FuJacob/cotabby v0.2.0-beta

Cotabby 0.2.0-beta

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Cotabby v0.2.0-beta

This release focuses on performance, stability, customization, and making Cotabby feel better across more macOS apps.

A lot of the commits in this release were small bug fixes, cleanup changes, or quick reverts, so this summary groups the meaningful changes instead of listing every commit one by one.

Highlights

• Lower idle CPU usage

  • Reduced background polling in browser and Electron apps.
  • Debounced visual context updates.
  • Fixed indeterminate ProgressView spinners that could keep CPU usage high.

• New Fast Mode

  • Added a Fast Mode toggle that skips the screenshot/OCR pipeline.
  • Useful for users who want lower overhead and faster completions.

• Better autocomplete behavior

  • Tightened completion length budgets.
  • Fixed double spaces when accepting suggestions.
  • Added better word-boundary handling during insertion.
  • Added an option to accept a word without also accepting trailing punctuation.

• More flexible shortcuts

  • Added support for binding any key as the accept shortcut.
  • Added an option to hide the accept-key hint from suggestions.

• More local model options

  • Added tabby-pico-1, the smallest default model.
  • Added tabby-nano-1.
  • Added tabby-max-1.
  • Updated the README model table with shipped models and community alternatives.

• Hugging Face model browser

  • Added a Hugging Face model browser to local model settings.
  • Makes it easier to discover and manage compatible local models.

• Better language support

  • Added support for multiple writing languages using a soft prompt hint.
  • Suggestions should behave better for users writing outside of English.

• Improved caret placement

  • Improved browser caret placement.
  • Suggestions should appear more reliably near the cursor in supported browser text fields.

• More customization

  • Added ghost-text color controls.
  • Added ghost-text opacity controls.
  • Added support for a custom activation indicator icon.

• Cleaner menu bar UI

  • Grouped the menu bar popover into divider-separated sections.
  • Trimmed less-used quick toggles from the popover.
  • Added tooltips across Settings and menu bar quick controls.

• Stability fixes

  • Fixed a heap-corruption crash when deinitializing the caret geometry cache.
  • Fixed flickering in the guided-permission helper during the permission granting flow.
  • Removed the temporary menu-bar busy indicator after testing.

• macOS 14 support

  • Lowered the minimum macOS deployment target from macOS 15 to macOS 14.

• Updates and packaging

  • Added update checks on launch.
  • Pinned Sparkle update checks to a daily interval.
  • Added automatic Homebrew cask updates on release.
  • Updated funding metadata.

• Project infrastructure

  • Added XcodeGen project configuration.
  • Added checks to guard the generated Xcode project against drift.
  • Documented the XcodeGen workflow.

• Docs and repo cleanup

  • Restyled the README header.
  • Updated repo links to point at FuJacob/cotabby.
  • Retitled the “Created by” section.

New contributors

• Thanks to @undivisible for their first contribution in #268.

Full Changelog: v0.1.1-beta...v0.2.0-beta