Orca v1.4.248 holds your queued prompts when an agent turn fails

When an agent turn hits a usage limit or an expired sign-in, Orca now holds your queued follow-ups instead of sending them into the same failure. Press Resume when the agent is ready.

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When an agent turn fails, Orca now holds your queued follow-ups

Queue

paused, with Resume, Send and Delete on each message

Replies

a streaming reply stays under the prompt it answers

Orca now lets you pick the model and effort behind its commit messages, pull request descriptions, branch names and chat names. Before, that meant typing CLI flags into an Arguments box.

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Pick the Model and Effort that write your commit messages

Writes

commit messages, pull request descriptions, branch names, chat names

Where

Settings, Git and Source Control

Default

the Commit message model covers the other three

Before: a raw Arguments box for CLI flags.

Orca removed the chat-history cleanup that could stall large chats, and preview updates stop copying the whole conversation. The cost: saved chat storage can grow again until cleanup returns.

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Orca removed the chat-history cleanup that could stall large chats

Previews

updates no longer copy the whole loaded conversation

Saved chats

every saved conversation stays readable

Known issue: with cleanup paused, saved chat storage can grow as conversations continue.

Orca can now wait one to thirty days before offering a release, and Skip Delay Once grabs a held update. At fourteen or thirty days, a release can expire before reaching you.

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Orca can now wait days before offering you a new release

Delay

None, 1, 3, 7, 14 or 30 days

Default

None

Known issue: at 14 or 30 days, a release can leave the update feed before you get it.

The Orchestration panel is back under Experimental settings, now that the lag behind its shutdown is fixed. A closed terminal worker also reopens straight from its card.

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The experimental Orchestration panel is back as an opt-in

A closed terminal worker now reopens from its orchestration card.

On Orca Mobile, a chat you just left reopens from cached messages and fetches only what changed. Long messages now reach Codex on Windows. Update the phone app too.

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On Orca Mobile, a chat you just left reopens at once

Reopen

cached messages show first, then only what changed loads

Windows Codex

long phone messages now arrive

Browser

tabs hosted by a desktop server stream to the phone

These need an updated Orca Mobile app and a compatible desktop or server.

Format on save arrives as an opt-in, theme pickers are searchable, and chat tabs get the terminal's right-click actions. If you queue prompts for Claude Code or Codex, I'd update now.

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Three editor changes

Format on save

opt-in, using your project’s own formatter

Themes

theme pickers are searchable

Chat tabs

right-click gives the terminal’s tab actions

Queue prompts for Claude Code or Codex? Update now.

Orca v1.4.248 release notes on GitHub