MarsEdit 5.2.1

May 31, 2024

• Fix a bug in MarsEdit 5.2 that caused some preview content to be rendered inaccurately
• Fix a bug where the status bar in Duplicate posts wrongly claimed they were "Editing Published Post"

MarsEdit 5.2

May 29, 2024

• Search now supports searching all blogs or just the selected blog
• New per-blog default settings for Micropost categories, tags, and post format
• Added “Duplicate Post” menu item to create a new post with the same content as an existing post
• Web preview enhancements
  • Smarter preview updating for higher performance and less reloading of embedded content like movies
  • Now runs embedded <script> nodes in blog post content to support various dynamically updated elements
  • Can now use “Find” to search post content displayed in the main window or preview window
• Revised design of the Options side panel, renaming “Server Options” to “Publication”
• Added published date to the Options side panel
• Alt Text field in Upload Utility and Media Manager now grows vertically to accommodate longer descriptions
• Double-clicking a date in the calendar date picker now selects and dismisses the panel
• Bug Fixes
  • Fix a bug that caused Micro.blog blogs to download more posts than specified in settings
  • Forbidden characters are now stripped from XML data when parsing a server response fails
  • Fix a bug introduced in 5.1.4 that caused “offset” parameters to be encoded as boolean in XMLRPC
  • Fix a cosmetic issue in the Software Updater when switching from light to dark mode
  • Fix a bug where dragging an image to the end of a line in the plain text editor would drop it on the following line

MarsEdit 5.1.4

Apr 2, 2024

• Restore functionality of Safari App Extension toolbar button
• Restore pretty-printing of XMLRPC Network Log events
• Large binary upload data such as images are now abbreviated in the Network Log
• Several fixes to the appearance and behavior of the "+" and gear buttons in the main window
• Hyphens, dashes and underscores are now considered as word separators when inferring alt text from filenames

MarsEdit 5.1.3

Mar 29, 2024

• Avoid a flicker that could occur when switching between blogs in the main window with dark mode enabled
• Fix a bug that caused the MarsEdit icon to bounce in the dock when setting ALT text in Micropost panel
• Fix the background color when scrolling the plain text editor beyond the top or bottom of the post
• No longer display an error when refreshing a WordPress blog and only one post type is not permitted to download
• Rich text editor now cleans up invalid characters that are pasted into it
• Fix a crash that could occur when a blog post has a <title> tag within it

MarsEdit 5.1.2

Jan 12, 2024

• Restore inference of alt text from image file name if it looks like prose
• Improve inference of post title from content when no explicit title
• Improve reliability of plain-text editor syntax highlighting
• Improve first-time authentication behavior with TextPattern blogs
• Fix a crash while refreshing that affected some WordPress blogs
• Fix a crash that could occur when using AppleScript to create a new draft based on an existing post
• Fix a bug where pasting a link on a freshly-uploaded image could cause it to revert to pending upload state
• Fix a bug that prevented default Title field visibility from being respected after editing a post

MarsEdit 5.1.1

Dec 8, 2023

• Restore functionality of the MarsEdit Micropost app extension
• Cmd-Shift-D shortcut now works to send a post from the Micropost panel
• Fix syntax highlighting of entity references within HTML blocks
• Fix a bug in which published posts sometimems remained in Local Drafts folder
• Fix a bug that prevented Mastodon blogs with MP3 media items from refreshing
• Fix a crash when refreshing a WordPress blog with a malformed featured image post
• Improve performance when initializing a data source with lots of posts with featured images
• Restore dynamic hiding/showing of advanced menu items while holding/releasing option key
• Disable formatting keyboard shortcuts in Mastodon Micropost panel, since it doesn't support markup

MarsEdit 5.1

Nov 28, 2023

• New: Mastodon Support! Download, edit and publish to any Mastodon service
• Microposting panel enhancements
  • Resizable and movable
  • Supports attaching photos
  • Shows character count
  • Now shows the blog's own icon as a popup menu for selecting target blog
  • Fixed a crash when sharing Wordle results
• Micro.blog specific improvements
  • Updated character limits to match current standards
  • Fix a bug that prevented posts with blockquotes from reliably showing the title field
• Tumblr-specific improvements
  • Can now add multiple photos in Photo posts
  • Refreshing a blog no longer re-downloads all previously downloaded photos
• Other Improvements
  • Performance improvements when sorting a large number of blog posts with content-derived titles
  • Improve design, typography, and wording of New Blog interface
  • HEIC images are now auto-converted to JPEG instead of PNG
  • HTML Entities are now ignored by syntax-highlighting and live spell checking
  • Changes to Custom Field preferences are now reflected immediately in affected post windows
  • Enclosure editor now checks URL for file type and size immediately after pasting in
  • Revise the Safari extension toolbar icon to look consistent with other extension icons
  • Fix a bug that sometimes caused spell checking to fail in Plain Text editing mode
  • Fix a bug in which changes to plain text font did not affect markup tags
  • Fix a crash that could occur when selecting missing items in the Media Manager
  • Fix a crash that could occur when undoing text changes in the Plain Text editor
  • Fix a crash that could occur when selecting missing items in the Media Manager

MarsEdit 5.0.5

Apr 5, 2023

• Changed the default link color and HTML string color to a different shade of blue
• Fixed tab key order when tabbing out of the Find panel
• Restore ability to get and set the post kind via AppleScript
• Increased the rich editor text font size slightly
• Fix a bug that could cause a file inserted into a new post to disappear after editing other fields
• The link color now adapts as expected in the rich editor when switching between light and dark modes
• Fixed a bug that prevented the Preview content from loading upon first opening the Preview Template editor

MarsEdit 5.0.4

Feb 24, 2023

• Restore the ability to print from the Preview Window
• Fix a crash that could occur while importing MarsEdit 3 data
• Fix a bug where clicking the circle icon on the date picker calendar didn't properly set the date to "now"
• Saving the Network Log to file now defaults to a .txt extension and reveals after saving
• Restore functionality of Copy/Paste in the New Blog panel
• Prevent the "Autosave Popover" from appearing on MarsEdit document windows

MarsEdit 5.0.3

Jan 26, 2023

• Plain Text editor improvements
  • Performance improvements and lots of little fixes
  • Fix a bug that prevented syntax highlighting when an Emoji character was part of a post
  • Restore functionality of "Check Spelling while Typing"
• Restore MarsEdit 4 behavior of focusing on the body when opening an existing post
• Fix a bug that caused focus to shift to Local Drafts after publishing a Micropost
• Cmd-F shortcut now activates search field in post editor window, even if post content is not focused
• Upload Utility window now closes after clicking the "Upload Now" button
• Fix a bug that could cause the content of a post in Rich Text mode to disappear when pasting or undoing
• Fix an issue with the layout of the Post Templates blog settings section when the template text is long

MarsEdit 5.0.2

Jan 6, 2023

• Fix a bug that caused text flickering in plain text mode
• Fix a crash that could occur when editing in plain text mode
• Fix a bug that caused Tumblr Photo posts with large images to make the post editor window too large
• Add Find and Replace menu item with Cmd-Opt-F shortcut
• Clicking the circle in the calendar date editor now jumps to today

MarsEdit 5.0.1

Dec 13, 2023

• Fix a crash that occurred when closing the Micropost panel on macOS 12 and earlier
• The Micropost panel now prevents posting a completely empty post
• Fix a bug that prevented the About Box registration status from updating when entering a license code

MarsEdit 5.0

Dec 7, 2022

MarsEdit 5 is a major upgrade. Read more about it.

