Boofer v0.5.0

✨ What's new

• Boofer for Linux: .deb and AppImage downloads
• See on Boofer when new features are being built
  • Settings → General: while GitHub builds a newer commit, a card shows it (commit and title, a click opens it), with a progress bar and the minutes left, from the usual length of a build.
  • As soon as the build is done, Boofer looks for the update by itself: the button becomes "Install the new features".
  • With automatic updates, the ghost checks again right after the build should be done instead of waiting for the next 6 h check.
  • Builds keep the installer tools (WiX, NSIS) between runs: a bit faster, and a download hiccup on GitHub no longer fails the build.
• New looks for the ghost: skins, accessories, effects and tricks
  • Five new skins: Neon (the logo's night purple), Cotton candy, Ice (see-through), Galaxy (stars inside) and Lava.
  • Seven new accessories: cat ears, horns, party hat, unicorn horn, cap, flower and scarf.
  • New Effect choice in Settings → Look: sparkles, an orbit ring with its little moon, a breathing neon aura, bubbles, hearts or snow. Snow comes by itself in December with Seasonal outfits on.
  • Five new idle tricks: it waves, wiggles like jelly, dances, goes "boo" and fades away, and yawns. Never the same trick twice in a row; "A trick" in Settings → Try it.
  • Animations: a new "Effects" group to switch the effects off; with tricks off, no trick changes its face either.
• Live page: what each chat and project weighs on disk
• Stop reads commands like a shell, catches more of them, and yours
• Optional notification when an answer is waiting
• Stop: the ghost crosses its arms on its belly
• Settings with an icon rail in Boofer's night purple
  • The tabs become an icon rail on the left, in the logo's night purple with a neon glow on the current page; on a wide window the names show next to the icons.
  • The page is one centered column, also on a big screen.
  • Version, updates and What's new move to the General tab, which opens by itself after an update.
• Boofer starts again by itself after an update
  • When the installer doesn't reopen it, Boofer comes back on its own once the update is installed.
• Right-click menu sorted into groups
  • Agents, Tokens and Ghost each get a small title; Settings and Quit stay at the bottom, under a line.
  • The menu scrolls if it's taller than the ghost's window.

Full history: CHANGELOG.md, or Settings → What's new in the app.

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Windows 10 / 11, pick one:

• Boofer_x.y.z_x64-setup.exe: installer (recommended), no admin rights needed
• Boofer_x.y.z_x64_en-US.msi: MSI installer, for the whole PC
• Boofer.exe: portable version, nothing to install, double-click and go

The installers add WebView2 if it's missing. Nothing else to install: no Node, no Rust.
Already installed? Boofer updates itself (Settings → Check for updates).
For Claude Code: Settings → Claude Code → Connect.

Linux (x86_64, X11 or XWayland), pick one:

• Boofer_x.y.z_amd64.deb: for Ubuntu and Debian (recommended). sudo apt install ./Boofer_x.y.z_amd64.deb. It doesn't update itself: Settings → Check for updates opens the download page of a new version.
• Boofer_x.y.z_amd64.AppImage: for other distributions. Nothing to install, chmod +x it and run it. It updates itself.

On GNOME, the tray icon needs the "AppIndicator and KStatusNotifierItem Support" extension. Browser AIs are followed on Windows only.

Boofer v0.4.1

✨ What's new

• See which commit your Boofer is built from
  • Next to the version in the settings: the commit of your build, a click opens it on GitHub ("local build" for a copy built on your PC).
  • When an update is available, the list of the new commits it brings, each one clickable.
• New features arrive without a new version number
  • "Check for updates" also finds a newer build of the same version: every push to GitHub is offered to installed copies, as "Install the new features".
  • Automatic updates take these builds too, at a calm moment like any update.
  • Copies built on your own PC only take new versions, never a GitHub rebuild.
• Settings sorted into categories
  • The long settings page becomes nine tabs: Look, Ghost, Alerts, Agents, Today, General, Models, Live and Tokens.
  • Each tab opens with one line saying what it's for, and groups its options under short headings (Moves, Talk, Notifications, Sounds…).

Full history: CHANGELOG.md, or Settings → What's new in the app.

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Windows 10 / 11, pick one:

• Boofer_x.y.z_x64-setup.exe: installer (recommended), no admin rights needed
• Boofer_x.y.z_x64_en-US.msi: MSI installer, for the whole PC
• Boofer.exe: portable version, nothing to install, double-click and go

The installers add WebView2 if it's missing. Nothing else to install: no Node, no Rust.
Already installed? Boofer updates itself (Settings → Check for updates).
For Claude Code: Settings → Claude Code → Connect.

