v2.1.4

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🖥 Desktop Client

Following the desktop client launched in the previous release, this version further improves browser capabilities, system compatibility, and overall experience:

• Browser tool support: the client bundles browser capabilities and prefers reusing the system's installed Chrome / Edge, with optimized browser startup and access performance.
• UI polish: refined visuals and interactions for the chat view, message bubbles, tool-call steps, and channel pages.
• Windows code signing: Windows installers are now code-signed, reducing security warnings during installation.
• Windows 7/8 support: added client support for legacy systems such as Windows 7/8, covering more environments.
• Knowledge base link fix: fixed in-document links in the desktop knowledge base that failed to navigate.
• Password login: the desktop client supports setting a login password, and fixes an issue where the window failed to load after a password was set.

Download: CowAgent Desktop

Docs: Desktop Client

🔌 MCP Remote Server OAuth Authorization

Remote MCP servers now support OAuth authorization. When connecting to third-party MCP servers that require login, authentication can be completed via the standard OAuth flow — no more manually configuring and maintaining tokens.

Docs: MCP Tools

⏰ Scheduled Tasks

• Silent mode: create silently-running scheduled tasks that execute in the background without pushing messages — ideal for undisturbed scenarios like data organization or periodic archiving. (#2954)
• Manual run: manually trigger an existing task to run immediately from the console, without waiting for the next schedule. (#2958)
• Preserve config on edit: fixed an issue where editing a task in the Web console could drop hidden fields such as the mode type. (#2959)
• Cross-channel task command: added the /tasks management command, compatible across channels. (#2965)

Thanks @AaronZ345

Docs: Scheduled Tasks

💬 Feishu Channel Improvements

The Feishu channel gains a series of message-display and interaction enhancements for a better experience.

• Streaming card polish: streaming cards add collapsible panels showing the thinking process, tool calls, and execution time. (#2963)
• Markdown formatting: for non-streaming replies and scheduled pushes, messages containing Markdown are rendered as cards for clearer display. (#2962)
• Scheduler cards: the /tasks command is presented as cards, with the ability to enable or disable tasks right from the card. (#2961)
• Quoted message context: when a user quotes a message, the quoted content is automatically added to the context sent to the Agent. (#2966)
• Remote image rendering: remote image links can now be rendered inside Feishu cards. (#2967)
• Cancel on message recall: recalling a Feishu message automatically cancels its corresponding running or queued task. (#2978)

Thanks @AaronZ345

Docs: Feishu

💾 Data Backup & Restore

Added the cow backup and cow restore commands to export and restore local data — configuration, knowledge base, memory, and more — with one command, making migration and backup easy. Thanks @AaronZ345 (#2957)

Docs: Data Backup

🤖 New Models

• Added support for kimi-k3
• Added support for gpt-5.6-luna, gpt-5.6-terra, and gpt-5.6-sol

Docs: Models

🛠 Improvements & Fixes

• Active-task steering: added the /steer command to inject new instructions during task execution, guiding or redirecting the running task on the fly. Thanks @AaronZ345 (#2977)
• File editing: fixed an issue where fuzzy matching could locate the wrong position when editing files. Thanks @weijun-xia (#2945)

📦 How to Upgrade

• Source deployment: run cow update for a one-click upgrade, or pull the latest code and restart. See the upgrade guide.
• Desktop client: check for updates and update with one click inside the client, or get the latest version from the download page.

Release date: 2026.07.20 | Full Changelog