• Paid upgrade from 4.0
• Updated app icon with a modern style suitable latest macOS
• New Markdown syntax highlighting in plain text mode
• Rich editor now based on modern WebKit2 for improved performance and reliability
• New "Micropost" interface for streamlined publishing of short-form posts
• New calendar-based date editor changing publish dates
• New inline find/replace interface used throughout the app
• Support for inserting photos and sketches directly from iPhone or iPad
• Lots of little fixes here and there

MarsEdit 4.6.3

• Fix a crash that could occur when refreshing a blog with certain types of media items

MarsEdit 4.6.2

• Verified compatibility with macOS 13 Ventura
• Fix an issue that prevented image width and height from being included in the generated HTML for some images
• Quotation marks in Alt. Text are now escaped properly when generating HTML for images
• Fix a bug that sometimes caused clicking links in web preview to replace the preview content
• Images in previously published section of Media Manager are now properly sorted from newest to oldest (may require blog refresh)
• VoiceOver improvements to the image view in Media Manager and Upload Utility windows

MarsEdit 4.6.1

• Fix an issue that caused the scroller for "Always Show Scroll Bar" to appear white in Dark Mode
• Prevent a scenario that could cause the preview window to remain visible after the last document is closed
• Fix a line-wrapping issue in the document status bar area when a window was made very small
• A new per-blog setting controls whether the Title Field is shown and hidden automatically

MarsEdit 4.6

• New Share Extension supports opening images from the Share menu of other apps
• New Color Scheme preference to choose Dark, Light, or System appearance
• Improve appearance of color preference indicators on a future update to macOS
• Fix a bug that caused incorrect character count when HTML entities were included in post
• Fix an issue that caused the Media Manager selected blog to change unexpectedly
• Micro.blog specific improvements
  • Title is now hidden by default until post exceeds 280 characters
  • Added support for creating new categories

MarsEdit 4.5.9

• Avoid displaying the crash reporter dialog when the app is force-quit by the system or user
• Updated status bar text throughout the app to use standard system font
• Check for Updates now includes a link to Version History when there are no new updates
• Fix an issue where the font picker could get stuck on the preferences-based font settings
• Fix a bug that caused the inferred title of a title-less post to be one character off

MarsEdit 4.5.8

• Improved performance and reliability of main window preview of blog posts
• Large images are now constrained visually to fit the width of the Rich Editor
• Added reset buttons in preferences to restore default fonts and colors
• Search now matches when words are found separately in a given post
• Improved VoiceOver accessibility of font preferences
• Errors pertaining to blog configuration or networking now include buttons to open blog settings or network log, respectively
• Prevent a hang that could occur when trying to upload an attachment on a blog that only supports the legacy Blogger API
• Now displays an error instead of crashing when a blog returns an unexpected value when downloading a post
• Fixed an erroneous "Unsupported API" message in preferences
• Fixed a bug that prevented the site icon from loading for some blogs
• Fix a visual glitch with the Post Kind popup menu
• Fix a repeated error alert when refreshing an unconfigured blog
• Scripting: Fixed a bug that prevented setting category names on Micro.blog and other systems that don't support adding new categories

MarsEdit 4.5.7

• Fix the Set Date panel to default to Today again as it used to
• Fix an issue that prevented Quick Post documents from prompting to save changes
• Improve the contrast of status bar text in Dark Mode
• Fix the Preview Window's default template to be dark styled in Dark Mode
• Fix an issue where "View on Web" would go to the web home page instead of the specific post
• Disable Quick Look in "Uploaded" section of Media Manager because it doesn't work properly yet
• The selected blog in Preferences now automatically switches to the selected blog in the main window

MarsEdit 4.5.6

• Fix an issue where an unedited document might be marked as edited
• Fix a crash that could happen when configuring a blog with an invalid URL
• Fix a crash that could occur when refreshing a WordPress blog with ICO format images in library
• Fix an issue where the main window's refreshing progress indicator could get stuck
• Fix an issue where the specified author of a post was not saved/restored on local drafts
• Revise the style of prompts in the post editor to use a more standard format
• Avoid a hang in the app when trying to publish a post to an improperly configured blog

MarsEdit 4.5.5

• Quick fix to prevent a crashing bug that could occur when the main window's post list is empty

MarsEdit 4.5.4

• Support a new per-blog option to download only thumbnails instead of full-sized image files from WordPress blogs
• Fix an issue that caused editing WordPress Page entries to prompt for a password
• Improve error messages for WordPress blogs when user is not permitted to perform certain tasks
• Relative dates of items in the post list are now updated periodically to keep them accurate
• Fix an issue that caused blank posts to be opened at launch in some instances
• Revise the appearance of progress panels displayed by the app

MarsEdit 4.5.3

• Restore ability to drag files from the Uploads list to the post content or featured image
• Fixed a crash when dragging images from Apple Photos in the Media Manager
• Fixed a problem that caused JavaScript to be disabled in the Blog Preview for some users
• Control-clicking an item in the Media Manager now selects it before presenting a contextual menu
• Fixed a bug that caused the post editor window to become frontmost after it finished sending to blog
• Fixed a bug that prevented all tags from being deleted from an already-published WordPress post
• Scripted replacement of text in plain text editor now preserves selection
• "Edit Read More Content" menu item now works even if the text content area was not focused

MarsEdit 4.5.2

• Improved performance when loading a large number of freshly synced media item
• Can now separately specify the number of media items, posts, and pages, to download/sync from a blog
• Fix a bug that caused the wrong image to be dragged/inserted when selecting items with a search filter in place
• Fix the sort order of posts when using the search/filter in the main window
• No longer showing media items in the main blog post list when searching for posts
• Fix a crashing bug when selecting "View on Web" for a blog with a home page URL that has a space in it

MarsEdit 4.5.1

• A quick fix for a crashing bug that could occur when navigating the main menu bar in the app.

MarsEdit 4.5

• WordPress-specific improvements
  • Existing media items from your blog are now synced and available in the "Published" tab of Media Manager
  • Post password can now be set from the MarsEdit document options side panel
  • Fix a bug that attempted to publish using invalid author ID after switching target blog
  • Can now drag from Media Manager to Featured Image either as new image or reusing existing published image
  • Improve accessibility of featured image by setting proper file name based on original file
• General media management improvements
  • Images from the "On My Mac" tab can now be dragged directly into a post without opening the Upload Utility
  • Fix a bug that caused some images dragged from the Media Manager to get long alphanumeric names
  • The list of attached files now updates as images are being uploaded
  • Fix a bug that prevented some images from being resized correctly on Apple Silicon Macs.
  • Items can now be dragged with a single click/drag even when the window is not active
  • Now showing better thumbnail images for non-image file types
• Miscellaneous fixes
  • The "Add Category" field now suggests completions from among the list of existing category names
  • Support VoiceOver access to menu items that are hidden by default
  • Improved reliability of preview template downloading for Micro.blog
  • Fix a bug that prevented the date of newly published AtomPub posts from showing correctly
  • Rename the "Split Post" functionality to use "Read More Tag" terminology
  • Fix a bug in preferences showing the wrong values for Retina-based image size constraints

MarsEdit 4.4.13

• Improve reliability of in-document anchor links in blog preview window
• Protect against a possible crash when inserting image from the Media Manager
• Fix a bug that prevented setting custom field values via AppleScript from working
• Fix full keyboard accesss navigation of the "New Blog" window
• The HTML editor now strips problematic 0x0B (vertical tab) and 0x0C (form feed) characters

