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iStat Menus Changelog

What's new in iStat Menus 6.72

Sep 25, 2023
  • Fixed some layout bugs on macOS Sonoma.

New in iStat Menus 6.71 (Jun 28, 2023)

  • Improved support for early 2023 Mac Studio, Mac Pro, and 15-inch MacBook Air.

New in iStat Menus 6.70 (Feb 1, 2023)

  • Improved support for early 2023 MacBook Pros and Mac minis.
  • Added Apple Weather as a weather provider option.
  • Added Aeris Weather as a weather provider option.
  • Added Environment Canada as a weather provider option.

New in iStat Menus 6.63 (Oct 24, 2022)

  • Improved support for macOS Ventura.

New in iStat Menus 6.62 (Mar 30, 2022)

  • Improved: support for Mac Studio.

New in iStat Menus 6.61 (Nov 17, 2021)

  • Improved: support for M1 Pro and M1 Max Macs.
  • Added: support for battery levels for more devices on macOS Monterey.
  • Fixed: an issue with Bluetooth monitoring on macOS Monterey.

New in iStat Menus 6.60 (Jul 13, 2021)

  • Improved support for M1 Macs.
  • Improved handling of Optimised Battery Charging in macOS Big Sur.
  • Improved monitoring of APFS disks.
  • Improved support for Magic Keyboard with Touch ID.
  • Improved localisations.
  • Fixed an issue with week numbers in menubar.
  • Fixed an issue with some CPU temperature sensors being missing on 2019 iMacs.

New in iStat Menus 6.51 (Nov 20, 2020)

  • Added: support for Apple Silicon Macs.

New in iStat Menus 6.50 (Nov 2, 2020)

  • Added support for petabytes in disks display.
  • Improved support for APFS disks.
  • Improved support for AirPods Pro.
  • Improved display of CPU dropdown history graph with large number of cores.
  • Improved support for 2019 and 2020 Macs.
  • Improved battery menubar icons.
  • Improved preference interface and icon.
  • Removed calendar events for calendars that are not user visible.
  • Removed history database from Time Machine backups.
  • Fixed some issues with menubar colors on macOS 11.
  • Fixed an issue with CPU process display.
  • Fixed an issue with purchasing weather packs on macOS 11.
  • Fixed incorrect battery manufacture dates on some devices.
  • Fixed an issue with Fusion Drive disk activity stats.
  • Fixed an issue with hidden disks still showing in the combined dropdown.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause installation to fail in rare cases.

New in iStat Menus 6.40 (Oct 8, 2019)

  • Added support for macOS Catalina.
  • Added support for second generation AirPods.
  • Improved support for all 2019 Macs.
  • Fixed an issue with disk activity monitoring on APFS based fusion drives.

New in iStat Menus 6.31 (Dec 10, 2018)

  • Fixed and improved many small things

New in iStat Menus 6.30 (Nov 23, 2018)

  • Added menubar spacer items.
  • Added bold font options for all menubar text modes.
  • Added core clock frequency, memory clock frequency and temperature to GPU stats for some AMD GPUs in macOS 10.14.
  • Added label option to battery menubar modes.
  • Added options to group IPv6 address by type and filtering options.
  • Added ability to customise the address used for the internet status checker.
  • Added options to sort world clocks by timezone or longitude.
  • Added option to show size and percentage together for process memory usage.
  • Added option to reduce menubar graph heights.
  • Added ability to create fan rules that use AC state on laptops.
  • Added country flag icon to network menubar modes.
  • Added VPN status icon to network menubar modes.
  • Improved support for 2018 MacBookPros.
  • Improved support for 2018 Mac Minis.
  • Improved support for iMac Pros.
  • Improved menubar graph color options for Bluetooth devices.
  • Improved localizations.
  • Improved VoiceOver support.
  • Fixed process memory figures on 10.14.
  • Fixed issues with IPSec connections.
  • Fixed some issues with GPU monitoring on macOS 10.14.
  • Fixed some issues with bandwidth figures with some VLAN setups.
  • Fixed today widget colors when using macOS 10.14’s dark mode.

New in iStat Menus 6.20 Build 1028 (Jul 18, 2018)

  • Improved support for 2018 MacBookPros.
  • Improved process memory reporting.
  • Improved weather interface.
  • Improved interface for macOS 10.14 Mojave.
  • Improved resource usage.
  • Added ability to change dropdown section header text color.
  • Added ability to have multiple GPU items in menubar to allow processor and memory items simultaneously.
  • Added ISS tracker to light map in time dropdown.
  • Added an option to control if purgeable space is hidden is disk space reporting.
  • Added an option to hide decimal places for temperatures in weather dropdown.
  • Added optional disk icons to Disks dropdown.
  • Improved eGPU support.
  • Improved localizations.
  • Improved default units in Weather extra.
  • Improved internet status checker to use 1.1.1.1 instead of google.com.
  • Fixed some issues with importing a settings file from version 5.
  • Fixed some issues with GPU selection for menubar GPU modes.
  • Fixed some issues with dropdown positioning.
  • Fixed an issue with menubar labels on non-Retina screens.
  • Fixed an issue with fuzzy clock in Time dropdown using wrong timezone.
  • Fixed some issues with memory notifications not being shown.
  • Fixed an issue with Bluetooth icons missing in the menubar for Logitech devices.
  • Fixed a timezone issue on dual line menubar clocks.

