Alfred 5.0 Build 2057

What's new in this version:

Workflows:
- Brand new Workflow Editor
- Completely rewritten from the ground up to put accessibility and performance first
- New palette for more efficient workflow creation
- Drag and drop to add items to the canvas
- Normal and compact mode, and easily expand and collapse sections
- Favourites section to host your most used workflow objects
- Preconfigured objects, or groups of objects, can be stored in the palette as Prefabs for faster workflow creation
- New Workflow landing screen when no workflows are selected, with handy shortcuts
- New Getting Started guide
- Walks new users through the various aspects of workflow development
- Interactive Getting Started section in the palette, with prefabs to drag and connect
- New configurable "User Configuration" for workflows
- Add simple user-facing preferences to your workflows, making them easier for users to install and set-up
- Recognisable controls such as Text fields, check boxes, picker boxes and more
- Option for required fields which are highlighted with orange
- Assign variable names and default values to each item which are then available throughout your workflow
- Configuration shown on importing or upgrading a workflow
- Quickly access a workflow's configuration from within the editor using the Configure Workflow button, or ⌘,
- Keyboard navigation around workflow objects
- Use ⌘ arrows to select objects around the canvas
- Use ⌘⌥ left / right to navigate along connection streams
- Use ⌘⌥ up / down to navigate to connected siblings
- When no objects are selected, arrow keys will navigate the scroll area (⇧ arrows for larger steps)
- Improved view focusing progression during actions, making keyboard navigation more predictable
- New Workflow object icons to clarify workflow development
- Individual connections can now be disabled, allowing for easier workflow development and testing
- Efficient automatic workflow object connection with the ⌥ key
- When dragging items from the palette or using the palette search, hold ⌥ to automatically connect to selected items
- Select an item, hold ⌥ and click items to chain connect the items in order
- Select one or more items, hold ⇧⌥ and click items to connect items to the first selected items
- When dragging a new connection to an empty space on the canvas, you can now scroll from the edges of the canvas to create more space
- Improvements to snapping and sizing to allow for better horizontal alignment
- Notes are now intrinsically rendered as part of the object, so they don't get rendered behind other objects
- Improved connection path detection, including recognising clicking the alternative path indicator
- Improved rendering quality when zooming a canvas
- Added alignment options for selected objects, both horizontally and vertically centred or referenced around clicked object
- New Inbound Configuration option to modify the incoming argument before it's used
- Updated indicator on workflow object input in editor when argument is being modified
- The workflow list is now resizable
- Hotkey Trigger highlight colour now differentiates when sharing combo with disabled workflows
- Related hotkeys on canvas popup menu also show when the related hotkey is within a disabled workflow
- Contextual help for workflow objects can now be found in more places
- It is now possible to edit a Workflow object note by double clicking it
- The "About Workflow" now supports a subset of Markdown
- Add pretty introductions and help to your workflows, including images from the workflow's folder
- Currently supported: Headers, italic, bold, unordered lists, inline code, separator, local image, links
- New Workflow debugger
- Debugger is now available at the top level of the Workflow preferences, without the need to select a workflow
- Created new Automations object category
- Moved Music and System Commands into Automations
- Snippet Triggers can now optionally be shown in the Clipboard History / Snippets Viewer
- This is a global option available within the Snippet Trigger object configuration
- External Trigger updated to optionally enable running of triggers via URL Scheme
- Example shown in object configuration
- Updated Conditional Utility object
- Added cases for evaluating boolean true and false
- Added option to hide the "Else" fallback condition
- Script Filter
- Added new skipknowledge boolean field to the top level JSON
- Allows for fixed order result sets while maintaining result UIDs (for item re-selection on reload)
- Rename File utility to File Conditional to better represent its purpose
- Rename Split Arg to Vars to Split Arg and add option to output as a list of arguments instead of variables
- Added convenient popup button for default delimiters e.g. comma, tab, new line
- Add new Run Shortcut automation object
- Run macOS 12+ specified shortcuts from within your workflow
- Specify input as string or file(s)
- Choose to ignore Shortcut output and continue, or wait for Shortcut and use its output
- Add new Join Arg utility object
- Converts multiple input arguments into a single output argument with specified join character
- Useful with supporting some Automation Tasks
- Add new Running Apps workflow input filter object
- Select output from Bundle ID, Path, or Process ID
- Add optional result title prefix as a hint to the action
- Add new Dialog Conditional utility object
- Present a macOS System dialog to the user
- Configure title, description and up to 3 available buttons
- Multiple outputs, allowing different path based on button pressed
- Add new Speak output object
- Speaks configured or passed-in text
- Stripped back run script environment to ensure external variables don't pollute Alfred's script environment
- Update default run script environment path to /opt/homebrew/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
- Python 3 has now been added to the default script selection
- Note that if Python 3 hasn't already been installed via e.g. Homebrew, this may trigger the Xcode command line tools install
- Update the default selected script type for Run Script and Script Filter to zsh instead of bash
- New word matching framework
- Improves boundary matching beyond whitespace
- New "Word based - sequential" matching option available in Script Filter when selecting "Alfred filters results"
- List Filter now shares the same matching options available in the Script Filter
- /usr/bin/swift has now been added to the selectable language types in Run Script and Script Filter
- Prevent clicking through on an unpopulated website in the workflow importer and exporter
- Improvements to the placeholder system throughout Workflows
- The {query} placeholder will now process placeholder modifiers, e.g. {query.lowercase.trim}
- Allows for faster workflow development with fewer utility objects
- Access constants, previously only available to Run Script and Script Filter, using {const:constname}, e.g. {const:alfred_workflow_version}
- Use {constants} in the Debug Utility to view all constants for a workflow within the workflow debugger
- Improve script runtime handler to prevent user-overridden Alfred constants
- Debug Utility now uses {variables} to dump all variables, however {allvars} will still be recognised for backwards compatibility.
- When duplicating a symlinked workflow, fully resolve the symlinked path so the workflow is correctly duplicated

General:
- Alfred now uses the Modern and Modern Dark as the default themes
- Roll out enhanced URL handler throughout Alfred allowing for more flexible URL recognition and handling
- Remove deprecated UTF-8 option from custom web searches, make all searches UTF-8
- Improve Alfred text view undo algorithm to break coalescing on non-alphanumeric breaks instead of timing
- Add custom Alfred accent colour to Preferences UI, for improved experience on Big Sur+
- Improved icon rendering across the board
- Larger hit zones for buttons at the bottom of the Workflows, Themes and Remote Pages lists
- Improved macOS Colour palette behaviour in theme editor when changing colour options
- Improvements to Ubiquitous Internal Preferences Search, ? keyword within Alfred
- Add new blank workflows using ?add workflow

Snippets:
- New option to allow resetting of colour, size and font in rich text
- Useful for creating formatted snippets which are dark mode compatible
- Option also added to Copy to Clipboard Workflow object
- Separate icons for Snippets and Snippet Collections for UI clarity
- Enable drag and drop of snippets between collections in the preferences
- Fix disabled collection colour in preferences dark mode

Universal Actions:
- Reveal in Finder Universal Action now works with multiple file selections

Accessibility:
- Alfred 5 brings a big overhaul in Accessibility, and marks the start of an ongoing process to refine and improve every aspect of Alfred 5
- When searching in Alfred using the ? keyword, or using the Alfred Preferences search, workflows are now correctly focused when searched for and actioned