MarsEdit 5.4.5

• Reduced flickering and reloading of embedded content in the live preview window
• Dramatically improved typing and scrolling performance in plain text mode with long posts
• Improvements to problems 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 live preview
• 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 multiple bugs that could cause a crash when the server returns an unexpected result
• Fixed a number of memory over-usage problems
• 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
• 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 and sort 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 posts set as “Private” to be set as “Draft” instead
  • 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

MarsEdit 5.4.4

• Animated GIFs are now shown with animation in the Upload Utility preview
• When pasting an image, if animated GIF and TIFF data are both available, the animated item is now preferred
• Fixed an issue that caused some changed sidebar options such as author and pingbacks not to be set correctly on new posts
• Protected against a crash when running on an upcoming release of macOS
• Fixed some memory over-usage issues

MarsEdit 5.4.3

• Restored functionality of the "Upload Utility" window

MarsEdit 5.4.2 contained these changes:

• Extended the syncing of spell check options to more text fields in the app
• Restored the photo icon to the Micropost panel's image-choosing button
• Fixed a bug that caused published posts to show the wrong "Edited Date"
• Fixed the punctuation and placement of buttons in the crash reporter
• Removed non-applicable Move and Rename menu items

MarsEdit 5.4.2

• Extended the syncing of spell check options to more text fields in the app
• Restored the photo icon to the Micropost panel's image-choosing button
• Fixed a bug that caused published posts to show the wrong "Edited Date"
• Fixed the punctuation and placement of buttons in the crash reporter
• Removed non-applicable Move and Rename menu items

MarsEdit 5.4.1

• Fix a bug from Version 5.4 that caused edits to existing posts to publish as new posts

MarsEdit 5.4 contained these changes:

• Standard macOS "Versions" now work as expected with "Revert to" menu item
• The "Send to MarsEdit" share extension now supports sending text to MarsEdit
• Fixed a bug that removed images from Tumblr posts published with Micro Post panel
• Fixed a couple syntax coloring bugs affecting Markdown in the plain text editor
• Fixed a bug that allowed styled text to be pasted into the Find & Replace text fields
• Fixed an issue that could cause a drawing glitch in the plain text editor after deleting text
• Fixed a flash of white when opening a post in Rich Text editor in Dark Mode
• Improved handling of WordPress permission errors when the blog is not English language
• Restored animation when closing the Options side panel

MarsEdit 5.4

• Standard macOS "Versions" now work as expected with "Revert to" menu item
• The "Send to MarsEdit" share extension now supports sending text to MarsEdit
• Fixed a bug that removed images from Tumblr posts published with Micro Post panel
• Fixed a couple syntax coloring bugs affecting Markdown in the plain text editor
• Fixed a bug that allowed styled text to be pasted into the Find & Replace text fields
• Fixed an issue that could cause a drawing glitch in the plain text editor after deleting text
• Fixed a flash of white when opening a post in Rich Text editor in Dark Mode
• Improved handling of WordPress permission errors when the blog is not English language
• Restored animation when closing the Options side panel

MarsEdit 5.3.12

• 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

MarsEdit 5.3.10

• Fixed a crash that could occur when closing a post document
• Improved performance when autocompleting tags from a large list of previously used terms
• 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

MarsEdit 5.3.8

• 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

MarsEdit 5.3.7

• 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"

MarsEdit 5.3.6

• Quick fix to an issue with 5.3.5 that broke browser integration functionality

MarsEdit 5.3.5

• Improvements to launch time performance
• "Duplicate Post" can now be invoked to duplicate more than one selected post
• Fix a crash that could occur when opening the main window or document sidebars
• Minor layout fixes in the Media Manager window

MarsEdit 5.3.4

• Improved performance of handling blogs with large numbers of posts
• Fix a crash when opening Settings with no blog selected
• Fix misplaced text, overlapping the buttons in the "Add Blog" window
• Fix an issue that could cause the plain text editor to crash while editing very large posts
• Fix a bug that could cause the wrong value for Micropost tags and category defaults to show
• Fix AppleScript references to posts by index

