v1.1.0

What's Changed

Added

• macOS 26 Liquid Glass appearance: full native Liquid Glass UI styling and themes for macOS 26 Tahoe across the main popover, Settings window, Stats detail panel, Welcome window, and Help window, with live animated switching between Classic solid mode and Liquid Glass.
• Dedicated Automation settings tab: cleanly separated automation controls into their own dedicated tab featuring power saving, sleep and screen lock scheduling, CPU hog / memory pressure tripwires, and inactivity timeouts.
• Scheduled sleep and screen lock quit automation: restricted unattended quitting to configurable scheduled hours (default 12 AM to 6 AM) with start and end time pickers and toggle between 12-hour AM/PM and 24-hour time formats.
• Stats detail panel in menu bar: clicking the menu bar usage item opens a native-blur liquid glass panel displaying real-time CPU % and memory usage (used out of total unified memory) with custom status item arrow and auto-dismissal on click-outside, toggle, or Esc.
• Menu Bar Style & Memory format pickers: configure menu bar CPU & memory readouts with Icon (SF Symbols) vs Text (CPU / MEM) prefixes, alongside Gigabytes (GB) vs Percentage (%) memory units in Settings > General.
• Smart Rescue (USP): when a CPU or memory limit trips, QuitX safely rescues system resources by terminating inactive windowed apps only — never your frontmost app, Finder, Trash, excluded, music, or Never-ruled apps. Rescued apps land in Recently Quit for one-click reopening.
• Rescue consent panel & critical system protection: added interactive rescue consent gating and strict protections for vital macOS system processes and helper agents during resource cleanup.
• Multi-consumer CPU monitor isolation: isolated CPU tick counters in SystemUsage.cpuPercent(consumer:) for menu bar, popover, and detail panel to prevent sample stealing and 0% readout artifacts.
• Sticky search bar in Help: modern pinned search header in the Help sidebar with instant query matching, clear button, and empty state.
• Welcome guide appearance setup: choose between Classic and Liquid Glass appearance directly from the first-launch Welcome guide with increased, spacious layout.
• Humorous settings tooltips: comprehensive witty descriptions, tooltips, and easter eggs across all settings rows and schedule pickers.

Changed

• Capped Recently Quit history: "Reopen Recently Quit" now tracks and presents the 5 most recently quit apps (reduced from 20) for a tighter, focused menu.
• Direct inline stepper controls: replaced static value boxes with interactive inline steppers for CPU %, memory GB thresholds, and sleep/lock time range.
• Settings sub-options visual alignment: synchronized Menu Bar style/memory formats and Sleep & Lock schedule rows into uniform, aligned sub-option layouts matching Health and Automation sections.
• Synchronized status bar refresh: menu bar stats monitoring aligned with live app timing (1s normal, 5s battery saver, 10s power saver).
• Default app selection label simplified: renamed "Deselect apps by default" to "Select apps by default" across Welcome guide and Settings > Advanced with direct positive boolean binding.
• Expanded Help documentation: updated guides for recently quit limits (up to 5), menu bar stats formatting (Icon vs Text, GB vs %), interactive detail panel, sleep & screen lock scheduling, and theme settings.

Fixed

• Hardened process lifecycle & PID liveness: eliminated stale NSRunningApplication state across single-instance cleanup, auto-quit tracking, and restart verification to prevent invalid signals or false restart failures.
• Auto-quit Recently Quit tracking: routed unattended automatic quits through QuitService to guarantee reliable termination and populate the Recently Quit history as documented.
• Isolated update download sessions: bound async download delegates and staging tasks strictly to the active session identity, dropping stale callbacks on cancellation.
• Top process sampling concurrency throttle: enforced single in-flight TopProcessSampler task in Stats detail panel to prevent overlapping ps runs during rapid ticks.
• Installed application scan serialization: serialized cache-miss scans in InstalledAppCatalog so concurrent callers reuse the populated result without redundant disk sweeps.
• Relaxed VM stat memory drift tolerance: increased page cache drift allowance in stats test assertions to ensure stability on high-load CI runners.
• Removed private CPU-frequency APIs and their stats UI for future Mac App Store compatibility.
• Hardened update delivery: removed the ineffective embedded gatekeeper key and require signed update verification as the trust boundary.
• Window presentation flicker on launch: suppressed welcome window animation during automated test execution and background launch (open -g).
• Settings window frame positioning: stabilized window chrome updates to avoid frame shifting and layout jumps during appearance theme switches.
• Headless test execution in CI: added native build system fallback (--build-system native) to workflow test steps to prevent XCBuild property list initialization failures in CI runner environments.

Install

1. Download QuitX-v1.1.0.dmg (or .zip) from Assets below.
2. Open the disk image and drag QuitX to your /Applications folder. The zip contains the same app if you prefer archives.

Full changelog: https://github.com/kiron0/quitx/commits/v1.1.0