Claude Code Integration

• Added Shift+Tab support - Full support for Claude Code's mode switching (regular/planning/autoaccept modes) on both desktop and mobile.
• Mobile quick keyboard enhancement - Added dedicated Shift+Tab button (⇤) to the mobile keyboard for easy mode switching.
• Fixed keyboard input conflicts - Typing in Monaco Editor or other code editors no longer triggers unintended shortcuts.

🚀 Quick Start Enhancements

• Added Gemini as quickstart entry - Google's Gemini AI assistant is now available as a one-click option when creating new terminal sessions, alongside Claude and other common commands.

✨ Highlights

• Completely revamped mobile keyboard
• Mobile and Mac UI polish
• Fixes issues with Terminal app
• New security model: OS password or SSH keys

🎨 Improvements

• Enhanced terminal session handling and stability
• Fixed various edge cases in terminal rendering and performance
• Resolved session management issues
• Fixed URL link detection for wrapped URLs on mobile terminals (#85)
• Split session view file for better code organization (#89)

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🎉 Beta 3 Release

There's too much to list! This is the version you've been waiting for.

✨ Highlights

• Redesigned, responsive, animated frontend
• File-Picker to see files on-the-go
• Creating new Terminals is now much more reliable
• Fresh new icon for Progressive Web App installations

🎨 Improvements

• Improved terminal width spanning and layout optimization
• Added terminal font size adjustment in the settings dropdown
• Refined bounce animations for a more subtle, professional feel
• Added retro CRT-style phosphor decay visual effect for closed terminals
• Fixed buffer aggregator message handling for smoother terminal updates
• Better support for shell aliases and improved debug logging
• Enhanced Unix socket server implementation for faster local communication
• Special handling for Warp terminal with custom enter key behavior
• New dock menu with quick actions when right-clicking the app icon
• More resilient vt command-line tool with better error handling
• Ensured vibetunnel server properly terminates when Mac app is killed

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🎨 Improvements

• Redesigned slick new web frontend
• Faster terminal rendering in the web frontend
• New Sessions spawn new Terminal windows. (This needs Applescript and Accessibility permissions)
• Enhanced font handling with system font priority
• Better async operations in PTY service for improved performance
• Improved window activation when showing the welcome and settings windows
• Preparations for Linux support

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed window front order when dock icon is hidden
• Fixed PTY service enhancements with proper async operations
• Fixed race condition in session creation that caused frontend to open previous session

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🎉 First Public Beta Release

This is the first public beta release of VibeTunnel, ready for testing by early adopters.

✨ What's Included

• Complete terminal session proxying to web browsers
• Support for multiple concurrent sessions
• Real-time terminal rendering with full TTY support
• Secure password-protected dashboard
• Tailscale and ngrok integration for remote access
• Automatic updates via Sparkle framework
• Native macOS menu bar application

🐛 Bug Fixes Since Internal Testing

• Fixed visible circle spacer in menu (now uses Color.clear)
• Removed development files from app bundle
• Enhanced build process with automatic cleanup
• Fixed Sparkle API compatibility for v2.7.0

📝 Notes

• This is a beta release - please report any issues on GitHub
• Auto-update functionality is fully enabled
• All core features are stable and ready for daily use

✨ What's New Since Internal Testing

• Improved stability and performance
• Enhanced error handling for edge cases
• Refined UI/UX based on internal feedback
• Better session cleanup and resource management
• Optimized for macOS Sonoma and Sequoia

🐛 Known Issues

• Occasional connection drops with certain terminal applications
• Performance optimization needed for very long sessions
• Some terminal escape sequences may not render perfectly

📝 Notes

• This is a beta release - please report any issues on GitHub
• Auto-update functionality is fully enabled
• All core features are stable and ready for daily use

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