ScreenAnnotations 1.6.1 What's new in this release: - Toolbar buttons now respond the instant you press them, with a highlight on hover - Switching tools springs the selection into place instead of snapping - Color swatches grow under the pointer, and the picker slides its selection ring between colors - The Shape Inspector color grids use the same sliding selection - Board cards in the gallery lift on hover and dip when pressed - Scene Manager rows and board highlights now animate smoothly - The annotation toolbar materializes into place when a session begins - Reduce Motion is fully respected — animations become gentle cross-fades - Reduce Transparency and Increase Contrast, make panels solid with a clear edge - No changes to tools, permissions, or your saved boards

ScreenAnnotations 1.6.0 What's new in this release: - Connected AI assistants can now generate full diagrams for you through the built-in MCP integration - Describe a flowchart, org chart, or architecture diagram and it is laid out automatically - The new AI diagram tool places every box and routes every arrow for a clean, organized result - Long connectors now flow through their own lanes instead of crossing the diagram - Arrows enter each shape head-on for a tidy, professional look - Generate diagrams directly from Mermaid flowchart syntax - Four diagram themes to choose from: Slate, Minimal, Blueprint, and Vibrant - New layout helpers to align, distribute, grid-arrange, and tidy elements - Shapes now size themselves to their text and snap to a grid for crisp alignment - Works with Claude, Codex, and other MCP-compatible assistants

ScreenAnnotations 1.5.1 What's new in this release: - ScreenAnnotations has a brand-new app icon - The redesigned icon appears in the Dock, Finder, Launchpad, and the App Store - This is a maintenance release with no feature or permission changes

ScreenAnnotations 1.5 What's new in this release: - New live alignment guides while moving shapes on a whiteboard - Guides appear when shapes line up by center or edge - Moving shapes can snap into alignment when close to another shape - Spacing measurements now appear on active guides to show gaps in points - Multiple adjacent gaps can be shown along the same guide for lane-style or multi-shape diagrams - Measurements now use the visible outer spans crossed by a guide, so grouped or nested content produces more accurate spacing labels - Arrows, lines, and freehand marks are ignored as spacing references - Alignment guides can be turned on or off in Settings - Alignment guides are enabled by default - Whiteboard toolbar reorganized: Open, Save, and Export are consolidated into a single File menu - Show More overflow popover is now grouped into labeled sections instead of a flat grid - Whiteboard background settings popover ("Board") polished for consistent styling - Opening the Scene Manager no longer changes the toolbar - Escape no longer closes the whiteboard when nothing is in-progress - Board History popover no longer flickers when deleting a snapshot - New Clear All action for Board History snapshots

ScreenAnnotations 1.4 What's new in this release: - Settings now uses a vertical sidebar on the left side of the window - Settings tabs can be selected by clicking anywhere on the row, not just the label - Tab selection no longer makes the sidebar blink, jump, or resize - Stored settings are validated before use so old or out-of-range values are corrected safely - Drawing defaults now apply to the active annotation session immediately - Whiteboard toolbar placement and cursor click animation settings update live - The whiteboard Board popover now stays open when changing background patterns - Shortcut recording now rejects unusable shortcuts, reserved keys, and duplicate assignments - Local AI setup instructions now show the correct Claude Code command and clearer ChatGPT guidance - About now shows the Lumary Labs LLC logo in a centered, cleaner layout

ScreenAnnotations 1.3 What’s new in this release: - Clicking the Dock icon now opens the whiteboard gallery directly when no window is visible - New command palette with ⇧⌘P for running common actions from the keyboard - Command palette surfaces contextual actions (Show Canvas, Hide Controls, Clear Canvas, End Annotation) only when a canvas is active - New board switcher with ⌘P for searching and jumping between whiteboards - Board switcher shows the active board, favorites, categories, and the relative modified time - Arrow keys, Return, and Escape all work inside both palettes - Settings panes now fit inside the window and scroll when needed - Removed the keystroke display/Input Monitoring flow so the app no longer asks to receive keystrokes from other applications - Existing annotate, whiteboard, cursor highlight, and spotlight shortcuts remain available

ScreenAnnotations 1.2 What’s new in this release: - Import saved `.screenannotation` files directly into the All Boards gallery - Drag and drop saved board files into the gallery - Saved board files now use a branded Finder icon and open directly in ScreenAnnotations from Finder - New whiteboard layout tools: align, distribute, row, column, flow, and tree - Connected arrows stay attached when nodes move through layout actions - New scene-based presentation workflow for whiteboards - Create scenes from the current view or current selection - Dedicated Scene Manager window for adding, renaming, duplicating, reordering, updating, switching, and deleting scenes - Scene Manager shows scene thumbnails and supports multi-select deletion - Animated scene transitions with multiple styles, including Fade and Dip to Black - New board history with automatic and manual snapshots - Restore snapshots, delete snapshots, or duplicate a snapshot as a new board - Configurable snapshot retention limit - Expanded Settings window with a dedicated Whiteboard tab, more defaults, and clearer previews - MCP support now includes boards, scenes, presentation controls, and snapshots - New empty-space right-click action: `Fit Nearby in View` - Whiteboard label editing, text placement, and tool switching are more stable and predictable - Shape picker recents now show as a flat recent-use section instead of regrouping by category This file is still a working draft and should be updated again if additional `1.2` work is finalized.

ScreenAnnotations 1.1 Whiteboard workflow update: - New All Boards gallery with grid/list views, multi-select, categories, collapsible sections, batch actions, and delete confirmation - Open whiteboards in tabs from the gallery while keeping the board list as the first tab - New whiteboard content blocks: sticky notes, editable tables, and rich link cards with previews - Sticky notes and tables now support independent text color controls - Tables support add row/add column, fill modes, background color, and autogrow cells - Attached window toolbar now matches detached mode more closely and restores responsive overflow - Toolbar captions now show keyboard shortcuts directly in the label Also includes many whiteboard polish fixes for rename, selection, toolbar placement, popover alignment, and link footer rendering.