0.4.12

What's changed

• Improved app icon resolution across ArkWatch, including packaged desktop installs and Windows Store/MSIX apps.
• Stopped showing lock screen, sleep, and Windows shell host noise in tracked app stats and limits.
• Hardened icon lookup and app-limit picker behavior with trusted-record validation, explicit install-state checks, bounded caches, and safer cancellation handling.
• Restored the mascot and tightened AI process syncing after tray resume.
• Added a DEV badge in the title bar for development builds.

Assets

• ArkWatch-0.4.12-setup.exe
• ArkWatch-0.4.12-setup.exe.blockmap
• latest.yml

0.4.11

v0.4.11

v0.4.11

0.4.10

v0.4.10

v0.4.10

0.4.9

Public republish of the current build line

v0.4.9 carries forward the same product feature set as v0.4.8. There are no additional user-facing changes in this tag beyond the version and release packaging refresh.

Included feature set

• Natural-language schedule input with 1-minute clock dial control.
• Manual update checks and native theme sync.
• Faster settings persistence and deferred settings loading.
• Lower renderer polling overhead and pinned build tooling.

Notes

• If you already installed v0.4.8, there is no separate feature rollout to learn here.

Compare with v0.4.8: v0.4.8...v0.4.9

0.4.8

Scheduling, update controls, and settings performance

This published release also covers the changes introduced by the v0.4.7 tag, which does not have a separate GitHub release page. There are no additional user-facing changes unique to the v0.4.8 tag itself.

Highlights

• Added natural-language schedule input and 1-minute clock dial precision.
• Added a manual check-for-updates flow inside the app.
• Synced the Electron native theme with the in-app theme setting.
• Batched settings writes and deferred settings-panel loading to reduce startup cost.

Reliability and maintenance

• Reduced renderer polling and cleaned up tracker status listeners during shutdown.
• Restored updater listener disposal guards for safer update checks.
• Pinned Electron build tooling versions for more reproducible Windows releases.
• Updated transitive packaging dependencies used by the release pipeline.

Full Changelog: v0.4.5...v0.4.8

0.4.5

Focus tools and release pipeline fixes

This published release also covers the changes introduced by the v0.4.3 and v0.4.4 tags, which do not have separate GitHub release pages.

Highlights

• Added focus mode, app limits, scheduled focus sessions, and break reminders.
• Redesigned the settings screen with richer controls, an animated theme toggle, and version footer.
• Hardened release tag validation in the Windows release workflow.
• Fixed Bun-based packaging so Electron Builder releases can be published cleanly again.

Notes

• If you are coming from v0.4.2, this is the release where the focus-management feature set first appears in GitHub Releases.

Full Changelog: v0.4.2...v0.4.5

v0.4.2

Built-in app updates

Highlights

• Added GitHub-backed auto-update support for installed Windows builds.
• Added visible download progress so update state is easier to understand.
• Hardened updater shutdown and listener cleanup to avoid stuck update flows.
• Persisted the selected theme locally so the app reopens in the expected mode.

What this changes

• After installing this release, future Windows builds can be delivered through the in-app updater.

Full Changelog: v0.4.1...v0.4.2

v0.4.1

Windows branding and packaging cleanup

Highlights

• Fixed the packaged app identity so Windows shows ArkWatch instead of Electron in Task Manager.
• Corrected tray, taskbar, and window branding for installed builds.
• Added packaged executable metadata and icon resources for cleaner Windows integration.
• Hardened the installer setup used for shipped Windows builds.

Full Changelog: v0.4.0...v0.4.1

v0.4.0

Mascot states, dark mode, and richer usage insights

This is the first major UX expansion for ArkWatch.

Highlights

• Added mascot states with idle, medic, and scheduled behaviors.
• Added dark mode with an animated theme toggle.
• Added usage summary widgets with morphing detail dialogs.
• Improved dialog accessibility and fixed monthly average calculation issues.

Performance

• Reduced animation work while the window is unfocused.
• Added smoother scrolling and content-visibility optimizations for heavier screens.
• Prevented overlapping usage-widget polling requests.

Full Changelog: v0.3.0...v0.4.0

v0.3.0

Faster startup feedback and cleaner AI usage totals

Highlights

• Added skeleton loading states so the dashboard no longer appears blank while data loads.
• Fixed Claude Code activity accounting so background terminal processes do not inflate active usage time.
• Improved live process scanning to reduce stale running indicators.
• Refreshed the top section with current-day AI stats and launch counts.

Full Changelog: v0.2.0...v0.3.0