MarsEdit 4.4.12

• Improve the VoiceOver accessibility of Preferences and Blog Settings
• Fix a bug that prevented custom media folders from working on Apple Silicon Macs
• Fix a bug that caused blank values in the the Author column of the main post list
• Fix a bug that prevented newly added blog from becoming selected in the main window
• Avoid a hang-up that occurred when trying to download a preview template with no blog configured
• Custom field values can now be set on a post via AppleScript
• Selecting "New Post" from the app's Dock icon menu now activates the app as well
• Increase the text size of labels in the Media Manager

MarsEdit 4.4.11

• Fix text glitches in Rich Text editor when using Typewriter Scrolling
• Fix a crash that could occur when opening Preferences with an outdated External Editor setting
• Fix some layout issues in the crash reporter dialog

MarsEdit 4.4.10

• Quick fix to address a crashing bug when opening posts for editing on macOS 10.12 and 10.13

MarsEdit 4.4.9

• Quick fix to address a crashing bug in 4.4.8 when opening posts on blogs that don't support the Authors popup

MarsEdit 4.4.8

• Restore hiding of the document proxy icon in post editor
• Improve loading of blogs at launch time to avoid a momentarily blank list
• Improve performance when editing posts on blogs with large numbers of authors
• Fix a bug where the titles of blogs could be cut off in the main window
• Fix a bug that prevented selected sort column from being preserved across launches
• Fix a bug that prevented publish status from being interpreted correctly for AtomPub based blogs.

MarsEdit 4.4.7

• Performance enhancements for Apple Silicon based Macs

MarsEdit 4.4.6

• Fix a crashing bug affecting 10.12 and 10.13 versions of macOS
• Restore context menu in main window preview

MarsEdit 4.4.5

• Fix a bug with MarsEdit 4.4.4 that caused the main window preview colors to be wrong in Dark Mode
• Fix a bug where Movable Type posts with "more tag" content had the extended content duplicated
• Fix a bug that caused the Rich Editor colors to sometimes not update when switching between Dark and Light Mode

MarsEdit 4.4.4

• Reduce flickering appearance of main window preview while switching between posts
• Relative HTML Fragments can now be used within preview window e.g. to jump to different tagged parts of a post
• Fix a bug that prevented blogs from being reordered in the blogs list
• Fix a bug where changing preferences caused an open post editor to be activated
• Fix a bug where text after the "More" tag in a Micro.blog post would be stripped
• Fix a bug that caused some HTML elements to be made self-closing when they shouldn't be
• Fix a visual discrepancy in the height of the status bars at bottom of main window

MarsEdit 4.4.3

• Fix a crashing bug at launch on a pre-release version of macOS
• Fix a bug that prevented categories from being post on Hatena, Live Door, and other AtomPub based blogs
• Restore ability to select multiple images at once from "Published" tab of Media Manager
• Fix some bugs that could occur when attempting to publish posts with no blog added

MarsEdit 4.4.2

• Quick fix to address a crash while adding new blog - a bug introduced in 4.4.1

MarsEdit 4.4.1

• Fix a bug that prevented changes like setting categories from working when editing an existing WordPress post
• Fix a performance issue that could occur when publishing to a blog with a large number of posts
• Fix a bug from 4.4 that caused all blogs to show a disclosure triangle even if they don't support Page entries
• Fix a bug from 4.4 that caused Movable Type tags and slug values to not be displayed
• Fix a crash when uploading images to a blog where authentication is requested

MarsEdit 4.4

• Improved performance for blog refreshing - now shows posts as they load when possible
• Micro.blog improvements
  • Now an officially supported publishing system
  • Can now edit Page and Post type entries
  • Supports sending Draft status posts to server
  • Supports downloading entire history of posts
• Bug fixes
  • Restore ability to type to select items in the media manager icon view
  • Don't support New Page menu option for blogs that don't support pages
  • Restore drag and drop ability from the "Published" tab of the Media Manager
  • Fix a bug that prevented all authors from being listed on blogs with more than 50 authors
  • Search now matches substrings found in custom field values of posts
  • Ensure the View on Web menu item is enabled whenever a published blog post is selected

MarsEdit 4.3.7

• Fix a problem that could cause Photos library to appear empty in the Media Manager
• Update Lightroom integration to support Lightroom CC 9
• Fix a bug that caused some images to be rotated wrong when all metadata is preserved
• Work around a system bug that caused artifacts to remain on the screen after deselecting text

MarsEdit 4.3.6

• Adapt to changes in Blogger.com that require MarsEdit to drop support for the service
• Images can now be pasted directly into the Featured Image field
• Changes to default media size constraints no longer requires typing the "pt" units after the numeric value
• Fix a bug that caused post editor's sidebar width to change to match the preview template editor's width
• Fix a bug that could cause autoresizing text fields to not grow or shrink to match text
• Fix a crash that could occur if a blog is deleted while it still has active network operations running

MarsEdit 4.3.5

• The app now notices if it's been moved or renamed after launching, and prompts to relaunch
• Fix a crash that could happen when resizing the post editor window
• Fix a bug where the display name of a title-less post was not updating
• Prevent the post editor window from being sized too small to show categories

MarsEdit 4.3.4

• Fix a crashing bug when applying certain formatting macros

MarsEdit 4.3.3

• Bug Fixes & Enhancements
  • Fix a bug where the cursor jumped to the beginning of document when undoing in Rich Rext
  • "Ask Text" formatting macro placeholders no longer default to the pasteboard contents
  • Fix a typo and rework wording of the new blog panel
  • Increase vertical spacing between items in the Categories list
• Accessibility Improvements
  • Expand VoiceOver support in the "Add Blog" panel
  • Remove a superfluous column from the Categories table that showed up in VoiceOver
  • Improve VoiceOver announcement of the Preview Window when using default preview template

MarsEdit 4.3.2

• Fix a problem that caused some icons to appear fuzzy or too large in the blog list
• Fix an issue that caused the built-in crash reporter to fail to launch for some users
• Refine the error message when uploading an image to Blogger fails because of their disabled API

MarsEdit 4.3.1

• Fix a crash when a blog has a favicon that cannot be rendered
• Fix a crash when opening some posts from Nifty Cocolog blogs
• Fix a visual glitch in the Find/Replace panel
• Fix a bug that prevented system highlight color from applying to Rich Text in Dark Mode

MarsEdit 4.3

• Improvements to handling of uploaded GIF images
  • Support resizing animated GIFs while preserving animation
  • Fix a bug that caused some GIF images to be uploaded as empty files
  • Fix a bug where GIF images uploaded to Tumblr blogs were converted to PNG format
• Interface improvements
  • Refine Dark Mode support in the Media Manager
  • Fix a bug that prevented a visual divider line from appearing in Media Manager
  • Change the "New Category" placeholder text to a subtler style
  • Improve status messages when refreshing blog
  • Revised Preferences layout to unify General and Editing into single "General" tab
• Other improvements
  • Fix a crash that could occur when undoing after "Restore Default" in the Quick Posts template editor
  • Fix the size of preview window content to match what is seen in web browsers
  • Fix a missing image MarsEdit Help in Text Filters documentation
  • Support new Micro.blog distinction between created and modified dates on posts
  • Fix a bug that could cause additional image markup to be entered when adding a photo to a Tumblr post

MarsEdit 4.2.6

• Restore ability to upload images to Google's Blogger/Blogspot blogs

MarsEdit 4.2.5:

• Restore functionality of tab and shift-tab for changing the indentation level in lists
• Improve authentication reliabiity for WordPress servers that return invalid authentication challenges
• Fix authentication prompt for Livedoor and other AtomPub based APIs
• Fix a crash that occured while reorganizing the Format menu contents
• Fix a crash when a server returns unexpected data in response to a new post request

