What’s new in Orbit

One entry per build people actually got, in the words of what changed for them. This file is copied into the site by scripts/release.sh and shown at orbitmac.com/changelog.

1.1.1 — 15 October 2026

• Menu bar stats: show CPU, GPU, memory, network and temperature right next to the Orbit icon, each with its own symbol. Pick which ones under System ▸ Show in menu bar. Off unless you turn them on.
• Volume: calls in WhatsApp and other apps that use the microphone no longer sound quiet when the app’s slider isn’t at 100%. During a call, macOS sets the volume; your level comes back when the call ends.
• System: the percentages no longer freeze after closing and reopening the panel.
• Panel: no longer opens upwards and cut off the first time you click the icon after launching Orbit.
• Battery: the bar no longer runs into the percentage at 100%.

1.1.0 — 10 October 2026

• Keep Awake: if keeping your Mac awake with the lid closed stops working after an update, Orbit now tells you to restart your Mac instead of showing a technical error.

1.1.0 — 8 October 2026

• Keep Awake:
  • Choose how long it lasts: 15 minutes up to 8 hours, or until you turn it off. The time left counts down in the tab.
  • With the lid closed, it now lasts as long as you chose instead of stopping after two hours. It still stops at 20% battery or when Orbit quits.
  • When it ends with the lid still closed on battery, your Mac goes to sleep — a minute after a notification telling you it will. Before, it could stay awake until you opened the lid or plugged it in.
• Clipboard: delete the item under the pointer with the delete key, or with the trash button that now sits under its star.

1.0.9 — 28 September 2026

• Keep Awake: now has its own switch under Tools ▸ Features, like the other tools. Turning it off, or a trial or licence ending, lets your Mac sleep normally again right away.
• Buying: “Buy Orbit” now shows the current price and takes you straight to checkout.

1.0.8 — 27 September 2026

• Keep Awake: a new tab keeps your Mac awake — and, if you ask it to, the display too — while you work, present or download, lid open or closed. It stops on its own at 20% battery, after two hours, or when Orbit quits, and the menu bar icon takes on a colour of your choosing while it holds.
• System: opening a reading’s process breakdown, or memory pressure, now grows the panel to fit instead of scrolling it partway down.

1.0.7 — 24 September 2026

• Switcher:
  • Sharper window previews, most noticeably on an external display.
  • Switching between your Mac’s display and an external one no longer leaves the switcher cut off.
  • Unread badges stay right when the same app is open on your iPhone — no more “99+” that wasn’t there.
• Updates: with automatic installs turned on, an update is installed while you’re away from the Mac instead of waiting for you to quit Orbit.
• Power: battery health no longer flips between 99% and 100%.

1.0.3 – 1.0.6 — 23 September 2026

• Updates: Orbit checks for them on its own from the first launch, without asking first, and tells you with its own window when it cannot send a notification. You can still turn checks off from the update window.

• Licensing: a licence activated or released applies right away, without relaunching Orbit — and a switcher you turned off yourself stays off when it does.

• Switcher:
  • App icons are the artwork the Dock shows, at any size and in every style — no tile around the ones that do not follow Apple’s grid.
  • With a lot of windows open, Cards go into columns and Thumbnails scale down instead of running off the screen.
  • Darker text in Light mode, where the old greys were lost against bright glass.
• Dock previews:
  • The glass matches the switcher’s: same Theme setting, same shine, and it answers the system’s Liquid Glass setting.
  • A browser’s tabs list the ones you have been using first.
  • A preview is retaken when you open it, so a tab you switched or a page you scrolled is what you see, and a window you just closed is gone.
  • The panel slides between apps at your display’s refresh rate.
  • Picking a window here puts it first in Cmd-Tab, and the panel goes away before a desktop switch instead of riding along.
  • A browser’s find bar is no longer listed as a window, and moving down the tab list no longer flashes the window highlight.

1.0.1 – 1.0.2 — 21 September 2026

• Dock previews:
  • Follow the switcher’s Size setting, and are sharper at Medium and Large.
  • The panel sits over the Dock’s own label instead of beside it, stays clear of an app’s badge, follows a Dock that is still sliding in, and glides from one app to the next.
  • The preview of an app you just left is what you last saw of it.

• New — Dock previews: rest the pointer on an app in the Dock to see its windows; click one to go to it. For a browser, its tabs are listed too, and a click brings that tab forward. Both can be switched off under Switcher.
• Switcher: a preview of a browser playing video no longer loses the picture when its window is behind another or on another Space.
• Switcher: no longer bounces in on macOS 27.
• Volume: app icons now look as they do in the Dock, full size and sharp.
• Power: battery health shows its percentage again on macOS 27.

1.0.0 — 17 September 2026

• Volume: taking one AirPod out no longer sends the app to the speakers for a second, with the connection chime and a moment of silence. Orbit now waits out the reconfiguration; putting both in the case still falls back at once.
• Volume: stops redrawing the panel every two seconds while it is closed. Less CPU with the mixer on all day.
• Switcher: the panel is simply there when the key goes down, no fade-in.