ZenState v5.8.4 — Weekly allocation and safer updates

ZenState v5.8.4 — Weekly allocation and safer updates

Your weekly allocation in ZenState

Open Weekly allocation in the left menu to see your saved project allocations from Everything Ops alongside time recorded in Basecamp. Compare planned, recorded and remaining hours for the same person, project and week, or browse earlier weeks.

• Allocated billable projects appear first. Other billable projects with recorded time appear in a separate dropdown, including inactive projects and projects outside your current membership.
• Non-billable projects stay out of this planning view.
• Recorded hours are green below the plan, yellow when they match, and red when they exceed it. Overruns remain visible as “hours over”.
• “No allocation” is distinct from an explicit zero-hour allocation.
• A compact sync-status card shows how current the imported Basecamp time is. Running or unposted time is not counted as posted Basecamp time; new entries appear after Everything Ops imports them.

Weekly allocation is optional and read-only. It does not block recording when hours run out, and an Everything Ops outage does not interrupt your timer or Basecamp posting.

Safer quitting and updating

• Quit and Restart for update now wait while a timer is running or paused, a time confirmation is pending, or a Basecamp submission is in progress.
• Mac update restarts wait until the native updater has prepared and verified the download.
• Failed update checks show a clear message instead of reporting “up to date” or displaying a long technical error.
• Older local-only and unposted sessions are retained rather than being removed by history cleanup.
• Updated Electron and dependencies with compatible security fixes.

Windows, Mac and Linux

This release includes Windows x64, Apple Silicon Mac, Intel Mac, and Linux x64 packages for Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Debian. Linux users can choose a Debian installer or an AppImage.

Windows builds are unsigned. Mac builds retain the existing signing identity and are not notarized. These are internal office builds; installation prompts depend on the computer’s security settings.

Update information

Finish and save any running timer before updating from an older version.

This release includes the complete update files for Windows, both Mac architectures and Linux. It addresses the missing Windows latest.yml error in v5.8.3.

Version 5.8.4 follows the stable update channel. A one-time compatibility release lets early 5.8.4-test installations discover these same stable installers and move onto stable updates. Linux installations receiving ZenState for the first time need a manual install. An installation whose existing updater cannot complete an upgrade may require the matching installer; install over the existing app without deleting its data.

Installed-update checks passed on Apple Silicon Mac, Windows x64, Linux AppImage and Debian, including restart and retention of local records/settings. Intel Mac packages passed archive, signature and update-metadata checks; an installed Intel Mac update was not tested on hardware.