MarsEdit 4.2.4

• Fix a crashing bug when launching MarsEdit 4.2.3 on macOS 10.12
• Fix a bug that made the app unresponsive when dragging text from one position to another in Plain Text mode

MarsEdit 4.2.3

• Fix a bug where images that are copied-and-pasted into MarsEdit could lose Retina resolution precision
• Restore copy/paste functionality from Microsoft Word to MarsEdit's post editor
• Fix issues that prevented font changes in Rich Text mode from being applied reliably
• Improve behavior with Rich Text editor and WordPress Gutenberg content, to avoid adding superfluous paragraphs
• Fix a bug where text in the editor could switch to the wrong color in Dark Mode after running a formatting macro

MarsEdit 4.2.2

• Add a Photos Library usage explanation to make accessing Photos on macOS Mojave 10.14 more reliable
• Fix a bug where the Preview Window sometimes didn't update to reflect changed CSS rules in a template

MarsEdit 4.2.1

• Support Mojave's new Continuity Camera feature for taking pictures from an iPhone's camera
• Dark Mode: fix text color in Crash Reporter console log display
• Support "Extended Entry" content in preview template downloader
• Restore support for dragging URLs from Safari into MarsEdit's editor

MarsEdit 4.2

• Support for macOS Mojave 10.14 Dark Mode
• Avoids aggressively reloading the preview window after inserting an image into a post
• Restores ability for MarsEdit to launched as a login item but "hidden" in background
• Fix a bug that could cause post content to be lost during conversion from Rich Text when a more tag is present

MarsEdit 4.1.6 and 4.1.5

• The 4.1.5 and 4.1.6 updates are very quick updates to fix small but annoying issues affecting the resizing of document windows, and uploading Featured Images. These updates were released quickly after 4.1.4 to ensure all users have the best possible experience with the app.

MarsEdit 4.1.4

• Fix a bug that prevented some preference changes from "sticking"
• Restore support for dragging images from Preview's thumbnail list to the app
• Preserve <script> elements when editing HTML content that contains them
• Restore scripting support for custom field values on posts
• Fix an issue converting Emoji characters from entities and back
• Fix a crash when using VoiceOver to select Featured Image
• Update default "Quick Posts" markup to use a more correct HTML structure
• Fix preview of Quick Posts template which was not displaying correctly
• More preliminary support for Dark Mode
  • Use different syntax highlighting colors in Dark Mode
  • Fix text color for the Network Log's content
  • Adapt about box and acknowledgements windows
  • Adapt main window preview area

MarsEdit 4.1.3

• More improvements to the reliability of the Safari extension
• When a dragged image contains both higher resolution and lower resolution versions, MarsEdit now prefers higher resolution
• Improvements to the List formatting macros to make them transform several selected lines into a single list
• Fixed a bug to avoid recompressing images when no changes are made to them
• Restore the ability to upload SVG files to blogs that support them
• Fixed a bug that caused selected custom colors to be unset when clicking out of the color panel
• Fixed a hang that could occur if authentication fails while trying to upload an image to a blog
• Fixed a bug that caused blogs to re-expand their Posts/Pages subsections even if user had collapsed them
• Fixed a bug that caused some standard formatting macros to lose their functionality when a custom keyboard shortcut was set
• Setting the Featured Image is now supported via VoiceOver

MarsEdit 4.1.2

• Improve reliability of the Safari App Extension which could become disabled on complex web sites
• Fix a bug that caused non-image files such as PDF documents to be converted to single-pixel images
• Fix a bug that prevented dragging images from the "Uploaded" tab of the Media Manager
• Fix a problem where "Preserve All Metadata" didn't work when attaching an image for later upload
• Revert to pre-4.1 behavior of postponing initializing Media Manager until window is opened
• Tag completion now prioritizes exact diacritical matches ahead of fuzzy matches
• Restore the "Don't show again" checkbox on the Rich/Plain text mode switch alert

MarsEdit 4.1.1

• Fix a crash when dragging images from Photos.app before MarsEdit's Upload Utility window has been opened
• Fix a crash that could occur when "Preserve All" was selected for image metadata
• Fix a bug that prevented "Preserve All" metadata option from staying selected on a blog

MarsEdit 4.1

• Media improvements
  • New options for image metadata to preserve, remove, or remove only location-specific GPS data
  • Now supports direct dragging of images from Photos.app
  • Color profile can now be either preserved or converted to sRGB automatically
  • Performance improvements for users with large numbers of previously uploaded images
  • Preload media manager contents at launch time to avoid performance hit when opening it up
• Bug fixes
  • Fix a bug that caused some CMYK profile images to not be rotated as expected
  • Fix a bug that caused featured image to be removed from posts when preview filter was applied
  • Fix a bug that prevented the "New Post" item from being enabled in the main window contextual menu
  • Fix "Copy Published Link" from the main window when a post is selected but post list not focused
  • Fix Preview Template auto-downloading for Micro.blog and other MetaWeblog API blogs
  • Fix a crash that could occur when interacting with the Formatting Macro editor window after closing a post editor
  • Fix a bug that could prevent Google OAuth tokens from being redacted in the Network Log
  • Fix a bug that caused "more" tags and other comments to be stripped from posts in some cases
  • Fix a bug where the full temporary path of an image was shown in the user notification
• Little things
  • Add a "Remove Link" item to the Rich Text contextual menu
  • Don't warn about editing mode switches if the editor is empty
  • Handle clicks on "mailto" links in the Preview Window for posts that happen to have them

MarsEdit 4.0.9

• Fix a bug that caused Google hosted image uploads to show up as missing images in blog posts
• Change handling of "more" tags for Blogger to avoid wrapping with line break tags

MarsEdit 4.0.8

• Fix a bug where images from Media Manager were not always permitted to be inserted into posts
• Fix a bug that could cause slow text layout in the plain text editor
• Disable Tags field when editing WordPress Page entries, where they're not allowed
• Ensure escape and cmd-. keyboard shortcuts work as expected for cancel button in panels
• Enable the 'Copy Published Link' and 'Send to Blog' menu items when the preview window is active

MarsEdit 4.0.7

• Fix a crash that could occur in the plain text syntax highlighting functionality
• Fix a hang in the plain text editor that could affect large posts
• Fix Google and Tumblr blogs to heed the "number of posts per request" download setting
• Fix a bug introduced in 4.0.6 that caused doubling of file extensions on image uploads
• Fix behavior of "Do Again" format menu item for custom macros applies in Rich Text mode
• Fix a bug that prevented Featured Image from being deleted from an already-published post
• Fix handling of combining characters such as the "Male Singer" (Ziggy Startdust) in plain text editor
• Change character count behavior to consider spaces in total character count.

MarsEdit 4.0.6

• Fix names of HEIF based photos in the Media Manager
• Fix a bug that prevented some Lightroom libraries from appearing in Media Manager
• Fix a bug that prevented some dragged images from being accepted in the Rich Text editor

MarsEdit 4.0.5

• Fix a bug that prevented automatic preview template download from working on some Blogspot blogs
• Add accessibility description to the buttons for adding and removing Custom Fields
• Detect and convey more useful error message for "Obfuscated ID" Blogger image upload failures
• Protect against a possible crash when handling Tumblr API errors
• Incorporate support for Lightroom 7 into the Media Manager
• Rich Editor fixes
  • Restore Cmd-Shift-C keyboard shortcut to open Color Panel
  • Fix a bug where the "More" tag in a post with Unicode characters could get stripped out
  • Improvements to cursor navigation of images and text with links

MarsEdit 4.0.4

• Fix a failure to auto-configure some Tumblr-based blogs
• Fix a problem that prevented bolds, italics, etc. from being set as default preview fonts
• Fix a problem where Typewriter Mode in Rich Text mode could scroll awkwardly while typing
• Restore support for selecting "main category" on Movable Type blogs
• Improve indexing and searchability of built-in Help

MarsEdit 4.0.3

• This update fixes a bug introduced in 4.0.2 that could prevent purchased licenses from being validated in the app.

