ihatepdfs/RELEASE_NOTES.md

Release Notes

I Hate PDFs v0.4.0

Version 0.4 is focused on keeping the app small, fast, and reader-first. The experimental Fill & Sign, form-field navigation, and PDF signing work has been removed from this release line and will be revisited later from scratch.

What's New

• Focused document opening: PDFs open in the reader with sidebars hidden and the page fit to available width.
• Smaller app surface area after removing the experimental Fill & Sign/signing implementation.
• Recent PDFs in the empty window and File > Open Recent.
• Settings for highlight and comment colors, including opacity.
• Standalone highlights that do not open a comment editor.
• Return saves a comment or reply; Shift-Return inserts a new line.
• Mac App Store packaging for net.akkolli.ihatepdfs.

Reliability Fixes

• Comment text survives when saved PDFs are opened in macOS Preview and Adobe Acrobat.
• The comment editor focuses correctly when a new selected-text comment is created.
• Comment popovers open from the actual annotated text instead of nearby whitespace.
• The app warns before unsaved annotations or reply drafts are lost.
• Search highlights clear correctly when search is closed or edited.
• The comments sidebar keeps threads, filters, replies, and selected highlights in sync.
• PDFKit page/selection observers are cleaned up when the reader view is reattached.
• Sidebar toggles now close the active sidebar mode directly instead of switching modes first.

Version

• App version: 0.4.0
• Build number: 6
• Direct-download DMG name: IHatePDFs-v0.4-macos.dmg
• Mac App Store package name: IHatePDFs-v0.4-macos-appstore.pkg