Chatpane Files

What's New

• Updates on your terms — Carrier can discover signed updates at startup and every four hours, while download, installation, and restart always remain an explicit choice. Automatic checks can be disabled in Settings.
• More desktop control — New tray, minimize, focus-loss, taskbar, notification, autoplay, and sending options let Carrier fit quiet background use as well as an always-visible chat window.
• Custom styling and shortcut help — Add reloadable custom.css overrides and open the complete in-app keyboard shortcut reference whenever you need it.
• Carrier in 30 languages — The landing page now includes 20 additional localized experiences, each with its own culturally localized conversation preview.

Bug Fixes

• The unwanted top bar stays gone — Document-start injection and native Windows menu handling were hardened, and Settings now reuses its WebView so removed chrome cannot reappear after closing and reopening it.
• Settings stay responsive under load — Concurrent settings, zoom, menu, and tray changes are serialized away from the UI thread, preventing deadlocks, stale writes, and partial settings files.
• More reliable notifications and lifecycle behavior — Fixed Windows notification activation, repeat-launch restoration, close/minimize-to-tray flows, unread detection, privacy-safe deduplication, and live media state.
• Media opens and downloads correctly — Messenger attachments now stay inside Carrier, Download waits for the native save to finish before confirming success, and viewer controls remain fully inside the window on macOS and Windows.
• Copied links stay clean — Carrier removes Facebook attribution IDs and link-shim redirects by default without changing legitimate query parameters or signed URL bytes. The behavior can be disabled beside telemetry blocking in Settings.
• Messenger changes fail safely — Locale-independent page detection, isolated feature startup, bounded development inspection, safe DNS recovery, and stricter remote IPC/download rules keep Carrier usable when Facebook or the network changes underneath it.
• Cross-platform polish — Linux follows system theme changes live, macOS checks remain warning-free, reaction emoji render at the right size, and media autoplay suppression respects recent user interaction.

Internal

• Expanded automated coverage to 130 injected-script tests and up to 88 Rust tests per platform, with repeated stress, lifecycle, single-instance, native-menu, media-download, link-integrity, permission-metadata, and exact-head release checks across Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Full changelog: https://github.com/kristofferR/Carrier/compare/v1.3.1...v1.4.0