generated: '2026-07-19'
method: searched
source: https://www.kernel.sh/changelog
scheme: dated-weekly
current_version: "0.80.0"
note: >-
  Kernel publishes a dated weekly changelog tagged Product / Docs. Recent window
  captured below (highlights condensed; see the live changelog for full detail).
entries:
  - date: '2026-07-17'
    label: July 17
    highlights:
      - Launched browser telemetry - capture console/network/lifecycle/interaction/captcha/crash events, stream live or pull later, with an in-VM OTLP export sink and OTel-compatible browser events API.
      - Added Grok 4.5 and Meta Muse Spark computer-use providers to @onkernel/cua-agent, plus a --proxy flag and configurable retries.
  - date: '2026-07-10'
    label: July 10
    highlights:
      - Consolidated on-demand and browser-pool concurrency into a single unified concurrency limit.
      - Shipped `kernel audit-logs search` in the CLI (query by time window, HTTP method, service, auth strategy, user).
  - date: '2026-07-03'
    label: July 3
    highlights:
      - Shipped `kernel extensions get <id-or-name>` for extension metadata lookups.
      - Extended CLI browser telemetry with paginated historical reads and a --replay=all flag.
  - date: '2026-06-26'
    label: June 26
    highlights:
      - Added a playwright_execute tool to @onkernel/cua-agent and gemini-3.5-flash CUA support.
      - Extended the MCP server browser-pool tool with SDK parity fields (start_url, chrome_policy, kiosk_mode, profile/viewport, fill_rate_per_minute).
  - date: '2026-06-12'
    label: June 12
    highlights:
      - Released the Kernel x Claude Managed Agents cookbook for parallel computer-use agent swarms on Kernel cloud browsers.
      - Shipped a kernel-browser-harness skill for Claude Code with persistent session IDs.
  - date: '2026-06-05'
    label: June 5
    highlights:
      - Browser sessions now play audio by default; replay recording gained a record_audio option.
      - Extended browser telemetry to the CLI via --telemetry flags on browsers create/update.
  - date: '2026-05-28'
    label: May 28
    highlights:
      - Soft-launched auth.md, a discovery file letting agents sign up for a Kernel account or fetch an API key on their own.
      - Added browser telemetry as a first-class request config on browsers.create()/update().
  - date: '2026-05-21'
    label: May 21
    highlights:
      - Added auto standby to browser pool instances (suspend when idle, resume on request).
      - Launched chrome_policy and start_url browser configuration options.