MarsEdit 4.2.6 is now available at the MarsEdit home page and on the Mac App Store.

This update restores the ability to upload images to Google’s Blogger/Blogspot blogs.

As luck would have it, when I released 4.2.5 on Tuesday, it happened to coincide with the very day Google shut down its interface for 3rd party apps that use its Picasa Web Albums API. They are now requiring all apps to use the Google Photos API instead.

It’s going to take a little time to shift MarsEdit to the newer API, but luckily Google provided a bit of a safety valve, allowing apps like MarsEdit to continue using the Picasa API for a couple more months while we make the transition. It just required a minor change to the app to “enable” the workaround.

If you enjoy MarsEdit, please consider writing a review or rating the app on the Mac App Store, spreading the word on Facebook or Twitter, and of course, writing about the app on your own blog! Thanks for your support.

MarsEdit 4.2.5 is now available at the MarsEdit home page and on the Mac App Store.

This update fixes a bug, introduced in MarsEdit 4.2.4, that stopped tab and shift-tab keystrokes from changing the nesting level of bulleted and numbered lists in Rich Text mode. It also fixes a couple crashing bugs, and improves the reliability of MarsEdit’s authentication (login) mechanism for some WordPress and AtomPub based blogs.

Complete list of changes for this release:

• Restore functionality of tab and shift-tab for changing the indentation level in lists
• Improve authentication reliabiity for WordPress servers that return invalid authentication challenges
• Fix authentication prompt for Livedoor and other AtomPub based APIs
• Fix a crash that occured while reorganizing the Format menu contents
• Fix a crash when a server returns unexpected data in response to a new post request

If you enjoy MarsEdit, please consider writing a review or rating the app on the Mac App Store, spreading the word on Facebook or Twitter, and of course, writing about the app on your own blog! Thanks for your support.

MarsEdit 4.2.4 is now available at the MarsEdit home page and on the Mac App Store.

This is a quick update to address a couple bugs in MarsEdit 4.2.3:

• Fix a crashing bug when launching MarsEdit 4.2.3 on macOS 10.12
• Fix a bug that made the app unresponsive when dragging text from one position to another in Plain Text mode

If you enjoy MarsEdit, please consider writing a review or rating the app on the Mac App Store, spreading the word on Facebook or Twitter, and of course, writing about the app on your own blog! Thanks for your support.

MarsEdit 4.2.3 is now available at the MarsEdit home page and on the Mac App Store.

This update addresses a few bugs, including one that caused copy-and-pasted images on Macs with Retina (high resolution) displays to be downgraded upon pasting into a lower-resolution image. For example, a screenshot capture taken at 400×400 pixels would be pasted in MarsEdit as a 200×200 image.

I also addressed a minor, but annoying issue when editing posts that contain “blocks” added by WordPress 5.0’s new Gutenberg editor. In MarsEdit 4.2.2 and earlier, editing these posts in MarsEdit’s Rich Text editor would cause additional, blank paragraphs to appear between the WordPress blocks.

Finally, I fixed a couple issues with formatting text in Rich Text mode, and restored the ability to copy and paste text from Microsoft Word to MarsEdit. Here’s the complete list of changes for this update:

• Fix a bug where images that are copied-and-pasted into MarsEdit could lose Retina resolution precision
• Restore copy/paste functionality from Microsoft Word to MarsEdit’s post editor
• Fix issues that prevented font changes in Rich Text mode from being applied reliably
• Improve behavior with Rich Text editor and WordPress Gutenberg content, to avoid adding superfluous paragraphs
• Fix a bug where text in the editor could switch to the wrong color in Dark Mode after running a formatting macro

If you enjoy MarsEdit, please consider writing a review or rating the app on the Mac App Store, spreading the word on Facebook or Twitter, and of course, writing about the app on your own blog! Thanks for your support.