Changelog

Changes in each Rip release.

v0.12 Oct 11, 2026
More ways to review

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  • Review GitLab merge requests with inline comments, approvals, requests for changes, and pipeline checks through GitLab CLI. Support self-hosted instances and `!123` links in Markdown.
  • Keep review progress across sessions, with separate review and staging actions, reversible staging and reverts, and a full-file before/after view.
  • Make change-review modes, hunk actions, and diff line numbers easier to read.
  • Open terminal files and folders in the running Rip, preserving open files and unsaved edits, and return control to the shell after launch.
  • Fix Mermaid subgraph routing and keep internal state names out of start and end markers.
v0.11 Oct 1, 2026
Signed on Windows

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  • Add Windows downloads with an installer, a portable ZIP, and the `rip` terminal command, signed as Xip Kit LLC.
  • Prettify JSON documents or selections while preserving exact numbers, key order, and one-step undo.
  • Keep large JSON files responsive and show initial syntax colors while the full document parses.
  • Find GitHub CLI when Rip opens from the desktop, with a `gh-path` setting for custom installations.
  • Fix cursor positioning, scrolling, and text visibility on long Unicode lines.
  • Render Mermaid flowcharts natively in Markdown previews with Ariel.
  • Support Vibescript 0.80 syntax, static types, and newline indentation.
v0.10 Sep 18, 2026
The little things

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  • Close the terminal launcher before reporting success
  • Open files and folders dropped on the Dock icon
  • Use Rip lime colors for product links
  • Recheck for newer updates before restarting for an older update
  • Add tooltips to Find controls
  • Make Markdown preview text selectable
  • Expire the handoff artifacts after a day
  • Preserve Markdown preview scroll after edits are made to the source doc
  • Fix a crash when switching worktrees
v0.9 Sep 13, 2026
From the shadows

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  • Open files faster during startup while keeping file reads off the UI thread.
  • Use Rip consistently as the product name throughout the app and documentation.
  • Add Linux window shadows, rounded corners, and dialog controls
  • Document confirmed Linux startup fixes and virtual machine support
v0.8 Sep 13, 2026
Better on Linux

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  • Fix Linux Vulkan dependencies and add application menus
  • Fix Linux app icon collisions with desktop themes
v0.7 Sep 12, 2026
The one you can own

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  • Add command to install rip for terminal use from the command palette
  • Use the published Vibescript grammar crate
  • Highlight JSONL and NDJSON files as JSON
  • Add SQL language support
  • Speed up startup for bundled apps
  • Keep cached grammars available during compilation
  • Move large-file incremental parsing off the input path
  • Prepare file buffers without blocking the UI
  • Add performance phases and verified engineering workloads
  • Fix QA regressions in recovery, search and file workflows
  • Keep your place when returning to project search
  • Register Rip with offline license keys
  • Fix signed commits on macOS when Rip is opened from Finder or the Dock.
v0.6 Sep 10, 2026
Git more

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  • Add Help menu with user guide and licenses
  • Mark the active diff file with a strip, not a border
  • Keep the branch picker's create row while you type a name
  • Fix branch picker crash
  • Stage files and hunks and commit changes
  • Added more user guides
  • Add push and pull shortcuts with a remote picker
v0.5 Sep 8, 2026
Now with 100% more updates

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  • Shrink the title and status bar type a notch
  • Add About rip to the app menu
  • Open an empty window when launched without a path
  • Add more glyph file types
  • Added a user guide
  • Add PHP language support
  • Draw key hints (like cmd, opt, shift) as chips with Lucide modifier glyphs
  • Require editor benchmarks before releases
  • Add automatic updates
v0.4 Sep 6, 2026
Hello world

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  • Add Vibescript highlighting, `.vibe` detection, auto-indentation, comment toggling, Markdown code fences, and symbol labels.
  • Bootstrap rip: gpui editor core, tree-sitter highlighting, workspace shell
  • Add file tree, fuzzy pickers, branch/worktree switcher, git status, Lucide icons
  • Add live Markdown preview with GFM, highlighted fences, cursor sync
  • Render Mermaid flowcharts, state, sequence and pie diagrams natively
  • Parse large buffers off the UI thread
  • Follow system appearance
  • Add project-wide search (cmd-shift-f) with grouped results and keyboard navigation
  • Fix jitter when overscrolling past the end of a buffer
  • Make the tab close button's hover state visible
  • Always show the tab close button and brighten it on hover
  • Keep the tab close button visible without hovering
  • Center single-line inputs vertically
  • Larger palette search icon
  • Make cmd-shift-[ and cmd-shift-] cycle tabs
  • Add zoom (cmd-=/cmd--/cmd-0) and Sublime-style pane layouts (cmd-alt-1..9)
  • Drag tabs to reorder them or move them between panes
  • Make the Markdown preview opt-in and add a Preview button to the tab bar
  • Add the Preview button to the tab bar for Markdown files
  • Add Locations (cmd-shift-j)
  • Jump list from pasted traces
  • Turn the roadmap into checklists
  • Group review diffs by symbol
  • Add the worktree cockpit (cmd-alt-b)
  • Show the PR title in the worktree cockpit subtitle
  • Add the file history scrubber (cmd-alt-l)
  • Render Markdown diffs as documents with changed blocks tinted
  • Tighten the top margin of rendered Markdown
  • Keep search and grammar compilation off the UI thread
  • Label perf output as slow frames
  • Live-linked code fences and a pinned plan tab (cmd-alt-p)
  • Task lists that know their commits and PRs
  • Include open previews in the debug dump
  • Queue four ideas from rune on the roadmap
  • Merge disk changes into dirty buffers three ways
  • Obsidian syntax in the preview: wikilinks, callouts, highlights, tags
  • Reading view: render a Markdown tab in place (cmd-alt-v)
  • Hot exit and crash recovery
  • Space the changed-file count in the status bar
  • Git mode buttons in the status bar
  • Design pass on pull requests: list, header, file list
  • Shrink wide Mermaid diagrams to the page instead of scrolling
  • Locations list never painted its rows
  • Locations cards: full width with padding inside
  • Bundle 21 themes and a live-preview theme picker (cmd-k cmd-t)
  • Resolve linked fences and embeds against the git root too
  • Add custom Pitch Black theme
  • Open pull requests in one round trip
  • Review changes since a baseline, with accept, revert, and notes
  • Mark what changed while you weren't looking
  • Tree: unread dot sits beside the name
  • Shared buffers across panes
  • Theme hot-reload
  • Include the active theme in the debug dump
  • Commit and PR mentions resolve anywhere in Markdown instead of just task lists
  • Soft line breaks render as spaces in the preview
  • Add the Osaka Jade and Ethereal themes
  • Add Vibescript language support
  • Optimize release packages
  • Ship a disk image for macOS
  • Ship macOS apps per architecture instead of universal binary to keep download sizes small
  • Record download sizes on the website when shipping
  • Compress deb and rpm packages with xz
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