alpha-0.8.1

[alpha-0.8.1] - [2026-06-08]

Distribution Warning

This build is ad hoc-signed, not Developer ID signed, and not notarized. macOS Gatekeeper will reject it by default. Install only if you are comfortable using ad hoc-signed macOS software and granting system audio capture permission.

What's Changed

• Disable in the popover menu bar app now stops the Core Audio engine
• Disabling GlassEQ now also disables the System Audio Recording indicator in macOS

Release bundle checksum

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Full Changelog: alpha-0.8...alpha-0.8.1

alpha-0.8

[alpha-0.8] - [2026-06-08]

Distribution Warning

This build is ad hoc-signed, not Developer ID signed, and not notarized. macOS Gatekeeper will reject it by default. Install only if you are comfortable using ad hoc-signed macOS software and granting system audio capture permission.

What's Changed

• Hardened settings-helper IPC startup, token bootstrap, ordered pipe reads, broken-pipe handling, and write cleanup.
• Improved audio route recovery, device restoration persistence, and output rebuild ordering.
• Fixed profile-store repair so valid profiles survive malformed or duplicate entries.
• Tightened AutoEQ / REW import parsing and graphic EQ round-tripping.
• Improved lifecycle safety around stop/start ordering, observer callbacks, and Thread Sanitizer coverage.
• Added CI and stricter debug/release codesign verification.
• Refined the settings window presentation for the initial public alpha.
• Fixed the editor layout so the filter editor scrolls clear of the footer action bar.
• Shortened the output profile mapping action to avoid truncation in the Output tab.
• Improved the output and diagnostics view for current route, profile mapping, and audio engine state.

Release bundle checksum

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Full Changelog: alpha-0.6...alpha-0.8

alpha-0.6

[alpha-0.6] - [2026-06-01]

Distribution Warning

This build is ad hoc-signed, not Developer ID signed, and not notarized. macOS Gatekeeper will reject it by default. Install only if you are comfortable testing ad hoc-signed macOS software and granting system audio capture permission.

Changes Since alpha-0.5

• Improved DSP backend recovery after long sleep/wake cycles.
• Preserve the pending audio resume intent across late screen wake and session activation notifications.
• Preserve resume intent if the Mac sleeps again while GlassEQ is still reconnecting after a prior wake.
• Added lifecycle regression coverage for repeated sleep/wake cycles and stale observer callbacks.

Included

• Menu bar app shell.
• Core Audio system output tap.
• Playback of processed audio to the current default output.
• Parametric EQ, 10-band graphic EQ, and 31-band graphic EQ profiles.
• AutoEQ / EqualizerAPO and REW text import.
• Per-output profile mappings by Core Audio device UID.
• Profile persistence under the GlassEQ sandbox container, with migration from legacy ~/Library/Application Support/GlassEQ data.
• Settings helper app and local IPC for editing profiles from the menu bar app.
• Audio route recovery after system sleep, screen wake, session unlock, and Bluetooth route teardown while the screen is locked.
• More conservative built-in speaker buffering to avoid steady-state playback underruns and distortion.
• Basic callback metrics and diagnostics tooling.

Supported Alpha Target

• macOS 26.0 or newer.
• Apple Silicon / arm64 only.

Known Issues

• Gatekeeper rejection is expected because the app is not notarized.
• System audio capture permission may require manual cleanup or retrying on test machines.
• Bluetooth and AirPods routes may still expose macOS Core Audio edge cases; report device model, macOS version, and steps to reproduce.
• No automatic updates.
• No crash reporting.
• No notarized Developer ID build yet.
• No x86_64 build.

Build Artifact

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