MarsEdit 5.3.3

• Enabled the Excerpt field on Micro.blog blogs to edit “Summary” text
• Fix a crash that could occur when editing long lines in the plain text editor
• Fix a bug that prevented the JavaScript browser bookmarklet from working on some sites
• Fix a bug that caused duplicated text when using dictation in rich text
• Differentiate errors from Jetpack about IP address being flagged from regular login failures
• Handle "Too Many Requests" responses more intelligently, retrying after the recommended delay if possible
• Fix a bug that could cause the "New Blog" panel to get very tall and not shrink again
• Fix a bug that prevented the non-Safari browser bookmarklet from working on some sites
• Remove media assets from the list of "posts" returned by AppleScript

MarsEdit 5.3.2

• Fix a crash that could occur when a bad URL is provided for a blog
• Fix a crash that could occur when adding a blog if autoconfiguration failed

MarsEdit 5.3.1

• Fix a crash that could occur when downloading media items with invalid URLs
• Prevent an image upload failure with Apple screenshots on some blog servers
• Fix an inaccurancy in word counting when HTML comments are part of the post
• Restore functionality of the "Download Template" feature for Micro.blog
• Fix a printing bug in the rich editor that prevented un-uploaded images from appearing
• Remove inapplicable tooltip text when hovering over the Rich Text editor
• Custom XMLPC blogging APIs that supply custom_fields values to MarsEdit now work as expected

MarsEdit 5.3

• Improved preview update performance
• Improved Settings window layout and conformance with Apple interface guidelines
• Fix a crash when unexpected "tags" or "permalink" values are returned from the blog
• Fix a crash that could occur when reopening documents at application launch time
• Fix a problem that caused blogs with multiple favicon sizes to use a lower resolution, blurry icon
• Fix a problem that prevented some Tumblr images from being downloaded on refresh
• Exposed "edited date" property on posts and documents to AppleScript
• Improved the Network Log layout and increased font size

MarsEdit 5.2.6

• Work around a bug in macOS 15.0 that can cause the app to crash when hovering the mouse over the Tags field
• Mitigate the impact of spurious networking issues that cause "-1005" errors for some blogs
• The Micropost panel now opens on the active Desktop even if MarsEdit is assigned to a specific Desktop
• An alert is now displayed if setting a keyboard shortcut fails because of new restrictions in macOS 15 Sequoia
• Temporary posts for automatic preview detection are now backdated 10 years to prevent them showing up in RSS feeds/etc.
• Fix a bug that caused duplicated text when using dictation in the Rich Text editor

MarsEdit 5.2.5

• Fix a bug that caused the main window search field to appear too tall for the toolbar
• Blog defaults for publish status, comments, text filter, and trackbacks are now applied to Microposts
• The default preview template now shows table borders on rows and columns
• The Replace section in Find/Replace interface is now always visible
• Fix a bug that prevented images inserted in the rich editor from being scrolled to visible

MarsEdit 5.2.4

• Restore functionality of the Rich Text editor on macOS 15 beta
• Fix a bug that could cause multiple blog configurations to show the same posts

MarsEdit 5.2.2

• Fix a bug that prevented the previously selected blog from being re-selected after launch
• Fix the typography of apostrophes and quotation marks in several areas of the app
• Prevent a system warning about the app "modifying other apps" when it tries to update itself
• Improve performance when loading drafts from disk

MarsEdit 5.2.1

• Fix a bug in MarsEdit 5.2 that caused some preview content to be rendered inaccurately
• Fix a bug where the status bar in Duplicate posts wrongly claimed they were "Editing Published Post"