New in iStat Menus 6.11 Build 985 (Apr 11, 2018)

  • Added an option to reset all settings.
  • Added location name to weather dropdown when using “current location” to fetch weather.
  • Added ability to change color of menubar labels.
  • Added an option to show BSD names for network interfaces.
  • Added a separate notification type for IPv6 address changes.
  • Improved error handling of weather data.
  • Improved naming of S.M.A.R.T. and NVMe based temperature sensors.
  • Improved daylight saving notifications.
  • Improved disk activity monitoring.
  • Improved disk temperature monitoring.
  • Fixed an issue with some menubar date formats being displayed incorrectly.
  • Fixed an issue with dates using incorrect calendar with some locale settings.
  • Fixed an issue with selected fan speeds not being correctly restored after sleep.
  • Fixed an issue with the exported settings icon.

New in iStat Menus 6.10 Build 965 (Feb 28, 2018)

  • Added ability to select the weather provider.
  • Added AccuWeather as a weather provider option.
  • Added Bureau of Meteorology/WillyWeather as a weather provider option for Australian users.
  • Added ability to search for weather underground stations by station ID. Please see Using Weather Underground weather stations for more information.
  • Added calendar filtering for events.
  • Added support for temperature sensors on NVMe based SSDs.
  • Added ability to set a different timezone for each line of dual line menubar clocks.
  • Added ability to set decimal level for KB and MB separately in network.
  • Added ability to hide the calendar request UI in the Time dropdown.
  • Added ability to drag to scroll the hourly time view in the weather dropdown.
  • Added ability to click weather alert notifications to view more information.
  • Added a larger world clock database.
  • Added a single digit minute option for menubar and dropdown clock formatters.
  • Improved iMac Pro support.
  • Improved localisations.
  • Improved weather location searching.
  • Improved disk activity monitoring.
  • Improved menubar moon icon.
  • Improved dropdown readability when using the “Increase Contrast” accessibility option.
  • Improved internet connection status notifications.
  • Improved Combined dropdown layout.
  • Fixed an issue with some GPUs always showing zero for processor usage.
  • Fixed an issue with clocks not being properly localised with some languages.
  • Fixed an issue with clock formats appearing incorrectly with some languages.
  • Fixed an issue with some custom graph colors not being applied to graphs in Combined dropdown.
  • Fixed an issue with custom graph colors not being applied to bar graphs in Sensors dropdown.
  • Fixed an issue with AirPods battery graphs not showing correctly in some cases.
  • Fixed an issue with event day headers showing incorrect date.
  • Fixed an issue where UPS names might be missing in battery dropdown.
  • Fixed an issue where it wasn’t possible to scroll in the fan speed editor with lots of fans.
  • Fixed an issue with the scale text on some of the disk activity history graph modes.
  • Fixed some installation issues.

New in iStat Menus 6.0 (Sep 25, 2017)

