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Burrow 0.8.0

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Burrow 0.8.0

A top-to-bottom visual redesign, a wave of new tools, a deeper agent surface,
and an early Windows preview. Still local-first — no new always-on network.

Redesigned

  • A warm, tactile new look — a warm-coffee adaptive palette, film grain over a
    soft gradient, a floating icon rail (replacing the top tabs), borderless
    cards, and the Geist / Cal Sans type system.
  • Overview — Health pulled into an open hero band over a cleaner 3-up
    vitals grid.
  • History — a focal hero chart with a selectable metric strip (tap to swap),
    plus drag-select on a chart to surface the top processes for that spike.
  • Menu-bar HUD — borderless tiles on the same warm ground. Doctor and
    Restore reskinned to match; edge-fade scrollers throughout.

New & improved tools

  • Ports — live connections, bandwidth, reverse-DNS peers, service labels,
    conflicts, sortable columns, and a detail view.
  • Get Online / Connectivity — MDM + gateway checks, active-interface IP,
    captive-portal and device-side rescue, one-click fixes.
  • Tune-Up — a Smart-Care flow (scan → results → run) that auto-scans on entry.
  • Homebrew — Services (start / stop / restart), Brewfile snapshots
    (export / restore), and live brew upgrade progress in Updates.
  • Menu bar — customizable popup, Stats-depth widgets, a RunCat-style runner,
    and live metric widgets in the status item.
  • Disk gains a "Full in ~N" forecast; Doctor gains SMART-health and
    backup-awareness checks, with backup-overdue / SMART-failing reminders;
    multi-select bulk reclaim; a git purge-safety badge.

For your AI agent

  • A deeper MCP surface: a token-gated /events SSE stream and burrow_diff
    (e.g. login-item churn), so an agent can watch and compare your machine over
    time.

Windows preview (new)

  • An early native WinUI 3 / .NET 8 app now lives under windows/ — Status,
    History, Analyze, Apps, a tray HUD, local telemetry/history, and an MCP stdio
    bridge. Build from source; unsigned preview.

Performance & stability

  • Killed several main-thread app-hangs (process table, sort, ICU on the render
    path, app icons, clean reports, the software list). Onboarding now
    auto-detects mo.

Under the hood

  • The repo is now a monorepo (macos/ + windows/), with inside-out framework
    signing for notarization and an automated upstream mo release watcher.

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