LaunchBar 5

Change Log

Build 668

• Implemented workaround for a Mac OS X bug that caused detection of modifier taps to fail under some circumstances.

Build 667

• Improved “Eject” action.

Build 665

• Added support for Firefox bookmark folders.
• Phone numbers are now formatted according to the “Automatically format phone numbers” option specified in Address Book preferences.
• Calculator: The letter “a” can now be used as a placeholder for the most recent calculator result. For example, if you have just calculated “2 + 3” you can then enter “a * (a + 8)” to calculate “5 * (5 + 8)”.
• Improved iTunes indexing and playback if the iTunes library contains equally named albums from different artists. Note that the “album artist” must be set accordingly in iTunes, so that LaunchBar can distinguish between the different albums.
• Added “Bing”, “Bing Images” and “Linguee” to factory search templates.
• Added support for browsing Aperture’s recent libraries. Select the Aperture application in LaunchBar and press Right Arrow to get the list of recent libraries.
• New AppleScript property “has keyboard focus”. Tells if the LaunchBar window currently has keyboard focus.
• Added “Secure Empty Trash” action.
• Clipboard History: Improved heuristics for detection and naming of image items.
• Browsing backwards (with the left arrow key) has been improved for invisible files.
• Improved indexing of Developer Documentation.
• The currently used iTunes library is now detected more reliably.
• Sorting by modification date (which can be accomplished by browsing a collection with Command-Right Arrow) now also works with categories (e.g. PDF Documents, Numbers Documents, etc.)
• Improved indexing of Address Book labels.
• Improved “Empty Trash” action.
• Improved Cyberduck bookmark icons.
• Improved iCal calendar indexing.
• iCal input: Improved date parsing on non-English systems.
• Improved recent documents access on Mac OS X 10.5.
• Improved German localization.
• Fixed Internet Movie Database (IMDb) search template in factory configuration.
• Fixed an issue causing the “Open Terminal here” action (Command-T) to fail if iTerm was selected as the preferred terminal application.
• Fixed an issue when browsing the contents of an indexing rule with the space bar.
• Fixed an issue when browsing the list of running apps backwards with the Shift key held down (e.g. Command-Shift-Space).
• Fixed: On Mac OS X 10.6 some CoreServices apps were missing from the Applications index (Ticket Viewer.app, Certificate Assistant.app, Directory Utility.app, etc.)
• Fixed an issue when creating all-day calendar events.
• Fixed an issue with the “Show in Current Finder window” action.
• Fixed an issue with LaunchBar’s Help index file.
• Fixed a minor memory leak when copying images from rich text documents.
• Some internal code cleanup.

LaunchBar 4

Change Log

• Fixed an issue with Opera bookmarks indexing.
• Fixed an issue causing LaunchBar to wrongly complain about a conflicting Spotlight keyboard shortcut immediately after upgrading from Mac OS X 10.4 to 10.5.
• Improved Development Resources scanner: Indexing header files from MacOSX10.5.sdk, indexing CoreFoundation Reference and Guides.
• Hiding /mach_kernel.ctfsys during browsing.
• Fixed an incompatibility with Mac OS X 10.2.
• Fixed some minor memory leaks.