What shipped in Aria, release by release, and the notes I write while I build it. Written by Arush, the developer.
Releases
0.1.5Latest
While I was gone
New
While I was gone. Come back after 20 minutes away (or 10, 30, 60, or off) and the notch opens on a short briefing: decisions waiting for you first, then failures, then what finished. Each line opens its replay, approval or ledger. Allow and Deny use the same approval path as the peek, and Allow is never the default key. Say "catch me up" any time.
A local briefing history: agent and project names, session titles, tool names and times, kept 7 days on this Mac, never uploaded. Clear it in Settings.
If Claude Code's or Codex's hooks are broken, the main window says so and offers Repair, showing the exact config change first.
Improved
While you're not using it, the music-reactive orb draws 24 frames a second instead of 30, and its audio analysis does less work.
Opt-in usage counts are also sent the same day when you reach a new setup step, so setup drop-off is visible.
Fixed
The permission notice from 0.1.4 never appeared. It does now.
Quitting, including for an update, while a sheet such as What's new was open could leave Aria running. Quit now closes the sheet first.
Opt-in crash reports in Settings > Privacy, off by default. After a crash the next launch sends one small scrubbed report, and you can preview the exact bytes first. Turning it off deletes anything waiting.
If a macOS permission Aria relies on gets turned off, Aria tells you which one, what stops working, and opens the right System Settings pane.
Your plan in one line in Settings. During the beta every feature is open, and Aria remembers your plan for 7 days so it works offline.
Improved
Aria is lighter. The orb draws at most 30 frames a second when you're not using it, and stops drawing while the display sleeps, the screen is locked or it's hidden. Idle on an M4: about 0.02% of one core and about 135 MB of memory.
The music-reactive orb no longer refreshes the app for every audio frame. It reads the music level only when it draws. With music playing it now uses about 10.5% of one core, down from about 13%.
Connecting Claude Code or Codex during setup now shows the exact config change first, the same review Agents already had.
Calmer Settings: this Mac and your plan come first, privacy text is short with the full detail one click away.
Fixed
A failed workspace squash merge restores only the files it touched. The CI tab's merge confirmation names the pull request, its base and the method.
Connecting Claude Code or Codex shows the exact change to its config file before anything is written, and saves a dated backup first. You can remove Aria's hooks, repair hooks that point at a missing script, or restore the backup.
Agents > About lists what Aria can do for each agent. Only Claude Code and Codex can be approved from the notch; the others are view-only.
Settings > About shows the version and build, with Check for Updates and these notes. After an update, a short What's new sheet appears once.
Voice can stay on your Mac: "On-device only" is on by default where macOS supports it.
Improved
Every way an approval can end is now tested: allow, deny, timeout, the agent moving on, the agent quitting, Aria quitting, sleep, two agents at once, 20 requests in a row. When anything goes wrong, nothing is allowed and your agent asks in its own terminal.
Merging, cleaning up and restoring a workspace now show the exact commits and files first. Merges keep a backup and can be undone; cleanup never deletes work that isn't merged.
Fixed
If an agent stops waiting, its card in the notch clears within 2 seconds and says nothing was allowed. Before, a dead request could sit there with Allow still showing.
The first approval can be real: paste one command and Claude Code or Codex asks for one small file in an empty temporary folder. Without an agent, the practice is marked simulated.
Redo setup in Settings. Disconnect checks that no Aria hooks are left.
Improved
Shorter setup: welcome, permissions, find your agents, connect, a first approval, done. Every step can be skipped and setup resumes where you left off.
Empty tabs say what they need and offer one button.
Optional usage counts add one number: how far through setup you got.
Fixed
Voice says when macOS Dictation is off, links to the setting, and Settings > Voice has an "I can hear you" check.