DEVONsphere Express

What is new in this release:

The updates fix a sporadic crash when accessing the Preferences panel as well as some visual artifacts.

What is new in version 1.9.2:

Improved

• Improved indexing of EPUB books, Tinderbox files, and textclippings.
• Improved support for file formats having no 64-bit Spotlight importer, like Microsoft Office files.
• Preferences > Locations now displays the number of indexed items for added folders.
• Improved VoiceOver support including Preferences > Locations, interface buttons, and the VoiceOver shortcut ???M in menus and context menus.
• DEVONthink documents opened in external apps now show related documents as long as DEVONthink is running.
• DEVONsphere Express uses a new service for generating web site thumbnails as as Thumbshots will shut down November 15, 2018.
• Improved overall reliability, including greater compatibility with macOS Mojave.

Fixed

• Fixed some visual artifacts in the search field (macOS Mojave).
• Fixed an issue where search terms would autocomplete incorrectly (macOS Mojave).
• Fixed an issue where dragging search results to other apps would switch to Related mode.
• Fixed an issue where the incorrect icon size was used when toggling icon previews.
• Fixed an issue with automatically updating to the latest version.
• Fixed a rare crash caused by memory management.

What is new in version 1.9.1:

NEW

• Support for Adobe InDesign files.
• Support for flat OmniOutliner 5 files.
• Support for .fountain plain text files.
• Support for .m3u8 playlists.

Improved

• Support added for DEVONthink Personal.
• Revised results list; categories stay visible when scrolling and can be collapsed.
• Revised search; finds terms distributed between title and content. This is closer to the behavior of Spotlight.
• Improved See Also supports longer text selections and the source URLs of the current note in Evernote or of the selected result in DEVONagent Pro.
• ?Up and ?Down arrow keys can be used to navigate the selection even if the search field has the focus.
• Clearing recent searches resets the system-wide find pasteboard too.
• Improved VoiceOver support.
• Help > Contact sends an email via the default email client again.
• Help > Report Bug provides more information.
• Screenshots in the documentation updated to Retina resolution.
• Improved support for latest versions of Apple Mail.
• Initialization of index is delayed to make application launch smoother.
• Much faster and more reliable reading of Finder/Spotlight comments.
• More reliable filtering of links to search engines and of advertisements.
• Improved indexing of Tinderbox documents.
• Binary precompiled header files are no longer indexed.
• Support added for App Transport Security of OS X El Capitan.
• Improved compatibility to HTTP proxies.
• More reliable handling of background tasks.
• Improved checking for updates.
• Improved console logging.
• Improved overall reliability and performance.

Fixed

• Issue where files located in the Downloads folder and opened by sandboxed applications were not always supported by See Also.
• Issue where opening the preferences for the first time could cause a delay.
• Issue where proximity operators using wildcards, e.g., 'word1 NEAR word2*', didn't work correctly.
• Issue where the about and launch panels could appear white.
• Issue where the menu extra could appear in a wrong position if the menu bar is automatically hidden.
• Issue where the text of .emlx email messages wasn't indexed on OS X El Capitan and Sierra.
• Issues causing unnecessary console messages.
• Issues related to memory management.
• Issues related to moving DEVONsphere Express to the Applications folder, especially on macOS Sierra.
• Issues related to the click handling of checkboxes in the Options panel.
• Issues related to the relevancy slider and the search field on macOS Sierra.
• Issues related to multi-threading.
• Rare crash related to indexing Spotlight comments.
• Rare crash related to the Preferences panel.

Removed

• Categories from the filter popover; the web search can be still enabled via the action menu or a keyboard shortcut.
• OpenMeta support; only Finder tags are now used.
• Support for DEVONthink 2.7.6 and older.

What is new in version 1.8.4:

NEW

• Textbundle files (.textbundle, .textpack) are indexed and searchable.

Improved

• Optimized also for OS X El Capitan.
• HTML-to-text conversion.
• UTF-32 support.
• ?Up and ?Down keys can be used again to navigate the selection even if the Quick Look panel is the key window
• Alignment of menu extra window in case of crowded menu bars.
• Revised startup alert in case of invalid installation outside of the Applications folder.
• Registration file is now stored in Aplication Support to avoid conflicts with preferences cleaners.
• Reliability in case of damaged indexes.
• Communication with background tasks; more reliable termination of tasks on quit.
• Memory management.
• Performance and overall reliability.

Fixed

• The last category in "Preferences > Categories" wasn't accessible.
• .exe and .hlp files with a text HFS type were indexed as plain text.
• Crash (caused by ShortcutRecorder framework) after changing the system appearance.

What is new in version 1.8.3:

NEW

• Support for .webhistory and .webbookmark bookmark files.
• Support for history of Safari 8.x -- can be searched again.
• Support for .asciidoc, .xsd, and .wsdl files.
• Support for .epub and .ibooks ebooks -- no longer requires third-party Spotlight importers; makes only the text of ebooks without DRM searchable and uses the cover image, if available, in previews.
• Alternate menu item Help > Report Bug -- hold ?Option while the Help menu is open; creates a message in the default email client, if supported, or Apple Mail containing the console log and all related crash logs.
• Retina splash screens.

Improved

• Compatibility to OS X Yosemite 10.10.2.
• See Also algorithm -- returns more precise results.
• Progress indicator while indexing bookmarks, history, and contacts.
• Indexing of bookmarks and history -- handles invalid file contents more gracefully.
• Indexing of plain and rich texts -- handles invalid or unknown UTIs more gracefully.
• Sorting -- uses system-wide settings now.
• HTML to plain text conversion.
• Error logging to the console.
• Performance and reliability -- indexes files up to 10 percent faster.

Fixed

• Rare crashes of background task -- memory management improvements work around issues of OS X.
• Handling of .sdef files.
• Minor bugs and glitches.

What is new in version 1.8.2:

Improved

• Retrieving of Finder comments optimized.
• Reliability in case of invalid filenames or damaged filesystems.
• Overall performance and reliability.

Fixed

• Automatic updating of index didn't always ignore hidden folders and their contents.
• Damaged or incompatible Word documents could bloat the index. slow down indexing, and increase the memory and disk usage.

What is new in version 1.7:

• New category "Folders".
• Support for OS X Mavericks Finder tags and comments.
• Folder "~/Library/Messages/Archive" is automatically indexed if the "Messages & Chats" category is enabled.
• Size of documents is displayed in preview pane.
• Right- or ?Control-clicking the menu extra icon gives access to frequently used commands.
• Command "Show/Hide Web Search" allows to quickly toggle the web search.
• 64-bit support.

Improved

• Revised, slightly smaller index. The index has to be updated at least once after the update.
• Faster indexing of HTML pages.
• Faster creation of preview images.
• Faster and more reliable Quick Look panel on OS X Mountain Lion and Mavericks.
• Support for OpenMeta.
• Dates are localized using the system-wide settings.
• Security & Privacy preference pane is opened by Welcome Assistant on Mavericks instead of Universal Access preference pane.
• Indexing, e.g. in case of documents with an invalid HFS type.
• Handling of incompatible Spotlight metadata importer plugins while indexing.
• Sparkle framework updated.
• Reliability and performance.

Fixed

• .scptd, .workflow, .nib and .xib packages were not added to the index.
• German and French localizations.

Removed

• Deprecated QuickTime framework.