MarsEdit 5.2

• Search now supports searching all blogs or just the selected blog
• New per-blog default settings for Micropost categories, tags, and post format
• Added “Duplicate Post” menu item to create a new post with the same content as an existing post
• Web preview enhancements
  • Smarter preview updating for higher performance and less reloading of embedded content like movies
  • Now runs embedded <script> nodes in blog post content to support various dynamically updated elements
  • Can now use “Find” to search post content displayed in the main window or preview window
• Revised design of the Options side panel, renaming “Server Options” to “Publication”
• Added published date to the Options side panel
• Alt Text field in Upload Utility and Media Manager now grows vertically to accommodate longer descriptions
• Double-clicking a date in the calendar date picker now selects and dismisses the panel
• Bug Fixes
  • Fix a bug that caused Micro.blog blogs to download more posts than specified in settings
  • Forbidden characters are now stripped from XML data when parsing a server response fails
  • Fix a bug introduced in 5.1.4 that caused “offset” parameters to be encoded as boolean in XMLRPC
  • Fix a cosmetic issue in the Software Updater when switching from light to dark mode
  • Fix a bug where dragging an image to the end of a line in the plain text editor would drop it on the following line

MarsEdit 5.1.4

• Restore functionality of Safari App Extension toolbar button
• Restore pretty-printing of XMLRPC Network Log events
• Large binary upload data such as images are now abbreviated in the Network Log
• Several fixes to the appearance and behavior of the "+" and gear buttons in the main window
• Hyphens, dashes and underscores are now considered as word separators when inferring alt text from filenames

MarsEdit 5.1.3

• Avoid a flicker that could occur when switching between blogs in the main window with dark mode enabled
• Fix a bug that caused the MarsEdit icon to bounce in the dock when setting ALT text in Micropost panel
• Fix the background color when scrolling the plain text editor beyond the top or bottom of the post
• No longer display an error when refreshing a WordPress blog and only one post type is not permitted to download
• Rich text editor now cleans up invalid characters that are pasted into it
• Fix a crash that could occur when a blog post has a body { font-family: -apple-system, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: #222; margin: 0; padding: 4px 8px; } h3 { font-size: 13px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0 0 8px 0; } h3.previous { margin-top: 16px; } ul { margin: 0; padding-left: 1.3em; } li { margin-bottom: 5px; line-height: 1.45; } @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) { body { color: #ddd; } }

  MarsEdit 5.1.2

  • Restore inference of alt text from image file name if it looks like prose
  • Improve inference of post title from content when no explicit title
  • Improve reliability of plain-text editor syntax highlighting
  • Improve first-time authentication behavior with TextPattern blogs
  • Fix a crash while refreshing that affected some WordPress blogs
  • Fix a crash that could occur when using AppleScript to create a new draft based on an existing post
  • Fix a bug where pasting a link on a freshly-uploaded image could cause it to revert to pending upload state
  • Fix a bug that prevented default Title field visibility from being respected after editing a post
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  MarsEdit 5.1.1

  • Restore functionality of the MarsEdit Micropost app extension
  • Cmd-Shift-D shortcut now works to send a post from the Micropost panel
  • Fix syntax highlighting of entity references within HTML blocks
  • Fix a bug in which published posts sometimems remained in Local Drafts folder
  • Fix a bug that prevented Mastodon blogs with MP3 media items from refreshing
  • Fix a crash when refreshing a WordPress blog with a malformed featured image post
  • Improve performance when initializing a data source with lots of posts with featured images
  • Restore dynamic hiding/showing of advanced menu items while holding/releasing option key
  • Disable formatting keyboard shortcuts in Mastodon Micropost panel, since it doesn't support markup
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  MarsEdit 5.1

