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BusyContacts 1.6.7
BusyContacts 1.6.7 has been released and is available for download. We stagger our roll-outs, so in case you don't see one available within the app, feel free to download the latest trial version.
Release Notes
- Compatibility support for macOS 12.4
- New advanced option added to Account preferences to enable syncing of tags as CardDAV "categories" for servers that do not support contact groups natively.
- Ongoing stability improvements
How to install the update
The update is free for all BusyContacts customers and is available now.
- Direct customers can update by selecting Check for Updates from the BusyContacts menu.
- New users can download the BusyContacts 30-Day Trial.
In case your license has expired, you can renew your license from here.
BusyCal 2022.2.2
BusyCal 2022.2.2 has been released and is available for download. We stagger our roll-outs, so in case you don't see one available within the app, feel free to download the latest trial version.
Release Notes
- 🆕 So. Many. New. Widgets. Explore the many widgets now supported under Notification Center (macOS 11 Big Sur and above only).
- 🆕 Additional options under the Do Not Disturb drop-down
- 🆕 When duplicating (Option+dragging) events, selection is now retained for newly pasted events
- 🆕 Hidden, but visible, events now show with a dotted outline and a dimmed background color
- 🆕 New keyboard shortcut (CMD+Option+') to Insert Date and Time at the top of the notes
- Improvements to Todoist integration
- Improved support for handling WebDAV subscriptions that contain multiple calendars
- Improvements to handling of duplicate meeting invites across various shared calendars
- Improvements to time-of-day detection when entering dates
- Improved handling of Posteo accounts
- Improved handling of safari URL, pasted from Mail, into the attendees field
- Added workaround for an issue where 'paste' would fail to work when authenticating an Office 365 account
- Improved calendar info sheet layout to fit smaller screens
- Pasting into the attendees field (using the context menu) now properly parses mailto: links
- Fixed bug where hidden events related meta-data would not sync properly for CalDAV accounts
- Fixed issue where an account may remain offline after the mac wakes up
- Fixed bug where creating events on a CalDAV account would at times mark the event as 'Free' (i.e. not busy) by default
- Fixed an issue where a future dated task would not open from search due to a narrow set of applied filters
- Fixed a localization issue under Edit Menu > End Dates
- Fixed an issue where sometimes, a read-only calendar on Google would not show the correct indicator
- Fixed bug where a completed task would not immediately show in week view at times
- Fixed issue where duplicating a task as an event would fail to pick the default event calendar
- Ongoing stability improvements
How to install the update
The update is free for all BusyCal customers and is available now.
- Direct customers can update by selecting Check for Updates from the BusyCal menu.
- New users can download the BusyCal 30-Day Trial.
In case your license has expired, you can renew your license from here.
BusyContacts 1.6.6
BusyContacts 1.6.6 has been released and is available for download. We stagger our roll-outs, so in case you don't see one available within the app, feel free to download the latest trial version.
Release Notes
- Added mail plugin support for macOS 12.4 Beta
- Fixed bug where edits to phone numbers would not stick on more recent versions of macOS 12
- Ongoing stability improvements
How to install the update
The update is free for all BusyContacts customers and is available now.
- Direct customers can update by selecting Check for Updates from the BusyContacts menu.
- New users can download the BusyContacts 30-Day Trial.
In case your license has expired, you can renew your license from here.
BusyCal 2022.1.4
BusyCal 2022.1.4 has been released and is available for download. We stagger our roll-outs, so in case you don't see one available within the app, feel free to download the latest trial version.
Release Notes
- 🆕 Quick Multi-Selection: Hold down Shift and click+drag to draw a selection box around events in Month, Week and Day view
- 🆕 Shift+Click selection like Finder. Select an event, shift+click another event; BusyCal selects all events in between.
- 🆕 Todoist now supported. Add your Todoist account and manage all your tasks and calendars using BusyCal
- Improved handling of Zoho calendar connectivity
- Fixed handling of bogus duration entries in events from Zimbra CalDAV server
- Fixed bug where new events would appear as Busy when "Events affect availability" has been unchecked for the calendar
- Ongoing stability improvements
How to install the update
The update is free for all BusyCal customers and is available now.
- Direct customers can update by selecting Check for Updates from the BusyCal menu.
- New users can download the BusyCal 30-Day Trial.
In case your license has expired, you can renew your license from here.
BusyContacts 1.6.5
BusyContacts 1.6.5 has been released and is available for download. We stagger our roll-outs, so in case you don't see one available within the app, feel free to download the latest trial version.
Release Notes
- Improved support for 3rd party CardDAV servers
- Added mail plugin support for macOS 12.3
- Certain large emails with attachments are now skipped when loading the Mail timeline to improve performance
- Fixed bug where editing a tag name would get interrupted at times due to an ongoing background sync
- Ongoing stability improvements
How to install the update
The update is free for all BusyContacts customers and is available now.
- Direct customers can update by selecting Check for Updates from the BusyContacts menu.
- New users can download the BusyContacts 30-Day Trial.
In case your license has expired, you can renew your license from here.
