Build 70

The fastest BoltAI release ever shipped. This release focuses on performance across startup, chat switching, and model loading, led by a rebuilt native sidebar that makes chat switching significantly faster and more responsive. It also adds Cloud Account linking for existing license users.

New

• Added Cloud Account linking in Settings, License settings, and startup prompts for existing license users.

• Added support for BoltAI tools when using GitHub Copilot provider setups.

• Added a brand-new sidebar implementation built with AppKit, making chat switching up to 3x faster.

• Added sidebar chat sorting options, including date updated, date created, title, ascending, and descending order.

• Added rich-text-aware workflow output with a new Auto mode, so rich selections can produce styled results while Raw output stays exact.

• Added a resizable workflow preview panel for larger outputs and diff previews.

Improved

• Improved cold start performance so BoltAI opens and becomes ready faster.

• Improved model picker responsiveness when a provider is slow, offline, or loading a large model catalog.

• Reduced chat runtime overhead for providers with very large model catalogs.

• Sidebar responsiveness is better when switching chats with clicks, keyboard shortcuts, and command-number navigation.

• Sidebar actions such as archive, delete, favorite, move, drag and drop, and context menus continue to work more reliably in the native sidebar.

• Improved sidebar row alignment and favorite-button positioning, especially for chats shown inside folders.

• Improved native sidebar multi-selection feedback, including clearer selected-item counts and context-menu behavior.

• Renaming chats is now more predictable: use double-click, or press Return or Enter on a selected chat.

• The inline rename field now has better sizing, font matching, and alignment.

• Settings startup behavior is smoother when loading model data.

• Connector reliability is better when linking or switching cloud accounts.

• Cloud Sync settings now show a clearer sign-in and sign-up experience for cloud accounts.

• Cloud Account and Cloud Sync messaging is clearer for desktop license users.

• Error messages are clearer when encrypted API-key storage is locked.

• Provider switching is more reliable because incompatible conversation state is cleaned up automatically.

• Improved MCP handling for more reliable tool startup, cleanup, and account switching.

• Apple voice recording now uses the same inline recording UI as other voice input providers.

• Workflow previews now render Auto and Rich Text output more naturally, with tighter Markdown spacing and a better layout for long previews.

• Workflow preview windows now make their active and inactive state easier to see, and remember the preview size you last used.

Fixed

• Fixed Featurebase MCP authentication sometimes asking users to sign in repeatedly.

• Fixed chat ordering so service or configuration changes do not bump unrelated chats, while new message activity still keeps recency accurate.

• Fixed cleanup issues for deleted chats inside folders.

• Fixed Gemini image-preview chat models being incorrectly blocked.

• Fixed function-key shortcuts such as F18 and F19 causing menu issues.

• Fixed Save and Regenerate in Instant Chat targeting the wrong chat in some cases.

• Fixed Instant Chat sometimes bringing the main BoltAI window forward unexpectedly.

• Fixed a clipped tooltip on the first message action button.

• Fixed sidebar commands sometimes applying to the wrong chat.

• Fixed selecting chats from a folder detail view so the sidebar and inspector stay in sync with the opened chat.

• Fixed sidebar search spacing on different macOS versions.

• Fixed a startup issue where the sidebar could briefly appear empty.

• Fixed inspector compatibility on macOS 13.

• Fixed favorite actions and drag previews in the native sidebar.

• Fixed native sidebar context-menu actions such as favorite, archive, and trash applying to stale or incorrect selection state.

• Fixed archived or trashed chats remaining visually selected after they were removed from the active chat list.

• Fixed inserted prompts using the wrong text color in the composer.

• Fixed workflow shortcuts sometimes not registering when account or workflow data finished loading after startup.

• Fixed voice transcripts sometimes enabling Send while the visible composer still looked empty.

• Fixed workflow Apply: Copy to Clipboard sometimes copying raw Markdown instead of rich text when Auto output was used with a rich-text source.

• Fixed Rich Text workflow previews showing raw Markdown even though the copied result was correctly formatted.