Skip to content
  • Tech Dev NotesTech Dev Notes
Apps
  • Lookup
  • Compare
Market movement
  • Charts
  • Rankings
Visual proof
  • Screens
  • Store listings
  • Icons
Stacks and releases
  • Tech stacks
  • Tool releases
  • Developers
More
  • X feature flags
  • Grokipedia
  • Grok companions
  • Blog
  • Follow on X
ChartsRankingsMoversCompareLookupScreensTech stacksReleases

© 2026 Tech Dev Notes

RSSAboutAPIStatusSecurityPrivacyTermsSitemap@techdevnotes
Grok Bot Desktop Extra

xAI · Web

Grok Bot Desktop Extra

September 5, 2026 at 1:18 AM UTC

Pre-release dogfood bump: 0.44.0-pre.2.patch.0 → 0.44.0-pre.3.patch.0 across desktop platforms.

Changelog

Grok Bot desktop sand-dogfood 0.44.0-pre.3.patch.0

What's new

  • [new] Canvases support in Sand
  • [new] Origin MCP integration (including plugin flag surface)
  • [new] Cloud onboarding automatic environment setup
  • [new] Scheduled computer updates
  • [new] Five-minute automation floor for automations
  • [new] Composer transcript steer control that can float up in the UI
  • [new] Working-state warming to prep run state more smoothly
  • [new] Admin APIs for listing team Grok Bot agents and deleting a Grok Bot agent
  • [removed] Claude Opus catalog entries claude-opus-4-8 and claude-opus-5
  • [changed] Internal feature-flag set refreshed (several prior experiment/gate flags retired as others landed)

Availability

Shipped for sand-dogfood on:

  • macOS Apple Silicon (darwin-arm64)
  • macOS Intel (darwin-x64)
  • Windows ARM64 user install (win32-arm64-user)
  • Windows x64 user install (win32-x64-user)

All of the above moved to 0.44.0-pre.3.patch.0. This track is dogfood (pre-release); stable/sand is not covered by this bump.

Upgrade notes

The desktop app self-updates on the dogfood channel. No manual install steps are required for this release.

Older release← Sep 4, 21:18 UTCNewer release→ Sep 5, 04:18 UTC
All Grok Bot Desktop Extra releases →