Changelog
The biggest ryOS updates, organized by month. Each release highlights about five features so the important work is easy to scan.
Open More from this month for fixes, polish, infrastructure, and smaller updates.
July 2026
Weather & location tools
Ryo fetches live forecasts and asks for precise location with an in-chat Allow / Don't Allow card.
Save anywhere
Create root folders in Finder and save documents to any writable path across apps.
Desktop Assistant
Clippy, Rover, and friends float on the desktop with AI chat, speech, and custom behaviors.
Books library
A wooden EPUB shelf keeps imports, reading progress, and Meditations together.
More from this month (26)
- Add runJs chat tool: a QuickJS WASM sandbox runs pure ES2023 on the server and returns console output plus the completion value.
- Add getWeather and getPreciseLocation AI tools with Open-Meteo forecasts and an approval-gated location permission card in web chat.
- Allow user-created root folders and save-anywhere VFS: Finder can create folders at
/, and Save dialogs list every writable directory. - Fix AI analytics over-counting and a per-render conversation re-fetch loop in Chats.
- Remove Vercel-specific deployment code; production is Coolify-only with S3 storage and a standalone Bun server.
- Replace the Chats mobile room sheet with a dropdown menu switcher.
- Server-owned AI conversations: Ryo chat history lives on the server with delta reads and a single write path, streams updates to other signed-in devices in realtime, and delivers the proactive greeting as a server-owned message.
- Assistant polish: window-aware bubble placement with 4-side popping that never clips off-screen, per-character accent-colored speech bubbles, shimmer thinking states, compact map/HTML/Cursor tool embeds, browser text-to-speech with character voice defaults, and character names localized across all 11 locales.
- Add a Behavior tab to Assistant settings with customizable behaviors and more response-style presets (detailed, friendly, professional, playful); sync assistant settings via cloud sync.
- Improve the AI tool system with an expanded settings tool, tool-call repair, per-tool rate limits, and strict payload guardrails against junk settings updates.
- Make the AI wallpaper tool predictable with exact names, shuffle categories, and dynamic wallpaper support.
- Move client persistence and Sync v2 state to IndexedDB and prune stale markers.
- Add an IndexedDB viewer tab to the debug panel and entry/exit animations for the debug console overlay.
- Show the filename while fetching files in the cloud sync indicator; fix a crash when persisted deletion-marker buckets are missing.
- Fix chat clear failing after account changes; show a sign-in button when the assistant bubble is rate limited.
- Replace the docs home diagram with latest changelog cards and retake historical changelog screenshots.
- Clean up legacy code: drop AI SDK v4 aliases, remove dead exports and duplicate debug loggers, and unify duration formatting and log summarizer helpers.
- Cut boot-critical JavaScript by about 44% through code splitting and startup work.
- Add offline empty states for network-dependent apps and explicit standalone-server cache headers.
- Restore Preview windows with their last document paths so reopened sessions load documents without persisting file contents.
- Improve locale-aware CJK reading and lyrics fonts; bold pronunciation ruby (furigana/pinyin/romaji) at 700 weight in rounded lyrics fonts.
- Match Aqua slider fills to tab bar shine; quiet Aqua slider track lighting with neutral rgba recess; match Aqua Glass pane radius on no-titlebar windows.
- Blend book images into the reading background (multiply on light themes, dim on dark).
- Books: in-page edge-tap page turns with hover chevrons over gutters (20% edge zones); render font chips in their typefaces; proportional fallback-cover typography and smoother close zoom.
- Enlarge mobile Books customize panel controls to 44px rows; fix Books menus on narrow screens.
- Fix Books read-aloud/Safari styling, font switching, line spacing, vertical layout glitches, and highlight flicker.
- Polish Books customization panel, speech bar, and toolbar layout.
- Use macOS 26 for the Apple terminology glossary.
June 2026
Aqua Glass
The new macOS material brings translucent chrome and wallpaper-aware controls.
Cloud Sync v2
Journal-based delta sync replaces full-state uploads and resolves changes per key.
Preview
A focused document viewer adds Finder associations, import, Save As, and export.
International preferences
An interactive world map sets the time zone used across the system.
More from this month (43)
- Sync v1 retirement: remove manual cloud backup endpoints and promote restored local backups into Sync v2.
