With this release Bartender is compatible with OS X El Capitan, but to control System Items in OS X El Capitan with System Integrity Protection still enabled, additional setup steps are required;

Instructions for controlling System items in OS X El Capitan can be found at Setting up System Item Control in OS X El Capitan.

This has been fixed.

This has been fixed.

In the latest OS X El Capitan betas System Items lengths would not update as the item size changed, and items could also disappear, this has been fixed.

In OS X El Capitan betas, without System Item control you could not order menu items, this has been fixed.

The checkbox for launch at login would always show as unchecked, this has been fixed

The previous version would sometimes not detect when System Integrity Protection had been turned off and as such would not try to install its System Component, this has been fixed and a manual option to try installing the System Component has also been added.

With this release Bartender can now control System Items in OS X El Capitan with System Integrity Protection still enabled, but additional setup steps are required;

Instructions for controlling System items in OS X El Capitan can be found at Setting up System Item Control in OS X El Capitan

With this release Bartender works correctly with OS X El Capitan, with one exception;

As of OS X El Capitan beta 2, Bartender is no longer able to control Apples system items when System Integrity Protection is enabled (System items are Apple Menu Items such as Spotlight, Notification Center, Battery, WiFi, etc), we are looking into what we can do. more details will be available on our blog http://www.macbartender.com/blog/

This has been fixed

Improved the dragging of items when rearranging them in the menu bar and Bartender Bar.

If a user ⌘+dragged a menu bar item but did not change its position in the menu bar the location on screen returned to the app could be incorrect, this has been fixed.

Improvements added for Yosemite 10.10.3 and newer versions.

Many small changes, fixes etc.

This is fixed! We have worked a lot with a user effected by this issue (Thanks Sulaiman) and managed to recreate it and fix it.

Some users have experienced Notification Centre appearing in its original location in the menu bar after restarting OS X and launching Bartender, instead of moving to its pre defined position in the menu bar, this is now fixed.

This is fixed! We have worked a lot with a user effected by this issue (Thanks Sulaiman) and managed to recreate it and fix it.

Improvements added for Yosemite 10.10.3 and newer versions.

Many small changes, fixes etc.

Some users have experienced Notification Centre appearing in its original location in the menu bar after restarting OS X and launching Bartender, instead of moving to its pre defined position in the menu bar, this is now fixed.

Some users have had items missing from the Bartender Bar when they first open the Bartender Bar, this has been fixed.

Users on OS X 10.10.9 with may have experienced a crashing bug, this has been fixed.

Some users have had items missing from the Bartender Bar when they first open the Bartender Bar, this has been fixed.

We continue to make Bartender work faster and use less resources.

Using the OS X 10.10.3 some users have experienced menu items appearing and disappearing on the menu bar when they should be hidden, this has been seen most on multi-screen setups, but also on some single screens. This should now be fixed.

When changing menu bar theme from light to dark or dark to light the settings gear in the Bartender Bar would not update until clicked. This is now fixed.

Some users could not change the position of Notification Center in the menu bar, this is now fixed.

Some users have experienced the Notification icon disappearing in the menu bar until clicked, we have made changes that we hope fix this, please let us know if you still experience issues.

Updates and fixes for OS X 10.10.3.

We continue to make Bartender work faster and use less resources.

Some users could not change the position of Notification Center in the menu bar, this is now fixed.

Some users have experienced the Notification icon disappearing in the menu bar until clicked, we have made changes that we hope should fix this, please let us know if you still experience issues.

Updates and fixes for the latest Yosemite Beta (14D127a).

Using the OS X 10.10.3 Beta some users have experienced menu items appearing and disappearing on the menu bar when they should be hidden, this has been seen most on multi-screen setups, but also on some single screens. This should now be fixed.

When changing menu bar theme from light to dark or dark to light the settings gear in the Bartender Bar would not update until clicked. This is now fixed.

Apple seem to have fixed the flickering item issue for multiple monitors in Yosemite with 10.10.3 Beta 2, but in doing so Bartender stopped working correctly, we have made the necessary changes to Bartender for 10.10.3 Beta 2 and it should now be working, if you see any issues with Bartender please do let us know.

With OS X 10.10.2 some users have experienced issues with System Items not working with Bartender correctly, including items not moving into the bar when they should, or moving slowly. This should be fixed with this update.

Previously Bartender caused the Trickster window to close straight after opening. This is fixed with this update.

Apple seem to have fixed the flickering item issue for multiple monitors in Yosemite with 10.10.3 Beta 2, but in doing so Bartender stopped working correctly, we have made the necessary changes to Bartender for 10.10.3 Beta 2 and it should now be working, if you see any issues with Bartender please do let us know.

