The reliability release. The desktop app can no longer die silently — every early failure now surfaces with the logs you need to report it — Linux users finally get native packages, and a Chromium-generations Electron jump plus the React Compiler make the whole app quicker.

• Crashes now show themselves. A global crash guard catches every fatal error — even before the window exists — and shows a dialog with the full story: copy the logs, save them to a file, open the log folder, restart, or close. No more blank-screen deaths on Linux (or anywhere).
• Persistent logging, finally. Main-process, bridge, and interface errors all land in a rotated log file (~/Library/Logs/Empryo on macOS, ~/.config/Empryo/logs on Linux), so a GUI-launched app no longer discards its own diagnostics. Fatal errors also write a standalone crash report.
• Linux gets .deb and .rpm. Alongside the AppImage, native packages for Debian/Ubuntu and Fedora-family distros — x64 and arm64 — built and checksum-signed by the same release pipeline, on the download page now.
• Electron 43 + React Compiler. Ten Chromium generations newer (and back in the security-support window), with the interface auto-memoized by the React Compiler — snappier long chats without a single hand-written memo.
• LLM Gateway, three ways in. Log in with your browser to account credits or straight into your DevPass subscription (/login llmgateway, /login llmgateway-devpass), or paste an API key — on desktop, in the TUI, and headless. Empryo now identifies itself as Empryo on the consent page.
• Know what you're spending. A new Usage view — desktop drawer and TUI /usage — with today/week/month spend, per-model breakdowns, a 30-day sparkline, and a DevPass budget ring showing exactly how much is left until reset. Powered by a local ledger, so it works offline and for every provider; it switches to live gateway numbers automatically once the gateway ships a key-scoped usage API.

• A stopped turn no longer waits out the full retry backoff before actually stopping, and a closed tab can no longer wedge itself mid-send.
• Checkpoint restore no longer corrupts binary files and no longer strips trailing newlines from text files; Windows paths restore correctly.
• --timeout in headless runs now also bounds background agents; piped --json output can no longer be truncated on exit; a failed --login exits non-zero; Ctrl+C keeps its documented exit code on Windows.
• The TUI no longer sprays escape sequences into pipes or logs when stdout isn't a terminal, and a clean quit can no longer terminate the shell wrapper that launched it.
• On Linux, bridge child processes (git and friends) now find per-user installs (~/.bun/bin, ~/.local/bin) when launched from the desktop.

• Conversation-history sanitizing now skips arrays it has already proven clean — per-turn cost stays flat instead of growing with session length.
• Renderer errors, unhandled rejections, and React error-boundary crashes are reported to the same log file over IPC, rate-limited so a hot loop can't flood it.

If Empryo ever breaks on your machine now, it will tell you — and hand you the logs to make it our problem instead of yours.