LaunchBar

November 29, 2023
LaunchBar 6.18.5 (6248)
We’ve identified and fixed an issue that caused occasional delays during input for some users running versions 6.18.3 and 6.18.4.
November 13, 2023
LaunchBar 6.18.4 (6245)
This version attempts to resolve perfomance issues that some users have reported after installing the previous version 6.18.3.

November 13, 2023
LaunchBar 6.18.4 (6244)
This version attempts to resolve perfomance issues that some users have reported after installing the previous version 6.18.3.
If you haven’t noticed such perfomance issues, you may skip this version.
If you are still experiencing the same performance issues even with this new version, you might install version 6.18.2 instead, which wasn’t affected by this problem.

November 3, 2023
LaunchBar 6.18.3 (6240)
Improved “Display in Large Type” for long text that doesn’t fit into a single line.
Improved category indexing to eliminate duplicates from the result.
Fixed: Accessing an app’s Recent Documents didn’t work on macOS 14.1.
Fixed: Indexing of Calendars and Reminders didn’t work on macOS Sonoma.
Fixed: Finder tags were no longer shown with their colors on macOS Sonoma.
Several other minor bug fixes and improvements.

September 21, 2023
LaunchBar 6.18.2 (6238)
Fixed an issue causing the “Eject All Ejectable Volumes” action to inadvertently also eject hidden volumes from Xcode’s iOS Simulator.
Fixed the ^ operation in Calculator (for calculating integral powers of a number like 7^2=49), which stopped working in one of the recent macOS versions.
Fixed a layout issue in the confirmation dialog shown when installing a new custom action.

September 2, 2023
LaunchBar 6.18.1 (6236)
Fixed a bug causing the theme settings to get reset to Default & Automatic at each restart of the app.
August 20, 2023

Aug 20, 2023
LaunchBar 6.18 (6235)
Automatic Theme Switching
Added automatic switching between a theme’s dark and light appearance based on the current system appearance.
The desired theme appearance can be chosen in LaunchBar Settings > Appearance.
In addition to automatic switching it’s still possible to choose a fixed dark or light appearance.
Added dark variants of built-in themes (except for the “Vintage” theme).
Improvements and Bug Fixes
Improved appearance of sidebar in index window.
Improved caching of applications index for better startup performance.
Improved ranking of system applications when searching via abbreviation search.
Fixed a bug causing a file path copied from LaunchBar into a Terminal window to be pasted twice.
Fixed a crash when allowing Calendar/Reminders access after adding or enabling the corresponding indexing rule.
Fixed an issue causing the shadows in a few custom icons to be headed in the wrong direction.

Little Snitch Mini
April 17, 2023
LaunchBar 6.17 (6233)
Improved Shortcuts Support
If a shortcut accepts files as an input, it’s now possible to send those files to the shortcut via Send-to (select a file in LaunchBar, press Tab, select the shortcut, hit Return).
Shortcuts are now displayed with the icon that has been defined in Shortcuts.app
Other Improvements and Bug Fixes
Improved handling of custom script actions which are returning items that are referring to a file.
Improved Action Editor to preserve custom entries in an action’s Info.plist.
Updated icons of bookmarks and bookmark folders.
Fixed indexing of Safari iCloud Tabs.
Fixed: Accessing contact notes didn’t work on macOS Ventura
Fixed an issue causing arrow key navigation to fail once, immediately after press Command-Right.
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November 7, 2022
LaunchBar 6.16 (6232)
New Features
Compatibility with macOS Ventura.
New built-in “Dark Mode On/Off” action.
New built-in actions for converting images into PNG or HEIC format.
Improvements
Improved Google Chrome Bookmarks and History indexing to support multiple profiles.
Improved application indexing to also include Xcode’s Simulator.app.
Renamed image conversion actions from “Recompress Image” to “Convert Image to JPG”.
Improved icons of built-in actions.
Improved appearance of drag & drop highlight while dragging items onto the LaunchBar window.
Improved browsing of an application’s recent documents to indicate if a document would by default open with a different app.
Bug Fixes
Fixed indexing of Firefox bookmarks and history.
Fixed built-in “Set Desktop Background” action.
Fixed incorrect display of icons with non-square aspect ratios.
Fixed a layout issue in the Options pane of the index window.
Other Changes
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December 13, 2021
LaunchBar 6.15 (6228)
New Features
Added „Giphy GIFs“ search template to search for GIFs on giphy.com.
When the Safari History indexing rule is selected in LaunchBar, pressing Command-Return now invokes the new “Show History in Safari” action, which opens the History page in Safari.
Added a new “iOS Applications” category containing all iOS apps that can be run natively on Apple Silicon Macs.
Appearance
The overall appearance has been improved and modernized in many areas of the application.
Dozens of newly designed or refined icons, meticulously fine tuned to be pixel aligned for a super crisp look.
Most categories now have dedicated icons instead of the generic cardboard box symbol.
Refined appearance of many UI elements.
Refined appearance of built-in Themes.
The text cursor shown during text input is now more pronounced for better visibility.
Improvements
Improved Instant Open behavior of indexing rules. For example, when you type EM to select the Emoji indexing rule and keep the M key pressed to trigger Instant Open, you now immediately get to the list of all Emoji symbols.
The Quick Look preview panel is now closed automatically when pressing Tab to invoke Send-to.
Improved support for 1Password.
Improved DuckDuckGo action for better compatibility with macOS Monterey.
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LaunchBar 6.14.1 (6224)
Hot Fix: Applications indexing didn’t include iOS apps on Apple Silicon Macs. If you’ve been affected by this bug, please press Option-Command-R in LaunchBar to enforce an index update.
March 9, 2021

March 9, 2021
LaunchBar 6.14 (6223)
Music
Added “Add to Playlist” functionality via Send-to. Example: Select a song in LaunchBar, press Tab, select a Playlist, hit Return.
Music indexing now creates “smart” categories for “Downloaded Songs”, “DRM Protected Songs”,“Unplayed Songs” and “Purchased Songs” making it easy to search for songs of just that kind via sub-search.
Added “Play in Random Order” action for playlists (accessible from the action menu or opening the playlist with Option-Return).
Much improved performance of music playback actions.
Improved display of metadata information when browsing music items (songs, albums, etc.)
Improved playback of a selected song within a playlist.
Improved playback of songs from subscribed Apple Music playlists.
Pressing Space on a selected song items now shows the details for that song (album, artist, genre, etc.).
Improved “Show in Music” action for playlists.
Improved “Info browsing” of songs (when pressing Shift-Right) to also show BPM and bitrate information.
Changed “Show in Music” action shortcut to Command-Return.
Attempting to start playback of more than 100 songs now asks for confirmation.
Fixed the “Show in Music” action, which didn’t work anymore.
Fixed browsing of playlist folders, which didn’t work anymore.
Fixed an issue causing the “Play in Random Order” action (when opening an album with Option-Return) sometimes not to play the songs in random order.
Fixed an issue causing the songs of an album to be played back in wrong order under some circumstances.
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