Release notes

Local Hoist v0.0.31

April 27, 2026

This release adds support for OpenAI's breakthrough GPT Image 2 model, including richer image generation controls, reusable image IDs, and hover previews. It also improves the usage dashboard, TTS playback controls, and a few everyday reliability edges.

New

Added GPT Image 2 support to image generation, including OpenAI image creation and editing, reference images, larger OpenAI batches, new wide/tall ratios, and OpenAI-specific quality, output format, and compression controls.
Generated and uploaded images now get short `img_...` references that can be reused in later prompts, passed to `view_images`, or copied without exposing long local file paths.
Image references in messages now render as inline chips with hover thumbnails, safe metadata, copy actions, and lightbox previews.

Improved

The usage dashboard now supports timezone-aware charts, compact timezone selection, and interactive legends for focusing or hiding chart series.
TTS playback now supports a `P` play/pause hotkey, makes Escape pause instead of fully stop playback, and preserves paused long-form audio sessions more reliably.

Fixed

Cleared stale account-scoped dashboard data on logout, token refresh, and account switches so credits, invoices, usage, and spending limits do not leak between signed-in identities.
Fixed stale shell activity from lingering in conversation status after later tool results or assistant messages have already completed.
Removed artificial height caps from long messages, thinking blocks, and expanded tool output so very large responses render without overlapping following content.