Coffee

Fix - March 24, 2026

• Fixed zombie process accumulation by properly detaching the caffeinate process with spawn/unref
• Folded the -u flag into the main caffeinate process, eliminating periodic caffeinate -u -t 1 spawning
• Removed stale process filter in menu bar status

Fix - March 22, 2026

• Prevent zombie caffeinate child processes by keeping the spawned process referenced until exit.

Fix - March 19, 2026

• Fixed zombie process accumulation caused by unreaped caffeinate -u child processes in the status command.

Fix - March 17, 2026

• Fixed caffeination not preventing display sleep on macOS 26+ when running on battery power.

Fix - January 27, 2026

• Fixed memory leak caused by zombie processes when starting caffeination.
• Fixed argument parsing bug in generateArgs().
• Consolidated duplicate shell commands in menu bar to reduce process spawning.
• Added proper cleanup to prevent state updates on unmounted components.

✨ AI Enhancements - February 21, 2025

Enhancement - March 1, 2025

• Show caffeinate duration in menu bar item.

Enhancement - January 31, 2025

• Added Caffeinate Until command.

Enhancement - October 18, 2024

• Implemented schedule-based caffeination, allowing different schedules for different days
• Integrated NLP using regex to support natural language input for setting schedules
• Added pause, resume, and delete functionality for schedules
• Created README documentation

Update

• Updated HUD show time to improve user experience.

Update

• Fixed an issue that caused the extension to crash when the Caffeinate Status command was disabled.

Update

• Replaced the form in the Caffeinate For command with arguments in the root search.
• Replaced the emojis in the Caffeinate Status command with Unicode characters for enhanced design consistency.
• Updated some menu bar icons.
• Fixed an issue where it was not possible to decaffeinate the Mac via the Caffeinate Status Menu Bar.
• Fixed an issue where the menu bar icon was not immediately updated when the Mac was caffeinated.
• Fixed the Caffeinate While command not working.

Update - March 14, 2024

• Added the possibility to hide the icon when decaffeinated.

Update - February 21, 2024

• Fixed bug that created zombie processes.

Update - February 14, 2024

• Added support for alternative icon Menu Bar icon.

Update - February 6, 2024

• Replace old taskbar icons with new SVG ones.

Fix - November 26, 2023

• Squashed a few bugs.

Status command - November 12, 2023

• Create separate status command.
• Optimized code.

Fix - January 19, 2023

Fixed a bug that caused the extension to crash if the menubar command was not enabled.

Update - December 9, 2022

• Added menubar icon to toggle and show subtitle status.
• Update to latest version of API.
• Rewrote the extension to be faster.