Changelog

What changed in each version of BaoCode.

1.0.6

New

Added a ChatGPT (Codex) upstream: add it in Settings → Models and sign in with your ChatGPT account to use Codex models on your subscription's quota, with no API key.
Add several accounts to one ChatGPT upstream and choose how requests are spread across them: Round Robin, Fill First or Most Remaining. When an account runs out of quota, requests move on to the next one automatically.
Settings shows each account's plan, the quota used and when it resets.
When an MCP server asks for information, a card now asks you: fill in its form field by field, or approve a link it wants opened (such as a sign-in page) in your browser.

Improved

In full access, the agent's questions and plans awaiting approval still wait for you; other permission requests are approved automatically as before.
If port 1455, which ChatGPT sign-in returns to, is taken by another program, sign in in the browser as usual and paste the address it ends on back into Settings.

1.0.5

New

Network settings let you use the system proxy, set one manually or connect directly. Test connections to several sites at once, with response times and details when a connection fails.
Added two built-in notification sounds: man-oh-yeah and Gulp Gulp Gulp Gulp.

Improved

Interface text scaling and code font size now work independently: editor and side-panel code views follow the code font size, while conversation text and interface labels follow the interface scale. Font changes apply immediately.
Notification sounds and previews now overlap instead of interrupting a sound already playing, on both macOS and Windows.
Menus keep an 8px gap from the window edges; long lists scroll within that space.

Fixed

Scrolling long diffs in the editor and side-panel previews stays smooth, including with many changed lines.
Selecting text in a conversation no longer gets disrupted when the available text widgets change.
Dragging across the chat-width setting no longer changes its value accidentally.

1.0.4

Improved

Source Control and the side panel’s Changes page no longer freeze when there are huge numbers of changes (say, a home folder made a Git repository): the first 10,000 show with a notice, file changes then no longer refresh them (Refresh does), and scrolling and dragging the scrollbar stay smooth (#6)
Diffs of large files, or of files changed throughout, no longer freeze the window: the diff editor, the side panel’s diff preview and inline blame compute them in the background
SSH remote projects get the same limit, and no longer send the whole Git status back when there are many changes
Language servers’ file watching skips Git’s objects and the files of packages in node_modules, and takes many changes at once a batch at a time, without slowing the window

New

The side panel’s Changes page finds Git repositories in subfolders, as Source Control does, and lets you switch between them

Fixed

An agent’s goal (/goal) was misreported: a goal given up on or ended by an error read as met, also after resuming a session; and its clock kept running when nothing worked on it
Dragging to select text in a conversation sometimes selected nothing until the app restarted
Selecting text in a conversation went wrong as a queued message was sent or the status changed
Anthropic-compatible endpoints (such as those of DeepSeek, Zhipu and Alibaba Cloud) now list their models

1.0.3

1.0.2 won't open on Windows?

If 1.0.2 quits as soon as it starts, without a window, its built-in update can't run either: download 1.0.3 from https://baocode.dev/download and install it over the old version. Your settings and conversations are kept.

Fixed

Windows: on some PCs 1.0.2 quit right after starting, without showing a window (when the Visual C++ runtime installed was an older one). BaoCode now carries the runtime it needs instead of using the system's
Windows: Claude Code installed with Volta failed to start, reported as not recognized

1.0.2

Update didn’t install?

If after Restart to Update the app closed and opened again on the old version (1.0.0 and the first 1.0.1 build may do this), please download 1.0.2 from https://baocode.dev/download and install it over your current version; your settings and conversations are kept.

New

Settings → Appearance: choose the code font, its size and ligatures, and the interface text size, with a preview as you go; the terminal uses the font and size too
A very long text pasted into the input goes in as a tag (such as “Pasted text #1 +120 lines”) instead of freezing the window; hover it to preview, and the whole text is sent with the message

New in 1.0.1

A side panel beside the chat: browse the project’s files, review, stage and commit Git changes (with a commit message Claude can draft), and open terminals and the commands an agent runs in the background
See the files Claude changed in the side panel, and edit and save them there
Workspaces: put several folders together and let an agent work across them all; Git repositories nested in them are found too
Refer to other conversations with @ in the input, and copy a session’s ID from an agent’s menu in the sidebar
SSH remote projects on macOS hosts
Mermaid diagrams in chat and Markdown files drawn as diagrams, offline, and zoomable
The agent’s plan shown as a card, and a setting for the width of the chat
Copy, cut and paste files in the explorer
A background command’s output in the side panel is shown in a real terminal, with the terminal’s font, colors, selection, find and links

Improved in 1.0.1

Claude Code’s first-run onboarding is skipped for you, and you’re told when Claude Code can’t be found
A file opened again is colored at once, without waiting to be highlighted anew
In a narrow window, the sidebar and the side panel give way to whichever was opened last
Windows: a new install is for the current user by default, so neither installing nor updating needs administrator rights; installing for all users is still a choice
More reliable updates: on Windows, the administrator prompt an update asks for comes up in front; an update that didn’t install is told at the next launch, with the download page and the install log
A version you skipped still shows the Update button in the sidebar; it just isn’t offered in a notification
Errors, the Windows window log and hang reports are kept in the data folder’s logs folder, to find out what went wrong
The interaction panel shows the shortcut to go back

