renCal

v0.8.1

October 13, 2026

✨ New features

  • Set custom recurrence patterns for events (#180)
  • You can now remove an account from Settings (#189)
  • “New calendar” button to Settings, so you can create new local calendars (#179)

🛠️ Improvements

  • Better layout for overlapping events in week view (#184)
  • Hovering “+n more” in a month cell now shows a tooltip listing the hidden events. (#185)
  • The agenda keeps its scroll position when the layout changes, for example when switching themes. (35ddbde)
  • ARM builds are now listed on the download page. (65b9b0c)

🐛 Bug fixes

  • The time and reminder pickers now open scrolled to the current value instead of the top of the list. (#178)
  • Fixed RSVP status and organizer detection for calendars whose email differs from the account login. (#190)

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/t4t5/rencal/compare/v0.8.0…v0.8.1


v0.8.0

October 8, 2026

✨ New features

  • Plugins! You can now install themes and calendar providers built by others.
  • Users outside Omarchy (e.g. macOS) can now pick their own light and dark themes. (#165)
  • New rencal skill install command that helps your AI agent create renCal plugins. (c1fb9aa)

🛠️ Improvements

  • Linux ARM (aarch64) support (#155)
  • macOS reminders now use the new notification API. Requires macOS 11+. (#164)
  • The month name is now always shown for the selected day (so it’s easier to know where you are when navigating quickly). (e999a10)
  • Polished layout, padding and dialogs throughout the app. (#158)
  • Clearer error messages, for example when a provider fails to connect. (#148)

🐛 Bug fixes

  • Fixed calendar setting changes made outside renCal (i.e. editing TOML directly) not appearing live. (c44b676)
  • Fixed a high CPU usage problem on macOS. (#164)

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/t4t5/rencal/compare/v0.7.2…v0.8.0


v0.7.2

September 17, 2026

🛠️ Improvements

  • Changes to caldir’s config.toml (including hand-edited) are now picked up by renCal while it is running. (#144)

🐛 Bug fixes

  • Fixed bundled calendar providers (iCloud, Google, etc.) crashing in the AppImage build (#144)
  • Fixed editing single occurrences of recurring events on iCloud and CalDAV calendars, which could leave a series with missing or broken exceptions and cause sync errors. (#143)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/t4t5/rencal/compare/v0.7.1…v0.7.2


v0.7.1

September 15, 2026

✨ New features

🛠️ Improvements

  • Month view scrolling now snaps smoothly to full weeks. (#132)
  • Fixed style of invitation badge so that it follows the user’s theme (#133)
  • Toggle the invitations popover with I. (#133)
  • Improved month-view and sidebar scroll performance. (#140)

🐛 Bug fixes

  • Failed event creation no longer leaves a permanent ghost event in the calendar. (#142)
  • Malformed configuration files now report an error instead of being silently reset and overwritten. (#141)
  • Editing recurring events no longer drops additional recurrence dates defined with RDATE. (#139)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/t4t5/rencal/compare/v0.7.0…v0.7.1


v0.7.0

September 9, 2026

✨ New features

  • Added optional “URL” field in events (and auto-detect URLs in descriptions and locations). (#124)
  • Added a setting to show or hide week numbers. (#113)
  • Added Electric Blue and Minimal Light themes. (#126)
  • Drag events in month and week views to quickly reschedule them. (#120)
  • Click and drag across time slots or days to create events. (#128, #130)
  • Double-click empty calendar space to add an event. (#129)

🛠️ Improvements

  • Display events in their original timezone when it differs from your local timezone. (#125)
  • Upcoming and ongoing video meetings now show a video indicator and convenient “Join” button in Agenda view. (#122)
  • Keyboard shortcuts now open in a cleaner, scrollable sidebar. (#131)

🐛 Bug fixes

  • Fixed alignment between end-date and end-time fields. (d8eea1a)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/t4t5/rencal/compare/v0.6.4…v0.7.0


v0.6.4

September 1, 2026

✨ New features

  • Choose whether weeks start on Monday or Sunday in Settings → General. (#112)
  • Collapse or restore the sidebar with CtrlB or the new toolbar button. (#108)
  • Trigger a manual calendar sync with S. (50e7253)

🐛 Bug fixes

  • Fixed silent launch failures after upgrading renCal while an older instance was still running. (#119)

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/t4t5/rencal/compare/v0.6.3…v0.6.4


v0.6.3

August 23, 2026

✨ New features

  • Added rencal:// deeplinks so other applications can open specific calendar events directly in renCal. (#106)

🛠️ Improvements

  • Clicking a reminder notification now opens the event. (#108)
  • Calendar UI now refreshes automatically when the system timezone changes. (#100)

🐛 Bug fixes

  • Fix sluggish performance on certain Nvidia devices. (#107)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/t4t5/rencal/compare/v0.6.2…v0.6.3




v0.6.0

July 31, 2026

✨ New features

  • Revamped search functionality! Searching events now opens as a global overlay, which is faster and more intuitive to use. (#83)
  • Conference links in the “Location” field are now detected and render a “Join meeting” button. (#81)

