MarsEdit

MarsEdit 5.4.5

• Reduced flickering and reloading of embedded content in the live preview window
• Dramatically improved typing and scrolling performance in plain text mode with long posts
• Improvements to problems that could cause sections of text to have stale syntax highlighting
• Markdown list notation that uses only 2 or 3 spaces per indent is now rendered correctly in the live preview
• Restored expected behavior when preview content is “pinned” to the bottom while writing a long post
• Restored the ability to use the space key in the main post list to scroll through posts one at a time
• Fixed a bug that could cause long text values to truncate instead of growing the pertinent text field
• Fixed a bug that could cause successful blog refreshes after a failed one to fail to save to disk
• Fixed a bug that could cause a post to publish twice if a network connection drop occurred during posting
• Fixed a bug that could cause an authentication panel to appear repeatedly after canceling it
• Fixed a bug that caused the wrong post to be opened when double clicking shortly after changing the selected blog
• Fixed multiple bugs that could cause a crash when the server returns an unexpected result
• Fixed a number of memory over-usage problems
• Fixed a bug where dragging the last “Published” image from the Media window failed to add the image to the targeted post
• Fixed a bug that could cause a toolbar icon to appear with inverted colors
• Improved security when the server tries to redirect from an HTTPS to an HTTP URL
• Posts whose date can't be parsed no longer display and sort as January 1, 2001
• The Crash Reporter now avoids re-submitting old crash logs when the app terminates unexpectedly
• Tumblr specific improvements
• Fixed a bug that caused posts set as “Private” to be set as “Draft” instead
• Fixed a bug that could cause posts containing certain phrases to signal a connection error
• Photos attached to a Tumblr post are no longer silently dropped when publishing needs to authenticate or retry

MarsEdit 5.4.4

• Animated GIFs are now shown with animation in the Upload Utility preview
• When pasting an image, if animated GIF and TIFF data are both available, the animated item is now preferred
• Fixed an issue that caused some changed sidebar options such as author and pingbacks not to be set correctly on new posts
• Protected against a crash when running on an upcoming release of macOS
• Fixed some memory over-usage issues

MarsEdit 5.4.3

• Restored functionality of the "Upload Utility" window MarsEdit 5.4.2 contained these changes:
• Extended the syncing of spell check options to more text fields in the app
• Restored the photo icon to the Micropost panel's image-choosing button
• Fixed a bug that caused published posts to show the wrong "Edited Date"
• Fixed the punctuation and placement of buttons in the crash reporter
• Removed non-applicable Move and Rename menu items

MarsEdit 5.4.2

• Extended the syncing of spell check options to more text fields in the app
• Restored the photo icon to the Micropost panel's image-choosing button
• Fixed a bug that caused published posts to show the wrong "Edited Date"
• Fixed the punctuation and placement of buttons in the crash reporter
• Removed non-applicable Move and Rename menu items

MarsEdit 5.4.1

• Fix a bug from Version 5.4 that caused edits to existing posts to publish as new posts MarsEdit 5.4 contained these changes:
• Standard macOS "Versions" now work as expected with "Revert to" menu item
• The "Send to MarsEdit" share extension now supports sending text to MarsEdit
• Fixed a bug that removed images from Tumblr posts published with Micro Post panel
• Fixed a couple syntax coloring bugs affecting Markdown in the plain text editor
• Fixed a bug that allowed styled text to be pasted into the Find & Replace text fields
• Fixed an issue that could cause a drawing glitch in the plain text editor after deleting text
• Fixed a flash of white when opening a post in Rich Text editor in Dark Mode
• Improved handling of WordPress permission errors when the blog is not English language
• Restored animation when closing the Options side panel

MarsEdit 5.4

• Standard macOS "Versions" now work as expected with "Revert to" menu item
• The "Send to MarsEdit" share extension now supports sending text to MarsEdit
• Fixed a bug that removed images from Tumblr posts published with Micro Post panel
• Fixed a couple syntax coloring bugs affecting Markdown in the plain text editor
• Fixed a bug that allowed styled text to be pasted into the Find & Replace text fields
• Fixed an issue that could cause a drawing glitch in the plain text editor after deleting text
• Fixed a flash of white when opening a post in Rich Text editor in Dark Mode
• Improved handling of WordPress permission errors when the blog is not English language
• Restored animation when closing the Options side panel

MarsEdit 5.3.12

• Fixed a bug that caused font panel changes not to be registered as expected in the Rich Text editor
• Fixed a bug that caused a blank "overlay" window to appear below title field
• Fixed a crash that could occur when processing an unexpected response from the blog server
• Removed an unnecessary animated hiding of the status bar when opening a new document

MarsEdit 5.3.10

• Fixed a crash that could occur when closing a post document
• Improved performance when autocompleting tags from a large list of previously used terms
• Most text fields in the post editor, including Title, now grow vertically as needed to their text
• Fix a bug introduced in Version 5.3.8 that prevented these resizing fields from adapting to window size changes
• Clearing the content of the Enclosure panel now completely removes the enclosure from the post

MarsEdit 5.3.8

• Updated the icon to fit the expected macOS 26 style
• Fix a bug that prevented the website icon for a blog from being downloaded correctly
• Restore integration with NetNewsWire "Share" functionality
• Address an issue that caused garbled text in some editing fields when running the latest macOS

MarsEdit 5.3.7

• Restore proper selection of interior of HTML tags when applying formatting macros
• Fix a bug that caused images to disappear from a post after choosing to "Upload Now"

MarsEdit 5.3.6

• Quick fix to an issue with 5.3.5 that broke browser integration functionality

MarsEdit 5.3.5

• Improvements to launch time performance
• "Duplicate Post" can now be invoked to duplicate more than one selected post
• Fix a crash that could occur when opening the main window or document sidebars
• Minor layout fixes in the Media Manager window

MarsEdit 5.3.4

• Improved performance of handling blogs with large numbers of posts
• Fix a crash when opening Settings with no blog selected
• Fix misplaced text, overlapping the buttons in the "Add Blog" window
• Fix an issue that could cause the plain text editor to crash while editing very large posts
• Fix a bug that could cause the wrong value for Micropost tags and category defaults to show
• Fix AppleScript references to posts by index

MarsEdit 5.3.3

• Enabled the Excerpt field on Micro.blog blogs to edit “Summary” text
• Fix a crash that could occur when editing long lines in the plain text editor
• Fix a bug that prevented the JavaScript browser bookmarklet from working on some sites
• Fix a bug that caused duplicated text when using dictation in rich text
• Differentiate errors from Jetpack about IP address being flagged from regular login failures
• Handle "Too Many Requests" responses more intelligently, retrying after the recommended delay if possible
• Fix a bug that could cause the "New Blog" panel to get very tall and not shrink again
• Fix a bug that prevented the non-Safari browser bookmarklet from working on some sites
• Remove media assets from the list of "posts" returned by AppleScript

MarsEdit 5.3.2

• Fix a crash that could occur when a bad URL is provided for a blog
• Fix a crash that could occur when adding a blog if autoconfiguration failed