1.1.0 – Breaking the Ice

[stonerl]

Hello everyone,

Thaw's first major update is here! Out of the gate, I have to thank all of you who gave Thaw a shot, reported bugs and feature requests, and helped to test. I'm really overwhelmed by the response.

Important

Due to essential internal changes in how Thaw manages menu bar items, your current icon positions will be reset to "Always Visible." I sincerely apologize for the inconvenience, but this manual re-adjustment is unavoidable to ensure future stability.

Localization Support (100% Completion)

Thaw is now fully localized in 12 languages. A massive thank you to our community contributors who made this possible:

• Chinese (Simplified): by @picpo
• Chinese (Traditional): by @7a6163
• Dutch: by @SeBr28
• French: by @UYTR5
• German: by @Mutzki13
• Hungarian: by @johnnybakucz
• Indonesian: by @volcbs
• Italian: by @zichichi
• Korean: by @yurihan
• Spanish: by @diazdesandi
• Thai: by @priesdelly

Key Changes & Fixes

New Interactions & UI Polish

• Double-Click Gesture: You can now double-click directly on the menu bar to reveal the "Always Hidden" section.
• Instant UI Refresh: Menubar shapes (split/full) now update immediately when configuration changes, removing the previous 30-second delay.
• Refined Tooltips: Updated "Show on click" instructions to explicitly guide users on the new double click interaction.

Display & Layout Improvements

• Ultrawide Monitor Fix: Resolved a specific issue where items from the primary display were incorrectly included in calculations for external monitors. This previously caused "Always Hidden" items to appear incorrectly on the left side of ultrawide screens.
• Thaw Bar Scaling Fix: Resolved rendering issues by capping item height and clamping the menu bar content height to ensure a consistent appearance across different display scales.
• Intelligent Multi-Monitor Support: Thaw now detects the active menu bar for each screen and hides the app menu when items would otherwise overflow the screen edge.
• Advanced Notch Detection: Improved accuracy using auxiliaryTopLeftArea and added a new option to enable the Thaw Bar specifically for displays that feature a hardware notch.

Performance & Cleanup

• CPU Optimizations: Reduced overhead by debouncing image cache updates, adding polling delays, and skipping background work when panels are hidden.
• Simplified Settings: Removed the redundant "temporary item delay" setting as the smart rehide logic now handles these transitions automatically.

New Contributors

A special thank you to everyone who contributed code, translations, or documentation to this release:

• @UYTR5 made their first contribution in i18n: add French translation #45
• @7a6163 made their first contribution in feat(i18n): add zh-Hant translations and menu-related labels #47
• @diazdesandi made their first contribution in feat(i18n): add Spanish translations #48
• @Mutzki13 made their first contribution in german is now 100% translated #52
• @picpo made their first contribution in i18n: add zh-Hans translation #58
• @yurihan made their first contribution in Add Korean localization #68
• @priesdelly made their first contribution in feat: add Thai translation #77
• @volcbs made their first contribution in Adding Indonesian support #80
• @p-linnane made their first contribution in README: update Homebrew install instructions #101
• @zichichi made their first contribution in feat(i18n): Add italian language  #111
• @johnnybakucz made their first contribution in feat(i18n): Add hungarian translation #116
• @mittal-gunjit made their first contribution in Second screen artifact bug fix #123

Full Changelog: 1.0.0...1.1.0

Donations

If you find Thaw useful and want to support its further development, consider throwing a coin in my hat: https://github.com/sponsors/stonerl

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This discussion was created from the release 1.1.0 – Breaking the Ice.

[diazdesandi]

Amazing to see that 12 languages are now supported.

[stonerl]

Yeah, that is mind blowing.

[Mutzki13]

I'm really glad to be part of this. One of the most useful apps just got even better!

[diazdesandi]

Btw I can confirm it works without issues on 26.4 Beta (25E5207k)

[AlbiDR]

One of my favorite niche apps. Been using its predecessor for years and I'm happy to see such smooth development starting back.

Thank you

[xinghui1011]

I have a small suggestion:
When two identical icons appear, the current display isn't quite right. For example, I have two OneDrive sync apps, but only one shows up.
That said, I've been testing it out, and Thaw really works great!

[stonerl]

We have a solution for this in the current development build. We just need to stabilize the icon handling before we can release a new stable version.

[Bluto-Nixon]

First off, thanks for this great app! I have a question (if I may?)

I am running macOS 26.4, and I see a notice in my menubar popping up stating that Thaw is capturing my screen. Is that new, and why is my screen being captured (if in fact it is?) This gives me the heebies along privacy lines.

All the best!

[diazdesandi]

Your screen isn't actually being captured or recorded. As I understand it (and I might be wrong), macOS treats the menu bar as a window, so to read the icons in it, the app needs to use screen capture APIs, it's just reading menu bar items, not watching your screen. That said, we're aware this looks concerning, and we're looking into alternative approaches since the API we're currently using has been deprecated since macOS 14/15.

[diazdesandi]

@stonerl explains more here #307

[Bluto-Nixon]

Thanks so much!