User Interface

• New application icon (designed by Bonsai Studio).
• Redesigned index window.
• Redesigned preferences window.
• Display of custom folder icons.
• German localization.
• Option to hide LaunchBar’s Dock icon (see LaunchBar preferences > Advanced).

Quick Look support

• Press Space (or Command-Y) to preview the selected item with Quick Look.
• Press Command-Option-Y to run Quick Look full screen.
• Also works with Address Book items (cards, groups), text items, clipboard history items.

Clipboard History

• Seamless integration in LaunchBar’s standard interface.
• Unique features such as stack operation (last-in/first-out), ClipMerge™, etc.
• ClipMerge™: Combines subsequent Copy operations into one clipboard object.
• Quick Look integration.
• Customizable Ignore List to protect sensitive data.

iCal support

• Added support for iCal calendars.
• The new Calendars indexing rule provides a list of all iCal calendars.
• Create events and to-do items via LaunchBar: Select a calendar and press Space.
• Events are entered in the format description @ date [and time]
• To-do items are entered in the format description or description > due date.
• Various options for entering dates, times and durations.
• See the LaunchBar Help for details about the input syntax.

Actions

• Dedicated Actions indexing rule (replaces the former Scripts indexing rule).
• Lots of new Actions:
  • Compress actions to create ZIP or tar.gz archives
  • Image Manipulation actions: Resize Image, Rotate Image, Flip Image
  • Application control actions: Quit, Force Quit, Quit All
  • Utility actions: Start Screen Saver, Set Desktop Background, Show IP Address, Copy as Plain Text, etc.
  • See the Actions indexing rule for the complete list of available actions.
• Improved support for custom actions. Put your custom AppleScripts or shell scripts in ~/Library/Application Support/LaunchBar/Actions. This folder is automatically indexed by LaunchBar.
• Improved iTunes Fast Forward / Rewind actions (invoking the action again switches back to playback).
• The Reveal action (Command-Return) works with a wider range of items (Address Book groups, Albums, Artists, several indexing rules, etc.)
• Improved Search Template operations: Press Shift-Space (or Shift-Return) to reuse the most recent search string with a different search engine.
• Added support for sending items to Address Book Groups (e.g. to send a file to multiple recipients).
• Invoking the Speak Text action now automatically selects the Stop Speaking action to make it easier to interrupt the speech output.

File Operations

• Enhanced Send to Folder functionality. The desired file operation (Move, Copy, etc.) can now be selected by pressing additional modifier keys. For example, Command-Return moves the file(s), Option-Return copies the file(s).
• Asynchronous file operations to avoid blocking when copying large files.
• Option to replace existing files when performing a copy/move operation.
• Command-A can be used to create multiple file selections.
• Improved file system browsing: Press Command-Right Arrow to see a folder’s contents sorted by modification date.
• When renaming a file, pressing Tab selects the filename extension.

Indexing

• The new Services indexing rule provides convenient access to commands from the Mac OS X Services menu.
• Added Firefox 3 support (Note: you may have to delete and recreate your existing Firefox indexing rules to update them to the latest version).
• Improved iPhoto support (added indexing of events).
• Much improved Development Resources indexing rule, now indexes the entire ADC Core Reference Library and the Developer Tools Reference Library.

Calculator

• Calculator is now based on Unix bc.
• Dedicated keyboard shortcut (can be configured in LaunchBar preferences > Calculator).
• Scientific calculations:
  • Logarithms: ln (natural), ld (binary), log (base 10)
  • Power: exp, pow
  • Trigonometry: sin, cos, tan, asin, acos, atan
  • Fractions: gcd (greatest common divisor), lcm (least common multiple), rem (remainder)
• Trigonometry modes (Radian, Degree, Grad)
• Function Shortcuts: Uppercase letters can be used to enter function names more quickly. For example, type S45 to get sin(45), or type Q2 to get sqrt(2).
• Extensible via custom macros. Put your bc macro files in ~/Library/Application Support/LaunchBar/Calculator

Keyboard Shortcuts

• Fully customizable hotkeys for LaunchBar search, Spotlight search, Calculator and Clipboard History.
• Modifier Taps: Tapping a modifier key can now be used to activate LaunchBar and to invoke Instant Send.
• The LaunchBar window can now be resized via keyboard by pressing Control-Shift-Left/Right.

Other

• LaunchBar is now scriptable via AppleScript.
• Option to check for software updates automatically.

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Improved performance.
• Improved compatibility with iTunes 8.
• Improved compatibility with third party address book applications such as Contactizer Pro.
• Much improved compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and 10.6 Snow Leopard.
• Numerous detail improvements and bug fixes.