Release2026-09
Kepler 0.8.4
Wednesday Patch: A Little Bit of Everything
This release brings a smoother Look Ahead, a more capable Clipboard, easier plugin activation, a new DMG installer, and a collection of smaller improvements and fixes.
- Clipboard now has a compact list view.
- Search can now find text inside images with on-device OCR.
- A DMG installer is now available.
- Plugins can now be activated with an empty prefix.
- Look Ahead animations slow down during fast scrolling for a smoother feel.
- The Look Ahead active-card indicator now handles multiple cards more reliably.
- Corner radii are now perfectly concentric.
- Improved speed, performance, and resource usage.
- Try new logic for ranking results
- The action bar is gone. Press
cmd+kon an entry to open the native context menu. - Support for legacy contribution-based plugins has been removed.
- Useless navigation buttons in the settings
- Clipboard previews now dismiss correctly.
- Pinning and unpinning now restores search focus without selecting the query.
- Clicking a Wick Look Ahead card now opens the correct timer.
- Fixed shortcut fields keeping the wrong background color when switching between light and dark mode.
- Kepler recognizing bangs as calculation