January 12th, 2026
MarsEdit 5.3.12 is now available on the MarsEdit site and on the Mac App Store.
This update fixes an issue that prevented the font panel from working reliably when changing the style of text in the rich text editor. It also includes a few other fixes:
- 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
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November 28th, 2025
MarsEdit 5.3.10 is now available on the MarsEdit site and has been submitted to the Mac App Store.
This update improves the performance of tag completion for blogs that have a lot of previously used terms, and fixes or improves a few other issues:
- Improved performance when autocompleting tags from a large list of previously used terms
- Fixed a crash that could occur when closing a post document
- 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
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October 4th, 2025
MarsEdit 5.3.8 is now available on the MarsEdit site and on the Mac App Store.
This update introduces a new application icon that fits within the macOS 26 “Tahoe” design guidelines, and fixes a few bugs:
- 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
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September 16th, 2025
MarsEdit 5.3.7 is now available on the MarsEdit site and on the Mac App Store.
This update addresses a couple issues which had serioius usability repercussions, so I wanted to get the update out ASAP. Hopefully things will settle down a while now!
Complete list of changes for this release:
- 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”
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