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2.7.2 - Window Detection and Visual Improvements

2026-10-05

• 📦 Clearer active tiles and hover outlines in Liquid Glass mode.
• 🐛 Fixed Brave and Brave Origin web apps missing from the taskbar.
• 🐛 Fixed Photos windows missing from the taskbar.
• 🐛 Reduced delays when clicking windows of unresponsive apps.
• 🐛 Restored context menu icons on macOS 27.
• 🐛 Kept notification badges without numbers circular.

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2.7.1 - Finder Fix

2026-09-26

• 🐛 Fixed pinned Finder reopening when a Get Info window is still open.

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2.7 - Clock and Taskbar Improvements

2026-09-25

• ❇️ Added a clock. Enable in settings. Hover shows the current date.
• 📦 Reorder windows within pinned app groups.
• 📦 Dim minimized windows. Optionally dim pinned apps that aren’t running.
• 📦 Clearer tile hover effects.
• 📦 Added Control-click and screen reader support for tile menus.
• 🐛 Keep tiles visible during taskbar updates.
• 🐛 Reopen apps with no windows faster.
• 🐛 Fixed pinned Finder not opening a new window.

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2.6 - Display Options and Fixes

2026-09-14

• ❇️  New display mode: Show all windows on the primary display and only local windows elsewhere.
• 📦  Minimized windows: Keep app icons clear and show a separate minimized marker.
• 📦  Liquid Glass: Make hover effects more visible.
• 📦  Performance: Reduce unnecessary work and fix memory leaks.
• 📦  Installation: Add clearer setup instructions.
• 🐛  Window updates: Reopen apps faster and remove closed-window tiles more reliably.
• 🐛  Mouse clicks: Fix accidental window activation and closing.
• 🐛  Accessibility: Fix tile names for screen readers.
• 🐛  Resize cursor: Reduce stuck resize cursors near the taskbar.

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2.5 - Multi-Display Windows and Appearance Refinements

2026-09-08

• ❇️  Windows from all displays: New option to show every open window on each taskbar.
• ❇️  Liquid Glass appearance: Choose System, Light, or Dark in Appearance settings.
• 📦  Refined tile colors: Clearer translucent colors, improved text contrast, and cleaner hover feedback.
• 📦  Scrollable window lists: Long grouped-window lists now scroll and stay within the screen.
• 📦  Community links: Issue reports and feature requests now open Mac Taskbar Community.
• 🐛  Stable tile positions: Preserve window and pinned-app positions when switching focus, entering or leaving fullscreen, and unpinning apps through Settings.
• 🐛  Appearance switching: Keep the taskbar visible and its colors consistent when macOS switches between light and dark mode.
• 🐛  Tile customization: Apply name and color changes immediately across all taskbars.
• 🐛  Window detection: Refresh windows reliably after activating, unhiding, or removing an app from the exclusion list.
• 🐛  Previous-window switching: Restore the correct previous window after moving windows between displays.
• 🐛  Automatic updates: Postponing an update no longer prevents future automatic update checks.

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2.4 - Dock Badges and Chrome App Windows

2026-08-25

• ❇️  Dock badge indicators: See unread counts and status dots from the Dock directly on app tiles, with a new Appearance setting to show or hide them.
• ❇️  Chrome and Chromium web apps: Installed web apps such as Google Meet now appear as individual taskbar windows and activate reliably.
• 📦  Clearer active tiles: Active-window underlines are now consistent across taskbar styles and use contrast-aware signature colors on customized tiles.
• 📦  Stronger custom colors: Colored tiles now stay clearer and more readable across normal, hover, and active states in both Liquid Glass and Classic.

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2.3.3 - Clean Reminder Layout

2026-08-19

• 🐛  Free-version reminder: The reminder now uses a clean, compact layout with only the intended OK and Buy License actions, without stray checkboxes, blank buttons, or help controls.