- Move legacy Redis backfill and deletion into a standalone migration CLI.
- Cut about 1MB of boot-critical JavaScript and reduce hot subscriptions, polling, and persistence work.
- Redesign Control Panels around a System Preferences layout with a consolidated Account menu.
- Add locale formats and an interactive time-zone picker to International preferences.
- Add day/night, now-playing, shuffle, Weather, and Lyrics wallpaper modes.
- Add selectable accent colors across Aqua and System 7.
- Add self-service account recovery and deletion.
- Publish the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
- Improve stable cover-derived glow and karaoke timing across iPod and Karaoke.
- Allow multi-day all-day calendar events.
- Show cloud sync upload progress in the menubar.
- Adopt a shared Help/About dialog state across apps.
- Add a Zod request-body validation layer at the apiHandler boundary.
- Add Open Graph share previews for newer apps.
- Decompose the iPod logic hook into focused sub-hooks and route store debug logs through a production-silent logger.
- Fix mobile desktop context-menu taps, Internet Explorer history tracking on proxied link navigation, and help-doc links opening app routes instead of /docs.
- Secure realtime: authorize private chat/sync channels (fixes a channel-auth leak); enforce banned users and apply shared login lockout to registration.
- Refactor menubars: migrate remaining app menus to descriptors (radio + submenu-disabled support); surface cloud sync activity in a menubar dropdown on hover or tap.
- Add keyboard shortcuts in menus (Cmd/Ctrl-aware) and a stored user timezone context.
- Add an admin Redis browser with prefix-tree navigation, metadata pipelining, and doc caching; add an admin action audit log; list rooms in a View-menu submenu.
- Add blur-up progressive loading and crossfade transitions for wallpapers; new default wallpapers (Mt Fuji, dandelion seeds, earth moon horizon); now-playing cover fills the desktop.
- Show a rounded corner mask during boot; accent-theme the Aqua boot overlay and logo.
- Add dark mode for docs pages and Internet Explorer chrome; make the IE loading bar dark-mode aware; refresh stale documentation.
- Unify shader perf heuristics into a 3-tier classifier (off/reduced/full), migrate existing users, and throttle shader backgrounds on mobile.
- iPod / Karaoke: restart-on-previous and Apple Music shuffle-history parity; fix karaoke word-highlight mask timing, shadow clipping, and left alignment; skip redundant cached glow recalculation.
- Reactively merge external/sync/cloud TextEdit updates without losing the caret; fix the TextEdit slash menu and editor state bugs.
- Stop a Telegram document tool-call retry loop with idempotent updates.
- Add a sync maintenance cron (
/api/cron/sync-maintenance): retire frozen v1 sync keys with 90-day TTLs and garbage-collect unreferenced content-addressed blobs (mark-and-sweep with a 24h grace window). - Sort private chats by online status and recency; fix mobile Chats sidebar scrolling and overlay borders.
- Restrict IRC room creation to admins; scope IRC channel updates to active chat rooms.
- Simplify audio ducking and volume handling.
- Extract pure helpers from large hooks (Finder file system, IE url bar, Chats fuzzy search); unify the file-content
StoredContenttype; route Ryo tool loops throughToolLoopAgent. - Rename theme flags
isXpTheme→isWindowsTheme,isMacOsxTheme→isMacOSThemeviauseThemeFlags(); refactor song metadata sync helpers. - Remove React Scan integration, legacy migration paths, and dead code.
- Improve batch metadata cache listing and apply consistent accent-derived selection color for menus and selected items.
- Style the Admin Cursor agents view with semi-transparent amber.
- Fix Workbox stale app shell caching after deploys.
- Fix iPod cover-color sync drift and the Chats scroll-to-bottom chevron contrast in Aqua dark mode.
- Fix themed icon cache recovery; set the root document background to black.
- Make Redis backfill reliable on Upstash; fix migration log autoscroll and the Aqua glass sidebar gap.
- Add a codebase audit roadmap with "do first" API hardening.
- Fix always-pass, mislabeled, and weak-assertion tests from the audit.
May 2026
Maps
MapKit search, saved places, and chat place cards bring Apple Maps into ryOS.
iPod modern UI
A new classic-inspired player adds Cover Flow, games, and Apple Music.
