open-design-v0.14.1

### 🌟 Codename: *Intelligence with everyone: Grok 4.5 Free, Plus GPT 5.6, Fable 5 & Muse 1.1*

Design intelligence, now within everyone's reach. Open Design includes free credits, with Grok 4.5 as the default model—giving everyone the freedom to explore, create, and share.

## ✨ Added

### 🏠 Home & onboarding

- **See what changed without leaving Home.** After an update, a one-time “What’s New” card brings the latest release highlights into the app instead of making you hunt for release notes. (#5071)

- **New users get a clearer first step.** Home now recommends a starting point based on the first-run questionnaire, carries it into Studio as an editable prompt, and guides the first artifact from generation to preview and delivery. (#5111, #5160)

### 🎨 Studio, previews & design systems

- **WebGL work finally looks alive in Preview.** Powered previews unlock Web Workers, WASM, `SharedArrayBuffer`, and richer GPU experiences inside HTML artifacts, with ten new WebGL examples ready to explore. (#5266, #5312) Thanks @pftom, @XingliGe.

- **Tom Modern joins the bundled design systems.** A sharp editorial system with neutral surfaces, vermillion accents, technical typography, and ready-made components gives generated work another distinct visual direction. (#4918) Thanks @Tom-Opencart.

### 🔑 Models, media & agents

- **MiniMax Image-01 is now available for image generation.** Create from text or use an existing image as a subject reference through the MiniMax provider. (#4563) Thanks @ryanoolala.

- **Kiro can join the MCP workflow.** Kiro users can now install and connect through Open Design’s MCP setup. (#5118) Thanks @YOMXXX.

## 🔁 Changed

- **Model picking reveals more of the trade-off before you run.** Cost and quality metadata now appear directly in model badges, while unavailable or tier-restricted choices are gated more clearly instead of failing after selection. (#5216, #5335, #5407) Thanks @Mason6660201, @mrcfps.

- **Low balances interrupt you later—and explain the next step better.** Cloud runs are checked before they start so prompts are not lost, while the low-balance reminder appears less aggressively and offers clearer sign-in, recharge, and continue actions. (#5103, #5349)

- **Updates take the safe route when an in-place upgrade is no longer enough.** Open Design can send users to the full installer when a future release requires capabilities the current build cannot adopt safely. (#5235) Thanks @PerishCode.

- **Automation schedules stay in the language you chose.** Localized schedule summaries no longer fall back to generic text. (#3591) Thanks @mturac.

## 🐛 Fixed

### 🎨 Studio, previews & community

- **Design-system previews load their images reliably again.** Missing preview assets no longer leave design-system cards or detail views incomplete. (#5381)

- **The plugin preview panel can always be collapsed.** Scrolling content no longer covers the sidebar handle. (#5300)

- **Annotation controls stay close to the work.** The draw composer now floats beside the active annotation instead of appearing at a fixed, disconnected position. (#5296) Thanks @lefarcen.

- **Artifacts from plain-stream agents keep their identity.** Artifact tags now survive persistence across fenced, indented, and inline output formats. (#4731) Thanks @YOMXXX.

- **Community previews match the plugins that actually ship.** Stale and blank preview entries are filtered out before they reach Home. (#5262) Thanks @XingliGe.

- **Japanese text renders with the right fallback fonts.** Preview content is less likely to show missing-glyph boxes. (#5104) Thanks @Allenz5.

### 🧠 Agents, runtimes & recovery

- **First launch no longer strands the desktop app on a raw 502 page.** Transient startup failures are retried and real gateway errors are handled honestly. (#5186) Thanks @swpark3179.

- **Local CLI setup can be tested during onboarding again.** The missing connection control has been restored. (#4686) Thanks @roian6.

- **Recovered runs keep streaming.** After the daemon reconnects, the web app continues consuming retries instead of stopping after the first recovery. (#5221) Thanks @YOMXXX.

- **Disconnected BYOK requests stop upstream work.** Closing the client now aborts the provider request instead of leaving it running in the background. (#5182) Thanks @tomsen02.

- **Stalled child processes are shut down cleanly.** Watchdog escalation now targets the process that is actually stuck. (#5202) Thanks @tomsen02.

- **Memory extraction stops repeatedly mining the same turn.** Duplicate work and raw transport noise no longer waste tokens or pollute remembered context. (#5233) Thanks @BigBandaid2.

- **Runtime failures point to the useful cause.** Stream and upstream errors are classified more accurately instead of collapsing into a vague failure. (#5223)

- **CodeWhale plain-output runs behave correctly.** Terminal control and prompt budgeting no longer break when structured output is unavailable. (#5253)

### 🔒 Security & cleanup

- **GitHub-installed extensions can no longer smuggle in symlinks.** Unsafe package layouts are rejected during installation. (#5093) Thanks @EthanGuo-coder.

- **Deploy preflight cannot be stalled by hostile document input.** The document-type check no longer permits catastrophic regex backtracking. (#5067) Thanks @EthanGuo-coder.

- **Failed run startups clean up their access token.** Tool credentials are revoked immediately when a run cannot begin. (#5207) Thanks @tomsen02.

> 📥 **Download:** Tag `open-design-v0.14.1`. All assets are published on GitHub Releases and `releases.open-design.ai`.
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> | Platform | Architecture | Asset |
> |---|---|---|
> | macOS | Apple Silicon (arm64) | [open-design-0.14.1-mac-arm64.dmg](https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design/releases/download/open-design-v0.14.1/open-design-0.14.1-mac-arm64.dmg) |
> | macOS | Intel (x64) | [open-design-0.14.1-mac-x64.dmg](https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design/releases/download/open-design-v0.14.1/open-design-0.14.1-mac-x64.dmg) |
> | Windows | x64 (installer) | [open-design-0.14.1-win-x64-setup.exe](https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design/releases/download/open-design-v0.14.1/open-design-0.14.1-win-x64-setup.exe) |

## 🙏 Thanks to everyone who shipped 0.14.1

@Allenz5 · @BigBandaid2 · @EthanGuo-coder · @Mason6660201 · @PerishCode · @Tom-Opencart · @XingliGe · @YOMXXX · @lefarcen · @mrcfps · @mturac · @pftom · @roian6 · @ryanoolala · @swpark3179 · @tomsen02