  • General:
  • Added light and dark vibrant dropdown themes.
  • Added new localisations. Main app and status items are now localised in 36 languages.
  • Added option to temporarily pause iStat Menus.
  • Added configureable notifications .
  • Added hotkey support for each dropdown.
  • Added ability to customise the order of each dropdown.
  • Added ability to hide sections in each dropdown.
  • Added single user install mode.
  • Added extra slow update frequency.
  • Added larger and more detailed history graphs with tooltips.
  • Added support for automatically installing updates (can be disabled).
  • Added options to change colors in dropdown graphs.
  • Added option to use light graph backgrounds with light dropdowns.
  • Added Notification Centre widget.
  • Added an option to use a narrower font in menubar text modes.
  • Improved history graphs to cover last 30 days.
  • Improved voiceover support.
  • Improved launcher — iStat Menus icon in dropdowns will now launch a specific preferences tab.
  • Improved and reduced width of menubar text modes.
  • Improved user interface design.
  • Improved app icon.
  • Weather:
  • Added a brand new weather item with 7 day forecasts, hourly forecasts, notifications and more.
  • Combined:
  • Added new dropdown with more information.
  • CPU & GPU:
  • Added hotkey support.
  • Added ability to customize dropdown order and hide sections.
  • Added list of processes that require discrete GPU.
  • Added option to configure how many processes are shown.
  • Added ability to show notifications based on CPU usage.
  • Added ability to show notifications based on load average.
  • Added ability to show notifications when active GPU changes.
  • Added ability to reset menubar graph colors and text settings to defaults.
  • Added options to change colors in dropdown graphs.
  • Added CPU temperature.
  • Added CPU frequency (requires Intel kext).
  • Added GPU frequency for intel GPU’s (requires Intel kext).
  • Added new GPU menubar modes.
  • Added circular CPU graph menubar mode.
  • Improved process list — it will now show frozen processes in red.
  • Memory:
  • Added hotkey support.
  • Added ability to customize dropdown order and hide sections.
  • Added option to configure how many processes are shown.
  • Added paging indicator modes for menubar.
  • Improved memory usage display in dropdown.
  • Improved page in/out to report usage per second.
  • Improved swap history graph to show space used instead of percentage of available swap.
  • Added ability to reset menubar graph colors and text settings to defaults.
  • Improved process list — it will now show frozen processes in red.
  • Added ability to show notifications based on memory pressure.
  • Added ability to show notifications based on free memory.
  • Added options to change colors in dropdown graphs.
  • Added circular graph menubar mode.
  • Disks:
  • Added hotkey support.
  • Added ability to customize dropdown order and hide sections.
  • Added option to configure how many processes are shown.
  • Added ability to reset menubar graph colors and text settings to defaults.
  • Improved “Disks to show in menubar” will now retain disks that are not connected instead of removing them.
  • Improved process list — it will now show frozen processes in red.
  • Added ability to show notifications based on free space for each drive.
  • Added ability to show notifications based on used percentage for each drive.
  • Added ability to show notifications when S.M.A.R.T. status changes for a drive.
  • Added options to change colors in dropdown graphs.
  • Added circular graph menubar mode.
  • Network:
  • Added hotkey support.
  • Added internet status to network, as a status dot mode.
  • Added ability to customize dropdown order and hide sections.
  • Added option to configure how many processes are shown.
  • Added country flag to public IP field based on location.
  • Added ability to manually reset total upload/download figures.
  • Improved process list — it will now show frozen processes in red.
  • Added ability to show notifications when primary interface changes.
  • Added ability to show notifications when IP address changes.
  • Added ability to show notifications when public IP address changes.
  • Added ability to show notifications when wifi network changes.
  • Added Wi-Fi physical mode details to Airport details in submenu.
  • Added Wi-Fi channel bandwidth to Airport details in submenu.
  • Added BSSID to Airport details in submenu.
  • Added options to change colors in dropdown graphs.
  • Added option to change unit lengths on menubar text mode.
  • Added option to combine bandwidth for all interfaces into a single graph in dropdown.
  • Sensors:
  • Added hotkey support.
  • Added ability to customize dropdown order and hide sections.
  • Added support for CPU & GPU frequency sensors (requires Intel driver).
  • Added a brand new fan rule settings that allow you to change active fan set based on temperatures, active CPU and battery state.
  • Added ability to customise decimal places and units for each menubar sensor.
  • Added ability to show notifications when a temperature sensor is above a specified value.
  • Added options to change colors in dropdown graphs.
  • Improved fan speed editors — they now allow manual fan speed entry.
  • Battery & Power:
  • Added hotkey support.
  • Added ability to customize dropdown order and hide sections.
  • Added support for AirPods and some Beats headphones.
  • Added ability to customise menubar layout for bluetooth devices.
  • Added ability to customise menubar layout for AirPods.
  • Added ability to choose which batteries are shown in menubar.
  • Added a stacked text mode that shows percentage and time for internal batteries or left and right for AirPods.
  • Added ability to show notifications when battery is charged.
  • Added ability to show notifications when charger is connected or disconnected.
  • Added ability to show percentage notifications when battery is charging.
  • Added watts alongside voltage and amperage values for internal battles.
  • Added option to completely disable all bluetooth monitoring.
  • Added options to change colors in dropdown graphs.
  • Time:
  • Added hotkey support.
  • Added ability to customize dropdown order and hide sections.
  • Added ability to show menubar clocks on two lines.
  • Added ability to show multiple clocks in the menubar with different timezones.
  • Added more moon details.
  • Added golden hour and blue hour to world clocks.
  • Added analogue menubar clock.
  • Added ability to show notifications for upcoming daylight savings changes.
  • Added a graphite calendar theme.
  • Added UTC offset to city details view.
  • Added option to extend events to next 48 hours.
  • Added 24 hour date token without leading zero.
  • Added option to change first day of week in calendar.

New in iStat Menus 5.32 (Sep 25, 2017)

  • Improved support for 2017 MacBook Pros.
  • Improved support for 2017 MacBooks.
  • Improved support for 2017 iMacs.
  • Improved per process network monitoring.
  • Improved per process memory monitoring in macOS 10.11 and 10.12.
  • Improved support for macOS 10.13.
  • Improved bluetooth battery monitoring.
  • Improved disk monitoring performance.
  • Fixed an issue with the sun position in light map.

New in iStat Menus 5.31 (Nov 22, 2016)

  • Improved support for late 2016 MacBook Pros.
  • Improved per process network monitoring in macOS 10.12.
  • Fixed a memory leak.
  • Fixed an issue where processes could be displayed the wrong name.
  • Fixed an issue with week number in menubar.
  • Removed declined events from calendar.

New in iStat Menus 5.30 (Nov 3, 2016)

  • Added preliminary support for late 2016 MacBook Pros.
  • Improved support for macOS 10.12.
  • Improved bluetooth battery monitoring.
  • Fixed missing network processes in macOS 10.12.
  • Fixed menubar order not being remembered in macOS 10.12 after rebooting.
  • Fixed an issue where iStat Menus may have required the discrete GPU to be used.
  • Fixed an issue with requesting calendar event access.
  • Fixed an issue where there may have been extra logging appearing in Console if the Disks extra was enabled in macOS 10.12.

New in iStat Menus 5.20 (Jul 22, 2016)

  • Added additional sensors for some Macs
  • Added ability to search for states when adding world clocks.
  • Added a new single letter day token to date formatters that uses the MTWRFSU format.
  • Added seperate Order tab for controlling menu item order in macOS 10.11.
  • Added informational tooltips to clock format tokens.
  • Reduced CPU usage.
  • Reduced memory usage.
  • Improved support for macOS 10.12 Sierra.
  • Improved GPU monitoring on macOS 10.11+.
  • Improved UPS support.
  • Improved support for late 2015 iMacs.
  • Improved support for 2016 MacBook.
  • Improved some sensor names.
  • Improved Portuguese, French and Italian localisations.
  • Fixed an issue where the time item may not detect automatic timezone changes correctly.
  • Fixed an issue with network interfaces sometimes being incorrectly showing as inactive.
  • Fixed an issue where some GPUs may not have been shown on Mac Pros.
  • Fixed an issue with bandwidth in the menubar with virtual interfaces.
  • Fixed an issue with calendar event and reminder access on macOS 10.11.
  • Fixed an issue with the combined dropdown when changing dropdown skins.
  • Fixed an issue with disk space not being reported for some disks.
  • Fixed an issue with the CPU cores submenu not updating.
  • Fixed an issue with S.M.A.R.T. hard drive temps not showing for some drives.
  • Fixed an issue with sorting network processes by upload.
  • Fixed a memory leak on some systems.
  • Fixed an issue with the CPU core submenu not updating correctly.

