crush Releases

This release fixes a regression in JavaScript bundling where the CLI incorrectly forced all JS snippets to be bundled as ESM, regardless of their actual module type (CJS, UMD, or generic).

May 1, 2026

This is a patch Wednesday release (v0.64.0) focused on stability improvements and bug fixes for Charm Crush. Key fixes include a hook matcher bug, Anthropic provider issues, background job regressions, and status bar rendering problems, along with under-the-hood theming preparation work.

Apr 29, 2026

This release introduces Crush's new hooks system, starting with the PreToolUse hook that runs before tool calls. Users can deny tool calls, halt turns, rewrite bash commands, and perform side effects. The release also includes a built-in crush-hook skill for managing hooks and is compatible with Claude Code hooks.

Apr 27, 2026

This is a stability release for Crush (v0.62.1) focused on bug fixes and improvements. The release addresses API key validation for MiniMax, fixes 400 Bad Request errors for Fantasy providers, improves LSP server startup reliability, and adds better logging for request retries.

Apr 24, 2026

Major release focusing on token optimization with 98% reduced system prompts now default, plus fetch tool size limits reduced and automatic diff detection.

Apr 22, 2026

This is the final release of the 0.7 series, introducing numerous bug fixes, new CLI features like shell completions, and performance improvements while preparing the codebase for breaking changes in version 0.8.

Apr 22, 2026

Small release with quality of life improvements including skills reliability, light theme fixes, and iTerm2 progress bar support.

Apr 21, 2026

Minimal release adding Hyper openai-compatible endpoint support.

Apr 17, 2026

Feature-rich release with skills sidebar, built-in jq, CPU spike fix, and Rio terminal progress bar.

Apr 16, 2026

Small patch fixing tea_debug.log file creation and Portuguese language response bug in prompts.

Apr 15, 2026

This release focuses on stabilizing the application for Windows users by addressing crashes that occurred during report saving and fixing ResourceFileSystem path errors.

Apr 14, 2026

Session hardening and token savings release with opt-in flag for reduced tool descriptions and improved skill discovery.

Apr 13, 2026

Self-debugging tools added (crush_info, crush_logs), LSP sidebar restored, and config JSON schema fixed.

Apr 8, 2026

Patch release fixing local model compatibility issues with max_tokens and context window handling.

Apr 6, 2026

Major release introducing built-in skills concept, crush-config skill, skill disabling, and experimental server-client architecture.

Apr 2, 2026

Major release focusing on Spider Cloud CLI authentication, Chrome enhancements, and performance improvements including DNS caching, proxy tunneling, and embedded scripting capabilities.

Mar 31, 2026

Various improvements including better init prompt, git ignore support, skills in session commands, and UI fixes.

Mar 31, 2026

This release adds support for Z.ai's GLM-5.1 AI model and introduces a dynamic prompt input field that grows up to 15 rows in height. It also includes several bug fixes for diff display, session handling when canceling tool calls, session title language issues, and external editor temp file cleanup.

Mar 27, 2026

Introduces the spider_mcp crate, providing an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for Spider to enable integration with Claude AI tools for web scraping and crawling tasks.

Mar 25, 2026

This release introduces project-based skills support, allowing teams to share skills by committing them to `.agents/skills`, `.crush/skills`, `.claude/skills`, or `.cursor/skills` directories. It also adds environment variables (`CRUSH`, `AGENT`, `AI_AGENT`) for apps to detect when they're running via Crush, improves file picker sorting, and ensures the model responds in the user's prompt language.

Mar 25, 2026