Fixed in 1.0.1

With themes such as Dark 2026 and Dark Modern, the program, strings and options of a command in the chat were invisible
With light themes, commands and their output in the chat were too faint; they now keep the terminal’s contrast
A project icon in cyan or magenta showed no color with some themes
Moving the data directory names the files another program holds open, instead of only reporting that copying failed
A suggested prompt with a backslash (a Windows path) or a line break turned the input into a grey error box
Windows: after a display slept, or a window was resized while hidden, the window’s content froze
Windows: a maximized window on a second screen, restored from minimized, didn’t fill the screen or take input
The side panel’s rail showed while Customize was open
Windows: About showed the wrong version, and not the app’s icon

1.0.1

To 1.0.0 users

Our mistake: 1.0.0 can’t install updates. After Restart to Update the app closes, and opens again as 1.0.0. We’re sorry.
Please download 1.0.1 from https://baocode.dev/download and install it over your current version; your settings and conversations are kept. From 1.0.1 on, updates install by themselves.

New

A side panel beside the chat: browse the project’s files, review, stage and commit Git changes (with a commit message Claude can draft), and open terminals and the commands an agent runs in the background
See the files Claude changed in the side panel, and edit and save them there
Workspaces: put several folders together and let an agent work across them all; Git repositories nested in them are found too
Refer to other conversations with @ in the input, and copy a session’s ID from an agent’s menu in the sidebar
SSH remote projects on macOS hosts
Mermaid diagrams in chat and Markdown files drawn as diagrams, offline, and zoomable
The agent’s plan shown as a card, and a setting for the width of the chat
Copy, cut and paste files in the explorer
A background command’s output in the side panel is shown in a real terminal, with the terminal’s font, colors, selection, find and links

Improved

Claude Code’s first-run onboarding is skipped for you, and you’re told when Claude Code can’t be found
A file opened again is colored at once, without waiting to be highlighted anew
In a narrow window, the sidebar and the side panel give way to whichever was opened last
Windows: a new install is for the current user by default, so neither installing nor updating needs administrator rights; installing for all users is still a choice
More reliable updates: on Windows, the administrator prompt an update asks for comes up in front; an update that didn’t install is told at the next launch, with the download page and the install log
A version you skipped still shows the Update button in the sidebar; it just isn’t offered in a notification
Errors, the Windows window log and hang reports are kept in the data folder’s logs folder, to find out what went wrong
The interaction panel shows the shortcut to go back

Fixed

With themes such as Dark 2026 and Dark Modern, the program, strings and options of a command in the chat were invisible
With light themes, commands and their output in the chat were too faint; they now keep the terminal’s contrast
A project icon in cyan or magenta showed no color with some themes
Moving the data directory names the files another program holds open, instead of only reporting that copying failed
A suggested prompt with a backslash (a Windows path) or a line break turned the input into a grey error box
Windows: after a display slept, or a window was resized while hidden, the window’s content froze
Windows: a maximized window on a second screen, restored from minimized, didn’t fill the screen or take input
The side panel’s rail showed while Customize was open
Windows: About showed the wrong version, and not the app’s icon

1.0.0

The first release of BaoCode: a desktop app for Claude Code, with a fast IDE built in. For macOS (Apple silicon and Intel) and Windows.

Chat

Steps fold into single lines, and the current task and its progress stay above the input
Review what Claude changed, file by file, and keep or undo it; checkpoints never touch your repository’s .git
Give Claude a goal with /goal, and it keeps working until the goal is met
A rich-text input: paste images, drop in files, and copy code from the editor as a reference to its lines
Edit a message you sent, search your conversations, and see your context and plan usage
Run several agents side by side, in tabs or in windows of their own
Choose how the commits and pull requests Claude writes are credited

SSH remote projects

Open a folder on a Linux host over SSH, as with VS Code’s Remote-SSH: the window stays on your machine, and files, search, Git, terminals, language servers and Claude Code run on the host
Pick a host from ~/.ssh/config, or type user@host
Claude Code is installed on a host that has none, and your models work there too
Reconnects by itself; when a host can’t be reached, you’re told why and can retry

Fast IDE

An editor, a terminal and Source Control with a commit graph and Git blame
Your VS Code themes, keybindings and language servers
Markdown files open as a preview you can edit in place, Typora’s way
Commit messages drafted by Claude Code, for you to edit and commit

Models and extensions

Use other models through Claude Code: Anthropic’s API, OpenAI’s Chat Completions or Responses, with API keys kept in the system keychain
Choose the model for each part of Claude Code’s work, and for titles and commit messages
Plugins, MCP servers, skills, subagents, rules, commands and hooks in one place, with your skills from claude.ai

Around the app

Notifications, a sound and a count on the app’s icon when an agent needs you; agents keep running in the menu bar or tray when the window is closed
Open a folder in BaoCode from Finder or Explorer, and keep a window on top of others
In English and Chinese
Updates itself in the background, and asks before restarting