New in iStat Menus 5.11 (Sep 25, 2015)

  • Added preliminary support for OS X 10.11 El Capitan.
  • Added support for 2015 15-inch MacBook Pro.
  • Added ability to hide disk activity graphs for individual drives.
  • Added options to use bold text for all dual line menubar text modes (Yosemite and newer only).
  • Added history graphs for S.M.A.R.T. hard drive sensors.
  • Improved network monitoring.
  • Improved S.M.A.R.T. monitoring.
  • Improved calendar event display by filtering out disabled calendars from Calendar.app.
  • Fixed an issue with some history graphs being blank.
  • Fixed some display issues when using “Increase Contrast” accessibility option.
  • Fixed some issues with VPN connections.
  • Removed declined events from Time dropdown.

New in iStat Menus 5.10 (Apr 8, 2015)

  • Improved performance and reduced memory usage.
  • Improved support for 5k iMac.
  • Added support for 2015 MacBook Airs.
  • Added support for 2015 13-inch MacBook Pro.
  • Added ability to have different skin settings for light and dark menu bar modes in Yosemite.
  • Added more memory details when using Memory Pressure mode.
  • Added an option to show activity for individual disks in the menubar.
  • Added an option to show activity for each disk in a fusion drive in the disks dropdown.
  • Added ability to rename cities.
  • Added an option to only show MB/s or Mb/s for bandwidth in the menubar.
  • Added new hardware info to network connection submenus.
  • Fixed some issues where disk activity was missing for some disks.
  • Fixed an issue with disk activity not working with SoftRAID disks.
  • Fixed an issue where disks could show 0KB free.
  • Fixed an issue with 12 hour time formats if system is set to 24 hour time.
  • Fixed an issue in the network extra where the primary interface setting may not have been working correctly in the menubar.
  • Improved per app network monitoring on Yosemite.
  • Improved GPU monitoring.
  • Improved disk activity monitoring.
  • Improved layout in disks dropdown when a disk has multiple partitions.
  • Improved display of some menubar text modes in Yosemite.
  • Improved event dots in calendar.
  • Improved moon item display when using Simple city layout.
  • Improved city database.

New in iStat Menus 5.03 (Oct 23, 2014)

  • Added support for late 2014 iMac and late 2014 Mac mini.
  • Added ability to customize menubar graph background opacity when using Yosemite’s dark menubar.
  • Fixed menubar dimming on secondary displays on Yosemite.
  • Fixed an issue with week numbers being incorrect in some timezones.
  • Fixed an issue with the calendar month name being incorrect in some timezones.
  • Fixed an issue with minimum fan speed on some models.
  • Fixed a battery menubar display bug with dark mode in Yosemite.
  • Fixed an issue with Czech localization.
  • Fixed some process display issues on Yosemite.
  • Fixed a bug with default disk activity colours being back to front in preferences.
  • Fixed a problem with graphics cards not being listed on 2013 Mac Pros.
  • Fixed a problem with graphics card monitoring on some iMacs.
  • Improved rendering of menubar calendar numbers.
  • Improved battery icons.

New in iStat Menus 5.02 (Oct 17, 2014)

  • Improved Yosemite support.
  • Improved active graphics card detection.
  • Improved process display.
  • Improved Bluetooth battery monitoring.
  • Improved UPS support.
  • Improved localizations.
  • Improved battery previews when customising for each mode.
  • Improved moon display for northern hemisphere.
  • Improved timezone abbreviations.
  • Improved network status dot — now uses the primary interface if one is set in preferences.
  • Improved SNR display — it’s now dB instead of dBm.
  • Improved read/write colours for disk activity graphs (read is now blue, write is red).
  • Added an option to disable process combining (under the Stats menu in the iStat Menus app).
  • Added support for 3rd party calendar apps.
  • Added an option to hide Bluetooth kb/mice from menubar.
  • Added arrow mode to network extra.
  • Fixed an issue with battery condition when battery needs servicing.
  • Fixed some battery display bugs with dark mode in Yosemite.
  • Fixed menubar display issues with Bluetooth kb/mice on desktop systems.
  • Fixed issue with GPU memory and processor labels being back to front.
  • Fixed issue with menubar disk activity readings.
  • Fixed menubar moon display.
  • Fixed some installation issues with custom umasks.
  • Fixed issue where city list could appear empty on first run in preferences.

