GitBell v0.2.1

First public release. Native desktop notifications for GitHub activity and coding agents, from your tray.

Highlights

• Native toasts for pushes, PRs, reviews, issues, releases in the repos and orgs you choose. No server, no webhooks: your token, polled politely from your machine.
• Knows when an agent did it. Claude Code, Copilot, Codex, Cursor and friends get their own category, sound, and a link to the agent's session.
• gitbell notify from any script or hook.
• Three-step first run, activity-first window, glass with an opacity slider, unread dot on the tray, mascot that rings its bell.
• Spanish and English. Token in the OS keyring.

Fixed since 0.2.0

• Sound in packaged Linux builds
• Push toasts show the real commit count and message again (GitHub slimmed its event payloads)
• Poller can't freeze on a hung request; failing targets stay visible
• Real avatar instead of a stale identicon
• Correct desktop entry and menu category on Linux

Installers

Platform	File
Fedora / openSUSE	GitBell-0.2.1-1.x86_64.rpm
Debian / Ubuntu	GitBell_0.2.1_amd64.deb
Any Linux	GitBell_0.2.1_amd64.AppImage
Windows	GitBell_0.2.1_x64_en-US.msi or GitBell_0.2.1_x64-setup.exe

Windows builds aren't code-signed yet: SmartScreen will ask, choose More info → Run anyway. macOS is on the roadmap.