v4.9.7

4.9.7 - 2026-10-23

Highlights: Report window close through the daemon as closed when an app keeps the closed window alive; let see observe Chrome windows whose titles carry the app name or are elided; close apps that re-exec themselves with --foreground; and keep the Mac chat, menu bar and Inspector accurate.

• Report window close through the daemon or Bridge as closed when the app keeps the closed NSWindow alive, instead of exiting 1 with an indeterminate postcondition: the Bridge readback now applies the same exact-window Accessibility presence check as the in-process path. Thanks @goutamadwant! #1131, fixes #1129.
• Let peekaboo see observe Chrome and other apps whose Accessibility window title appends the application name or whose WindowServer title is middle-elided, instead of failing with "inconsistent response evidence: window-context window title". Thanks @L1uYun! #1130.
• Close windows of apps that re-exec themselves with window close --foreground, whose frontmost PID AppKit reports as -1. Thanks @SebTardif! #1124.
• Classify Dock separators and the Trash from their Accessibility subroles, so peekaboo dock list hides separators unless --include-all is passed, reports included separators as separator instead of blank unknown items, and identifies a localized Trash (such as "Papierkorb") as trash. #1120.
• Use the Mac app's saved Vision model for image analysis even when its provider does not report vision support (OpenRouter, OpenAI-compatible, LM Studio and many Ollama models), surfacing the provider's error instead of silently switching models. Thanks @SebTardif! #1127.
• Keep the Mac chat's streaming answer together when you queue a follow-up, and keep Retry on the prompt that failed. Thanks @SebTardif! #1126.
• Show a failed Mac agent tool as failed, not completed, in the menu bar, while cancelled tools stay cancelled. Thanks @SebTardif! #1134.
• Highlight the Inspector control in the front window under the pointer, including floating panels and popup items past their window, instead of the smallest control anywhere on screen; windows of untracked apps such as the Dock now stop the hover from reaching what they cover. Thanks @SebTardif! #1133.
• Place Inspector highlight boxes on the correct display when a display does not start at the primary display's origin. Thanks @SebTardif! #1132.
• Restore source builds after the pinned MCP Swift SDK commit became unreachable upstream when its pull request branch was rebased. #1135.
• Remove the unused public DialogError.inputSuppressedUnderTests case from PeekabooAutomationKit along with the dead test-only dialog typing hook that threw it; release builds could never throw it, so only SwiftPM consumers that switch over every DialogError case need to drop that branch. #1123.

Verification

Run: https://github.com/openclaw/Peekaboo/actions/runs/40027354350

Verified on xcode-27: arm64, x86_64 under Rosetta, and an independent arm64 runtime audit.

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• Homebrew: openclaw/homebrew-tap formula updated to v4.9.7, with arm64 and x86_64 checksums matching the release assets.