Full changelog
Release dates are shown in Vancouver time (UTC-7). Newest versions first. Last updated: 2026-10-16 22:05 (UTC-7), Vancouver.
Added
- Resize text boxes from all eight corner and edge handles; drag selected text to reposition it. Preserve text wrapping and box dimensions when saving and reopening.
Fixed
- Show a neutral text boundary only for the active editor or selected text box. Remove persistent red frames after editing and in reading mode.
- Keep highlights selectable, erasable and deletable. Clear all now removes both added and original annotations, including reopened documents, with undo and redo.
- Close numeric tool settings automatically when drawing starts, including text highlight and underline gestures.
- Underline selected PDF text along its baseline, following text ranges and separate lines instead of drawing a free straight line.
Added
- Restore every workspace tab, its order, selected tab, split conversation, zoom and reading position from an encrypted local session. PDF tools now offer four editable presets, an anchored color panel, red default annotation icons and more spacious controls.
- Keep a Reupload PDF button beside ChatGPT after automatic attachment. Retry the current file after a failed upload, show upload status, and prevent duplicate submissions while uploading.
Fixed
- Drag PDF tools with the pointer, then ease onto the document viewport edges or return to top center when dropped away from an edge. Keep left docking beside the PDF, clear of thumbnails. Drag across text to highlight it. Select notes with a click or marquee and delete only the selection. Confirm before clearing all added or original notes. Collapsing slides the handle to the nearest corresponding document corner. Centered tool icons use one soft selection surface. Undo and redo support Ctrl+Z, Ctrl+Y and Ctrl+Shift+Z.
- Fix a crash when closing the first restored ChatGPT tab. Unify page lifetimes and split-pane creation so navigation and theme work stop before a page closes.
- Start webpage navigation immediately without waiting for theme initialization. Show an animated loading panel for blank pages and a tab spinner during loading; retain visible content while slow resources finish. Recover saved placeholder navigation correctly.
- Ease Today’s schedule to the first unfinished, unexpired item when opening Overview, preserving manual scrolling during refresh.
- Use one toolbar font size, blue for PDF actions and soft red for ChatGPT actions in both themes. Remove the redundant New tab text button while retaining the + shortcut. Consolidate browser ownership, desktop IPC and renderer initialization.
Added
- Center the PDF ribbon on each docked edge, use one column on the sides, rotate only the six-dot grip, and animate moving and unfolding. Right-click the grip to fold or expand; the folded grip can move freely and expands on click. Add six editable circular color presets and a custom color wheel. Tool sizes and styles live in right-click settings.
Fixed
- Use uniform neutral icons with active backgrounds and custom tool colors, simplify the boxed T and highlighter, fill and soften the inset arrow head, and remove its former width cap. Remove triangle and diamond tools and persistent tips. Top docking follows a collapsed PDF toolbar. Text mode edits existing boxes, and cached page groups track native viewport changes for smoother synchronized scrolling. Match the current page, slash and total page count colors in both themes. Place schedule completion checkboxes on the left, check completed or elapsed events automatically without refreshing Overview, and use a trash icon for removal.
Added
- The native Draw button toggles a compact icon ribbon with selected-state colors. Drag it to dock at any edge; tools reflow while icons remain upright. Add transparent inline text with a gray dashed editing outline. Symbols stay fixed and can be erased by clicking or dragging; text remains editable. Highlight selected PDF text with the highlighter beside the pen, scroll while editing, save all notes, or exit with the final ×.
Fixed
- Right-click drawing tools for individual colors, line widths, text size, rectangle corners, highlighter opacity, and eraser range. Arrows use an inset kite head capped at 3× the shaft width. Add new-tab shortcuts beside Open file and after the final tab; the right-side action is labeled New tab, and the address field is 30% narrower.
Added
- PDFs open in read mode. Enter Edit mode to add editable Chinese or English text, rectangles, ellipses, tapered arrows, lines, triangles, diamonds, highlights, and underlines. Select, edit, or erase individual Orbit annotations, including after saving and reopening the PDF.
