Changelog

Stay up to date with the latest features, improvements, and bug fixes in Alter. We've shipped 85 releases and counting!

April 30, 2026

2.0.0-beta87 Download 2.0.0-beta87

Finder & Bloom Smart Attach

TL;DR: QuickHub treats Apple Finder (and Bloom) as a first-class workspace: dock the hub to a Finder or Bloom window and Alter automatically uses your current folder and files for context—summaries, organization, and natural-language file work without the copy-paste dance. This beta also brings customizable keyboard shortcuts, richer QuickHub tool/context previews, chat search with #, multiple API key endpoints, expanded locales (Italian, Portuguese, Japanese), and a long list of hub, workspace, and marketplace stability fixes.

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New Features & Enhancements

  • Finder & Bloom smart attach: Automatically attach the active Finder folder or Bloom panel to chat when using QuickHub—your file manager becomes part of the AI workspace
  • Default workspace: Default workspace provided for Ask Anything and Plan with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint skills enabled.
  • QuickHub: Tools and context details previews.
  • Hub & chat: Search your chat history with #; ⌘R retries the last message; usage view updates for add-on requests.
  • Keyboard shortcuts: User-customizable shortcuts in Settings.
  • API keys: Support for multiple custom endpoints.
  • Mouse widget: New “add selection to Alter” item.
  • Localization: Italian, Portuguese, and Japanese locales added.

Bug Fixes & Stability

  • Text Selection: Hardened text selection capture.
  • QuickHub & Chats: Smoother conversation window dragging and “Return” key sends message more reliably.
  • Dictation & audio: Local+ Parakeet model availability fix; improve microphone state UI.
  • Windows & shell: Prevent stale hub reopen; don’t pop the hub open when closing Settings; Dock icon surfaces existing Alter windows instead of the Hub.
  • Marketplace: Comments polish and less aggressive polling; install/tool-description link fixes.
  • Actions: Preserve default action parameter values.

April 26, 2026

2.0.0-beta86 Download 2.0.0-beta86

Hotfix Weekend

TL;DR: Several bug fixes around transcription and better support for exotic Latin keyboard layouts. This beta fixes custom vocabulary loading issues that could block dictation, prevents stale transcription context, and smooths out a marketplace install issue.

Bug Fixes & Stability

  • Keyboard layout support: Added support for exotic Latin keyboard layouts.
  • Transcription reliability: Fixed custom vocabulary loading issues that could block dictation and prevented stale audio transcription context from leaking into later transcription flows.
  • Marketplace install flow: Fixed Try now failing to find the local action after importing from the marketplace.

April 24, 2026

2.0.0-beta85 Download 2.0.0-beta85

Alter Action Marketplace

TL;DR: The Alter Action Marketplace is here. Discover great Actions, install them in a click, make them your own, and publish what you build. This beta also improves the install flow, reorganizes tool management, refines hub input behavior, and includes a round of stability fixes across microphone monitoring, diarization and settings.

New Features & Enhancements

  • Alter Action Marketplace: Added the new marketplace to easily distribute and install Alter Actions, including the Skills, Tools and MCP servers they need to work.
  • Tool management: Reorganized the tools manager sidebar to make installed tools and marketplace content easier to browse.
  • Hub input UI: Merged the mode, action, and send controls into a more streamlined input button.
  • Context improvements: Sped up active app context retrieval.
  • Meeting prompts: Added a minimum meeting duration for mic monitor stop notifications.

Bug Fixes & Stability

  • Conversation recovery: Added a retry action for assistant errors in the conversation view.
  • Microphone and diarization stability: Prevented stale meeting session control, reduced repeated auto-start prompts after canceling, improved camera attribution handling, and blocked concurrent diarization runs.
  • App and settings behavior: Reopened settings correctly from the app menu, stopped polling when the application detail view disappears, kept automation permissions neutral on inconclusive checks, and fixed the tools window navigation sidebar.

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