With OS X 10.10.2 some users have experienced issues with System Items not working with Bartender correctly, including items not moving into the bar when they should, or moving slowly. This should be fixed with this update.

Previously Bartender caused the Trickster window to close straight after opening. This is fixed with this update.

Updated dark mode settings button. Custom icons now work better in dark mode. NOTE: Custom icons will not invert automatically for dark mode.

For multi-screen setups we have improved the UI responsiveness to screen changes. Generally increased UI drawing performance.

Previously Bartender disabled Accessibility access to the System Items and navigation via keyboard; this has been fixed.

Previously Bartender disabled AppleScript access to the System Items; this has been fixed.

Bartender now works around an issue in Yosemite that could cause unbalanced UI updates with Bartender.

Fixed remaining issues with rearranging items in multi-screen setup.

With some multi-screen setups, Bartender could display partially down the screen. This has been fixed.

When switching from a retina screen to a non-retina screen the size of the rendered menu item changes, this would cause Bartender to show it as an update, this has been fixed.

If Bartender was running when applying the license it was possible to lockup Bartender, this has been fixed.

With version 1.2.25 a change to improve Yosemite support, caused Notification Center to not maintain its position in previous OS X releases. This has been fixed. And now should restore its previous position. If it is still in the wrong position you can ⌘+drag it to the correct position and it should then stay there.

Updated dark mode settings button. Custom icons now work better in dark mode.

For multi-screen setups we have improved the UI responsiveness to screen changes. Generally increased UI drawing performance.

Previously Bartender disabled Accessibility access to the System Items and navigation via keyboard; this has been fixed.

Previously Bartender disabled AppleScript access to the System Items; this has been fixed.

Bartender now works around an issue in Yosemite that could cause unbalanced UI updates with Bartender.

Fixed remaining issues with rearranging items in multi-screen setup.

With some multi-screen setups, Bartender could display partially down the screen. This has been fixed.

When switching from a retina screen to a non-retina screen the size of the rendered menu item changes, this would cause Bartender to show it as an update, this has been fixed.

If Bartender was running when applying the license it was possible to lockup Bartender, this has been fixed.

With version 1.2.25 a change to improve Yosemite support, caused Notification Center to not maintain its position in previous OS X releases. This has been fixed. And now should restore its previous position. If it is still in the wrong position you can ⌘+drag it to the correct position and it should then stay there.

With teh previous version a change to improve Yosemite support, caused Notification Center to not maintain its position in previous OS X releases. This has been fixed.

We have made Bartender faster and use even less energy than before.

Arranging items using ⌘+dragging should be a lot smoother.

Along with improvements for everyone some users had experienced extreme CPU and energy usage on Yosemite with Bartender 1.2.24, this should now be fixed.

For some users rearranging items in the menu bar and Bartender Bar using ⌘ + drag could cause flickering, jumping or just not work, it would also not work at all on secondary Monitors, this has all been fixed and it should work a lot better.

With the update to Yosemite both Spotlight and Notification Center changed their ID's as such Bartender lost there set location in the menu bar, you can put them back in the location you want by ⌘ + dragging them. For users updating to Yosemite from now this will not be an issue as we have taken the changed ID's into account.

Bartender can now control Google Chrome menu items, thanks to the Chrome team for working with us on this.

There is now a hidden defaults setting (LightBartenderBar = true) to make the Bartender Bar light even when Yosemite is in Dark Mode, allowing you to store Dark Mode incompatible apps in the Bartender Bar.

Due to a strange bug in OS X, Launchpad folders would not open for some users when Bartender was running. This is now fixed.
Thank you to the users who provided all the info that helped us track this one down.

There was some issues with items showing incorrectly in multi-monitor setups under Yosemite, this is now fixed.

Autohide will now work when you click on a Chrome or Finder Window.

Bartender would not work with Notification Center when OS X Yosemite was set to a language other than English, this is now fixed.

We have updated the icon color for Dark Mode in Yosemite.

Due to a very strange bug in OS X, Launchpad folders would not open for some users, when Bartender was running. This is now fixed.
Thank you to the users who provided all the info that helped us track this one down.

Bartender would not work with Notification Center when OS X Yosemite was set to a language other than English, this is now fixed

We updated the icon color for Dark Mode in Yosemite

The Bartender Bar will now match the theme of the menu bar in Yosemite, the menu bar icon also inverts for Dark mode.

Bartender will now work correctly with Notification Center again.

Bartender should now supports OS X Yosemite Beta.

This is a beta release so please do send feedback about any possible issues/bugs.