🛠️ Improvements

  • Buttons now use native-style cursors, reserving the hand cursor for external links. (#85)
  • Improved display of multi-day timed events in the Agenda view. (#80)

🐛 Bug fixes

  • Read-only calendars no longer appear editable (#86)
  • Fixed an empty time row appearing on newly created all-day events. (#84)

v0.5.1

July 24, 2026

✨ New features

  • Option to create a Google Meet link when adding events to Google Calendar. (#78)

🛠️ Improvements

  • Refined the Settings window with tighter spacing and more native macOS styling. (#76)
  • Sharper Linux app icons (c90ff32)

🐛 Bug fixes

  • Fixed events with unsupported timezones preventing calendar data from loading. (#73)
  • Fixed Tab occasionally scrolling the window instead of focusing the next agenda event. (#77)
  • Fixed the sync icon not showing its loading state when a badge count was present. (bdb3ea8)

v0.5.0

July 21, 2026

✨ New features

  • Change calendar settings (like display name and color) in the settings modal (#72)
  • Auto-complete contacts when adding invitees to an event (#69)

🛠️ Improvements

🐛 Bug fixes

  • Pressing Backspace now deletes events selected through Tab (1fa86c8)
  • Fixed A sometimes creating an event on the following day instead of the current day (#70)
  • Fixed shrinking agenda event bars on small layouts. (a64c611)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/t4t5/rencal/compare/v0.4.4…v0.5.0



v0.4.3

July 9, 2026

✨ New features

  • Added support for subscribing to public calendar feeds. (#66)

🐛 Bug fixes

  • Declined and cancelled events no longer trigger notifications. (#65)

v0.4.2

July 4, 2026

🛠️ Improvements

  • Notification and invite badges now use properly rounded styling. (#64)
  • Calendar file watching is quieter and more efficient by ignoring non-ICS files (a798e4f)

🐛 Bug fixes

  • Fixed theme switching so the old preload background color doesn’t stick around after changing themes. (#62)
  • Event date pickers now start weeks on Monday, matching the rest of the calendar UI (6b6ebea)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/t4t5/rencal/compare/v0.4.1…v0.4.2



v0.4.0

June 29, 2026

🚀 New features:

  • Added a CtrlK command palette for quickly switching themes, switching calendar groups, and perform other actions. (#47)
  • Added “Go to date…” so you can jump directly to a specific date from the command palette (CtrlK) or with the . shortcut (#50)
  • macOS builds now include auto-update support for easier upgrades. (#48)

✨ Improvements:

  • Reminders now support weeks and months, not just shorter intervals. (#52)
  • All-day event editing: disabled time fields look cleaner, and unchecking all-day restores the previously selected time. (#53)

🐛 Bug fixes:

  • Fixed a startup crash affecting some Nvidia driver setups. (#46)
  • Fixed Linux single-instance handling so repeated launches focus the existing app instead of leaking extra WebKit processes. (#51) Note: you might want to clean up duplicate stale rencal processes with pkill -x rencal.
  • Fixed stale “today” state so the calendar updates correctly after the day changes. (098e366)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/t4t5/rencal/compare/v0.3.0…v0.4.0


v0.3.0

June 25, 2026

What’s Changed

  • Added Calendar Groups setting for switching between different sets of calendars (e.g. “work” and “personal”) and toggling calendar visibility (#43)
  • Improved infinite scroll logic for month view (#42)
  • Fixed alignment of magic parser overlay when composing new event (dffe9d0)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/t4t5/rencal/compare/v0.2.0…v0.3.0


v0.2.0

June 22, 2026

What’s Changed

  • New website + docs at https://rencal.org (#38)
  • New Board view by @dhanushk-offl (#36)
  • Add custom themes to ~/.config/rencal/themes/ by @t4t5 (#41)
  • Replaced “Week”/“Month” tabs with a dropdown, making room for future views (#39)
  • New shortcuts for jumping month-to-month with CtrlU and CtrlD (#40)
  • New A shortcut to add an event to the currently selected day (#37)
  • Bugfix: make sure active dates are always fully visible when moving around. (3798b67)
  • Bugfix: make it possible to close Settings-window with ESC (#36)

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/t4t5/rencal/compare/v0.1.1…v0.2.0


v0.1.1

June 8, 2026

  • Add attendee invites when creating or editing events (#32)
  • Improved cloud sync status in toolbar (#33)
  • Show account connection status in Settings with option to reconnect (#34)

v0.1.0

June 5, 2026

  • Added keyboard navigation for agenda events (using tab / shift+tab) #30
  • Keep titles visible when scrolling multi-day events in week view (through sticky titles) #29

v0.0.6

June 3, 2026

  • Use latest version of caldir-core
  • Custom time input component for picking event times (#27)
  • Keyboard shortcuts overlay (press ? to view all shortcuts)
  • Fix hotkeys for non-QWERTY keyboard layouts
  • Fix bugs with event RSVPs






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