Fixed
- Restore accurate drawing color swatches in light and dark themes, retain each annotation as a separate PDF object, and rename the schedule reset button to Current.
Added
- Browse yesterday, tomorrow, or any date directly in the Overview schedule. Use the arrows, date picker, and Today button; new local meetings use the selected date.
Fixed
- Load all connected Google calendars for the selected day in your configured time zone, including daylight-saving boundaries. Keep the chosen date when refreshing and prevent old responses from replacing a newer selection.
Added
- Mark messages as read or move them to Gmail Trash directly from Overview; marking the mail notification as read also updates Gmail. Zoom links saved with a meeting time appear in both Today’s schedule and the Zoom list, including meetings from all connected calendars. Existing Google connections may need renewed mail permission.
Fixed
- Refresh summaries whenever Overview is revisited so processed mail does not stay unread. Strike through finished events and dim their color markers; ongoing and all-day events remain active.
Fixed
- Make every webpage zoom input redraw immediately, fixing the case where the stored zoom changed but the visible page did not. Ctrl +/−, Ctrl+0 and Ctrl+wheel now update the actual page layout; website scale memory and native PDF zoom are preserved.
Fixed
- Restore webpage zoom with Ctrl +/−, Ctrl+0 and Ctrl+wheel, enable touchpad pinch zoom and remember each website’s scale across navigation and restarts. The ChatGPT side pane supports the same controls; native PDF zoom is preserved.
Fixed
- Fit PDF thumbnails to the sidebar width and render visible thumbnails more sharply in the background. Hiding the sidebar removes its divider and expands the reading area; PDF zoom follows the layout.
Added
- Zoom PDF thumbnails independently and drag the divider to resize the sidebar. Remember the layout and separate light/dark reading backgrounds; dark mode offers six Dark tones.
- Use gentle rising bubbles while a website loads. Waiting pages offer Go back and Return home and respect reduced-motion preferences.
Fixed
- Unify dark mode in black and gray across workspaces, dialogs, reminders, PDF controls and reading surfaces. Apply the selected theme before showing a new surface to prevent light/dark flashes, and restore blank PDF pages with the compatible native renderer.
- Preserve maximized and normal window states when opening files and links; restore minimized windows before revealing them. Waiting-page navigation cancels pending requests and returns to the previous page or workspace home.
- Keep download records available while renaming or moving files, avoiding a transient missing path being marked as deleted.
Fixed
- Restore PDF page rendering and thumbnail navigation using the compatible native viewer. Keep GPU acceleration, reading controls, files and preferences.
Added
- Enable full local control in the general edition: edit webpage fields, run page scripts, click, type, drag, scroll and upload readable local files. Orbit UI/native methods, tabs, navigation, settings, avatars, downloads, favorites, clipboard and local plans are available to authenticated clients.
- Add 15 MCP tools, a bundled Node-free Windows bridge with a stable update-safe path, and a streaming HTTP MCP endpoint. Copy the Codex/local configuration or a private ChatGPT tunnel connection from API settings; access rotation revokes previous credentials and connection URLs.
Fixed
- Keep the foreground workspace in place during background opening and input. ChatGPT side-pane navigation and closing preserve the document; queued input rechecks the page address. Temporary input hosts and isolated verification processes are cleaned after use.
Added
- Show a clear page-status panel with retry, address editing, workspace home and original-response controls. The panel replaces only the affected page or ChatGPT side pane and follows the selected language and theme.
Fixed
- Display connection failures, HTTP errors, empty responses, long waits and renderer crashes instead of a blank page. Pending requests can still recover when content arrives; downloads and PDF opening remain available.
Added
- Reorder top tabs in every workspace by holding and dragging left or right. Preview the order while dragging, retain it when switching workspaces and press Escape to cancel. The active page stays open; normal clicks and close buttons continue to work.
Fixed
- Allow closing built-in initial tabs, including the PDF Reader start tab. Closing the final tab creates one initialized tab for that workspace; closing an initial tab while other tabs remain no longer recreates it on workspace switches.
