diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 38cc2ee..2a953fb 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ The project is under active development. Core blogging workflows are broadly ava
 - Persistent conversational AI with safe Markdown, streamed and cancellable responses, model/session/token tracking, bounded project-aware blog tools, and localized conversation management in the Chat workspace. Allowlisted render tools add persistent native cards, charts, forms, lists, metrics, mind maps, tables, and tabs without executing assistant-provided HTML or JavaScript.
 - SSH-agent-based SCP or rsync publishing.
 - Integrated Git workflow for each blog project's current repository, with repository initialization, read-only origin discovery, Git LFS image tracking, status and diffs, branch/file history with bDS2-compatible sync-status colors, commits, cancellable fetch/pull/push, and post-pull filesystem reconciliation; network actions respect airplane mode.
-- Site, media, and translation validation plus `ruds://new-post` Blogmark capture and Lua transforms; captures open directly in the post editor and defer automatic translation until an explicit manual save, which queues one task per still-missing language. Publishing never starts automatic translation. bDS2 keeps its separate `bds2://` bookmarklet protocol.
+- Site, media, and translation validation plus `ruds://new-post` Blogmark capture and Lua transforms; captures open directly in the post editor and defer automatic translation until an explicit manual save, which queues one task per still-missing language. Rendering tasks keep long generated URLs compact in progress messages. Publishing never starts automatic translation. bDS2 keeps its separate `bds2://` bookmarklet protocol.
 
 RuDS uses no JavaScript application runtime and loads no CSS or JavaScript from CDNs. The preview is served by the Rust application and displayed by the operating-system webview.
 
diff --git a/crates/bds-ui/src/app/tasks.rs b/crates/bds-ui/src/app/tasks.rs
index 3f678cf..fcad1e3 100644
--- a/crates/bds-ui/src/app/tasks.rs
+++ b/crates/bds-ui/src/app/tasks.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,18 @@
 use super::*;
 
+const TASK_URL_MAX_CHARS: usize = 60;
+
+fn shorten_task_url(url: &str) -> String {
+    if url.chars().count() <= TASK_URL_MAX_CHARS {
+        url.to_string()
+    } else {
+        format!(
+            "{}…",
+            url.chars().take(TASK_URL_MAX_CHARS - 1).collect::<String>()
+        )
+    }
+}
+
 impl BdsApp {
     pub(super) fn refresh_task_snapshots(&mut self) {
         self.task_snapshots = self
@@ -524,6 +537,7 @@ fn run_site_generation_section(
     let on_page = |_current: usize, _total: usize, _url: &str| {};
     let on_rendered = move |url: &str| {
         let current = rendered_count.fetch_add(1, std::sync::atomic::Ordering::Relaxed) + 1;
+        let url = shorten_task_url(url);
         render_manager.report_progress(
             task_id,
             Some(if expected_pages == 0 {
@@ -535,7 +549,7 @@ fn run_site_generation_section(
                 locale,
                 "engine.renderingPage",
                 &[
-                    ("url", url),
+                    ("url", &url),
                     ("current", &current.to_string()),
                     ("total", &expected_pages.to_string()),
                 ],
@@ -581,3 +595,16 @@ fn run_site_generation_section(
     }
     .map_err(|error| error.to_string())
 }
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::shorten_task_url;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn task_urls_stay_single_line_without_splitting_unicode() {
+        assert_eq!(shorten_task_url("/short"), "/short");
+        let shortened = shorten_task_url(&format!("/{}", "ä".repeat(80)));
+        assert_eq!(shortened.chars().count(), 60);
+        assert!(shortened.ends_with('…'));
+    }
+}