New in iStat Menus 5.0 (Aug 5, 2014)

  • General:
  • Added support for Yosemite’s dark menu bar mode.
  • Added a new dark theme for menubar graphs.
  • Added many localisations for menubar extras.
  • Added the ability to import and export settings.
  • Improved process names.
  • Improved process display by combining child processes with parent process.
  • Improved and reduced padding at the top and bottom of all dropdown menus.
  • Network:
  • Improved application bandwidth monitoring.
  • Added application upload stats to network extra.
  • Added DNS, router address and subnet mask info to network dropdown.
  • Added Wi-Fi connection info to network dropdown.
  • Added Wi-Fi power toggle to network dropdown.
  • Added a network status menubar option.
  • Added a DHCP refresh button to network dropdown.
  • Added ability to hide individual network connections.
  • Added option to hide IPv6 addresses.
  • Added option to only show the first IP for each connection in the main menu.
  • Memory:
  • Added option to show per-app memory usage as a percentage of total memory.
  • Added support for compressed memory (Mavericks and Yosemite only).
  • Added support for displaying memory usage as “pressure” (Mavericks and Yosemite only).
  • Added swap memory history graphs.
  • Added page in and page out history graphs.
  • Improved per-app memory usage to match activity monitor in Mavericks/Yosemite.
  • CPU & GPU:
  • Added option to show per-app CPU usage as 0-100% (instead of 0-400% for a 4 core Mac).
  • Added option to combine logical (Hyper-Threading) cores with parent physical core.
  • Added a load average menubar option.
  • Added GPU processor and memory history graphs (on supported models).
  • Improved load average graph interface.
  • Added active GPU menubar item.
  • Disks:
  • Added per-app disk activity to Disks extra.
  • Added new display options for Disks dropdown.
  • Improved free disk space info. It no longer includes local time machine backups.
  • Added disk activity text menubar display mode.
  • Added ability to hide individual disks.
  • Added graph type option for disk activity graphs.
  • Improved RAID support.
  • Improved support for fusion disks.
  • Sensors:
  • Added option to turn fan control off.
  • Improved sensors graph interface.
  • Improved display of sensors with long names.
  • Added ability to hide individual sensors.
  • Improved sensor history graphs.
  • Battery:
  • Improved low battery warnings. They are now shown using Notification Center alerts.
  • Added ability to create custom battery notifications.
  • Added battery history graphs.
  • Added a list of process using significant energy to the battery dropdown.
  • Added new battery stats.
  • Time:
  • Added option to disable calendar.
  • Added option to choose week number format.
  • Added a smaller city display mode (version 4 style with clock face is available as an option).
  • Improved city database with over 120,000 cities (some cities may need to be added again after updating to version 5).
  • Added short timezone date format option.
  • Added st/nd/rd/th date format option.
  • Added a sunlight map to city submenus.
  • Added additional sun information to city submenus.
  • Added night time clock faces in dropdown.
  • Added ability to shift click the calendar arrows to change between years.

New in iStat Menus 4.22 (Aug 5, 2014)

  • Added support for Mid 2014 21.5 inch iMac.
  • Improved process names.
  • Improved update checker.
  • Improved S.M.A.R.T. monitoring.
  • Fixed a bug with skip in the update checker.
  • Fixed an issue where GPU temperature.
  • Fixed an issue where sensors could disappear.

New in iStat Menus 4.21 (Apr 10, 2014)

  • Fixed an issue with cycling between months in the calendar.
  • Fixed an issue with IP addresses not updating correctly.
  • Fixed two issues that could cause history graphs to not work correctly in some situations.
  • Fixed some layout issues with disk activity history graph in the menubar.
  • Fixed a layout issue in the network drop down graphs when using “stacked” graphs.
  • Fixed an issue with connection time for some VPN connections.
  • Improved resource usage on OS X 10.6.

New in iStat Menus 4.20 (Feb 3, 2014)

  • Added support for Late 2013 Mac Pro.
  • Improved support for Late 2013 MacBook Pro.
  • Improved support for Late 2013 iMac.
  • Added support for monitoring multiple GPUs.
  • Improved GPU monitoring.
  • Improved Mavericks support.
  • Fixed some display bugs in Network and Disk Activity history graphs.
  • Fixed some calendar display bugs.
  • Fixed a crash in the Sensors extra in Mavericks.
  • Fixed a layout issue with long IPv6 addresses.
  • Improved support for loading a large number of events in the Time extra.
  • Improved error handling when calendar event database isn't available.
  • Fixed some issues after migrating to a new mac.
  • Fixed some issues when iStat Menus is installed in /Applications/Utilities/

New in iStat Menus 4.10 (Oct 26, 2013)

  • Improved Mavericks support.
  • Added support for late 2013 iMacs.
  • Added support for late 2013 MacBook Pros.
  • Fixed an issue with menubar bandwidth being incorrect when connected to a VPN.
  • Fixed link to Network Utility in Mavericks.
  • Fixed a calendar display bug.
  • Fixed an issue with IP Addresses not being updated.
  • Improved support for FireWire disks.

New in iStat Menus 4.06 (Jun 24, 2013)

  • Added support for 2013 MacBook Airs.
  • Improved S.M.A.R.T. monitoring.
  • Improved support for Mavericks developer preview.
  • Improved performance.
  • Improved history graph interface.
  • Fixed some issues when migrating to a new mac.
  • Fixed an issue with some voltage sensors showing incorrect values.
  • Fixed an issue where menubar disk activity indicators could become stuck.
  • Fixed an issue where the calendar didn’t change months automatically.
  • Fixed an issue where world clocks didn’t load straight away.
  • Fixed an issue where network bandwidth could be truncated in the menubar.

New in iStat Menus 4.05 (Apr 1, 2013)

  • Added CPU Core temperature sensors and CPU power sensors for some Sandy/Ivy Bridge based systems.
  • Improved performance.
  • Improved support for Cisco VPN connections.
  • Fixed incorrect connection state problems with VPN connections.
  • Fixed an issue where invalid/unsupported temperature sensors were being shown on some Macs.
  • Fixed menubar time format problem if multiple hour tokens were used.
  • Fixed issue that could lead to incorrect disk names being shown in disk activity.
  • Fixed a display issue where upload and download graph colours were back to front in the Stacked mode in the Network menu.