Added
- Make the titlebar breadcrumb actionable: Workspace returns to Overview and expands the sidebar; the workspace name and Home button return to that workspace’s initial page while retaining other open tabs and PDFs.
Fixed
- Remove both full Recycle Bin scans from deletion, update Deleted status after the native recycle operation, and show immediate working feedback. Look up the recycled file only when Restore is clicked; retain restoration after restart, legacy records and moved locations, and reject conflicting or ambiguous matches.
Added
- Show current download speed and estimated time remaining beside the received and total sizes. Paused or stalled transfers never retain a stale speed estimate.
Fixed
- Decode native ICO, PNG and SVG website icons, refresh icons after page load and save them to sidebar workspaces. If the website has no usable icon, use the uploaded workspace icon, then a dot. Simplify web-tab menus to Reload, Copy link, Close tab and Add to sidebar workspace.
- Open outgoing ChatGPT webpage links in new workspace tabs, preserving the conversation in browser, ChatGPT workspace and side panes. Reuse an existing tab for the same address; downloads remain in the downloads panel.
- Clear gray deleted download records immediately with X, without another confirmation or touching replacement files. Downloads with remaining files still require confirmation before recycling and removing the record.
- Open the selected unread Overview email directly in its Gmail conversation, selecting the connected mailbox and reusing the existing Gmail workspace tab.
Added
- Add the current webpage to a sidebar workspace from address-bar, page and tab context menus. Save its own title and favicon; reuse existing shortcuts without overwriting custom names.
- Remove category directly below Category in the sidebar menu. Clear its color while retaining the workspace’s pinned or bottom position.
- Check for software updates automatically every week while Orbit is running, or on the next launch when due. New versions show red dots on the avatar and the explicitly named software-update button in Your profile. Automatic checks only notify; manual checking retains the verified installation workflow.
Fixed
- Show native PNG, SVG and ICO favicons in top tabs, with a dot only when no usable icon exists. Follow navigation and live page titles, ignore stale icons and retain icons across same-document routing.
- Clear inactive address-bar selection when clicking the webpage or other controls. Clicking the address still selects the entire URL for replacement.
- Display each language option in its native name, regardless of the current interface language, so users can recognize how to switch.
Added
- Welcome new users once with a smooth, localized introduction to three core workflows. Later launches and external PDF/web requests bypass it.
- Recycle downloads immediately with the trash button, then restore through its slashed icon, including after restarting. The X still confirms recycling and removing the record; restoration never overwrites an existing file.
Fixed
- The download-row X now confirms recycling the file and removes its record only after recycling succeeds. Missing files are cleared directly; moved files use their current location and failures keep the record.
Added
- Start Orbit maximized by default, while keeping normal restore and resize controls.
- Group all changes for each version in one card, with numbered additions followed by numbered fixes.
- Show a playful animated thank-you when either download button is clicked, following the website language and preserving downloads and click counts.
Fixed
- Use a single Pin to top / Unpin menu action that changes with the tab state, removing duplicate pin actions.
Added
- Identify pinned tabs with yellow stars.
Added
- Sidebar tabs support Pin to top, Unpin, Move to bottom and categories: Work (red), Study (blue), Life (yellow) and custom additions, shown as rounded color bars before icons. Pinned tabs have their own upper section; ordinary and bottom tabs share the section below. Order and colors persist across restarts, with dragging and keyboard reordering respecting group boundaries.
Fixed
- Ordinary links continue in the current tab with Back history. Reuse existing destinations, including pages still loading. Ctrl-click or middle-click opens a background tab; Ctrl+Shift-click and the context menu explicitly open a foreground tab. Downloads retain the source page, and external PDFs and links keep their dedicated workspaces.
Fixed
- External PDFs open in PDF Reader and external web links in Browser. Links and PDFs opened inside a workspace remain in that workspace, including during startup.
Fixed
- Show the reading interface before loading and rendering the PDF. Forward external requests directly to running Orbit and cache the portable runtime instead of unpacking it each time.
