release October 10, 2026

Berthly 1.5.0: ready for macOS 27, plus Spotlight and Shortcuts

Berthly 1.5.0 is the macOS 27 release. It fixes three bugs that appeared on macOS 27, adopts a few macOS 27 interface features, and adds Spotlight and Shortcuts support. It still requires macOS 26.0 or later and runs on both macOS 26 and 27. Features marked macOS 27 below appear only there; everything else works on both.

Spotlight and Shortcuts

Your containers and machines now show up in Spotlight. Search for one and press Return, and Berthly opens on its detail pane. The index stays current as containers start, stop, or get removed.

In the Shortcuts app, Berthly now offers six actions: Start, Stop, and Open, each for containers and machines. Use them to build automations like “start my dev containers” without opening Berthly at all.

Both work on macOS 26 and macOS 27.

New on macOS 27

  • Drag to reorder pinned items in the menu bar popover. The order is saved and survives relaunches, and containers and machines each keep their own order. On macOS 26, pins keep their saved order but can’t be dragged.
  • Tab-style detail switcher. Overview / Logs / Terminal uses macOS 27’s tab style, and is exposed to accessibility as real tabs, not radio buttons. macOS 26 keeps the segmented control.

Fixed

  • Escape didn’t close the detail pane on macOS 27. Pressing Escape with a container or machine detail open did nothing. Berthly now handles Escape itself, scoped to the main window, so Escape inside a sheet still works as before.
  • The menu bar popover sometimes stayed open (macOS 27). After you picked an action like Run, it occasionally failed to close, about 1 time in 8. It now closes every time.
  • Quit was ignored while a sheet or alert was open (macOS 27). With the Run Container sheet, the Create Machine sheet, or a delete confirmation open, ⌘Q and the menu bar’s Quit did nothing. They now quit normally.

Smaller improvements

  • Inactive windows look inactive. When Berthly’s window is in the background, the status glyphs on compute rows and the green running count in the sidebar fade, the way Finder and Mail do.
  • Run stays visible in narrow windows (macOS 26.1 and later). When the toolbar runs out of room, Build and Pull move into the overflow menu first and Run stays put.
  • Sparkle updated to 2.10.0 and SwiftTerm to 1.18.0.

Getting it

  • Already on Berthly? Use Berthly → Check for Updates….
  • New to Berthly? Download Berthly-1.5.0.dmg, open it, and drag Berthly.app into Applications. It’s Developer ID–signed and notarized, so it opens without warnings.

Testing

This release shipped only after its gate run passed on the release commit: 557 unit tests (91% line coverage of the pure logic layer), 83 UI tests against a mock daemon, and 20 real-daemon end-to-end journeys. CI now runs the unit and UI suites on both macOS 26 and macOS 27.

Full details in the release notes.

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