Loop Files

📰 Important News

• 💸 Reminder to support me & Loop by sponsoring the project!
• 🌐 Let us know if you are interested in localizing Loop to your language :)
• 💬 Join our Discord server!
• 🙇 Thank you to all contributors who helped make this release possible through bug reports, feature requests, PRs, and community support!

⚙️ Window Actions

• ✨ [#785] Horizontal/vertical-only grow/shrink actions
• ✨ [#797] New "Minimize others" action
• ✨ [#820] Top/bottom/left/right screen switching
• ✨ [#855] New horizontal fourths actions
• ✨ [#870] Top/bottom/left/right focus navigation between windows
• ✨ [#929] New action to focus the next window in a stacked configuration
• ✨ [#939] New actions for larger/smaller while preserving aspect ratio
• ✨ [#968] New fill available space action

⚡ Input & Triggers

• ✨ [#786] Option to restart cycling from the first action
• ⚡ [#798] Modularized trigger key detection with system window manager bug fixes
• ⚡ [#802] Improved trigger key handling and removed notification usage throughout codebase
• ✨ [#866] Side-independent trigger key support (left/right modifiers can be used independently)
• ✨ [#897] Improved mouse event handling
• ✨ [#953] Configurable trigger key timeout
• ✨ [#955] Mouse calculations improved so radial menu can be opened & used at screen edges

🎨 UI/UX Enhancements

• ✨ [#789] Focus window action picker popup on appearance
• 💄 [#806] Increased Stage Manager strip size range with improved clamping
• 💄 [#810] New Liquid Glass icons
• ✨ [#814] Centralized accent color management with AccentColorController
• 💄 [#851] UI improvements with Liquid Glass styling in radial menu
• 💄 [#888] Increased maximum corner radius value in preview configuration
• ✨ [#893] Lightweight IconView component for optimized icon rendering in Keybinds & Radial Menu tabs
• ✨ [#900] Smoother and more responsive preview window animations
• ✨ [#906] Previews can now use actual window corner radius
• 💄 [#914] Reorganized menubar dropdown menu
• 💄 [#918] Luminare UI updates
• ✨ [#934] Fully customizable radial menu with visual guides; actions can be standalone or linked to keybinds!
• 💄 [#935] Improved visual effect behaviors when inactive
• 💄 [#950] Changed several default settings and fixed graphical bugs
• ✨ [#964] Stashed windows will now reveal themselves when activated externally (e.g. Spotlight search)
• 💄 [#966] Reworded "Restart" to "Relaunch" in update window
• 💄 [#971] Additional preview configuration options with materialized radial menu

🔧 System Integration

• ✨ [#842] Option to enable Mission Control gesture even when window snapping is enabled
• ⚙️ [#849] Replaced event monitors and improved Accessibility permission handling
• ✨ [#874] Windows now preserve proportions when moving between displays
• ✨ [#906] Improved methods for loading private APIs in SkyLight
• ✨ [#943] Precomputed padding for optimized window positioning
• ✨ [#952] Update checks now verify minimum macOS version compatibility
• ✨ [#957] Users are notified if their macOS version is no longer supported

🛠️ Developer Experience

• 📄 [#813] Project organization improvements
• ✨ [#917] Unified logging system with Scribe package
• 📄 [#946] Added Internet Access Policy file
• 📄 [#960] Updated issue templates

⚡ Performance

• ⚡ [#930] System keybinds are now cached during keypress processing
• ⚡ [#964] WindowEngine refactored to run on background threads, eliminating UI lag during window operations

🐞 Bug Fixes

• 🐞 [#805] Fixed Luminare settings window not disappearing on macOS Tahoe
• 🐞 [#812] Window frames are now matched before initializing Window objects
• 🐞 [#848] Middle-click down events are no longer swallowed by Loop
• 🐞 [#850] Fixed multi-monitor positioning by using screen.displayBounds
• 🐞 [#860] Restored trigger delay and double-click functionality
• 🐞 [#863] Restored middle-click trigger support
• 🐞 [#864] Delete and Help keys now recognized as special Fn keys
• 🐞 [#865] Left mouse drag events now properly reveal stashed windows
• 🐞 [#873] Handle special keys that are modified by the fn modifier
• 🐞 [#886] Fixed potential memory leak in window drag detection
• 🐞 [#905] ListenEvent is now reset when requesting Accessibility access
• 🐞 [#915] Picture-in-Picture windows are now properly handled
• 🐞 [#916] Improved settings window management
• 🐞 [#940] Fixed file picker performance issues
• 🐞 [#941] TriggerKeycorder now force-closes when window loses focus
• 🐞 [#942] Windows with non-window roles are no longer blocked from resizing
• 🐞 [#947] Screen switching actions now start from the screen containing the window
• 🐞 [#948] Fixed double-click trigger
• 🐞 [#951] Prevented rapid action changes for noSelection actions
• 🐞 [#954] Undo functionality now works even when preview is disabled
• 🐞 [#959] Fixed event monitor memory leaks
• 🐞 [#970] Windows are now correctly focused when system window manager is enabled

🌏 Localization

• 🎌 Loop now supports Japanese!
• 🌐 [#868] Add context to many localization keys
• 🤖 [#872] Automated Crowdin integration for more frequent translation updates

Minimum macOS version: 13.0