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1. Wednesday, 4 November 2026

   The Quake console opens on the agent picker

   The Quake console opened empty and explained nothing, because Omarchy ships without a default agent. A change merged into quattro seeds it with the agent picker, and opens the last local model started when one is running.

2. Monday, 2 November 2026

   A channel switch asks before it reboots

   Switching channels ended with a plain-text line, "Updates require reboot. Ready? Run omarchy-system reboot when ready." A change merged into quattro keeps the person at the terminal in a gum confirm prompt for the reboot.

3. Sunday, 1 November 2026

   One sudo password covers 10 minutes in the same terminal

   A fresh install's update asked for the sudo password three times at "Create system snapshot", and a password typed one command earlier never carried over. A change merged into quattro sets the timeout so one password covers 10 minutes in the same terminal.

4. Sunday, 1 November 2026

   Apple Silicon bashrc gains Omarchy's aliases when it does not already source them

   Mac accounts were created from Arch's stock bashrc, so they got none of Omarchy's aliases, functions or env. A migration merged into quattro installs Omarchy's bashrc on Apple Silicon when the file does not already source it and is not a symlink.

5. Saturday, 31 October 2026

   Empty Quake console seeds without a deprecated workspace rule

   The Quake console's on_created_empty rule drew a warning from hyprctl deprecated-config once Hyprland 0.57 deprecated it. A change merged into quattro seeds an empty console from a workspace.created handler, and the behavior is unchanged.

6. Friday, 30 October 2026

   Pending migrations show one reminder at login

   A change merged into quattro marks the pending-migrations reminder transient, so the card is shown and never written to live.json. A machine whose migrations stay pending had gained one identical card per login.

7. Friday, 30 October 2026

   Bar icons sit level with their neighbors

   A change merged into quattro draws the bar glyphs with distance fields so the workspace square's top row stays level, and it measures the outline before scaling the icon back down.

8. Wednesday, 28 October 2026

   The bar clock stays still for every button

   A change merged into quattro keeps the bar clock's label still for every mouse button. An earlier change merged into quattro had left the press animation on left and middle clicks.

9. Tuesday, 27 October 2026

   A shell file the shell could not read is not overwritten

   A change merged into quattro leaves a shell configuration the shell could not use in place, so a later bar change does not replace that file with the defaults.

10. Thursday, 22 October 2026

    Translation catalogs are read before the first lookup

    Pull request 16059, merged into quattro, reads translation catalogs before the first lookup. zihaomu wrote that the first binding could return a raw catalog key.

11. Tuesday, 20 October 2026

    Neovim migration checks for omarchy-nvim before it changes configuration

    Pull request 15141, merged into quattro, checks package installation before a Neovim migration inspects package files or changes configuration. The pull request says that migration blocks updates when a user has a custom Neovim configuration but does not have omarchy-nvim installed.

12. Sunday, 18 October 2026

    A language change reaches new apps in quattro

    Pull request 15791, merged into quattro, sets a newly chosen language in Hyprland and restarts the shell. Apps opened from a keybinding or the launcher were staying in the old language until the next login.

13. Sunday, 18 October 2026 · In brief

    The System menu drops Reboot to Boot Menu in quattro

    Pull request 15795, merged into quattro, drops the System menu's Reboot to Boot Menu entry and the reboot-boot-menu subcommand that only that entry used.

14. Saturday, 17 October 2026 · In brief

    Themed shell tooltips are proposed with an optional card

    Pull request 15694, open on quattro, proposes a shared themed surface for shell tooltips, with an optional interactive card for richer content, and avillagran wrote that ordinary hints keep their APIs and do not take keyboard focus.

15. Wednesday, 14 October 2026

    A lock check reaches the shell when a display socket is gone

    Pull request 15226, merged into quattro, recovers the live display when a service still names a Wayland socket that is gone. David Heinemeier Hansson said suspend had warned that the screen did not lock. The merge is not in version 4.0.4.

16. Wednesday, 14 October 2026 · In brief

    The workspaces widget scrolls between workspaces

    Scrolling the workspaces widget moves to the next or previous workspace in pull request 15256, merged into quattro, and the wheel stops at either end. The merge is not in version 4.0.4.

17. Wednesday, 14 October 2026 · In brief

    Bar widgets can be placed in a tray drawer

    Pull request 15281, merged into quattro, puts a tray section in the bar drawer so a widget can be placed there, after the app icons. The merge is not in version 4.0.4.

18. Tuesday, 13 October 2026

    Bar panel cards wait for the first open

    pull request 15044, merged into quattro, builds a bar panel's card the first time it opens instead of at startup. On one monitor David Heinemeier Hansson reports lower memory. The merge is not in version 4.0.4.

19. Tuesday, 13 October 2026

    Update indicator clears without a second check

    pull request 15047, merged into quattro, clears the update indicator after a successful update instead of checking availability again. The merge is not in version 4.0.4.

20. Tuesday, 13 October 2026 · In brief

    Alias commands skip a full header scan

    Alias commands such as screenshot and reboot skip a full header scan in pull request 15041, a scan David Heinemeier Hansson timed at about 195ms against about 5ms for a filename route, and the merge is not in version 4.0.4.

21. Monday, 12 October 2026

    Three status checks refresh on change in the merged bar

    Passwordless sudo, the power profile, and the workspace glyph refresh on change in pull request 15026, pull request 15027, and pull request 15028. The merges are not in version 4.0.4.

22. Monday, 12 October 2026 · In brief

    Bar icons share one size in the merged shell

    Built-in and custom bar icons share a 12-pixel size and stay centered in pull request 15065, which Bjarne Øverli merged into quattro. The battery percentage stays separate. The merge is not in version 4.0.4.

23. Friday, 9 October 2026

    Shell palette colors in the merged shell take a Commons.Color name after Qt 6.12

    Pull request 14553 merges a shell change that names palette colors Commons.Color, after Qt 6.12 introduced a Color type that shadowed the shell palette.