Bartender had a incompatibility with Yosemite so stopped itself from launching, we have fixed the incompatibility issue and it is now working on Yosemite.

In Yosemite System items were not behaving correctly on a single display setup, this is now fixed.

In Yosemite Spotlight is now its own process, and was showing under Active Apps, we have moved this to System Items.

In Yosemite Notification Center's menu item is now part of teh System Items. As such we needed to update Bartender to find this, it is now working.

We are aware of this and have a fix on the way.

We are working on this.

In previous versions of 1.2 Spotlight would show in a bad location when hidden by Bartender and using the hotkey to launch Spotlight. This has been fixed.

Bartender 1.2 caused some apps including Trickster and Mint to display their popups in the wrong location when hidden by Bartender, this has been fixed.

Some older apps that do not include a new identifier would not show in Bartender 1.2 preferences, this has also been fixed.

With previous 1.2 versions, Bartender would prevent text boxes and controls from being selected in some menu bar apps, such as Omnipresence and Bills To Pay, this has now been fixed.

Some people have experienced occasional high CPU usage by the disnoted process, this should be fixed.

Bartender now fully supports the Multi-monitor features of Mavericks, including multiple Menu Bars and spaces. Bartender will hide the menu bar icons on each menu bar, and will display the Bartender Bar on the Active Space/Screen.

Show for updates now works with system items, no need to say any more, give it a try its great.

Bartender now uses image recognition to detect changes in Menu Bar Items, this prevents false positives, i.e. showing when a update didn't really happen and an app just refreshed its state.

Previous versions of Bartender would show items in the menu bar from the first update until the timeout, then hide and show again if another update happened. Now an item will show in the Menu Bar from the last update until the specified timeout, so if updates keep happening the item will stay in the menubar.

We have improved Bartenders power usage dramatically to help extend battery life for users of Mavericks.

We have been making major changes to the control code of Bartender to improve compatibility with the few apps that didnt work well with Bartender, these should see a huge improvement, and all apps should work better with Bartender.

You can now drag items to Bartenders Menu Bar Icon and the default click action will be performed allowing you to drag and drop to apps hidden by Bartender.

If you are on Mountain Lion or newer versions of OS X, Bartender will now detect when switching to a fullscreen app and automatically hide the Bartender Bar, it will then reopen it when you switch to a non fullscreen space, works very nicely on Mavericks with fullscreen apps on a separate display.

Bartender now checks that it is compatible with the version of OS X you are running and will prompt you to inform us of compatibility issues.

We have added new url schemas that allow links to directly launch the feedback window, check for updates, and update to test builds. Useful for support.

A general sweep of the UI tidying up.

In previous versions System Items would appear slightly grey, instead of black when in the Bartender Bar, this has been fixed.

In previous versions of Bartender had to be in a location accessible by sandboxed apps, such as /Applications/ instead of say ~/Applications/ with this release this is no longer required and Bartender works from any location.

On new installs of OS X, System Items would not be populated in Bartender Preferences until they were edited in System Preferences; this now works.

Previously dynamic system items would not show in Bartender Preferences, they now show as expected.

With the latest update to Skype they included a security measure that unfortunately also prevented Bartender from working with it. We have found a way to still work with Skype.

Currently LaunchBar does not display a Menubar item that needs controlling as such we detect this and do not allow settings to be added for LaunchBar.

Bartender should now not switch to discrete graphics.

For some users on rare occasions SystemUIServer would display high CPU usage, this is now fixed.

For some users TunnelBrick would create multiple menu bar items when used with Bartender, this is now fixed.

Selecting a large image for the menu bar icon of Bartender would cause the drop down to display this image larger than other items, this is now fixed.

Previous versions of Bartender would log warnings about apps not being scriptable; this is now fixed.

If the Bartender Bar was shown in a fullscreen space by a hotkey it would show incorrectly, this has been fixed.

In 1.2.6 and 1.2.7 adding an item to the Bartender Bar whilst the Bar was not visible would mean the item may not show in the Bar when it was made visible. This has been fixed.

The Bartender Bar would not display in its pre-set location when using multiple screens in Mavericks, this has been fixed.

We have recreated the issue and fixed this.

In previous versions hiding the Bartender menu bar icon would prevent the Bartender Bar showing, this has been fixed.

For some users, when using more than 2 screens in Mavericks the Bartender Bar would not show correctly, this release attempts to fix this.

Bartender 1.0 has a compatibility issue with Mavericks that when Bartender quits or updates the System items disappear. With Bartender 1.2 we now reinstate the system items if we know Bartender 1.0 has removed them.

