A highlights view of recent Watchfire releases. The exhaustive version-by-version record — every fix, every migration note — lives in the docs changelog.
A cleanup release. The per-session agent home directories under ~/.watchfire/<agent>-home/ accumulated forever — one directory per session for every non-Claude backend — and deleting a project left all of its directories behind indefinitely (#47).
A dashboard-legibility release. The list view showed different information for different projects for reasons that had nothing to do with the projects, and neither chart in the Fleet insights card rendered a single number.
A bug-fix release for Insights. Project Insights, fleet Insights, the CSV/Markdown exports and the weekly digest all showed zeros or near-zeros, because almost no completed task ever received a completed_at timestamp — and every rollup filters on it.
Firestorm turns Watchfire inside out: instead of only driving coding agents, Watchfire is now driven by them. watchfire mcp serve exposes the whole orchestrator to any MCP-capable client — Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, opencode, Copilot CLI, or a custom agent — as an 18-tool factory. The outer agent plans and reviews; Watchfire manufactures the code in sandboxed, git-worktree-isolated runs and merges the results. The canonical loop is create_task → run_task → wait_for_task → get_task → get_task_diff → iterate.
Inferno is the parallel-workspaces tentpole — the first feature-forward major since v4 "Beacon", built for supervising many projects at once. The Electron GUI goes multi-window: a main-process window registry replaces the single mainWindow, opening one independent window per project (single-instance lock, per-window state + session restore, Cmd+N and window cycling, IPC fan-out, and per-window PTY routing so a terminal's bytes and OS notifications never cross windows). Each project window flips to a chat-primary layout with the agent terminal as the wide left pane and Tasks/Definition/Insights/Secrets/Trash/Settings as a right reference region. The plain markdown <textarea>s become a real CodeMirror rich editor (formatting toolbar + source ⇄ split ⇄ preview, closing #22), wildfire mode lands in the GUI behind a confirm-gated start with a live Execute → Refine → Generate phase indicator, and the promoted Dashboard becomes mission control — a live home window with per-project wildfire phase, cross-project needs-attention with click-through, and a stretch always-on-top mini-monitor. Finally, code-output analytics measure what the agents actually shipped: per-task <n>.metrics.yaml captures commits/files/lines/merge-kind, rolled up into project and fleet Insights, the GUI's KPI cards and churn-by-day chart, mission-control "shipped" lines, and the CSV/Markdown exports plus weekly digest.
Forge 7.4 closes a class of "wildfire stops even though there's a ready task sitting right there, and drops back to chat" reports. Traced live on a real project, the symptom turned out to be three independent daemon bugs plus a runaway log that buried the evidence: Generate produced a ready task, the chain stamped it started, but no agent ever ran it — and the one log line that would have explained why was drowned under hundreds of MB of self-referential watcher spam. This release fixes the runaway log at the source, moves the verbose per-project trail into per-project log files so the global daemon.log stays readable, makes a launch failure unable to strand a ready task, and stops the issue detector from false-positiving on ordinary agent output.
Forge 7.3 is primarily a GUI release. The Electron app gains a focus-chat mode that collapses the center column so the right panel (Chat / Branches / Logs) takes the full row, and the running Watchfire version now sits under the sidebar logo so you no longer have to dig through Settings → About to know what you're on. The version bump to 7.3.0 lands across version.json, gui/package.json, and gui/package-lock.json. One daemon-side fix closes the size-cap deferral v7.2.1 left open: ~/.watchfire/daemon.log is now bounded after a user's log grew to 300 GB.
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