macOS users should reinstall. The Squirrel build shipped up to 0.1.5 carried Rime's own auto-updater, pointed at Rime's release feed. Once upstream Squirrel moves past 1.1.2, that updater would have offered an update which replaces the Spellless build with stock Squirrel — leaving Spellless typing but silently without the features that need our frontend. This build's updater is switched off and its feed is empty. Nothing else changed; the schema is identical to 0.1.5.
What that would have looked like
Nothing, which is the problem. The schema lives in ~/Library/Rime and would have survived the swap untouched, so Spellless would have gone on producing candidates exactly as before. What would have stopped is everything that needs the frontend to edit the document: punctuation reclaiming its automatic space, a half-typed word being picked up, Backspace deleting a whole word, and the caret-inside-a-word handoff. Those degrade silently by design — the schema asks nothing of a frontend that has never set surrounding_text, so on stock Squirrel they are simply inert. There would have been no error, and zzver would still have said spellless 0.1.5.
Sparkle is compiled into Squirrel and cannot be removed without touching code the fork's unused-code scan would then reject. So instead the feed points at an empty appcast in the fork, and automatic checking is off. Nothing is ever offered, and a manual check finds an empty channel. SPARKLE.md records what publishing real updates from here would take; it is deliberately not done.
In this build's Info.plist:
SUEnableAutomaticChecks => 0
SUFeedURL => https://raw.githubusercontent.com/EricWay1024/spellless-squirrel/spellless/appcast.xml
Getting it
spellless-0.1.6-installer.exe |
Windows, and the only download you need — the schema inside a Rime frontend, installed beside the Weasel you already have |
spellless-0.1.6.zip |
the schema, the matcher and the dictionary, for Windows, macOS and Linux |
Spellless-Squirrel-0.1.6.pkg |
the macOS frontend, which carries no schema — pair it with the zip |
The macOS package installs under the ordinary Squirrel bundle identifier im.rime.inputmethod.Squirrel, so it upgrades a Squirrel you already have rather than sitting beside it, and it asks you to log out. It is unsigned, as upstream Squirrel's own releases are: right-click → Open the first time.
Windows and Linux are unaffected. Sparkle is macOS-only; Weasel has no auto-updater of its own. The Windows installer and the zip are here for version parity and carry the same schema as 0.1.5 — if you are on 0.1.5 and not on a Mac, there is nothing here you need.
The schema archive differs from 0.1.5 in two version strings and nothing else. On a stock Rime the features above are inert whatever the configuration says, and step 4 says what to turn on instead.