• Release Date column added.
• Fixed loading of Last Updated dates.
• Number of concurrent downloads can be configured in toolbar gear menu.
• Progress indicator is hidden when download is finished.
• Not excluding /Users/Shared by default.
• Download locator with mouseover URL in a new status bar.
• Download locator saves located URLs for downloaded version.
• Moving a group to trash now trashes all apps of the group.
• Fixed a bug in download locator.
• Fixed crashes on Tiger.
• Fixed deselecting of inspector.
• Fixed restoring of column order.
• Fixed progress when unpacking is disabled.
• Fixed a crash in AppFresh update check.

• Find applications outside /Applications (fixed handling of includes and excludes)
• Fixed the bug where no applications would be displayed at all
• Improved version detection for some apps
• Restore column ordering/width on launch
• Improved the log console (check out the Window menu)
• Fixed default download folder on Leopard (~/Downloads)
• Skipping properly updates categories
• Fixed category dragging bugs
• Fixed a file system case sensitivity issue
• Fixed a bug in downloading updates
• Fixed inspector release notes/description display after download locator cancel
• Fixed empty progress category bug

• An improved main table view with customizable columns
• A dedicated progress view for downloads and installs
• An option to follow nightly AppFresh builds
• Better performance / general improvements / bug fixes

• Fixed multiple update notifications bug.
• Fixed multiple Front Row instances bug. Use "Reset Application Information" (AppFresh menu, hold option) to remove the old instances.

• List apps from your iusethis profile which are not yet on your machine
• ... and install them with a single click
• Group applications and corresponding widgets, pref panes, etc for less clutter
• UI improvements
• Stability improvements and fixes
• Growl notifications
• Reduced AppFresh.app size to about a half by using ICU regex instead of OgreKit

• Fixed a crash in Microsoft Office application scanning
• Fixes a bug where AppFresh would delete the entire downloads folder (if you've lost yours, check the Trash)

• Fixed Microsoft Office 2008-related crash (see note below)
• Fixed interface issues
• Fixed deletion of empty downloads folders

If you worked around the MSO2008 bug by executing defaults write de.metaquark.appfresh IUEnableMicrosoftAutoUpdate FALSE, please run defaults delete de.metaquark.appfresh IUEnableMicrosoftAutoUpdate once to restore default behaviour - it doesn''t crash anymore.

• General rewrite of AppFresh core components
• Major speed improvements on scanning applications
• New three-pane user interface without progress sheets
• Added new default categories. Use drag&drop to create a new customizable category
• Added support for Microsoft AutoUpdate
• Added a default group for Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac
• Added support for checking AddressBook plugins
• Added iusethis fallback checking for broken Sparkle appcasts
• Added new update states for network errors and iusethis fallback checks
• The iusethis description of applications can be shown in the inspector
• Fixed a crash reporter bug
• Fixed a bug when AppFresh would not finish update checking
• Fixed some Leopard compatibility issues
• Removed iusethis autosearch
• Improved adding and removing applications from iusethis profile

Note: The underlying data model of AppFresh has changed significantly from previous versions. If you updated from an older version and experience any problems, please try cleaning the ~/Library/Application Support/AppFresh folder and restart AppFresh.

• Fixed the dreaded Leopard memory leak

• Improved Mac OS X Leopard compatibility

• Added more registered Apple applications (for example Safari and iWorks).
• Added better reporting for broken applications.
• Added support for Nano software update appcasts (used by YummyFTP, for example).
• Added iusethis registration to the setup wizard.
• Added detailed information about iusethis.com to the setup wizard.
• Added advanced support for aliased applications at iusethis.
• Added new main menu action to open the iusethis user profile.
• Improved main menu validation.
• Improved listing of Apple applications not registered in Software Update to be listed as Apple updates (XCode, Interface Builder).
• Fixed rescanning of applications after installing an update.
• Fixed compatibilty issues of Sparkle and iusethis appcasts.
• Fixed possible crash and loop in iusethis auto-search feature.
• Fixed setting of iusethis use counts.
• Fixed handling of applications without versions at iusethis.
• Fixed setting of iusethis attributes for Apple applications.
• Fixed http request settings of redirects.

AppFresh Development Preview 5 Bugfix Release 3

There have been problems with Sparkle enabled update checking. If you still experience any problems with applications using Sparkle, you might need to remove all version information using the "Reset Version Information" command in the AppFresh menu and recheck for updates!

Changes for Development Preview 5 Bugfix Release 3:

• Fixed installing of Sparkle updates.
• Fixed possible crash when installing widgets.
• Fixed installing of updates that change the name of an application.
• Fixed removing and resetting of all applications.
• Added keyboard shortcut Cmd-R to reveal an application in the Finder.
• Added support for iusethis.com license settings.
• Added a log console to the main menu.
• Added an action to remove all version information.

