Pre Releases

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0.7 beta - 30 Aug 2010

The focus of the 0.7 beta is to bring the initial version of the Powerpack, a paid set of additional and incredible powerful features sitting on top of Alfred Core.

Read the Powerpack Announcement on our blog :)

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
• Fade in Alfred by default (after much deliberation, fading in is nicer for new / non power users)
• Lighten up default menubar icon and provide alternative white version when clicked
• Remove the Appearance option to 'hide preferences cog' when menubar hat is hidden as had too many support emails and tweets asking how to show preferences after this. Make cog on UI more subtle instead
• 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
• Show the correct shortcut (enter) highlight on the selected result row

Bug Fixes:

• Fix initial saving of window position if selected in Appearance preferences
• More robust caching of Applications to prevent applications from not showing when MDQuery is stopped (such as when Parallels is launched)
• Change 'Show Alfred' in the menubar to 'Toggle Alfred' which shows or hides depending on state
• Change behaviour on autocomplete for filter based keywords to prevent quirkyness
• Fix disabling of show trash system keyword field in preferences when unticked
• Fix bug which prevented last typed query results showing if only Applications is selected
• Prevent Alfred crash on using option + ; (triple dot)

Bug Fixes from 0.7 pre 2

• Make 'Enter' work to play iTunes track for isolated cases of non english locales
• Ability to change the keyword used for the 'email' command
• Prevent iTunes hotkey from registering without Powerpack active
• Change the default 'cmd §' section key to activate iTunes, its now 'cmd alt enter'
• Change track forward and back hotkeys to 'cmd alt left/right' when iTunes active
• Bring back option to hide cog on Alfred window (removed temporarily)
• Add clearer info about iTunes path in prefs
• Respect unicode in iTunes track identification Applescript

Bug Fixes from 0.7 pre 3

• Ability to perform actions in the file system browser on hidden (dot) files
• Improved iTunes handling of Unicode tracks

Bug Fixes from 0.7 pre 4

• Overhauled iTunes music folder detection + add a 'Find' button in prefs if folder changes
• Replace 'Open' action with 'Browse in Alfred' for folders found through core Alfred UI

0.6.6 beta - 12th July 2010

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

0.6.5 beta - pre-released

New Features:

• Option to remember the last search query (in Appearance prefs). Additional option to forget query after 5 minutes.
• Highlight the top result item by default to make the action more clear to the user (option to disable this in the Appearance prefs)
• Added South Korea to locales

Improvements:

• The {query} argument is no longer 'required' in the custom web search config, meaning you could just put bookmarks in there
• Remove the unnecessary footer text on main window to clean up a bit
• Hide system files by default in experimental preferences
• Make the Alfred window not fade in by default as its quicker (user option if fade in is desired)
• Improve word splitting in application cache to include spaces and apostrophes such that "adresses" correctly matches "Carnet d'adresses"
• Ability to hide cog on Alfred window when hat is hidden in OS X menu bar

Bug Fixes:

• Fix tab Auto Complete on system commands to show keyword rather than UID key
• Fix crash when using two {query} strings in custom search
• Widen filter for hotkey function keys to prevent certain selections from being excluded such as cmd + left arrow
• Correctly save knowledge and also purge knowledge older than a month (to prevent bloat)
• Prevent 'define' from copying word to the dictionary

0.6.4 beta - 20th June 2010

Due to substantial changes, preferences will be reset on this update (custom sites unaffected).

The main focus of this release is to build a more scalable platform for Alfred's future

New Features:

• Overhauled preferences making them easier to use and more scalable for future features
• Added 'Bugs' tab into preferences to simplify reporting bugs
• Added experimental feature to ignore System files - makes folder searching way less noisy
• Added Appsfire to default web searches with keyword 'app' to search for apps
• Add alfred:ignore (Spotlight comment) to experimental features allowing hiding of files from results

Improvements:

• Increase speed of App searching by ~365% further reducing the CPU load
• Many 'under the hood' changes to prepare for future features
• Change wikipedia back to using Special:Search url now that query encoding works better
• Subtext is now shown by default on all result items (if available)

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed app creation date for Alfred.app in dmg
• Mixed mode UTF8 encoding on both default and custom searches - should make web searches more reliable

0.6.3 beta - pre-released

Bug Fixes:

• Fix character encoding, now respects ASCII and UTF-8 encodings (e.g. Japanese google now works)
• Fixed cmd+a hotkey (poor logic on when to use mod key hotkeys)

0.6.2 beta - 18th May 2010

This release will be used to test that Sparkle is working as expected.

