EC2 spot instance, Claude code, Prompt from Panic, Eternal Terminal.

Hey! Happy Coder contributor here. Great timing on this post. I hear you on the reliability issues and feature stagnation. The project went through a rough patch, but we've had some new core contributors come on board and things have picked up significantly.

Planning to release this week (clean out about 100 issues and pulls in 20 of the 30 open PRs). Would love for you to give it another shot once the update drops. And if you hit issues, we're actually responding to them now :)

Importantly for you Leeroy has created a single statically linked binary for self-hosting in this release, no more docker-compose with postgres, redis, node, minio.

Here are the minutes from the the contributor meeting today; I think you'll find your problems addressed:

Jan 25, 2026

  - Karl
      - rebase and merge Ryan Newton's happy-devbox e2e tests.
  - Leeroy
      - Secret sharing session
      - Profiles!!!! Improving
      - Allow to define api keys in app
      - Modals / popovers / overlays
      - Auth fixes
      - Opening a session without auth would still show you the screen, but it won’t work
      - Permissions sticky to the session
      - Codex permissions now applied
      - Claude allowlist
      - Not in codex / gemini - unified this
      - Modified message queue - see in the UI that the message is pending
      - Ask user question - fixed / permission related (will resolve #383)
      - CLI installed / not detection
      - Used in resume features - claude / codex / acp resume
      - Capability registry
      - Agent registry
      - Added opencode!! (will resolve #394)
      - Improved daemon reliability - reattach to sessions that were running with it
      - Tmux / profiles - decoupled
      - Resume sessions from the UI
      - Claude streaming / local / remote - not update the session - missing some messages
      - Local / remote switches not working completely - previously messages in the queue were broken
      - Server light - now in the server, different flavour. Postgress schema / sqlite schema auto synced
      - If you are working with multiple sessions - notifications in app for other sessions
      - [denis overlap] reworked the ACP part, codex / opencode had some duplicated parts. Make it easier to add new agents - works / stable. Tools display - unify it. Normalization layer different providers have different formats! Normalize on the CLI
  - Kirill
      - Server is deployed from main on path modification /server in the monorepo
      - Steve fixed certificates - so ready to release
      - #16 on app store