BusyCal 2022.1.3
BusyCal 2022.1.3 has been released and is available for download. We stagger our roll-outs, so in case you don't see one available within the app, feel free to download the latest trial version.
Release Notes
- Improvements to time parsing when entering start times
- When opening Google Meets conference links, BusyCal now appends the email address to the link. This prevents the browser from trying to use a different account if you have multiple
- Fixed bug where weather would not show for some people
- Fixed bug where auto-alarm was created for all-day events on Exchange when the preference was turned off
- Fixed bug where creating new events using the menu app would default to using the current date when not specified
- Fixes date time insertion in notes where the cursor would move after insertion
- Added failsafe for when the database may become inaccessible due to an external script
- Performance improvements
- Ongoing stability improvements
How to install the update
The update is free for all BusyCal customers and is available now.
- Direct customers can update by selecting Check for Updates from the BusyCal menu.
- New users can download the BusyCal 30-Day Trial.
In case your license has expired, you can renew your license from here.
BusyCal 2022.1.1
BusyCal 2022.1.1 has been released and is available for download. We stagger our roll-outs, so in case you don't see one available within the app, feel free to download the latest trial version.
Release Notes
- 🆕 Google Meets one-click integration. You can now add a Google Meets conference call to any event. Only works for Google Calendar accounts. NOTE: After installing this update, you would need to allow sync to complete once before you're able to use this option.
- 🆕 Goto Meeting one-click integration. You can now add a GoTo (LogMeIn) conference call to any event.
- 🆕 Several improvements to the mini-month view. New display modes (under Preferences > Appearance > More): Heat-map, Dots or Banners. Move mouse over to see events on that day. Drag and drop selected events to quickly batch defer. Double-click on a date to create a new event.
- 🆕 Calendar displayed in the Menu app can now be display in various styles (under Preferences > Menu)
- 🆕 You can now batch assign default alarms, or remove existing alarms from selected events using the new Edit > Alarms menu (or from the right-click context menu)
- 🆕 Task counts now show on headings in the Task List
- Search results now include individual recurrences of past events. BusyCal would previously place a limit on the number of occurrences shown based on an internal time-span.
- Multiple timezone support re-enabled for Google accounts after Google confirmed a fix
- Added support for iCloud's CalDAV servers in China
- Fixed menu app not showing weather icons
- Fixed an issue where warnings related to obtaining location (for weather) would show up repeatedly at times
- Fixed bug where menu app would not immediately refresh at times
- Fixed bug where picking an attendee at times from the search results window would result in ignoring the selection
- Fixed bug where manually importing an .ics reply from Exchange, where the title of the event has been modified, would result in an import error
- Fixed MS Teams conference call detection in notes
- Fixed bug where right-clicking in week view would at times select the previous date
- Ongoing stability improvements
How to install the update
The update is free for all BusyCal customers and is available now.
- Direct customers can update by selecting Check for Updates from the BusyCal menu.
- New users can download the BusyCal 30-Day Trial.
In case your license has expired, you can renew your license from here.
BusyContacts 1.6.4
BusyContacts 1.6.4 has been released and is available for download. We stagger our roll-outs, so in case you don't see one available within the app, feel free to download the latest trial version.
Release Notes
- Improved handling of an iCloud error that would prevent sync from completing
- Added support for iCloud's CardDAV servers in China
- Fixed an issue where Group name changes from Fastmail would not sync at times
- Fixed an issue where profile photos would not update for iCloud at times
- Ongoing stability improvements
How to install the update
The update is free for all BusyContacts customers and is available now.
- Direct customers can update by selecting Check for Updates from the BusyContacts menu.
- New users can download the BusyContacts 30-Day Trial.
In case your license has expired, you can renew your license from here.
BusyCal 2021.4.4
BusyCal 2021.4.4 has been released and is available for download. We stagger our roll-outs, so in case you don't see one available within the app, feel free to download the latest trial version.
Release Notes
- Clicking on + button above the task panel now always displays an option list
- Improved handing of .ics file importing
- Fixed bug related to the developer toolchain, causing the app to crash at launch on macOS 10.13 and below
- Fixed regression where the cursor would sometimes jump to the end of the notes field after an auto-save
- Ongoing stability improvements
How to install the update
The update is free for all BusyCal customers and is available now.
- Direct customers can update by selecting Check for Updates from the BusyCal menu.
- New users can download the BusyCal 30-Day Trial.
In case your license has expired, you can renew your license from here.
BusyContacts 1.6.3
BusyContacts 1.6.3 has been released and is available for download. We stagger our roll-outs, so in case you don't see one available within the app, feel free to download the latest trial version.
Release Notes
- macOS 12.1 mail Plugin compatibility
- New preference added to disable mail plugin and use Spotlight instead. Useful if you rely only on 3rd party apps such as MailMate.
- Ongoing stability improvements
How to install the update
The update is free for all BusyContacts customers and is available now.
- Direct customers can update by selecting Check for Updates from the BusyContacts menu.
- New users can download the BusyContacts 30-Day Trial.
In case your license has expired, you can renew your license from here.