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Every release since OpenBot 1.0, newest first: what’s new, what’s improved, what’s fixed, and what to do before you upgrade.

Latest releaseOpenBot 1.0.2Nov 11, 2026

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Nov 11, 2026Latest

Back up first. Upgrading from 1.0.0 or earlier runs 1.0.1’s database changes, and going back afterward means restoring that backup.
On Windows, OpenBot Desktop now runs in a Podman machine of its own. An installation that ran in yours starts fresh, and its earlier data stays in your machine.
If Docker Desktop is too old to run OpenBot, OpenBot updates it. Docker Desktop quits while it updates, and the containers that were running start again afterward.

Talk to OpenBot: a microphone in the message box turns what you say into text. OpenBot Desktop uses your computer’s own speech recognition.
OpenBot Desktop updates a Docker Desktop or Podman that is too old to run it, at setup and at every Start.
Updates download in the background while you work, so clicking Update has nothing big left to download.
Setup starts its big downloads on the first screen, while you sign in, instead of waiting for Install.

OpenBot Desktop uses its own Podman machine when yours can’t run it, and leaves yours as it is.
Setup’s first screen says this version runs entirely on your computer and takes 1 to 10 minutes, depending on your internet speed.
Uninstalling on Windows stops what OpenBot was running, and never touches your own Podman machines or containers.
A new conversation’s first message starts one run on the Bot, where it started two.
Picking a model closes the picker and puts the cursor back in the message box.

Installing a new OpenBot over an old one on Windows no longer offers to delete your data.
An older Docker Desktop no longer stops Start with “Compose config exited with exit status: 15”.
A Podman machine that stops answering is restarted for you.
An answer that reached the screen with words missing now shows whole, and browser actions that never ran are tried once more.
A Claude Agent SDK Bot holding several apps no longer stops on its first question with “this conversation is too long for the model”.
A Bot draws a chart or table only from results it has already read.

Nov 10, 2026

Back up first. Once 1.0.1’s database changes run, going back to 1.0.0 means restoring that backup.
Sending, deleting, sharing, and posting also offer Allow for this conversation and Always allow here, and paying and account-setting changes now ask instead of being handed to you.
A Personal Assistant whose instructions nobody changed takes the new ones at the next start. Edited instructions are kept.

Rename a conversation you started, from its menu in the sidebar.
Allow an action for the rest of a conversation, so a back-and-forth on Slack doesn’t ask you to approve every message.
A Routines page lists every routine across your Bots, and New routine makes one without asking a Bot.
Admins write policy in plain English: boundaries, team approval rules, permissions, and the network allowlist. Nothing is saved until they save it.For Business
Ask the audit trail a question, such as “Gmail changes by a routine last week”, and see the matching rows.For Business
What would happen checks whether a Bot could take an action, and shows which control decides.For Business
OpenBot Desktop’s window zooms from 90% to 200%, with Command or Ctrl and + or -.
Get Troubleshooting Logs… copies or saves your logs in one block, with keys, passwords, and email addresses taken out.
Settings in OpenBot Desktop shows which AI provider and model OpenBot uses, and Change AI connection switches it.

Setup says what it’s doing in plain words, with one progress bar and the time left.
The Bots OpenBot ships take the step instead of asking about it, and ask only when a wrong guess would be hard to undo.
Routines and check-ins get 24 steps or more, where they had 8. A routine written as a list carries on until each part is done, blocked, or skipped.
A Bot that asks an app for many things at once sends 5 at a time and tries a lookup that times out twice more, so big batches come back.
Setup says OpenBot Desktop sends usage data, never your conversations, files, or keys, and Settings turns it off.
A budget a Bot draws shows each part in its own color, with a bar of how the total splits.

A first install on a Mac with Docker Desktop no longer stops at “Something went wrong” on its first Start.
Quitting while the backend updates no longer breaks every later Start.
A file dropped on a conversation in OpenBot Desktop attaches.
Coming back to a conversation while a Bot is partway through its lookups no longer loses them.
A Bot that runs its own agent can read your Gmail and find your Slack channels by name again.
A Bot fills a form in one pass, where it typed values in again or put them in the wrong field.
A Claude plan, or Grok signed in from OpenBot Desktop, has a model picker in conversations again.
A message that couldn’t reach the backend says so in plain words, instead of showing a raw error.

Nov 9, 2026

Back up first. Once people connect more than one account to an app, going back to 0.3.4 means restoring that backup.
After you connect a second account to an app, your own Always allow rules for that app stop applying, so Bots ask again for each account.

Connect more than one account to an app, such as two Gmail addresses, and choose which is the default.
Bots use the account your request is about, and your default when you don’t name one.
An approval names the account a Bot wants to act from, and Always allow covers that account only.
A figure in a chart can link to the record it came from.
A Bot that is working says so in the sidebar, and Home shows it with Open.

Bots answer in plain Markdown by default, and draw a chart, table, or card only when it makes the answer easier to use.
A Bot knows from its first message which of your apps it can use and which still need connecting.
When OpenBot Desktop’s backend can’t start, it says why, such as Docker being short of CPUs, memory, or disk, and where to raise it.
After a recording saves, Teach a Bot follows it until the skill is learned, and Try it opens Home with the task ready to send.
Approval cards and Activity describe an action in words, such as “Send email on Gmail”, instead of a tool name or raw data.
Apps that need a key say so before you connect, and the key form says where to get one.

A chart that is still loading says “Drawing the chart…” instead of “There is no data to chart.”
A long link or path in a card wraps instead of being cut off at the card’s edge.
The first notification after OpenBot Desktop starts now shows, where it was dropped.
Install’s progress bar is full only when it’s done.
Activity and Audit load older events with Show older events, where they stopped at the newest 50.
Bar chart figures that don’t fit above their bars show shorter, such as “15K”, instead of running into each other.