Release notes

Local Hoist v0.4.2

August 30, 2026

Adds new video and realtime voice models, clearer credit history, and faster agent startup, with broad fixes for conversations, MCP servers, worktrees, spending checks, and usage accounting.

New

Added Seedance 2.5 and Gemini Omni Flash video generation, including image, reference, and video editing workflows where supported. Seedance reference videos now receive the same cost preflight checks as other generation modes.
Added GPT Realtime 2.1 voice models and moved realtime model choices and defaults into the shared model registry.
Added credit history to the account panel so grants, purchases, adjustments, expirations, and remaining balances are easier to understand.

Improved

Agent turns start faster through a leaner live tool registry, more efficient conversation storage, and bundled ripgrep search.
Pull request status now refreshes while you work, and merged worktrees are easier to identify and clean up.
BYOK, spending-limit, transcription, and voice checks now use simpler purpose-bound authorization and more consistent admission rules.
The prompting guide has been rewritten in plainer language, with refreshed narration.

Reliability

Queued messages now survive overlapping conversation saves, open conversation tails align with their parent turns, and running turn timers and collapsed work stay in sync.
MCP servers recover, reconnect, and delete more reliably. Protected Linear attachments now load through the authenticated connection, while sub-agent previews, continuation budgets, terminal handoffs, and live event handling also received fixes.
OpenRouter model aliases, confirmed costs, and duplicate usage reports now reconcile more accurately, while unknown historical credit balances are no longer shown as exact amounts.
Workspace folder edits now preserve full root paths, aliased file links open correctly in VS Code, and commit or pull-request cleanup better reflects the current worktree state.