Cork 1.3 Out: Better Menu Bar Item, Improved Design, Sweet Performance

Cork 1.3 is out and it includes lots of sweet additions, performance improvements, and bug fixes

In this release, Cork, the ultimate open-souce Homebrew companion, got a few much-requested additions to simplify your life.

Additions

• Much better Menu Bar Item: This convenient thing has gotten a lot of huge improvements. Not only can you now see a list of all your outdated packages, but you can perform all maintenance actions right there from the menu bar.
  No longer do you have to open Cork to tidy up your Homebrew install!
  You can also see a quick overview of your installed packages at the top.

  

• Starting on login: Do you want Cork to open right as you log in? Now it’s possible!

  

• Lists respect system locale: Before, if you had a list of things, no matter what Cork’s language, it would always be a European format of “, “
  Well, no more. Now, all lists follow your system locale properly.

  

• Real-time outputs of commands: Has this ever happened to you:
  You’re installing a package, and the progress bar hangs for a minute. You’re not sure if something got broken, or if a step is just taking a really long time.
  Well, now you don’t have to guess anymore! Enable the option to show real-time outputs of operations, and you’ll be able to see exactly what Homebrew is doing behind the scenes.
  For now, this is only avialable for install actions, but I will also add the other long commands, such as updating packages. You can follow the progress on that here.
  

  

• New exciting languages: Cork now speaks Russian and Czech!

Fixes

• Various places throughout Cork no longer have version numbers of packages included twice next to each other

• Cork again correctly identifies whether you have analytics enabled

• Fixed various race conditions. More is coming later

• Extra long package caveats no longer get cut in half when set to be displayed fully (not in the pill, that always worked properly)

• Notifications about new updates available doesn’t randomly show up anymore when there were no new updates actually available

Adjustments

• New looks of detail pages, consistent with built-in macOS apps
  

  

• Changed internal data structure of Formulae and Casks, should be less memory-intensive now and the performance is better

• The help button in Cask details and Notifications settings pane is no longer a custom SwiftUI view, instead being a standard `NSButton`

Thank you for your support!