What's Changed

Performance and UI Responsiveness

• Reduced startup/session-restore overhead, improved chat rendering, and cleaned up stale/deprecated agent docs in #34
• Removed Qt shim-dependent UI calls, improved Markdown/rendering paths, and fixed CI-order-dependent Qt test issues in #35
• Further improved chat performance by batching layout/paint work, caching assistant message heights, throttling streaming Markdown renders, and reducing tool-widget repaint churn in #41 by @elvisgraho

Installer, Runtime, and Dependency Handling

• Fixed IDA Python detection in the installer and improved the install flow across platforms in #34
• Lazy-loaded auth-cache dependencies, hardened early logging, restored host-native UI theming, and improved runtime dependency detection in #37
• Made provider startup tolerate stale or mixed auth-cache installs instead of crashing settings/startup flows in #43

Provider Improvements

• Raised context/output limits for self-hosted OpenAI-compatible and Ollama providers in #39 by @EZForever

Documentation and Release Metadata

• Added Windows guidance for installing the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable needed by IDA's bundled PySide6/Shiboken runtime in #42

Contributors

Thanks to @EZForever, and @elvisgraho for this release.

New Contributors

• @EZForever made their first contribution in #39
• @elvisgraho made their first contribution in #41