devlog / 2026-W36

Week 36, 2026

2026-08-31 to 2026-09-06

Merged pull requests

Project	Kenn	Community	Total	Lines added	Lines removed
docbank	27	31	58	+58,443	−8,200
Kenn Forge	52	0	52	+120,290	−62,628
msgvault	11	37	48	+171,242	−39,200
AgentsView	21	25	46	+32,856	−22,565
roborev	15	4	19	+15,727	−12,940
kata	10	7	17	+15,865	−8,957
Ghosthub	10	2	12	+26,419	−1,814
BenchDB	3	0	3	+564	−95
kwt	3	0	3	+1,541	−22
Total	152	106	258	+442,947	−156,421

More document formats can now be processed with Docling, PyMuPDF, Marker, Apache Tika, Unstructured, Datalab Convert, LlamaParse, Reducto, Mistral OCR, and Trafilatura. Interrupted jobs can resume without publishing unfinished results.
Embeddings now support local OpenAI-compatible services and hosted Voyage or Mistral services. Generations are stored durably, can be activated independently, and use a rebuildable vector index.
JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP, and camera RAW files now get durable, high-density previews. docbank also reads camera and media metadata from more original files, including Canon, Fujifilm, Olympus, Panasonic, and MP4 files.
Embedded applications can now create and restore backups, include host files, recover after the original vault is lost, and remove old recovery points to reclaim storage.
Local imports can select files with glob patterns, and filtered searches can run without a text query. CSV files can also be converted to PDF within set limits.

Forge fleets can now connect through hub-and-spoke federation, and active spokes stay online during hub outages.
Forge cuts idle Git, tmux, archive, and database polling, reducing background work and speeding up large stores.
Remote terminals now support browser image paste and mobile special keys, reconnect after silent failures, and avoid touch and macOS cursor glitches.
Pull request and issue lists now find unassigned work, show stack position, exclude locked pull requests, and rank workspaces by agent status and recency.
Reviews and activity views now show private repository images, place outdated comments after changed files, identify committers on rebased commits, and preserve commit details after browser Back.

Import Slackdump exports, EML files, and Notion AI Meeting Notes, with long historical imports running as background jobs.
Search mailing list messages and whole conversations, and limit TUI views to named collections.
Gmail sync now replays failed fetches, while IMAP retries connection failures and rejects incomplete responses.
Stage deletions by search criteria or exact message IDs, with safer duplicate planning and consent checks.
Curated contact names now appear in analytics, search results, and exports, and the web app has new Directory and Settings workspaces.

Syncs now skip unchanged OpenCode sessions, avoid SQLite self-triggered resyncs, and refresh embeddings from only the data that changed.
Usage reports no longer fail while a live session is being written, and Windows daily usage now recognizes the local time zone.
Session transcripts now load under DuckDB Serve, and focused Codex transcripts keep answers followed by tool work.
Desktop sessions can now open through agentsview deep links, and transcript readers can hide system boundary cards.
Top Skills analytics now attributes Pi skill loads, and Codex gpt-reserve usage is priced as GPT-5.6 Luna.

Releases
Tag	Date
v0.42.0	2026-09-01

Rerun a job from the terminal UI with a different agent.
Skip reviews on branches that match configured exclusion patterns.
Local UIs now show release notes, review types, and reasoning effort.
CI reviews now use configured backup agents when the primary agent hits its quota, and GitHub App authentication works with GitHub Enterprise.
roborev.io now brings the product overview, guide, and documentation into one site.

Kata's CLI starts faster because it no longer initializes Chroma at launch.
`kata status` now shows an issue's owner and lease state on one line. `kata federation lease renew` can extend a timed lease before it expires.
Look-alike checks are now bounded, so creating issues with large bodies no longer times out during that check. Kata also reports ambiguous creation outcomes more clearly.
Closing an issue is now safe to retry with an idempotency key. Ownership updates also guard against conflicting changes.
The browser app can now run below a URL path. Federation keeps original link dates and historical authors during adoption.

Workspace changes now stay in sync across windows, including externally created sessions and added or removed KWT worktrees.
KWT workspaces now open on the correct tmux server and show their changed files.
You can now search text in the active terminal pane.
Remote tmux sessions now support clipboard controls and pasting images from the Mac clipboard.
Relaunches now apply queued updates, restore window positions, and recover from temporary KWT inventory failures.

kwt.sh now has a rebuilt product overview, guide, and documentation site.
Registry creation now cleans up zero-byte lock files instead of leaving them beside the registry.