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LLeMbas Desktop 1.0.0-beta.2
Pre-ReleaseHomer released this
2026-11-07 22:44:32 +00:00 | -10 commits to main since this releaseLLeMbas Desktop 1.0.0-beta.2
A beta for LLeMbas 2.0. No update feed offers it.
Carries LLeMbas CLI 2.0.0-beta.2 and the look of LLeMbas 2.0.0-beta.4.
Changed
- The agent keeps what its model has read (LLeMbas CLI 2.0.0-beta.2, harness spec 3.1.0): the
system prompt is made once per session and sent unchanged, so a local model's server reuses the
whole conversation instead of reading it again; the date and anything that changes during a
session come as a short note on your next message; the tools stay the same for the session;
compaction is the next turn of the same conversation.
Fixed
- The editor highlights code again. One of the editor's modules imported a file the app does
not have, so every language that parses failed to load and files opened as plain text.
Downloads
- The agent keeps what its model has read (LLeMbas CLI 2.0.0-beta.2, harness spec 3.1.0): the
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LLeMbas Desktop 1.0.0-beta.1 — an app of its own
Pre-Release2026-11-03 16:12:39 +00:00 | -8 commits to main since this releaseLLeMbas Desktop 1.0.0-beta.1 — an app of its own
LLeMbas Desktop 1.0 becomes an app of its own: the agent on this computer by default, your
server's chats, two explorers and a viewer -- no longer a window onto the web interface. It needs a
LLeMbas 2.0 server.Carries LLeMbas CLI 2.0.0-beta.1. Needs a LLeMbas 2.0 server (2.0.0-beta.1 or later).
Changed
- The app's own interface replaces the server's web pages. The window shows the app's page
(ui/, plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript modules, no build step): the chats, the transcript with
its steps and tool calls, the reply as it is written, the questions and approvals that wait for
an answer, and a composer. It talks to the server's/api/v2. - Agent chats first. The sidebar opens on agent chats, those on this computer above those on
your other devices; a new agent chat is started on this computer, in one of the agent's
folders, with its mode and model. Chats on the server are the second tab. - One approval signs the app in and links this computer. The app asks the server's device
login for its own token (your chats, as the web interface reads and writes them, and dictation)
and, in the same approval, for the agent's; the approval opens in your browser. The agent's
token goes straight to the built-in LLeMbas CLI on its standard input (lembas login --token-stdin), which keeps it in its own configuration aslembas logindoes; the app never
stores it. A computer linked already keeps its link, and Link again under Settings is still
there. A server that cannot give both tokens from one approval gets the old two steps. - The app's own token is not a device: the server lists it under Apps, and only the agent's
link is among the devices an agent chat can start on. - The look is still the server's: its design tokens, now copied from the 2.0 server, and its
CodeMirror build for code (scripts/fetch-vendor.sh, pinned invendor.lock.json). The
window takes the account's theme. - One window with one page: the second webview, and the Linux workaround it needed, are gone. The
window still has the app's own title bar, and its edges resize it. - The page's words, old and new, are in all nine of the server's languages.
Added
- Two explorers, kept apart: this computer's -- the open agent chat's folder, or one of the
agent's folders -- read only inside the agent's folders, and the server's files, through
/api/v2/fileswith your own access. A server file that is not text, or too large, says so in
your language instead of failing. - A viewer beside the chat: Markdown drawn, code highlighted (read-only CodeMirror), text,
and HTML in a sealed frame on its own address, with no access to the app, no network and no way
to navigate. A file the agent shows (show) opens in it: from this computer for an agent chat
running here, otherwise as the server keeps it (/api/v2/chats/…/show), checked against the
chat's access when it is opened. A file that is gone, too large or not text says so. - Native notifications when a reply or an agent chat finishes while you are elsewhere (on by
default; Settings, Notifications). - A server older than LLeMbas 2.0 is refused with a message saying which side to update, and so
is a server whose app interface is newer than this app knows. What counts is the link protocol
(3) and the app interface (app_api2), not the server's version number. - Settings in the app: the server and the sign-in, the agent and its folders, notifications
and updates. There are no admin pages. - When the app cannot start, it says why in
desktop.login its log directory, not only on a
terminal nobody sees. A missing tray no longer stops it from starting. - With NVIDIA's own driver, WebKitGTK's DMA-BUF renderer is turned off before the window opens
(unless you have setWEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER): that renderer leaves the window blank or
ends the app there, on Wayland most of all.
