Cloister 0.4.2

Added

• Find in page. Ctrl F (⌘ F on macOS) opens a search bar inside the current service. Every match is
  highlighted, Enter and Shift Enter (or F3) move between them, and Esc closes it. It also works from
  the sidebar and the command palette. It finds text the page has loaded; chat apps load older messages as
  you scroll up.
• Hide message previews per service. Right-click a service and turn on "Hide message previews": its
  notifications then show only the service name and "New message", while other services keep showing the
  sender and text. Those notifications are kept in the history without their text too. Also available when
  adding a custom website.

Fixed

• Shortcut labels in Settings and the command palette show ⌘ on macOS.
• Settings no longer label app lock as Windows Hello only.

Which file do I download?

System	File
Windows 10 / 11	Cloister_0.4.2_x64-setup.exe
macOS 11+ (Apple Silicon and Intel)	Cloister_0.4.2_universal.dmg
Linux (any distribution)	Cloister_0.4.2_amd64.AppImage
Debian / Ubuntu	Cloister_0.4.2_amd64.deb
Fedora / openSUSE	Cloister-0.4.2-1.x86_64.rpm

The installers are not code-signed yet, so Windows and macOS show a warning the first time.
See the install guide for the two clicks it takes.

Cloister 0.4.1

Changed

• App lock now uses a Cloister PIN. You choose a PIN (four or more characters) in Settings › Lock, and
  it always unlocks Cloister. Windows Hello is now an optional quicker way in. Before, the lock relied on
  Windows Hello alone, so when Hello failed (for example error 0xD000A002 from a damaged Windows PIN) there
  was no way to unlock. If you had the lock on, Cloister now starts unlocked; set a PIN in Settings › Lock and
  the lock is back on.
• App lock now works on macOS and Linux too.

Security

• The PIN is stored only as an Argon2id hash in lock.json, never in settings.json. After five wrong
  guesses in a row, Cloister makes you wait 30 seconds, doubling up to five minutes.

Which file do I download?

System	File
Windows 10 / 11	Cloister_0.4.1_x64-setup.exe
macOS 11+ (Apple Silicon and Intel)	Cloister_0.4.1_universal.dmg
Linux (any distribution)	Cloister_0.4.1_amd64.AppImage
Debian / Ubuntu	Cloister_0.4.1_amd64.deb
Fedora / openSUSE	Cloister-0.4.1-1.x86_64.rpm

The installers are not code-signed yet, so Windows and macOS show a warning the first time.
See the install guide for the two clicks it takes.

Cloister 0.4.0

Changed

• Windows: one shared browser engine. Every service now runs as a separate WebView2 profile inside the
  same browser process group as Cloister's window, instead of starting its own browser, GPU and network
  processes. Logins stay separate per service. Upgrading signs you out of every service once: the old
  per-service browser folders cannot be carried over (each encrypted its cookies with its own key) and are
  removed to free disk space.
• Memory in Settings › Services is now measured per renderer process, and the shared part is shown on its own
  line.

Added

• Pause in background (Windows): a hidden service is suspended so the system can reclaim its memory, and is
  woken every few minutes (configurable) to catch up on messages. Opening it wakes it instantly. Choose it per
  service from the right-click menu under "In the background".
• Refresh pages that grow too large: a page hidden for 10 minutes that passes a size limit (800 MB by
  default) is reloaded quietly to undo slow memory leaks.
• "In the background" submenu to change a service's background mode at any time.
• Automatic updates. Cloister checks GitHub on start and every six hours (can be turned off in Settings ›
  About) and shows an "Update to x.y.z" button in the title bar. Updates are signed and only install when you
  click; on Windows the installer runs in passive mode and reopens Cloister.

Which file do I download?

System	File
Windows 10 / 11	Cloister_0.4.0_x64-setup.exe
macOS 11+ (Apple Silicon and Intel)	Cloister_0.4.0_universal.dmg
Linux (any distribution)	Cloister_0.4.0_amd64.AppImage
Debian / Ubuntu	Cloister_0.4.0_amd64.deb
Fedora / openSUSE	Cloister-0.4.0-1.x86_64.rpm

The installers are not code-signed yet, so Windows and macOS show a warning the first time.
See the install guide for the two clicks it takes.