Crona 1.0.0-beta.4

Crona for macOS v1.0.0-beta.4

Crona for macOS v1.0.0-beta.4 makes daemon startup materially more reliable during development and normal recovery, while tightening popup presentation and establishing the repo's first full docs and release-notes structure.

Highlights

• The companion no longer trusts kernel.json as proof that the daemon is healthy; it can launch the daemon when discovery is missing or stale.
• Repeated daemon launch failures now stop in the existing connection error state instead of retrying forever in the background.
• Dev-mode daemon resolution now mirrors the core Crona project, including repo-local bin/crona-daemon-dev and repo-local go run fallback.
• Popup surfaces now enter and exit more smoothly, and the hard-limit popup layout issues reported during testing have been corrected.
• The repository now includes a proper README, docs index, changelog, and curated release-notes files for future macOS releases.

Added

• Dedicated macOS docs for install, runtime, development, release process, troubleshooting, and changelog tracking.
• Curated release-note support under docs/release-notes/.
• Daemon launch tests covering missing discovery, launch failure latching, and manual reconnect recovery.

Changed

• Centered and edge popup transitions now use smoother staging and animation.
• Hard-limit popup presentation no longer carries the earlier offset and sharp border/shadow artifacts.
• The default daemon binaries are now crona-daemon and crona-daemon-dev.
• The release workflow now uses curated release notes from docs/release-notes/<tag>.md when present.

Fixed

• Missing discovery and stale discovery now both trigger daemon launch recovery instead of waiting indefinitely for external startup.
• Failed daemon launches now surface a stable menu bar and popup error state without infinite reconnect loops.
• GUI launch environments that omit Homebrew paths now resolve daemon candidates explicitly instead of relying on /usr/bin/env.

Compatibility

• The release remains on the 1.0.0 beta line and should be tagged as v1.0.0-beta.4.
• The Apple marketing version stays 1.0.0; the build number increases for appcast ordering.