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Carrier 1.1 — Notifications, Privacy & a Redesigned Settings 🔔

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@github-actions github-actions released this 30 Jun 05:29
v1.1.0
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Carrier's biggest update since launch. New messages now raise native notifications with the sender's avatar and a preview, Settings has been rebuilt into a clean tabbed panel, there's a new set of privacy controls for when someone's looking over your shoulder, and the macOS Dock shows your unread count again. Plus Homebrew + Windows-portable installs and a thorough overhaul of the login flow.

What's New

🔔 Native new-message notifications

Carrier now raises real, native OS notifications when a message arrives — complete with the sender's avatar and a message preview, rendered natively instead of through the web page. (#13)

  • Mute all — silence every notification when you need to focus. (#21)
  • Hide message preview — show just "New message" without the text, so nothing sensitive flashes up on a shared or mirrored screen. (#21)

🗂️ Redesigned, tabbed Settings

Settings has been rebuilt from one long scroll into a clean tabbed panel, so appearance, notifications, privacy and behaviour are each a single click away and easy to find. (#10)

🕶️ Privacy controls

For screen-sharing, public spaces, or just nosy neighbours:

  • Hide Names & Avatars blurs every name, avatar and message preview in your conversation list at a keystroke — Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + N, the View menu, or Settings. Rows stay clickable, so you can still navigate by position. (#22)
  • The new mute and hide-preview notification toggles live here too.

🔴 macOS Dock unread badge

Your unread count is back on the Dock icon, with a badge-count mode setting to choose between an exact number or a simple dot. (#11)

📦 Install your way

  • Homebrew: brew install --cask carrier, and brew upgrade keeps it current. (#8)
  • Windows portable: a no-installer .zip — unzip and run (WebView2 ships with Windows 10/11). (#8)
  • Cross-platform CI now builds and checks all six targets on every change. (#8)

Improvements

  • Live theme switching. In System theme mode, the window chrome (title bar and surround) now follows macOS between light and dark the moment you switch, instead of waiting for a restart.
  • Conversation-info toggle. Show or hide Messenger's conversation-info panel straight from the View menu.

Bug Fixes

  • The login page, rebuilt. The logged-out screen is now properly centered with no stray left padding; the show/hide-password toggle sits where it should and no longer covers what you type; the footer language switcher is back and readable; Facebook's dark-mode verify / checkpoint screens are legible instead of black-on-black; and "Continue with Google" completes fully in-app without spawning stray browser windows. "Clear cache" is reliable too — it retries on the next launch if anything was still in use. (#26)
  • Media viewer Download button. Now actually saves the image or video instead of opening it in your browser. (#27)
  • View-menu toggles. No more spurious page reloads when toggling options, and the menu renders a literal "&" correctly.

Thanks for using Carrier! Hit a bug or want a feature? Open an issue. 🙂

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