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 ### Fixed
 
+- **The sidebar now re-sorts a reactivated conversation to the top even if the tab was in the background.** When a conversation became active again from another device (or another tab) while your current tab was unfocused or backgrounded, the sidebar didn't bump it up to "Today" / the top until you manually refreshed. The session-list refresh coalescing only preserved the refresh *reason* and dropped its options, so a `force` refresh queued behind an in-flight one silently lost its force flag and got skipped on a hidden tab (`refreshSessionList` early-returns while `document.hidden`). Refresh options are now preserved through coalescing (force / refresh-active are OR-merged), and returning focus to the sidebar forces a catch-up — so cross-device recency re-sorts land on their own. The extra refresh coalesces into the existing render-skip no-op path, so there's no flicker and no background rebuild storm. Thanks @rodboev. (#5562, #5551)
 - **Transparent Stream: the final reply stays a visible answer after the turn settles.** In Transparent Stream mode, the moment a turn settled its final reply folded into the collapsed worklog/activity disclosure group — the answer vanished from view until you refreshed the page (the stored transcript was always correct, so a reload fixed it). The live-anchor scene renderer was hardcoding the compact-worklog layout mode when it projected the settling turn, regardless of your active display mode, so the final answer got compact-worklog display hints and was grouped away. It now reads your actual active mode and applies per-mode display hints, so in Transparent Stream the answer settles as a visible chronological reply. Compact Worklog is unchanged (bit-identical projection). Thanks @rodboev. (#5558, #5550)
 - **iOS/Android PWA: streaming stays smooth on long chats, and a dropped connection recovers instead of erroring.** Two mobile reliability fixes. (1) On touch devices, the chat now skips layout and paint for off-screen message rows while a response streams (`content-visibility` scoped to `pointer:coarse`), so a long conversation no longer degrades into a freeze on iOS WKWebView — the live streaming turn (targeted by its stable `#liveAssistantTurn` id so every render mode is covered) stays fully rendered so it never blanks mid-stream and the new-message cue still works, off-screen rows keep a tiny size estimate to preserve flick-scroll momentum, and desktop find-in-page is untouched. (2) The SSE reconnect ladder is extended (4→6 backoff steps) with a last-ditch full-session poll (an 8s-watchdog-guarded `_restoreSettledSession`, with a "Restoring session…" affordance) after the retries are exhausted, so a response that finished while the connection was flapping (e.g. an iOS Tailscale/VPN reconnect) is recovered without showing an error banner. Deliberately does not touch `overflow-anchor` — that would re-open the #4856/#5338 mobile jump-to-top regression. Thanks @luperrypf. (#5541)
 - **Starting a new chat is instant again — memory extraction no longer blocks it, and a managed restart no longer drops that memory.** Creating a new conversation could stall 1–5+ seconds because the previous session's memory-commit (the extraction call to the memory provider) ran synchronously on the request. That commit now runs in the background so "+ New Chat" responds immediately. To keep the deferred work safe across a restart, a `SIGTERM` handler drives an orderly stop so the server drains in-flight memory commits before exiting (previously a managed stop terminated instantly and lost them), the background-commit registry is bounded and self-cleaning, and the drain is wall-clock–bounded so a hung memory provider can't stall the stop (each commit runs under a shared time budget). Thanks @luperrypf. (#5543)