sw33tLie/macshot v4.0.5-beta.5

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Added

• DMG drag-to-install layout — DMG now shows app icon + Applications folder with arrow background, matching the standard macOS install experience.
• Move to Applications prompt — when launched from a DMG or translocated path, offers to copy the app to /Applications with one click.
• Duplicate instance alert — shows a message instead of silently quitting when macshot is already running.

Fixed

• Saved screenshots have wrong colors on multi-monitor setups — the save pipeline was converting Display P3 pixels to sRGB, shifting colors on mixed-colorspace setups (P3 built-in + sRGB external). Now embeds the native display color profile without altering pixel values. Removed the "Embed sRGB color profile" toggle — native profile is always embedded.
• GIF export crash on longer recordings — CGImageDestinationFinalize read freed pixel buffer memory (use-after-free) because alwaysCopiesSampleData=false allowed buffer recycling. Each frame's pixels are now copied into an owned context immediately.
• GIF export freezes the UI — switched from Swift concurrency Task.detached (cooperative thread pool shares threads with the main actor) to GCD .background queue (real kernel thread that macOS deprioritizes).
• GIF export shows no progress — "Processing GIF…" status now persists with a percentage indicator (0–50% during frame reading, then 100% after finalize).
• Focus not returning to previous app — dismissOverlays in startCapture was consuming previousApp before the new capture started, so focus couldn't be returned after the capture finished.
• Text tool can't select other annotations — clicking an arrow/rectangle while in text mode now selects it instead of requiring a tool switch.
• Text annotation bounding box too wide — width now shrinks to fit the actual text content on commit instead of keeping the original drag width. Fixed single-character minimum width.
• Multi-select conflicts with Shift constraining — multi-select moved from Shift+click to Ctrl+click, consistent with Ctrl+drag for lasso. Shift is now purely for angle/shape constraining.

Changed

• Faster first capture — Core Animation/Metal pipeline pre-warmed at app launch. ScreenCaptureKit content cache no longer bypassed on every capture.