Aero v0.4.0

Aero 0.4.0 brings split views and terminal tabs, a media player in the sidebar, Peek, a rebuilt History page with swipe navigation, and one Aero app whose updates come from the channel you choose.

Split view and terminal

• Put up to four tabs side by side in one sidebar entry. A split moves, pins, groups and changes space as one tab.
• Drag the dividers to resize the panes, or double-click one to make them equal. Drag a pane's grip to move it beside another.
• New Tab Beside (⌃=, or the page's hot corner) opens a New Tab pane next to the page.
• Terminal tabs run your login shell, alone or in a split.

Tabs, folders and spaces

• ⌘-click and ⇧-click pick several tabs and folders. The context menu, the Tabs menu and dragging then act on all of them, across spaces too.
• Folders open and close with an animated icon, can take one of forty symbols, and show their tabs when you rest the pointer on a closed one.
• A favorite keeps its pinned page. Away from it, a return arrow takes you back, and Edit Pinned Page changes it.
• The sidebar is tighter, and its footer shows the current space by name.

Browsing

• Force-click a link to Peek at its page without leaving yours, then spread two fingers or press ⌘O to open it as a tab. Without Force Touch, use Open Link in Peek in the link's menu.
• Swipe with two fingers to go back or forward. Hold at the edge to list the pages that way and pick one.
• The History page is rebuilt: search, one card per day, and the keyboard to move, open and forget pages.
• The control bar ranks every result by how well it matches and how often you visit, so a site you use every day comes first.
• Downloads can be paused, resumed, renamed in place or moved to the Trash from a richer popover.

Media

• A compact player above the sidebar's footer controls what a tab off screen is playing, with its artwork and progress.
• Tabs using the camera or microphone are listed there with mute switches, and marked in the sidebar.
• Control Center's Now Playing, its playback position and the media keys control what Aero plays.

Design

• One Liquid Glass system across the chrome, tinted by the space. With Reduce Transparency, surfaces stay opaque.
• Settings opens in its own window.

Updates

• Aero is now one app for every release. Settings › Software Updates chooses where updates come from: Stable, Beta, which also brings every stable release, or Nightly. Your tabs, history and settings stay the same whichever you choose.
• An update found on schedule waits in a small card at the bottom of the sidebar, instead of a window over the page. Once downloaded, it restarts Aero into the new version.

Current limits

• Aero Beta and Aero Nightly are no longer updated, and their data does not move to Aero. Install Aero and choose the channel in Settings.
• Moving to a steadier channel takes effect with that channel's next release newer than the one installed.
• A site hidden from New Tab cannot be shown again yet.