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agent cargo cli codingagent crossterm ratatui
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rust tui

Summary

AI summary

Broad release touches Other, Highlights, Refactors, and 0.88.0 - 2026-03-11.

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What's Changed

0.88.0 - 2026-03-11

Highlights

Features

  • Refactor pattern detection logic, improve concurrency with parking_lot, and optimize performance with SmallVec and pre-allocated buffers. (28d0d534)
  • Optimize tool execution tracking, file path parsing, and grep result handling, while preventing memory leaks in stats. (c319aebe)
  • Add Miri check to the check.sh script and update documentation for detecting undefined behavior. (15f3d5c1)

Other Changes

Other

  • Refactor pattern detection and command safety checks for improved efficiency and optimize tool name caching. (4abdbc6f)
  • Review ZedAgent registry mutex (3ead1b8b)
  • Apply async docs updates (3b75f5cf)
  • Incorporate async docs guidance (800f1927)
  • Enhance task listing filters (24b35cee)
  • Improve batched request handling (e1cbedf5)
  • Improve ANSI styles (cbe58ce9)
  • Refactor agent loop to support initial configuration and enhance live reload functionality (7aaba845)
  • Review vtcode PR 13090 updates (e4ee2358)
  • Refactor SandboxPolicy to support network access and allowlisting in ReadOnly mode (89127618)
  • Enhance Anthropic tool support with code execution and memory tools; improve validation and error handling (fac76a15)
  • Implement referenced Rust PR updates (c43428b1)
  • Fix @file diff lookup (183a1ec3)
  • Refactor tool routing and ACP (c37388a6)
  • Add headings to vtcode configs (b0f294f7)
  • Remove forced budget stop logic (6ec74d5c)
  • Enhance interleaved thinking model support and serialization across providers (a8e8bd27)
  • Refactor task tracker rendering and state management (06566014)
  • Implement workspace environment variable management and interactive selection UI (7e94f5df)
  • Add local tool execution and session management for ZedAgent (1a460fc2)
  • Refactor session setup and tool execution: remove unused code and improve clarity (06cc7671)
  • Implement ast-grep installer with caching and locking mechanisms; add ripgrep installer with platform-specific installation logic; enhance debug logging capabilities. (fd0dadc9)
  • Clean unused rust code (98f12364)
  • Refactor agent configuration: remove unused code, enhance API key environment handling, and streamline model selection logic (89cbd68a)
  • Add Gemini wire models and streaming processor implementation (4114e15c)
  • Refactor approval policy handling: streamline rejection logic and enhance clarity in related modules (10630d73)
  • Refactor sandbox policy handling and improve test coverage (8bfd4efa)
  • Refactor error handling and add fallback mechanisms for model not found scenarios in OpenAI and OpenResponses providers (12f7a717)
  • Refactor provider configuration: add timeout and specific OpenAI/Anthropic options (288cb188)
  • Implement file conflict monitoring and auditing features (07e4b493)
  • Refactor code for improved readability and consistency across file operations and conflict detection (6354965c)
  • Refactor file conflict handling and introduce runtime execution management (e60faf6a)
  • Refactor update handling and relaunch logic; enhance update command execution strategy (dffb89da)
  • Enhance tool policies and follow-up prompt detection; update theme configuration (1463e225)
  • Update notes (aefceac2)
  • Enhance TurnLoopContext and processing logic for improved tool call handling and metadata management (327379f2)
  • Add exhausted_tool_call_limit method and update budget handling logic (ebdc1b6f)
  • Add LiteLLM provider support and documentation (327183cb)
  • Enhance parameter sanitization and alias handling for tool arguments (190ee131)
  • Update TODO (3b2e19fc)

Refactors

  • Introduce detect_pattern_with_guard for improved pattern detection logic and simplify RwLock write guard acquisition. (5f70ca7c)

Contributors

@vinhnx

Full Changelog: https://github.com/vinhnx/vtcode/compare/0.87.1...0.88.0

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