Synara 0.8.1 release notes.

Synara 0.8.1

• Use Claude Fable 5.1 across Claude and Pi — Claude Fable 5.1 is now a first-class model with the right thinking controls, aliases, context variants, and usage reporting.

  Synara lists Fable 5.1 at the top of the Claude catalog and repairs older Pi Anthropic catalogs so the model remains selectable there too. The plain fable alias now resolves to 5.1 while explicit Fable 5 selections keep working. Its always-on thinking model exposes Low through Max effort without a fast-mode lane, compatible Cursor context variants are recognized, and Claude usage surfaces now show Fable's dedicated weekly allowance from Anthropic's current scoped-limit response.

• Open large workspaces with less startup work — Synara avoids redundant sidebar snapshots, dead-turn replay, and oversized SQLite memory budgets during launch.

  The browser now accepts the live shell snapshot and only falls back when one is genuinely missing, including after reconnects. The server prunes unrecoverable open-turn rows instead of replaying and logging them on every boot, stops a failed replay once, and scales SQLite cache and mmap budgets to the machine. On the measured 1.7 GB database, shell snapshot requests fell from three to one and warm server boot-to-listen time fell from 1.06 seconds to 0.53 seconds.

• Keep long-running Devin tools alive — Quiet but active Devin tools no longer look like abandoned turns, and malformed tool-output requests recover safely.

  A current in-progress tool call now receives its own one-hour idle budget instead of sharing the ordinary 30-minute turn watchdog, with stale events prevented from refreshing the active clock. Synara also normalizes Devin's unexpected boolean get_output.block field without weakening other ACP messages, and project creation waits for a real task before navigation so superseded routes cannot overwrite newer work.

• Run and stop providers more predictably on Windows — Provider, Git, updater, voice, terminal, native Windows, and WSL process handling now share one hardened runtime boundary.

  Executable lookup, PATH and PATHEXT handling, .cmd and PowerShell launches, WSL working directories, lifecycle diagnostics, and process-tree teardown now follow one implementation. Startup failures retain a typed phase and cause, stop operations reverify process identity before escalation, migration and lock durability use platform-aware filesystem rules, and failure to prove process exit stays visible instead of being reported as success.

• Keep Git writing and project picking focused — Git copy is generated only through dedicated backends, while project and composer controls share a cleaner interaction style.

  The Git-writing picker now includes Cursor alongside Codex, OpenCode, and Droid while excluding chat-only agents that lack a safe one-shot generation path. The composer is slightly tighter, picker capsules use consistent hover treatment, and the project reset affordance now matches the folder control without losing its highlighted reset state.