# MAO 0.6.2

Released 2026-09-25.

## Release notes, right in MAO

You no longer have to wonder what an update changes.

- **See what's coming before you update.** When MAO finds a new version, a window opens with its release notes: every version between the one you're on and the new one. It shows the download as it happens and offers **Restart to update** when it's ready, or **Later**. You don't need the sidebar open to know an update is waiting.
- **Check whenever you like.** **Check for updates** in the overflow menu or the command palette opens the same window straight away, and tells you when MAO is already up to date.
- **What's new.** The first time you open MAO after an update, it shows you what changed in that version.
- **Release notes, any time.** **Release notes** in the command palette and the overflow menu shows the notes for the version you're running. **View on the website** opens the full changelog.

## Smoother canvas

- **The pointer goes back to Select after you create something.** After you place a terminal, an agent, a note or any other node, the canvas returns to Select, so your next click selects and moves things instead of creating another node. This was most noticeable while working on a layer.
- **Pan with Ctrl+drag** (Cmd+drag on macOS). Hold Ctrl and drag with the left mouse button on empty canvas or on a node's header to move around the canvas, whatever tool is selected. Inside a terminal, an editor or a browser portal, Ctrl+click keeps doing what it did before. Space+drag, the middle mouse button and the scroll wheel still pan too.

## Fixes

- On Linux with Wayland, MAO no longer crashes when you open your first project right after creating a workspace.
- When a layer's files can't be set up because a file is in the way, MAO now names that file instead of showing a generic error.

Source: https://trymao.dev/changelog/0.6.2