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2.3.2 - Reliable App Activation

2026-08-17

• 🐛  Pinned app activation: Clicking a pinned tile for an app that is already running now activates or restores its existing window without reopening the app, even after rapid repeated clicks.
• 🐛  Non-blocking reminders: Free-version reminders no longer block taskbar interaction, and clicking OK or closing a reminder returns focus to the app you were using.

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2.3.1 - Persistent Tile Customization

2026-08-16

• ❇️  Persistent tile customizations: Custom tile names and colors now survive taskbar refreshes and Mac Taskbar restarts while their windows remain open.
• ❇️  Persistent tile order: Mac Taskbar now remembers the order of open tiles separately for each display across refreshes and restarts.
• 📦  Automatic Classic themes: Classic now follows the macOS light or dark appearance automatically, using the theme selected for each appearance.
• 📦  Cleaner Settings: Settings pages are more compact and focused, without repetitive subtitles.
• 🐛  Tile hover feedback: Hover highlighting now remains visible for as long as the pointer stays over a tile, with clearer feedback for colored tiles in both Liquid Glass and Classic.

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2.3 - Liquid Glass and Multi-Row Taskbars

2026-08-12

• ❇️  Liquid Glass: Meet the new default taskbar style, with an adaptive native glass surface and Classic still available in Settings.
• 📦  Adaptive appearance: Enjoy readable tiles, custom colors, controls, and badges across changing backgrounds, with support for Reduce Transparency and earlier macOS versions.
• 📦  Simpler appearance settings: Liquid Glass adapts automatically, while color-theme controls are reserved for Classic.
• 📦  Classic themes: Streamlined Classic to Lilac, Midnight, System Light, and System Dark; existing Elegant and Iron Grey choices now use System Dark.
• ❇️  Multiple rows: Configure up to four rows for top and bottom taskbars, using one default or independent settings for each connected display.
• 📦  Row-aware interaction: Balanced layouts, centering, drag-and-drop reordering, window lists, and folder menus now work naturally across multiple rows.
• 📦  Fullscreen behavior: Fullscreen hiding is now always enabled, only on the display occupied by a true fullscreen app.
• 📦  Settings access: Switch back to the Mac Taskbar Settings window directly from the taskbar.

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2.2.5 - Support Diagnostics

2026-07-15

• ❇️  Support diagnostics: Copy privacy-safe diagnostics or export a local bundle with optional logs and crash reports directly from Settings.
• ❇️  Crash recovery: After an unexpected quit, Mac Taskbar can offer the matching macOS crash report to make troubleshooting easier.

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2.2.4 - Top Taskbar Stability

2026-07-15

• 🐛  Top taskbar settings: Prevent crashes when opening Settings by avoiding unsafe window adjustments and unnecessary taskbar rebuilds.

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2.2.3 - Media and Resize Reliability

2026-07-15

• 🐛  Media controls: Keep Mac Taskbar responsive when a media app is slow or unavailable, while preserving command order.
• 🐛  Automatic resizing: Remove stale state for closed windows so newly created windows always use their own original frame.

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2.2.2 - Window and Display Reliability

2026-07-15

• 🐛  Window refreshes: Keep taskbar tiles current during rapid window, app, and display changes.
• 📦  Automatic resizing: Recalculate from the original window frame when the taskbar moves or changes size, and restore managed windows when Mac Taskbar quits.
• 🐛  Multi-monitor setups: Keep windows, taskbars, and pinned items on the correct physical display after rearranging or reconnecting monitors.
• 🐛  System integration: Handle temporary WindowServer failures safely, keep media controls ordered, and leave room for a side Dock.

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2.2.1 - Fullscreen Reliability

2026-07-15

• ❇️  Fullscreen setting: Choose whether the taskbar should hide when an app uses a display in fullscreen.
• 🐛  Fullscreen detection: Keep the taskbar visible for maximized windows and hide it only for true fullscreen apps.
• 🐛  Fullscreen exit: Restore taskbar tiles immediately after leaving a fullscreen space.

