WindowRanger 0.1.0-beta.8

WindowRanger 0.1.0 Beta 8

This is pre-release software. Back up important work and use Quit WindowRanger before
replacing an existing build.

Beta 8 concentrates on keeping ordinary windows, temporary macOS surfaces, hidden applications, and
the App Shelf in the right place while Accessibility observations change underneath them.

Highlights

• Hidden applications no longer leave an empty Tiled or Accordion slot, lose their workspace
  assignment, or receive layout writes until they become visible again.
• Native Open and Save panels remain floating at an application-chosen size, while ordinary
  document windows continue to participate in managed layouts. Fixed-size windows also stay visible
  as managed floating windows instead of being parked as unusable layout participants.
• Existing Tiled and Accordion slots survive brief Accessibility enumeration or frame-read failures
  without making the unreadable window eligible for geometry writes. Authoritative close, minimize,
  full-screen, floating, or layout-exclusion state still releases the slot.
• App Shelf startup now hides every configured application with one unambiguous safe window rather
  than deriving presentation from whatever happened to be visible before WindowRanger launched.
• Command Palette can add the captured focused application to Applications or App Shelf, labels
  conversions as Move, respects the Shelf limit, and rejects stale profile or membership changes.
• Shortcut Guide labels now explain whether actions switch workspaces, cycle windows, arrange the
  focused window, choose a layout, or move a workspace, with refined centring and Small-size labels.
• WindowRanger ignores only exact DesktopRanger SurfaceLab windows carrying the shared companion
  marker; an ordinary unmarked manager window from the same host remains manageable.

Requirements

• macOS 14 or later.
• Accessibility permission for window discovery and management.

Installation

1. Download WindowRanger-0.1.0-beta.8.dmg from this release's Assets section.
2. Optionally verify it against WindowRanger-0.1.0-beta.8.dmg.sha256.
3. Use Quit WindowRanger in the existing copy, then open the DMG.
4. Drag WindowRanger.app onto the Applications shortcut and replace the existing copy when Finder
   asks.
5. Launch WindowRanger from /Applications. If macOS asks again, grant Accessibility access to
   dev.appranger.WindowRanger.

The notarized ZIP and its checksum are included as a fallback for environments that cannot mount a
DMG. GitHub's automatically generated source archives do not contain the installable application.

Known limitations

• The public Sparkle feed remains outside this GitHub release checkpoint. Beta 8 provides the newer
  signed artifact for the separately reviewed packaged-update and feed-publication work; install it
  manually from GitHub until that work is complete.
• Automatic update checking remains off by default while packaged upgrade, cancellation, failure,
  and Beta-to-Stable behavior are validated.
• Transient Accessibility-failure retention has deterministic automated coverage, but a failure at
  the exact observation instant cannot be forced reliably during ordinary live use.
• Supported physical-Mac, multi-display, clean-user, clean-machine, accessibility, privacy, upgrade,
  and uninstall matrices remain incomplete.
• WindowRanger does not replace or integrate with native macOS Spaces.
• Quit other window managers that use overlapping global shortcuts before testing WindowRanger.

Feedback and security

Use the repository issue forms for privacy-safe bugs, feature requests, and questions. Do not post
suspected vulnerabilities, private diagnostics, window titles, document names, URLs, or user file
paths in a public issue; follow SECURITY.md instead.