MarsEdit 4.0.2

• Revise toolbar popup menus to use the same rounded button style as other buttons
• Fix a bug that caused some error sheets in the main window to be presented in wrong location
• Fix a crash that could occur if preferences are not writable for some reason
• Fix a bug in which validating an app for discount upgrade could spin forever.

MarsEdit 4.0.1

• Mac App Store specific release incorporating fixes that were in MarsEdit 4.0 direct release.

MarsEdit 4.0

• Major upgrade offering improved WordPress support, automatic preview template creation, a visual toolbar for editing tools, typewriter mode for focused writing, a Safari app extension, performance enhancements, and much more.

MarsEdit 3.7.11

• Fix for Blogger blogs so that uploaded images will upload to the Google Photo album associated with the blog
• Fix a bug that prevented category names from loading on some AtomPub-based systems such as LiveDoor.jp

MarsEdit 3.7.10

• Fix a bug introduced in the previous update that causes the app to crash after printing, or after editing certain types of Tumblr posts.

MarsEdit 3.7.9

• Fix a bug that caused "allowfullscreen" to be stripped from YouTube embeds
• Fix an issue with old system font hardcoding being respected by later version
• Add NSSupportsAutomaticGraphicsSwitching to Info.plist to avoid requiring high power GPU use
• Work around a crash that could occur when waking from sleep on a Touch Bar-enabled Mac
• Fix a crash that could occur in Apple's web framework when closing a document
• Detect and offer advice about WordPress two-step authentication challenges
• Fix a bug that caused preformatted text in the rich editor to remain small when a larger editing font is selected

MarsEdit 3.7.8

• Fix a crashing bug when attempting to configure a blog whose URL contains unicode characters
• Disable system default tab handling until we can manage it more appropriately

MarsEdit 3.7.7

• Fix a bug that caused Google/Blogger image uploads to sometimes fail
• Fix a bug that caused removal of items from Media Favorites to fail
• Private Flickr photos can now be included or not as user's discretion
• Fix terminology used in panel while sending a new or edited post

MarsEdit 3.7.6

• Fix a bug that prevented local draft being deleted after publishing bookmark-generated posts
• Fix a bug in which pasted text from Microsoft Word could get treated as an image in MarsEdit
• Fix a bug that could allow image uploads to be attempted to a blog that doesn't support it
• Fix a bug that could cause unnecessary prompts for Blogger username/password
• Fix a bug in which the media manager failed to update the target blog when active document changed
• Fix a bug in which image pixel size did not adjust to account for Retina mode switching on
• Fix the Flickr browser to omit photos that are not public
• Fix the appearance of 'New Category' text field to use proper placeholder text
• Fix scripting support for inserting text, so the insertion point moves to the end of insertion

MarsEdit 3.7.5

• Fix a crash that could occur when subtle image upload failures occur on WordPress
• Switch to HTTPS URLs for increased security loading resources from Red Sweater

MarsEdit 3.7.4

• Fix to update main window font from old Lucida Grande to new San Francisco system font
• Fix a discrepancy in font size for some text entry fields e.g. Tumblr quotations

MarsEdit 3.7.3

• Hot on the heels of 3.7.2, this is a quick fix to restore handling of HTTPS connections by default. 3.7.2 attempted to support TLS 1.1 and 1.2 across the board, but there were unexpected side-effects of that. Please contact support@red-sweater.com for information on enabling experimental TLS support.

MarsEdit 3.7.2

• MarsEdit now defaults to HTTPS for new connections to Tumblr blogs to increase security
• Fix an issue that prevented MarsEdit from connecting to HTTPS endpoints that require TLS1.1 or TLS1.2
• Fix a problem where content in a post's title could be stripped for display if it looked like HTML
• Fix a bug in handling literal % characters in text supplied by browser bookmarklet
• Fix a crash that occurred when closing an editor window directly from Full Screen mode in OS X El Capitan
• For Flickr photo browsing, supprot an option to download 500 photos for moderately high number without downloading all
• MarsEdit's editor window now fill all available space in full screen mode

MarsEdit 3.7.1

• Fix a crash that could occur while reloading Apple Photos Library
• Fix a rare issue where users could encounter a "JavaScript disabled" error when trying to log in to Blogger

MarsEdit 3.7

• Restore functionality for Google's Blogger blogs by supporting their modern authentication scheme
• Fix handling of dates to ensure proper post scheduling in all locales/regions
• Fix some visual flickering of the Media Manager's album/folders lists while clicking them
• Refinements to Apple Photos support in Media Browser
  • Prevent a crash that could occur in media manager when no Photos library was created yet
  • Fix a problem where some groups could be expanded even if there are no contents inside

MarsEdit 3.6.9

• Fix to include photos from Apple's new Photos app to Media Browser
• Fix "Apply Preview Filter Before Publishing" for Tumblr and Movable Type blogs
• Fix a rare crash that could occur when a document window's content changes while closing
• Fix a problem with dragging images from Flickr or Catalog panes of Media Manager to HTML Text edit area
• Fix an issue pasting HTML e.g. from a copied link in Safari
• Fix a bug that prevented find/replace from working when replacement string contained a single quote (')

MarsEdit 3.6.8

• Address issues with images being uploaded for display on Retina screens:
  • Images are now uploaded at 2x specified dimensions when Retina checkbox selected
  • Width and height fields now show size as "points" instead of "pixels"
  • Width and height fields now limited based on size of image and Retina setting
• Rich and HTML Editor bug fixes
  • Fix a bug where pressing return in a blockquote could cause a new blockquote to be created
  • Fix a bug where smart quotes, etc. were erroneously allowed in plain HTML
  • Fix a bug that prevented images from being pasted into post editor content
• Other media-related fixes
  • Fix a bug that caused Tumblr images publish at constrained size even if the size is changed in Media Manager
  • Fix a bug where media style macro was not applied to re-inserted, previously uploaded images
  • Fix a bug where media style macro with prefix and suffix did not wrap the active selection
• Other bug fixes
  • Fix a bug that prevented post documents from showing unsaved changes after changing custom field contents
  • Fix a bug in "Show Text Statistics" sample script that caused inaccurate word count to be shown
  • Fix a bug in Media Manager that failed to show the entire folder name for folders with periods (.) in their names
  • Default newly added Blogspot blogs to "Apply Preview Filter" before publishing, to ensure paragraph tags are added if needed

MarsEdit 3.6.7

• Fix a problem from 3.6.6 where saving a local draft caused the insertion point in the post to jump
• Work around a bug cause a crash when closing documents with active JavaScript running
• Fix a bug where a long list of blogs could draw funny when scrolling off the bottom of the source list

MarsEdit 3.6.6

• Fix a performance problem that caused slow typing in the post editor for some users
• Fix a performance problem with sorting large lists of posts in the main window
• Fix a bug in which image attachments could be removed erroneously when canceling a draft save
• Fix the functionality of the AppleScript "save" command to save a post as a local draft
• Fix a bug that prevented sorting posts by the Tags column
• Fix updating of post editor window contents when left open after publishing
• Prevent a crash when pasting text with invisible characters
• Fix a bug that could prevent the main category from being changed by the category popup