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2.2 - Top Taskbar

2026-07-14

• ❇️  Top orientation: Place the taskbar along the top edge of any display, with matching menus, window resizing, and Dock-aware behavior.

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2.1 - Media Controls, Pinned Items, and Fullscreen Polish

2026-05-26

• ❇️  Media control settings: Toggle taskbar media controls globally and configure supported apps.
• ❇️  More media apps: Add VLC support and make it easier to add custom media-control apps.
• ❇️  Pinned item management: Manage pinned apps in Settings and reorder pinned items directly.
• 📦  Fullscreen behavior: Hide the taskbar more reliably when fullscreen windows cover a display.
• 📦  Text sizing: Add an independent taskbar font size setting with centered tile text.
• 🐛  Window resizing: Resize windows away from the taskbar and reduce awkward overlap cases.
• 🐛  Settings polish: Fix media app row clipping and improve dark mode surfaces.

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2.0 - Pinned Tiles, Combined Apps, and Faster UI

2026-04-09

• ❇️  Pin apps: Keep launch-ready tiles visible all the time.
• ❇️  Pin folders: Quickly access files from the taskbar.
• ❇️  Combine tiles: Group multiple windows into one with a window list.
• 📦  Major performance improvements: Removed up to 92 % of bloat.
• 📦  New Settings to adjust behaviour of above features.
• ❇️  Rename window tiles, app blocklist, and manage more actions directly from the tile context menu.
• ❇️  Add playback controls for supported media apps like Music and Spotify
• ❇️  New Accessibility setup wizard.
• 📦  Redesigned Settings.

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1.6 - Tile Color Menu

2026-03-18

• ❇️  Right-click any tile to assign a color from a built-in palette.

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1.5 - Release Signing Fix

2026-03-06

• 🐛  Fixed the release packaging flow so the distributed app and DMG are both notarized, stapled, and validated before publication.

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1.4 – Minimized Window Visibility Fix

2026-02-13

• 🐛️  Fixed minimized window visibility detection so window state is tracked correctly on newer macOS versions.

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1.3 – Better window activation algorithm

2025-12-18

• 🐛️  #33 Fixed multiple Windows activating on different screens.
• 🐛️  #34 Hiding empty windows.

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1.2.1 – Width Fix

2025-12-12

• 🐛️  Taskbar again taking full width if dock is left or right.

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1.2 – Automatic Updates Fix

2025-12-10

• 🐛️  Automatic Updates are now working correctly.

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1.1 – Vertical layout

2025-12-08

• ❇️  Vertical Layout
  • Taskbar can now change orientation in the settings.
  • Left, right and bottom are supported.
• 📦  macOS 26 support.
• 🐛  Various bugfixes and improvements.

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1.0 – Happy Release!

2025-06-04

• ❇️  Taskbar can now be bought.
  • Will stay forever-free trial though. <3
• 🐛  Fix Windows someteimes won't activate

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0.15 – Reorder Tiles, Close Window with middle click, new Settings Dialog

2025-05-14

• ❇️  Reorder tiles
  • Custom sort your windows with drag & drop.
• ❇️  Middle click closes window
  • Middle click will close a window. Shift + middle click closes the whole app.
• ❇️  Option to center tiles
• ❇️  Option to show minimized windows
• ❇️  New Settings Dialog
  • Tabbed settings menu. Option to reset all settings. Infos and Tipps.
• ❇️  Auto-download for updates
  • Updates now can be performed automatically.
• 🐛  Fix unnecessary windows displaying

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0.14 – Update-Check, "Click active tile again" & no more .dmg download

2025-04-27

• ❇️  Auto Update-Check
  • Will automatically check if a new version is available for download.
• ❇️  Click active tile again
  • Clicking a tile that is already active will restore the previous windows.