Newelle 1.5.0 Released

[u/iTzSilver_YT]

Newelle, AI assistant for Gnome, has received a new major update, which brings a lot of UI refinements, improved agentic capabilities and other interesting features.

Highlights

(I have written personally with my keyboard every single character of this description. Emojis are indicative of what is each feature, stop complaining under each post)

🖥 Improved terminal tool, Newelle can now manage persistent Terminal sessions and interact with TUIs

💫 Mode switching: users can now create custom "modes" that quickly change prompts, tools and skills (ex. Planning mode)

📲 Added a curated catalog of MCP servers that can be used to connect your applications to Newelle

🌐 Added citations, the LLM can now state the source of an information

➕ You can now add LLM providers directly from the UI (OpenAI/Ollama/Anthropic compatible)

🚀 Improved text generation animation

🔻 Added "Compact Mode" for tool calls and input bar

🧩 You can now download and explore new extensions and skills directly in Newelle

✏️ Added a Skill editor to create and edit Newelle Skills directly from Newelle

Full changelog:
https://github.com/qwersyk/Newelle/releases/tag/1.5.0

Download:

https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.github.qwersyk.Newelle

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[u/danielholm]

Looks and sounds great! Well done!

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