Changelog
What's new in Mel.
Every release, the features and fixes shipping in Mel — newest first.
- v0.1.21LatestAugust 2026
- Two accounts on one computer no longer share one history. Conversations are stored per account, so signing in as someone else shows you their conversations and not the previous account's — your existing conversations are moved into place once, automatically.
- Every action answers. A whole class of buttons used to finish in silence — "Check for updates" ran a real network check and changed nothing on screen, and several messages Mel wrote had no place to appear at all. Actions now confirm, and the ones that fail say so.
- Menus and pickers stop opening in the wrong place. Nine dropdowns were positioned from a height each caller worked out by hand, and four of them got it wrong, so lists could open clipped or off the screen.
- The agent can supervise real work, not just write it: start a long build or a dev server in the background, wait for it to be ready, call it over HTTP, open the page in a headless browser to see what actually rendered, and look at images. It can also plan first and show you the plan before touching anything.
- A conversation that had become unusable can be used again — one bad message could make every following turn fail, and Mel now repairs the stored history instead of failing on it.
- When a model has a bad minute, the conversation no longer stays stuck on the stand-in that covered for it; the next turn goes back to the best available model.
- Slow frames are now measured rather than guessed at, and the operations behind the worst freezes are barred from the code that draws the window.
- If you're on v0.1.18 or later, this update is one click: avatar menu → Update and relaunch Mel.
- v0.1.20July 2026
- macOS gets a real application menu — Mel, File, Edit, View, Find, Window, Help — with the shortcuts you expect (⌘, for Settings, ⌘N, ⌘W). Accelerators are deliberately held back while a CLI coding agent has the keyboard, so ⌘P and ⌘D can't be stolen out from under it.
- Window controls behave: on macOS Mel no longer paints its own minimize/maximize/close over the ones the system already draws — the traffic lights were always the real controls, and in fullscreen Mel's copies did nothing at all. Minimize, Zoom and Toggle Full Screen now live in the Window menu.
- The macOS app icon is sized to Apple's grid, so it matches its neighbours in the Dock instead of towering over them.
- Ticks, crosses and close buttons render on macOS. They were empty boxes — the system font Mel relied on skips that block of symbols, so Mel now ships its own.
- The keyboard hints above the prompt are clickable, not just decorative — and two of them that advertised shortcuts Mel didn't have are gone.
- The working-directory chip opens a directory picker, in the terminal and in an agent conversation: jump to a parent or subfolder without typing cd.
- Every titlebar button now tells one story — the icon, the tooltip and what actually happens finally agree.
- The starter session templates no longer depend on a third-party CLI being installed; they open Mel's own agent. The one that asked for a repository now explains itself and offers a way to add one instead of dead-ending.
- PDF export works on a stock machine. If no browser-based renderer is installed, Mel now falls back to one it ships with, so "create a PDF" no longer fails with a missing-backend error.
- Smaller repairs: the last session's close button no longer offers to do something you can't see; a failed command is visible in the sidebar and one keystroke from being handed to the agent; the sidebar's View-as and Density settings do something you can actually notice.
- Not changed: the in-app Feedback link still opens the GitHub repository. Where it should point is still being decided, so it was deliberately left alone rather than guessed at.
- If you're on v0.1.18 or later, this update is one click: avatar menu → Update and relaunch Mel.
- v0.1.19July 2026
- A new look: Mel's brand is now a true blue, with pink marking everything the agent does — the /agent label, the agent sparkles, and the running "Melling…" line. Every color pairing is contrast-checked so the app stays crisp and legible.
- Bigger, more comfortable text by default — and a new Settings → Appearance → Font size control (13–20pt) so you can tune the whole app, terminal output included, to your eyes.
- A cleaner app icon: the same M mark the website uses, everywhere.
- If you're on v0.1.18, this update is one click: avatar menu → Update and relaunch Mel.
- v0.1.18July 2026
- One-click updates, for real: earlier builds could never see a new release (their update check pointed at a source that stopped answering) — Mel now checks a public release manifest, so the update prompt actually appears when a new version ships.
- One-time step: if you're on v0.1.17 or earlier, download this version once from the download page — those builds can't update themselves to it. From v0.1.18 on, updating is one click inside Mel.
- macOS: after an update Mel now closes and reopens by itself (it used to quit and wait for you to find it in the Dock), and updates survive the move across disk volumes.
- Windows: updating no longer opens the full installer wizard — Mel closes, updates silently, and relaunches on its own.
- A small dot on the avatar now signals when an update is ready, and the account menu gained "Check for updates" — a failed check says so honestly instead of pretending you're up to date.
- v0.1.17July 2026
- macOS builds are now signed with an Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple — Mel opens on a normal double-click with no Gatekeeper "Open Anyway" step, and permission grants like Full Disk Access now persist across updates.
- With Windows already code-signed, this is the first Mel release signed on both desktop platforms.
- v0.1.13July 2026
- Fixed upgrading from Windows: checkout links opened without their full address, landing on an error page — the browser now receives the complete link on every OS.
