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Changelog

Published improvements to Mist, separated from unreleased work.

Mist 1.16.4

ReleaseFixes
  • Centered the visible clock on custom backgrounds in both formats and sizes, while keeping the last digit complete.
  • Added WebP custom background imports alongside PNG and JPG, with updated instructions in all five interface languages.
  • Fixed palette generation for images with only one or two colors.
  • Added a separate PNG image download in the website community gallery, while keeping the full theme download.

Mist 1.16.3

ReleaseCustomization
  • Added clock size, bold text, high contrast, and white or black outline controls.
  • Added renaming for shortcut groups, including Main, without changing their shortcuts.
  • Saved the new settings locally and included them in configuration backups.
  • Improved settings layout for narrow windows, translations and enlarged text.
  • Linked Firefox and Zen installation buttons to the official Firefox Add-ons listing.

Mist 1.16.2

ReleaseMaintenance
  • Improved release checks with parallel browser tests and test timing reports.
  • Kept all eight shortcut styles and the Edit mode improvements from 1.16.0.

Mist 1.16.1

ReleaseMaintenance
  • Improved shortcut-style test reliability and isolated unpacked browser tests.
  • Accepted Windows and Linux line endings in shared appearance checks.

Mist 1.16.0

ReleaseShortcuts
  • Added Soft glass and Translucent shortcut styles, for a total of eight.
  • Kept shortcut spacing stable in Edit mode.
  • Translated the new style controls into all five interface languages.

Mist 1.15.0

ReleaseShortcuts
  • Added six shortcut styles, including the original compact Classic tiles layout.
  • Applied shortcut styles to color themes, premium themes and custom wallpapers.
  • Saved the selected style locally and included it in full configuration backups.

Mist 1.14.1

ReleaseWidgets
  • Added a once-per-release What’s new popup and widget controls in Edit mode.
  • Added Undo for widget removal, backup preview and Undo after import.
  • Added a saved option to place widgets before or after shortcuts.
  • Improved widget readability, keyboard access, settings and narrow layouts.
  • Preserved Pomodoro progress when timer preferences change.
  • Included the changes from 1.14.0, which was not released, and fixed timer controls with enlarged text.

Mist 1.13.0

ReleaseCommunityThemes
  • Added a sharing invitation after saving a new custom wallpaper.
  • Separated sharing a private theme link with a friend from publishing to Mist Community.
  • Added dedicated pages and independent consent for private sharing and public publication.
  • Kept existing private links compatible and translated the new extension actions into all five supported languages.

Mist 1.12.0

ReleaseCommunityWidgets
  • Added the Community Wallpaper Hall of Fame with recent and popular discovery views.
  • Added public wallpaper publishing with a required title and optional description and nickname.
  • Detected image dimensions and file size automatically and rejected perceptual duplicates.
  • Added anonymous votes, reports, daily and weekly publishing limits, and downloadable Mist imports.
  • Added local Pomodoro and opt-in RSS widgets with persistent state and resilient caching.

Mist 1.11.1

ReleaseWallpapers
  • Added a public wallpaper collection with original downloads and optimized WebP files.
  • Added the first credited Hall of Fame wallpapers.
  • Improved custom-theme background shading and clock contrast.

Mist 1.11.0

ReleaseThemesPrivacy
  • Added private sharing, preview, download and import for custom-theme backgrounds and palettes.
  • Required an explicit rights and link-access confirmation before a custom image is stored.
  • Re-encoded custom backgrounds locally and restricted shared images to validated PNG, JPEG or WebP data.
  • Kept shortcuts, URLs, weather, names, tab identity and custom shortcut icons out of shared payloads.

Mist 1.10.0

ReleaseThemesPrivacy
  • Added private, expiring appearance links for official Mist themes.
  • Kept shortcuts, URLs, weather, names and custom images out of every shared payload.
  • Added confirmed file imports with safe in-session undo.
  • Added creation quotas, burst limiting and resilient expiry cleanup.

Mist 1.9.2

ReleaseThemesImprovement
  • Preserved original custom-theme image data when it already fits local size and dimension limits.
  • Encoded larger images adaptively while preserving their aspect ratio.

Mist 1.9.1

ReleaseBrowsersFix
  • Added Firefox and Zen home-page overrides so new windows open Mist as well as new tabs.
  • Fixed Firefox weather opt-in by keeping the optional permission request inside the user action.

Mist 1.9.0

ReleaseShortcutsPrivacy
  • Added direct editing for existing shortcuts and more precise drag-and-drop placement.
  • Added optional Google favicons with a local-only fallback setting.
  • Added a compact contact menu for Discord, GitHub, email and LinkedIn.
  • Accepted custom-theme images at any dimensions with proportional cropping.
  • Removed optional weather permissions and cached data when weather is disabled.
  • Added broader automated validation and reproducible browser release packages.

Mist 1.8.0

ReleaseCustomizationNew
  • Added independent custom new-tab title and favicon settings.
  • Added optional custom shortcut icons with automatic local resizing.
  • Included custom shortcut icons in JSON import and export.
  • Retired the Dusk Knight and Neon Revenant illustrated themes.

Mist 1.7.0

ReleaseThemesNew
  • Added the Sunset Apex and Crimson Oath illustrated themes.
  • Added a custom theme builder for correctly sized PNG and JPG backgrounds.
  • Added automatic four-color palette extraction with manual color controls and live preview.
  • Stored custom backgrounds locally and included them in full configuration exports.
  • Prepared dedicated Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Zen release packages.

Website · Security and installation CTA polish

SecurityImprovementDesign
  • Resolved the open brace-expansion, Sharp, Hono and OpenTelemetry dependency advisories.
  • Verified the updated dependency tree with zero npm audit findings.
  • Unified Chrome installation actions into one clearer high-contrast button system.
  • Removed the mobile “Get Mist on desktop” handoff.
  • Added a disabled demo-video action until the presentation video is available.

Website · Private analytics dashboard

NewAnalytics
  • Added an invite-only admin area protected by Netlify Identity and a server-side email allowlist.
  • Connected privacy-focused website analytics through a read-only Umami Cloud share.
  • Added Chrome Web Store CSV imports backed by Netlify Blobs with atomic duplicate detection.
  • Added installation, weekly-user, country and GitHub feedback reporting.
  • Updated the public privacy policy to distinguish website measurement from extension telemetry.

Website · Phase 8 SEO

NewSEO
  • Added seven intent-specific product and use-case landing pages.
  • Published five practical guides and two transparent product comparisons.
  • Centralized metadata, structured data, canonicals and internal linking.
  • Added responsive WebP screenshots, a custom 404 and automated SEO checks.
  • Removed unnecessary global header hydration from editorial pages.

Mist 1.6.1

ReleaseImprovement
  • Added a persisted 12-hour clock option with AM/PM.
  • Added user-specified weather locations through Open-Meteo lookup.
  • Improved contrast for the add-bookmark button.

Mist 1.6.0

ReleaseNew
  • Added shortcut-opening preferences and feedback actions.
  • Added a user-initiated bug and feature request form.
  • Added French, German, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese translations.
  • Improved weather controls, theme readability and privacy documentation.

Mist 1.5.0

ReleaseThemes
  • Added the Amber Knight illustrated theme.
  • Added approximate weather with explicit consent and caching.
  • Added a visible privacy-policy entry in settings.