Orca v1.4.257 freezes less on long agent chats and keeps your browser notes

Orca 1.4.257 freezes less when several long chats stream at once. In a chat with sixty thousand items, each new reply now takes Orca about a sixth of the time it did before.

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Orca freezes less when several long chats stream at once

For agents working in Chat UI conversations with a lot of history.

v1.4.256 294 ms

v1.4.257 51 ms

Notes you leave on a page in Orca's browser now survive a reload or restart, and closing the tab asks first. Agents on your desktop can pull them with orca tab annotations before you press Send.

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Notes on a page in Orca’s browser survive a restart

Restart

unsent notes return after a reload or restart

Close

closing a tab with unsent notes asks first

Agents

orca tab annotations reads them before you press Send

Dictation can now wait while you think. In Voice settings, Stop After Silence goes to thirty seconds, one minute, two minutes or Off. A new Test button plays your microphone back, with a transcript.

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Dictation can wait through a long pause

Stop After Silence

30 seconds, one minute, two minutes or Off

Test

plays your microphone back, with a transcript once your speech model is ready

A command pasted into a terminal that is still starting or reconnecting now waits for the shell instead of being dropped. That covers local, SSH and remote terminals, up to sixty-four kilobytes.

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A paste into a starting terminal waits for its shell

Terminals

local, SSH and remote

Limit

pastes up to 64 KB; larger pastes still need a connected terminal

Folder workspaces now run your setup scripts when you create one, from the app or the CLI, and archive scripts before removal. Every one of those scripts runs in the shared project folder.

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Folder workspaces now run setup and archive scripts

Create

configured setup scripts run on create, from the app or the CLI

Remove

archive scripts run before the workspace is removed

Shared

every script runs in the shared project folder

Press the slash key in an empty split pane to search for an agent or file. Claude model picks stay put mid-turn, and Codex images stay visible after the turn. Remote chats need both ends updated.

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Press / in an empty split pane to find an agent or file

Claude

a model picked mid-turn stays picked

Codex

generated images stay visible after the turn

Remote

Codex images need both host and client updated

If you keep several agents going in long chats, I'd update for the freeze fix alone. The browser notes that survive a restart are the bonus.

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Several agents in long chats? Update for the freeze fix alone.

Orca v1.4.257 release notes on GitHub