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A crash on startup and a runaway process on exit, both fixed

Empryo 3.5.5-beta, released Jul 29, 2026. Part of the 3.5 line.

Release notes

A focused stability patch. Two ways Empryo could misbehave around the edges of a session, freezing moments after it started, or refusing to let go when its terminal went away, are gone. If you hit either, this is the update you want.

Fixed

  • Empryo no longer freezes right after startup. On some shells the terminal could lock up seconds into a session. The window would stop responding and, in a few setups, get pushed to the background in an unusable state. The culprit was a routine check Empryo runs at launch to learn your shell's PATH. It now runs fully isolated so it can never reach back and stall the session that started it.
  • A dead terminal no longer leaves Empryo running. If the terminal Empryo was attached to closed or crashed, the process could keep spinning in the background at full tilt, burning a CPU core until you hunted it down and killed it. It now notices the terminal is gone and exits cleanly on its own.
  • The map settles down. A creature in the map beneath your chat could jitter mid-move, and stray connector lines occasionally flickered across it. Both are smoothed out.