Burrow 0.8.0
Burrow 0.8.0
A top-to-bottom visual redesign, a wave of new tools, a deeper agent surface,
and an early Windows preview. Still local-first β no new always-on network.
Redesigned
- A warm, tactile new look β a warm-coffee adaptive palette, film grain over a
soft gradient, a floating icon rail (replacing the top tabs), borderless
cards, and the Geist / Cal Sans type system. - Overview β Health pulled into an open hero band over a cleaner 3-up
vitals grid. - History β a focal hero chart with a selectable metric strip (tap to swap),
plus drag-select on a chart to surface the top processes for that spike. - Menu-bar HUD β borderless tiles on the same warm ground. Doctor and
Restore reskinned to match; edge-fade scrollers throughout.
New & improved tools
- Ports β live connections, bandwidth, reverse-DNS peers, service labels,
conflicts, sortable columns, and a detail view. - Get Online / Connectivity β MDM + gateway checks, active-interface IP,
captive-portal and device-side rescue, one-click fixes. - Tune-Up β a Smart-Care flow (scan β results β run) that auto-scans on entry.
- Homebrew β Services (start / stop / restart), Brewfile snapshots
(export / restore), and livebrew upgradeprogress in Updates. - Menu bar β customizable popup, Stats-depth widgets, a RunCat-style runner,
and live metric widgets in the status item. - Disk gains a "Full in ~N" forecast; Doctor gains SMART-health and
backup-awareness checks, with backup-overdue / SMART-failing reminders;
multi-select bulk reclaim; a git purge-safety badge.
For your AI agent
- A deeper MCP surface: a token-gated
/eventsSSE stream andburrow_diff
(e.g. login-item churn), so an agent can watch and compare your machine over
time.
Windows preview (new)
- An early native WinUI 3 / .NET 8 app now lives under
windows/β Status,
History, Analyze, Apps, a tray HUD, local telemetry/history, and an MCP stdio
bridge. Build from source; unsigned preview.
Performance & stability
- Killed several main-thread app-hangs (process table, sort, ICU on the render
path, app icons, clean reports, the software list). Onboarding now
auto-detectsmo.
Under the hood
- The repo is now a monorepo (
macos/+windows/), with inside-out framework
signing for notarization and an automated upstreammorelease watcher.