OpenRecorder 0.6.0-preview.12

OpenRecorder 0.6.0-preview.12 (build 17): plugin-only lifecycle repair. It follows 0.6.0-preview.11, which stays published exactly as it was.

What it is. A small native screen recorder, controlled from the menu bar (macOS) or tray, with a movable camera bubble, separate screen and camera files, a local library (Home), temporary protected sharing, and a plugin for Codex and Claude Code whose tools can organise and share recordings but cannot start one.

What changed since preview.11 (found by installing preview.11 from the plugin alone)

• Home and the recorder app are separate, and Home says so. The library (Home) starts on its own and works with the recorder app closed. While it is closed, Settings › Permissions says the permissions are unknown until OpenRecorder is open (not three "Not reported yet" lines), and the three Open System Settings buttons open the right page anyway. The main control reads Open: it installs the signed app to ~/Applications on first use (never replacing a different build while anything may be recording), opens it as a menu-bar app, and Home says when it is ready, or that it did not report in time, or why it was refused, with Try again. Opening queues nothing: it never records, no countdown waits for the app, and Record appears once the app has reported.
• The pane follows the app by itself. The Permissions pane now updates in place (unknown, opening, ready, not responding, timed out) even while its Open button has focus; before, it stayed on Unknown until a reload.
• Ready means ready. An old idle report no longer shows an enabled Record button while the library says the recorder app is not responding.
• A System Settings page that fails to open shows the error instead of "Opening System Settings…". On Windows the Screen Recording button opens Microsoft's documented Graphics capture page (documented, not tried on Windows hardware).
• Copy invitation puts a plain-text Danish message on the clipboard: Se min optagelse:, the full link on its own line, Adgangskode:, the code on its own line, one line telling the recipient to open the link in a browser (no plugin), and what the end of access means. The Quick Tunnel link is temporary and works only while your computer and the tunnel stay online; a link with no end time is not permanent hosting, and it can be stopped at any time. Copy link and Copy code are unchanged.
• An older library that is already running (for example preview.11) is never replaced or quit by ordinary use. Its version is read from its own state; the new page operations are refused in plain words when it lacks them. Moving an installation to a new version is a separate step for whoever manages it, in a quiet moment (nothing recording or shared, no one using it), with the library's own normal Quit after scripts/handoff-precheck.py reads it as idle. It is not an auto-updater.
• The macOS app has its own icon (the black disc), and its Info.plist now says macOS 26.0, read from the shipped files.
• No change to recording, the media helper or the capture paths.

Downloads in this release

• OpenRecorder-0.6.0-preview.12-mac-arm64.zip: the macOS app (Apple silicon; requires macOS 26.0 or later, set by the bundled media helper: the app executable alone is built for 11.0, and earlier systems are not supported or tested), with the licence texts beside it.
• openrecorder-plugin-0.6.0-preview.12-darwin-arm64.zip: the Codex / Claude Code plugin (a local marketplace) with the same app. Adding it only registers it; nothing is installed or opened until a person presses Open.
• Experimental, desktop capture never run: OpenRecorder-0.6.0-preview.12-linux-x64.tar.gz, …-windows-x64.zip and the matching openrecorder-plugin-0.6.0-preview.12-linux-x64.zip / …-win32-x64.zip.
• openrecorder-media-sources-0.6.0-preview.12.tar.gz: corresponding sources of the bundled FFmpeg + x264 helper (GPL-2.0-or-later).
• openrecorder-0.6.0-preview.12-source.tar.gz: the source tree.
• SHA256SUMS, manifest.json: checksums and sizes of every file above. Check them before opening anything: shasum -a 256 -c SHA256SUMS.

