# Frona v2026.5.5 – self-hosted personal AI assistant

> Source: <https://github.com/fronalabs/frona/releases/tag/v2026.5.5>
> Published: 2026-05-30 20:03:54+00:00

This release is a big push on identity unification and task scheduling robustness. Every user-owned entity (User, Agent, App, McpServer, Channel) now carries a `Handle`

newtype, Policy principals are reshaped as `{user_handle}/{entity_handle}`

under a User parent, and all storage and routing paths are keyed by handle. Tasks gain a required `result_schema`

that drives how cron and one-shot results render back into source chats, with a fix for a long-standing CronRun crash-recovery race. The chat UI now paginates history on scroll-up and shows day separators with per-message hover times. Under the hood, Policy decisions and per-agent permitted tool sets are now cached, sandbox limits accept partial saves, and a Handle migration carries existing installs forward.

**Supported channels:** Slack, Discord, Telegram, Signal, SMS, WhatsApp Cloud, WhatsApp Personal.

### Identity / Handles

- Add a
`Handle`

newtype with sanitization rules and a build-script-generated reserved-name list; rename`User.username`

to`handle`

and require`Agent.user_id`

+`Agent.handle`

. - Add
`App.handle`

,`Channel.handle`

, and rename`McpServer.slug`

to`handle`

; switch all four to handle-keyed paths. - Unify on-disk storage under
`data/users/{handle}/{subsystem}`

with per-channel storage paths. - Switch Cedar entity UIDs to
`Kind::"{user_handle}/{entity_handle}"`

with User parent; refactor`SandboxPrincipalRef`

into a struct + Kind enum and rewire`policy::service`

accordingly. - Update the Cedar schema, db init indexes, and add a
`handle_unification`

migration (cutover at`2026-05-24T00:00:00Z`

); drop`seed_config_agents`

. - Reshape
`CandidateEvent`

to carry typed`User`

/`Channel`

/`Chat`

/`Message`

/`Contact`

references. - Carry user handle through the auth middleware and all API routes: admin/auth, agents, app proxy, files, MCP, browser, skills, tools, messages.
- Scope agent skills by
`user_handle/agent_handle`

; update content + sandbox tools, the tool manager, and agent-affecting tools to use Handle paths. - Thread Handle through chat, channel, credential, notification, memory, and inference services.
- Refresh built-in agent prompts and the
`manage_service`

prompt + manifest schema for handle-keyed URLs.

### Tasks / Cron

- Add a
`result_schema`

classifier and renderer for task result delivery; require`result_schema`

on`create_task`

/`create_recurring_task`

and schema-drive source-chat delivery. - Plumb
`result_schema`

through`create_cron_template`

+`spawn_cron_run`

; accept`complete_task.result`

as any JSON value and validate against the schema. - Restrict
`send_message`

to the agent's heartbeat chat so tasks deliver through`complete_task.result`

. - Fix CronRun crash-recovery race by narrowing the orphan query and reordering
`resume_all`

. - Thread
`space_id`

through cron templates so CronRuns deliver into the right space. - Wrap the initial task instruction in
`<task>`

regardless of authoring agent. - Hide task-execution chats from the navigation space view; demote empty task-completion history rows from warn to debug.
- Remove the unused
`SCHEDULED_TASK.md`

prompt; advertise recurring digests and briefs as researcher responsibilities.

### Chat / Frontend

- Load older chat messages on scroll-to-top and merge historical messages with SSE-buffered ones when loading a chat.
- Show day separators, conversation gaps, and per-message time on hover.
- Split auth, navigation, and session contexts; replace
`AuthGuard`

with`AppGate`

+`RequireAuth`

and rewire auth/setup/main layout for the new gating model. - Route apps, notifications, and settings by handle; switch main pages and the conversation panel to the new context APIs; update types and the api-client for handle-based responses.

### Channels

- Skip
`setWebhook`

when the URL is already ours and drop the queue when replacing a stale URL. - Warn when an inbound webhook arrives for an unknown channel.
- Store
`Channel.id`

as a bare UUID instead of a SurrealDB record literal. - Cover channel-delete with a test that asserts the spawned task is cancelled and
`on_disconnect`

runs.

### Policy / Performance

- Add a policy decision cache with prefix-scoped invalidation.
- Cache per-agent permitted tool sets to cut
`/api/agents`

from O(N·M²) to O(N·M).

### Sandbox

- Smooth tracked CPU via EWMA to absorb transient bursts.
- Fill missing sandbox limits with server defaults on partial save.
- Fix
`sandbox_cache`

invalidation by aligning`cache_key`

to`user_id`

.

### Build / Infra

- Add a docker task for publishing prod images to a personal preview registry; share constants/helpers via
`common.sh`

and annotate the image index for GHCR. - Persist cargo registry and git caches across dev container restarts.
- Send a
`User-Agent`

header on crates.io requests in`update-versions`

; bump`smbclient`

and`uv`

package pins.