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"label": "Kimi Code v2.0.2",
"date": "2026-09-19",
"id": "rel-2-0-2",
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{
"tag": "FIX",
"item": "/resume",
"html": "/resume — new messages no longer land at an old position in the conversation after resuming a session"
},
{
"tag": "FIX",
"item": "/compact",
"html": "/compact — no longer fails after switching to a model with a smaller context window"
},
{
"tag": "CHG",
"item": null,
"html": "the agent no longer assumes the current working directory is the project root"
},
{
"tag": "FIX",
"item": null,
"html": "a message sent while the agent was running no longer sometimes appears twice in the chat"
}
]
},
{
"version": "v2.0.1",
"label": "Kimi Code v2.0.1",
"date": "2026-09-18",
"id": "rel-2-0-1",
"entries": [
{
"tag": "ADD",
"item": "[watch]",
"html": "[watch] / KIMI_CODE_WATCH — disable filesystem watchers for local.toml, AGENTS.md, skills and MCP config entirely"
},
{
"tag": "CHG",
"item": "[providers.\"\"]",
"html": "[providers.\"<id>\"] — api_key_env names an environment variable to read the API key from, as an alternative to api_key"
},
{
"tag": "ADD",
"item": "[database]",
"html": "[database] — searchSyncSessionCap / searchSyncDebounceMs tune the incremental background search-sync pass (marked unverified — not yet in the config reference)"
},
{
"tag": "CHG",
"item": "/yolo",
"html": "/yolo / -y, --yolo — Ask When Needed no longer prompts for a Bash command that cannot be statically analyzed"
},
{
"tag": "CHG",
"item": "kimi install-app",
"html": "kimi install-app — renamed to kimi install-desktop; the old name keeps working as a hidden alias"
}
]
},
{
"version": "v2.0.0",
"label": "Kimi Code v2.0.0",
"date": "2026-09-17",
"id": "rel-2-0-0",
"entries": [
{
"tag": "ADD",
"item": "/desktop",
"html": "/desktop / /install-desktop — opens the Kimi Code desktop app page in your browser"
},
{
"tag": "ADD",
"item": "kimi install-app",
"html": "kimi install-app — prints and opens the desktop app page (renamed to kimi install-desktop in 2.0.1)"
},
{
"tag": "ADD",
"item": "[markdown].mermaid",
"html": "[markdown].mermaid — renders fenced mermaid code blocks in the terminal as diagrams (marked unverified — not yet in the config reference)"
}
]
},
{
"version": "v0.43.1",
"label": "Kimi Code v0.43.1",
"date": "2026-09-15",
"id": "rel-0-43-1",
"entries": [
{
"tag": "CHG",
"item": "/copy",
"html": "/copy — native clipboard write path for Linux X11 sessions"
},
{
"tag": "FIX",
"item": "Ctrl-C",
"html": "Ctrl-C while subagents are running now interrupts only the subagents, instead of exiting the whole CLI"
}
]
},
{
"version": "v0.43.0",
"label": "Kimi Code v0.43.0",
"date": "2026-09-14",
"id": "rel-0-43-0",
"entries": [
{
"tag": "ADD",
"item": "/sessions",
"html": "/sessions — Ctrl-X then y deletes the selected session from the picker"
},
{
"tag": "ADD",
"item": "kimi upgrade",
"html": "kimi upgrade / kimi update — -y, --yes skips the confirmation prompt and installs directly"
},
{
"tag": "ADD",
"item": "loop_control.compaction_max_attempts",
"html": "loop_control.compaction_max_attempts — caps total attempts for a failing compaction request; default 5"
},
{
"tag": "ADD",
"item": "KIMI_CODE_PERMISSION_MODE_REMINDER",
"html": "KIMI_CODE_PERMISSION_MODE_REMINDER env var — set to 0 to stop injecting auto permission-mode reminders into the model context"
},
{
"tag": "CHG",
"item": "Ctrl-S",
"html": "Ctrl-S — a steering message can now interrupt a wait for a background task"
},
{
"tag": "CHG",
"item": "/goal",
"html": "/goal — the time budget no longer counts time spent with the session closed, and the 24-hour limit is removed"
}
]
},
{
"version": "v0.42.0",
"label": "Kimi Code v0.42.0",
"date": "2026-09-09",
"id": "rel-0-42-0",
"entries": [
{
"tag": "ADD",
"item": "card-keys",
"html": "card-keys — initial reference: the seven keyboard-shortcut contexts, from general input to the approval panel (19 rows)"
},
{
"tag": "ADD",
"item": "card-slash-core",
"html": "card-slash-core — initial reference: account, session, mode and status commands with their aliases (33 rows)"
},
{
"tag": "ADD",
"item": "card-slash-tools",
"html": "card-slash-tools — initial reference: swarm and goal control, extensibility, and the built-in skill commands (16 rows)"
},
{
"tag": "ADD",
"item": "card-cli",
"html": "card-cli — initial reference: all 14 top-level flags and all 12 subcommands (25 rows)"
},
{
"tag": "ADD",
"item": "card-settings",
"html": "card-settings — initial reference: config.toml, tui.toml and .kimi-code/local.toml (37 rows)"
},
{
"tag": "ADD",
"item": "card-env",
"html": "card-env — initial reference: core paths, model overrides, runtime switches and diagnostics (22 rows)"
},
{
"tag": "ADD",
"item": "card-skills",
"html": "card-skills — initial reference: skill and agent directories, the four AGENTS.md locations, plugins (18 rows)"
},
{
"tag": "ADD",
"item": "card-hooks",
"html": "card-hooks — initial reference: 18 hook events, hook exit codes, mcp.json and MCP permissions (20 rows)"
},
{
"tag": "DEL",
"item": "KIMI_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_REMOTE_CONTROL",
"html": "KIMI_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_REMOTE_CONTROL and KIMI_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_SECONDARY_MODEL — Remote Control and the subagent model pool are always on in 0.42.0, so both flags were removed"
},
{
"tag": "CHG",
"item": "[database]",
"html": "[database] replaces the experimental minidb flags; the read model and search worker are now controlled by KIMI_CODE_PERSISTENCE_MINIDB_READMODEL and KIMI_CODE_SEARCH_WORKER"
},
{
"tag": "ADD",
"item": "[read]",
"html": "[read] — configurable character limits and resumable long-line file reads, replacing repeated output truncation"
},
{
"tag": "CHG",
"item": "Ctrl-O",
"html": "Ctrl-O — finished tool calls collapse to a header plus one outcome row; hidden output is counted and revealed here"
}
]
}
]
}