v0.10.0 said the menu-bar buttons were fixed. They weren't. Update All and Open Workshop stayed dead in production, and the right-click Workshop / Diagnostics… items were dead too. The fix attempts couldn't see what AppKit was actually doing — until we caught it on the log stream: NSPopover's transient close machinery was eating clicks before SwiftUI's hit-test could fire, and a synthetic performClick in the right-click handler was creating two competing menu tracking sessions.

v0.11.0 retires the entire NSPopover + NSStatusItem + NSMenu plumbing. The menu bar surface is now built on MenuBarExtra (Apple's modern SwiftUI primitive), and the Workshop opens as a proper Window scene via @Environment(\.openWindow). Hit-testing happens inside SwiftUI, no transient close to fight, no activation-policy gymnastics. Clicks fire on first try.

The popover content is also reframed. The menu bar is for the decision, not the inventory. The 18-app preview list is gone. Maxx now shows urgency, count, and the cost of acting — Update all with brand-gold primary, optional Urgent only when at-risk apps are a meaningful subset, and a live running state with current app, linear progress, and Pause / Skip / Stop controls. The full per-app inventory is one click away in the Workshop, where it belongs.

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On some Macs, Spotlight's index is partial, paused, or quietly excluding /Applications from the launchd context FIXXR runs scans in. v0.9.18 and earlier asked Spotlight where each app lived; if Spotlight came back empty, the app fell out of FIXXR's view entirely. App Store and Sparkle bucket counts read 0 even on machines with obvious Sparkle and MAS apps installed. Maxx couldn't see what was right in front of him because he was waiting for the index to confirm it.

v0.9.19 reads the install path that discover.py already wrote during the filesystem walk. If the directory is there, Maxx walks straight into it. Spotlight is now a fallback, not the primary signal. ~187 fewer subprocess calls per scan as a side benefit.

Also new: fixxr diagnose (and fixxr diagnose --json) — structured diagnostic output for contributors and agentic-packaging tools. Per-app reason codes for unclassified apps, machine health checks, anomaly hints. Run it the next time your inventory looks suspiciously empty: it'll tell you which guess to follow first.

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Some apps land in a half-uninstalled state: /usr/local/Caskroom/<token>/ exists with a .metadata/ folder but no actual install behind it (the version subdir is gone). brew itself considers these "not installed" — the receipt is hollow.

v0.9.17 would still route those apps through brew upgrade --cask and bounce off the empty door, even when a Sparkle feed or native updater could have actually fetched the new version. v0.9.18 checks the door first. If the cask is hollow, FIXXR falls through to the next available path. Only when nothing works does it surface the brew install --cask <token> hint — now an honest last resort instead of a first reflex.

Affects (on a typical machine): Fing, Goose, Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer, 4K YouTube to MP3, and any other app where brew has a metadata-only stub but the .app is still on disk.

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If you have both ARM and Intel Homebrew installed (very common on Apple Silicon Macs that started life on Intel), v0.9.16 showed a wall of "Homebrew couldn't match this installed app" errors for cross-arch casks. Sonos, Claude, Warp, GitHub Desktop, ff·Works, and friends sat in the queue with red triangles.

What broke: FIXXR was asking ARM brew about casks that Intel brew owned, and vice versa. v0.9.17 routes each cask to the brew that actually owns it. Apps in a FAILED state from v0.9.16 will succeed on the next update attempt. If neither brew owns a cask, the error now points at a real fix (brew install --cask <token>) instead of a dead end.

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Before: "Sparkle: 0 apps. App Store: 0 apps." Maxx swore he'd never seen any. After: ~49 App Store apps and ~20 Sparkle apps show up where they belong. Sketch, Tailscale, HandBrake, Cyberduck, OBS, Transmission, Notion Web Clipper, and ~40 more were invisible to him before this release.

What broke: macOS 26 stopped answering a question FIXXR used to ask Spotlight. v0.9.16 reads the App Store receipt file directly, the way Apple actually means it. Library coverage on a typical Mac jumped from 12% to 49%.

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