ChatKeeper 2026.02.027-adventure (Adventure Build)

February 8, 2026

Hot on the heels of the first GUI preview, a whole bunch of updates. The Adventure Build approach has immediately proven to me that it’s a great way to get updates out for those willing to experiment. Behind the scenes I’ve been eliminating other points of friction to make these even easier for me to share.

Fixed and Added in This Release:

On Windows, clicking the “Desktop” icon in a file or folder dialog appeared to do nothing, and generated some error output to the ChatKeeper log. Fixed 2026-01-31.
On some systems with 4K displays, the application window might be very small. Solution: set the environment variable JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS to -Dsun.java2d.uiScale=2.0 (or whatever the appropriate scaling factor is for your system). Solution determined 2026-02-01.
The application icon was inconsistent on some platforms. Rather than the intended light bulb, you may have seen a default black and white Java “Duke” icon, either in menus or while running. Fixed 2026-02-03.
The “Sync Now” button is now disabled after a successful export in order to reduce confusion. Fixed 2026-02-03.
If you were prompted by the GUI to install a license, and you then installed one that had already expired, there was no warning. Fixed 2026-02-04.
Progress images were a little too small. Fixed 2026-02-06.
Added a padlock indication to the Conversation Selection step when a license is required. Added 2026-02-06.
Added automatic saving and loading of the GUI options between runs so you don’t have to enter them manually on each run. Added 2026-02-06.
Added a “Reset” button to restore default options. This seemed necessary after adding the auto-saving of GUI options described above. Added 2026-02-07.
Added a “Skip this warning until I try a different Adventure Build.” option on the Adventure Build startup dialog. The goal is to inform you, not annoy you 😁. Added 2026-02-07.
Fixed alignment of icon within Mac installer dialogs (super-minor, I know… but it bugged me.) Fixed 2026-02-08.

Still In Progress

Implement the “Check for Updates” web page that users can open in their browser from the “Help & More” section of the GUI.

Known Issues (working on them now)

One report of the GUI saying that nothing needed to be synced because conversations have not been updated despite the “Resync All Conversations” checkbox being checked on the “Advanced” tab. Still trying to reproduce this issue.

If you are currently using the previous Adventure Build…

Just download via the above links and install. No need to uninstall anything.

If you are currently using version 1.3.0 or earlier…

Mac users: type brew remove martian-software-inc/chatkeeper/chatkeeper in a terminal to remove the old version and avoid conflicts.
Everyone else: just delete the old chatkeeper executable.

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