  • New: Mastodon Support! Download, edit and publish to any Mastodon service
  • Microposting panel enhancements
    • Resizable and movable
    • Supports attaching photos
    • Shows character count
    • Now shows the blog's own icon as a popup menu for selecting target blog
    • Fixed a crash when sharing Wordle results
  • Micro.blog specific improvements
    • Updated character limits to match current standards
    • Fix a bug that prevented posts with blockquotes from reliably showing the title field
  • Tumblr-specific improvements
    • Can now add multiple photos in Photo posts
    • Refreshing a blog no longer re-downloads all previously downloaded photos
  • Other Improvements
    • Performance improvements when sorting a large number of blog posts with content-derived titles
    • Improve design, typography, and wording of New Blog interface
    • HEIC images are now auto-converted to JPEG instead of PNG
    • HTML Entities are now ignored by syntax-highlighting and live spell checking
    • Changes to Custom Field preferences are now reflected immediately in affected post windows
    • Enclosure editor now checks URL for file type and size immediately after pasting in
    • Revise the Safari extension toolbar icon to look consistent with other extension icons
    • Fix a bug that sometimes caused spell checking to fail in Plain Text editing mode
    • Fix a bug in which changes to plain text font did not affect markup tags
    • Fix a crash that could occur when selecting missing items in the Media Manager
    • Fix a crash that could occur when undoing text changes in the Plain Text editor
    • Fix a crash that could occur when selecting missing items in the Media Manager
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  MarsEdit 5.0.5

  • Changed the default link color and HTML string color to a different shade of blue
  • Fixed tab key order when tabbing out of the Find panel
  • Restore ability to get and set the post kind via AppleScript
  • Increased the rich editor text font size slightly
  • Fix a bug that could cause a file inserted into a new post to disappear after editing other fields
  • The link color now adapts as expected in the rich editor when switching between light and dark modes
  • Fixed a bug that prevented the Preview content from loading upon first opening the Preview Template editor
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  MarsEdit 5.0.4

  • Restore the ability to print from the Preview Window
  • Fix a crash that could occur while importing MarsEdit 3 data
  • Fix a bug where clicking the circle icon on the date picker calendar didn't properly set the date to "now"
  • Saving the Network Log to file now defaults to a .txt extension and reveals after saving
  • Restore functionality of Copy/Paste in the New Blog panel
  • Prevent the "Autosave Popover" from appearing on MarsEdit document windows
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  MarsEdit 5.0.3

  • Plain Text editor improvements
    • Performance improvements and lots of little fixes
    • Fix a bug that prevented syntax highlighting when an Emoji character was part of a post
    • Restore functionality of "Check Spelling while Typing"
  • Restore MarsEdit 4 behavior of focusing on the body when opening an existing post
  • Fix a bug that caused focus to shift to Local Drafts after publishing a Micropost
  • Cmd-F shortcut now activates search field in post editor window, even if post content is not focused
  • Upload Utility window now closes after clicking the "Upload Now" button
  • Fix a bug that could cause the content of a post in Rich Text mode to disappear when pasting or undoing
  • Fix an issue with the layout of the Post Templates blog settings section when the template text is long
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  MarsEdit 5.0.2

  • Fix a bug that caused text flickering in plain text mode
  • Fix a crash that could occur when editing in plain text mode
  • Fix a bug that caused Tumblr Photo posts with large images to make the post editor window too large
  • Add Find and Replace menu item with Cmd-Opt-F shortcut
  • Clicking the circle in the calendar date editor now jumps to today
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  MarsEdit 5.0.1

  • Fix a crash that occurred when closing the Micropost panel on macOS 12 and earlier
  • The Micropost panel now prevents posting a completely empty post
  • Fix a bug that prevented the About Box registration status from updating when entering a license code
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  MarsEdit 5.0

  • Paid upgrade from 4.0
  • Updated app icon with a modern style suitable latest macOS
  • New Markdown syntax highlighting in plain text mode
  • Rich editor now based on modern WebKit2 for improved performance and reliability
  • New "Micropost" interface for streamlined publishing of short-form posts
  • New calendar-based date editor changing publish dates
  • New inline find/replace interface used throughout the app
  • Support for inserting photos and sketches directly from iPhone or iPad
  • Lots of little fixes here and there
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