What's new

v1.7.6 - 10th October 2026

🎉 New Features

• Thinking levels that match each model: the thinking picker now shows only the effort levels each model actually supports.
• Cheaper repeat prompts: when a provider discounts a prompt it has already seen, that discount is now reflected in your costs.

💡 Improvements

• A clearer warning for an unknown model name: the app says the model is not recognised, suggests the correct spelling and still lets you continue.
• Chart zooming on the Stats page now happens only while Ctrl is held, so scrolling with the mouse wheel no longer zooms by accident.
• The spend summary wording now matches what the counters actually show.

🛠️ Bug Fixes

• Copied model names now work: a name copied from the app's own model list was being rejected as invalid. It now routes correctly every time.
• Budget spending now appears for providers with no spending limit: it previously stayed at $0.00, hiding what those providers had spent.
• Some model prices were out of date and have been refreshed to match each provider's current rates.
• Requests with no usage figures are no longer reported as using a model with no price.
• Token limits are now described as varying by model, rather than quoting one model's figure for a whole family.

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v1.7.5 - 29th September 2026

🎉 New Features

• Model names with a slash can now be typed exactly as the provider publishes them, and are passed through untouched.

💡 Improvements

• Smarter model names: the app looks names up in the provider's published list instead of guessing, so every request carries the exact published spelling.
• The help now explains that some provider names contain hyphens and shows both ways to write them.

🛠️ Bug Fixes

• Fixed 59 models from providers whose names contain a hyphen - including every Z.ai GLM, xAI Grok and Meta Llama model - which could not be used at all before this release.

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v1.7.4 - 29th September 2026

🎉 New Features

• Changing the proxy port now really works: a port saved in Settings is stored and used from the next start. Previously the change was quietly ignored.
• Restart now: after changing the port, the app offers to restart itself so the change takes effect.
• The Overview shows the port the service is actually running on.
• If a port is already taken, the message now names the port that is in use.

💡 Improvements

• Your API keys are never read back in plain text when settings are loaded or saved - they are masked.
• The proxy now only accepts connections from your own computer, rather than anything on your network.
• The help walks through the four steps of moving a port, in the order that works.

🛠️ Bug Fixes

• A port typed into Settings is now saved even if you press Save before leaving the box.
• The notice after a port change no longer claims the service restarted when nothing had restarted.

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v1.7.3 - 28th September 2026

🎉 New Features

• Peak and off-peak pricing: models that cost double at busy times now show it, and prices are labelled with the peak multiplier.
• A one-off welcome message on first run asks you to accept the terms and privacy policy before continuing.
• A Support card on the Help page opens the official support site in your browser.
• A setup guide card on the Overview links to the setup guide and Help - close it once and it stays away.
• The crash log on the Help page can now be selected and copied.

💡 Improvements

• An estimate note now appears on every page that shows spending figures, so it is clear the costs are estimates.
• The help explains in more detail why recorded spend can differ from your provider's own bill.

🛠️ Bug Fixes

• Daily spend was overstated by roughly seven times for some DeepSeek models because repeat-prompt prices were far too high. Costs are corrected and your history has been recalculated.
• Fixed a crash at launch caused by the new estimate note.
• A DeepSeek vision model that was missing a price can be costed again.

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v1.7.1 / v1.7.2 - 21st September 2026

🎉 New Features

• Reasoning cache figures are back on the budget card: hits, misses and hit rate since the app started.

💡 Improvements

• Budget thresholds now move in 25 cent steps instead of 50, so a $4.00 cap can use a $3.75 threshold.
• The help example and captions now match the new 25 cent steps.

🛠️ Bug Fixes

• The Remove button on budget rows is now lined up with the controls beside it.
• The budget card's refused-tier note now shows the right figure for the new steps.

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v1.7.0 - 20th September 2026

🎉 New Features

• A redesigned Overview: cards for the service, the model in use, budget, cache and session continuity, with banners that no longer jump the layout when closed.
• A budget ring: a donut chart fills as the day's spending grows and closes when the cap is reached.
• Cache activity counters showing what has been stored and evicted since the app started.
• A rebuilt Help page: a hub of topic cards with a breadcrumb trail and FAQs grouped by subject.
• Smoother animations: cards fade in on load, the status dot crossfades, and a progress ring appears while the service starts or stops.

💡 Improvements

• The cache card now shows activity and holds its own actions: toggle cache, clear cache, clear logs and refresh.
• Summary tiles renamed for clarity - In cache now says exactly what it means.

🛠️ Bug Fixes

• Overview cache figures that could never change have been replaced by counters that update correctly.

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v1.6.0 - 18th September 2026

🎉 New Features

• A cost ladder: as the day's spending crosses each threshold, the budget steps down through your ordered list of cheaper models instead of simply stopping at the cap.
• A rebuilt Budget page: add and remove steps, see which step is in use, and set a reserved amount.
• A warning when swapping to a cheaper model might cost more than it saves, because the cache built up for the old model is abandoned.

💡 Improvements

• All-or-nothing validation: one misplaced step explains why the whole ladder is refused, so the screen never accepts a ladder the proxy would refuse.
• Every model swap is recorded with the reason, and the Budget page shows which model is answering and why.
• Help and FAQs rewritten around the new ladder, including why my model was ignored.

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v1.5.0 - 15th September 2026

🎉 New Features

• Usage history that survives restarts: token counts, timings and estimated costs are saved locally and kept for 90 days.
• A new Stats page: pick a range, break spending down by model or provider, view a spend chart, export to CSV and pop a chart out into its own window.
• Budget caps, alerts and hard stops: daily and per-provider limits with alerts when you cross a threshold, and a clear stop at the cap.
• Cache savings: see the money and time saved by cached prompts.

💡 Improvements

• Requests are sent in a consistent order so provider-side caching actually hits, giving faster and cheaper replies.
• Settings gained budget, usage-retention and cache sections, and configuration export now includes them.
• The Help page was rewritten.

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v1.4.9 - 9th September 2026

🎉 New Features

• New models: DeepSeek vision and legacy models, Qwen 3.8 Max and Flash, Z.ai GLM-5.3 and GLM-5.3 Flash, and xAI Grok 4.6 and 4.20.
• More xAI models now accept every thinking level.

💡 Improvements

• The thinking cache saves as you chat and survives a restart.
• Failed streamed requests now log their full details in Session Logs, just like non-streamed ones.

🛠️ Bug Fixes

• DeepSeek thinking-mode chats no longer fail part-way through long conversations with a missing-thinking error.
• Images now reach the DeepSeek vision model - they were being dropped before the request was sent.

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v1.4.8 - 11th August 2026

🎉 New Features

• A request inspector: open any entry in Session Logs to see the full request and response, with copy buttons and an export-to-file button.

💡 Improvements

• Streamed responses are stitched back together so you can read them in full, exactly as the client received them.
• Clear notices when a body was not captured or was too large.

🛠️ Bug Fixes

• The log detail panel now actually shows the request and response bodies - the sections were missing.