New Features:

• Primitive 'play' keyword which filters by music files and plays them in your default player

Improvements:

• URL Encoding updated to correctly respect accented characters - fixes web and custom searches
• Ability to add AppleScripts to the default search results (no arguments yet, coming soon!)

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed app creation date for Alfred.app in dmg

0.6.1 beta - pre-released

New Features:

• Sparkle integrated for painless updates!!
• New system commands - sleep, shutdown, restart, logout, screen saver, empty trash, lock
• Added 'run' command to filter by and run applescripts (no args yet)
• Finland and Switzerland added to default locales
• Experimental option to search for apps by file system name (useful for users in a non-English locale wanting to find apps in English)

Improvements:

• Create framework for filesystem querying to allow for filters (find / open / run)
• Yahoo now correctly respecting the location

Bug Fixes:

• Change Wikipedia to use original url scheme which copes with URL encoding better
• Fix double tab modifier keys if caps locks is on
• Fix Bit.ly to use new URL scheme
• Filter characters on advanced calculator to prevent crashes with unicode chars

0.6 beta - 27th Apr 2010

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

0.5.7 beta - development only

New Features:

• Added yubnub to web searchers
• Added Yahoo! weather to web searchers
• Ability to change cmd+number to ctrl+number to directly action a result
• Assignable ctrl / alt / cmd + enter actions on search results

Improvements:

• Overhaul 'Spotlight Comments' system, treating space separated comments as tags
• Improve efficiency of word matching and relevancy parsing, notably reducing CPU usage
• Added shared Preference Panes to default search scope (such as Growl)
• Use a sequential queue to lazy load icons rather than posix locking (more stable)

0.5.6 beta - 5th Apr 2010

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

0.5.5 beta - pre-released

New Features:

• Alfred now learns your usage and sorts the results accordingly
• Basic "Update Available" notification from within Alfred. Auto updating will come closer to non-beta
• Alt + enter opens your typed search term in google
• Ctrl + enter opens your typed search term in a finder spotlight window
• Option to hide hat button on main Alfred window
• Experimental 'Advanced' calculator (currently uses AWK) with '=' keyword

Improvements:

• Better search accuracy, using word based search instead of free text - will improve further over time
• All metadata code rewritten from scratch, now using MDQuery. Substantial performance increase!
• Much improved 'Local' configuration preferences
• Default calculator now supports to the power ^

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed threading issue with new 'Pre-cache Applications' which may have caused Alfred to quit unexpectedly
• Fix copy and paste bug, pasting into the search field.
• Fix calculator precision error (eg 12.3 + 14 - 26)

0.5.2 beta - development only

New Features:

• Added pre-caching option for Applications for instant application results
• More fine control over what the default and file searches resolve
• Separate search scope for default / file searches including mounted volumes and network drives
• Ability to 'search everything' on the default search, not recommended though
• Ability to individually enable 'find' and 'open' and set their keywords

Improvements:

• General performance improvements
• Improve layout of panels in preferences, and standardise notes colours.
• Remove Quit confirmation because it was just annoying

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed rare bug causing specifically named results from crashing Alfred
• Fix direct URL entry on 10.5 Leopard caused by overly complex regex not being recognised
• Fix mix up of 'com' and 'ca' for Google Maps

0.5.1 beta - development only

New Features:

• Added web shortcut for bit.ly URL shortening

Improvements:

• Tidy up sections of the preferences window
• Remember the last selected preferences tab
• Add 'Quit Alfred' button to the general tab of preferences
• Added Quit confirmation now we have multiple ways to quit

Bug Fixes:

• Fix tiny 32byte memory leak in preferences toolbar
• Fix ebay search url, update from www. to shop
• Fix mix up of 'com' and 'ca' for google images
• Change se.wikipedia.org to sv.wikipedia.org
• Fixed spelling of New Zealand (oops sorry!)
• Correctly URL encode '&' for web searchers

0.5 beta - 21st Mar 2010

New features:

• 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

Preferences:

• 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

Improvements:

• 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

0.4.1 beta - 7th Mar 2010

Initial feedback fixes:

• 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!

0.4 beta - 28th Feb 2010

Initial public version