- Windows builds are now code-signed (Concepts Dzign LLC).
- v0.1.12July 2026
- Your account now works on the web too — sign up or sign in at openmel.dev, see your plan, credits and usage at /account, and upgrade from the browser.
- Sign in with browser: the app can sign in via a short code you confirm on openmel.dev — no password typed in the app.
- New Profile and Security settings pages — edit your name, change your password, see active sessions and login history, and sign out other devices.
- Plans in the app now show full feature lists with a monthly/annual toggle (annual saves 10%), matching the website.
- Real in-app auto-update: Mel downloads, verifies (SHA-256) and applies updates itself, then relaunches.
- A contact form at openmel.dev/contact, welcome emails on signup, and stronger rate limiting across sign-in and signup.
- v0.1.11July 2026
- Fixed a rendering bug where a long agent conversation could go blank when scrolled — the full response now stays visible from top to bottom at any window size.
- v0.1.10July 2026
- Cloud history sync — your agent conversations now sync to your account, so reinstalling Mel or moving to another machine restores your full history instead of starting over.
- Multiple agent chats at once — open several agent conversations side by side in a new Agents sidebar; opening one from history adds it as its own chat instead of replacing the one you're in.
- Agents finish the job — ask the agent to build something and it now runs the whole task to completion instead of stopping every few steps to ask permission. A one-key “Keep going” and a hands-off mode make long builds effortless.
- Readable long conversations — very long agent transcripts stay within the window; wide terminal output, file paths, and reasoning are contained instead of being pushed off the side of the screen.
- Running-turn controls — the buttons shown while the agent is working now have tooltips and actions: fast-forward the rest of a turn hands-off, or send it to the background and get notified when it's done.
- Windows fixes — agent commands run correctly on Windows; closing a session or tab works on the first click; a not-installed command exits cleanly instead of hanging.
- v0.1.9July 2026
- Windows installer — a proper per-user setup.exe with desktop and Start-Menu shortcuts and a clean uninstall from Settings → Apps (the portable .zip is still available).
- Readable agent responses everywhere — fixed invisible text and washed-out code cards in the agent transcript on light-themed systems; code blocks are now dark, horizontally scrollable, and copyable.
- Sign-in reliability — fixed a sign-in re-prompt on Windows so your session persists across restarts.
- v0.1.8July 2026
- Credit plans — every plan now includes a monthly bucket of AI credits (1 credit = a cent of real AI cost): Free 150, Pro 1,500, Max 18,000, Business 1,500 per seat. Credits work across every frontier model; bring your own key stays free and unlimited on all plans.
- Two new plans — Max ($200/mo) for power users who live in the agent, and Business ($50/seat/mo) with centralized team billing and an org-wide spend limit.
- Add-on credit packs — 400/1k/3k/6.5k packs that roll over month to month and last a year; optional auto-reload with a monthly spend cap you control.
- Self-serve billing — upgrade, buy credits, and manage your subscription from Settings → Billing; a new Usage tab shows your per-day credit history.
- Account panel — sign up, sign in, and sign out directly from Settings → Account (no more detour through a conversation).
- Image attachments — attach images to an agent message; image turns route to vision-capable models automatically.
- v0.1.7June 2026
- Self-serve accounts — the waitlist is gone. Sign up for a free Mel account instantly. The website now leads with Download / Get started everywhere.
- Enterprise removed — Mel is a personal and small-team tool; the Enterprise/Teams tier and its self-host copy have been removed entirely.
- Pricing simplified — down to two clean plans at the time (superseded by the credit plans in v0.1.8).
- SEO and metadata — every page now has its own OpenGraph/Twitter card, sitemap, and robots.txt; optimised hero video.
- Honesty fixes — removed claims for features that hadn't shipped yet; corrected slash-command names; removed premature open-source claims.
- v0.1.6June 2026
- Accounts & sign-in — added email/password Mel accounts with an in-app sign-in panel for the agent.
- Account status panel in-app — a clear sign-in/account panel instead of an error when the agent needs authentication.
- Website redesign — new ink-on-paper design system (Space Grotesk/Mono), real Mel screenshots, provider logos, and a self-playing hero demo video.
- v0.1.5Earlier release
- Agent orchestrator — /orchestrate drives worker Mel agents across panes with cross-agent shared memory.
- Cross-provider fallback — when a provider is rate-limited or unavailable, the agent automatically reroutes to the next available provider and keeps going.
- Refreshed catalog — 6 providers, 41 verified models.
- Agent transcript scrolling + delete-conversation from the landing.
- v0.1.1Earlier release
- Live command streaming + Stop — watch long commands stream; Stop kills the whole process tree.
- Faster orchestration — the lead delegates to workers earlier.
- v0.1.0Initial public beta release
- Multi-agent orchestration — /orchestrate drives worker CLI agents (Claude, Codex).
- Agent over SSH — melt a remote session into an agent.
- Built-in code review — diffs, inline comments, LSP.
- Command palette + structured blocks.
- Agent mode — 6 providers, many models, no API keys.
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