Editor Performance Improvements and Bug Fixes

v0.2.38

This release includes editor performance improvements, enhanced reliability, and bug fixes to enhance your development experience.

Performance & Reliability

  • Code OSS v1.100.3 Upgrade: Updated to Code OSS v1.100.3 that adds improved stability and performance improvements

  • Faster Response Times: Optimized request handling makes interactions more efficient and improves performance

  • Improved Session Management: Enhanced backend processing reduces interruptions and allows for longer continuous work sessions

Enhanced User Experience

  • Enhanced Tool Call Recovery: When tool invocations result in repeated failures, Kiro now prompts for your intervention instead of continuing indefinitely, protecting your usage limits and preventing loops

  • Enhanced Security Patterns: Expanded detection of dangerous shell commands with improved pattern recognition. Risky commands require manual review unless you explicitly trust them. Learn more about security patterns →

Bug Fixes

  • Git Repository Initialization: Fixed issue that prevented Git setup for new projects without existing repositories

  • Model Selection Persistence: Fixed chat model selection not being saved when restarting Kiro IDE