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Dec 19, 2018
BusyCal 3.5.7
BusyCal 3.5.7 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
- Weather Underground has retired its service. BusyCal weather updates are now powered by Dark Sky, which provides more accurate weather forecasts. It's also now easier to perform a city / town / zip-code lookup in preferences.
- Improved handling of CalDAV meeting invitations where these wouldn't otherwise show in the Inbox
- Completed todos with due times now show at their original due times instead of in the all-day section. This behavior can be changed from Preferences > ToDos.
- The "Carry forward uncompleted todos" setting no longer includes completed todos
- Updates to events with pending invites are now automatically synced to the server
- Meeting invitations sent to group calendar on Exchange, no longer appear in the Inbox when you're not invited
- WebEx meeting links inserted by google are no longer stripped out
- Extra details related to an embedded Hangouts call, hidden by default, can now be seen by clicking on a (i) button next to the Join Hangout Call link.
- Improvements to accounts preferences
- Several CalDAV servers (including iCloud) reject accepting Todos containing custom alarms with 'Open file' attachments / URLs. This option has now been disabled.
- Improved display of event tiles using custom condensed fonts
- Fixed a bug where the To-do list would not at times refresh if 'Show Completed Todos' was set to 'In Calendar Range'
- Fixed a bug where alerts would not fire for some unselected calendars
- Fix for Outlook and Airmail opening multiple windows when using the "Email attendees" option
- Performance improvements
- Ongoing stability improvements
How to install the update
The update is free for all BusyCal 3 customers and is available now.
- Direct customers can update by selecting Check for Updates from the BusyCal menu.
- Mac App Store customers can update from the Updates tab on the Mac App Store.
- New users can download the BusyCal 30-Day Trial.
Dec 19, 2018
BusyContacts 1.3.2
BusyContacts 1.3.2 has been released and is available for download.
Release Notes
- New context menu options to "Show only this / all / none" when right-clicking on an Address book
- Improvements to accounts preferences
- Compatibility improvements with some CardDAV servers, including Google Contacts
- Fixed a bug where linked cards would show for disabled accounts
- 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.
- Mac App Store customers can update from the Updates tab on the Mac App Store.
- New users can download the BusyContacts 30-Day Trial.
Nov 23, 2018
BusyCal 3.5.6
BusyCal 3.5.6 has been released and is available for download.
Release Notes
- Includes fixes for changes recently made to Google Calendar, affecting shared calendars and events
- Fixes a bug with delta syncing with iCloud where deletions on other devices wouldn't trigger a sync
- Ongoing stability improvements
How to install the update
The update is free for all BusyCal 3 customers and is available now.
- Direct customers can update by selecting Check for Updates from the BusyCal menu.
- Mac App Store customers can update from the Updates tab on the Mac App Store.
- New users can download the BusyCal 30-Day Trial.
Nov 18, 2018
BusyCal 3.5.4
BusyCal 3.5.4 has been released and is available for download.
Release Notes
- Improved handling of exchange auto-discovery
- Improved importing malformed .ics meetings
- Improved fetching of malformed subscriptions
- Improved delegate user checks when notifying users of incoming meeting invitations
- Improved exchange authentication process
- Fixed a bug where disabling sharing on a shared iCloud calendar wouldn't work
- Fixed a bug that would clear preferences, including those for smart groups, for some users
- Fixed coloring of tentative meeting invites
- Fixed a crash when printing for macOS 10.13 and below
- Fixed handling of unknown inbox notifications, which was causing a crash for some users
- Fixed WebDAV subscriptions not syncing over iCloud
- Fixed an issue where reminders would still be displayed for certain disabled CalDAV services
- Fixed overlapping sync indicator
- Fixed white textfield, appearing in dark mode, while replying to invites
- 'Holiday is observed' setting is now preserved in case the server updates the event without a modification date
- Fixed code-signing issue, causing some users to be prompted for their iCloud account info again
- Ongoing stability improvements
How to install the update
The update is free for all BusyCal 3 customers and is available now.
- Direct customers can update by selecting Check for Updates from the BusyCal menu.
- Mac App Store customers can update from the Updates tab on the Mac App Store.
- New users can download the BusyCal 30-Day Trial.
Nov 15, 2018
BusyContacts 1.3.1
BusyContacts 1.3.1 has been released and is available for download.
