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Qwen Code published v0.24.1-preview.0 as a prerelease on September 18, 2026, adding a Playwright-based Browser SDK, container execution for subagents and expanded workflow controls. The update also makes broad changes across the Web Shell, hooks, model-provider handling and session recovery.
More Control Over Agent Work
Workflow authors can now narrow an agent to an explicit tool allowlist or restrict the Workflow tool to named workflows. Every workflow run gains a checkpoint, including an indication when a restart interrupted execution, while resume attempts without a journal are rejected. Subagents can also run inside containers, giving developers another execution option for delegated tasks.
The core now assembles its system prompt from the resident tool set. Hook listings expose enabled and disabledReason fields, progress events identify hook invocations, and HTTP, prompt and function hook runners report their actual outcomes.
Browser and Web Shell Expansion
Browser automation gains a Playwright-based Browser SDK and a Chrome Native Messaging relay. The Web Shell can act as a browser Live Host, conduct Live Voice calls and manage Git remotes from the workspace branch picker. Its commit history view now presents activity across branches with search.
The release also introduces PWA installability and an Android development shell. Other interface changes preserve context usage after refresh, fold oversized pasted content into attachment cards and add per-turn satisfied or not-satisfied marks. Fixes address lost daemon credentials, superseded first-prompt sessions and sequential SDK requests during session creation.
Provider and Compatibility Changes
Qwen Code can now select the OpenAI wire API separately for each model and supports configurable Mem0 providers for external context. DeepSeek handling was adjusted to recognize the official deepseek-flash name at V4 limits and retain the V4 generation suffix during model-name normalization.
CLI work closes twelve parity gaps between OpenTUI and ink, improves cached token counts in /context and records Goal state in session exports. Windows CI failures and VSIX packaging timing also received fixes.
Preview Caveats
This is explicitly a prerelease rather than a stable update. It includes a breaking Goal refactor that stops emitting the active_goal stream event, retires recovery for Goal records created before Goal state journaling and removes older evidence-checkpoint code. The release notes also say Web Shell package publishing was temporarily paused, despite other work to publish it alongside the CLI release.
Source: Qwen Code — Release v0.24.1-preview.0
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