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Kap Changelog

What's new in Kap 3.6.0

Oct 28, 2022
  • You can now pause/resume a recording. (thanks to @thethomasz)
  • While recording, Option-click the menu bar icon to pause or right-click for more options.

New in Kap 3.5.5 (Aug 11, 2022)

  • Fix a crash on macOS 13 beta

New in Kap 3.5.4 (Feb 23, 2022)

  • Don’t fail the recording on recording warnings

New in Kap 3.5.3 (Feb 6, 2022)

  • Trying to fix recording error.

New in Kap 3.5.2 (Jan 18, 2022)

  • Fix notarization.

New in Kap 3.5.1 (Dec 9, 2021)

  • Fix ZIP build not being included.

New in Kap 3.5.0 (Dec 9, 2021)

  • Kap now runs natively on Apple silicon.
  • Fix code signing issue.

New in Kap 3.4.2 (Nov 15, 2021)

  • Kap should now be properly signed.

New in Kap 3.4.1 (Oct 17, 2021)

  • Fix opening the plugin config sheet

New in Kap 3.4.0 (Sep 17, 2021)

  • Fix macOS 12 compatibility (#1028) 448e7f0
  • Improve the user-interface (#1016) 777d780
  • Add support for HEVC (#1021) bc60c67

New in Kap 3.3.2 (Sep 10, 2020)

  • Fix infinite error loop (#929) 25fde50
  • Ignore certain errors (#930 #932) d26b6b6
  • Replace first-run with electron-util#isAppFirstLaunch (#931) f2d87bd

New in Kap 3.3.1 (Aug 21, 2020)

  • Fix Input Devices issue on 10.13 (#915) ce4d772
  • Fix cropper shortcut bug (#916) b818db3

New in Kap 3.3.0 (Aug 21, 2020)

  • Fix time estimate in exports window (#860) bd0ff3f
  • Add microphone option in the cog menu (#859) 3788a42
  • Allow plugins to specify macosVersion they support (#872) 7330c99
  • Only start editor playback after recording if editor is focused (#873) a54b24b
  • Persist format specific fps (#874) 4332805
  • Allow plugin control via deep-link (#877) 0f97654
  • Better error handling (#879) 6388e6b
  • GIF compression (#748) cc34315
  • AV1 support (#902) efff407
  • Recover recordings after unexpected crash (#899) e11b3df
  • Improve setting a global keyboard shortcut experience (#897) d27a921

New in Kap 3.2.2 (May 3, 2020)

  • Fix input devices bug (#844) 9cdafe9
  • Improve the order of the menu items (#843) b3c37ec

New in Kap 3.2.1 (Apr 29, 2020)

  • Improve error handling (#837) f2ad4f0
  • Fix editor options bug (#827) 144077b
  • Fix the audio enabled error (#828) 647459b
  • Ensure that an exception while loading a plugin does not break the app (#835) dbbe7a6
  • Fix checking for wether cropper is open or not (#830) 1156945

New in Kap 3.2.0 (Apr 1, 2020)

  • Add support for editing and recording plugins (#804)
  • Remember FPS selection when exporting (#802)
  • Use native about window (#801)
  • Fix UX for incompatible plugins (#816)
  • Fix a bug causing a lot of Sentry events (#814)

New in Kap 3.1.0 (Feb 18, 2020)

  • Add deep linking support for plugins (#795) 3b29d58
  • Plugins can now implement OAuth flows.
  • Add the ability for a plugin to execute an action when the user clicks a notification it presented (#799) 148a638
  • Handle editor dimension calculations on Enter (#789) 78d5bdf
  • Fix prompt that is shown when quitting while exporting (#780) bcb9781
  • Fix plugin error messages e094413 2c58ba5

New in Kap 3.0.1 (Dec 2, 2019)

  • Notarize the app (#759) ff3c828 3382c96 4fd70f3
  • Evaluate math expressions in the editor controls (#769) f62d7bb
  • You can for example write (100 * 2) + 5 in the "Width" input and then press tab.
  • Fix plugin usage history (#767) 6832d82
  • Fix microphone permissions and installing plugins (#763) 6f7f61f
  • Use Yarn for installing plugins (#756) bd50d27
  • Ensure dock is showing before showing dialogs (#764) 086e840

New in Kap 3.0.0 (Dec 2, 2019)

  • After more than a year of iteration and collaboration with our community, Kap 3.0 is finally here.
  • If you're on macOS 10.15, after you move Kap to the Applications directory, right-click on Kap, and select Open. You only need to do this once.
  • Dark Mode Support
  • Save Original
  • Snap to Window
  • Keyboard Shortcuts
  • Plugin Configuration
  • Copy to Clipboard
  • Preview Snapshot
  • Drag-and-drop Exports
  • Open Kapture With
  • Improved Permissions
  • And numerous other improvements.