New in iStat Menus 4.04 (Feb 25, 2013)

  • Fixed issue with the wrong GPU being shown as active.
  • Fixed issue with calendar incorrectly showing some days as being in the next month.
  • Fixed issue with VPN connections causing incorrect bandwidth reading in the menubar.
  • Fixed several issues with fan control settings not being applied in some conditions.
  • Fixed menubar layout issue with used/free mode in Disks.
  • Fixed layout issue with CPU history graphs in menubar in some situations.
  • Fixed issue in Time where the hour could be displayed wrong with some configurations.
  • Fixed issue with A/P display in world clocks.
  • Fixed issue with corrupt history databases.
  • Reduced disk write frequency of history databases.

New in iStat Menus 4.03 (Feb 25, 2013)

  • Fixed an issue where items wouldn’t update.
  • Improved download & upload order to be more consistent in the Combined item.
  • Improved selected state for menubar icons.
  • Improved some menubar icons.
  • Fixed an issue where where the world clocks list didn’t display correctly.
  • Fixed an issue with processes not displaying.

New in iStat Menus 4.02 (Dec 5, 2012)

  • Added dark dropdown theme.
  • Added white menubar theme (for those with a dark Mac menubar).
  • Added more customisation options in Disks extra.
  • Moved disk activity into main drop down in Disks extra.
  • Improved download & upload order to be more consistent.
  • Fixed some installation issues.
  • Fixed several calendar issues.
  • Fixed world clocks being in the wrong order in some cases.
  • Fixed an issue that caused the menubar time to stop updating.

New in iStat Menus 4.01 (Dec 3, 2012)

  • Added ability to copy public IP address.
  • Fixed issues with calendar showing incorrectly in some timezones.
  • Fixed issue with disk activity not working with some disks.
  • Fixed missing sensors on 2012 Mac mini and 13 inch Retina MacBook Pro.
  • Fixed issue with "Show inactive as free" memory option not working in some elements.
  • Fixed issue with HD space calculations.
  • Fixed issue with Default fan speed setting not working.
  • Fixed issue with active fan set showing the wrong name.
  • Fixed issue with network menubar showing no activity in some cases.
  • Fixed issue with missing menubar elements in battery extra on desktop systems.
  • Fixed issue launching Network and Energy Saver preference panes.
  • Fixed issue with public IP showing a private IP with some network configurations.

New in iStat Menus 4.00 (Nov 29, 2012)

  • Full Retina display support, including all new menubar icons and user interface.
  • Improved support for OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.
  • Added per process network bandwidth monitoring.
  • Added support for calendar events.
  • Added history graphs for CPU over 1 hour, 24 hours and 7 days.
  • Added history graphs for memory over 1 hour, 24 hours and 7 days.
  • Added history graphs for disk space over 24 hours and 7 days.
  • Added history graphs for disk activity over 5 minutes, 1 hour, 24 hours and 7 days.
  • Added history graphs for network activity over 1 hour, 24 hours and 7 days.
  • Added history graphs for load averages over 5 minutes, 1 hour, 24 hours and 7 days.
  • Added history graphs for sensors over 1 hour, 24 hours and 7 days..
  • Added more detailed GPU monitoring.
  • Added the ability to change fan speed from the menubar.
  • Added SMART status monitoring to disks.
  • Added read and write IOPS to disks.
  • Combined Disks and Disk Activity.
  • Improved icon.
  • Hundreds of bug fixes and other minor improvements.

New in iStat Menus 3.27 (Oct 24, 2012)

  • Fixed performance issues caused by the previous update.
  • Fixed some issues with process monitoring in the combined extra.
  • Fixed some missing images in the combined extra.
  • Fixed an issue with hard drive temperature monitoring.
  • Updated fan control database.

New in iStat Menus 3.26 (Oct 16, 2012)

  • Fixed bug where SMART drive temperature might be missing initially.
  • Fixed performance issues caused by the previous update.

New in iStat Menus 3.25 (Oct 9, 2012)

  • Important bug fixes.
  • Replaced open iCal with open Calendar for Mountain Lion users.
  • Improved support for Mountain Lion.
  • Improved process monitoring.
  • Improved update checker.

New in iStat Menus 3.24 (Jul 12, 2012)

  • Improved OS X Mountain Lion support, including Gatekeeper.
  • Fixed some minor bugs.
  • Added ability to send diagnostic and usage data.

New in iStat Menus 3.23 (May 22, 2012)

  • Fixed missing images in Combined extra.
  • Fixed display issue with low battery warning in Combined extra.

New in iStat Menus 3.22 (May 5, 2012)

  • Fixed fan control.
  • Improved GPU monitoring.

New in iStat Menus 3.21 (Jan 27, 2012)

  • Improved GPU monitoring performance.
  • Fixed issue with firewall in version 3.20.
  • Fixed memory leak in CPU extra.
  • Fixed bug with disks in preferences.

New in iStat Menus 3.20 (Jan 25, 2012)

  • Improved performance and bug fixes for GPU monitoring.
  • Time Machine backups disk is now hidden in Disks Usage.
  • Fixed an installer bug.

New in iStat Menus 3.19 (Nov 29, 2011)

  • Final release for Mac OS X 10.5 and PPC. Future releases will require an Intel based Mac running Mac OS X 10.6 or newer.
  • Fixed bug that could cause GPU stats to stop updating.
  • Recovery partition in Mac OS X 10.7 is now hidden in the Disks extra.
  • Improved sensor support for Mid 2011 iMacs.

