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  • 📅 Release date
    • Jan 18, 2026
  • 💥 Breaking changes
    • Changed the default behavior of f6 to the Do Not Disturb key.
  • ✨ New Features
  • 🐛 Bug Fixes
    • Fixed an issue where the sticky modifier indicator could continue to be displayed even after being disabled in the settings.
    • Fixed an issue where karabiner_machine_identifier was not set correctly during a clean install.
  • ⚡️ Improvements
    • Removed the probable stuck key detector since we've confirmed that, on supported versions of macOS, seizing the device while keys are held down no longer causes any issues.
    • Added an alert that appears if communication with Karabiner-VirtualHIDDevice-Daemon is not possible.
    • Improved the automatic recovery behavior from inter-process communication failures.
    • Improved open_application to exclude non-application bundles from frontmost_application_history_index.
    • Move system extensions viewer to Settings from EventViewer.
    • Updated EventViewer to properly display modifier flags for pointing button events.
    • Improved MultitouchExtension to disable PreventUserIdleSystemSleep before the system goes to sleep.
    • Supported the following keys:
      • generic_desktop::do_not_disturb
    • Sparkle Framework has been updated.
Source: README.md, updated 2026-01-18