What's new
Gezel changes often. This section is the running record of those changes, one article per release, newest first.
Recent releases
1.26275 — 2 October 2026 — Quicker follow-ups from local models, reviews that really send work back, diagrams in Word, and read-only projects that stay read-only.
1.26274 — 1 October 2026 — Craftbook tasks that stall far less, finished work handed back as a file you can open, whole replies read aloud, and fewer off-topic passages in chat.
1.26273 — 30 September 2026 — Start a craftbook from your message, get finished work back with its sums checked, search seventeen Wikipedia shelves offline, and let one gezel carry a whole task.
1.26261 — 18 September 2026 — Visible routes for requested files, sharper knowledge search, stronger command-line batch workflows, and app-hosted Gezel for developers.
1.26251 — 8 September 2026 — Engines that reserve memory instead of colliding, llama.cpp v0.4 loading controls, GLM 5.3 on DwarfStar, and catalogs built from a folder of Markdown.
1.26247 — 4 September 2026 — Spreadsheets you can sort, filter and edit in place, conversations that make their own room, drafts that survive a restart, and a Village with real streets.
1.26244 — 1 September 2026 — Spreadsheets your crew can actually count, documents read aloud, dictation and spell-checking, and local models that stop stalling out at five minutes.
1.26237 — 25 August 2026 — Change proposals you read before any file is edited, fixes drafted overnight, a Try again button for stuck tasks, and AI Apps you can share as a link.
1.26234 — 22 August 2026 — Reference libraries your crew can cite, gezels that look things up on their own, links between projects, and people grouped in your photos.
1.26231 — 19 August 2026 — A live dashboard on your desktop wallpaper, disk space you can see and reclaim, backup and restore, your local models inside VS Code, and Qwen 3.8 27B tops the scorecard.
1.26226 — 14 August 2026 — Five more models on the scorecard, file problems you can hand straight to a gezel, a much fuller terminal app, and memory that keeps working when its index breaks.
1.26224 — 12 August 2026 — Measured model scores, per-model memory controls, editable Office documents, and much stricter rules about what a gezel may install.
Updating
Packaged installs check for new releases on their own and offer the update when one is ready. Nothing in your work is touched by an update: your gezellen, projects, threads, memories and files all live in ordinary files on your disk, and a new version simply reads the same files.
Separately from app releases, gezel can pick up new catalog content — model descriptions, craftbooks, role templates — without a full update. That is the Catalog content setting under Settings → About, and it is off unless you turn it on.