2026-09-01 · NextClaw v0.48.0

Published: 2026-09-01 Tags: release projects desktop

NextClaw v0.48.0 turns projects from collections of sessions into durable spaces for ongoing work. The project home brings work items, artifacts, context, and AI activity together, while desktop session lists and message sending work reliably again.

New features

• Project work items: Create work items, move them through custom statuses, inspect complete status history, flag items for attention, and link related artifacts. Overview, list, and board views update live, and deleted work can be restored.
• Project progress overview: The project home reads project configuration, files, session progress, and project Skills to present current work, artifacts, attention items, and diagnostics in one place.
• One project data model across API and CLI: Use nextclaw projects observe and the project work-item commands to read or update the same data shown in the desktop interface.
• Folder grants for WASI apps: Review an app's requested folders, grant read-only or read-write access, and replace or revoke those grants at any time.

Improvements and fixes

• Desktop sessions work again: Fix session-summary writes that prevented lists from loading and made messages appear accepted without being stored. Sessions remain available after restarting the desktop app.
• Lower Portable Action memory use: Concurrent calls share the Runtime, Engine, and loaded Component while keeping per-call state isolated.
• Consistent Runtime updates: An updated NPM launcher obtains a matching runtime bundle before execution, avoiding mixed launcher and runtime versions.
• Better mobile project layout: File previews no longer squeeze the main content area on narrow screens.

What you need to do

Update to v0.48.0 and continue normally. Existing projects and sessions require no manual migration, and the desktop update does not remove session data.