I’m happy to announce MarsEdit 1.1.4, which includes a number of minor fixes, and adds support for “New Blogger” weblogs which use Gmail authentication.

Actually quite a lot of little changes went into this, making it a pretty significant update. The Blogger support was top on my priorities, but as I was working on that, little fixes popped up left and right, so I made as many of them as I could.

• Blogger Support! Autodetect of a Blogspot blog should now detect “New Blogger”
• RPC Log Fixes
  • Add more RPC detail to the log
  • Increased maximum size of RPC Console log for debugging large fetches
• Weblog Settings Fixes
  • Fix keyboard tab-cycle in Weblog editor dialog
  • Fix autodetection for Blogger & WordPress
  • Minor changes to layout of dialog
  • Be sure to always use latest dialog edits when “Auto-detecting”
• Enclosure Editor
  • Minor changes to layout of enclosure editing sheet
  • Fix bug with Enclosure URLs involving 302 redirects
• Changes to Help
  • Fix indexing
  • Add information about “New Blogger” type setup
  • Add top-level link to “Getting Started” page
• Bookmarklet changes
  • Fix to handle 2-byte characters and other non-ASCII correctly
  • Add support for advanced “marsedit:” URL parameter “&weblog=BlogName”
• Autosave improvements
  • Mark rescued documents as dirty to avoid accidental loss
  • Fix a problem where autosave document could get stuck and always cause warning
• Blosxom Specific
  • Improve performance on Blosxom blogs with lots of directories/files
• Miscellaneous
  • Fix bug preventing drag-reordering a weblog to top of weblog list
  • Update “Starting a Weblog” window to simplify choices for new users
  • Fix a crash that could occur connecting to an unsupported blog system
  • Fix a small memory leak in Keychain password retrieval
  • Fix the blog editor window to – Make sure the “advanced” tabs go away when switching a post to a less feature-ful blog

Wow – that was a lot! I have to admit I’m a little bit nervous, but I think overall the release is going to be a lot more reliable and stable for people, especially those just getting started.

Please let me know if anything comes up.

Update: I forgot to mention that the fix for UTF-8 characters in the bookmarklet was accelerated by looking at the bookmarklet for WebnoteHappy. It was doing things correctly and I … was not. Thanks Luis for providing a ready example that lead me down the right track!

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