MarsEdit 3.6.5

• Restore functionality for Flickr after recent API changes
• Fix a crash that could occur on some systems while trying to locate the Growl framework
• Fix a bug where blank document windows were sometimes opened upon launching

MarsEdit 3.6.4

• Fix a problem with Tumblr 2-factor "mobile" passwords
• Update Flickr authentication to support new HTTPS API requirements
• Fix to support relative URLs in the rich editor, loaded relative to the home page URL
• Fix to prevent blank display of embedded YouTube videos lacking a URL scheme (http or https)
• Fix to prevent preview window from reloading completely when a post's title is edited
• Fix a Voiceover issue that prevented contextual menus from appearing in the blogs and posts lists
• Fix some cosmetic issues in the blog settings panel UI
• Fix an issue where the main window showed up in an awkard position on first launch
• Fix bugs that caused documents to sometimes show changes when there hadn't been any

MarsEdit 3.6.3

• Fix to Tumblr image uploads to preserve original image filetype (e.g. JPEG)
• Fix a bug where image sizing constraints were enabled even when full-size option selected
• Fix a bug that prevented reliable searching/replacing of multiple spaces in Rich Text mode
• Fix a crash that would occur if the "Send to Blog" button was clicked twice instead of once
• Fix an issue with OS X Mavericks where window positions changed when switching from a full screen app to MarsEdit

MarsEdit 3.6.2

• Improve security of Tumblr connections
• Fix an issue where MarsEdit would fail to re-authenticate with Tumblr after revoking privileges
• Fix some memory performance issues

MarsEdit 3.6.1

• Fix an issue where the preview text filter was not applied on publish for some blogs

MarsEdit 3.6

• Support an option to apply preview filter to content when publishing
• Restore auto-configuration functionality for Blogger/Blogspot blogs
• Fix a bug where an authentication dialog was not appearing for some LiveJournal and Squarespace configurations
• Fix a bug that prevented Flickr short-name being used in Flickr page links
• Fix a bug that prevented undo from working in some editor fields
• Fix a bug that allowed rich text to be pasted into Tumblr quotation text field
• Fix a bug that caused Tumblr quotation source text to be treated as plain instead of HTML.
• Fix a bug where new image albums for Blogger were created with public permissions
• Fix a cosmetic glitch with the Date Editor panel

MarsEdit 3.5.9

• Fix a bug from 3.5.8 that disabled draft support for Squarespace 5
• Fix a bug where uploaded images were not resized correctly on Retina Macs
• Fix a bug where the preview window could sometimes show the wrong blog's theme
• Fix a bug that caused malfunctioning Screen Capture and Image import services in rich editor
• Fix a bug that caused unpredictable behavior with Paste contextual menu item
• Fix a bug that prevented URLs with apostrophes from being linked in rich text mode
• Fix a bug that could lock up the app if close box clicked on authentication panel
• Fix a bug that prevented favicons from being downloaded from some blogs
• Fix a bug where switching quickly to HTML Text mode after opening a post could clear the content
• Fix a bug where images would sometimes fail to load in main window preview
• Fix a bug where unchecking all categories for a post would not update categories correctly
• Fix a bug where ExpressionEngine authentication failures did not prompt the login panel to appear
• Fix a bug where the last change to an image's name or size did not "stick"
• Fix a bug where some errors would display as simply "(null)" instead of with meaningful text
• Fix a crashing bug that could occur while editing the preview template
• Fix a bug that caused drawing defects in some preferences text fields

MarsEdit 3.5.8

• Fix a crashing bug that affected users of certain non-US keyboard layouts including Spanish, French, and Swedish.

MarsEdit 3.5.7

• Improve performance when publishing to WordPress
• Support for WordPress Private and Pending post statuses
• Use Mac localized sorting for better organizing in posts lists
• Fix behavior of formatting keyboard shortcuts in non-Roman keyboards
• Fix a bug that caused dates to incorrectly display as e.g. "Tomorrow" when they should be "Today"
• Fix handling of bookmarklet requests when the app is not yet launched
• Fix a graphical glitch in the Media Browser introduced in 3.5.6
• Avoid a crash with Tumblr when exceeding their daily photo posting limit

MarsEdit 3.5.6

• Restore Tumblr support by adapting to their latest API changes
• Adapt to Flickr's recent requirement to use OAuth for authentication
• Add support for 10.8 user notifications
• Fix an issue where Flickr browser's number of photos shown didn't match popup selection
• Fix an issue where some embed and object HTML attributes were being stripped in rich editor
• Fix an issue where edits to Tumblr posts caused publish date to reset to current time
• Fix an issue where editing a post's date didn't save properly in local drafts

MarsEdit 3.5.5

• Updated graphics to support Retina MacBook Pro
• Fix a bug that prevented the port number from being included in Host: HTTP header
• Fix a bug that caused drag-and-drop to margins of editor to reload the content of editor with bogus data
• Fix a bug that could crash the app when customizing toolbar items
• Fix a bug that crashed when editing tags with VoiceOver enabled
• Fix view-tabbing cycle in the blog settings panel

MarsEdit 3.5.4

• Support for Lightroom Virtual Copies in media browser
• Improve accuracy of word count in status bar
• New "News Check" feature to alert customers of critical fixes

MarsEdit 3.5.3

• Fix a serious bug that reverted blog settings to default values when opening the settings panel
• Avoid a crash when running on a 10.6 system with older versions of Safari installed
• Fix a rich-mode editing paste bug that could cause unwanted
  entries in HTML

MarsEdit 3.5.2

• Status bar in post editor now includes character count along with word count
• Restore ability to paste HTML with "embed" tags in the Rich Editor
• Restore expected list manipulation behavior with tab and return keys
• Fix a crash that occurred when editing a Tumblr quotation post with no attribution
• Work around issue with WordPress pages showing up as empty posts if not permitted to edit
• Fix autoconfiguration of IBM Lotus Connections blogs
• Fix the scrolling behavior of custom fields text input

MarsEdit 3.5.1

• Fix the preview window to recognize and substitute template placeholders in the section
• Fix a bug with Squarespace and Expression Engine not prompting for username/password on new blog
• Restore ability to set "Warn when no title" option on Blogger blogs
• Fix a bug that prevented some blog-configuration options from being selected after switching system type
• Restore ability to start a Header or Blockquote before typing content
• Pressing return twice to exit Preformatted works again
• Improve support for future releases of Mac OS X
  • Address an issue with icon view when resizing the Media Manager window
  • Avoid crashes caused by conflicting system libraries

MarsEdit 3.5

• Highlighted Enhancements
  • Improved support for Lion full-screen mode
  • Custom Formatting Macros now work in Rich Text mode as well as HTML mode
  • Support for editing Tumblr Draft posts
• Post Editor enhancements
  • A number of improvements to Rich Text editor to address minor formatting bugs
  • Unified Formatting Macro menu for HTML and Rich Text modes
  • Draggging an image to the post editor now causes inserted image to go to expected target location in text
  • Fixed performance issues that could cause very slow typing in some configurations
  • Fixed keyboard-based text selection in the HTML editor to avoid getting stuck on line endings
  • Fix a slight mismatch in background color between Rich and HTML Text editing modes
  • Work around hanging issues with External Editing in some apps
• Tumblr-specific enhancemeents
  • Added support for server-stored Drafts
  • Fixed Word Count feature to work properly with Tumblr Quote and Chat posts
  • Revised Tumblr interface for Chat-style posts to prevent formatting problems
• Other changes
  • Added support for browsing Lightroom 4 libraries
  • New support for unicode characters in URLs
  • Bug fixes for improved Media Manager reliability
  • Fixed an issue where uploaded attachments would fail without prompting for password on authentication errors
  • Added support for authenticated proxy servers
  • Prevent a crash that occurred when working with Blog.de system's categories
  • Improved XML sanitizing to increase compatibility with malformed blog content
  • Fix a bug that prevented locally added tags from becoming part of the tag-suggestion history

