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Press Release for 12 Sep 2016

Stairways Software releases Keyboard Maestro 7.3

Perth, Western Australia - 2 August 2016 - Stairways Software Pty Ltd is pleased to announce Keyboard Maestro 7.3, the new version of its powerful productivity enhancer for OS X.

Version 7.3 improves battery/graphics usage and code signing on macOS Sierra, adds new editor options, new actions, action options and tokens.

Keyboard Maestro 7.x requires OS X Yosemite 10.10.0 or later.

Changes in 7.3

• Added contextual menu to No Action pseudo-action.
• Added option to disable automatically showing the Action Selector.
• Added NSSupportsAutomaticGraphicsSwitching option as the integrated GPU should be sufficient.
• Added "Or by URL" in the Trigger selection.
• Added Set DPI image action.
• Added %ExecutingMacroGroupUUID% and %ExecutingThisMacroGroupUUID% tokens.
• Added Edit→Find in All Macros (Command-Option-F).
• Added "loop" as a search synonym for the Repeat action.
• Added disable backslash or token processing option to Open URL action.
• Added Timeout option to various Safari/Chrome actions.
• Added descriptive text then macro is disabled or all actions are disabled.
• Open URL action reports and optionally aborts on failures.
• Improved dragging display of File Reference Button.
• Support dragging Macro Groups to the trash.
• Support Copy & Paste for Macro Groups.
• Search more thoroughly for images if the source area is smaller.
• Significantly sped up switching to macro/smart groups with lots of macros.
• Remember scroll position of recently edited macros.
• Add accessibility access for "selected" boolean.
• Fixed an issue importing/duplicating macros with references to other macros with Switch actions.
• Ensure all the image resizing actions operate on pixels, regardless of DPI.
• Fixed occasional left/right jiggle of macro edit detail view.
• Removed ambiguous close button from Prompt For User Input window.
• Ensure search looks for matches in the optional parameter of Execute Macro actions.
• Default Send Mail Message to just opening the new mail message.
• Fixed code signing issue for macOS Sierra.
• Report failure for Open File if file does not exist.

Keyboard Maestro is engineered by Stairways Software Pty Ltd and distributed by FastSpring. Keyboard Maestro is licensed on a per user basis, and an individual user can use it on five Macs.

New customers can purchase Keyboard Maestro from <https://purchase.keyboardmaestro.com/> for US$36. Customers with five or more users should contact us for a volume discount quote.

Customers who purchased Keyboard Maestro directly from us after January 1, 2015 have been issued a free upgrade to Keyboard Maestro 7. If you have not received your free license, you can find your free license upgrade at <https://enquiry.stairways.com/>.

Customers who purchased Keyboard Maestro version 6 prior to 2015 or who purchased older versions of Keyboard Maestro can upgrade to Keyboard Maestro 7 for US$25. If you have not received your instructions on how to upgrade, you can find details by looking up your Keyboard_Maestro license at <https://enquiry.stairways.com/>.

Keyboard Maestro 7 is not available from the Mac App Store (and probably never will be).

A fully-functional unlicensed trial version of Keyboard Maestro can be downloaded from <https://download.keyboardmaestro.com/>.

For sales enquires, volume purchases, customer service, technical support, or to contact project management, our current contact information is listed at <https://contact.stairways.com/>.

Extensive online documentation on Keyboard Maestro can be found at <https://documentation.keyboardmaestro.com/> and on the wiki at <https://wiki.keyboardmaestro.com> and forum at <https://forum.keyboardmaestro.com>.

A brief taste of Keyboard Maestro in action can be found at <https://screenshots.keyboardmaestro.com/>.

For more information about anything to do with Keyboard Maestro visit <https://www.keyboardmaestro.com/>.

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