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

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

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.

- Resolved issues with some localizations.

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