MarsEdit - What's New?

MarsEdit 2.1.4

MarsEdit 2.1.4

Add a dock menu item for easily starting a new post
Support uploading to specific Picasa album for Blogger users
Prevent dragging a URL to preview window from loading that URL
Fix display of tags in main window preview
Safeguard against bad URLs that could cause a crash when refreshing

MarsEdit 2.1.3

Fix detection of draft posts from WordPress 2.5 and Blogger.
Added support for the #tags# placeholder in preview template
Fix console errors when refreshing with main window closed
Improve handling of localhost-based blog URLs.
Markup item placeholder #askurl# now defaults to "Enter a URL:" instead of "Enter Text:"
Avoid escaping characters in URLs pasted or entered in dialog.
Fix a bug involving UI display for Blosxom-based weblog settings.

MarsEdit 2.1.2

Added new warn-before-send item for Missing Tags
Added Post Status to default settings options for weblogs
Fix problem with missing categories on some MetaWeblog blogs
Fix high CPU usage when launching with toolbar collapsed
Fix a crash that could happen when entering registration code
AppleScript Fixes
- Now provides access to post status and tags
- Fix "send post to weblog" scripting command (again)
No longer bounces the dock icon when showing progress for send to weblog

MarsEdit 2.1.1

Work around a conflict with a WriteRoom plugin that caused an XML parsing error
Fix preview problem with preview placeholder tags inside HTML tag attributes
Fix Tags support for 10.4 Tiger

MarsEdit 2.1

Search Your Drafts and Entries
Now you can quickly filter your posts and drafts by keywords. Just type a word or phrase into the toolbar search field, and MarsEdit will restrict the post listing to only items that contain the text you've typed.
Native Tags Support
For supported systems, including Movable Type and WordPress, MarsEdit now offers a field for capsule-style tagging of your posts. It even remembers the tags you've typed before, so you'll be able to reuse them in a jiffy on future posts.
Improved Web Preview
MarsEdit's built-in preview sports a sleek new default appearance, massively enhanced performance, and fine-tuned usability. Now previews update quickly and without flickering or jumping around as you edit your post.
Save Drafts To Server
A new Post Status popup in the options pane lets you choose between Published and Draft status. Server support for this feature is somewhat hit-or-miss, so be sure to test with something not too embarrassing!

MarsEdit 2.0.5

Improve handling of ampersands and other entities in category names
Blogger support now respects "number of posts to fetch" preference
Restore functionality of "send post to weblog" AppleScript command
Fix a bug that caused "remind me later" software updates to appear too frequently
Fix a bug where Media Manager "Insert" button wasn't updated correctly

MarsEdit 2.0.4

Whitespace surrounding Title is now stripped if sent from bookmarklet
Prevents old MarsEdit 1 help showing when opened from MarsEdit 2
Fix return key for dismissing date-editing sheet by keyboard
Fix a Leopard drawing issue in the date-editing sheet
Fix a keyboard focus bug when full keyboard access tabbing is enabled
Fix a bug that prevented "Warn if no Title" from working on Vox
Fix a typo and a missing image URL in documentation

MarsEdit 2.0.3

Markup Changes
- "Do Again" item for markup menu - repeats last applied item
- Add Text Markup menu to main menu (fixes issues with markup macros when toolbar is hidden)
- Better support for Return, Arrow keys, and F-Keys in markup shortcuts
List recent dates as relative, e.g. "Yesterday, 3:30 PM"
Fix false warning of empty categories when only a new category is set
Add some missing French localized strings
Don't bounce icon when editing in external editor
Movable Type Specific
- Fix bug causing _1 being appended to slugs
Blogger Specific
- Improve formatting display for
  tags in Blogger posts

MarsEdit 1.2.1

For new weblogs, set default comment status to "Open"
Sort Technorati Tags alphabetically in dialog
Fix a bug that could cause "Edit With External Editor" to get stuck editing
Fix appearance of text "#extended#" in the preview
Blogger Specific
- Fix issue with authenticating Blogger when user has google hosted account
- Fix a "phantom category" bug with Blogger blogs that have no categories

MarsEdit 1.2

New Features:
- Growl notifications for publishing, refreshing, and uploading
- Initial support for Vox weblogs
- Support Blogger.com image uploads via Picasa
Enhancements and fixes:
- Edit Date panel now defaults to existing post date if it has one
- Context menu item for "Copy URL" when control-clicking a published blog post
- Workaround MovableType bug that could cause incorrect timezone offset
- Fix memory leaks & improve performance of Images & Files window
- Images & Files upload target now defaults to currently selected blog

MarsEdit 1.1.8

Make sure newly added custom tags items show up in popup menu
Follow HTTP redirects when autodetecting
Improve reliability of category syncing by limiting concurrent server requests
Improve unicode blog support by defaulting to "Don't Encode HTML Entities"
Improved keyboard navigation of posts and blogs lists
Add "extended" content to default preview template
LiveJournal specific:
- Add auto-detection for LiveJournal.com blog addresess
Blogger specific:
- Enable support for new enclosure support
Drupal Specific
- Fix to properly support MovableType-style categories
Metaweblog specific (e.g. SquareSpace)
- Fix category list retrieval

MarsEdit 1.1.7

Fix a bug with posting to Blogger-based weblogs.

MarsEdit 1.1.6

Fix bug where Custom Tag menu shortcuts disappear after adding or editing
Remember "Check Spelling as You Type" setting across launches
Little fixes
- Fix a bug preventing the very last post in a weblog from being deleted
- Fix some small memory leaks
- Add Window -> Zoom menu item for consistency with other apps
- Eliminate a pointless beep that could happen when closing weblog settings
- Show scrollbar only when needed for Extended, Excerpt, and Keywords views
Blogger Specific
- Fix "Blank category" bug for blogs with no categories
- Filter authorization info from RPC console, for security protection
- Fix to work with gmail passwords with special chars ('&', '=', '+', '?', '/') in them
Blosxom Specific
- Fix Delete post functionality
Drupal Specific
- Defaults to MovableType API for better user experience
- Add help page documentation for "Getting Started"

MarsEdit 1.1.5

Fix a crashing bug in Blogger auto-detection.

MarsEdit 1.1.4

Blogger Support! Autodetect of a Blogspot blog should now detect "New Blogger"
RPC Log Fixes
- Add more RPC detail to the log
- Increased maximum size of RPC Console log for debugging large fetches
Weblog Settings Fixes
- Fix keyboard tab-cycle in Weblog editor dialog
- Fix autodetection for Blogger & WordPress
- Minor changes to layout of dialog
- Be sure to always use latest dialog edits when "Auto-detecting"
Enclosure Editor
- Minor changes to layout of enclosure editing sheet
- Fix bug with Enclosure URLs involving 302 redirects
Changes to Help
- Fix indexing
- Add information about "New Blogger" type setup
- Add top-level link to "Getting Started" page
Bookmarklet changes
- Fix to handle 2-byte characters and other non-ASCII correctly
- Add support for advanced "marsedit:" URL parameter "&weblog=BlogName"
Autosave improvements
- Mark rescued documents as dirty to avoid accidental loss
- Fix a problem where autosave document could get stuck and always cause warning
Blosxom Specific
- Improve performance on Blosxom blogs with lots of directories/files
Miscellaneous
- Fix bug preventing drag-reordering a weblog to top of weblog list
- Update "Starting a Weblog" window to simplify choices for new users
- Fix a crash that could occur connecting to an unsupported blog system
- Fix a small memory leak in Keychain password retrieval
- Fix the blog editor window to - Make sure the "advanced" tabs go away when switching a post to a less feature-ful blog