Please read

• Not notarized. The app is signed with the author's local development identity, not an Apple Developer ID. macOS shows a warning the first time; see docs/install.md (Apple's own steps for opening an app from an unknown developer). Only do this for a file whose checksum you verified.
• Linux (x64) needs glibc 2.43 or newer plus libdbus, libpipewire and libasound, and is experimental: the library host alone (no recorder window, no capture) was built and run on a Linux machine and idled normally, but desktop capture, the tray and permissions on Linux are unverified. The Windows build is cross-compiled and unverified on Windows hardware. Neither is a promise that it works.
• Two private memory measurements on the author's own setup, not a promise and not total recording memory: the macOS recorder app plus its library host, idle with no capture and excluding any browser, about 44.5 MiB resident; the library host alone about 8.7 MiB; the Linux library host alone on one x64 machine about 7.3 MiB resident (4.1 MiB proportional). No CPU or frame-rate benchmark is claimed; 60 fps depends on your computer and is never assumed.
• On the author's Mac the signed app's first open showed one page for the three permissions and a single Done, and the Permissions pane followed the app's readiness. That is one machine, not every Mac.
• The author reports sharing working in their own use; no separate public-tunnel test was run for this version. Posters and playback in Codex's embedded window were accepted on the author's own setup; no other host is claimed. Plugin installation was checked from the command line with preview.11 in isolated Codex and Claude Code configurations; repeat it for this version before relying on it.
• Using the plugin or the app takes no Node.js, Python or Rust. Updating or removing OpenRecorder never deletes recordings or settings and never resets permissions.

Docs: README, docs/install.md, docs/architecture.md, docs/update-uninstall-recovery.md. Security reports: SECURITY.md.

Post-package validation: the exact preview.12 plugin was freshly installed in isolated Codex CLI 0.167.2 and Claude Code 2.1.311 configurations. Both passed doctor and MCP discovery. The owner Mac app, stable plugin ID and actual library backend were upgraded to preview.12 with the same development-signing identity, unchanged index/settings, no capture and no share interruption. Existing chat Home UI metadata remains unqualified; use a fresh supported plugin session. No primary Codex restart was performed.

OpenRecorder 0.6.0-preview.11

OpenRecorder 0.6.0-preview.11 (build 16): first public preview.

What it is. A small native screen recorder, controlled from the menu bar (macOS) or tray, with a movable camera bubble, separate screen and camera files, a local library (Home), temporary protected sharing, and a plugin for Codex and Claude Code whose tools can organise and share recordings but cannot start one.

Downloads in this release

• OpenRecorder-0.6.0-preview.11-mac-arm64.zip: the macOS app (Apple silicon; requires macOS 26.0 or later, set by the bundled media helper: the app executable alone is built for 11.0, and earlier systems are not supported or tested).
• openrecorder-plugin-0.6.0-preview.11-darwin-arm64.zip: the Codex / Claude Code plugin (a local marketplace) with the same app.
• Experimental, never run on a real desktop: OpenRecorder-0.6.0-preview.11-linux-x64.tar.gz, …-windows-x64.zip and the matching openrecorder-plugin-0.6.0-preview.11-linux-x64.zip / …-win32-x64.zip (Linux needs glibc 2.43 or newer).
• openrecorder-media-sources-0.6.0-preview.11.tar.gz: corresponding sources of the bundled FFmpeg + x264 helper (GPL-2.0-or-later).
• openrecorder-0.6.0-preview.11-source.tar.gz: the source tree.
• SHA256SUMS, manifest.json: checksums and sizes of every file above. Check them before opening anything: shasum -a 256 -c SHA256SUMS.

Please read

• Not notarized. macOS shows a warning the first time; see docs/install.md (Apple's own steps for opening an app from an unknown developer). Only do this for a file whose checksum you verified.
• The Linux and Windows builds are experimental. They are compiled from the same source but have not been run on a real desktop; the Linux build needs a very new system (glibc 2.43 or newer).
• 30 fps recording was accepted on the author's Mac; 60 fps depends on your computer and is never assumed. No memory, CPU or benchmark claim is made.
• The author reports sharing working in their own use; what was checked for this release is a synthetic server with a real Firefox, and no separate public-tunnel test was run for it. Posters and playback in Codex’s embedded window were accepted by the author on the author’s own setup; no other host is claimed. Plugin installation was checked from the command line in isolated Codex and Claude Code configurations: marketplace registration, install, --doctor and an MCP initialize/tool list, but not the GUI, a recording or any device.
• Updating or removing OpenRecorder never deletes recordings or settings and never resets permissions.

Docs: README, docs/install.md, docs/architecture.md, docs/update-uninstall-recovery.md. Security reports: SECURITY.md.

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