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:new_button: What’s new

Bitrise for Mac is here. It’s a native macOS menu bar app that shows the live status of your builds for the branch you’re working on, right in the menu bar. Download it, sign in, and your build status is one glance away. macOS only, for now.

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:puzzle_piece: What problem we’re solving

You push a branch and get back to work, but part of your attention stays on the build. Today that means keeping a Bitrise tab open and checking it, or waiting on a Slack message that lands minutes late. Either way you’re pulled out of your editor to answer one small question: is it green yet?

:white_check_mark: What’s the solution

Bitrise for Mac puts that answer in your menu bar so you stop going to look for it.

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  • Status at a glance. A colored dot mirrors your most recent build: passed, failed, running, or aborted.
  • It follows your branch. Point the app at your local project folder and it matches the git remote to the right Bitrise project, then tracks builds for whatever branch you have checked out. Switch branches locally and it follows.
  • One click to what matters. Every build links straight to the Bitrise build, the pull request, or the commit, so you go from a red dot to the exact failure, or from a green dot to the PR you’re ready to merge.
  • Notifications on your terms. Off, failures only, or every completion, set per project.

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Hey guys, useful app, however it logs me out pretty much daily (maybe 12 hourly?)
I’m not going to reauth via the browser every morning, so I’m pretty tempted to remove the app already.

Any plans on improving this UX?

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Thanks @Mete_Timely - We’re looking to fix this asap. Will post a message here once fixed.

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Thanks @Mete_Timely for reporting this! The app could sign you out after being closed or asleep for about a day; it now renews your session automatically so you stay connected, and a related error that stopped local-directory projects from loading is fixed too. Available in v1.0.1.

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Nice, thanks I’ll give it a go today!

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Hi @Mete_Timely (and anyone else who hit this),

A quick update on the sign-out problem. The change in 1.0.1 helped, but it didn’t fix every case, so some of you probably still got signed out after your Mac had been asleep or offline for a while. Sorry about that.

We’ve just released 1.0.2 with more fixes for this:

  • The app no longer signs you out over a brief network drop or a short server hiccup. It just waits and tries again.
  • It’s smarter about renewing your session in the background, so waking from sleep on a weak connection no longer logs you out.

You can get it here: v1.0.2

I don’t want to call it fully solved yet. There’s one rare case we’re still working on. If you get signed out again after updating, please reply here with a rough time it happened. That really helps us track down what’s left.

Thanks again for the clear report. It’s what helped us find this.