Changelog
What's new in each version of Tesseract.
0.11.0
March 26, 2026
- Summarize with AI — new sidebar section with master toggle to enable/disable AI summaries and the
summarize_dayMCP tool - Conditional MCP tool —
summarize_dayonly appears in MCPtools/listwhen AI summaries are enabled - Updated Claude models — default model picker now shows current model IDs (Haiku 4.5, Sonnet 4.6, Opus 4.6)
- Messages added to skip list — iMessage excluded from capture by default
Enable AI summaries in the app sidebar, or set enableSummarizeWithAI: true in ~/.config/tesseract/config.json.
0.10.1
February 26, 2026
- Tessa CLI — new
tessacommand replacesquerywith typed subcommands:search,today,stats,apps,summarize,scrub - Retroactive data scrub —
tessa scrubapplies redaction patterns to all existing captures (API keys, tokens, credit cards, SSNs, verification codes, sensitive URLs) - Storage API — new batch iteration and in-place update methods on
CaptureStorage
0.10.0
February 26, 2026
Privacy and redaction
- 118 secret patterns from gitleaks (MIT) — covers Stripe, GCP, Azure, SendGrid, GitHub, Slack, AWS, and 100+ other services
- PII redaction — credit cards (Luhn-validated), SSNs, verification codes, password fields, masked character runs
- URL sanitization — strips access tokens, refresh tokens, and JWTs from browser URLs
- Configurable — app exclusions and redaction toggles via
~/.config/tesseract/privacy.json
Performance
- Idle CPU reduced from ~22% to ~0% — timeline UI disabled by default until SwiftUI idle rendering issue is resolved
- Window-switch debouncing — rapid cmd-tab sequences coalesce into a single capture
- Headless mode — app launches as menu bar only; window opens on demand
0.9.3
February 20, 2026
- Fix CPU from GPU surface pool thrashing in animated logo
- Redesign DMG background with radial gradient and Applications folder icon
- Privacy audit documentation and v0.10 roadmap
0.9.2
February 10, 2026
- Differentiate Pause Capture button color from Start Capture
0.9.1
February 10, 2026
- Fix Apple Intelligence chunked summarization
- UI polish
0.9.0
February 10, 2026
- In-app AI summaries — generate daily activity summaries directly in the app
- Editable summary prompt — customize how activity is summarized
- LLM provider settings — configure Claude, Ollama, and Apple Intelligence in Settings
- MCP tools restructured — tools now optimized for time-tracking workflows
0.8.0
February 9, 2026
- Liquid Glass UI — macOS 26 Liquid Glass effects with graceful fallback
- Sidebar layout — Home, Providers, and Settings in a NavigationSplitView
- Auto-save settings — provider settings auto-save with 1-second debounce
- Animated welcome screen — full-size animated tesseract on first launch