This version brings a new branding, requested features, better performance, better UX, 3-5x lower idle CPU usage, and many quality-of-life improvements.
Features
- Upgrade to QEMU 11.1.1 and Apple’s in-hypervisor interrupt controller, eliminate unnecessary redraws, and reduce measured total idle CPU use from roughly 71% to 15% (#62)
- Update Omarchy to 4.0.2 (#71)
- New logo (#87)
- New macOS crossover default wallpaper (#88)
- Keep Try Omarchy open during VM reboot (#42)
- Support macOS 15.0 and newer, including 15.0–15.3 (#41)
- Improve fullscreen / windowed UX by adding Immersive mode toggle (#43, #49, #50, #75, #89)
- Add port mapping (#44)
- Try Omarchy now supports running disks from older versions (#86)
- Let users choose where the VM's data lives (#48)
- Add camera support (#37, #74, #77)
- Add opt-in localhost SSH access (#38)
- Better keyboard and command capturing, fix having to re-focus (#62, #75)
- Release audio output devices when unused (#59)
- Release audio input devices when unused (#73)
Fixes
- Fix startup failure when GNU stat shadows macOS stat (#35)
- Fix build issue caused by initramfs compression (#47)
- Fix rounded corner visual glitch (#52, #55)
- Fix 1Password installation (#58, #70)
- Fix choppy audio (#60, #69)
- Restore the start menu windows after permission prompts (#72, #76)
- Fix start-menu width expansion (#78)
Dev
- Revamp tests (#64)
- Improve
make buildoutput (#53) - Update pinned package versions (#45, #51, #53, #70, #90)
New Contributors 🎉
Regarding updates, now it is possible to run old disks on new versions of Try Omarchy.
OS updates (4.0.2) and certain patches will not be present because they require custom OS-related patches, and those live on the disk.
We also want to cover that on future updates, but for now, fully upgrading requires creating a new disk.
Contributors
pantulis, dbachelder, and 4 other contributors