Rush 0.1.0 alpha 22 — A first install that just works
No new features. We spent this release making sure the first time you open Rush on a clean Mac, everything works — every time.
- Verified end-to-end on a freshly wiped Mac
- Download → install → launch → use, no surprises
- Restart works the same on day 1 as day 30
A boring release on purpose
First impressions are non-recoverable. If Rush is slow, crashes, or asks you to fix something on day one, you don't try it again. So this release is about a single number: the percentage of fresh installs that work without you needing to do anything.
We took a Mac, wiped it clean, downloaded the new build, installed it to Applications, and walked through every step a new user would — opening for the first time, signing in, watching Rush set itself up. We did this many times, on different machines, until every step had evidence.
What you see the moment Rush finishes installing — a clean welcome state with no setup waiting on you.
Quitting and reopening shouldn't feel risky
Half of install bugs only show up the second time you launch the app — when it tries to read something it just wrote, or pick up where it left off. We tested that explicitly: quit, relaunch, confirm everything you signed into is still there, everything you opened still opens.
Rush after a clean quit-and-relaunch — your state is exactly where you left it.
Version
0.1.0-alpha.22
Channel
alpha
Released
May 9, 2026
Git commit
3e9992b7a
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