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News
Release notes and community updates from the Pi ecosystem.
- Jul 25, 2026releasepi v0.82.1 adds Claude Opus 5 support
The latest pi release brings Claude Opus 5 on Anthropic and Amazon Bedrock, bearer-token auth for Anthropic-compatible gateways, and faster model catalog refreshes.
- Jul 24, 2026releasepi v0.82.0: constrained tool sampling and one-command provider sign-in
v0.82.0 adds constrained sampling for tool calls, /login support for OpenRouter and Kimi Code, and session-aware streaming bash integrations.
- Jul 21, 2026releasepi v0.81.0: local model management with llama.cpp
v0.81.0 lets pi search, download, load, and unload Hugging Face models through a llama.cpp router, and opens full provider registration to extensions.
- Jul 16, 2026releasepi v0.80.8: unified model runtime, xAI OAuth, and Grok 4.5
v0.80.8 introduces the ModelRuntime layer for provider configuration and authentication, live model catalog refresh, and xAI device-code sign-in with Grok 4.5 support.
- Apr 8, 2026communitypi joins Earendil: Mario Zechner moves the project to a company home
In an April 8 blog post titled "I've sold out", pi creator Mario Zechner announced he is joining Earendil and bringing the pi project with him, with the core staying MIT-licensed.
- Apr 5, 2026communitypi-share-hf: publish your agent sessions to a public dataset
Mario Zechner released pi-share-hf, a pipeline that redacts and reviews pi session files before uploading them to Hugging Face, and publishes his own sessions in the badlogicgames/pi-mono dataset.
- Jan 31, 2026communityOpenClaw's core runtime is pi
Armin Ronacher's January 31 post "Pi: The Minimal Agent Within OpenClaw" publicly detailed that the OpenClaw agent runs on Mario Zechner's pi as its coding engine.