MarsEdit 5.4.4 is now available on the MarsEdit site and on the Mac App Store.

This update improves handling of animated GIFs, and includes a few bug fixes:

• 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

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Black Ink 2.4.8 is now available on the Black Ink site and on the Mac App Store.

This is a quick follow-up to 2.4.7 to address a couple of new bugs that turned up:

• Fixed a bug that caused the app to crash when opened by non-registered users
• Restored expected functionality when the “Mark incorrect answers as they are entered” setting is enabled

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Black Ink 2.4.7 is now available on the Black Ink site and on the Mac App Store.

This update fixes an issue where, while navigating around the puzzle, the focused clue in the clue list might not be made visible. It also includes a variety of other fixes:

• Fixed a bug that could prevent the focused clue from being made visible in the clue list
• Fixed a bug that prevented UTF-8 characters from being saved correctly to Across Lite format
• Fixed an issue where puzzle files were being repeatedly reloaded from the archive
• Fixed a bug that caused the premium features restriction notice to appear when finishing a puzzle
• Fixed a visual alignment problem with the Startup settings pane content
• Clues with literal newlines are now interpreted and formatted correctly

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MarsEdit 5.4.2 is now available on the MarsEdit site and on the Mac App Store.

This update extends synced spell check options to more editing fields, restores the photo icon to the Micropost panel, and fixes several bugs.

Complete list of changes for this release:

• 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

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