New in iStat Menus 3.18 (Jun 16, 2011)

  • Improved support for Mac OS X Lion.

New in iStat Menus 3.18 (Jun 16, 2011)

  • Improved support for Mac OS X Lion.

New in iStat Menus 3.17 (May 25, 2011)

  • Added preliminary support for Mac OS X Lion.
  • Improved support for 2011 MacBook Pros.
  • Improved stability.

New in iStat Menus 3.16 (Feb 17, 2011)

  • Added GPU memory usage to CPU extra dropdown.
  • Added name of active GPU to CPU extra dropdown.
  • Added support for IPv6 addresses in network extra.
  • Added support for multiple IP addresses in network extra.
  • Localized names in the combined extra.
  • Fixed bug with terabyte values in the network extra dropdown.
  • Fixed bug with german fuzzy clock translation.

New in iStat Menus 3.12 (Feb 17, 2011)

  • Minor bug fixes.

New in iStat Menus 3.11 (Dec 13, 2010)

  • Improved sensor support for late 2010 MacBook Air's
  • Improved sensor support for Intel based XServe's
  • Fixed bug with temperature sensor support on MDD G4's
  • Fixed bug with empty fields in the Combined extra causing incorrect display of the CPU extra in the source list
  • Performance improvements

New in iStat Menus 3.10 (Sep 23, 2010)

  • Added new Combined extra.
  • Added around 100 new sensors for Intel based Macs.
  • Improved sensor support for PowerMac G5s and PowerBook G4s.
  • A new icon.
  • Fixed bug with battery sensors being listed under fans on PowerBooks and iBooks.
  • Fixed bugs with week of year in menubar.

New in iStat Menus 3.05 (Aug 12, 2010)

  • Fixed bug with localization introduced in version 3.04.
  • Fixed bug with custom fan speeds being applied after wake even though fan speed control was turned off.

New in iStat Menus 3.04 (Aug 6, 2010)

  • Added support for fan speed control on 2010 iMacs.
  • Added support for Magic Trackpad in the battery extra.
  • Added optional shadows for bandwidth text.
  • Added day of year and week of year tokens to menubar date formatter.
  • Improved sensor monitoring on 2010 iMacs.
  • Sunrise and sunset info now uses 24-hour time if world clocks use 24-hour time.
  • Fixed bugs with fan speed control after wake.

New in iStat Menus 3.03 (Jul 7, 2010)

  • Added support for sensor monitoring on 2010 MacBook Pros and Mac Minis.
  • Added an optional moon phase icon to the Date & Time extra.
  • Added an optional transparent calendar icon to the Date & Time extra.
  • Added an option to hide UPSs from the menubar.
  • Improved stability.
  • Improved city searching.
  • Fixed bug with fan speeds being reset to default after sleep.
  • Fixed bug with UPSs not showing as charged.
  • Fixed localizations with fuzzy clock.
  • Fixed some installer bugs.
  • Mono battery icons now show in white when selected.

New in iStat Menus 3.02 (May 26, 2010)

  • Added easier to find Uninstall buttons in extras and preferences app when trial is over.
  • Added generic Eastern/Central/Mountain/Pacific cities for USA.
  • Improved fan speed control.
  • Fixed bug that could cause some of the extras to crash.
  • Fixed bug with network scaling slider showing incorrect value after relaunch.
  • Fixed bugs with clock format editors.
  • Minor localization fixes.

New in iStat Menus 3.01 (Apr 28, 2010)

  • Improved translations.
  • Added battery monitoring of newer Apple Wireless Keyboards.
  • Fixed bug with fan speed menu not being in sync with prefs.
  • Fixed bug with fan speed being reset to default when power adapter is connected in some cases.
  • Fixed bug with fan speed not be set to custom setting after reboot.
  • Fixed crash in memory extra.
  • Fixed bugs with fuzzy clock in some languages.
  • Fixed bug with battery display incorrectly showing 100% in rare cases.
  • Fixed bug with “Edit Preferences” button not being hidden in Battery extra.
  • Fixed a bug where CPU pie chart didn’t respect the “Use black graphs and icons in menubar” setting.
  • Battery display can now be empty when “Customize menubar for different states” is enabled.

New in iStat Menus 3.0 (Apr 23, 2010)

  • The preferences are now in a standalone app, rather than a preference pane (and a completely new design, too).
  • Simplified installation—just run the app or drag to your Applications folder.
  • Added stacked mode to sensors extra.
  • Added fan speed control to sensors extra (Intel only).
  • Added public IP to network extra.
  • Added battery extra.
  • Added sun and moon info for each city in Date & Time.
  • Added moon phase info to Date & Time.
  • Added fuzzy clock.
  • Added flashing time separators.
  • Improved S.M.A.R.T. drive temperature monitoring.
  • Reduced cpu usage in sensors extra.
  • Added localizations for menu extras (Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Japanese).
  • Fixed crash in iStat Local.
  • Fixed crash in Network extra.
  • Fixed crash in Disks extra.
  • Fixed bug with network usage on newer Macs.
  • Fixed bug with CPU usage being incorrect with some configurations.
  • Fixed conflict between Messages.framework and network extra.
  • Fixed bug with calendar week display.
  • Fixed bug with date display in Date & Time dropdown.
  • Fixed connection time for PPP connections.
  • Fixed time for dialup connections.
  • Fixed ejecting of network disks.

