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Quicksilver 1.2.0

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    Quicksilver 2.4.2

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    Mac OS X 10.6 or later

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What's new in this version:

New:
- Added a "Default Browser" proxy object (#1638)
- Text ending with / will be recognized as a URL. Entering qsapp/ will be expanded to http://www.qsapp.com/. This emulates the behavior of Safari 6's address bar. (#1594)
- Modifier-only activation is more reliable and now works in password fields and Terminal with "Secure Keyboard Entry" enabled (#1586, #1713, #1715, #1712, #1723)
- Show more detail when moving or copying files fails (#1668)
- Ignore incomplete downloads from Opera (.opdownload) when identifying the Latest Download (#1676)
- Include and exclude files using UTIs (#1708)
- The Reveal action can be used with multiple files (#1745)
- The Type Text action can be used with multiple text items (#1828)
- Append "(alias)" to the details of file aliases (#1770)
- Append "(symlink)" to the details of symbolic links (#1770)
- Allow moving restricted files to the Trash (#28, #1770)
- The results list will wrap when scrolling (#1928)
- The status bar icon supports Yosemite's dark theme (#1940)
- Includes the latest translations from Transifex project (#1900)

Fixed:
- Fix the Type Text action when typing non-ASCII characters (#1536)
- Fix for accented characters on non-US keyboards (#1696)
- Fix a crash with the Relaunch action (#1604, #1605)
- Better recognition of URLs containing a colon (#1594)
- Text proxies are created with a safe default value (#1624)
- Renaming no longer fails on folders with '.' in their name (#1586)
- Renaming no longer fails when only capitalization is changed (#1586)
- Fix "Allow capitalized keys to select the action" behavior under 10.8 (#1030, #1586)
- Fix a bug that prevented preferences from opening on 10.7 (#1628, #1630)
- Fix a crash in the Primer Interface (#1608)
- Make sure new triggers are selected after creation (#1637)
- Ensure that the correct default interface is used on a new installation (#1639)
- Load icons on the main thread to silence a warning on 10.9 (#1655, #1656)
- Update views on the main thread (#1832)
- Update results list on the main thread (#1770)
- Run the Update Manager on a background thread (#1847)
- Fixed some visual problems with the plugin updater (#1642, #1647)
- Fixed some bugs that prevented changing trigger settings (#1650)
- Prevent a crash related to the plugin updater (#1664)
- Prevent user-disabled items from appearing in the interface (#1685, #1688)
- Prevent corruption of pasted strings in triggers (#1597, #1730)
- Fix a crash when running some Internal Commands (#1724)
- Including/excluding files using unregistered extensions now works (#1469, #1708)
- Folders that that appear to have file extensions are correctly identified as folders when excluding/excluding (#1742, #1708, #1753)
- Correctly identify documents in iCloud (#1745)
- Don't advertise application launches when scanning processes (#1756, #1758)
- Clear the search string when clearing the first pane (#1760, #1772)
- Prevent crashes when using the Setup Assistant (#1731, #1772)
- More reliable matching of actions with items in the first pane under 10.9 (#1740, #1779)
- File actions appear when multiple files are selected (#1747, #1755, #1740)
- Prevent a crash when accessing items recently copied to the clipboard (#1716, #1774)
- Restore the ability to drag and drop objects from the Quicksilver interface (#1780, #1774)
- Make the Type Text action work with more items (#1779)
- Make sure actions are assigned correctly when an application claims support for files that literally have and extension of * (#1777, #1779, #1807)
- The Finder Selection proxy will now correctly refer to symbolic links instead of the links targets (#1729, #1748)
- Improved efficiency and reliability for the Current Selection proxy object (#1748)
- The Automator actions (Get Quicksilver Selection and Send to Quicksilver) are updated and working (#915, #1786)
- Prevent the plugin updater from going off screen (#1769, #1797)
- Update AppleScript definitions to eliminate a warning (#1810)
- Fixes for the number of items an action should support (#1815)
- Fix service actions that work with files (#1805, #1822)
- Small tweaks to text file handling and the Large Type action (#1804, #1808)
- Partially fix the Type Text action in applications like XQuartz and MS Remote Desktop (#1792, #1827)
- Fix the Get File URL action (#1844, #1845)
- Clear the first pane when an action returns results (#1846, #1847)
- Clear the first pane when a trigger creates a new search (#1846, #1847)
- Fix a bug that erased history when a pane was cleared (#1847)
- Prevent a crash when opening Trigger preferences (#1843, #1854)
- Fix a crash when creating a new trigger (#1848, #1860)
- Fix a crash during startup (#1860)
- Perform keyboard switching on the main thread (#1865)
- Remember how triggers are sorted across relaunches (#1867, #1868)
- Make QSResourceManager thread safe to avoid a number of crashes (#1861, #1871)
- Fix for dragging multiple files from Quicksilver (#1866, #1874)
- Fix for translucency in the results list under OS X 10.9 (#1838, #1877)
- Revert some changes to the results list (#1930)
- Bug fixes for sorting catalog entries (#1882)
- Add symbolic links to applications to the catalog (#1507, #1882)
- Don't add http:// to auto-detected hostnames when pasting or dragging (#1887, #1892)
- Fix triggers that get loaded before the catalog is fully populated (#1858, #1886)
- AppleScripts that specify direct and indirect types now accept UTIs (#1916, #1917)
- Open URL is no longer the default for files that are dragged or pasted into the interface (#1824)
- Fix a crash with the Open at Login actions (#1893, #1894)
- Fix a crash when determining default web browser (#1922)
- Allow right-arrowing into /var, /tmp, and /etc (#1922)
- Better handling of arrays returned from AppleScript (#1825, #1826)
- Fixed missing preference icons under Yosemite (#1932, #1933)
- Fix version comparison so 10.10 isn't treated like 10.1 (#1938, #1939)
- Internal Improvements (#1583, #1584, #1585, #1586, #1665, #1625, #1648, #1638, #1695, #1714, #1763, #1765, #1740, #1771, #1775, #1794, #1828, #1839, #1770, #1784, #1922)