Virtual PC (v86)
The emulator browser expands to classic Windows, Linux, BSD, and ReactOS images.
Dashboard
Aquarium and currency widgets join the responsive widget canvas.
Ryo TV
Fullscreen controls, channel graphics, and CRT details make channel surfing feel complete.
More from this month (34)
- Polish TV with a channel bug, idle bursts, drawer sounds, and fullscreen controls.
- Centralize shared platform styling with
data-os-platformand menu tokens. - Remove the CandyBar dock icon pack browser.
- Add Cover Flow on fullscreen long-press and a browser-fullscreen Apple menu toggle.
- Chats: Streamdown message rendering; subtler tool-error styling; extend Cursor SDK run Redis TTL to 90 days; rename channel prompt to "Make a new channel...".
- iPod / Karaoke: Cover Flow title-bar toggle; Apple Music sharing copies direct links; default Cover display mode; locale-aware lyrics
autotranslation; karaoke visual-effect gating and hidden-video perf. - Calendar: tray event/todo details, drag/resize, keyboard delete; fix tray delete layout, mobile scroll during drag, and bottom padding clipping.
- Maps / Synth / TextEdit / TV: recreate MapKit after minimize; mobile synth preset UI; macOSX TextEdit heading font; theme UI font for TV channel-creation shimmer.
- Shared UI: extract
FullscreenMobileDismissfor TV/Karaoke fullscreen portals; generalize AppDrawer (TV/Calendar) with viewport-aware repositioning. - Admin: dashboard server card, panel headers, agent counts, relaxed rate limits, sidebar/View menu reordering; analytics top songs/sites/countries and app events.
- React 19 hardening: migrate deprecated APIs, refactor cascading setState to useReducer, effect cleanups, stable list keys, admin helper hoisting.
- CI / deploy: Coolify webhook deploy, GHCR image pipeline, decouple test/build from main pushes; security batch (password change flow, applet sandboxing, rate-limit hardening).
- Docs: Maps app page, Virtual PC v86 refresh, Admin Cursor agents, Dashboard Aquarium; regenerate static HTML.
- Fix duplicate-key empty dock slots (repro in Safari).
- Fix empty/broken dock slots from stale or unrenderable entries.
- Improve PWA precache with curated Workbox entries, network-aware prefetch, and offline fixes.
- Subdue dark-mode shimmer on tool call loading states.
- Style Cursor agent chat cards like Maps with pinstripes.
- Match dark-theme lyrics search dialog to song search.
- Unify duplicated iPod and Karaoke media app code paths.
- Split large React components into focused modules.
- Align submenu trigger font size with menu items.
- Fullscreen on
documentElementso menubar portals stay visible.
April 2026
Ryo TV
AI-generated channels, CRT effects, captions, and custom lineups launch as a new app.
IRC and Cursor agents
Chats gains IRC discovery and live Cursor Cloud agent runs.
Karaoke
Title cards, smoother marquees, and faster lyric rendering polish fullscreen playback.
iPod
Shared media controls and Cover Flow connect the player with Karaoke.
Wallpaper system
Leopard sets, improved browsing, and persisted display settings refresh the desktop.
More from this month (13)
- Add Leopard wallpaper sets, picker improvements, and persisted display settings.
- Refresh default desktop shortcuts and Chats icons across classic themes.
- Optimize AI system prompts for static caching.
- TV (CRT & playback): multi-stage power on/off, screen on/off with play/pause, LCD Filter toggle, opaque static and native-refresh noise, lineup-based channel numbers, mobile Safari sync play, hide CC during transitions, reset-channels item, Shorts exclusion, substring-confusable YouTube host rejection (CodeQL).
- TV (lineup & drawer): dedicated channel cloud sync, YouTube URL paste, playlist drawer (side panel + compact bottom), drawer remove control, cached random playlists, prepopulate from exported library (incl. Taiwan), allow hiding default channels, synced reset-channel deletes.
- TV (UI): marquee-scroll long NET names, inline AI channel creation shimmer, Ryo TV pulls from Videos library, channel-bug and fullscreen control groundwork.
