CodeWhale 0.9.7 አውርድ

Codewhale v0.9.7 keeps the catalog ordinary. Grok 4.6 lands as a normal catalog row instead of a provider-shaped pile of special cases, OrcaRouter joins as a named provider, and a panic-safety advisory in lru is cleared by lifting the pin that caused it rather than living around it.
Added
- Grok 4.6 is the direct xAI default, with the grok alias moving onto it and grok-4.5 still explicitly selectable. Its 500K context, text/image input, tool and structured-output support, low/medium/high/xhigh reasoning efforts (default high), and server-side web search all come from the Models.dev-shaped catalog rather than model-specific code. reasoning_effort reaches the wire only on the exact first-party https://api.x.ai/v1 route, and the usage-aware 200K-token pricing boundary is scoped to direct xAI so aggregator routes reusing the model slug cannot inherit xAI billing.
- OrcaRouter is a first-class named provider: ORCAROUTER_API_KEY, default base URL https://api.orcarouter.ai/v1, deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro default, orcarouter/auto routing, CLI --provider selector, and TUI picker entries (#5321).
Changed
- Reasoning-effort normalization and the model picker read a model's published reasoning_options list from the catalog instead of collapsing every route to the historic Low/Medium ladder. Any catalog row that publishes an effort list keeps its own vocabulary.
- Docs record DeepSeek's live DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 backend label while the callable API ID stays deepseek-v4-pro. No aliases are remapped and no deepseek-v4-pro[1m] selector is sent.
Fixed
- Copying a user or assistant message takes its canonical content instead of reserialized transcript lines, keeping role glyphs, continuation rails, and visual wrapping out of the clipboard while preserving authored Unicode, Markdown, and hard line breaks. Tool and Thinking cells stay on the existing full-transcript path (#5319).
- load_session no longer runs crash recovery on every read. Snapshot reads go through a side-effect-free load_session_snapshot and recovery is explicit via recover_session_for_resume, so an embedding host inspecting a durable session while a tool is still running no longer gets a spurious crash repair (#5320).
Security
- lru moves to 0.18 to clear RUSTSEC-2026-0253, where LruCache::pop() was not panic-safe and could leave dangling list pointers. The ratatui-core =0.1.0 pin that transitively forced lru ^0.16 is lifted, so ColorCompatBackend now answers get_cursor_position() from tracked cursor state — the upstream-recommended workaround for the startup CPR race (ratatui/ratatui#2483, ratatui/ratatui#2640) that the pin originally worked around. ratatui itself stays pinned at =0.30.0, so the API surface is unchanged.
Known issues
- The integration test exec_persistent_service::failed_exec_kills_pending_service_and_exits_nonzero is a confirmed flake under parallel load ("service pid file never appeared"). It passes in isolation and is unrelated to any v0.9.7 change.
Contributors
- XhesicaFrost (@XhesicaFrost) — canonical message copy (#5319).
- h3c-hexin (@h3c-hexin) — session snapshot and crash-recovery split (#5320).
- XiaoHuo888-hue (@XiaoHuo888-hue) — OrcaRouter provider registration (#5321).