Added
- Meru Pro: 1Password can now run on sites you add yourself. Add sites at
Settings… → Extensions, beside Set up desktop app, lets it sign you in on your company's single sign-on provider as well as on Google's own sign-in pages. Added sites apply after a restart. - Linux: AppImageLauncher, AppImageUpdate, AM and other AppImage tools can now update Meru in place, downloading only the parts that changed rather than the whole file.
Changed
- Show Gmail unread badge at
Settings… → Workspace Appsreplaces Hide Gmail unread badge when active. It adds a Never choice that hides the unread count on the Gmail tab altogether, alongside Always and When another tab is active, which is what the old setting did. Your existing choice carries over automatically. - Show extensions button and the titlebar button it showed are gone. The 1Password popup that button opened isn't fully supported in Meru, and 1Password is meant to be used on the sign-in page itself, through its inline menu and the prompts it shows there.
- 1Password's description at
Settings… → Extensionsnow says it needs the 1Password desktop app, and is no longer cut off after two lines. - Linux: the AppImage for Intel and AMD machines is now named
Meru-<version>-x86_64.AppImage, matching the arm64 one. - macOS: on macOS 12 and earlier, this is the last version of Meru. It stops checking for updates there and gets no further fixes, security fixes included, so continued use on those Macs is at your own risk. If you have Meru Pro and can't keep using Meru because of this, email tim@meru.so for a refund.
Fixed
- Windows: Meru can now be made your default mail client. It never appeared under Windows'
Settings → Default apps, and the switch atSettings… → Generalsaid Meru was the default while another app kept opening email links. The row now opens Meru's page in Windows Settings, where you can choose it. - Windows: 1Password's Add Browser no longer rejects Meru as unsigned. The Windows build is code-signed, so Windows shows Meru's publisher instead of Unknown publisher.
- Windows: the 1Password setup steps at
Settings… → Extensionsnow point to Meru's install folder,%LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\Meru, instead ofC:\Program Files, where Meru isn't installed. - New mail notifications, verification codes included, no longer go missing — not for the first email after launch, not for an email that arrives while you're reading another one, and not for mail Gmail reports late.
- After your computer wakes from sleep or the network changes, the inbox, the unread badge and new mail notifications no longer lag minutes behind your phone. Meru refreshes Gmail as soon as the connection is back, and checks for new mail every 30 seconds until Gmail's own updates have caught up.
- With Extend dark theme on, mail you compose in Gmail no longer carries the dark theme's light text colors into drafts and sent messages, which made them unreadable in light-themed mail clients.
- Help → Report Issue, Ask Question and Request Feature now open a compose window that follows Extend dark theme and Close compose window after send.
Internal Changes
- Upgraded Electron from 43.5.1 to 43.7.0, picking up the matching Chromium security and performance fixes.