- Chats: localize toasts, Applet Viewer flows, and Finder list icons; 400px new-chat dialog max width; IRC channel list aligned with lyrics search dialog; dialog/tab truncation constraints; stabilize IRC tab; delegate embedded
StartGrindPlanningto parent. - Karaoke / iPod: react to locale changes for lyrics translation
automode; open Karaoke cover flow from title art. - macOSX: include CJK and emoji pixel fonts in LCD font stack.
- Control Panels: retro Login button on System 7; desktop-shell fullscreen menubar flicker fix.
- Files: sparse default desktop shortcuts on System 7 and Windows themes; guard optional
aliasTargetin System 7 desktop migration. - IRC: use
crypto.randomIntfor bridge IRC nick suffix. - Tests: cover
cursor-agentPR URL extraction and follow-up pre-checks.
March 2026
Calendar
iCal support, todos, and Dashboard integration make scheduling useful across apps.
Dashboard
Stocks, Dictionary, Translator, and smarter placement redesign the widget layer.
Finder sharing
AirDrop-style transfers, multi-select, and universal undo expand file workflows.
Contacts
vCard import and cloud sync add a system address book.
Cloud Sync
Logical domains upload settings and files incrementally instead of replacing everything.
More from this month (26)
- Add and apply dock icon packs with CandyBar.
- Persist Auto Sync server-side with incremental settings uploads.
- Add a hardened server-side
webFetchchat tool. - Improve presence heartbeats and recover from partial sync or invalid theme state.
- Improve iPod/karaoke playback, voice ducking for TTS/karaoke, and iPod widget control for karaoke.
- Switch parse-title to Gemini 3 Flash; harden add-track against CORS, duplicates, and Shorts URLs.
- Enable Gemini web search in chat for authenticated gemini-3-flash users; upgrade default chat/image models (gpt-5.4, etc.).
- Admin dashboard date range (Today/7d/14d/30d); calendar todos with due dates and mobile editing.
- Finder Go Up, sidebar reorder, narrow sidebar hide; refactor apiHandler across APIs; Bun SSE improvements.
- Smart weather default (San Francisco); Vercel Blob / S3-compatible storage switch; TrafficLightButton for dialogs.
- Stale cache recovery clears storage and unregisters service worker; subdomain wildcard CORS; fix dev PORT clash when
.env.localsets 3000; reduce app reload loops on version update. - Remove Telegram reply truncation; refactor cloud sync client (single transport, logical grouping); optimize IndexedDB hot paths.
- Centralize frontend API paths; unify IndexedDB/backup access; remove legacy sync public routes.
- Docs: simplification waves, audit roadmaps, sync utility ordering, browser sidecar plan.
February 2026
Winamp
Webamp joins ryOS with skins, YouTube seeking, and iPod library loading.
Ambient visuals
Audio-reactive liquid and warp backgrounds respond to playback.
Karaoke display modes
Karaoke and iPod share selectable fullscreen visual modes.
Ryo memory
Daily notes and long-term memories give Chats useful continuity.
Dashboard
Widgets keep lightweight information close without opening full apps.
More from this month (10)
- Add app and desktop error boundaries for safer recovery.
- Improve cloud backup and restore with increased limit, progress tracking, and UI enhancements.
- Refactor daily notes processing for improved efficiency and reduced timeouts.
- Fix Winamp icon theming, playlist layout, and foreground handling.
- Localize Winamp and cloud sync strings across multiple languages.
- Update Admin panel to display daily notes alongside long-term memories and add memory management tools.
- Fix proactive greeting display and animation.
- Improve memory timestamps and stale-memory cleanup.
- Update AI models and restrict debug mode to admin users.
- Fix missing Vercel rewrites for specific URLs.
January 2026
Listen Together
iPod and Karaoke can host shared sessions with invites and reactions.
Infinite Mac
Scaling, screenshots, and stronger window controls improve the classic Mac emulator.
Stickies
Draggable, colored notes add a lightweight scratchpad to the desktop.
Chats
Image uploads and AI memory extraction broaden conversations.
Finder
File browsing remains the center of the growing multi-app desktop.
More from this month (11)
- Migrate to AI SDK 6.0 and structured song-title output.
- Improve application launch animations and styling.
- Enhance CoverFlow with improved styling, perspective calculations, and track playback.