MarsEdit 3.4.4

• Fixes to Flickr browser to support new embed sizes: Large Square, Small 320

MarsEdit 3.4.3

• Fixes to improve with the Safari 5.2 beta
• Fixes to improve with a future OS X update
• Prevent a possible hang while parsing Lightroom libraries

MarsEdit 3.4.2

• Fix a crash when searching in Media libraries
• Fix a bug where pasting an image in the rich text editor could cause the editor to freeze up

MarsEdit 3.4.1

• Fix a crash when filtering Flickr photos
• Fix auto-configuration of Blogger blogs with Dynamic Views themes
• Fix an issue where undoing a paste in the tags field caused duplicate tags

MarsEdit 3.4

• Media management improvements
  • New zoom control for browser thumbnail size
  • iPhoto Faces browsing support
  • Lightroom photo collection set support
  • Upload Utility window now resizable
• Flickr browser improvements
  • Now supports "Medium 640" size
  • Only shows image sizes that are available for the selected image
• External Editing improvements
  • Now supports Byword in default editor list
  • Now displays a warning panel if the selected app is not installed
• Bug Fixes
  • Bookmarklet handler now heeds sourceHomeURL, sourceFeedURL, sourceName
  • Prevent a crash when selecting SVG format images
  • Disable width/height fields for non-image files in Upload Utility
  • Fix a bug where post IDs were sometimes not saved for posts and pages

MarsEdit 3.3.5

• Support a new per-blog setting for default writing direction, to benefit right-to-left language bloggers
• Change default keyboard shortcut for full screen toggle to cmd-ctrl-F, the standard for Mac OS X
• Prevent a crash that could occur with some systems like Sina.com that return empty string instead of expected array
• Fixes to make uploaded images target the desired blog more reliably
• Fix a bug that prevented "Send to Blog" button from being clickable after launching from bookmarklet

MarsEdit 3.3.4

• Fix issues that caused side-panels to shrink gradually when collapsed/expanded
• Fix a problem that prevented the width of the blogs list area from being restored across launches
• When main window's preview is collapsed, it's now kept collapsed when window size is increased
• Fix a crash that could occur when removing the last item from the Uploaded media list
• Fix a crash that could occur when "unsplitting" a post or searching/replacing in rich editing mode
• Fix a crash that could occur when authorizing Flickr

MarsEdit 3.3.3

• Improve Tumblr posting reliability by switching to an API URL that is less likely to report "over capacity"
• Improve memory efficiency for post editor documents
• Improve reliability of setting and removing links on images in rich text mode
• The main window's post list area now stays the same size while resizing window

MarsEdit 3.3.2

• Fix for continuous spell-checking in Rich Text editor when Safari 5.1 is installed
• Fix a bug that prevented Font Panel size changes from applying to text
• Fix autoconfiguration to fail more gracefully on unrecognized blog systems
• Add "Edit With" external editor item to post list contextual menu

MarsEdit 3.3.1

• Media Manager now remembers and restores last-selected folder across launches
• Fix a bug that prevented custom text and background color preferences from working in rich text mode
• Add protections to avoid crashing on some malformed server responses
• Fix a bug where only the first paragraph was styled with e.g. multi-paragraph blockquote
• Fix a bug introduced in 3.3.1 that caused image uploads to Movable Type to produce invalid URLs
• Fix handling of Tumblr downtime to be more reliable and convey message to user
• Various bug-fixes to rich mode undo behavior

MarsEdit 3.3

• New full-screen mode option for post editor windows
• Now supports speaking the text in post editor
• Supports Mac OS X text transformation in post editor
• Added server-side text filter selection for Squarespace
• Add Search/Replace functionality to preview template editor
• Preferences changes
  • Add preference to adjust font size of main window UI
  • Change name of "Attribution" section to "Quick Posts"
  • Support preview of Quick Post HTML defaults
• Bug Fixes
  • Restore functionality of printing from rich text mode
  • Fix rare crash when authenticating Blogger blogs
  • Fix MetaWeblog image uploads to avoid putting / character before file name
  • In rich mode, avoid styling the following paragraph when entire target paragraph is selected
  • In rich mode, improve undo to avoid undoing typing done immediately before a paste
  • Disable "smart" copy & paste in HTML code editor

MarsEdit 3.2.2

• Fix an issue where the posts list is sorted in wrong order on launch
• Fix Tumblr support to allow downloading more than 50 recent posts
• Fix an issue where passwords were sometimes not accepted correctly with Blogger & Tumblr

MarsEdit 3.2.1

• Fix problem with custom preview filters not properly saving on posts
• Fix an issue that caused "Unknown Error" message instead of prompting for password
• Add Expression Engine to systems list, superceding obsolete pMachine
• Update special-case warning detection for Tumblr over-capacity failures

MarsEdit 3.2

• New Word Count feature displays in post status bar
• Now reads previously used Tags from WordPress on refresh
• Now more resilient to malformed XML and "bad characters" in downloaded posts
• Performance improvements in media browser and autosave features
• Now code signed to prevent need for re-authorizing keychain access every release
• Bug fixes
  • More fixes to prevent Convert Line Breaks affecting preformatted text
  • Fix a bug that lost formatting information for image attachments saved to local drafts
  • Fixes to improve reliability "Paste HTML Source" in rich editor
  • Offer better error message when PHP out-of-memory message returned
  • Fix a crash when loading Flickr panel with thousands of Flickr images
  • Work around issues when running MarsEdit on a pre-release Mac OS X
  • Fix some bugs that caused the app to crash when errors occurred uploading attachments

MarsEdit 3.1.7

• Restore ability to collapse libraries section in Media Manager
• No longer beeps when attempting to save an already-saved local draft
• Improvements to further reduce RAM memory usage
• Fix an issue where media manager folders were not auto-refreshing content
• Fix the displayed items count in Flickr and Published media sections
• Fix to support detection of rel="shortcut icon" style favicons
• Fix occasional crashes while reloading media items
• Fix non-image files were inserted into post with image markup
• Fix crash when attempting to add enclosure without URL
• Fix possible blanked content when opening a post in external editor
• Fix crash when inserting Technorati Tags in extended area in rich mode

MarsEdit 3.1.6

• Media manager and image upload improvements
  • Use a nicer format for default alt text description
  • Fix the file extension of image file name to match the actual format
  • Fix a bug where e.g. PNG images were converted to JPG when resizing
  • Auto-convert image formats not suitable for web to PNG
  • Fix a possible crash when searching for photos
• Fixed the Convert Line Breaks filter so it doesn't add paragraph tags to preformatted text
• Fix an occasional crash when doing a global search/replace
• Fix possible crash when mistyping keyboard shortcuts in the app
• Add a special error message for situations where Tumblr is not responsive

MarsEdit 3.1.5

• Now supports editing the Excerpt/Summary for Squarespace
• Dragged images now open the upload utility with the correctly targeted blog preselected
• Fix a bug in upload utility window that didn't update UI correctly when blog switched
• Restore ability to attach image-uploads for separate blog to Tumblr posts
• Fixes to prevent some rare crashes in syntax highlighter
• Fix crashes affecting the Media Manager when editing photos in other apps

MarsEdit 3.1.4

• Improved RAM performance by fixing a variety of memory leaks
• Tumblr Photo post improvements
  • Per-blog image size constraints now applied to photo
  • Improved integration between Media Manager and Tumblr photo post
• Restore functionality of the built-in Crash Reporter

MarsEdit 3.1.3

• Improvements to paste functionality in Rich Mode
• Avoid a bug where saved local-drafts were not deleted after publishing
• Fix a bug that caused custom field values to go blank while editing a post
• Blogspot-specific changes
  • Newly configured blogs now default to GData 2.0 protocol, fixing some HTML formatting issues
  • Fixes to GData 2.0 protocol to allow edit date, categories, etc.

