Added

• Desktop/Runtime: Add a clonable native wake handle, coalesced application-defined wake reasons, neutral native event reporting, and explicit runtime deadlines so the desktop can sleep until relevant work is ready without moving application policy into the host loop.
• Tray/macOS: Reconcile retained NSMenuItem, submenu, and SF Symbol objects in place when the semantic menu model changes.

Changed

• Release: Use the version number by itself as the GitHub Release title.
• Desktop/Runtime: Replace the unconditional all-source 200 ms desktop tick with source-selective command, rule-result, configuration, and clipboard processing. Keep a deadline-based clipboard compatibility poll only where a backend or desktop session has no reliable native change notification.
• Desktop/Runtime: Derive wakeups and deadlines from tray and notification commands, completed rule jobs, filesystem events, remote-import refresh, clipboard contention retries, and native platform messages. This keeps the shared AppCommand ordering surface while avoiding unrelated clipboard and configuration probes.
• Runtime/Imports: Refresh URL imports with HTTP validators, preserve byte-identical cache files, and skip full config parsing and rule compilation when every remote source is unchanged.
• Tray/macOS: Preserve native menu objects across opens, update only changed fields and children, rebuild command tags atomically, and cache the bounded set of application-owned SF Symbols. Relative timestamps are still computed from a fresh semantic model whenever the menu opens.
• Tray/Icons: Describe generated tray pixels with an explicit format and stride, use a validated @2x grayscale-plus-alpha template payload on macOS, and retain RGBA payloads where Windows and Linux need color or theme variants.
• Tray/Actions: Add macOS SF Symbols for Undo and Edit rule and refine the Copy config path and Quit action icons.

Fixed

• Windows/Installer: Statically link the C runtime into the desktop and CLI executables so a clean Windows installation can launch them without a separate Visual C++ Redistributable.
• Windows/Desktop: Embed the Clipboard Transformer product name in the GUI executable so Task Manager does not show the internal ct-desktop package name.
• Desktop/Runtime: Prevent a wakeup sent between the final application drain and the native wait from leaving commands, configuration events, or completed transformations pending indefinitely.
• Windows/Runtime: Observe clipboard changes through the message-only Win32 listener, route native quit through the ordered application command channel, and fall back to compatibility polling instead of failing startup when the clipboard listener is unavailable.
• macOS/Runtime: Stop calling NSApplication::updateWindows() unconditionally and create tray UI only after the native application pump is initialized.
• Desktop/Runtime: Filter config-watch events before enqueueing or waking the host, so log, history, state, and PID writes cannot create a self-amplifying filesystem/logging loop. Keep dependency diagnostics at Info unless verbose tracing is explicitly added later.
• macOS/Tray: Use an explicit square, image-only status item and a stable application-specific autosave name so AppKit can persist its position and visibility independently.