🌟 Codename: Intelligence with everyone: Grok 4.5 Free, Plus GPT 5.6, Fable 5 & Muse 1.1

Design intelligence, now within everyone's reach. Open Design includes free credits, with Grok 4.5 as the default model—giving everyone the freedom to explore, create, and share.

✨ Added

🏠 Home & onboarding

• See what changed without leaving Home. After an update, a one-time “What’s New” card brings the latest release highlights into the app instead of making you hunt for release notes. (#5071)

• New users get a clearer first step. Home now recommends a starting point based on the first-run questionnaire, carries it into Studio as an editable prompt, and guides the first artifact from generation to preview and delivery. (#5111, #5160)

🎨 Studio, previews & design systems

• WebGL work finally looks alive in Preview. Powered previews unlock Web Workers, WASM, SharedArrayBuffer, and richer GPU experiences inside HTML artifacts, with ten new WebGL examples ready to explore. (#5266, #5312) Thanks @pftom, @XingliGe.

• Tom Modern joins the bundled design systems. A sharp editorial system with neutral surfaces, vermillion accents, technical typography, and ready-made components gives generated work another distinct visual direction. (#4918) Thanks @Tom-Opencart.

🔑 Models, media & agents

• MiniMax Image-01 is now available for image generation. Create from text or use an existing image as a subject reference through the MiniMax provider. (#4563) Thanks @ryanoolala.

• Kiro can join the MCP workflow. Kiro users can now install and connect through Open Design’s MCP setup. (#5118) Thanks @YOMXXX.

🔁 Changed

• Model picking reveals more of the trade-off before you run. Cost and quality metadata now appear directly in model badges, while unavailable or tier-restricted choices are gated more clearly instead of failing after selection. (#5216, #5335, #5407) Thanks @Mason6660201, @mrcfps.

• Low balances interrupt you later—and explain the next step better. Cloud runs are checked before they start so prompts are not lost, while the low-balance reminder appears less aggressively and offers clearer sign-in, recharge, and continue actions. (#5103, #5349)

• Updates take the safe route when an in-place upgrade is no longer enough. Open Design can send users to the full installer when a future release requires capabilities the current build cannot adopt safely. (#5235) Thanks @PerishCode.

• Automation schedules stay in the language you chose. Localized schedule summaries no longer fall back to generic text. (#3591) Thanks @mturac.

🐛 Fixed

🎨 Studio, previews & community

• Design-system previews load their images reliably again. Missing preview assets no longer leave design-system cards or detail views incomplete. (#5381)

• The plugin preview panel can always be collapsed. Scrolling content no longer covers the sidebar handle. (#5300)

• Annotation controls stay close to the work. The draw composer now floats beside the active annotation instead of appearing at a fixed, disconnected position. (#5296) Thanks @lefarcen.

• Artifacts from plain-stream agents keep their identity. Artifact tags now survive persistence across fenced, indented, and inline output formats. (#4731) Thanks @YOMXXX.

• Community previews match the plugins that actually ship. Stale and blank preview entries are filtered out before they reach Home. (#5262) Thanks @XingliGe.

• Japanese text renders with the right fallback fonts. Preview content is less likely to show missing-glyph boxes. (#5104) Thanks @Allenz5.

🧠 Agents, runtimes & recovery

• First launch no longer strands the desktop app on a raw 502 page. Transient startup failures are retried and real gateway errors are handled honestly. (#5186) Thanks @swpark3179.

• Local CLI setup can be tested during onboarding again. The missing connection control has been restored. (#4686) Thanks @roian6.

• Recovered runs keep streaming. After the daemon reconnects, the web app continues consuming retries instead of stopping after the first recovery. (#5221) Thanks @YOMXXX.

• Disconnected BYOK requests stop upstream work. Closing the client now aborts the provider request instead of leaving it running in the background. (#5182) Thanks @tomsen02.

• Stalled child processes are shut down cleanly. Watchdog escalation now targets the process that is actually stuck. (#5202) Thanks @tomsen02.

• Memory extraction stops repeatedly mining the same turn. Duplicate work and raw transport noise no longer waste tokens or pollute remembered context. (#5233) Thanks @BigBandaid2.

• Runtime failures point to the useful cause. Stream and upstream errors are classified more accurately instead of collapsing into a vague failure. (#5223)

• CodeWhale plain-output runs behave correctly. Terminal control and prompt budgeting no longer break when structured output is unavailable. (#5253)

🔒 Security & cleanup

• GitHub-installed extensions can no longer smuggle in symlinks. Unsafe package layouts are rejected during installation. (#5093) Thanks @EthanGuo-coder.

• Deploy preflight cannot be stalled by hostile document input. The document-type check no longer permits catastrophic regex backtracking. (#5067) Thanks @EthanGuo-coder.

• Failed run startups clean up their access token. Tool credentials are revoked immediately when a run cannot begin. (#5207) Thanks @tomsen02.

📥 Download: Tag open-design-v0.14.1. All assets are published on GitHub Releases and releases.open-design.ai.

Platform	Architecture	Asset
macOS	Apple Silicon (arm64)	open-design-0.14.1-mac-arm64.dmg
macOS	Intel (x64)	open-design-0.14.1-mac-x64.dmg
Windows	x64 (installer)	open-design-0.14.1-win-x64-setup.exe

🙏 Thanks to everyone who shipped 0.14.1

@Allenz5 · @BigBandaid2 · @EthanGuo-coder · @Mason6660201 · @PerishCode · @Tom-Opencart · @XingliGe · @YOMXXX · @lefarcen · @mrcfps · @mturac · @pftom · @roian6 · @ryanoolala · @swpark3179 · @tomsen02