The Elyra blog

Elyra SQL Server · Aug 26, 2026 · 8 min read

ElyraSQL 1.10.0 — the server was optional all along

ElyraSQL 1.10.0 ships elyra-embed: the same MySQL-compatible SQL engine, in-process, over a single file, with no server, no port and no container. Real MySQL DECIMAL semantics in your test suite — plus a C ABI, and the four-year-old locking bug we only found by pointing the tool at itself.

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Tips & Tricks · Aug 23, 2026 · 4 min read

Elyra Weekly #1: Own Your Coding Agent

First post in a weekly series about Elyra — a terminal-first coding agent that treats the model as a replaceable part, not the product. Why your agent shouldn't have an opinion about whose models you use, plus four tips for keeping your setup lean and your token bill honest.

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Elyra · Aug 16, 2026 · 4 min read

Small Releases, Big Comfort: Elyra 0.9.27 → 0.9.31

Five releases in under two weeks, none of them a headline on its own. Two-way extension management, visibility into forgotten sessions, a 400 error that taught us about prompt-cache anatomy, warnings that only fire once, and a model registry that kept pace with Grok 4.6, GLM 5.3 and Gemini 3.7 Flash.

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Félagi · Aug 14, 2026 · 5 min read

Fourteen days, 1,918 tests, and a colleague who never sleeps

Fourteen days, 141 commits, 75 releases and 1,918 passing tests. On building Félagi — a work tracker where agents are teammates rather than tools — by using Félagi to build it, where it sits against Linear, Jira and Devin, and the five bugs that shipped green today.

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Elyra · Aug 8, 2026 · 3 min read

Tidy Up: Elyra 0.9.27

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.

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Elyra · Aug 7, 2026 · 5 min read

Elyra 0.9.26: The Agent Gets Hands

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.

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Askr · Aug 4, 2026 · 8 min read

Askr 1.4 — the cache that proves it's safe to cache

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.

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Elyra · Aug 3, 2026 · 5 min read

Elyra 0.9.25: Your Agent Joins the Team — Timesheet and All

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.

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Félagi · Aug 1, 2026 · 8 min read

The teammate who works while you sleep

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.

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Elyra SQL Server · Aug 1, 2026 · 8 min read

ElyraSQL 1.7.0: the release we didn't write

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.

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