New Features

• Assign custom actions and extensions to Contact Viewer metadata types
• Configurable advanced 'Show Alfred' global hotkey with ability to bring selected text into Alfred
• Ability to set a filter's default action to an extension instead of just opening it. Allows for improved workflow for selecting a particular file and actioning it with a custom action
• Ability to 'replace' a current extension of the same name when importing - allows for easier upgrading of extensions
• Renaming of hotkeys is now possible by right clicking (or double clicking) on the hotkey in the list
• Added a 'help' keyword which gives quick access to search Alfred's help site
• Intelligent type matching with spell / define keywords. If you start spelling with a capital letter, ensure this is carried through to all spelling suggestions
• Drag reordering URLs in Alfred's URL global hotkeys prefs to set tab (or window) order in your default browser
• Drag reorder Applications / Files in Alfred's File Group extension prefs to set launch order

Improvements

• Wildcarding in the clipboard history view with * for more flexible searching through history
• Non anchored Name search for snippets in the clipboard viewer (for more 'interesting' matching)
• The iTunes Mute keyword now mutes iTunes instead of setting volume to 0. This allows toggling of mute by typing mute again. Automatically un-mutes on playing from mini player.
• Turn off iTunes Mini Player DJ mode when selecting a random album to prevent confusion
• Workflow extension parameters now have the option to be Required / Optional / None, allowing for keyword to be linked directly to workflow with no extension
• De-duplicate URLS which are in history and are typed as new so you don't see URLs twice (once typed and once from history)
• Place cursor position to the right of the path when using a global hotkey to open a file path in Alfred's file system navigation
• Improved URL matching for localhost and sites which use ports (e.g. localhost:8888)
• Ignore certain schemes from URL recognition e.g. site: kind: as these work better on fallback / finder based searches
• Improve some of the help subtext throughout the preferences for clarity
• Remove all spaces from query for maths calculation as they are unnecessary. Also allows for space delimiting on large numbers for clarity
• Remove legacy code from Alfred, doing a nice big tidy up on the way for improved efficiency
• Add a gap in the Features > Default Result prefs between Essential and Extras
• Improved contact card notes field (no longer truncates to the right for multiple lines)
• Improvements to iTerm2 focusing after 'open terminal here' and terminal commands
• More useful message on invalid licenses
• Allow for valid spaces in URL recognition
• Add the additional items which are now synced to the help text in the syncing prefs

Bug Fixes

• Prevent the confirmation dialog from showing when deleting from views in Alfred's preferences when no rows are selected
• Defend against potentially dodgy iTunes metadata, especially with Match
• Use the correct Amazon online store when Ireland is selected as locale
• Make sure the application name is correctly shown in the Global Hotkeys list when dragging a new application in
• When using the Random Album function outside of the iTunes Mini Player, reload the library if needed instead of doing nothing
• Change spelling to Luxembourg in locales (tsk tsk @vero)
• Fix wording for AppleScript extension subtext (was accidentally the same as shell script)
• Correctly encode URLs typed into Alfred which contain accented characters
• Fix keypad enter key to work in contacts viewer
• Make default Facebook search UTF-8
• Clear search context when changing query prefix (fixes e.g. exiting contact viewer, then prefixing name with google)
• Trim the 'custom home folder location' before use as trailing newlines gave strange behaviour
• Ensure that contacts are still opened in the contact viewer with the new filter action customisation

- Make Alfred more resistant to potential unexpected problems caused by shell extensions
- Better identification of contacts which can be viewed in the Alfred contact viewer
- Fix incorrect subtext for non PP / MAS contacts in Alfred's results
- Fix fallback searches from showing '{query}' in the prefs, correctly show '...'
- Add Intel only Growl library to standardise for website / app store compliant
- Deferred pasting with 'snip' keyword to keep consistency with clipboard navigator
- Register Alfred's defaults setting earlier in initialisation for robustness
- Remove froogle search due to complications (users can add a custom search for this instead)
- Change 'Search Google Mail' web search to work with new style gmail URLs
- Setup Lion build server and auto build / release scripts
- Email keyword with an additional space stops keyword from working
- Add Israel to selectable Locales

New Features:

Global Hotkeys [Powerpack]
Custom Terminal Commands + Improvements [Powerpack]
Preference Syncing [Powerpack]
iTunes Mini Player Improvements [Powerpack]
iTunes DJ Support - best way to randomise your iTunes library (toggle in prefs)
Overhaul Preferences

Other New Features & Improvements

Drag files out of Alfred into other apps [PP]
Update 'Custom Sites' editor view and allow for custom images
Add the ability to hide, quit, force quit currently running applications
Add iTunes and Clipboard to usage graph [PP]
increase size of text area for filenames while browsing the file system [PP]
Update to latest version of FMDB by @ccgus
Truncation and general UI improvements around text display
User definable home folder, default to ~/ [PP]
User definable tab key (auto-complete or action) [PP]
Make AppleScripts run with osascript rather than NSAppleScript
Stop pre-compiling applescripts and compile / cache on the fly on users' machines
Add email attachment support for Outlook (thanks @jdfwarrior) [PP]

New Features:
* Address Book Integration [initial work] - ability to view contacts in Alfred (Powerpack)
* Import and Export of Alfred Themes (Powerpack)
* Search within files using the 'in' keyword
* Change 'find' and 'open' behaviour to allow scrolling past the max displayed results (configurable in the preferences between 20 and 40)
* Custom url scheme for automatically adding custom searches to Alfred
* Option to make 'email' keyword launch gmail with an email for that contact (Powerpack)
* Option for iTunes mini player to only play longer albums when selecting random features (5 or more songs, Powerpack)
and many more.

