What changed in YEN

2 builds shipped · through v1.149

This week restores one coherent motion language across YEN's native workspace. Quick Terminal is full-width again without the stray black bar, and every tray — Git Drawer, Tab Sidebar, Scratchpad, and Quick Terminal — now parks, slides, and finishes on the same sequence in both directions, including under Reduce Motion, so the workspace feels like one native system.

12 builds shipped · through v1.147

This week made YEN's native workspace easier to trust under both heavy work and small interactions. Scratchpad data, unusual Git filenames, review logs, screenshots, and background images now hold up under pressure, while predictable Command Palette focus, a full-height Tab Sidebar, faster Settings, and stronger VoiceOver and dictation support make the care visible every time you work.

14 builds shipped · through v1.135

Updates became lighter, safer, and easier to trust this week. Delta patches cut download size, the updater received a security refresh, Reduce Motion arrived without giving up performance, and fixes for tab memory, app lifecycle, padding controls, and disabled shortcuts made long sessions feel calmer and more understandable.

15 builds shipped · through v1.121

The Git drawer grew into a faster keyboard-first workspace this week, with focus-aware navigation, native diff color, sticky previews, clean copy-on-select, and clearer project context. Multi-file paste, selection gestures, steadier panel anchoring, sharper themes, and text-rendering fixes carried that same sense of precision through the rest of YEN.

11 builds shipped · through v1.106

Git work started feeling native to YEN this week. The drawer gained a Quick Terminal-style entrance, colored diffs, stash visibility, stronger headers, reliable shortcuts, and calmer startup behavior, while editor handoff moved off the main thread so even large conflict reviews stay responsive.

4 builds shipped · through v1.095

This week focused on keeping fast workflows inside the lines. Quick Terminal now stays on-screen, Shortcuts captures cleaner terminal output, and refreshed terminal and JSON foundations keep the small tools behind everyday automation dependable.

10 builds shipped · through v1.091

Settings became faster, clearer, and easier to trust this week. Instant tab switching, brighter controls, focused layout presets, sharper shortcut feedback, faster file previews, and more accurate mouse and shell reporting make customization feel immediate instead of administrative.

8 builds shipped · through v1.081

A concentrated reliability pass made the edges of YEN much harder to break. Browser links, Tab Sidebar toggles, Quick Terminal splits, large selections, system information, color schemes, and the release gates underneath them all received fixes, leaving everyday use steadier from click to command.

6 builds shipped · through v1.073

The foundation moved forward in a meaningful batch this week. A 22-commit terminal-engine refresh, a newer fuzzy finder, and updated Git tooling keep search, rendering, and source-control workflows current without asking you to relearn anything.

5 builds shipped · through v1.067

Small interactions became much more dependable this week. Open Terminal Here works reliably from Finder, nested splits resize predictably, focus and quit behavior feel settled, search is smoother, and refreshed bundled tools keep the whole loop quick.

2 builds shipped · through v1.062

Your workspace now remembers more of what makes it yours. Transparency persists across tabs and windows, while refreshed system information keeps the terminal's view of the machine current.

2 builds shipped · through v1.060

File work got faster and more inclusive this week. Quicker previews reduce the wait between finding and understanding a file, while normalized macOS paths and a new locale make that experience work cleanly in more environments.

8 builds shipped · through v1.058

YEN became a sharper control room for both the machine and the workspace this week. Apple Silicon GPU monitoring arrived alongside more dependable Tab Sidebar clicks, Settings navigation, IME input, search, command-palette focus, sound controls, and built-in help for agent commands.

9 builds shipped · through v1.050

Rich fonts, deeper search, and safer browser workflows led this week's improvements. A major terminal-engine refresh added OpenType validation, while browser lifecycle fixes, accessibility polish, stronger scriptability, and hardened shell integration made advanced workflows feel less fragile.

