v2.2.1-beta.1

CoolDock 2.2.1 (Beta 1) - Smoother, Steadier And Lighter On Your Disk! 🛠️✨

Build 58 (Oct 22) · replaces build 57 · requires macOS 14.0 or later · beta channel

🆕 New In Build 58

• Hover Previews Right After Launch: Hover previews show your windows as soon as CoolDock starts or updates, instead of "No previewable windows" until you turned the setting off and on again!
• Reopened Windows Come To The Front: Clicking Mail, Canva or another app after closing its last window with the red X now brings the new window to the front instead of opening it behind other apps!

🆕 New

• Album Covers From Music: Now Playing shows the cover straight from Music when you've allowed CoolDock to access Music - and if a song shows no cover, right-click Now Playing and choose "Show Album Covers from Music…"!
• DataFast Account Tokens: The DataFast widget now works with account tokens too - just add your Website ID!

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Running Apps Stay Hidden: If you had turned off running apps in your dock, they stay off after updating!
• Clicks Work Like The macOS Dock: Clicking a running app brings back all its windows, just like the macOS Dock - Outlook now shows its main window instead of only a reminder or message window!
• Hover Previews Show Every Window: Slow apps show their windows instead of "No previewable windows", windows you hid with Cmd-H are labelled Hidden instead of Minimized, and windows on other desktops show up too!
• Folder Stack Preview Stays Fresh: A folder's Stack preview updates as soon as you add or remove files in that folder!
• Export Diagnostics Always Works: Export Diagnostics no longer stays greyed out if its save window disappears - click it again to bring the window back!
• Floating Dock Fits The Screen: A full floating dock now stays inside the screen, and Adapt Size keeps shrinking your icons further before the dock starts to scroll!
• Background Sounds At One Level: Every Background Sound now plays at the same volume and loops smoothly without a click, and sounds your Mac doesn't have are no longer offered!
• The Right Album Cover: Now Playing shows the album's own cover and never a guess from a different album!
• Clicks Beside The Dock: With auto-hide at the bottom of the screen, clicks next to the revealed dock reach the apps underneath again!
• Back On Every Desktop: After you leave a fullscreen video, the dock shows up on all your desktops again!
• Docks On Displays Above Your Main One: Docks on a display placed above your main display (common with DisplayLink) are no longer cut in half at the top of the screen!
• Trash Without Full Disk Access: The Trash widget keeps up with your Trash without Full Disk Access, and only checks when something changed!
• Badges Right After Launch: Badges now show up on running apps right after CoolDock starts!
• File Shelf Keeps Your Files: Switching to a profile without a File Shelf no longer empties your File Shelf!
• Backups Restore Again: Profiles and backups with Quick Toggles, Habit, Calendar, Reminders or Studio widgets restore properly again!
• Clearer Lock Labels: Locked TamaDocky, Focus and Layout widgets now tell you the real reason they're locked!

💥 Crash Fixes

• AI Assistant Changes: Approving a change from your AI assistant, like removing a widget, no longer crashes CoolDock!
• Widgets That Talk To Other Apps: Two widgets reading from apps like Mail or Music at the same moment no longer crash CoolDock!
• Apps Opening And Quitting: Fixed a crash that could happen while apps were opening or quitting!
• More Steady Moments: CoolDock no longer crashes when no display is connected or when a widget's saved data is damaged!

⚡ Improvements

• Much Less Disk Writing: CoolDock writes far less to your disk, so macOS no longer warns about it - and caches, clipboard history and backups now have sensible size limits!
• Lighter On Memory: The old dock is freed right away after a rebuild or Reset Layout!
• Smoother Window Previews: Window previews open without a stutter, even the very first time after launch!
• Better Help After The Screensaver: Export Diagnostics now records screen lock and unlock and why CoolDock last quit, so we can find out faster why a dock went missing!

What's Next?

This is a beta - please tell us how clicks, window previews, Now Playing and the floating dock work for you! More features and improvements are on the way based on your feedback!

Thank you for testing CoolDock betas! Your feedback drives every improvement we make.