0.55.0

Released 2026-11-03.

Upgrading

• Reload every pi session after the update (/reload). The first pi session that loads 0.55.0 restarts an older sb server.
• Refresh an open GUI page to load the new Zen.

Zen view (禪)

• Every visit starts at the breathing circle. Zen no longer remembers the session you last wrote to, and no tower stands in for one. [ or ] steps to a session to keep you company; the circle sits where the list wraps round, and the palette’s Back to the breath returns to it for the rest of the visit. What 0.54 stored on a device (sb.zen.with) is ignored.
• The visual language. Zen draws no boxes: a choice is a line of text with a dot that fills when chosen, buttons are words (the one that sends in paper, the others in ash), a text field is one line under the words, and your own messages in the companion’s log sit on the right in a quieter colour. The seal red marks only where the keyboard is. The palette, the corner menu and the music list float over a dimmed, blurred page; a press on that veil closes them and never reaches the card under it. Standard and Geek are unchanged; under forced colours the borders come back.
• Breathing. The rest no longer stops after 30 s without input: the circle, the ink washes and the background tide keep moving (about every 30 s) while Zen shows, and a faint circle breathes behind the companion’s log (in 4 s, out 6 s). Reduced motion still stops all of it.
• Long questions. A lone question over 90 characters is set as text, not a heading, and every row keeps its height: the own-answer box is at least 44 px and the card scrolls as one instead of squeezing it.
• Fixes. The terminal layer’s confirm pair is two words of one style again; after Back to the breath or a step from the composer the focus goes to the corner menu, not the page body.