New in Kap 2.2.0 (Jun 4, 2018)

  • Better circle (#455)
  • Fix tray window opening on the wrong screen (#459)
  • Fix some Touch Bar bugs (#460)
  • Enhance Google Analytics (#463)
  • Add max-width: 288px; to preference description & title (#467)
  • Fix email link
  • Disable Sentry logging

New in Kap 2.1.2 (Apr 20, 2018)

  • Fixed dimension swapping.
  • Fixed moving the fullscreen cropper.
  • Fixed undefined error in the FPS input in the editor.
  • Kap now only tries to fetch plugins from the public npm registry. Previously, if you had a .npmrc file in your home directory with an alternative registry, it would use that.
  • Kap now includes the app name in the update notification so you can more clearly see what app the notification is from.

New in Kap 2.1.1 (Mar 22, 2018)

  • Fixes an issue with the "Do Not Disturb" feature and makes it disabled by default.

New in Kap 2.1.0 (Mar 22, 2018)

  • There's now an option to turn off the global record shortcut. It's useful for people that had it conflict with other apps. This is a temporary solution until we add ability to specify custom keyboard shortcuts.
  • Kap now activates the system "Do Not Disturb" feature while recording. If you don't want this, you can turn it off in the Preferences window.
  • A new experimental option to hide desktop icons while recording. This can be useful if your desktop is messy or if you have sensitive files there.

New in Kap 2.1.0 Beta 1 (Mar 9, 2018)

  • Allow only one plugin to be installing/uninstalling at the time (#361)
  • Fix package.json formatting
  • Debounce cropper view size changes (#304)
  • Disable windows sub menu if there are no selectable windows (#366)
  • Fix issue with plugins view when showing local plugin
  • Add a `.prettyFormat` context property for plugins (#389)
  • Improve plugin docs
  • Bump `insight` to fix permission issue
  • Upgrade dependencies (#401)
  • Blacklist menubar icons from the window selector (#403)
  • Fix `NonError: 1` and make MP4 obey `fps` and `dimensions` (#402)
  • Improve 'close-editor-window' detail message (#404)
  • Add user preference to hide desktop icons during recording (#405)
  • Ensure consistent code style across the project (#408)
  • Improve logging
  • Fix typo in ratio selection event listener (#417)
  • Beta build customizations

New in Kap 2.0.0 (Feb 1, 2018)

  • New features πŸ”₯:
  • Plugins
  • Trimming
  • APNG support
  • Fullscreen recording
  • Window recording
  • Aspect ratio calculator
  • Touch Bar support
  • Redesign
  • Fixes πŸ₯:
  • Improved persistent settings
  • Hide main window on system startup
  • Missing audio in certain recordings
  • Recording errors in macOS Sierra
  • Highlight clicks will now not be highlighted when turned off
  • Kap should no longer show up in recordings (but will be missed)
  • Better error handling
  • Minor ✨:
  • Scrubbing preview playback
  • Animated menubar icon
  • Cancel exports

New in Kap 2.0.0 Beta 6 (Jan 30, 2018)

  • Add guide for releasing a new Kap version (#336)
  • Blacklist redundant apps (#342)
  • Force CircleCI to build on Git tags (#344)
  • Use the first audio source if not set by the user and remove `None` from the preferences (#343)
  • Bump Electron
  • Fix ratio calculation (#346)
  • Add loading toggles to plugins pane in preferences (#347)
  • Add cancel export functionality (#335)
  • Use caret `^` for dependency versions
  • Remove `cursor:pointer` (#348)
  • Don't hide the window when devtools is focused
  • Remove some forgotten leftovers
  • Don't close Preferences window when it loses focus (#349)
  • Hopefully fix corrupt icon
  • Add default export buttons (#345)
  • Export window improvements (#353)
  • Beta build customizations

New in Kap 2.0.0 Beta 5 (Jan 19, 2018)

