Release notes from NyarchAssistant

1.3.5 - Agent Update

2026-03-20T17:31:24Z

🛠 Improved Newelle Agent capabilities
📝 Added tools to explore and manage files (write, read,grep,glob, listdir)
🔐 Added files permissions: you can now specify for which files allow read,write or ask
✨ Added support for skills, Newelle can now activate skills, supporting huge libraries of existing ones
👥 Subagents: Newelle can now launch subagents to do subtasks. These will run with custom tools and skills
⏰ Scheduled Tasks: You can now schedule AI tasks to any moment
✔️ Added TODO List tool: Newelle can now keep track of complex tasks completion using the new TODO tool
⚙️ Tool lazy loading: choose which tools to lazy load to make context small and load their schemas only when needed
📄 Context Manager: Newelle will now dinamically manage the context in order to keep it in the limits
🔒 Added support for Oauth login for MCP tools
🗂 Added chat folders: organize your chats into folders
💻 Added commands: extensions can now add commands to Newelle

1.3.0

2026-03-06T17:00:57Z

🗯 Multiple chats: you can now open and use multiple chats at the same time
🎤 Added wakeword support: you can now awake Newelle with a wakeword
📞 Added call mode: you can now call your models in real time
🔊 Streaming TTS support: TTS now answers faster for EdgeTTS, OpenAI Handlers and Kokoro
🎙 You can now compile Whisper.CPP with hardware acceleration
➕ New handlers: EdgeTTS, Llama.cpp (Embedding)
💾 Added "Agentic Memory", a new memory system that uses tools and new technologies in order to create a long term memory
🛠 Memory and RAG handlers can now expose tools, added tools to create TTS and STT
👁 Added vision support for Llama.cpp

1.2.5 - Chat branching and instant message rendering

2026-01-25T18:54:02Z

What's Changed

⚡️ Implemented live message rendering while streaming
💬 New chat history design
🌳 Implemented chat branching from any message

Minor Improvements:

Hide virtualization setting for non flatpak
Add option to run system llama.cpp
Improve chat name generation

Fixes:

Improve stability
Add a cancel button on llama.cpp install
Implement native tool calling for openai and ollama
Fix ollama not seeing pasted jpeg
Fix google import error

2026-01-20T11-05-22-296Z_tagliato.mp4

1.2.0 - llama.cpp, model library and better document reading

2026-01-18T08:50:40Z

⚡️ Add llama.cpp, with options to recompile it with any backend
📖 Implement a new model library for ollama / llama.cpp
🔎 Implement hybrid search, improving document reading

🐧 New tools to explore Arch wiki, AUR and official packages enabled by default
🗑 Removed smart prompts

💻 Add command execution tool
🗂 Add tool groups
🔗 Improve MCP server adding, supporting also STDIO for non flatpak
📝 Add semantic memory handler
📤 Add ability to import/export chats
📁 Add custom folders to the RAG index
ℹ️ Improved message information menu, showing the token count and token speed

Minor Improvements:

Newelle is now easier to package for non flatpak
Switch to Model2Vec as default embedding
Add a spinner while the model is loading
Improve application responsiveness
Implement lazy loading for messages
Option to hide history on launch
Add search in file explorer
Switch to ddgs for websearch
Add tools to show video/images
Better message generation stopping
Add more options to the websearch tool
Add keyboard shortcut to stop message generation
Add tool settings to profiles
Add an option for parallel tool execution
You can now delete and edit console/tool messages

Fixes:

Fix issues with openai handlers as secondary llma
Fix ddgs not streaming
Fix some random crashes
Fix issues with automatic STT

1.1.0 - VRM and MCP support

2026-01-05T16:22:47Z

Added full support for VRM 3D Models, with expressions, animations and lipsync
Added support for MCP (Model Context Protocol) and tools. Now you can import the tools from more than 10'000 servers
Extensions can now easily add tools
You can now add an LLM model to your favourites in the model popup
You can now start/stop recording and stop TTS using commands (that can be bind to keyboard shortcut based on your DE)

1.0.1 - Runtime Update

2025-12-17T10:25:04Z

Update runtime
Fix edge tts not working
Sync with Newelle

1.0.0 - Mini Apps

2025-07-24T13:33:54Z

Nyarch Assistant 1.0.0 has been released!

📱 Mini Apps support! Extensions can now show custom mini apps on the sidebar

🌐 Added integrated browser Mini App: browse the web directly in Nyarch Assistant and attach web pages
📁 Improved integrated file manager, supporting multiple file operations
👨‍💻 Integrated file editor: edit files and codeblocks directly in Nyarch Assistant
🖥 Integrated Terminal mini app: open the terminal directly in Nyarch Assistant
💬 Programmable prompts: add dynamic content to prompts with conditionals and random strings
✍️ Add ability to manually edit chat name
🪲 Minor bug fixes
🚩 Added support for multiple languages for Kokoro TTS and Whisper.CPP
✨ New animation on chat change

🧩 Honorable Extensions:
📆 Newelle Calendar
🖼 Newelle Image Generator

1.0.0 beta

2025-07-10T07:40:49Z

Big Improvements:

Newelle Canvas (name of subject to change): display some mini apps inside Newelle
- Integrated browser
- Integrated file editor
- Improved integrated file explorer
- Extensions can create and add "mini apps" or control them

Add ability to export/import profiles
Programmable Prompts
Ability to change chat name manually

Minor Improvements:

Add developer settings
Add stdout monitor
Add support for multiple languages in Kokoro TTS
Improve thinking widget
Settings button in the titlebar
Changed Custom TTS behavior
New animation on chat change
Fix GPT4Free
Add option to change color scheme for integrated editor
Add language option for WhisperCPP
Ability to send images via URL

Fixes:

Tables are scrollable
Fix message not streaming when thinking
Extensions hot reload
Minor bugs

0.9.6

2025-05-11T16:29:47Z

🌐 Website Reading: include website content in questions in order to get answers
🔎 Web Search: search for things online using SearXNG, Tavily or DDG
🔢 LaTeX Rendering: improved rendering for inline equations
📄 Improve Document Management:
- If documents in chat are shorter than a certain token count, they are sent entirely
- If documents are too large, RAG is done on them
- Documents added with drag and drop can now be read
- Added a new document reading widget
💭 New thinking widget
👤 Selective Profiles: Create profiles that only change some selected groups of settings
➕ New Chat placeholder: Added a new empty chat placeholder with some tips
🧠 LLM Updates: Custom provider support and reasoning support for openrouter, llama4 vision support for groq, advanced settings for Gemini

0.9.0

2025-04-12T08:57:10Z

Added idle motions for Live2D.
🔈 Added TTS support for Groq and OpenAI compatible APIs
🎙️ Added Whisper.CPP support with model manager for speech recognition
📃 Added a new API for extensions to create and manage RAG indexes
🧠 Improved the model selection popup
🔢 Improved LaTeX rendering
🚀 A ton of performance improvements and refinements
🔎 Add the ability to zoom the interface

Pretty sure that I added also something else but I forgot