Boofer v0.4.0

✨ What's new

• Boofer speaks English: the ghost, the settings, the tray and the alerts
  • Every text in the app is in English: bubble, cards, little phrases, settings, tray menu, notifications and the dangerous-command warnings.
  • Costs are shown in dollars, at the official API prices.
  • Numbers, dates and times use the English format.
  • The release notes and the changelog are written in English too.
• Changelog everywhere and a big-screen settings layout
  • Release notes are written from the commits and added to every GitHub release; CHANGELOG.md lists every version.
  • Settings → What's new: your version's changes, all the previous ones, highlighted right after an update.
  • Maximized settings window: sidebar with the profile, tabs and version, pages in two columns.
  • Updates for copies that don't know how they were installed now use the setup.exe (no admin rights).
• Double-click opens Boofer: the shortcut, the exe and the tray icon
  • Launching Boofer by hand (or clicking it again while it runs) opens its window, not only the ghost.
  • Left click on the tray icon opens Boofer; the menu moves to the right click.
  • Starting with Windows stays quiet: the login entry is rewritten with an --autostart flag.
• Updates no longer lose the app after the Booffer → Boofer rename
  • An update never creates shortcuts, and the old « Booffer » ones were removed: the new version was installed but impossible to find. The Start menu shortcut (and the desktop one if there was one) is now recreated at launch when missing.
  • The MSI upgrade code is pinned, so a future rename can't install a second copy.

Full history: CHANGELOG.md, or Settings → What's new in the app.

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Windows 10 / 11, pick one:

• Boofer_x.y.z_x64-setup.exe: installer (recommended), no admin rights needed
• Boofer_x.y.z_x64_en-US.msi: MSI installer, for the whole PC
• Boofer.exe: portable version, nothing to install, double-click and go

The installers add WebView2 if it's missing. Nothing else to install: no Node, no Rust.
Already installed? Boofer updates itself (Settings → Check for updates).
For Claude Code: Settings → Claude Code → Connect.

Boofer v0.3.9

Windows 10 / 11, au choix :

• Boofer_x.y.z_x64_en-US.msi : installeur classique (recommandé)
• Boofer_x.y.z_x64-setup.exe : installeur léger
• Boofer.exe : version portable, rien à installer, double-clic et c'est parti

Les installeurs ajoutent WebView2 s'il manque. Rien d'autre à installer : ni Node, ni Rust.
Déjà installé ? Boofer se met à jour tout seul (Réglages → Rechercher des mises à jour).
Pour Claude Code : Réglages → Claude Code → Connecter.

Boofer v0.3.8

Windows 10 / 11, au choix :

• Boofer_x.y.z_x64_en-US.msi : installeur classique (recommandé)
• Boofer_x.y.z_x64-setup.exe : installeur léger
• Boofer.exe : version portable, rien à installer, double-clic et c'est parti

Les installeurs ajoutent WebView2 s'il manque. Rien d'autre à installer : ni Node, ni Rust.
Déjà installé ? Boofer se met à jour tout seul (Réglages → Rechercher des mises à jour).
Pour Claude Code : Réglages → Claude Code → Connecter.

Boofer v0.3.7

Windows 10 / 11, au choix :

• Boofer_x.y.z_x64_en-US.msi : installeur classique (recommandé)
• Boofer_x.y.z_x64-setup.exe : installeur léger
• Boofer.exe : version portable, rien à installer, double-clic et c'est parti

Les installeurs ajoutent WebView2 s'il manque. Rien d'autre à installer : ni Node, ni Rust.
Déjà installé ? Boofer se met à jour tout seul (Réglages → Rechercher des mises à jour).
Pour Claude Code : Réglages → Claude Code → Connecter.

Booffer v0.3.6

Windows 10 / 11, au choix :

• Booffer_x.y.z_x64_en-US.msi : installeur classique (recommandé)
• Booffer_x.y.z_x64-setup.exe : installeur léger
• Booffer.exe : version portable, rien à installer, double-clic et c'est parti

Les installeurs ajoutent WebView2 s'il manque. Rien d'autre à installer : ni Node, ni Rust.
Déjà installé ? Booffer se met à jour tout seul (Réglages → Rechercher des mises à jour).
Pour Claude Code : Réglages → Claude Code → Connecter.

Booffer v0.3.5

Windows 10 / 11, au choix :

• Booffer_x.y.z_x64_en-US.msi : installeur classique (recommandé)
• Booffer_x.y.z_x64-setup.exe : installeur léger
• Booffer.exe : version portable, rien à installer, double-clic et c'est parti

Les installeurs ajoutent WebView2 s'il manque. Rien d'autre à installer : ni Node, ni Rust.
Déjà installé ? Booffer se met à jour tout seul (Réglages → Rechercher des mises à jour).
Pour Claude Code : Réglages → Claude Code → Connecter.

Booffer v0.3.4

Windows 10 / 11, au choix :

• Booffer_x.y.z_x64_en-US.msi : installeur classique (recommandé)
• Booffer_x.y.z_x64-setup.exe : installeur léger
• Booffer.exe : version portable, rien à installer, double-clic et c'est parti

Les installeurs ajoutent WebView2 s'il manque. Rien d'autre à installer : ni Node, ni Rust.
Pour Claude Code : Réglages → Claude Code → Connecter.

Booffer v0.3.3

Windows 10 / 11, au choix :

• Booffer_x.y.z_x64_en-US.msi : installeur classique (recommandé)
• Booffer_x.y.z_x64-setup.exe : installeur léger
• Booffer.exe : version portable, rien à installer, double-clic et c'est parti

Les installeurs ajoutent WebView2 s'il manque. Rien d'autre à installer : ni Node, ni Rust.
Pour Claude Code : Réglages → Claude Code → Connecter.