Improvements:
* Make cmd+o open folders in Finder when in File System Navigation. Also, add option to default to return opening folders in Finder (Powerpack)
* Add custom searches to the selectable fallback search lists (Powerpack)
* Sending files as attachments through Sparrow mail is now supported (Powerpack)
* Add Mouse Scroll wheel / Track Pad scrolling of results
Improve file finding to not wildcard word anchored search queries
* Add 'reload' keyword to reload the application cache
and more.

See the whole changelog at http://help.alfredapp.com/changelog/

NEW: Clipboard History (Powerpack)
Improved: File System Navigation (Powerpack)
Improved: iTunes Mini Player (Powerpack)

See the whole changelog at http://help.alfredapp.com/changelog/

Visit the keyboard help page to see all default keboard shortcuts. http://help.alfredapp.com/keyboard/

iTunes Mini Player Improvements (Powerpack)

Significantly improved iTunes Mini Player, now indexes the iTunes Library XML directly. Improvements include:

- Browsing music by Genre/Album/Artist
- Animated scrolling through related artwork for selected result
- Ability to play a random album
- Non indexed drive and NAS support - Much more resilient against missing metadata
- Supports all types of music imported into iTunes (wav etc)
- Very basic Playlist support (this will improve soon)
- Using a temporary Alfred.app Playlist to provide a predictable playlist order
- If Alfred core is already showing, make iTunes hotkey show the mini player rather than hide core
- Make rating work off of persistent id rather than 'current track' to make more reliable
- Delete iTunes database on upgrade to ensure the latest version of indexing.
- Make refresh view work on dark L&F (will be made more consistent in future release)
- Keyboard shortcuts for current song star rating (cmd+alt+number)
- Change play hotkey to alt+cmd+down to group with forward and back
- Add alt+cmd+up for random album at any point
- Pad the persistent id hex string with 0 to match db id (make album show correctly on random)
- Add 'Play random album' inside individual Genre nodes (at top for easy access)
- Add 'Artists for genre' inside individual Genre nodes
- Ability to ignore the tracks that aren't ticked in iTunes (optional in prefs, includes all by default)
- Show more playlists and better icons to represent playlist type
- Filtering of playlists by typed name inside playlist node
- Add +1 onto the descriptor at index playlist loop as missing last playlist item
- cmd+r hotkey to reindex itunes library (when player open)
- prevent selection panel from taking first responder (so focus always stays in text input)
- Option to Play all songs by a particular artist: SLOW so 'hidden' option for now using boolean pref key itunes.showPlayAllTracksByArtist

New Features:

- New usage counter on the about tab - see how addicted you are ;)
- Option to filter out calendar items in file find preferences
- Added Romania, Mexico, Argentina and Brazil to locales

Bug Fixes:

- Fire selection changed when using the mouse to update the right hand summary (affects all panels, fs nav, actions etc)
- Capture keyboard input immediately after hotkey activation for cases where Alfred is prevented from opening instantly
- Correctly show iTunes artwork for artwork with non-square aspect ratio
- Better 'forced' single tap support with hotkey.forceSingleModifier hidden pref
- Prevent potential instability if OS X can't identify the location of some core apps like iTunes.app and Dictionary.app

New Features:

* Powerpack: Tab based result actions, press tab on a result and perform actions such as Open With or Copy To
* Powerpack: Added file system navigation with quick access using / (for root) and ~ (for home)
* Powerpack: Add Powerpack tab to preferences with info and licence mechanism
* Powerpack: added 'email' keyword to create an email to a contact using Mail.app
* Many under the hood architectural and performance changes in preparation for Powerpack
* Pressing space before typing a query now gives a shortcut to open files (use ' for same shortcut)

Improvements:

* Improve the hotkey display in results, now showing enter under the selected result
* Improved 'About' tab in Prefs with hints of the new branding
* Much improved system command icons
* plist files are no longer hidden by default now that we are hiding system files

New Features:

- System command to show the trash with default keyword 'trash'.