Changed:
- The way files are represented has changed. Check any triggers, Shelf, items, etc. that have references to files (#1740)
- The third pane for Assign Abbreviation… defaults to the matched string (#1548)
- A friendly error is shown when assigning an abbreviation fails (#1586)
- Running Applications & Processes now includes those that aren't part of application bundles (#1559)
- MacOS (Classic) applications are no longer indexed (#1559)
- Cleaned up AppleScript support to eliminate a repeated log message (#1617)
- Use integrated graphics hardware whenever possible (#1645, #1646)
- Improve the format of the User-Agent String (#1699)
- Applications added to trigger scopes are displayed more clearly (#1531, #1705)
- Types specified in the include/exclude options are displayed more clearly (#1708)
- The catalog items cached to disk will be recreated on application downgrades as well as upgrades (#1762)
- The "Scanned" date for groups in the catalog will be taken from the group member with the most recent date (#1765)
- Use display names in command descriptions (#1779)
- The Finder Selection proxy object will only be cached for 0.5 seconds (#1748)
- The Latest Download proxy object will only be cached for 0.5 seconds (#1748)
- Default cache time for proxy objects reduced from 3 seconds to 2 (#1748)
- Avoid manual rescans of folders that are kept up-to-date automatically (#1806)
- Increase the timeout for plugin downloads to 30 seconds (#1856)
- Use the CDN directly for plugin downloading/checking (#1857)
- Use UTI instead of extension to get generic file icons (#1770)
- Get more file information using NSURL instead of LSInfoRecord (#1770)
- The appearance of the results list has been updated (#1877)

Development:
- Changes to fundamental types.: Make sure you use the constants instead of hard-coding the values. Property lists (where the values must be hard-coded) are backward-compatible, but should eventually be updated. (#1740, #1828, #1832)
- QSFilePathType changed from "NSFilenamesPboardType" to "public.data" and QSTextType changed from "NSStringPboardType" to "public.utf8-plain-text"
- Convert to Automatic Reference Counting (#1433, #1539, #1541, #1627, #1683, #1710, #1739)
- Add a script called stringstool to assist with localization (#1222)
- The functions in QSGCD have been renamed (#1598): runOnMainQueueSync to QSGCDMainSync and runOnQueueSync to QSGCDQueueSync
- Remove the architecture checks from qs-push-plugin (#1620)
- Add shared schemes to the project (#1693)
- Track an updated version of VDKQueue (#1697)
- Fix the unit test related to file types (#1698)
- Reduce the number of pop-up notices when using the Debug configuration (#1709)
- You can now specify directTypes for an action using UTIs (deprecating directFileTypes and the need to first specify NSFilenamsPboardType) (#1638)
- New macro to get a localized string from the current bundle NSLocalizedStringForThisBundle() - useful for plugin localization (#1638)
- The QSDownloads class is available to plug-ins (#1714)
- New QSUTI functions (#1708): QSIsUTI() determines if a given string is an existing UTI or not and QSTypeConformsTo() is an improved wrapper around UTTypeConformsTo() that is more reliable when dealing with unregistered types
- QSUTIForAnyTypeString() can now accept a file extension, type code, or UTI (#1740)
- It is no longer necessary to hard-code the "Product Name" in plug-ins. Just "delete" the bold setting and it should automatically take on the Target's name. Make sure the "Executable file" in Info.plist matches, or set its value to "${EXECUTABLE_NAME}". (#1738)
- New QSThreadSafeMutableDictionary class (#1794)
- Deprecated the replaceString:with: method (#1821)
- Allow plugins to define both minimum (minHostVersion) and maximum (maxHostVersion) supported build number for Quicksilver (#1835)
- New isExecutable method for file QSObjects (#1770)
- New canBeExecutedByScript method for file QSObjects (#1770)
- Add more file UTI unit tests (#1853)
- Changes for compatibility with Xcode 6 (#1864)
- Removed PkgInfo files to allow code signing under Xcode 6 (#1931)
- Rebuild and signed Automator actions using Xcode 6
- New method for running unit tests (#1939)

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