• Added grouping of applications in one folder.
• Added auto completion for changing iUseThis identifiers with search results.
• Added preferences option compact list style.
• Added scanning and handling of non-bundled applications.
• Added support for kernel extensions (yet without filesystems)
• Added toolbar action iUseThis Profile.
• Added auto-hiding of iUseThis categories if no credentials are set.
• Added preferences option to ignore updates needing the Download Locator.
• Improved checking for iusethis.com "Server down" messages and setting to state "Broken feed".
• Improved caching to improve overall list preformance.
• Improved iusethis.com auto-search.
• Improved internal Core Data handling.
• Fixed generating of application names containing dots (for example Last.fm)
• Fixed installing of some PreferencePanes.
• Fixed removing of old versions when iUseThis identifier is changed.
• Fixed setting of iUseThis state.
• Fixed updating of iUseThis category counts.
• Fixed marked as up to date applicatins category assoziation (now Up to date)
• Fixed inspector resizing issues.
• Fixed sorting by state.
• Fixed some more wrong capitlization.
• Fixed displaying application name in the Download Locator window.
• Fixed alignement of dates in the first row of a category.
• Fixed Safari 3 problems with Download Locator.
• Fixed handling of pre version schemes.
• Reverted Download Locators always-on-top window settings.
• Reverted to using sheets to display the progress.
• Removed preferences option to exclude unsupported applications.

• Added Spotlight fallback in case it's disabled.
• Added ~/Applications to default scan locations.
• Added new sort by filter "State" in the main window.
• Added an alert panel for using "Make iUseThis profile"
• Added widget categorization and detection.
• Added actions to Help menu for opening the website, the blog and sending a mail.
• Added word splitting to improve iusethis.com auto search.
• Added category "Not Using"
• Added possibility to disable auto search per application.
• Added support for SIMBL plugins by default.
• Added iusethis.com credentials loading from Internet Keychain item in the wizard.
• Fixed iusethis.com login using E-Mail addresses.
• Fixed resetting of iusethis.com identifiers manually set for an application.
• Fixed apple updates clearing after an installation (clear the cache before this takes effect).
• Fixed rescanning of applications that are deleted while AppFresh is running.
• Fixed update checking of applications with special characters.
• Fixed adding iusethis.com version mess up for apple updates.
• Fixed categorization of applications in case only one apple application was found.
• Fixed menu entries appearing as "Untitled".
• Fixed overall iusethis.com credentials handling, including deletion, loading and saving to keychain.
• Fixed progress so it's a sheet again until we have a better solution.
• Fixed alignement of main table cells for sizes greater than 1300px.
• Fixed downloading/installing if unpacking is disabled in preferences.
• Fixed handling of applications within applications so they will be ignored.
• Fixed folder moving if target exists when downloading/installing.
• Fixed handling of broken download URLs.
• Fixed crashes related to missing system tools.
• Fixed overwritten minimize keyboard shortcut.
• Fixed the download locator so it's always in front.
• Fixed loading credentials from keychain returning no password in some cases.
• Fixed some typos.
• Fixed reported crashs.
• Updated toolbar icons.
• Started to work on Leopard compatibilty (should be working mostly).

• Added installing of applications updates after downloading
• Added IUseThis profile support including iusethis and stopusing actions for applications
• Added licensing and universal binary information to the applications inspector
• Added a basic license filter to allow/disallow commercial license updates per application
• Added category for used applications at IUseThis
• Added menu to open developers webpages for applications
• Added dialog for configuring IUseThis settings and unstable features at the first start
• Added a search for applications at IUseThis if not found directly
• Added two new menu items to open the AppFresh install logfile and the Software Update.log
• Added a warning before Reset and Remove all Applications is executed
• Added support for iPhoto plugins such as FlickrExport
• Improved and more descriptive application states
• Improved application category icons and overall layout/coloring/contrast
• Improved version detection for version numbers starting with dots
• Improved version detection of revision numbers
• Improved error handling for sparkle applications with broken appcasts. Now IUseThis will be checked as fallback
• Improved user interface by using panels instead of sheets
• Improved and cleaned up menus
• Fixed rescanning of applications and detection of new versions without restarting AppFresh
• Changed toolbar Check action to always check for updates on all available applications
• Fixed removing of installed apple system updates
• Fixed the IUseThis profile generator/maker for large numbers of appplications
• Fixed resolving of XML entities when parsing appcasts
• Fixed menu validations
• Fixed reopening of the main window
• Fixed disappearing progress
• Fixed timeouts when checking for updates

• Improved version detection accuracy (please continue to report issues)
• Added support for Widgets and Plugins (Inquisitor, Mailtags, Saft and the like)
• Added iusethis profile generation menu item (works like imakeprofile for now)
• Fixed crash when creating snapshots
• Added "Up to date" category
• After downloading: don't put single files in their own directory, just rename them
• Added Apple Developer Tools to default include path

• Check and update actions are more intuitive
• Fixed and improved application download and extraction
• Fixed misplaced ad banners from webpages (GraphicsConverter bug)
• Fixed .pkg/.mpkg handling
• Fixed several crashes
• Fixed broken context menu keyboard shortcuts
• Improved version detection
• Improved progress sheet descriptions when downloading
• Added menu item to manually mark applications as up to date
• Added menu item to exclude applications
• Added new keyboard shortcuts
• Added AppFresh user agent string for all downloads

• Progress sheet will open correctly and does not disappear
• BZip2 uncompressing and installing added
• Stability improvements
• Improved CrashReporter (please keep on using it!)

• Fixed crash when scanning applications with invalid Info.plist
• Fixed downloading of updates
• Downloading of updates is much more comfortable now with some new functions and dialog fixes
• Disabled and removed InputManager due to incompatibilities with Saft (will be enabled when fixed)
• CrashReporter added
• New menu action for revealing files in Finder
• New menu action to reset and clean scanned data
• Scanning of existing Snapshots fixed
• Sparkle version comparison fixed
• Improved version recognition
• Improved enabling/disabling of toolbar/menu items
• Progress sheet fixes
• Fixed updating of group by category count numbers
• Fixed getting the right name of some apps