{"id":4287,"date":"2026-08-12T14:21:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T18:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/?p=4287"},"modified":"2026-08-12T14:21:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T18:21:48","slug":"marsedit-5-4-5-a-heck-of-a-lot-of-bug-fixes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/4287\/marsedit-5-4-5-a-heck-of-a-lot-of-bug-fixes","title":{"rendered":"MarsEdit 5.4.5: A Heck of a Lot of Bug Fixes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MarsEdit 5.4.5 is now available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/marsedit\/\">MarsEdit site<\/a> and on the <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/app\/marsedit-5-blog-editor\/id6444836021?mt=12\">Mac App Store<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reduced flickering and reloading of content in the preview window<\/li>\n<li>Improved typing and scrolling performance in plain text mode<\/li>\n<li>Fixed issues that could cause sections of text to have stale syntax highlighting<\/li>\n<li>Markdown list notation that uses only 2 or 3 spaces per indent is now rendered correctly in the preview window<\/li>\n<li>Restored expected behavior when preview content is &#8220;pinned&#8221; to the bottom while writing a long post<\/li>\n<li>Restored the ability to use the space key in the main post list to scroll through posts one at a time<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a bug that could cause long text values to truncate instead of growing the pertinent text field<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a bug that could cause successful blog refreshes after a failed one to fail to save to disk<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a bug that could cause a post to publish twice if a network connection drop occurred during posting<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a bug that could cause an authentication panel to appear repeatedly after canceling it<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a bug that caused the wrong post to be opened when double clicking shortly after changing the selected blog<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a bug where dragging the last &#8220;Published&#8221; image from the Media window failed to add the image to the targeted post<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a bug that could cause a toolbar icon to appear with inverted colors<\/li>\n<li>Fixed multiple bugs that could cause a crash when the server returns an unexpected result<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a number of memory over-usage problems<\/li>\n<li>Improved security when the server tries to redirect from an HTTPS to an HTTP URL<\/li>\n<li>Posts whose date can&#8217;t be parsed no longer display as January 1, 2001<\/li>\n<li>The Crash Reporter now avoids re-submitting old crash logs when the app terminates unexpectedly<\/li>\n<li>Tumblr specific improvements:\n<ul>\n<li>Fixed a bug that caused &#8220;Private&#8221; posts to be switched to &#8220;Draft&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a bug that could cause posts containing certain phrases to signal a connection error<\/li>\n<li>Photos attached to a Tumblr post are no longer silently dropped when publishing needs to authenticate or retry<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you enjoy MarsEdit, please consider writing a review or rating the app on the <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/app\/marsedit-5-blog-editor\/id6444836021?mt=12\">Mac App Store<\/a>, spreading the word on social networks, or of course, by writing about the app on your own blog! Thanks for your support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marsedit","category-red-sweater-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4288,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4287\/revisions\/4288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}