# Hololith Changes

Each version starts with a "## version (Month day, year)" heading followed by "* " bullets.
scripts/release.sh reads this file for the update feed, so the newest version goes first.

## 1.0.7 (October 22, 2026)
* The CAPTURE and RECORD buttons in the menu bar menu work again. In 1.0.6 a click on them did nothing and the menu stayed open.
* Every menu bar command now starts after the menu closes, so the capture area does not close under the menu.
* New Noise Reduction for the microphone. It is on by default. It removes low rumble and makes steady background noise, such as a fan, quieter when you do not speak. The sync of the voice with the video does not change.
* Turn Noise Reduction on or off in Settings, Recording, in the window before a recording and in Recording Setup. The Mic Mode button opens the macOS microphone modes, such as Voice Isolation.
* New Recording Setup guide. After you give the permissions on the first launch, it helps you choose the webcam with a live preview, the microphone with a live level meter and a voice check, the webcam size, shape and border, the frame rate, the webcam default, the cursor style and the side widget.
* Each step saves only when you click Next. Skip keeps your settings. Back is always there. The camera and the microphone turn off when you leave their step or close the guide.
* Recording Setup also has the Shortcuts, Capture, Record and Side Widget lessons of the old Setup Guide, so there is one guide only. Open it from the menu, Help, Recording Setup, or from Settings, General.

## 1.0.6 (October 22, 2026)
* When you mute the microphone or the system audio in Review, the export now leaves that track out. Before, the export had all audio tracks.
* Delete in the Gallery now moves the item to the Trash. Press Command Z to put it back.
* Clear Unstarred asks first, then moves the unstarred items to the Trash. Starred items stay.
* Discard in Review is now at the left, away from Export. It asks first, then moves the recording to the Trash and removes it from the Gallery. Files that you exported stay.
* Reset All Settings and Reset All Shortcuts ask first.
* The menu bar menu, the menu that the menu shortcut opens and the new Dock menu now have the same commands, names and icons.
* The menus show the shortcuts that you set in Settings, Shortcuts. Before, they always showed the default shortcuts.
* You can use the arrow keys, Return and VoiceOver in the menu bar menu. A menu command now starts when you release the mouse button.
* Hololith always keeps a way in. When you turn off the Dock icon, the menu bar icon comes back. A click on the Dock icon opens Settings when no Hololith window shows.
* Command Comma opens the same Settings window as the menu.
* Hololith now uses one name for each thing: Gallery, Star, Webcam, Capture Full Screen, Repeat Last Area, Annotate Screen and Reveal in Finder. The Annotations settings are now named Watermark.
* The side widget is easier to read. CAPTURE has Window and Full Screen under it. RECORD has Screen + Webcam, Webcam Only and GIF under it.
* During a recording, the side widget shows Recording or Paused, with Stop Recording and Pause Recording.
* Right click or Control click the side widget for its options: the display, the edge, hide to a thin line, reset position, Settings and turn off.
* The recording controls have a Pause button and show Paused. VoiceOver reads the name and the state of each control.
* In the window before a recording, the mode sets the webcam. Only Last Region has its own Webcam switch.
* The window before a recording now has all four frame rates, uses your microphone setting and starts in the mode of Show webcam by default.
* The teleprompter setting in the window before a recording is saved only when you start the recording. The window now scrolls when it is too small for its content.
* Review has one main Export button. The format, GIF export, GIF size, GIF frame rate and the Reveal in Finder and Copy options are in the More menu. Settings, Files has the GIF options too.
* Command Z in Review takes back zoom, cursor and trim changes. A slider drag is one step.
* The Space key now types a space in the watermark text field. Before, it started playback. Space still plays and pauses the video in other places.
* Hint text is easier to read.
* The Gallery and Settings sidebars work with the arrow keys, and VoiceOver reads the selected item.
* In the Gallery, click to select an item. Press Space for Quick Look, Return to open, the arrow keys to move and Command Delete to move to the Trash. You can drag an item to other apps.
* Gallery search now also finds the kind, the date and the file names. When nothing matches, a Clear Search button shows.
* The recovery prompt after a recording that did not stop is clearer. Its choices are Review, Save to Gallery and Discard.
* Text annotations now open a text field where you click. Before, a dialog asked for the text.
* The annotation tools have clear names for help and VoiceOver.
* The Setup Guide has two new steps, Record and Side Widget, and clear Next and Done buttons.
* The Logging choices in Settings have clear names.

## 1.0.5 (October 21, 2026)
* You can now choose the display for the side widget. Go to Settings, General, Side widget, Show on. Select Automatic or one of your displays.
* Hololith keeps your display choice when the display order changes. If the display is not connected, the widget uses Automatic. When the display connects again, the widget goes back to it.
* Two displays of the same model show with different names in the list.
* There are seven new cursor styles: Bold arrow, Bold hand, Blue arrow, Click burst, Flame, Candy stripe and Glove.
* The new cursors are vector drawings, so they stay sharp on a 5K display and in exports at all sizes. The cursor size setting changes their size.
* The Click burst cursor shows short rays at the tip when you click.
* The cursor style control now shows a preview of each style. Click a preview to select the style.
* With Cursor effects off, the new styles go into the recording as you record. With Cursor effects on, Review and export draw them.
* VoiceOver reads the name of each cursor style and of the display control.

