This is the first quality update for Planet. In this release, we focus on making the software more stable, easier to use, and cleaning up the underlying codebase.

• Download: Planet 0.21.1

New Welcome Screen

Upon starting the app, you will now see a new welcome screen that provides a brief introduction to the features. There's also a Follow Featured button to let you follow featured content sources.

Pixel Nomad

Pixel Nomad is a new site avatar set designed by Ann. You can click the smile face on the toolbar and select one as your site avatar.

Codebase

We addressed most compile warnings in the codebase and optimized the handling of some multithreaded scenarios. Overall, you should feel the app is more snappy.

Planet is an open-source native macOS app built with SwiftUI. If you are interested, here is our source code repo:

https://github.com/Planetable/Planet

Miscellaneous Improvements

• Added icons for the most-used menu items when you right-click a Planet in the sidebar.
• Added a new form for setting .well-known/farcaster.json for Farcaster Mini App.
• Improved stability when handling sleep/awake.
• It is faster now to follow Planets with ENS addresses.
• ipfs2.eth.limo is removed as an option for a public gateway, as it is no longer working.
• Set the IPFS swarm connections to a lower value so the server uses fewer resources.
• Improved the process of IPFS garbage collection. Now it can release more storage from unfollowed content.
• Fixed an animation issue when dragging items into the Markdown writer window.