BTT no longer supports macOS Monterey 12.7.6

Bugs or Unexpected Behavior
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Device information:

  • Type of Mac: M1 Pro 16-inch, 2021
  • macOS version: 12.7.6
  • BetterTouchTool version: btt6.479-2026050506 and later

Additional information (e.g. crash logs, related issues, etc.):

Tonight I came home and BTT showed an alpha update available, so I went to install it as usual.
The update engine has been unable to display release notes for years, so I just assumed it was an alpha update and installed.
BTT was immediately crashing on launch. I found that the error was:

dyld[6241]: Library not loaded: '/usr/lib/swift/libswiftRegexBuilder.dylib'

  Referenced from: '/Applications/BetterTouchTool.app/Contents/Frameworks/SoulverCore.framework/Versions/A/SoulverCore'

  Reason: tried: '/usr/lib/system/introspection/libswiftRegexBuilder.dylib' (no such file), '/usr/lib/swift/libswiftRegexBuilder.dylib' (no such file), '/usr/local/lib/libswiftRegexBuilder.dylib' (no such file), '/usr/lib/libswiftRegexBuilder.dylib' (no such file)

(lldb)

It turns out this library isn't available in Monterey. Going through the releases, it seems that 6.459 (2026050204) is the last version that supports my OS.

I am in fact planning to upgrade soon, but I need to do it carefully as I have lots of tools, audio plugins etc and I'm always wary of upgrading until I have to.

For this and a few other reasons, I know I need to finally bite the bullet!

Note: I'm not sure if this was mentioned in the Release Notes, because I had no idea there was a secret checkbox you needed to enable to get them to show up lol...
Anyway, I suspect given the big changes, newer versions won't be able to support Monterey anymore - can you confirm that?

Thanks!

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Could you check whether this is already resolved in the newer alphas?
E.g.
https://folivora.ai/releases/btt6.491-2026050701.zip

//edit: ah unfortunately it still happens. I'll check again whether I can somehow link it in a way that supports macOS 11 & 12

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Yeah I tried the latest releases first and worked my way back to the 2nd of May :slight_smile:

I guess I'm not the only Monterey hold-out, but for myself I will likely take the plunge & upgrade shortly.

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Yep there are more people still on macOS 11 and 12 than one would think... I'll definitely get it to work somehow again, it's just all a bit tricky.

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it will now work again on these macOS versions

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Fantastic, thanks Andreas - can confirm it's working.