Growl

Licence: Freeware
Version 1.1.2 | Release Date: 2007-11-02 | Download
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Version 1.1.1 | Release Date: 2007-09-13 | Download

Notifications

  • Improved speed of notifications, particularly the Music Video display style which was noticeably slow in 1.1 compared to 0.7.x
  • Fixed the Music Video display style on multi-monitor configurations
  • Fixed improper behavior if a display plugin was installed externally in addition to being shipped with Growl
  • Fixed color preferences for the iCal display style in French, Swedish, and Russian

Extras

  • Turned off the Sync Notification in HardwareGrowler by default
  • Improved display of iTunes notifications by GrowlTunes when no composer is specified for a song

Other

  • Restored the "Show Growl Notification" Automator action which was accidentally removed from Growl 1.1
  • Fixed a potential hang while installing Growl on Mac OS X 10.4.
  • Fixed improper behavior if a display plugin was installed externally in addition to being shipped with Growl
  • Updated Dutch, French, pt_BR, Russian, and Swedish localizations
Version 1.1.1 | Release Date: 2007-09-12 | Download

Notifications
- Improved speed of notifications, particularly the Music Video display style which was noticeably slow in 1.1 compared to 0.7.x
- Fixed the Music Video display style on multi-monitor configurations
- Fixed improper behavior if a display plugin was installed externally in addition to being shipped with Growl
- Fixed color preferences for the iCal display style in French, Swedish, and Russian

Extras
- Turned off the Sync Notification in HardwareGrowler by default
- Improved display of iTunes notifications by GrowlTunes when no composer is specified for a song

Other
- Restored the "Show Growl Notification" Automator action which was accidentally removed from Growl 1.1
Fixed a potential hang while installing Growl on Mac OS X 10.4.
- Fixed improper behavior if a display plugin was installed externally in addition to being shipped with Growl
- Updated Dutch, French, pt_BR, Russian, and Swedish localizations

Version 1.1 | Release Date: 2007-09-08 | Download

New stuff

  • There is now a global positioning system built into Growl (took 2 years to make!).
  • There are now close buttons available on notifications when you mouse over them.
  • Multiple performance enhancements/memory leaks fixed up. The only problem at this point should be webkit message views.
  • Totally redesigned applications tab.
  • There is now a sound option available per notification.
  • Application level positioning. (#657)

Usability Improvements

  • Growl no longer adds itself to the applications list. (#547)

Bug Fixes

  • Resolved issue where positioning would lock up. (#612)
  • Improved the way that the login item for Growl is created. We now use an Apple recommended option. (#487)
  • Growl will not load plugins which may cause problems upon upgrade. (#585)

Performance Enhancements

  • Resolved an issue where notifications would be slow. (#270)
  • Growl no longer loads all plugins at startup. (#391)
  • Growl loads application icons only when needed. (#392)

Menu Item

  • Improved the appearance of the menu item. (#538)

Localizations

  • Our localizers rock! Thanks to everyone who contributed. We have vastly improved localizations for a whole slew of languages in 1.1.

Display Plugins

  • Added a new display, iCal.
  • Added a bunch of user created displays, such as Above the Night.

Extras

  • Lots of improvements to HardwareGrowler in regards to picking up changes.
Version 0.7.6 | Release Date: 2007-01-01 | Download

- Resolved issues with some localizations.

Version 0.7.5 | Release Date: 2006-12-25 | Download

General
* Significantly improved performance when an application registers with Growl for the first time
* Made the Spotlight importer universal

Preference Pane

* Fixed a bug in which preference changes might not immediately be respected by notifications
* Improved localizations

Extras

* Now ships with Rawr-Jour
* Improved GrowlMail to open the mail message if the Growl notification is clicked
* Fixed searching for album art from Amazon in GrowlTunes

Version 0.7.4 | Release Date: not specified | Download
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