• Fixed an issue where not all feeds showed their article images • Fixed an issue where videos from some feeds had no preview image or would not play • Fixed an issue where search no longer found a podcast episode by its transcript after its feed switched to https • Fixed an issue where clicking a message in compact mode neither opened its link nor played its episode All details are in the app under Release Notes.

• "Restore purchase" now always appears in Settings, under General • When a feed moves for good, channelBar now adopts its new address automatically; the switch is in Settings under General and in the feed settings • The feed suggestions in the Setup Assistant and in feed search are now up to date • A removed feed added back to the same channel now loads its latest messages again right away • A right-click on a message in the menu now marks it as read; "Consume Later" is in the message's submenu • Static channels now draw their menu bar title far more efficiently, especially with several displays • When many new messages arrive after a longer break, the stream window now stays smooth to use • The built-in browser now uses all the free width next to the stream window; a width you drag yourself is kept • When the search term appears in an episode's transcript, the result now opens the transcript with the term highlighted, also with "All Fields" • Even very large search results now open right away; the menu shows the 100 newest per channel • Results of a search in one channel now also appear in the menu in compact mode • A channel created with "channelbar create" now accepts messages from the command line right away • The examples for the command line, the URL scheme and the webhook in the channel settings are now fully translated • If a product is missing at purchase, the purchase page now offers "Try Again" All details are in the app under Release Notes.

• Feeds with dates in German, French or Spanish, in ISO format or without a time zone now show the date of their messages • A message now uses the image declared in the feed; tracking pixels and preview images of other articles no longer appear as its image • Many messages marked as read on another device are now applied in one step • Matching messages to their feeds and counting unread messages are now faster All details are in the app under Release Notes.

• Removing a feed now also deletes all of its messages, on every device in the group running this version; "Remove Feed Only" is gone • On the first launch after the update, channelBar deletes, once, all feed messages whose feed is no longer set up • Feed search recognizes PeerTube feeds as video • A paired Apple TV appears in the device list with its own icon • The way playback positions of podcast episodes are handled has been reworked • Exporting a channel and exporting or importing the app settings work again • Exports keep imported icons • The Stream window saves the reading position shortly after every scroll and keeps it after quitting the app • The "Image Format" label in channel settings no longer breaks into single letters in French and Spanish All details are in the app under Release Notes.

channelBar 1.5 brings the biggest update since launch: • Stream window: every channel as a continuous list with image, title and text, with an unread area and details in the same window • Built-in browser that docks to the Stream • Static channels: your own menus with live values and switches from Home Assistant and MQTT – with an assistant, live preview and a floating window • Podcasts: transcripts to read along and search, automatic chapters, playback history and seamless handover between Mac and iPhone • Consume Later for messages and episodes • Device sync with channelBar Feeds for iPhone and other Macs • Guided setup with curated feeds in four languages • Menu bar: compact mode, unread badges and a card layout • Search across all channels, including transcripts • Feed search, OPML import and export, password-protected feeds • Optional Dock icon; channel sounds stay quiet during a Focus All details are in the app under Release Notes.

### Advanced - New Advanced tab in settings with Storage and Podcasts sections. - Messages overview showing all channels with their sources and message counts. Messages can be deleted per channel or source — all at once, older than a specific period, or before a cutoff date. - Cache overview showing cached favicons and images with size information, grouped by provider and source, with selective deletion. - Downloaded podcast episodes are listed with size information and can be selectively deleted. ### Podcast Player - Podcast feeds can now be configured for download — episodes are saved locally instead of streamed. - New silence trimming feature: silent passages in podcast episodes are automatically detected and skipped during playback. Configurable globally or per feed. ### Tooltip Templates - Menu bar tooltips can now be customized using dedicated templates — separate templates for normal messages and error states. Supports the same variables as message templates.

### MQTT & Home Assistant - MQTT and Home Assistant providers now support multiple connections per channel, each with multiple topics or entities. - New entity browser dialog for browsing and selecting Home Assistant entities from a tree structure grouped by domain. - Each connection maintains its own reconnect cycle independently. - Provider status is aggregated across connections — running if at least one connection is active. - Home Assistant entity existence is validated via REST API when editing entity IDs. - Display unit setting is now configurable per entity instead of per provider. - Processor pipelines can be assigned to individual MQTT topics and Home Assistant entities to transform or filter incoming values. - New deduplication option per topic/entity — only creates a new message when the processed value has changed. ### Storage - New storage overview in settings showing cached favicons and images with size information. Images are grouped by provider, with a breakdown by source. Provider groups and individual sources can be deleted separately. ### Podcast Player - New info button to display episode descriptions and show notes as a formatted web view directly in the player.

- The feed parser now correctly recognizes images from HTML descriptions, Atom content, and extended Media RSS attributes. - MQTT channels with wildcard topics (`+`) now correctly receive messages. The sub-topic is automatically shown as the source. - Holding the Option key in a feed submenu now shows the full text with multi-line word wrapping. - The character limit for message context was increased from 1,000 to 5,000, so longer feed descriptions are displayed in full.

Optionally open the webhook server to the local network. Defaults to localhost only.

RSS/Atom Feeds Subscribe to RSS and Atom feeds to receive new items as messages. Supports multiple feeds per channel, smart polling with backoff, conditional requests (ETag/Last-Modified), and feed TTL/Cache-Control. Podcast Player RSS feeds with audio enclosures are automatically detected. Play episodes directly from the menu bar with play/pause, skip ±15s, stop, and chapter navigation. YouTube Channel Resolver Paste a YouTube channel handle (@name), channel URL, or channel ID into the RSS provider — channelBar automatically resolves it to the channel's feed. Channel name and thumbnail are extracted for easy identification. Icon Repository Create and manage a library of custom icons from SF Symbols, URLs, or local files. Reference icons in message templates with {icon:name}. Supports custom tinting, automatic resizing, and smart caching. Message Filters (Pro) Per-channel filters to silently discard unwanted messages. Define rules with "Contains" or "Equals" matching. Up to 50 filters per channel. Included in configuration export/import. Unread State New messages appear bold in the menu. Click to mark as read, or use "Mark All Read" per channel. Unread marking can be toggled per channel. Tooltips Hover over a menu bar item to see the full, untruncated message text. Cloud Buffer Reload Reload button to manually refresh the cloud buffer list. Fix: Messages from cloud buffers now display the correct timestamp.