We're excited to announce a major architectural improvement to Atuin Desktop: a completely redesigned runbook execution engine.

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Atuin Desktop v0.2.0 introduces a completely redesigned runbook execution engine that makes developer workflows persistent, reproducible, and reliable. The new architecture moves execution from TypeScript to Rust, introduces passive and active context types, enables template usage everywhere including self-referential variables, and persists state across app restarts. Key changes include removing global context, improving variable handling, and separating stdout from stderr in script outputs. This foundation enables future features like CLI-based execution, improved serial execution, secrets management, and markdown-based runbooks.

Introducing the New Runbook Execution Engine