Removed
- The server's web interface in the window, the microphone permission it needed, and the theme
report the window read from it. The web interface stays in the browser, and as an installable
web app.
Fixed
- A release can no longer be quietly replaced under the same version: installing the same version
again does nothing, so people with the broken copy never got the fix. The release workflow now
refuses a tag that has a release already, unless it is run by hand to replace it. - A beta's
.debsorts below the release that follows it (1.0.0~beta.1before1.0.0), so apt
does not keep a beta over its release.
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- The app's own interface replaces the server's web pages. The window shows the app's page
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2026-10-25 19:53:07 +00:00 | 0 commits to main since this releaseLLeMbas Desktop 0.7.2 — carrying LLeMbas CLI 1.5.2
Linking this computer again leaves one device, and LLeMbas CLI 1.5.2 inside.
Changed
- Carries LLeMbas CLI 1.5.2. Linking this computer again no longer leaves an offline copy of it on
the server holding its agent chats: the old link is signed out, and a LLeMbas server 1.7.2 or
later moves its chats to the new one. When the agent cannot connect, its log (agent.login the
app's log directory) now says why -- a certificate that is not trusted, for instance -- instead
of only "could not reach the instance".
Downloads
- Carries LLeMbas CLI 1.5.2. Linking this computer again no longer leaves an offline copy of it on
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2026-10-23 23:03:16 +00:00 | 2 commits to main since this releaseLLeMbas Desktop 0.7.1 — the microphone
The microphone works, and LLeMbas CLI 1.5.1 inside.
Fixed
- Dictation said the microphone was blocked, with no way to allow it. The server's page asks
for the microphone, and a webview grants it only if the app answers: WebKitGTK refuses whatever
it is not answered on, and shows no prompt of its own. Desktop now allows the microphone -- the
microphone only, and only for the server's page in the content view; a camera or a screen still
gets the platform's refusal.
Changed
- Carries LLeMbas CLI 1.5.1: an image counts by its size, so a screenshot no longer makes the
agent compact.
Downloads
- Dictation said the microphone was blocked, with no way to allow it. The server's page asks
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2026-10-20 16:19:41 +00:00 | 5 commits to main since this releaseLLeMbas Desktop 0.7.0 — carries LLeMbas CLI 1.5.0
Carries LLeMbas CLI 1.5.0: harness spec 2.0.0 — background work as jobs the person can see,
enter and stop, and subagents that run in the background and talk back.Changed
- Carries LLeMbas CLI 1.5.0. The agent on this computer runs subagents in the background, keeps
every background command and subagent as a job of its session, and reports them to a LLeMbas
server 1.6.0, which shows them in the chat with Stop and a message box.
Downloads
- Carries LLeMbas CLI 1.5.0. The agent on this computer runs subagents in the background, keeps
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LLeMbas Desktop 0.6.0 Stable
2026-10-20 12:40:11 +00:00 | 6 commits to main since this release[0.6.0] — 2026-10-20
Carries LLeMbas CLI 1.4.0: harness spec 1.2.0, so the agent's memory, notes and skills are the
same tools as the server's.Changed
- Carries LLeMbas CLI 1.4.0. The agent on this computer and a LLeMbas server 1.5.0 now send a
model the same library tools —memory,note_view,note_manage,skills_list,
skill_view,skill_manage— whether the agent uses its own library or the server's.
