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Crush v0.96.0

2026-09-21 · official notes

Summary

• Themes and more!
• This release is HUGE and we are so excited to share what our team and contributors have done!
• The long awaited feature!

Full notes

# Themes and more!

This release is *HUGE* and we are so excited to share what our team and contributors have done!

## The long awaited feature!

<p><img width="800" alt="out" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/656752be-6b87-4515-a3ab-68e43b655dd9" /></p>

Crush now has themes! 🎨 Open the new Themes dialog from the command palette to switch looks with live preview, try the built-in Gruvbox Dark, or create and edit your own custom palettes right inside the TUI. Thank @meowgorithm and @gurnben for this feature!

## QoL and fixes

Small changes but no less important.

* Hypercredits are now displayed in real time!
* Added spaces to errors in chat by @taciturnaxolotl
* Increased default timeout to 2 minutes by @andreynering
* Fixed extended help, while in a mode by @meowgorithm
* Fixed wrapping while displaying the plan
* Fixed syntax highlighting on long bash calls by @taciturnaxolotl
* More bang mode and bash tools improvement also by our favorite @taciturnaxolotl

See more below!

Happy week!
Charm XX 💫

## Changelog
### New!
* b07464e98e61248469ca2307ceb30520b1316d5b: feat(hyper): live display of hypercredits (#3699) (@andrinoff)
* f38b7947fd52b635b84f9b4ce70713675534080c: feat: add theme support (#3884) (@gurnben)
### Fixed
* 051fb37ae1d6bd6d6f2f6cbc8a629d5f85aa9bd7: fifix(ui): color the to-do task name while the tool is still running (@taciturnaxolotl)
* b8e93d119273032cb51cb249d87ca994d61fe7e5: fix(bash): let the agent recover truncated tool output (@taciturnaxolotl)
* 10ec02a58c581c060aaa52279347bf716ad7ef08: fix(shell): bound bang-mode output and spill the rest to a file (@taciturnaxolotl)
* 2019da14717e4e00aeee7664873c6b78f147a3eb: fix(tui): unfreeze spinner clock when the boot busy probe lands (#3839) (@andreynering)
* 242b4d3aaa024e26937f7579869d81e007c17c42: fix(ui): drop the empty gap under a failed edit (#3851) (@taciturnaxolotl)
* e41ae8ee78dafe884eb4f6e18ffd38d3d6d706e5: fix(ui): keep syntax highlighting across a wrapped tool parameter (#3850) (@taciturnaxolotl)
* eb845a9eacd25c5ce6522ae90c82289f43b5833d: fix(ui): nudge the yolo/plan badges + align help (#3863) (@meowgorithm)
* fd58b5ed201f490641d018cab6f06a29cdaff2c0: fix(ui): read the session transcript off the event loop (@taciturnaxolotl)
* 87a5bbd874d4d78a506237ba4b6d94d8a4f5b59e: fix(ui): set the finish banner off from the message above it (#3815) (@taciturnaxolotl)
* 9636af6446be2274b9b5b048c1d122ebad9c7b41: fix: wrapping in plan display (#3888) (@andrinoff)
### Other stuff
* 239d00630d719b8cc8838806201ae9205c12466e: chore: auto-update files (@charmcli)
* 3bc8ff4fc76ef38fbecf3f6df338fce3d1616001: chore: auto-update files (@charmcli)
* 27a53ef82b8b63817f92540d37850482dd9daddd: chore: auto-update files (@charmcli)
* 591167920d6850effe669c423d8e76b184057570: chore: bump devShell to Go 1.27 (#3832) (@LarsArtmann)
* 460653aa2599329a99b9c0d493e53e0f356d8ea5: chore: double default request timeout from 60 to 120 seconds (#3862) (@andreynering)
* d55e017d60cdb87ecb21a19a9fed9a2097c0da64: perf(agent): read only the post-summary tail of a compacted session (@taciturnaxolotl)
* 978d49d53f9343f2e57406cc503daddf282e12ae: perf(db): cap prompt history at the 200 most recent messages (@taciturnaxolotl)
* 296b5c396260ece70fdceed288ed25c7a99ba349: perf(db): index messages by role so user-message reads stop scanning (@taciturnaxolotl)
* 595f625f19a6a186307b911d59dd37c764541251: perf(message): decode message parts in one structural pass (@taciturnaxolotl)
* 9207cb2c053ecbe3ec5c0c3985b746877c1f322d: perf(ui): skip the global prompt-history scan when a session is loading (@taciturnaxolotl)

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<details>
<summary>Verifying the artifacts</summary>

First, download the [`checksums.txt` file](https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush/releases/download/v0.96.0/checksums.txt) and the [`checksums.txt.sigstore.json` file](https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush/releases/download/v0.96.0/checksums.txt.sigstore.json) files, for example, with `wget`:

```bash
wget 'https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush/releases/download/v0.96.0/checksums.txt'
wget 'https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush/releases/download/v0.96.0/checksums.txt.sigstore.json'
```

Then, verify it using [`cosign`](https://github.com/sigstore/cosign):

```bash
cosign verify-blob \
  --certificate-identity 'https://github.com/charmbracelet/meta/.github/workflows/goreleaser.yml@refs/heads/main' \
  --certificate-oidc-issuer 'https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com' \
  --bundle 'checksums.txt.sigstore.json' \
  ./checksums.txt
```

If the output is `Verified OK`, you can safely use it to verify the checksums of other artifacts you downloaded from the release using `sha256sum`:

```bash
sha256sum --ignore-missing -c checksums.txt
```

Done! You artifacts are now verified!

</details>

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