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A housekeeping release. /ext now uninstalls as easily as it installs — space marks the change, enter applies it — and the new elyra doctor resources command finds the Elyra sessions you started three days ago and forgot about, child processes and all.
The agent could already write the UI, screenshot it, and critique its own spacing — but the last inch still needed a human finger on the mouse. 0.9.26 closes that gap with snapshot-first browser tools, plus half-price models for unattended goal runs and an /ext browser that knows what you already own.
Full-page caching is rare in PHP because nobody trusts it. Askr 1.4 adds a cache oracle that reports what's actually safe to cache, and automatic dependency tagging so invalidation stops being a maintenance job.
Every integration so far made the agent better at code. This one makes it better at being a colleague. 0.9.25 connects Elyra to Félagi — the project portal where people and agents share one board — so the agent reads the issue, checks the runbook, does the work, logs its hours, and hands the thread on.
Elyra Félagi is a task platform where agents are actors, not features — they appear in the assignee picker, claim issues, and move them to review. The server never calls a model; every LLM call happens on a machine you own.
Both halves of ElyraSQL 1.7.0 came from an outside contributor who pointed four commercial Laravel codebases at our database and turned every failure into a generic MySQL reproduction. What he found: a version string that suppressed window functions, invented column labels over joins, a CREATE DATABASE that lied — and an index-bound bug that silently returned the wrong row count. Plus the first native Apple Silicon binary.
Laravel 13.16 shipped php artisan dev, and Grove's hardcoded two-process dev session became a limitation. Grove 1.3.0 reads dev:list from your app instead of guessing — plus a pre-existing orphaned-process bug that testing dragged into the light.
ElyraSQL 1.6.0 is a release with no new marketing checkbox and a database that got measurably better anyway. Two bug reports turned out to be one defect in the row-oriented paths — fixing it made ORDER BY ... LIMIT 3× faster and a 40M-row join 29× faster. Plus a silent wrong-results bug found by differential testing against MySQL, non-equi joins that now stream instead of exploding, and an honest look at where MySQL still wins.
Fifty files changed and no idea where to start. e 0.9.7 and 0.9.8 move the review of agent-written code into the editor — risk-ranked files, diff-scoped safety checks, per-file revert, and a grouped commit plan that turns the changeset into a readable PR.
Structured data, llms.txt and quotable paragraphs are worthless if the crawler never arrives. Elyra Sjá 0.5.0 reads your access log to show which AI crawlers actually came, whether your robots.txt lets them in, and where the two disagree.