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@Thuong180702 Thuong180702 released this 08 Aug 11:26
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🚀 notihub v1.1.1

Release Title: v1.1.1 - Menu Bar Icon Fix

🌟 Highlights

  • 🔧 The menu bar icon is back: on some Macs the notihub tray icon silently stopped appearing — the app ran fine, logged nothing, but owned no visible menu bar item. Root cause was a broken per-bundle-id menu bar slot held by macOS, not anything in notihub's code. The app now ships under a new bundle identifier, which gets a clean slot.

🛠️ Detailed Changelog

🔧 Menu bar icon no longer disappears

  • App bundle identifier changed from io.github.thuong180702.notihub to io.github.thuong180702.notihub.app.
  • The Homebrew cask's zap trash paths were updated to match the new identifier, so uninstall still cleans up after itself.

🔍 How this was diagnosed

The symptom looked like a code regression — it appeared right after the one-for-all → notihub rename, so the rename was the obvious suspect. It wasn't. Ruled out, each by reproduction rather than by reading code:

  • notihub's own code — the untouched v0.8.0 source, the version that "worked", failed identically when run today.
  • Electron — Electron 42.8.1, 43.3.0 and 44.0.0-beta.1 all failed; a 15-line Electron app doing nothing but new Tray(icon) showed nothing either.
  • The icon, the bundle metadata, the ad-hoc signature, the install location — all verified correct, and changing them changed nothing.
  • The menu bar itself — a native Swift NSStatusItem test binary placed an item without trouble at the same moment notihub could not.

The decisive test was a native NSStatusItem probe packaged into several bundles that were byte-identical except for CFBundleIdentifier:

CFBundleIdentifier status item frame Visible
…one-for-all (1091, 949, 63, 33) ✅
…notihub2 (with CFBundleName still notihub) (1091, 949, 63, 33) ✅
…notihub.app (1092, 949, 63, 33) ✅
…notihub (1449, 960, 63, 22) / (0, −17, 63, 22) ❌

Under the old identifier macOS still created the item and reported isVisible = true, but placed it at an invalid position — underneath the clock, or off-screen entirely — always using the legacy 22pt menu bar height instead of the 33pt one. Keeping the display name notihub while changing only the identifier fixed it, which is what confirmed the identifier was the variable and the name was not.

The bad state could not be cleared from the app side: it was absent from the app's preferences (both AnyHost and ByHost), survived removing stale LaunchServices registrations, ignored hand-written NSStatusItem Preferred Position / VisibleCC keys, and survived restarting ControlCenter, SystemUIServer and Dock.

⚠️ Notification permission must be re-granted

macOS ties notification permission to the bundle identifier, so this build looks like a new app to the system. Approve the prompt on the first notification, or enable it manually in System Settings → Notifications → notihub.

Your data is not affected — services, history settings and preferences live in ~/Library/Application Support/notihub, which is keyed by app name, not by bundle identifier.

📦 Download Assets & Checksums

Asset File Format SHA-256 Checksum
notihub-v1.1.1-mac.dmg Native macOS DMG Installer 98a3ab9535e173eb6ffebd8c77a6ff2d780ae44b3d4fa274046518c360981679
notihub-v1.1.1-mac.zip Portable Zip Archive 8e3216764309e23c564d7da08750f916da37796a16ac809c492f7513e376f30c

📥 Installation Options

Method 1: Homebrew (Recommended)

brew install --cask https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Thuong180702/notihub/main/Casks/notihub.rb

Method 2: DMG Installer

  1. Download notihub-v1.1.1-mac.dmg below.
  2. Double click to open the DMG, then drag notihub.app into Applications.

Method 3: Direct Zip Download

  1. Download notihub-v1.1.1-mac.zip.
  2. Unzip and move notihub.app into /Applications.

Method 4: Terminal / Curl

curl -LO https://github.com/Thuong180702/notihub/releases/download/v1.1.1/notihub-v1.1.1-mac.dmg
open notihub-v1.1.1-mac.dmg

⬆️ Upgrading from v1.0.1 or earlier

Replace the app as usual. Because the bundle identifier changed, also do this once:

  1. Quit any running copy of notihub before installing.
  2. Re-approve notifications when prompted (see above).
  3. If System Settings → General → Login Items & Extensions shows a duplicate notihub entry left over from the old identifier, remove the stale one.

⚠️ Gatekeeper Notice

notihub is signed ad-hoc, not notarized by Apple. macOS will refuse to open it with "notihub is damaged and can't be opened" on first launch — this isn't corruption, it's Gatekeeper rejecting an unnotarized app. Clear the quarantine flag once:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/notihub.app
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