With macOS 14.1 Apple implemented changes I requested so I could recreate this feature without macOS showing the screen capture purple menu bar item.
Any previous image comparison show for updates from Bartender 4 should automatically be converted into triggers for you.

This feature will keep any items to the right of the Bartender menu bar item always visible, even when Bartender swaps out your shown items for your hidden ones.

This was previously done automatically, only when there wasn't enough room to show your items unless swapped, now you can choose to keep it automatically, or never do this, or always do it.

Apple have made the music recognition (Shazam) menu bar item a special menu bar item, that demands to be visible and cannot be hidden. Bartender now respects this.

There was a bug in Bartender, that would mean icons that just changed colors a certain amount would not fire the image trigger condition. This has been fixed.

There was a bug in Bartender, that would stop it checking icons with transparent centers sometimes (it thought they were blank icons). This has been fixed.

Looking at the opensource code for Proton VPN I saw they already had a specific compatibility fix for Bartender, this did not work with Bartender 5, I have changed Bartender 5 so this compatibility fix can work again. Big thanks to the Proton Devs.

Due to name changes some none english language systems the wallpaper would not get drawn around rounded menu bar styles, this has been fixed.

I have found a workaround to prevent Bitwarden showing its UI when its menu bar item is moved.

Thanks to the users reporting these. They have been fixed.

As stated, fixed small issues I found as I worked through the other bug fixes.