  • Fix dragging preferences and editor window via window header (#324)
  • Handle non-errors (#328)
  • Set minimum supported macOS version in the build config
  • Upgrade to CircleCI 2
  • Log Kap version and user locale to Sentry
  • Add mute and unmute button to the editor (#334)
  • Hide custom ratio temporarily
  • Ensure Kap lives in the Applications folder (#333)
  • Upgrade `electron-builder`
  • Beta build customizations

New in Kap 2.0.0 Beta 4 (Jan 11, 2018)

  • Add plugin install app title for macOS Sierra
  • Use `electron-util`
  • Notification to open folder after save (#305)
  • Add no-drag to video controls (#308)
  • Ignore yarn log files
  • Persist settings across relaunch: Aspect ratio options (#303)
  • Upgrade Sentry implementation (#307)
  • Add DevTools extensions
  • Fix `gulp build`
  • Bump some dev dependencies
  • Simplify the dev script
  • Add fullscreen and app crop selection options (#306)
  • Fix menu label
  • Disable detaching main window (#313)
  • Temporarily disable drag cursors (#314)
  • Ratio selector improvements (#312)
  • Update node-mac-app-icon dep (#317)
  • Fix: Keep cropper window open when app is activated (#318)
  • Open cropper window on any change (#319)
  • Fix fullscreen coordinates (#320)
  • Safely fail if there is no app icon (#321)
  • Remove now moot encoding option from `node-mac-app-icon` (#322)

New in Kap 2.0.0 Beta 3 (Jan 11, 2018)

  • Add CSS linter (#284)
  • Fix selecting aspect ratio via Touch Bar (#282)
  • Prevent updating the Touch Bar on each trim handler drag (#287)
  • Fix saving to an external disk (#289)
  • Add beta update functionality
  • Update trimming handles to match design (#288)
  • Notify on plugin install/uninstall success and failure (#290)
  • Make plugin uninstall happen instantly (#292)
  • Enable ASAR (#293)
  • Use ffmpeg npm package instead of custom script (#294)
  • Remove legacy update notification (#295)
  • Build Kap on CircleCI on Git tags too (#296)
  • Beta build customizations

New in Kap 2.0.0 Beta 2 (Nov 1, 2017)

  • This beta introduces a complete redesign, support for 3rd party plugins, trimming, Touch Bar functionality, exporting to multiple formats including APNG, and heaps of bug fixes and improvements.

New in Kap 1.0.1.1 (Mar 1, 2017)

  • Fixes:
  • Bring back audio in recordings longer than 10 seconds wulkano/aperture@6e6daf4
  • Fix cropper window size update
  • Added a nice animation to the button groups
  • Update ffmpeg download URL
  • Show Aperture errors and report to Sentry
  • Move from our custom electron to the official one
  • Fix the slide behaviour when the controls are closing

New in Kap 1.0.0 (Dec 12, 2016)

  • New features:
  • Complete redesign
  • Record input audio #41
  • Export to WebM #86
  • Refreshed Editor
  • Preferences #17
  • Fixes:
  • Record secondary screens #33 #57
  • Full screen recording #58
  • Various improvements and bug fixes
  • Minor:
  • Manually check for updates #106
  • Show or hide mouse clicks, including option to highlight clicks
  • Set capture FPS
  • Ability to change default save to location
  • Option to launch on system startup #61
  • Shortcuts #63

New in Kap 0.3.0 (Oct 18, 2016)

  • GIFs:
  • Kap's most wanted feature is live – now you can export your Kaptures as GIFs!
  • Fixes:
  • Fix the size of the recorded area – #36 – by @stursby
  • Fix a glitch that would happen when the Controls section is expanded – #29 – by @stursby
  • Refactor the update notification system – no more repeated downloads/notifications – #51
  • Only apply cursor: default to texts – 9d28253
  • Minor:
  • Add a setting to change the default folder where the Kaptures will be saved – #35 – via @stursby
  • Log every message/error to the DevTools console – bc78207

New in Kap 0.2.0 (Oct 10, 2016)

  • New features:
  • The cropper window can now be moved with the keyboard arrows
  • The input values can now be changed with the keyboard arrows
  • Fixes:
  • Do not attempt to init the auto updater in development
  • Do not update the reported size of the recording area if the inputs have focus
  • Fixed hover behaviour for the traffic lights
  • Minor:
  • Revamped front-end code, featuring lots of improvements
  • Now we have a License (MIT)
  • Make sure the linter runs before every push
  • Switch to Electron's save to dialog instead of a hacky href approach
  • Stylistic update for a more clean and spacious app