- Update macOS theme with aqua styling for buttons, progress bars, and other UI elements.
- Refactor application logic into reusable hooks.
- Update documentation with comprehensive guides for ryOS applications and API endpoints.
- Fix audio playback in Safari and improve audio context handling.
- Standardize button attributes and icon sizes across the application.
- Improve Terminal with grep and uptime commands; enhance Vim with search and visual modes.
- Update translations across languages for clarity and consistency.
- Improve error handling and logging throughout the application.
December 2025
Cover Flow
Interactive album art gains CD motion and direct playback controls.
Karaoke
A dedicated fullscreen player synchronizes video, music, and timed lyrics.
Videos
The media library connects playback with iPod and Karaoke.
International settings
System language and localization become user-selectable.
Mission Control
Window management gains Exposé-style overview and a screen saver.
More from this month (12)
- Add KuGou song metadata lookup and Redis caching.
- Add an Admin app for managing users and songs.
- Fix lyrics translation, furigana, and soramimi processing.
- Improve iPod and Karaoke touch handling and playback stability.
- Update Apple menu with new items and improved functionality.
- Enhance lyrics display with text shadows, word timing, and font customization.
- Refactor lyrics processing and API endpoints for performance and maintainability.
- Update dependencies and optimize Vite configuration.
- Add support for compressed content in song import/export.
- Improve error handling and timeout management in AI generation.
- Enhance localization across components and dialogs.
- Fix UI layout issues in iPod, Karaoke, and other components.
November 2025
Applet Store
AI-generated applets can be created, shared, imported, and managed.
AI chat tools
Ryo gains applet and file-system tools for richer desktop actions.
iPod video
Video playback, translation, and fullscreen controls join the music player.
Desktop shortcuts
Theme-aware shortcuts and Trash behavior make files easier to reach.
Paint selections
Selection tools become more capable inside the MacPaint-inspired canvas.
More from this month (10)
- Add theme-aware Desktop and Finder shortcuts with Trash support.
- Fix applet loading, sharing, and display.
- Update toast notifications for prefetching and version updates.
- Enhance PaintCanvas selection tools.
- Refactor components for clarity, maintainability, and performance.
- Add analytics tracking for applet viewer and key events.
- Update dependencies and build configurations.
- Improve error handling and logging in applet-ai.
- Enhance rate limiting and authentication in applet-ai and AppStoreFeed.
- Refactor Chats with Ryo help content and descriptions.
October 2025
Applet Viewer
Generated applets gain a dedicated viewer with sharing and import or export.
Applet generation
Chats can generate applets and hand them to the viewer.
Generated HTML
Editable applet content can be inspected and saved as HTML.
Applet files
Finder recognizes applet assets and their icons.
Responsive applets
Updated design guidance keeps generated interfaces readable at different sizes.
More from this month (8)
- Add icon support and toast notifications for generated HTML applets.
- Enhance MacDock with emoji scaling and layout adjustments.
- Improve AI prompt instructions for app generation and Chinese responses.
- Refine font handling for macOSX theme in applet viewer and HTML preview.
- Update app icons and file handling for applets.
- Add watch option to Vite server configuration to ignore terminal files.
- Fix login message shown when user was already logged in.
- Add new songs to ipod-videos.
September 2025
Lyrics translation
Translated lyrics persist and can be refreshed on demand.
AI chat
Automatic message handling and clearer logs improve Ryo conversations.
TextEdit
More reliable instance fallback keeps editor windows available.
Finder
File workflows stay integrated with the expanding media and editor apps.
Model settings
The default assistant progresses from Claude 4.5 to GPT-5.
More from this month (8)
- Fix translation dropdown and lyric offset for specific songs.
- Update dependencies, including zod upgrade for AI SDK requirements.
- Refactor lyrics display delay; persist translation language preference.
- Increase lyrics translation timeout to 120 seconds.
- Add new videos to ipod-videos and update song details.
- Add more prefixes to skip in LRC parsing; skip recording engineer/digital editing prefixes.
- Remove rate limiting from lyrics translation API.
- Clean up vite.config.ts and vercel.json configuration.
August 2025
macOS-style Dock
Animated app icons, focus, and touch support establish the desktop launcher.
