Subliminal Labs

Release Notes

0.2.33

macOS

  • Prevents freezes and crashes when opening the menu bar controls or the app’s sign-in window.
  • Pauses capture on recognized payment-card fields and resumes when protected fields are no longer active.
  • Expands privacy exclusions for messaging and social sites, and keeps dating and gambling sites excluded for every workspace.
  • Pauses capture on Subliminal playback pages without deleting the work recorded immediately beforehand.
  • Improves administrator-managed automatic updates and reporting of recording failures.
  • Supports stopping recording and removing the app when a workspace is retired.

Windows

  • Lets IT install Subliminal once for all users, with automatic updates and an optional managed setup that starts recording without employee sign-in.
  • Improves recording recovery after Windows locks, sleeps, or restarts.
  • Pauses capture on recognized payment-card fields and expands privacy exclusions for messaging and social sites, with dating and gambling sites excluded for every workspace.
  • Pauses capture on Subliminal playback pages without deleting the work recorded immediately beforehand.
  • Improves reporting of recording and update failures.
  • Supports stopping recording when a workspace is retired and removes local captures during uninstall.

0.2.32

macOS

  • Keeps recording sessions healthy during quiet periods without taking periodic screenshots of an unchanged desktop.
  • Retries temporary file checks so brief storage delays do not interrupt recording.
  • Removes saved local recording data after a recording is confirmed deleted, and keeps workspace switching available during cleanup.
  • Improves recovery diagnostics for sign-in and recording failures without including sensitive content.
  • Uses one automatic-update feed for both standard and administrator-managed installations.

Windows

  • Adds simpler Privacy settings for excluding websites and apps, with your company’s privacy rules applied automatically.
  • Prevents slow browser pages from piling up text-reading requests and keeps browser privacy checks responsive.
  • Installs missing browser and video components automatically and explains how to recover when installation fails.
  • Keeps sign-in callbacks within each Windows login session and opens the app chooser after sign-in completes.
  • Keeps recording sessions healthy during quiet periods without periodic screenshots, and supports video capture on odd-sized displays.
  • Removes saved local recording data after a recording is confirmed deleted.
  • Reports the computer name and Remote Desktop status to match recordings to the right machine.

0.2.31

macOS

  • Restores automatic recording recovery after temporary local storage and upload failures, with a restart fallback when recovery gets stuck.
  • Improves recovery of saved activity and prevents missing files or stalled sign-in requests from blocking other uploads.
  • Repairs stale background-launch registrations so the client can restart after a crash.
  • Adds Privacy settings for excluding websites and apps, and applies your company's privacy rules.
  • Supports silent background updates on Macs with the administrator-installed update service.
  • Reports the computer's name to help match recordings to the right machine.

0.2.30

Windows

  • Adds a Privacy tab where you can list websites and apps that are never recorded, and turn entries off or remove them at any time.
  • Applies your company's privacy rules, including websites and apps your company never records and exceptions it allows.
  • Recovers browser details automatically after a browser stops responding, so recording keeps pausing for private websites.
  • Reports the computer's name and whether it is a Remote Desktop session, so recordings from remote machines are matched correctly.
  • Captures the text of visible web pages for every employee by default; privacy pauses still apply.
  • Keeps the Subliminal icon above your company name on every sign-in screen.

0.2.29

macOS

  • Keeps recording when browser details are temporarily unavailable, while continuing to pause for recognized private apps and websites.
  • Improves privacy cleanup so buffered input and affected video are removed before recording resumes.
  • Correctly ends app activity at privacy pauses and improves recording and connection diagnostics.

Windows

  • Keeps recording when browser details are temporarily unavailable, while continuing to pause for recognized private apps and websites.
  • Correctly ends app activity at privacy pauses without including private window details.
  • Improves diagnostics for unavailable browser details.

0.2.28

macOS

  • Installs updates in the background without asking employees to confirm downloads or restart the app.
  • Makes sign-in and account-access messages clearer, and loads Google and Microsoft sign-in logos immediately from the app.
  • Improves diagnostics for recording, sign-in, upload, and update failures while keeping technical details out of employee-facing messages.

Windows

  • Installs available updates automatically after every update check.
  • Ensures update installers run silently without asking employees to step through installation.

0.2.27

macOS

  • Automatically recovers recording after temporary sign-in and Keychain interruptions, and retries sign-in when a saved credential is stale.
  • Captures page text again when a new recording starts, even if the visible page has not changed.
  • Improves recording and upload reliability around privacy pauses and adds diagnostics for sign-in, recording, and update failures.

Windows

  • Improves browser address detection to reduce recording interruptions on complex pages.
  • Strengthens privacy cleanup so recordings do not retain references to removed video, while preserving unrelated activity.
  • Captures page text only when allowed by the recording policy and refreshes it when each recording starts.
  • Finishes saving activity already being recorded before shutdown to keep recordings consistent.

0.2.26

macOS

  • Keeps recording active during quiet periods and privacy pauses without unnecessary restarts.
  • Recovers silently from capture interruptions without showing desktop notifications.
  • Spaces out retries after repeated recording failures to avoid rapid restart loops.

Windows

  • Rebuilds the Windows client for this release with no changes to client behavior.

0.2.25

macOS

  • Captures visible page text alongside screenshots to improve workflow understanding without reading editable or secure fields.
  • Strengthens privacy protections by pausing capture on restricted sites and resuming only after a fresh safe state is confirmed.
  • Improves continuous recording recovery after wake, unlock, and temporary sign-in interruptions.

Windows

  • Captures visible page text alongside screenshots to improve workflow understanding without reading editable or secure fields.
  • Strengthens privacy protections by pausing capture on restricted sites and resuming only after a fresh safe state is confirmed.
  • Removes printable key identifiers from stored activity while preserving the context needed to understand typing actions.

0.2.24

macOS

  • Captures richer, more accurate context for clicks, typing, and clipboard actions, including browser fields and links, while continuing to protect secure inputs.
  • Keeps background recording reliable through transient screenshot failures, sleep, lock, and other interruptions without duplicating or reordering actions.
  • Improves installation and reset reliability and reduces recording storage use through more efficient video compression.

Windows

  • Captures richer, more accurate context for clicks, typing, and clipboard actions, including browser fields and links, while continuing to protect secure inputs.
  • Improves continuous background recording and recovery after display, capture, or restart interruptions.
  • Reduces unnecessary background data transfer by sending running-app updates only when they change.

0.2.23

Windows

  • Improved the reliability of continuous background recording and recovery after interruptions.
  • Improved clipboard capture safety and diagnostic information for unexpected client exits.

0.2.18

macOS

  • Improved installation, first launch, and reset behavior.
  • Improved the resilience and storage efficiency of continuous background recording.