{"id":3486,"date":"2019-06-27T09:19:52","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T13:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/red-sweater.com\/blog\/?p=3486"},"modified":"2019-06-27T09:20:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T13:20:15","slug":"early-catalina-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/3486\/early-catalina-updates","title":{"rendered":"Early Catalina Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple was quick to release a public macOS 10.15 beta this year, so some of you may already be installing it to give it a spin. If you haven&#8217;t installed it yet, I strongly encourage you to be more cautious than usual.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s update to macOS includes a large number of significant architectural changes that are likely to break compatibility with some of your apps. Notably, Apple has dramatically revised the filesystem in such a way that most backup solutions will need to be updated, and they have finally dropped support for older, 32-bit applications.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily for Red Sweater customers, all of our apps are, as of today, compatible with Catalina 10.15. Beta macOS releases are a moving target, so I can&#8217;t vouch for them continuing to work perfectly. As always, there are risks to running beta software, and there are risks to running even <em>production software<\/em> on beta macOS releases. But for those you who are daring enough to proceed with caution, here is the status for each of our currently shipping apps:<\/p>\n<h3>MarsEdit and Black Ink<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/red-sweater.com\/marsedit\/\">MarsEdit<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/red-sweater.com\/blackink\/\">Black Ink<\/a> were ready to hit the ground running. As long as you&#8217;re running the latest version 4.3.2 of MarsEdit, and either Black Ink 1.7.11, or the much-improved <a href=\"https:\/\/red-sweater.com\/blog\/3311\/black-ink-2-public-beta\">Black Ink 2 beta<\/a>, you should be in good shape.<\/p>\n<h3>FastScripts<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/red-sweater.com\/fastscripts\/\">FastScripts 2.7.8<\/a>, available today, addresses a crashing bug that affects users who have Finder aliases of a certain vintage in their Scripts folder. The Apple frameworks for resolving these files has a bug in the 10.15 public beta, and FastScripts has now been updated to work around the problem.<\/p>\n<h3>FlexTime<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/red-sweater.com\/flextime\/\">FlexTime 1.4.1<\/a>, also available today, addresses a bug that caused the app to crash at launch on 10.15.<\/p>\n<h3>Clarion<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/red-sweater.com\/clarion\/\">Clarion 2.2<\/a> is a slightly more substantial update. It addresses a crash-at-launch bug on the 10.15 public beta, and also introduces a few additional enhancements to the app:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dark Mode support for macOS 10.14<\/li>\n<li>Clarion now requires macOS 10.12 or greater<\/li>\n<li>Add NSSupportsAutomaticGraphicsSwitching to Info.plist to avoid depending on high power GPU<\/li>\n<li>Fix a crash when launching on an future version of macOS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Mac App Store version of Clarion 2.2 is not yet approved but should be available soon.<\/p>\n<h3>Touch\u00e9<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/red-sweater.com\/touche\/\">Touch\u00e9 1.1.4<\/a> has been updated to address a crash-on-launch bug on the 10.15 public beta.<\/p>\n<h3>Caveat<\/h3>\n<p>One change in 10.15 is that Apple now requires apps to be &#8220;notarized&#8221; in order to avoid the system flagging the app as being from an &#8220;unidentified developer.&#8221; I&#8217;m working on getting all of my apps notarized with Apple, but in the mean time if you download an app directly on the public beta, you may need to right-click it in the Finder, select &#8220;Open&#8221; and then agree to proceed with allowing the app to launch.<\/p>\n<h3>Anything Else?<\/h3>\n<p>If you run into any problems with Red Sweater apps, either related to 10.15 Catalina or not, please <a href=\"https:\/\/red-sweater.com\/support\/\">drop us a line<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple was quick to release a public macOS 10.15 beta this year, so some of you may already be installing it to give it a spin. If you haven&#8217;t installed it yet, I strongly encourage you to be more cautious than usual. 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