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- | =====XTension Version 9.4.21===== | + | =====XTension Version 9.4.27===== |
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- | zipfile md5 = [[tech_notes: | + | |
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- | Download for Catalina: [[https:// | + | |
- | **NOTE!** not all plugins are included in the Catalina build. Please see the Catalina note below for more info.\\ | + | |
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====Important Info==== | ====Important Info==== | ||
**Minimum System Version** for this release is OSX 10.10\\ | **Minimum System Version** for this release is OSX 10.10\\ | ||
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+ | **Mac OSX Catalina** As of this moment I do not recommend that anyone update to OSX Catalina. Changes in Catalina have disabled several of the older plugins and the newer ones are not fully tested with it yet. As of this moment I do not recommend running Catalina on your house server. I don’t see any advantages and there are many potential issues not just with XTension. I can provide an Apple notarized DMG file of the subset of plugins that do work properly if this is something that you need. Otherwise do not update to Catalina yet for your house server.\\ | ||
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**Mac OSX Mojave** has changed the requirements for scripting of other applications. You MUST force any script to run that contacts a different application when you upgrade and click “OK” when it asks for permission or your scripts will silently fail when they run later. See the [[tech_notes: | **Mac OSX Mojave** has changed the requirements for scripting of other applications. You MUST force any script to run that contacts a different application when you upgrade and click “OK” when it asks for permission or your scripts will silently fail when they run later. See the [[tech_notes: | ||
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- | **Mac OSX Catalina** As of this moment I do not recommend that anyone update to OSX Catalina since it is still in beta. I am supplying a Notarized dmg version of XTension that will run on Catalina. The regular zip file release and any previous release version will likely not run at all. Please see the [[tech_notes: | ||
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- | ====Change Log==== | ||
- | Many existing plugins were updated to 64 bit executables for the upcoming update to Catalina. This is not the same as creating a new plugin as I am doing for some and should not create any conversion difficulties and makes no changes to the XTension database at all. If you need to go back to the previous build for any reason this will not cause you any problems with changes to the unit types.\\ | ||
- | The following plugins are now 64 bit: | ||
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- | All the API 2.0 plugins are now 64 bit and compatible with Catalina going forward. Several of the legacy plugins remain to be re-built and will not run on Catalina at all. \\ | + | ====9.4.27 Change Log==== |
- | \\ | + | * NEW: Added a “Description” field to the Edit Scheduled Event window. This is just informational |
- | * NEW: Groups can now be defined as Dimmable. Dimmable groups also have a checkbox for supporting color and color temperature settings. If any of those checkboxes are set then the detailed unit controls | + | * NEW: Added an option to “Ignore logging from Video Pitcher” on the Logging tab of the Preferences window. If you have one of those cameras that continually throws errors even though |
- | * NEW: Dark Sky weather data plugin. Not a replacement for the excellent Weatherman app, but I know some of us are having lots of problems with AppleScripting external apps in the latest OS versions and we need another way to get weather data that doesn’t require that to be working. Gets you access to all the Dark Sky forecast data as well as creating some really nice reports. See the [[supported_hardware: | + | * FIX: Fixed an error in the AD2USB plugin |
- | * NEW RFX plugin. At this moment the plugin supports only the original | + | * FIX: In the new TP-Link/ |
- | * NEW: Added the “handler” parameter | + | * Am filtering more garbage characters in the edit script window that can seemingly be inserted randomly by Apple’s VNC implementation. This should |
- | * NEW: A new Arduino interface | + | * FIX: the pigpio plugin |
- | * NEW: If a plugin sends an error for a Unit, such as the Vera or the Hue hub telling us that a unit is no longer responding, you can now trap that error in the Units On script by creating | + | * FIX: the Recycle Interface verb no longer |
- | * NEW: The executable is now a “Hardened” runtime. This has little meaning in OS versions prior to Mojave but will be required in future versions of Mojave and Catalina going forward. | + | * This version returns |
- | * Change: plugins that do not define any Unit types will no longer be listed in the Interface popup when creating a new unit. This will avoid the errors that would be logged if you previously tried to do this. For example the Alexa plugin is for sharing only, it doesn’t define any unit types of it’s own. Previously if you tried to create units assigned to an Alexa interface it would have thrown confusing errors to the log when you tried to save them. | + | |
- | * Change: Groups | + | |
- | * Change: Discrete (non-dimmable) units will now show their unit label, if any, in the value column rather than continuing | + | |
- | * Change: The initial loading of the database is now threaded. This was necessary as a Catalina | + | |
- | * Change: Mouse Clicks are now allowed to fall through onto a View control | + | |
- | * Change: Some minor changes to the Background Task window layout to better show longer | + | |
- | * FIX: The preset color display when editing | + | |
- | * FIX: Few more minor changes | + | |
- | * FIX: The Alexa plugin will better recover from a situation | + | |
- | * FIX: When doing a Search some comparisons were done considering case which could have caused some matches to fail. All searches are now done without | + | |
- | * FIX: APC Status plugin. If you are connecting | + | |
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- | \\ Plugin API changes and fixes | + | |
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- | * The “Plugins” folder in XTension has been moved inside the Resources folder as required by Catalina. | + | |
- | * NEW: plugins can now add separators to the popup menu of Unit types to make larger lists more readable. | + | |
- | * Changes to the plugin interface builder helper app so that interface control tab order is honored. Previously this could come out as random leading to very confusing interface behavior as you tried to tab from one field to another. It will take a few more releases before I can roll all those fixes into every existing Plugin but for newer ones it will just work. | + | |
- | * FIX: Fixes to a couple more places where Unicode characters would have potentially caused errors. | + | |
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