Press Release for 13 Jan 2015
Stairways Software releases Keyboard Maestro 6.4.8
Perth, Western Australia - 13 January 2015 - Stairways Software Pty Ltd is pleased to announce Keyboard Maestro 6.4.8, the new version of its powerful productivity enhancer for Mac OS X.
Version 6.4.8 largely exists to work around a number of problematic Yosemite bugs.
- The Speak Text action now works around a Yosemite bug which caused it to complete immediate before speaking.
- Workaround Yosemite bug that causes popup menu items turning white when you hover over them.
- Fixed Yosemite display of Welcome screen.
- Fixed Yosemite freeze with network reachability (typically happens after sleep).
- Add Help button with information about Yosemite Accessibility Permission bugs.
- Limit the Undo stack size.
- Add support for Corsair K95.
- Allow up to 9999 Seconds/Minutes/Hours in While Logged In Trigger.
- Fixed behaviour of Image Actions on Retina Macs.
- Fixed misspelled Accessibly.
- Fixed misspelled "Pixek Height" in Get Image Size action.
Changes for 6.4:
- Added support for Mavericks Tags.
- Added Get File Attribute: Tags. Mavericks only.
- Added Set File Attribute: Tags (set, add, toggle, or remove). Mavericks only.
- Added Semaphore Lock/Unlock actions.
- Added Asynchronous option to Execute Macro
- Added Asynchronous option to Execute Shell Script, AppleScript and JavaScript.
- Improved VoiceOver support for lists and buttons.
- Improved accessibility support.
- Added speech rate to the Speak Text action.
- Added importMacros AppleScript command.
- Added deleteMacro and deleteMacroGroup AppleScript commands.
- Added Tab to the hot key/simulate keystroke popup menus.
- Added %ExecutingMacroUID% token.
- Added Mouse, Front, Back, Back2 options to the SCREEN function.
- Added TRIGGERTIME() function.
- Added GMTOFFSET() function.
- Added %AddressBook%Note% text token.
- Added SimulateKeystrokeDeadKeyDelay private preference.
- Added various Cancel action varieties to the action selector.
- Adjusted Typed String trigger to make diacritical sensitivity independent of case sensitivity.
- SCREENSAVER() returns true if screen is locked.
- Set %ActionResult% on timeout failures.
- Allow selection of .xpc applications.
- Changed Keychain access to use direct code instead of security utility.
- Fixed a crash when evaluating expressions of the form "("
- Stop clicks while deferred selection change pending, perhaps fix editor crashes.
- Fixed "Any Application" launch/quit trigger to only include foreground apps.
- Added macro/action to Macro Cancelled message.
- Add Help menu items for Regular Expression and ICU Date Time reference.
- Fixed a potential crash in the window switcher setup.
- Fixed a potential crash when launching shell scripts.
- Fixed a potential crash finding buttons with bogus accessibility information.
- Fixed a memory leak in the image finding code.
- Fixed a potential crash showing the contact sheet.
- Fixed issue where time triggers would not fire if any changes were made within 30 seconds before the scheduled time.
- Fixed an issue with continuous timer triggering during daylight savings change over.
- Fixed a potential crash with action editors.
- Adjusted a few names in the action selector.
- Fixed Accessibility Alert display in Mountain Lion.
- Worked around a potential crash in the system preferences settings.
- Fixed an issue with non-edit display of Repeat actions.
- Fixed an issue with non-integral sized images (seriously!).
- Fixed an issue with shell scripts that waited for stdin input.
- Offer Getting Started emails even to registered users.
- Stop Time Saved for automatic (from editor) actions.
- Conflict Palette correctly highlights selection characters for macro names with sorting codes.
- Forcefully disabled dash and quote substitution in Insert Text and Scripts action editors.
- Word count treats contracted (eg I've) words as a single word.
- Resolved a problem typing some characters on some keyboards (eg back-quote on Swiss German keyboards).
- Resolved a problem with double clicking in the Finder.
- Resolve a problem with repeating triggers and Show Status Menu.
- Pause action merges together when recording pauses.
Changes for 6.3
- Improved Typed String trigger and added more options.
- Added Crash Reporter.
- Added Substrings In collection.
- Merged Lines In collections.
- Added Lines In Named Clipboard collection.
- Added %ActionResult%, %Trigger%, %TriggerBase%, %TriggerValue% tokens.
- And more.
Keyboard Maestro 6.x requires Mac OS X 10.8 or greater.
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 <http://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 October 1, 2012 have been issued a free upgrade to Keyboard Maestro 6. If you have not received your free license, you can find your free license upgrade at <http://enquiry.stairways.com/>.
Customers who purchased any version of Keyboard Maestro directly from us prior to October 2012 can upgrade to Keyboard Maestro 6 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 <http://enquiry.stairways.com/>.
Keyboard Maestro 6 is not available from the Mac App Store and probably never will be, but customers who purchased Keyboard Maestro 5 on the Mac App Store can convert their license to a direct license by option clicking the "Mac App Version" text in the Keyboard Maestro about box and following the instructions and will then be eligible for a paid upgrade to version 6 for US$25.
A fully-functional unlicensed trial version of Keyboard Maestro can be downloaded from <http://download.keyboardmaestro.com/>.
For sales enquires, volume purchases, customer service, technical support, or to contact project management, our current contact information is listed at <http://contact.stairways.com/>.
Extensive online documentation on Keyboard Maestro can be found at <http://documentation.keyboardmaestro.com/>.
A brief taste of Keyboard Maestro in action can be found at <http://screenshots.keyboardmaestro.com/>.
For more information about anything to do with Keyboard Maestro visit <http://www.keyboardmaestro.com/>.
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