New Features / Improvements

macOS Ventura Support

Bartender 4 is ready for macOS Ventura


Bug Fixes

Items not showing smoothly from Bartender Bar on macOS Ventura Beta 7

With macOS Ventura Beta 7 the showing of items from the Bartender Bar could jitter or fail, this has been fixed.

On macOS Ventura sometimes Bartenders windows/UI will not display

This has been fixed

Bartender Bar taking keyboard focus

Whe you show the Bartender Bar it would takes keyboard focus to allow the user to keyboard navigate their menu bar items, this would prevent the user continuing typing in whatever window they were using (if they had just put the mouse in the menu bar say). There is now a setting to turn of Bartender Bar keyboard navigation in Bartenders Advanced Preferences.

Menu Bar items not controlled correctly on Ventura later betas sometimes

On macOS Ventura for some users, items would not move into the menu bar (when clicked in the Bartender Bar), This has been fixed

Sometimes menu bar item spacing not applied after macOS restart

For a small number of users there set menu bar item spacing would not be applied after restarting macOS, this has been fixed.

Scroll Bar covering menu bar items in the Bartender Bar

If a user had more menu bar items in the Bartender Bar than the width of their screen scrolling would be required, the scroll bar for this partially covered the menu bar item sin the Bartender Bar, this has been fixed.

Option + hover or click to show all hidden items not working in macOS Ventura

This has been fixed.

macOS Ventura Settings links

With the macOS changes from System Preferences to System Settings and the new UI, links from Bartender to specific preference panes didn't work, these have been updated and now work correctly.

Menu bar items activated by hotkey or quick search on hidden menu bar moved

If the user has macOS set to automatically hide the menu bar or in full screen app, activating a menu bar that is already in the menu bar would move it to the end of the menu bar items, this has been fixed.

Small square window left on screen or in menu bar for a user

This has been fixed

Menu bar layout dragging on macOS Ventura

The dragging behaviour in menu bar layout had got worse due to changes in macOS Ventura, this has been fixed.