Chat rooms
Presence, moderation, and collapsible room sections improve public chat.
TextEdit
A new editor context and toolbar make document work more reliable.
Authentication
Redis-backed rate limits and multiple tokens harden account sessions.
iPod
The player continues to gain responsive controls and a larger library.
More from this month (11)
- Update the default AI model to GPT-4.1.
- Add music videos by Crush and ILLIT to the iPod videos collection.
- Update iframe sandbox security with enhanced permissions.
- Improve Dock with mobile/touch support, dynamic app focus/launch logic, and macOS X theme integration.
- Enhance chat room messages with aquarium emoji support and improved rendering.
- Implement CORS and rate limiting across multiple API endpoints.
- Update themes and styling for consistency across components and macOS themes.
- Enforce password requirements for user creation.
- Refactor Terminal for improved functionality and organization.
- Add 404 page redirect to homepage.
- Reorder and restore previously removed video entries.
July 2025
Emoji aquarium
Aquarium messages bring a playful animated scene into Chats.
iPod
Fullscreen lyrics and touch controls improve mobile music playback.
Themes
macOS, Windows 98, and Windows XP become complete desktop choices.
Link previews
Chats recognizes YouTube and web links with custom previews.
App management
Window and instance handling becomes faster and more consistent.
More from this month (11)
- Refactor app and instance management for performance and consistency.
- Add chat burst rate limiting for public rooms; enhance username handling in Redis.
- Fix mobile Safari playback; improve fullscreen video player interactions.
- Update default wallpapers; improve wallpaper routing and caching.
- Enhance chat message component with scrollbar width handling.
- Improve mobile touch interactions; prevent unwanted gestures.
- Switch lyrics translation from OpenAI to Google Gemini.
- Refactor urgent message animations in ChatMessages.
- Update Terminal to use Monaco font; adjust sound playback logic.
- Enhance token management and verification.
- Improve icon caching and versioning strategy.
June 2025
Private chat rooms
Presence and room management expand beyond the original public channels.
Context menus
Desktop and Finder actions move into data-driven right-click menus.
iPod
New videos, click-wheel sound, and volume settings deepen the player.
Password management
Account and password controls become part of the desktop experience.
Internet Explorer
The Time Machine browser keeps favorites and historical navigation close.
More from this month (11)
- Add password management to Chats.
- Add user-specific token management in chat API and AI chat requests.
- Update rate limiting and input validation for chat rooms.
- Extend user token expiration and implement token refresh.
- Refactor authentication to prioritize headers and improve logging.
- Update iPod with new videos, clickwheel sound, and volume settings.
- Improve file metadata restoration with existing UUID preservation.
- Fix Safari emoji rendering; update SpeechHighlight extension.
- Refactor Redis key retrieval to use SCAN.
- Update dependencies and refactor TypeScript type assertions.
- Add login and logout commands and improve related UI.
May 2025
Multi-instance Finder
Multiple Finder and Terminal windows gain predictable ordering.
Chats
HTML replies, mentions, deletion, and app tools broaden conversations.
iPod
Fullscreen lyrics, swipe navigation, and library import or export arrive.
TextEdit
Markdown conversion, search and replace, and file handling mature.
Internet Explorer
Favorites and direct navigation connect the browser to the rest of ryOS.
More from this month (11)
- Add chat mentions, online status, message deletion, and room-management improvements.
- Update iPod with new video entries, lyric offset adjustments, and playback synchronization.
- Enhance chat UI with layout consistency, interaction sounds, and copy message.
- Improve Internet Explorer with direct passthrough URL handling, updated favorites, and navigation controls.
- Refactor audio synthesis and sound handling for performance and volume control.
- Fix chat message display, audio context management, and file handling bugs.
- Update AI prompts and instructions for chat response behavior and tool usage.
- Enhance Control Panels with volume mute toggle and improved sound settings UI.
- Improve mobile responsiveness in WindowFrame and ChatsAppComponent.
- Add TextEdit tool call for creating a blank document.
- Implement Redis caching for lyrics and translation requests.
April 2025
Internet Explorer Time Machine
Browse past and future versions of the web from one address bar.
Internet Explorer AI
Generated pages, caching, and shared URLs connect the browser with Ryo.
iPod
Media playback remains available beside the new browsing experience.