Downloads
- Carries LLeMbas CLI 1.4.0. The agent on this computer and a LLeMbas server 1.5.0 now send a
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LLeMbas Desktop 0.5.0 Stable
2026-10-18 02:46:24 +00:00 | 7 commits to main since this releaseCarries LLeMbas CLI 1.3.0: a plan in every agent chat, the instance's instructions and
knowledge scope on the device, Edit and Regenerate on agent chats. The app's look comes from
the server's tokens and follows the page's theme; its own pages speak nine languages.Changed
- The app's own pages take their look from the server's
tokens.css, copied by
scripts/fetch-tokens.shfrom a server tag and pinned intokens.lock.json(the script with
no argument verifies the copy). The hand copy had drifted:--danger,--control-hand
--text-xlwere not the server's. The pages name no colour, size or space of their own, and
no font is bundled: the font rules are left out of the copy, so the title bar and the
first-run page are set in the system's monospace face. - The window's frame is painted in the theme's border colour read out of
tokens.cssat build
time (build.rs), not a value written in Rust, and it changes with the theme. - The first-run page and the title bar speak the system's language when it is one of the
server's nine (Czech, German, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Slovak; English
otherwise).ui/i18n.jsis generated byscripts/gen-i18n.py: the sentences the server also
has are translated as the server translates them, the app's own are in the script.
Fixed
- The title bar followed the desktop's light or dark setting, not the account's theme, so it
could be dark over the parchment (Shire) page. It now follows the server page: a script in the
content view reports the page's theme to the app, which paints the frame, the title bar and
the first-run page in it and remembers it for the next start. The server's pages still get no
IPC; the report is a navigation attempt the app reads and refuses. - The close button's hover colour was a literal white; it is the theme's inverse ink.
Downloads
- The app's own pages take their look from the server's
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LLeMbas Desktop 0.4.0 Stable
2026-10-14 18:40:23 +00:00 | 10 commits to main since this releaseCarries LLeMbas CLI 1.2.0, whose agent stays linked before any folder is allowed and follows
changes to its folders without a restart.Added
- Project folders: Settings… (in the title bar's and the tray's menu) lists the folders the
agent may work in, with Add folder… (the system's folder dialog), Remove, the most an agent
chat may do there, and whether the server may open a terminal. Turning the agent on with no
folder chosen opens this page. Changes go through the bundled CLI (lembas remote). - The server is told it is shown in LLeMbas Desktop and on which computer, so it lists this
computer's device as Local, first.
Fixed
- The title bar's menu opens under the button, not in the middle of the window.
- The agent no longer shows a green light while it may open no folder: the title bar says
agent: no folders.
Downloads
- Project folders: Settings… (in the title bar's and the tray's menu) lists the folders the
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LLeMbas Desktop 0.3.0 Stable
2026-10-14 16:34:34 +00:00 | 12 commits to main since this releaseAdded
- Updates: the app looks for a new release at start and every six hours, shows an update
button in the title bar when there is one, and installs it (the .deb with the system's password
prompt, an AppImage in place) after checking its signature. The menu can also check by hand.
Fixed
- On Linux the server's page took only the lower half of the window, under an empty title bar
area. The title bar is now its fixed height and the page takes the rest; the frame you resize
the window by is drawn around both.
Downloads
- Updates: the app looks for a new release at start and every six hours, shows an update
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LLeMbas Desktop 0.2.0 Stable
2026-10-14 16:11:03 +00:00 | 14 commits to main since this releaseAdded
- The window is LLeMbas's own: a title bar in the LLeMbas look with the server's address, the
agent's state, a menu (the tray's items, plus Reload) and the window buttons. Closing still keeps
the app in the tray. The server's pages stay in a view of their own, with no access to the app.
Fixed
- The app icon is the leaf alone, on a transparent background, instead of a dark square tile.
- The window shows the app's icon instead of a generic one (the window, the menu entry and the
package now share one name,llembas-desktop). - The package is called
llembas-desktop(it wasl-le-mbas) and replaces the old one. - The bundled LLeMbas CLI is installed in the app's own directory instead of as
/usr/bin/lembas,
where it could hide, or be hidden by, alembasinstalled by hand. SHA256SUMSon the GitHub release no longer lists itself.
Downloads
- The window is LLeMbas's own: a title bar in the LLeMbas look with the server's address, the