5 builds shipped · through v1.041

This week tightened the surfaces you notice only when they go wrong. Faster UTF-8 handling, viewport fixes, cleaner browser layering, steadier Settings lifecycle behavior, and more reliable menu shortcuts make YEN feel composed under everyday pressure.

8 builds shipped · through v1.036

Long sessions became lighter this week. Background tabs use less memory, a tab leak was closed, the app download shrank, Scratchpad selection became more natural, and a run of terminal, window, review, and dock-icon refinements made the whole product feel leaner.

11 builds shipped · through v1.028

Speed and trust moved forward together this week. Cached IDE detection made prompts noticeably faster, a source-built diff renderer improved review independence, and fixes across shortcuts, delete-key mapping, Settings, app intents, notifications, and bundled tools reduced friction throughout the terminal-first workflow.

18 builds shipped · through v1.017

YEN crossed the 1.0 milestone with a stronger engine, refreshed tools, and a workspace that felt ready to call home. Wallpaper controls, steadier loading, a restored Settings design, update permission that respects the user, and repeated maintenance passes turned the milestone into a dependable daily release rather than a number alone.

5 builds shipped · through v0.999

The final approach to 1.0 concentrated on polish where power users feel it most. Layout-aware shortcut conflict detection, clearer split labels, fullscreen and notch fixes, stronger IDE behavior, cleaner notifications, and refreshed Settings made complex setups easier to operate with confidence.

15 builds shipped · through v0.994

YEN's terminal-first IDE story took a major step this week. The Tab Sidebar, pull-request review workspace, and merge-conflict workspace brought richer Git work into the app, while attachments, a Homebrew install path, a redesigned installer, stronger security, and cleaner notification handling made the expanding product feel cohesive.

45 builds shipped · through v0.978

YEN expanded beyond the terminal canvas without losing its center this week. Scratchpad became a global, always-ready note surface; dictation, file browsing, system information, Tahoe icons, accessibility, and update delivery all improved; and extensive reliability work made the new breadth feel safe enough for daily use.

39 builds shipped · through v0.928

Customization and confidence advanced together this week. Palette skins, sound packs, a Settings toolbar, stronger window standards, better dictation permissions and recovery, safer entitlements, and fail-closed release checks gave YEN more personality while tightening the system beneath it.

31 builds shipped · through v0.879

YEN became dramatically more personal and hands-on this week. Tabbed Settings, a shortcut editor with conflict detection, ten split layouts, hands-free pointer controls, better notifications, and safer wrapping turned experimentation into practical ways to shape the workspace around you.

1 build shipped · through v0.77

Voice-to-text became easier to trust with a clear recording indicator. The small visual cue closes the loop between pressing the dictation shortcut and knowing YEN is listening.

2 builds shipped · through v0.56

This week was about making daily terminal use feel settled. A zsh title-handling fix and a stabilizing build removed small sources of uncertainty so sessions begin and stay predictable.

2 builds shipped · through v0.29

YEN entered the new year with a faster terminal foundation and a clearer visual identity. Performance improvements moved the engine forward while the brand accent brought system UI into the same world as the app.

24 builds shipped · through v0.82

The first major post-launch hardening sprint simplified how YEN is built, diagnosed, and updated. A richer CLI toolkit, clearer cache recovery, a leaner updater architecture, shell-compatibility fixes, smaller Apple Silicon builds, and reorganized documentation made both the product and every release after it easier to trust.

89 builds shipped · through v0.54

YEN's launch-era foundation came together in one intense week: signed and notarized universal builds, styled automatic updates, direct versioned downloads, a startup wrapper baked into the app, clearer verification, and a more consistent mobile site. Those changes turned a fast terminal build into a product people could install, update, understand, and trust.

Today's YEN is a fast, GPU-accelerated terminal for macOS with built-in speech-to-text, a native browser preview, a file browser, and terminal-first IDE workflows. It's free, private, and there's nothing to sign up for.

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