- Queue requests received during startup and prevent duplicate tabs from fallback delivery. Running-app tests showed the reader in 211–250 ms; first extraction and cold startup are not guaranteed within 500 ms.
Added
- Save text, images and pages as local favorites with their source and date. Selection menus support copying, Google search and ChatGPT drafts in a sidebar or a new tab.
- Use the connected Google name and avatar by default; upload a custom avatar, edit the display name, or reset both to defaults.
- Add Light, Dark and Follow system themes, regional daylight-saving time and fixed UTC offsets. Move Close and Save and close to the top-right of settings.
- Check for updates, verify SHA-256, replace the existing EXE and restart while preserving settings and sign-in data. Edition-aware updates retain optional application-management modules.
- Add compact Refresh and Home controls to every workspace, including built-in pages and the Orbit project page.
Fixed
- Keep header avatars circular, use an outline bookmark icon, and simplify settings and profile menus by removing interface density and redundant appearance shortcuts.
Added
- Show a Vancouver update timestamp and three grouped recent changes on the project homepage, with gray fixes and green additions.
Fixed
- Download links start a transfer without opening an extra webpage; redirected attachments behave the same way, while ordinary links still open a new workspace tab.
Added
- Confirm file recycling in a compact panel beneath the trash button. An X button clears finished download records without deleting the file.
Fixed
- Closing the last browser tab opens a fresh Google homepage. Opening a PDF closes the PDF Reader welcome tab, which returns only after the last document is closed.
Added
- Use compact two-line download rows with clickable filenames, a folder icon, native file icons and right-click Open, Rename and Move actions. PDFs use the Orbit icon.
- Recycle downloaded files after confirmation. Deleted and cancelled entries are gray and crossed out; moved files retain their new path and show Moved.
Fixed
- Local PDFs start loading without waiting for website cookie restoration. Start workspace navigation immediately and avoid redundant PDF styling and resize retries.
Added
- Rename downloads or move them to another folder. Change the default download folder and optionally confirm file size, source and destination before downloading.
Fixed
- Fix copy buttons on ChatGPT and secure webpages by restoring focus and allowing clipboard writes. Preserve page and address-bar focus while resizing or switching splits.
Added
- Enable microphone access on secure webpages, including ChatGPT and reading/chat splits, subject to Windows microphone permission.
Fixed
- Attach the current PDF when opening ChatGPT in any workspace. Re-check the composer after removal, reload or a PDF change and never send the prompt automatically.
- Complete English and Chinese labels across settings, navigation, downloads and PDF attachment status. Only the language selector remains bilingual.
Added
- Identify the project homepage as a public beta with frequent updates and maintenance.
Fixed
- Automatically add https:// to protocol-free website addresses, including custom navigation editing, while preserving explicit HTTP, searches and local file paths.
Added
- Show download progress in a flyout beneath Downloads while retaining the current page. Closing the flyout keeps it closed during progress updates.
Fixed
- Clicking the address bar selects the entire URL. Tabs have equal widths and shrink together; navigation editing stays open when selecting text beyond the dialog edge.
Added
- Add addresses and multi-tab browsing to all workspaces, including built-in pages. Links open in new tabs within their originating workspace.
- Link menus can open in the current tab, copy the address, or pin an editable shortcut to the sidebar. Retain shared sign-in, PDF/chat splits and local page-text APIs.
Fixed
- Complete English interface text, including account and API settings, event details, PDF menus and tray reminders. Keep only the language selector bilingual.
Added
- Add a download manager beside notifications to view transfer progress and locate downloaded files.
Fixed
- Complete remaining English labels in download and navigation controls.
Added
- Move Browser and PDF addresses, history, refresh and file opening into a shared workspace header. Ctrl+L focuses the active address; remove the duplicate address row.
Fixed
- Greet the connected Google account by name, with Orbit User as the fallback.
Added
- Publish the initial public Orbit Workspace with English defaults, Google tools, ChatGPT, web/PDF workspaces and editable MIT-licensed source.
This changelog starts with v1.8.2. Changes in v1.7 and earlier are not listed here.
