github rgdevment/CopyPaste v2.9.0

4 hours ago

Fixes automatic paste on Windows, where the panel could leave the target
window active but without keyboard focus, and restores a safer paste timing
default. Also repairs the Homebrew tap, which could not be installed at all.

Windows paste

  • The paste path no longer attaches input queues when the destination is
    already in the foreground. Hiding the panel hands the foreground back on its
    own; attaching and detaching on top of that reset the keyboard focus Windows
    had just restored, leaving the target active but unable to receive Ctrl+V.
  • Paste timing now defaults to the Normal preset (80/120 ms). v2.8.0 moved
    Windows onto Instant (0/20 ms) assuming native focus verification made fixed
    delays unnecessary; that check only proves the target is the active window,
    so the paste could outrun apps that route keyboard focus internally.
    Configurations left on the untouched Instant preset migrate automatically,
    and tuned values are preserved.
  • Added a diagnostic warning when the destination is active but holds no
    keyboard focus.

Reliability

  • Orphan image cleanup no longer aborts when an external reference lives on an
    unreachable network volume. A failed probe is now told apart from a missing
    file, so an offline volume does not start the purge clock and orphan files
    are no longer stranded on disk indefinitely.
  • Deleting the fallback BMP retries while another process still holds the
    file handle.

Homebrew

  • The Linux formula is now copypaste-linux, leaving the copypaste token to the
    macOS cask. "brew install copypaste" resolved to a formula that failed to
    load, and the cask was only reached through a fallback.
  • Dropped "bottle :unneeded", which Homebrew removed, and replaced the
    deprecated "depends_on macos:" string comparison.
  • Declared the GPL-3.0-only license on the formula.

Tests

  • SingleInstance isolates its OS-global mutex, pipe and wakeup file names, so
    the suite no longer fails when CopyPaste is running on the same machine.
  • The Windows paste-timing migrations are now exercised from any host, instead
    of being skipped everywhere coverage actually runs.
  • The release manifest cache test awaits its stream instead of a fixed delay,
    which raced under a loaded suite.

Known limitation

  • Pasting from the panel into a VS Code extension webview (Claude Code,
    Copilot) does not reach the input. Chromium routes keyboard focus inside
    Blink, where Win32 cannot restore it once the panel takes activation. The
    direct plain-paste hotkey works there because it never activates the panel.

Severity: recommended
Min-Supported: 2.8.0

What's Changed

Full Changelog: v2.8.0...v2.9.0

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