# Buzz Desktop v0.5.10: glass appearance, Send to channel, and perf fixes

> New glass appearance theme option and cohesive settings page. Thread messages can now be sent to a channel. Performance regression from v0.5.9 reverted (get_channels, localStorage coalescing). Timeline retention and fresh-channel timeline fixes, macOS attachment picker fix, and link preview reliability improvements.

| | |
|---|---|
| **Tool** | Buzz |
| **Version** | desktop-v0.5.10 |
| **Kind** | release |
| **Published** | 2026-08-12 |
| **Observed** | 2026-08-22 |
| **Significance** | 2/5 |
| **Breaking** | no |
| **Categories** | feature, fix |

## What changed


- Add glass appearance and cohesive settings
- Add 'Send to channel' for thread messages
- fix(desktop): remove 0.5.9+ perf regressions, speed up get_channels
- perf(desktop): coalesce read state localStorage persistence
- fix(desktop): bound initial timeline retention
- Improve desktop search scoping
- fix(desktop): preserve fresh channel timelines
- fix(desktop): suppress fresh focus-return refetches for channels and home-feed
- fix(desktop): preserve theme when opening communities
- Fix macOS attachment picker lifecycle; allow inert HTML downloads
- fix(link-preview): resolve YouTube videos through oEmbed
- fix(link-preview): reliably render previews sent right after resolution
- fix(link-preview): restore Buzz entity link cards
- fix(buzz-agent): harden Databricks OAuth token cache and callback
- feat(tracing): add PostgreSQL tracing spans
- chore: mesh upgrade, clean up legacy special case code


## Sources

- [github_release](https://github.com/block/buzz/releases/tag/desktop-v0.5.10) — retrieved 2026-08-22


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