What's new in Ray

The complete Ray rebuild is finally here! It took a while, but it was well worth the wait. Ray is faster, looks and feels better, and LLMs can now whisper custom HTML to our integrated MCP server.

🚀 Features

• logs: ingest logs to disk
• archiving: log session archiving to disk
• settings: more extensive shortcut management
• settings: customize parts of the UI
• settings: improved opening in an external editor
• settings: more options for opening in an external editor (custom URL or custom executable)
• mcp: server
• mcp: tools (for reading data, sending data or to execute actions)
• mcp: LLM-specific log types — some logs can be saved as images (diagrams, custom HTML, and Markdown)
• mcp: LLMs can send most normal Ray log types (log, custom log, JSON, JSON string, table)
• mcp: LLMs can iterate inline on custom HTML logs (helpful when iterating on logo designs, mockups, etc.)
• mcp: LLMs can send actions (hide app, show app, new screen, notification, clear all, confetti)
• copy to clipboard: all logs that render code can be copied to the clipboard
• onboarding: simple checklist
• onboarding: tips and tricks per framework and language
• ssh: improved form for adding new servers
• ssh: improved error logging when connections fail or are lost
• multi-window: added titles to windows to easily identify a session for a project
• errors: improved general error feedback through toast messages

⚡ Performance

• memory: reworked log ingestion system
• memory: keep logs of the current session in memory; everything else is stored on disk
• memory: archive sessions by moving log files from $TMPDIR to the archive directory on disk

🎨 Styling

• themes: new themes (midnight, daylight, artisan)
• animations: background animation
• animations: animated transitions for most interactions in Ray

💼 Other

• applogs: system log files for debugging (macOS: ~/Library/Logs/Ray/main.log, Windows: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Ray\logs\main.log, Linux: ~/.config/ray/logs/main.log)
• applogs: ability to change log level of system log file by setting LOG_LEVEL in your environment (example: LOG_LEVEL='debug' ./Ray)

⚙️ Miscellaneous Tasks

• CI/CD: improved pipeline and build times
• CI/CD: more extensive test suite for Ray’s core features