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title: Iliad MD v0.5.0
description: Release notes for Iliad MD v0.5.0. A calmer window, clearer review of your agent's changes, and built-in AI that reads your whole document.
category: Release Notes
order: 82
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# Iliad MD v0.5.0

Iliad MD v0.5.0 is a signed and notarized macOS release for Apple Silicon Macs. It is a calmer, lighter Iliad, with a quieter window, clearer review of your agent's changes, and built-in AI that reads your whole document and writes the way you ask.

## What's New

### A calmer window

- The Mac's own font for the app, and lighter, warmer colors with neutral greys.
- No tab and no line under the top row. The sidebar toggle and Back/Forward sit next to the traffic lights. Back and Forward (`⌘[` `⌘]`) appear once there is somewhere to go.
- Hide the sidebar with `⌃⌘S`, and it's just the page and you. Hover the toggle or the left edge to peek at it. A quiet breadcrumb shows where you are.
- Files in the sidebar have no icons, and folders have small chevrons. The current document is a soft highlight.
- **Settings** now lives at the bottom of the sidebar, with General (language, version, updates), Typography and Writing in one panel.
- With no document open, Iliad shows the documents you opened recently in this folder.
- `⌘N` creates a new document.

### Reviewing your agent's changes

- The controls for the open document ("N changes · ↑ ↓ · Keep all · Restore all") sit in the top row. ↑ ↓ jump between changes.
- Suggested text reads like the rest of your document (quotes, bold, lists), on one continuous green block, with removed text lined up above it.
- "Keep all" and "Restore all" act only on the version you are looking at. If the file changed again in the meantime, Iliad refreshes the review instead.
- In the sidebar, one light row keeps or restores every changed document at once.
- Fixed a bug where the review bar could sometimes disappear.

### Built-in AI that knows your document

- Suggestions (`⌘,` `⌘.` `⌘/`) and the ✦ AI menu now read your whole document, not just the section you are in, so names, terms and the thread of your writing stay consistent. A small ✦ at the cursor shows the AI is working.
- **Writing preferences.** Tell the AI how you write, once (Settings → Writing). They apply to suggestions and ✦ AI edits in every folder, and are never written into your documents.
- **Untitled documents name themselves.** New documents start empty, and once you've written a heading or a few sentences, Iliad names the file for you. The name types itself in the sidebar. Double-click any name to change it.

### Your own keys

Click a shortcut in Settings → Writing and press the keys you want, like in VS Code. Keys Iliad already uses are refused, and a key another action uses can be swapped.

## Privacy

With your writing preferences and whole-document context, built-in AI now sends the current document (trimmed for very long ones) and your preferences when you ask for a suggestion or a ✦ AI edit, and a short opening excerpt once to name an untitled document you created. In free mode this goes through Iliad's server, which keeps none of your text, to Groq (Zero Data Retention). With your own key it goes straight from your Mac to Groq. See the [privacy page](https://iliad.md/privacy/).

## Download

The public download is on the GitHub release page.

`https://github.com/brainforwarding/iliad/releases/tag/v0.5.0`