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- Refreshed the lockout screen with a new built-in background and an updated look.
- Refreshed the Brake app design across Overview, Illustrated, Logs, and Advanced.
- Updated settings controls, dialogs, status animation, and scrollbars.
- Protection and recovery behavior is unchanged.
- Fixed a bug that could make Brake keep restarting in the background after a lockout expired.
- Expired lockouts are now cleared reliably.
- Using a recovery code is now recorded reliably, and protection picks up the shortened timer right away.
- A failed recovery attempt can no longer close the lockout screen or leave scanning paused until the lockout ends.
- Protection and the lockout screen now share the same saved state and timers.
- Recovery codes are now accepted only for lockouts that are set up as recoverable.
- Recovery logs record timing but never include your recovery code.
- Recovery cooldowns now end the moment they expire.
- Starting or extending a commitment now cancels any pending emergency unlock, and Brake explains this before you confirm.
- The installer now stops with an error if a required step fails.
- Install, uninstall, and shutdown guidance now matches how Brake behaves.
- Emergency recovery now releases the lockout immediately by default, limited to one successful use in a rolling 24 hours.
- Advanced settings let you allow 1, 2, 3, 4, or unlimited recovery uses.
- Recovery use is remembered across restarts, and the emergency option disappears once the limit is reached.
- Updating keeps your current recovery cooldown.
- First release of Brake for Windows.
- Windows installer.
- Local explicit-content detection.
- Optional illustrated detector download.
- Recovery code and lockout controls.
- Improved uninstall and update flow.