New in iStat Menus 2.0 (Sep 3, 2009)

  • Mac OS X 10.6 support (requires at least Mac OS X 10.5).
  • Aqua skin support in all dropdowns.
  • New menubar layout selectors.
  • Installer now allows you to install for all users.
  • Added option for “Preferences...” item on each dropdown.
  • Added red and purple skins.
  • Display options for each mode are built into the new layout selector.
  • New calendar and world clocks.
  • Added over 20,000 new cities to world clock database.
  • You can now add custom cities to the world clock database.
  • Added several new clock formatters.
  • New clock format selector.
  • Calendar icon can now be place anywhere.
  • Fixed bugs with week number calculations.
  • Calendar supports any day as the first day of the week.
  • Improved calendar support for countries where weekends are on thursday and friday.
  • Date in Date & Time dropdown now uses the full date format as specified in the International or Language & Text preference pane in system preferences.
  • Option to group items together for CPU extra.
  • Improved CPU dropdown display on 16 core systems.
  • Added pie graph mode to CPU.
  • Option to limit CPU history graph to 1 item.
  • Added Console item to CPU and Memory extras.
  • Added pie graph mode to Disk Usage.
  • Added disk ejecting.
  • Added disk mounting.
  • You can now have multiple disks or sensors in the menubar.
  • Network disks are now support in Disk Usage extra.
  • Added option to use base 10 match for calculating hard drive sizes (same as Finder in 10.6).
  • Added Disk Utility item to disks extra.
  • Added new Activity extra for disk activity.
  • New Sensors extra replaces the Temperatures and Fans & Electrics extras.
  • Option to hide “rpm” suffix from menubar display for fans.
  • Fixed bug with “disable on battery” option for S.M.A.R.T drive temperature monitoring.
  • Support for battery cell voltages.
  • Added Overlay graph type to Network extra.
  • Added option to scale network graphs to visible peak.
  • Added network location switching.
  • Added dot mode to Network & Activity extras.
  • Improved support for 2009 Mac Pros.
  • Removed Bluetooth extra (most features will be included in a new extra later on).

New in iStat Menus 1.3 (Jun 6, 2008)

  • Swapped order of disk activity arrows - read is now on top
  • Added font size options for most menubar text modes
  • Added shadow options for most menubar text modes
  • Added process monitoring to memory extra
  • Added PPP controls to network extra (10.5 only)
  • Added configuration switching for network connections where applicable - vpn, modem, bluetooth (10.5)
  • Added option to use rounded corners on menubar graph modes
  • Leaner date & time dropdown
  • Added current read/write values as text to activity monitoring in drives extra/li>
  • Improved support for LaunchCFM application names in process monitoring
  • Fixed display bug with memory pie graph when �MEM� label was turned off
  • Aqua skin in date & time extra now respects the system theme (10.5)
  • Bug fixes with using a SMART drive as the primary temperature sensor
  • Improved SMART temperature monitoring
  • Fixed math bug in used/free mode in memory extra
  • Added option to disable SMART temperature monitoring when running on battery power
  • Added basic accessibility support to all extras
  • Updated Preference Pane interface
  • Updated clock format selector
  • Replaced old world clock format options with a new format selector
  • Added Power/Voltage/Current monitoring support to updated fans extra (now known as Fans & Power)
  • Updated process monitoring server
  • Added ability to copy ip addresses in the network extra (10.5 only)
  • Improved MDD temperature support
  • Improved Macbook Air temperature support
  • Network extra will now shows decimal values for KB/Kb values
  • Added option to to show removable media in disks extra
  • Improved support for vpn connections in network extra

New in iStat Menus 1.21 (Feb 26, 2008)

  • Version 1.21 fixes an issue with the menu bar clock not allowing/accepting spaces between items.

New in iStat Menus 1.2 (Nov 24, 2007)

  • Added additional icon designs for menubar icon in date & time extra
  • Added pie graph mode to memory extra
  • Added option to show bandwidth graphs in network dropdown
  • Added option to show disk activity graph in disks dropdown
  • Added ability to choose which S.M.A.R.T. drives are shown in the temperature dropdown
  • Added ability to select a S.M.A.R.T. sensor as the primary temperature sensor
  • Added process monitoring to cpu extra
  • Added new menubar clock format selector
  • Fixed bug with stale network shares in disks extra
  • Added data format selector for network extra (allows you to change display to bits and also display values below 1KB)
  • Fixed bug with menubar display in temperature extra
  • Fixed bug with �Use black graphs�� option in memory extra menubar display
  • Fixed timezone change bug in Date & Time extra
  • Added support for Powerbook temperature sensors that previously were stuck on 1 value
  • Improved support for fans on iBooks and Powerbooks
  • Added ability to change disk activity arrow colors
  • Added ability to change menubar clock text color
  • Added font size option for clock text
  • Updated menubar graph width for network extra (now matches cpu extra)
  • Added option to show GMT offset in world clock display
  • Added option to hide U:/F: labels in used/free mode in disks extra
  • Added option to hide U:/F: labels in used/free mode in memory extra
  • Added option to use our �Blaqua� skin in the date & time extra
  • Reduced memory usage (around 40% overall)
  • Updated Intel sensors module
  • Added support for new iMac sensors and Intel XServe sensors
  • Menubar text/graph turns grey in network extra if no network connection is found(user requested)
  • Improved dropdown appearance in 10.5
  • Replaced Internet Connect button with Network Preferences button in network extra for 10.5 users
  • Fixed bug with timezone changes and Date & Time extra
  • Fixed bug with 12am display on 24 hour clock
  • Timer text in pref pane now updates constantly during slider adjustments