Cua Driver 0.18.0

Summary

This release adds 3 features and includes 29 fixes.

Features

• drop the session orb from the cursor badge. (#2842)
• exact-target macOS background input v1. (#2837) Thanks @hami-sh, @ampagent.
• add macOS Spaces awareness to list_windows. (#2850) Thanks @rs280.

Fixes

• prevent Linux uinput pointer panics. (#2736) reported by @marvinbaudach.
• quiesce idle Wayland overlay. (#2828) reported by @OsvaldoLRR-dev.
• bound Linux AT-SPI listener startup. (#2827) reported by @feifguo.
• hard-bound Windows UIA provider calls. (#2117) Thanks @injaneity; reported by @muyiai.
• report macOS key delivery truthfully. (#2830)
• stop Windows update --apply from killing itself. (#2805) Thanks @rsyuzyov.
• select the correct Linux AT-SPI application tree. (#2740) reported by @ai-ag2026, @alexdimadi.
• harden Windows discovery and foreground input. (#2812) Thanks @loonghao.
• bound Linux snapshots after app exit. (#2822) Thanks @aryasaatvik.
• verify exact macOS window activation. (#2829)
• bound Windows installed-app discovery. (#2855) reported by @dgmpurf.
• bound Windows app-name lookup. (#2858)
• explain permanent scope recovery. (#2857)
• refuse minimized Windows element actions. (#2849) Thanks @biztex.
• avoid accessibility advertise on Cinnamon. (#2784) reported by @falagama-cpu.
• launch desktop AppsFolder apps on Windows. (#2862)
• bound large macOS text synthesis. (#2863)
• repair X11 overlay after display changes. (#2354) Thanks @KeroZelvin.
• fail closed on X11 overlay shape errors. (#1818) Thanks @KoolenDasheppi.
• keep Windows cursor visible without focus theft. (#2864) reported by @rsyuzyov.
• clarify synthetic browser click outcomes. (#2866)
• keep Windows autostart on the junction path. (#2809) Thanks @rsyuzyov.
• avoid retrying deferred text writes. (#2701) Thanks @railapex.
• report PostMessage pixel fallback truthfully. (#2873)
• stage local installs over a running driver. (#2889)
• scope the Linux AT-SPI walk to the requested window. (#2895)
• keep remote debugging enabled when a restart is needed. (#2911)
• ignore macOS compositor sibling surfaces. (#2908)
• report honest macOS browser chrome coverage. (#2919)

Performance

• accelerate macOS window capture with ScreenCaptureKit. (#2795) Thanks @rickoslyder.
• accelerate Linux X11 capture with MIT-SHM. (#2796) Thanks @rickoslyder.

Contributors

Thanks to @ai-ag2026, @alexdimadi, @ampagent, @aryasaatvik, @biztex, @dgmpurf, @falagama-cpu, @feifguo, @hami-sh, @KeroZelvin, @KoolenDasheppi, @loonghao, @marvinbaudach, @muyiai, @OsvaldoLRR-dev, @railapex, @rickoslyder, @rs280, @rsyuzyov for contributing to this release.

Install

macOS and Linux:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://cua.ai/driver/install.sh)"

Windows:

irm https://cua.ai/driver/install.ps1 | iex

Cua Driver ships universal macOS binaries, x86_64 and arm64 Windows builds,
and Linux preview builds. Release assets also include tag-pinned installer and
uninstaller scripts.

Why GitHub says “Pre-release”

GitHub's label is used only to keep this monorepo's repository-wide “Latest”
pointer from switching between independently released products. A plain Cua
Driver SemVer such as 0.18.0 is a stable release; npm and PyPI publish it on
their normal stable channels, and the installers resolve the versioned
cua-driver-rs-v* releases directly.

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Full changelog

cua-driver-rs-v0.17.0...cua-driver-rs-v0.18.0