stonerl/Thaw 1.0.1-beta.5 on GitHub

This beta focuses on bringing Thaw to a global audience with extensive localization support and refinements for macOS 26 stability.

Project-Wide Localizability: Refactored the codebase to ensure all user-facing strings in AppKit and SwiftUI components are localizable.

Raised the maxCacheSize from 50 to 200 to prevent icons from silently disappearing for power users.
Optimized LRU eviction to skip items in currently displayed sections, preventing capture-then-evict cycles.
Improved logging to track the full LRU order for better debugging.
Notched Display Awareness: Added a getMenuBarHeightEstimate() helper with a three-tier fallback (live query, cached value, or notch-aware default) to prevent icon clamping issues on MacBooks.
Ultra-Wide Monitor Fix: Implemented chained 9,999pt spacers to ensure hidden items are pushed fully offscreen on displays wider than 5,000 points.

Increased the watchdog timer to 6 seconds during layout drags to prevent premature cursor restoration.
Added logic to reset the layout UI automatically after a watchdog timeout.
Restored millisecond/microsecond cases in timeouts to satisfy linter requirements.
Temporary Item Logic: Added a grace period to prevent temporary menu items from rehiding instantly when window layer detection fails.

New Logging Pipeline: Added a user-facing toggle in Advanced settings to enable diagnostic logging for the menu bar item cache pipeline.
Finder Integration: The "Show Log Files in Finder" button and latest log filenames now remain visible whenever logs exist on disk.

Full Changelog: 1.0.1-beta.4...1.0.1-beta.5

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