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Grok Bot Desktop Extra

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Grok Bot Desktop Extra

September 8, 2026 at 1:18 AM UTC

Dogfood pre-release 0.45.0-pre.8.patch.0 for Grok Bot desktop.

Changelog

  • [new] Browser use stable refs support (sand_browser_use_stable_refs).
  • [removed] Glass chat tabs.
  • [new] Grok OAuth unification flow (start/complete), plus unification intent get/upsert.
  • [new] Grok Bot box harness migration pass (pending/done/disabled states).
  • [new] Desktop startup command surface (sand.desktop.startup.).
  • [new] Clearer handling when the turn backend is unreachable (SAND-E0418).

Availability

  • sand-dogfood (pre-release): 0.45.0-pre.8.patch.0 on darwin-arm64, darwin-x64, win32-x64-user, and win32-arm64-user.
  • Sibling stable (sand) is unchanged in this release.

Upgrade notes

The app self-updates on the dogfood channel. No manual install steps for this build.

Older release← Sep 7, 21:18 UTCNewer release→ Sep 8, 05:18 UTC
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