We have reduced the CPU and power usage even further in show for updates.

We have added new url schemas that allow links to directly launch the feedback window, check for updates, and update to test builds. Useful for support.

A general sweep of the UI tidying up.

In 1.2.5 the spotlight item would sometimes jump to the left most position in the Menu Bar; this has been fixed.

In 1.2.5 DragonDrop would not work with Bartender correctly if Show For Updates was selected; this has been fixed.

Exception causing issues for some users, this one would prevent accessing Preferences. It has been fixed.

⌘+Clicking should now work for Menu Bar apps that allow this.

Some users have experienced items not moving into the Bartender Bar after some time, or after updating from a previous version. This was again caused by the update from 1.0.9, and not having restarted since that update. This should now be fixed. Please contact us if you still see this issue.

This is now in the correct order.

Like other System Items spotlight can now show for updates, good for knowing when its indexing.

For some users who updated from 1.2.2 to 1.2.3 after updating from 1.0.9 without restarting OS X would get in a situation that no Menu Bar Items would work with Bartender 1.2.3, this is fixed with 1.2.4.

Some users experienced an exception after updating from 1.0.9 to 1.2.2, this is now fixed.

Bartender now fully supports the Multi-monitor features of Mavericks, including multiple Menu Bars and spaces. Bartender will hide the menu bar icons on each menu bar, and will display the Bartender Bar on the Active Space/Screen.

Show for updates now works with system items, no need to say any more, give it a try its great.

Bartender now uses image recognition to detect changes in Menu Bar Items, this prevents false positives, i.e. showing when a update didn't really happen and an app just refreshed its state.

Previous versions of Bartender would show items in the menu bar from the first update until the timeout, then hide and show again if another update happened. Now an item will show in the Menu Bar from the last update until the specified timeout, so if updates keep happening the item will stay in the menubar.

We have improved Bartenders power usage dramatically to help extend battery life for users of Mavericks.

We have been making major changes to the control code of Bartender to improve compatibility with the few apps that didnt work well with Bartender, these should see a huge improvement, and all apps should work better with Bartender.

You can now drag items to Bartenders Menu Bar Icon and the default click action will be performed allowing you to drag and drop to apps hidden by Bartender.

If you are on Mountain Lion or newer versions of OS X, Bartender will now detect when switching to a fullscreen app and automatically hide the Bartender Bar, it will then reopen it when you switch to a non fullscreen space, works very nicely on Mavericks with fullscreen apps on a separate display.

Bartender now checks that it is compatible with the version of OS X you are running and will prompt you to inform us of compatibility issues.

In previous versions System Items would appear slightly grey, instead of black when in the Bartender Bar, this has been fixed.

In previous versions of Bartender had to be in a location accessible by sandboxed apps, such as /Applications/ instead of say ~/Applications/ with this release this is no longer required and Bartender works from any location.

On new installs of OS X, System Items would not be populated in Bartender Preferences until they were edited in System Preferences; this now works.

Previously dynamic system items would not show in Bartender Preferences, they now show as expected.

With the latest update to Skype they included a security measure that unfortunately also prevented Bartender from working with it. We have found a way to still work with Skype.

Currently LaunchBar does not display a Menubar item that needs controlling as such we detect this and do not allow settings to be added for LaunchBar.

Bartender should now not switch to discrete graphics.

For some users on rare occasions SystemUIServer would display high CPU usage, this is now fixed.

For some users TunnelBrick would create multiple menu bar items when used with Bartender, this is now fixed.

Selecting a large image for the menu bar icon of Bartender would cause the drop down to display this image larger than other items, this is now fixed.

Previous versions of Bartender would log warnings about apps not being scriptable; this is now fixed.

Additional work to improve the popup fix for some apps displaying their popup's in slightly the wrong location.

After restarting your system and having Bartender launch at login some apps in the menu bar could stop responding to clicks, and restarting Bartender would fix this. With this version this should no longer happen.

The Bartender Bar would appear at different locations with different resolutions/screens. This has now been fixed.

Bartender should allow you to drag an item up to its icon and this will cause the Bartender Bar to display allowing you to drag things onto menu bar Items in the Bartender Bar, but this has not always worked on all users systems, we have been working on identifying the issue and this version should work for everyone.

If you use Bartender to display the full menu bar or display items in the menu bar when in a fullscreen app, Bartender would cause you to switch to another space. This has now been modified so that we do not display the full menu bar when in a fullscreen app (as this would always cause a space change) but will show all menu bar items in the menu bar.

Some apps did not work well with Bartender, work has been done to improve on this.