## 1.0.4 (October 20, 2026)
* GIF export now writes each frame to the file as it goes. Before, a long GIF used up to 1 GB of memory. Now it uses about 25 to 50 MB. The frames, the timing and the quality are the same.
* When you draw on the screen during a recording, Hololith now draws on the video frame directly. This uses less power and memory, and the recording looks the same.
* If a screen frame does not have the size of the recording, your drawings now scale with the frame. Before, such a frame could be cut off.
* History now loads in the background when Hololith starts, so the app is ready sooner.
* The Software Update installer now starts without a wait on the main thread.
* The microphone level meter now stops when the recording setup window closes. Before, the microphone could stay on.
* Hololith now writes the pointer track of a recording to disk in blocks. This gives fewer disk writes during a long recording.
* The side widget uses less power when you move the pointer.
* The Gallery no longer checks the disk for each item each time it redraws.
* VoiceOver now says when a recording runs, and each Gallery card has a full description.
* With Reduce Motion on, the menu bar icon does not pulse during a recording.
* Internal fixes for Swift concurrency. The build now has no warnings.

## 1.0.3 (October 20, 2026)
* When you close the Review window with the close button, the video stops playing. Before, the sound could go on with no window, and the Review window stayed in memory.
* Cancel during an export with webcam blur now stops at once and leaves no partial file.
* A recording with a microphone or system audio file that has no sound no longer gives an empty audio track in Review and in exports.
* Hololith now removes old temporary recording files while it runs, not only when it starts, so it uses less disk space over time.
* If the microphone file cannot be written, for example when the disk is full, Hololith now writes the error to the log.
* Hololith now stops checking for the Screen Recording permission after ten minutes, and checks again at the next request. This uses less power.
* The webcam recording state is now safe to read while the camera starts.
* Internal fixes for Swift concurrency.

## 1.0.2 (October 20, 2026)
* Software Update no longer offers the same version again after it installs. Before, the new version started but the installer did not hear back from it, so after one minute it put the old version back.
* The Recover interrupted recording prompt now shows only for a recording that did not stop. Before, it showed on each launch for recordings that had stopped normally.
* When you answer the Recover prompt, it does not come back for that recording. Later now keeps the recording in History.
* A recording that could not start no longer leaves files behind.
* The menu bar icon uses much less power while you record.
* Hololith makes the History poster of a new recording in the background, so the app stays responsive when you stop a recording.
* The Gallery loads small thumbnails in the background and uses much less memory.
* Recording at a lower quality than the display reuses its frame buffers, which uses less memory and power.
* The Review window and the teleprompter redraw less often.

## 1.0.1 (October 20, 2026)
* The webcam is in sync with your voice again. In Review and in exports, the webcam was about a third of a second late when the microphone started before the camera.
* New recordings start the webcam file and the microphone file at their own first sample, so they line up within one frame.
* In Review, the microphone and the system audio now line up with the screen as they do in the export.
* The Review window now opens at about 85 percent of your screen and fits the video, so the video is much larger on high resolution displays. Hololith remembers the size and place you give it.
* The zoom and cursor inspector and the webcam look controls are closed when Review opens, so the video has the most room. Show them with the buttons under the timeline and next to the webcam controls.
* A screen recording made after a webcam recording no longer takes the microphone start time of the earlier recording.

## 1.0.0 (October 20, 2026)
* Hololith 1.0 is here.
* The Allow buttons for Accessibility, Screen Recording, Camera and Microphone now open the right page of System Settings. Before, macOS said that no application could open the link.
* Hololith now shows the macOS permission prompt first, and opens System Settings only when the prompt cannot show.
* When the recorded display disconnects or Screen Recording is turned off during a recording, Hololith stops the recording and keeps what it recorded.
* A second press of Record or Stop no longer starts or stops a recording two times.
* Stopping a recording with system audio no longer makes Hololith wait while the audio file finishes.
* Do Not Disturb turns off again when a recording cannot start.
* An automatic update check no longer opens the update window during a recording.
* The microphone meter in the preroll sheet uses less power.

## 0.1.0 (October 20, 2026)
* Hololith is now signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so macOS opens it without a security warning.
* Hololith can now update itself. It checks for a new version shortly after launch and once a day, shows what changed, and asks before it installs. Turn the checks off in Settings, General.
* After this update, macOS may ask again for Camera, Microphone and Screen Recording. Allow them once.
* The webcam trail is now a soft gradient that matches the export, and it is more subtle.
* Pick the display, the webcam and the microphone in the side widget, the preroll sheet or Settings, Recording.
* New cursor styles: macOS arrow, large arrow, soft dot and ring, and a color for the dot and the ring.
* Click highlights now have a ripple ring, a filled pulse, a soft glow or a double ring, in any color, with an optional second color for right clicks.
* Click marks in recordings without cursor effects now show at the click, also in Hololith windows, and no second arrow shows.