Release notes

v0.2.2

Release notes and product updates for Nora.

v0.2.2Published 8 Oct 2026

Features

The focused agent or terminal's top-right info bar now shows its checkout folder (full path on hover) and a branch picker that switches the branch checked out in that folder.
Project rows in the sidebar have a + button that opens a new agent tab with your default harness in one click, in the project folder at its current checkout.
Cursor Agent's footer usage popover now shows your monthly usage, reset date, plan, Auto/API usage split, and bonus usage, read via the Cursor desktop app's sign-in.
The Settings sidebar now has a search box that filters settings by name and keyword; picking a result opens its section and scrolls to and highlights that setting.
You can now open folders that are not git repositories as projects; git-only features (Git, Forge, and Vercel tabs, branch picker, worktrees, branch checkout on launch) are hidden and agents run directly in the project folder.
Opening a PDF (or Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or other document) from the file tree now shows an "Open in default app" button that opens it in your system viewer instead of showing its raw bytes as text.

Sidebar thread rows now show only the title, with the full title, agent, project, and last-updated date in a hover tooltip.
Each sidebar thread group now lists its 5 most recent threads, with a "Show more" toggle to reveal the rest.
Collapsing the right sidebar now hides it completely instead of leaving a narrow strip with an icon and count.
Active ports moved from the projects sidebar to an icon on the right of the footer that opens a popover listing each port, with actions to focus its terminal or open it in the app browser or externally.
Remote mounts moved from the projects sidebar to an icon on the right of the footer that opens a popover listing each SSH mount, with actions to choose a repository in it or unmount it.
AI chatbot shortcuts (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity) moved from the projects sidebar to a footer icon that opens them in the internal browser.
Projects without a favicon file now use the favicon of the `homepage` URL in their `package.json` as the project icon.
The project home screen now shows the `package.json` homepage as a link that opens in the project browser.
The sidebar projects list drops its row borders for borderless rounded rows like the Threads and Agents sections, and marks the active project with a small accent bar and bolder name instead of a full-row highlight.
The Settings screen drops its large title header for a compact top bar with a Back button (with a back arrow) at the top left.

Nora no longer runs out of memory and crashes when you have large Codex session histories; Codex threads are now identified without loading whole session files.
Sidebar project session counts now stay aligned across projects, whether or not a project has runnable scripts.
When the window fails to render, crashes, or hangs, Nora now shows a recovery screen or prompt with Reload and Copy error details instead of a blank window, and View → Reload is available on macOS.
Claude Code's footer usage popover now shows your session and weekly limits (when your plan has them), plan, signed-in account, usage credits, and why usage is unavailable when it cannot be loaded.
Threads in the sidebar now show their session title (or opening prompt) instead of the harness name and session ID.
Codex thread titles and Cursor usage now load on Windows and Linux without needing the `sqlite3` command-line tool installed.
The footer's enabled agents no longer shows installed agents you have disabled after opening or switching projects.
Opening a project while another project is still refreshing no longer leaves the "Loading project" dialog stuck open or copies the previous project's branch and instructions file onto the new one.
Opening a project whose folder was moved or deleted now offers to remove it from Nora instead of failing with a git error.