Finder
Files can move between the browser, editors, and media apps.
Paint
The MacPaint-style canvas stays integrated with shared files.
More from this month (10)
- Update Internet Explorer menu bar with Share App and reordered menu items.
- Improve video management with new default videos and updated titles and artist names.
- Enhance font mapping and add Jacquard font support.
- Update default favorites in Internet Explorer store.
- Refine HTML sanitization in HtmlPreview for security and cleanliness.
- Improve error handling and logging in Internet Explorer and iframe-check API.
- Update dependencies and TypeScript configuration.
- Implement CORS support in API endpoints.
- Add browser headers and pixelated rendering for images in iframe-check API.
- Refactor Chats, Videos, and iPod to use Zustand for state management.
March 2025
Synth
Preset management and a 3D waveform launch a playable instrument.
Terminal
Vim, new commands, command history, and streaming HTML previews arrive.
Chats
Pusher-powered realtime messages add rooms, presence, and moderation.
iPod
Video playback and responsive controls expand the music player.
Photo Booth
Camera selection, filters, file saving, and iOS support add a new creative app.
More from this month (11)
- Refactor the Chat API for performance, error handling, and model selection.
- Enhance Terminal with Vim editor, new commands (echo, whoami, date), and command history navigation.
- Improve iPod with touch event handling, animated text scrolling, and dynamic video playlist loading.
- Update chat generation instructions for UI element sizing, container wrapping, and responsive design.
- Refactor HtmlPreview for improved scaling, positioning, and animation during streaming.
- Enhance Desktop and useWallpaper for video wallpaper handling and loading state.
- Add IndexedDB backup and restore in Control Panels.
- Implement Blob content handling in Terminal, TextEdit, Finder, and Paint.
- Update dependencies and clean up unused variables.
- Improve sound effects in Terminal, HtmlPreview, and ChatMessages.
- Refactor vibration handling in iPod and ChatMessages.
February 2025
Paint
A MacPaint-inspired canvas launches with patterns, selections, undo, and touch.
Videos
A retro CD-player interface wraps responsive video playback.
Virtual PC
Classic games run inside a DOSBox-powered PC app.
IndexedDB files
Images and documents move into a durable browser file system.
TextEdit
Markdown, drag and drop, and document commands improve editing.
More from this month (11)
- Add backup and restore to Control Panels.
- Add advanced image filters and improved import scaling to Paint.
- Add CRT display mode with scanline effect to Videos.
- Enhance chat with nudge feature, urgent message highlighting, and markdown parsing.
- Improve file management with restore and rename in Finder.
- Add MSN nudge sound effect and tooltip to audio input button.
- Update AI assistant system prompt with expanded persona and app details.
- Add chat typing synthesis preset selection to Control Panels.
- Improve canvas touch and pointer event handling across Paint and other apps.
- Add storage space tracking and UI improvements to Finder.
- Enhance window management with improved resize delta calculations.
January 2025
ryOS launches
A compact desktop starts with Soundboard, Internet Explorer, and Chats.
Soundboard
Record sounds, see waveforms, and organize clips into boards.
Sound libraries
Named boards keep themed sound collections one click away.
Internet Explorer
Favorites and Wayback Machine navigation bring the web onto the desktop.
Chats
Ryo debuts with persistent messages and an animated typing display.
More from this month (11)
- Add Minesweeper, Finder, and Control Panels to the multi-app desktop.
- Add sound effects for window operations, buttons, menus, and chat interactions.
- Implement chat typing synthesis with Tone.js and pentatonic scale.
- Add audio transcription for voice input in Chats and TextEdit.
- Improve mobile responsiveness with touch support, swipe navigation, and adaptive window sizing.
- Add SEO meta tags, favicon, and Geneva font for classic Mac aesthetics.
- Implement localStorage persistence for app state across sessions.
- Add About This Computer dialog with dynamic memory usage visualization.
- Add help and about dialogs with grid layout to all apps.
- Enhance Internet Explorer with loading states, error handling, and favicon support.
- Add emoji picker, wallpaper selection, and UI interaction sound effects.
This changelog is maintained from git history and manual curation. Last updated: 2026-07-07