v0.15.0

Added

• The battery dropdown is shorter, with health folded away, and charging is a liquid in the bar
• The Bluetooth and AirDrop lists drop their switch rows, since the circles on their rows switch them
• The calendar opens with today as a headline, dims weekends, and slides between months
• The calendar follows Apple's Calendar, with a red today, a light day number, and the month in bold before the year
• Settings chooses what Control Center shows, which can now include Sound, True Tone, and Stage Manager

Fixed

• The charging bar ends in a soft pulsing glow instead of sparks
• The battery bar has no icon unless it is charging
• The native menu bar no longer flashes under a bar without a background as Mission Control opens and closes
• The frosted strip shows only for Mission Control itself, and leaves sooner after it closes
• The bar and its frosted strip are up from Mission Control's first event
• The native menu bar never shows under the bar, which now draws its own copy of the desktop picture behind it

v0.14.0

Added

• The Apple button and the workspaces grow a little under the pointer, like the pills on the right
• Workspace numbers are the size and weight of the text on the right of the bar
• Only the focused workspace shows its number, and empty workspaces are dots
• Four presets, Crystal, Liquid, Frost, and Obsidian, with Crystal the default
• Frost and Graphite replace the milky and navy presets, and glass pills are a wash on a bar with a background
• The battery stays white while charging, and its dropdown has a wide bar with a charging animation

Fixed

• A workspace keeps its width when the focus moves, so the strip stays still under the selection

v0.13.0

Added

• The workspaces are a glass tab bar whose selection is a lens that lifts and magnifies on its way
• The Apple logo is a round glass button, and the workspace lens sits evenly inside its capsule

Fixed

• Paired headphones and speakers show in the Sound dropdown before they connect, and the list follows devices coming and going
• Without pills, the focused workspace keeps its selection
• A right-click on an empty part of the bar opens the bar's menu, not the desktop's
• Moving the workspace selection takes 40% less CPU

v0.12.0

Added

• The bar's background can be solid black
• The bar's background can curve up into the notch
• A Blur slider sets how much the glass blurs what is behind it
• A Glass pills option draws the pills in the bar style's real glass
• Every glass style has real glass for the pills and the focused workspace, on by default
• Control Center's groups sit straight on its glass, without panels behind them
• Control Center no longer lists menu bar items, which are pinned in Settings
• Glass pills have a lit edge, so they look raised over a dark wallpaper too
• The bar's glass background matches the glass pills, with a lit lower edge
• Each preset is a whole look with its own blur, and Crystal is the default
• The Sound dropdown has a switch that mutes and Control Center's wide slider
• In fullscreen the bar slides and fades in and out, like the menu bar

Fixed

• Opening and closing a dropdown takes less than half the CPU
• Settings keeps working after many changes, where the bar stopped following its config file
• The Glass blur slider changes the glass pills in every style
• In fullscreen, the bar comes back at the top edge instead of the native menu bar (thanks rudrankriyam)
• The Sound switch goes off when the volume reaches 0
• In fullscreen on a notched screen, the bar hides and comes back at the top edge, like the menu bar

v0.11.0

Added

• A one-time tips window shows Shift for app menus, pinning, and the right-click menu
• The tips window demos each tip with an animation and ticks it off when done on the bar
• A grouped pill layout, and the tips demo the real bar with app icons in the workspaces
• The bar's background strip is a setting, off by default with grouped pills
• The bar's background has its own glass style, picked like the pills' and the dropdowns'

v0.10.0

Added

• Settings icons are white symbols on System Settings style tiles, with dot status and small buttons on permissions
• Add an option to hide bar item backgrounds (thanks rudrankriyam)
• Downloaded copies update themselves through Sparkle
• The Accessibility request is a standard window with Apple's permission layout
• Settings looks and behaves like System Settings
• Settings shows System Settings' own icons, drawn by macOS

Fixed

• The workspace strip follows windows moved without focus and stays on AeroSpace when another app quits
• The Accessibility and update windows come forward when LiquidBar runs in the background
• LiquidBar's windows follow a switch to Light or Dark while they are open
• Check for Updates brings Sparkle's windows forward from the background too
• A closed Settings window stops using CPU
• Settings panes start right under the toolbar and use System Settings' sidebar icons
• The Settings sidebar keeps its width when switching panes

v0.9.0

Added

• Settings is a standard macOS settings window, whatever the glass style
• A Show Pills option draws the bar's items straight on the bar
• The clock follows the system's 24-hour setting unless clock24Hour is set
• Settings folds About and Advanced into General and shows permissions as icons

Fixed

• Each permission is asked for only on first use, one at a time, with its live status in Settings
• Without pills the bar's items sit as close as native status items

v0.8.0

Added

• Builds sign with the Developer ID and releases are notarized
• The Accessibility window steps into the corner while System Settings is open
• Clicking the Wi-Fi dropdown's IP address copies it
• The Wi-Fi dropdown lists networks in range and joins them
• The Wi-Fi dropdown folds its network list by default
• Holding Shift over the bar shows the front app's menus
• Dropdowns and the About and Accessibility windows wear the volume overlay's glass
• The Sound dropdown's slider is the volume overlay's thin track between two speakers
• Five glass styles for the dropdowns, windows and pills
• A Settings window, opened from a right-click on the bar
• The bar's right-click menu drops About LiquidBar
• Dew, a glass style between Liquid and Crystal
• Dew and Pearl, even steps between Liquid and Crystal
• Pick the bar's and the dropdowns' glass style apart

Fixed

• The bar stays put when Mission Control opens and closes
• Dropdowns sit as close to the screen edge as they hang below the bar
• Builds with Swift 6.4, whose stricter isolation rejected two shapes
• Apple's status items are found again on macOS 27
• Focus follows its menu bar item on macOS 27
• The Focus fallback finds Control Center's modes on macOS 27
• The native menu bar stays hidden through Mission Control on macOS 27
• The Accessibility request is one flow with macOS's own prompt
• Settings header stays clear of scrolled content, presets fit four to a row

v0.7.1

Added

• The right side's pills take the focused workspace's fill

v0.7.0

Added

• Bluetooth and AirDrop lists open like Control Center's modules, with a switch in the header
• Menu Bar Items fold into a module that opens collapsed, with each row's pin at its start
• The Battery dropdown has a Show Percentage switch
• Sliders follow trackpad and mouse wheel scrolling under the pointer
• The Bluetooth and AirDrop rows are one target that unfolds their module
• The Wi-Fi dropdown has a Wi-Fi switch in its header
• An Allow Accessibility window on launch, and Permissions… in the LiquidBar menu
• The Apple logo opens its dropdown on hover, with Force Quit and LiquidBar unfolding inline
• About LiquidBar in the Apple dropdown opens a glass window with the version and repository
• The Bluetooth and AirDrop circles switch their control again, inside one row
• An app icon, a glass menu bar over the violet wallpaper, rendered by make icon
• The clock dropdown opens Calendar, and marks today in the accent colour
• The battery pill shows the percentage only when asked

Fixed

• Volume changes no longer pulse the Sound dropdown open, since macOS shows its own overlay
• Dropdowns close 0.15 s after the pointer leaves, checked against the real pointer while open
• About drops the AeroSpace line and shows its GitHub link as a link