This is a feature for App Developers, you can add your Apps Bundle Identifier to the Bartenders preferences and it will not load Bartender, this is good for when you are testing to prevent "Bartender Loaded" appearing in your logs.

Fix for some apps displaying there popups in slightly the wrong location.

With the last version some apps would not quit, when in Bartender Bar, this should now be fixed.

Bug fix for a small number of users and apps throwing an exception when terminating.

When displaying the Bartender Bar when a app is fullscreen some items would not appear, this should now be fixed.

We have been working extremely hard to polish up Bartender after releasing 1.0. In this version a lot of effort has been put into stabilizing everything and preventing rare issues.

In the previous version, if you: Showed the Bartender Bar.
Displayed Notification Centre.
Closed the Bartender Bar and reopened it.
A visual bug appeared that all contained items did not shift with the Bartender Bar frame; this is now fixed.

Very rarely some users would have icons missing in the Bartender Bar, this should be fixed, we have not seen this issue here, so please do send feedback if you see this.

Again a very small number of users have reported slowing down of their system after extended periods. We have made many improvements to memory usage and performance to prevent this.

OS X has a bug that would cause some apps controlled by Bartender to crash, this was a very rare issue but an unacceptable one. We have worked around the OS X bug and after a restart the issue should be gone.

We have added an option for you to take our more frequent Test Builds, this will allow you (if you want) to test our latest improvements and fixes. Please do realize that these builds will likely contain bugs and may be unstable, and are not recommended for all users.
Any feedback you can provide about features/issues you have is always a great help.

There was a bug that could cause items to reorder when you restart, login, or add System Items.
This has now been fixed.
We do have to do some cleanup of the menu bar order list to correct the bug, hence some items may change position initially with this version. Dragging them to their correct location should fix this.

Show full Menu Bar should clear the Menu Bar of any menu's to allow the maximum space for Menu Bar Items, this feature stopped working for some users in Lion and Mountain Lion after fixing a bug for Snow Leopard. This should now be working for all supported OS's and all users.

With the introduction of the ability to organize menu bar items, new Menu Bar items started it the right most position. This has now been fixed so that they will load in the left most position as before.

When ordering items, some items would jump positions, we have done a lot of work on the rearranging code and it should now be a lot better.

The System VPN item would not disappear as it normally would when Bartender was running, this is now working.

With Bartender running, the rightmost Menu Bar Item would not be at the screen edge, preventing clicking it when mouse is at screen edge. This is now fixed.

We have been improving the performance of Bartender, especially for System Items.

In previous versions it was possible for some items to not appear in the Bartender Bar, leaving blank spaces. This should be better.

In version 1.0.3 we had one possible crash, and another exception, these are both now fixed.

Added support for the AirPlay - Display system item.

A Buy Now button was still visible after licensing. This is fixed.

On the previous versions Dropzone would not work with Bartender unless its settings were set each time Bartender started, also the icon for Dropzone could display above other windows, these are both now fixed.

We have improved the reliability of updates, working correctly when still interacting with the old version. But again if you get any strange behaviour after updating, restarting your Mac, or logging out and back in should fix this.

It was possible for Bartender to cause high CPU load under some circumstances with earlier versions. This is now fixed.

We set the trial end date to 2 days for testing and did not put it back to 4 weeks, this is fixed with this update.

In Version 1.0 and 1.0.1 system items would not extend to show their full content, such as the clock missing part of the time, or VPN not expanding for connection status. This is fixed in this release.

Version 1.0.0 was crashing for some users, when certain apps where running, this should now be fixed.

With this release it is now possible to rearrange all Menu Bar Items in the Bartender Bar, and the Menu Bar!
It is possible to mix Apps and System Items.
Best of all the order is maintained after restarts (as long as Bartender is running).
Simply CMD+Drag an Item to rearrange them.

We have been working with our designer to create a Uniform for Bartender, you can see them in his new icon. We have also updated and tweaked many of the graphics and UI in Bartender.

In previous versions, if show highlight was selected, the Bartender Menu Bar Icon would not turn white when highlighted; it does now.

This has been an issue for a few releases now, but it should definitely be fixed.

In Snow Leopard, if you used the show full menu bar function, Bartenders Dock icon would become visible and stay visible until Bartender was relaunched. This is now fixed.

In previous versions, trying to move a System Item would cause it to be removed, and removing an item would/could leave a gap. This is fixed.

This is fixed.

In previous versions setting Show for Updated for Growl would cause it to crash, this is now fixed.
Thanks to the Growl guys for bringing this to our attention.

If show for updates was set for gfxCardStatus, when it showed for an update, it would never return to the Bartender Bar, it will now.