Burrow 0.8.3
Burrow 0.8.3
A metrics & menu-bar release: real memory-pressure reporting, a power-draw
widget, pressure-aware coloring everywhere, a live menu-bar preview, two new
runner animations, and a snappier popover. Still local-first.
Added
- Power-draw widget. Live system wattage (W) as a menu-bar metric.
- Real memory pressure. "By pressure" now reads actual macOS memory pressure
—(wired + compressed) / totalviahost_statistics64, the same figure
Activity Monitor reports — instead of reusing the CPU-style utilization ramp.
Shown as a percentage on the memory tiles, colored green ≤59% / orange 60–79% /
red ≥80%. (#202) - Memory detail card. The Status dashboard breaks memory down into used /
free / cached / swap. - Live menu-bar preview + layout presets. Settings previews your real
metrics as you configure them, with one-tap layout presets. - Two new runner animations — Wave and Bars.
Changed
- Consistent pressure coloring across the dashboard tile, popover,
memory-detail card, and menu bar. - Live popover sparklines. CPU / memory / GPU tick every second (about a
minute of history). - Honest color picker. "By pressure" is offered only where it applies
(memory); the temperature color ramp was corrected.
Fixed
- Brewfile import/export pickers no longer trip the hang detector (ANR
false-positives). - App-Hang reports from memory-starved machines are dropped before sending —
they were environmental, not Burrow bugs. (#197)
Performance
- Snappier popover — the metric grid no longer re-renders on unrelated state
changes.
Windows
- Windows preview — a version-aligned 0.8.3 build is attached
(BurrowWin-0.8.3-win-x64.zip). No Windows-specific changes this release.