https://lifekernl.com/news Every Kernl release: what changed, what to do when you upgrade, and the story behind the bigger ones. en Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://lifekernl.com/news/0.4.4 https://lifekernl.com/news/0.4.4 Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Personal or business edition · Model Bench · System overview https://lifekernl.com/news/0.4.3 https://lifekernl.com/news/0.4.3 Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Third-party text is fenced off for agents · Signed share cards · Fix a Kernl bug from its report https://lifekernl.com/news/0.4.2 https://lifekernl.com/news/0.4.2 Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Send text and files to Kernl friends · Ask the AI for its opinion on an escalated question · The Workspace tab separates the agent's own files from the repo https://lifekernl.com/news/0.4.1 https://lifekernl.com/news/0.4.1 Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Connect your Claude Code subscription without a terminal, send documents and video in chat, and stop the database growing unwatched: retention policies ship on and delete old data every night. https://lifekernl.com/news/0.4.0 https://lifekernl.com/news/0.4.0 Sun, 04 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Offices now work per project and publish nothing without your approval. Plus local voice for talking to the Chief, IMAP and WhatsApp from the interface, runs that resume after a restart, and eight security fixes. https://lifekernl.com/news/0.3.2 https://lifekernl.com/news/0.3.2 Fri, 18 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Connect any LLM provider from one screen · Extensions import the kernel from a versioned SDK https://lifekernl.com/news/0.3.1 https://lifekernl.com/news/0.3.1 Sun, 13 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Restart Kernl from the dashboard https://lifekernl.com/news/0.3.0 https://lifekernl.com/news/0.3.0 Tue, 08 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT The agent drawer pulls mandate, tools, runtime and triggers into a single panel. Plus per-agent skill recommendations, MCP connections from the dashboard, and macOS builds signed and notarized in the right order. https://lifekernl.com/news/0.2.6 https://lifekernl.com/news/0.2.6 Sun, 23 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Repositories are now scoped to agents and surfaced in the UI. Plus agent sandbox mounts, extension bundling, and a fix for the OpenAI provider. https://lifekernl.com/news/0.2.5 https://lifekernl.com/news/0.2.5 Sat, 22 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Kernl finds LM Studio by itself, along with the model it has loaded and that model's real context window. Discover gains shelves for extensions and skills, and settings gains an About section with an update check. https://lifekernl.com/news/0.2.4 https://lifekernl.com/news/0.2.4 Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT The ffmpeg build linked the runner's Homebrew libraries, could not link iconv, and took TLS from Homebrew's openssl instead of SecureTransport — producing binaries that did not run on a clean machine. https://lifekernl.com/news/0.2.3 https://lifekernl.com/news/0.2.3 Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT scripts/release.sh — the release sequence, which until now lived in shell history. https://lifekernl.com/news/0.2.2 https://lifekernl.com/news/0.2.2 Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT The CUDA whisper is built when the GPU overlay is applied. https://lifekernl.com/news/0.2.1 https://lifekernl.com/news/0.2.1 Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT The navigation is translated instead of rendering the manifest's English, and settings and nav labels carry a language. https://lifekernl.com/news/0.2.0 https://lifekernl.com/news/0.2.0 Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Loopback is not a trust boundary against a browser. This release takes the unauthenticated mode out of the quick start, makes CORS deny-by-default, stops handing out license keys by email, and fixes backups that copied the wrong database. https://lifekernl.com/news/0.1.1 https://lifekernl.com/news/0.1.1 Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Native packages serve the dashboard again: the staged SPA lives at dashboard/, which none of the static-directory candidates matched, so every .deb, .rpm, .dmg and .msi returned 500 at / while the API answered normally. https://lifekernl.com/news/0.1.0 https://lifekernl.com/news/0.1.0 Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Around 290 MCP tools across 60+ modules, a dashboard with 20+ views, agents with schedules and triggers, an optional Neo4j graph, and packaging for rpm, deb, dmg and msi.