MarsEdit 5.4.5: A Heck of a Lot of Bug Fixes

MarsEdit 5.4.5 is now available on the MarsEdit site and on the Mac App Store.

This update is focused on performance and polish, with particular improvements to the speed of syntax highlighting and live preview updates. It also includes fixes for several issues that caused changes in the options panel not to be persisted when publishing a post. Finally, there are a good number of smaller fixes throughout the app:

Reduced flickering and reloading of content in the preview window

Improved typing and scrolling performance in plain text mode

Fixed issues 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 preview window

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 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

Fixed multiple bugs that could cause a crash when the server returns an unexpected result

Fixed a number of memory over-usage problems

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 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 “Private” posts to be switched to “Draft”

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

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