# Thaw roadmap > What the Thaw team is working on now, what comes next, what macOS is holding back, and what has shipped. Thaw 3.0 for macOS 27 is in beta, with [a new design](https://www.getthaw.app/roadmap/thawui), and Thaw 2.1 for macOS 26 is out. Thaw 2.2, also in beta, brings back macOS 15. Thaw 2 gets no more new features, only bug fixes, performance work and security updates. Thaw is getting smaller: the larger features are becoming modules you add only if you want them. That plan came from the [discussion in #1353](https://github.com/thaw-app/Thaw/issues/1353). This is the plan as it stands, not a promise, and your reports decide the order. ## Now What is being built, for the next releases of Thaw 3 and Thaw 2. ### macOS 27 - **Thaw 3.0.0.** In beta. It is a rebuilt menu bar core for macOS 27. The latest beta is 3.0.0-beta.6 and the latest alpha is 3.0.0-alpha.13. - **Modules.** Optional parts of Thaw that run only if you use them. The first three are in 3.0.0-alpha.13: Settings › Extras switches Scripts, Triggers and Widgets on and off, and one that is off doesn’t run or show in the sidebar. ### macOS 15 and 26 - **Thaw 2.2.0.** In beta. Since 2.2.0-beta.1, Thaw 2 runs on macOS 15 Sequoia again. From here the Thaw 2 line gets only bug fixes, performance work and security updates. ## Up next These follow Modules. ### Layout - **Undo for drags.** Command-Z already undoes keyboard moves, and drags within a section in the experimental editor window. Layout’s own drags come next. ### From 2.1, as modules - **Scripts.** Scripts that make their own menu bar items, tested by macOS 26 users on 2.1.0, come to 3.0 as a module you can add. - **The full trigger engine.** In 2.1 an item can move on battery level, the frontmost app, a network, a Focus and more. 3.0 has part of it: 3.0.0-beta.2 added showing items while an app runs. The rest comes as a module. - **Widgets.** One is in 3.0 so far: a custom status icon with three slots for meters, added in 3.0.0-alpha.3. Since 3.0.0-alpha.13 it is the Widgets module. - **Rotating diagnostic logs.** Keeping and cycling through diagnostic logs will appear in a later 3.0 build. ## Blocked by macOS 27 These run into limits in macOS 27 itself. The team is looking for ways around them and can’t promise them for the beta. ### Hiding - **Separate items from the same app.** macOS 27 hides and shows an app’s items together, so one of an app’s items can’t yet go in Hidden while another stays in Visible. ### Layout - **Even spacing.** Each app adds its own padding around its items, so the same spacing setting can still leave uneven gaps. - **A Timer stand-in.** Thaw can’t remove Apple’s Timer, so it can’t put one of its own in its place. ## Further out These come after the move to modules. The team intends to build them, and none has a date. ### Integrations - **An Alfred workflow.** One you can install, on top of the `thaw://` links that [already work with Alfred](https://www.getthaw.app/docs/thaw/uri-schemes). - **Import from another menu bar manager.** Bring your setup with you, so switching to Thaw doesn’t mean starting over. - **More with Droppy and Floe.** Both already drive Thaw through `thaw://` links: they open menu bar items and apply profiles. The plan is to take that further. - **OmniWM.** Work alongside the OmniWM window manager on macOS 26 and 27, so Thaw stays out of the way of its workspaces. It came up on [OmniWM’s issue tracker](https://github.com/OmniNull/OmniWM/issues/752). - **MCP support.** A server for AI assistants, so one you already use can read your menu bar and rearrange it when you ask. ### Installing - **A Nix flake.** So Thaw can be installed and pinned from a Nix configuration. The other half of the request, a list of where Thaw keeps its settings for a dotfiles repo, came in 3.0.0-beta.6. ([#1363](https://github.com/thaw-app/Thaw/issues/1363)) ### Across your Macs - **iCloud backups.** For profiles, appearance and preferences, as a few options in the panes they belong to, not a new pane. Anything tied to one Mac’s displays stays local. ### Menu bar items - **Your own menus in the menu bar.** Make an item yourself and fill its menu with actions: open a link, run a Shortcut, run a script. Thaw puts it in the menu bar and treats it like any other item. - **Isolation mode.** Show just one item for a while, with everything else out of the way. ([#970](https://github.com/thaw-app/Thaw/issues/970)) ## Ideas Things we have written up and not decided on. None is planned. ### Integrations - **Stream Deck and other controllers.** Keys that hide and show sections, switch profiles and stay lit while a mode is on. - **Items hosted by Thaw.** Another app hands Thaw an icon and a menu, and Thaw shows it as a menu bar item that follows your sections and profiles like any other. ### Displays - **OLED saving mode.** The menu bar sits on the same pixels all day. Thaw could turn it true black, shift the items a point or two now and then, and dim them when the Mac is idle. ## Asked for The feature requests open on GitHub, most wanted first. - [Promote a revealed item to Visible by Command-drag](https://github.com/thaw-app/Thaw/issues/1083) (0 votes) - [Full Arabic Language and RTL Support Across the Entire App](https://github.com/thaw-app/Thaw/issues/1301) (0 votes) - ["Isolation" Mode](https://github.com/thaw-app/Thaw/issues/970) (0 votes) - [Show menu bar only in selected fullscreen apps](https://github.com/thaw-app/Thaw/issues/1086) (0 votes) - [Some suggestions to improve the iPhone Duo-inspired indicator's UX (currently too limited, derivative and uninspired)](https://github.com/thaw-app/Thaw/issues/1378) (0 votes) - [Why we just can't hide it again after scroll? just like v1.x version does](https://github.com/thaw-app/Thaw/issues/1160) (0 votes) ## Shipped Everything that has shipped, by release, newest first. The changelog has the detail. ### 2.2.0-beta.2 - Thaw 2 has its own Homebrew tap - Settings has fewer pages ### 3.0.0-alpha.13 - Modules: Scripts, Triggers and Widgets switch on and off in Settings › Extras - Settings is rebuilt on ThawUI, with a new sidebar - A Black theme for Settings, besides System, Light and Dark - Every Search style can rename and move items - A Template tab in Displays, for new displays ### 3.0.0-beta.6 - Show on hover works on Thaw’s icon too - Choose how large items are in the Thaw Bar - A list of every file Thaw keeps, for a dotfiles repo - Updates reach Macs in stages ### 3.0.0-beta.5 - Capture hidden items on request ### 3.0.0-alpha.12 - Items move without Thaw moving your pointer - `thaw://` links are stricter about who they trust ### 3.0.0-alpha.11 - A black Settings background in dark mode, for OLED displays - Skip menu bar visibility recovery when a removed app blocks it ### 3.0.0-beta.4 - Profiles can keep your layout changes - Four more glass finishes, as an experiment - More section divider styles - Shape corners from square to round, on a slider - Show apps an older version hid - Simple Mode fits on one page ### 3.0.0-beta.3 - Move several items at once in Layout - Layout shows where a drag will land - Choose how items are hidden, in one place - Choose which Apple items to replace - Stand-ins for Apple items no longer need a switch in Experiments - Show every item on wide displays - Thaw’s Time Machine icon shows backups - Restart the menu bar from Settings - Move items with a `thaw://` link - Use Thaw without Accessibility, as an experiment - Arrange your layout in its own window, as an experiment - Moving an item from its menu says where it went ### 3.0.0-beta.2 - Triggers can show items while an app runs - Launchers can open menu bar items and apply profiles through `thaw://` URLs - Restore missing menu bar items, in Troubleshooting - Gradients at any angle - Layout shows when macOS won’t let an icon follow its section ### 3.0.0-beta.1 - Rounded screen corners, carried over from the 2.x roadmap - Open an item by letter, planned as “item hints” - Folders for item groups, each with its own icon and colour - The app’s own icon where Thaw has no picture of an item - Choose the icon Thaw shows for any item - One menu for every item in Layout, search and the Thaw Bar - Live Activities and the camera indicator stay visible while apps are hidden - Open hidden items in the menu bar, under their own icon - Replace Input Menu, with your keyboard layouts ### 3.0.0 alphas - A rebuilt menu bar core for macOS 27 - Time Machine can be hidden - Focus, AirDrop, Now Playing and Fast User Switching stay reachable while hidden - The Layout editor works from the keyboard: Tab, Home and End, Option-arrows, Space - Swap bar - macOS 27’s limits shown in the Layout pane - App zoom - A custom status icon built from three slots - A separate appearance for the Thaw Bar - Reapply Spacing - Move and hide the Game Mode indicator - The Thaw Bar works from the keyboard - Command-Z undoes profile changes - VoiceOver announces every move in Layout - A plain click on the Thaw icon can swap - Layout points out items behind the notch - Control Center widgets for hidden items and Zen Mode - `thawctl`, a command-line client - Actions in Shortcuts and Spotlight - A Privacy pane with a capture inspector - Restore layout backups from inside Thaw - A profile shows what applying it would change ### Pre-3.0.0 - Hiding, showing and reordering items on macOS 27 - Hiding system items - Settings search - Reset layout - A new onboarding walkthrough - Deep links - Support for macOS 27’s own overflow icon ### 2.2.0-beta.1 - macOS 15 Sequoia is back - Keep Thaw out of the Dock while Settings is open ### 2.1.0 - Item triggers: an item moves when something happens - Image-change triggers, with comparison modes and a preview - Menu bar item groups - Individual spacer items - Zen Mode - Simple Mode - Per-Space profiles and per-Space appearance - Wallpaper changes re-tint the bar right away - Items that ask for attention surface themselves - A Thaw Bar with its own shape and tint - Hidden icons refresh at the slider rate - One Per display section in place of repeated blocks - App icons where captures can’t go, so Screen Recording is optional - A hotkey to enable and disable auto-rehide - Opened items can stay a while after their menu closes - Diagnostic logs that rotate by size and time - Sort a section A to Z - Layout opens in its own window - Triggers that follow an external drive - Keep Thaw out of the Dock while you show and hide items - Remove a display you no longer use - A Tools pane for the troubleshooting helpers ### 2.0.0 - Built for macOS 26, with Liquid Glass throughout - Reading and writing settings through `thaw://` URLs - Per-item hotkeys - Script hooks before and after a profile is applied - Adaptive background and tint, per screen - Configurable background and a glass effect - Notch shape, a notch margin slider and tint opacity - Per-display menu bar spacing - A reworked menu bar item spacing - Thaw Bar layout options, alignments, a grid and dynamic resizing - Hold to preview - Option-click for the always-hidden section - Double-click the Thaw icon - Restart Thaw, from the menu - Game Mode support - A refreshed Settings window and onboarding ### 1.3.0-beta.1 - Settings Profiles - Profiles that switch with the display - Focus mode integration - Profile hotkeys - A badge for new items - Icon overflow for notched displays - Keep the search panel open ### 1.2.0 - Icon positions saved and restored across restarts - Custom names for menu bar items - Menu bar item tooltips - The `thaw://` URL scheme - A hotkey to toggle application menus - Hover highlight in the Thaw Bar - Conflicting apps detection - Per-display settings - A Reset Thaw button ### 1.1.0 - Localised in 12 languages - Double-click the menu bar to reveal the always-hidden section - The active menu bar detected on each screen - The Thaw Bar for displays with a notch only ### 1.0.0 - The first stable release of Thaw Last brought up to date on 6 November 2026.