Improvements:

- Simplify the Appearance preferences by removing some options and setting better defaults
- General code improvements and optimisations

Bug Fixes:

- Fix crash on directly running Applescripts with cmd+number

Features:
* Overhauled preferences making them easier to use and more scalable for future features
* Added 'Bugs' tab into preferences to simplify reporting bugs
* Added Appsfire to default web searches with keyword 'app' to search for apps
* Increased speed of App searching by ~365% further reducing the CPU load
* Many 'under the hood' changes to prepare for future features

Bug Fix:
* Mixed mode UTF8 encoding on both default and custom searches - should make web searches more reliable

- Sparkle integration for auto-updates
- "Play" keyword which filters by music files and plays them in your default player
- New system commands - sleep, shutdown, restart, logout, screen saver, empty trash, lock
- Added 'run' command to filter by and run applescripts (no args yet)
- Experimental option to search for apps by file system name (useful for users in a non-English locale wanting to find apps in English)

See the full Changelog here: http://help.alfredapp.com/changelog/

New Features:
- Ability to add your own custom web searches, including local urls such as spotify
- Optional fuzzy matching on Applications, for example thl would find The Hit List. Note: you get more accurate results with this option disabled and using Spotlight Comments instead.
- Added signup email box to beta tab
- Added folders to default search (e.g. 'desktop' to open Finder to Desktop). Work in progress - yet to be properly filtered
- Added Russia and Austria to locales, added Froogle Germany
- Update Austrian locale to use imdb.de and amazon.de

Improvements:
- Much much better calculator based on Graham Cox's GCMathParser: http://www.apptree.net/parser.htm
- Can now use F keys or double tapping modifier keys (including cmd+cmd) as the Alfred hotkey
- Changed default Wikipedia web search to more reliable search rather than /wiki/{query}
- Finder is now found with default searcher
- Austria now get imdb.de and amazon.de by default
- Built with XCode 3.2.2 / new optimisations

Bug Fixes:
- Fix buffer flushing issue in lex parser for calculator

A few highlights:

- Performance: Pre-caching of apps & significant speed improvements
- Basic update checker which pops up “Update available” message
- Improved local search scope preferences
- Improved relevancy and accuracy of results (This is just the start, there’s still a lot to do here)
- Bit.ly shortcut creation (using “bitly” keyword)
- UI design tweaks
- Added new countries to locales
- Advanced calculator (using ‘=’, still experimental)

Full change log: http://help.alfredapp.com/changelog/

New Features:

• Add Poland to web locales

Improvements:

• Load result icons on a separate thread to prevent momentary glitching every so often
• Change 'status bar' to 'menu bar' in appearance prefs tab

Bug Fixes:

• Prevent empty query (spaces) from returning irrelevant search results
• Prevent config cog from showing over text field when both hats (menu bar / main window) are hidden

• Dictionary "Spell" and "Define"
• Basic calculator
• Google’s I’m feeling lucky added with keyword "lucky" (this will be improved in the future)
• Wolfram Alpha added to the standard web searchers with keyword "wolfram"
• Google translation added with keyword "translate" – Translates both sentences and websites
• Added Flickr search with keyword "flickr"
• Added Ask.com with keyword "ask"
• Spotlight Comments – you can set a comment of "ff" for Firefox and Alfred will find it

• Improved hotkey selection field
• Ability to change keywords for web searches
• Ability to disable unwanted websites from results
• Option to prioritise items with Spotlight Comments at the top
• Preference to save window position
• Option to always show subtext under results if available
• Preference to turn off Alfred fade-in
• Added a "Reindex" button to the experimental tab
• Ability to configure the "Esc" key behaviour
• Ability to disable "find" and "open" keywords
• Experimental feature to allow a comma as decimal
separator (for locales such as Germany)
• Experimental feature to ignore the locale for Google and Wikipedia
• Option to choose how many results are shown
• Option to remove text at bottom of window

• Tweaks to the dark theme
• Correctly URL encode a + as %2b (which means things like Google calculator will now work)
• Locale system overhauled (need to re-set your locale)
• Remove the status bar icon before quitting so it doesn’t leave a gap
• Special characters now shown correctly in hotkey field

• Address book: If launching a contact and there is a search in the contacts search field, the contact doesn’t show
• Iconography not updated in prefs due to time constraints
• Search relevance needs further improvements (main focus of next release)
• Help pages need to be populated in more details
• Window positioning not remembered on first change, but remembered from 2nd move
• Spotlight Comments don’t get prioritised above standard searches (eg. Spell…)

• Ability to hide status bar icon. When status bar icon is hidden, you see a small cog for ‘preferences’ on the Alfred main window.
• Changed status bar icon to a simpler hat
• More flexibility for hotkey selection
• Simple tickbox to ignore Mail.app emails in ‘find’ and ‘open’ searches
• Added System Preference Panels to default search (eg ‘Appearance’)
• Once launched, show Alfred on double clicking icon in /apps or the icon in the dock
• Pressing Esc clears the search term. If there is no search term, Esc will hide Alfred
• Multi page preferences dialog
• Ability to search Google Mail using ‘Gmail…’
• Make ‘tab’ autocomplete work more reliably
• cmd + W now closes the preferences window
• Default Hotkey changed to ‘alt space’ – Check and update your hotkey!