MarsEdit 3.1.2

• Fixes for issues with Find/Replace in the rich editor
  • Fix a potential hang when doing replace all
  • Fix "Use Selection for Find" menu item
  • Fix behavior of "Replace All" when limiting to selected text
• Fix a bug that prevented "None" from sticking as preview filter choice
• Fix a bug that caused wrong alt text to be generated for some uploads
• Prevent ugly clipping of font descenders e.g. on lower case "g" in Media Manager

MarsEdit 3.1.1

• Fix a bug in 3.1 that caused default image constraints to be 0px by 0px for new blogs.

MarsEdit 3.1

• 64-bit Compatible
• New per-blog setting to constrain image media to pre-set size
• Support for Lightroom 3 media libraries
• Added new "Paste HTML Source" command for e.g. embedding YouTube easily in rich mode
• Enabled plugins for rich editor so you can e.g. see embedded movies
• "Send To Weblog" command now works when preview window is front-most
• Optional support for Google Data API 2.0 with Blogger
• Bug Fixes
  • Fix issue that prevented ejection of external media volumes
  • Fix some cases where the preview window could turn blank
  • Make sure changes to the preview template save to disk immediately
  • Restore functionality of "send post to blog" scripting command

MarsEdit 3.0.5

• Fix bug with spaces being stripped from HTML markup for Flickr items
• Fix bug with tags that have spaces in them
• Fix bug that prevented split-view state from being saved/restored correctly
• Fix bug that caused the extended "more" text for WordPress Page entries to be blank
• Fix margin sizes in media manager window

MarsEdit 3.0.4

• Fix a bug that caused strange ? characters at ends of pasted paragraphs
• Fix Drupal authentication issues by preserving cookies when connecting
• Fixes to Tags field to handle whitespace better, and keep insertion point visible

MarsEdit 3.0.3

• Fix functionality of Copy & Cut commands in rich editor
• Fix handling of relative e.g. "/index.html" URLs in rich editor
• Fix a few memory leaks

MarsEdit 3.0.2

• Fix issue which caused photos, e.g. from iPhones, to appear rotated
• Fix issue that limited Flickr browser to 500 photos
• Fix a crash that could occur when deleting segments in date picker
• Fix a crash when attempting to delete pending uploads when no trash is available, e.g. on Network home directories
• Fix a crash when no preview filter can be found for the current configuration

MarsEdit 3.0.1

• Fix a blanking blogs list bug when collapsing and expanding
• When adding a link in rich mode, default contents of the dialog to URL on pasteboard
• Avoid drawing a double-focus ring on image in Tumblr photo posts
• Fix to allow file:// URLs in preview templates again
• Fix display of Tumblr photos in preview window
• Fix LiveJournal autoconfiguration so it enables Title field
• Fix crashes:
  • In rich editor with VoiceOver enabled
  • When right-clicking in Lightroom browser
  • When deleting separator items from media markup

MarsEdit 3.0

• All new features including rich text editor, support for custom fields, and more. Read all about it.

MarsEdit 2.4.3

• MarsEdit 2 now works on OS X Lion 10.7

MarsEdit 2.4.3

• MarsEdit 2 now accepts MarsEdit 3 registration codes

MarsEdit 2.4.2

• Fix the Technorati Tags dialog which was broken in 2.4.1

MarsEdit 2.4.1

• Support editing slug on Tumblr posts
• Support editing the date of Squarespace posts
• Fix issue that caused Autosaved posts to get "stuck" and recover on every launch
• Avoid showing spell checking marks inside HTML tags
• Improved Accessibility for VoiceOver and other assistive interfaces
  • Fix accessibility attributes of main post editor fields
  • Fix accessibility of weblog list utility buttons
  • Expose per-weblog busy indicators to accessibility

MarsEdit 2.4

• Improved Squarespace support
  • Support for server drafts
  • Support for tags
  • Support for adding new categories
  • Improved error handling
• Post editor windows now automatically remember size and screen position
• Avoid accidental post publishing by disabling the send button when document is not frontmost
• Improved error messages for misconfigured Tumblr blogs
• Bug fixes
  • Fixed Flickr image links so they produce valid HTML when align-centered.
  • Fix a Snow Leopard problem that prevented the Save button from enabling immediately when document is edited
  • Fix a rare bug that could cause locked up dialogs on the second launch
  • Fix a crash that could occur when configuring a blog with an extremely weird URL
  • Fix a bug that occurred when an invalid URL was specified for a blog home page
  • Fix a bug that caused duplication of tags on a previously published draft
  • Fix a bug that prevented existing open document from being located when opening a local draft.

MarsEdit 2.3.3

• Fix a performance problem that caused slow typing for some users
• Fix a rare crashing bug that became more common in 10.6 Snow Leopard
• Fix a bug that caused occasional distortion of text in the post editor
• Fix a bug that caused double-clicking a table header to open selected post
• Fix a crashing bug when adding categories to a blog with no existing categories

MarsEdit 2.3.2

• Flickr browser fixes
  • Add support for deauthorizing the current account
  • Fix an issue where a bad URL or missing image size could be inserted
  • Fix a bug in the display of ampersands (&) in image titles
• Use Leopard 10.5 style for window's status bar text
• AppleScript date-setting command now accepts string date descriptions

MarsEdit 2.3.1

• Dramatic performance improvement for Flickr browser
• Fix bug where default settings not applied to posts created from bookmarklet
• Fix bug that prevented "Show in weblog" from working when a blog icon is selected
• Now accepts escape or cancel keyboard shortcut for "Don't Send" button in post warnings sheet
• Update the "What's New" page in Help to cover 2.3 changes

MarsEdit 2.3

• Now supports Tumblr blogs
• Media manager now opens much faster with lots of photos
• Revision of the Technorati Tags editor
• Improved weblog Favicon detection

MarsEdit 2.2.3

• Improve networking compatibility by always encoding XML ">" literals
• Fix a bug in the preview window that could cause it to stop updating
• Fix a possible crash when closing the enclosure sheet before URL finishes loading
• Fix a bug that caused media manager upload choice to be out of sync with post
• Fix a bug that prevented some 10.4 users from toggling table column visibility
• Improved accessibility of the check for updates dialog

MarsEdit 2.2.2

• Fix a bug that prevented adding categories on some Blogger blogs
• Fix a bug that caused blank categories on some Movable Type blogs

MarsEdit 2.2.1

• Restore slight indentation to Title column in blog posts list
• Fix a crash that could occur when typing Thai and other characters that use more than one glyph per character.
• Fix a bug that prevented using categories with single quotes in them on Blogger.
• Fix a bug that prevented adding new categories to a freshly configured blog.
• Fix a bug where selecting category could undo category choice from toolbar popup
• Fix bugs that caused the upload and insert buttons in media manager to stay enabled inappropriately
• AtomPub-specific fixes
  • Support nodes that have namespace prefixes
  • Be sure to properly strip
    markup child from xhtml content nodes
  • Eliminate obsolete attribute behavior for and