New Features / Improvements

Tool tips for menu bar items in Menu bar layout

Menu bar items should now show tooltips of the app name in Menu bar layout.

Always hide location menu bar item

You can now set the location menu bar item to be always hidden, this is in Advanced preferences.

Ability set delay for show on mouse over

This allows you to set a longer delay for show on mouse over to prevent accidental activation when moving over menu bar.

Setting to not show hidden items when ⌘+dragging a menu bar item in the menu bar

This is in Advanced settings and allows you to not show hidden items when dragging a menu bar item in the menu bar.

Voiceover support in menu bar layout

Improved voice over support in menu bar layout to include menu bar item app names.

Show for Updates can be set to follow the macOS Do Not Disturb state

SHow for updates can follow the macOS Do Not Disturb state, so show for updates will not show when Do Not Disturb is on.

Alt/Option click on menu bar will show always hidden items

Now you can show always hidden items by alt/option clicking on empty menu bar space.


Bug Fixes

Bartender Preferences resizing issue

This has been fixed.

Crashes

4 possible crashes have been reported and fixed in this release.

Right click in Bartender Bar not working

You should now be able to right click items in the Bartender Bar and have them right click in the menu bar.

Removing a spacer in Menu Bar Layout removed all from same section

This has been fixed.

Tap to click not working on Bartender menu bar item sometimes

This has been fixed.

Tap to click not working on Bartender menu bar item sometimes

This has been fixed.

Starting Bartender from Login Items with hide set would prevent Bartender Bar showing

This has been fixed.

Menu bar items slow to show on when switching screens on macOS 11.2

This should now be fixed.

Emoji Picker not showing sometimes on spacer UI

This should now be fixed.

Menu bar spacing reset after update until restart

With the previous test build custom menu bar spacing would not be maintained until macOS was restarted again, this has been fixed.

Menu bar spacing restart message

Bartender now only shows the message if you change the setting, if you go back to already set spacing, the message is not shown.

Multipass compatibility

Bartender would not handle Multipass as it has set its ID to nothing, Bartender can now handle this, and works with Multipass.

Right Click a Show for update menu bar item

Right clicking a show for update menu bar item should now work.

MacUpdater show for update menu bar item, left click not working first time.

A left click on the MacUpdater menu bar item when showing for updates, should now work.