Release Notes
- Improved exchange authentication process
- Improvements to auto-linking contacts across different services
- Advanced connection options now available for Exchange / CardDAV when adding new accounts
- Fixed a bug that would at times cause the currently highlighted contact to lose selection
- Fixed selection of previously selected contacts after a quit & relaunch
- Fixed selection of contacts with a lot of notes causing the profile photo to scroll out of view
- Includes fixes for changes made to iCloud's CardDAV servers recently
- 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.
- Mac App Store customers can update from the Updates tab on the Mac App Store.
- New users can download the BusyContacts 30-Day Trial.
Oct 26, 2018
BusyCal 3.5.2
BusyCal 3.5.2 has been released and is available for download.
Release Notes
- Improved handling of notes containing HTML in Dark Mode
- Fixed an issue where changing the title of an event and selecting "Only This Event" would result in "Change All"
- Fixed a bug in the floating Info Panel where notes wouldn't get updated at times between selection of events
- Fixed overlapping timezone titles in week view when a secondary timezone got selecte
- Ongoing stability improvements
How to install the update
The update is free for all BusyCal 3 customers and is available now.
- Direct customers can update by selecting Check for Updates from the BusyCal menu.
- Mac App Store customers can update from the Updates tab on the Mac App Store.
- New users can download the BusyCal 30-Day Trial.
Oct 25, 2018
BusyCal 3.5.1
BusyCal 3.5.1 has been released and is available for download.
Release Notes
- Improved handling of notes containing HTML in Dark Mode
- Fixed a bug in the floating Info Panel where notes wouldn't get updated at times between selection of events
- Fixed overlapping timezone titles in week view when a secondary timezone got selected
- Ongoing stability improvements
How to install the update
The update is free for all BusyCal 3 customers and is available now.
- Direct customers can update by selecting Check for Updates from the BusyCal menu.
- Mac App Store customers can update from the Updates tab on the Mac App Store.
- New users can download the BusyCal 30-Day Trial.
Oct 18, 2018
BusyContacts 1.3.0
BusyContacts 1.3.0 has been released and is available for download.
Release Notes
- Dark Mode for macOS Mojave (10.14)
- Improvements to auto-discovery of CalDAV / Exchange accounts
- Fixed duplicate / delete card menu options at times become unavailable
- Fixed an auto-save bug where changes to notes would at times sync with a delay
- Fixed a bug where moving a contact between address books would duplicate the card on IceWarp servers
- Fixed an glitch where making modifications to notes after performing a search would retain the highlighted words
- System support for LinkedIn and Facebook was removed in macOS 10.14. BusyContacts relied on OS support, and so these services are no longer available starting 10.14
- The main contact list now shows longer names in full when possible
- 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.
- Mac App Store customers can update from the Updates tab on the Mac App Store.
- New users can download the BusyContacts 30-Day Trial.
Oct 18, 2018
BusyCal 3.5.0
BusyCal 3.5.0 has been released and is available for download.
Release Notes
- Dark Mode for macOS Mojave (10.14)
- Improvements to auto-discovery of CalDAV / Exchange accounts
- Right-clicking on a Calendar Group now allows you to create new calendars for the group
- Goto Date dialog now accepts dates older than 1970
- Selecting "Email Attendees" from the event's context menu now attempts to attach the .ics when using Apple Mail, where possible
- New option to 'Send Email with Attachment' to attach the .ics file when an attendee's email address is right-clicked.
- Fixed crash when printing List View with multiple pages on Mojave
- Fixed handling of EST Timezone from Exchange
- Fixed 'make plain text' not working at times
- Fixed a bug where key-strokes were some times being ignored when entering a calendar title
- Fixed location pin not showing the 'route' option on the map, when clicked
- Fixed the word 'all-day' getting clipped in German when printing Week view
- Fixed info panel losing cursor position in notes when tabbing between apps
- Fixed a formatting issue where editing events starting with an emoji character would save text with incorrect formatting
- Fixed an issue where the notes would at times strip line-breaks from rich-text pasted into the window
- Ongoing stability improvements
How to install the update
The update is free for all BusyCal 3 customers and is available now.
- Direct customers can update by selecting Check for Updates from the BusyCal menu.
- Mac App Store customers can update from the Updates tab on the Mac App Store.
- New users can download the BusyCal 30-Day Trial.
Sep 27, 2018
BusyContacts 1.2.17
BusyContacts 1.2.17 has been released and is available for download.
Release Notes
- Fix for Google's recent changes to their backend, causing crashes upon launch
- macOS Mojave compatibility fixes (Dark mode support will come later)
- 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.
- Mac App Store customers can update from the Updates tab on the Mac App Store.
- New users can download the BusyContacts 30-Day Trial.