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What's new in DEVONagent 3.11.7

Mar 1, 2023
  • NEW:
  • Added Neeva plug-in.
  • Added Legal > Caselaw plug-in to search the Caselaw Access Project. Please note this plug-in is very fast but also has site-imposed limitations.
  • Added Science > IEEEXplore plug-in. Please note this plug-in uses always express mode (no filtering) as the website requires JavaScript.
  • Improved:
  • Saving and capturing web page images, e.g., via the contextual menu in a DEVONagent Pro browser window is now more reliable, retaining the original data and filename, when possible.
  • Linked and embedded images of web pages gathered by scripts and scanners, e.g., the Thumbnail Gallery, Webcam, and Wallpaper scanners now include WebP, JPEG, and JPEG2000 files. The retrieval of these items is also more reliable.
  • The See Also inspector in DEVONagent Pro browser windows now shows better results and more quickly.
  • Links in the results popovers in the menu extra look better.
  • Mastodon articles have better names automatically added.
  • Improved compatibility with even more RSS feeds.
  • Extended the Marketing search set and removed any obsolete entries.
  • More reliable and more aggressive advertisements filter.
  • Improved handling of invalid responses for attachments. They are skipped and not added to the Download Manager.
  • Improved percent escaping in links and URLs.
  • The user agent is now more broadly compatible with search engines.
  • Invalid URLs are now more consistently logged.
  • Updated the code for recording keyboard shortcuts. Please note that this will require setting user-defined shortcuts again.
  • A system-wide notification is shown every day and also every hour during the last 24 hours of the trial.
  • Improved overall reliability and performance.
  • Fixed:
  • In rare cases, exporting web pages as single-page PDF documents added a second page. Fixed.
  • Search and highlighting could sometimes fail, e.g, with greek characters. Fixed.
  • Images were sometimes saved with the wrong extension. Fixed.
  • The progress indicator of a DEVONagent Pro browser window's address bar wasn't accurate on the latest versions of macOS. Fixed.
  • Support Assistant resources couldn't always be installed. Fixed.
  • The alert and email in the case of outdated licenses wasn't correct. Fixed.
  • Removed:
  • Removed the obsolete Web > Enable Java command and Preferences > Web > Java.

New in DEVONagent 3.11.6 (Sep 22, 2022)

  • NEW:
  • Added the new key `JSONPost` of XML/JSON plug-ins to send HTTP POST requests as JSON. The value has to be a dictionary which can also contain arrays and other dictionaries. Note: Placeholders like `agentNumber` or `agentQuery` in strings are still replaced.
  • Added Help > Frequently Asked Questions.
  • Improved:
  • The Linked Documents scanner now also looks for EPUB and Kindle files.
  • Updated plugins: Apple > App Store, References > JSTOR, Images & Video > Google Video, and Images & Video > YouTube.
  • Improved parsing of Google results.
  • Improved Atom, RSS, and JSON Feeds scanner and following links in feeds.
  • Improved retrieving the title of HTML pages and feeds as well as image thumbnails.
  • Improved overall reliability of thumbnailing of web pages.
  • Improved filtering of advertisements.
  • Clipping or exporting web pages as PDF documents adds HTML metadata to the document properties if possible, e.g., title, subject, description, author, and keywords.
  • You can close both active or inactive browser tabs by clicking on their close button. Reorder the tabs by dragging them, or drop files onto them.
  • Improved fullscreen behavior of windows and their zoom buttons.
  • The Support Assistant now supports dark mode and is more responsive.
  • The rewritten Download Manager improves performance, better handles cookies, and allows to resume interrupted downloads.
  • The password handling in Preferences > Email no longer depends on the keychain anymore and is much more reliable.
  • Minor cosmetic improvements were made to the interface for modern versions of macOS.
  • Added VoiceOver support to the Scripts menu.
  • Added basic information about DEVONagent Pro and the used version of macOS to Help > Feedback and extended information to bug reports.
  • Improved reliability when handling `agentOffset` placeholders in XML/JSON plugins.
  • Improved overall performance and reliability.
  • Fixed:
  • A WebKit workaround caused some rendering issues on macOS Big Sur and later. Fixed.
  • Brave bookmarks didn't work. Fixed.
  • Viewing some web archives or RSS feeds could sometimes cause a WebKit crash. Fixed.
  • The default order of search sets wasn't sorted correctly. Fixed.
  • Downloads were not always automatically added to the Download Manager, e.g., after clicking on download links on web pages. Fixed.
  • Embedded videos and other files could get automatically added to the Download Manager when viewing web pages. Fixed.
  • Removing an item currently being downloaded from the Download Manager didn't remove the temporary file. Fixed.
  • Certain `content-disposition` attachments were still unnecessarily added to the Download Manager, potentially causing incompatibility with some web sites. Fixed.
  • The user interface sometimes responded slowly during the trial period. Fixed.
  • There was a minor glitch in search windows. Fixed.
  • Removed:
  • Removed Twitter plugin as it's no longer supported on the latest versions of macOS.
  • Removed support for importing Camino and OmniWeb bookmarks, including from Preferences > Bookmarks, as well as the action and contextual menus of Windows > Search Sets.

New in DEVONagent 3.11.5 (Jul 22, 2021)

  • NEW:
  • A new Bing plugin is available and Bing is again used in the Web plugin.
  • Improved:
  • Updated plugins: Google, Google (PDF), Google News, Google Blog Search, Google Patent Search, Google Video, Google Scholar (Articles), Google (Last Week), Google (Last Year), Facebook Profiles, Amazon, ingentaconnect, American Chemical Society, Github Code Search, ACM Digital Library, Medline Plus, BBC News, Qwant, SEC, Acronym Finder, Dictionaries, Infoplease, FDA, WebMD, Yandex, World News Network, and Reuters.
  • Updated healthfinder.gov plugin and renamed it to MyHealthFinder.
  • Updated plugin Apple > Knowledge Base and renamed it to Apple Support.
  • Replaced outdated Ohloh Code Search plugin with a new Openhub Search plugin.
  • The Location field of the Sites tab of new search sets now defaults to `https://`. Additionally, all fields in this view reset after adding a new location to the sites.
  • If multiple sites are selected in the Sites tab of a search set, toggling the state of one site will set the same state for all the sites in the selection. This behavior is also found in the selection of items in the Download Manager.
  • Improved reliability of search sets using the search mode for sites and plugins using the `EngineSite` key.
  • Refined interface, especially on macOS Big Sur and later. This includes modernizing the appearance of Browser window tabs.
  • Browser windows in full-screen mode are excluded from being selected for split screen viewing.
  • Improved retry handling of the Download Manager.
  • Improved usage of number formatting as defined in System Preferences.
  • More reliable capturing of dynamic websites as paginated or single-page PDF documents via AppleScript.
  • The extended File results in DEVONthink action script retains the date of the result. Also the `results` parameter in the script contains a `|Date|` key for results having a date value.
  • In the Finder, the name of scripts can be prefixed with a number, e.g. 01), 02) etc., to allow ordering the items in the menu. The number will not be displayed in the menu. NOTE: It's not recommended to rename the default scripts.
  • Aliases of folders in the scripts menu pointing to other folders in the scripts directory aren't supported anymore as it could crash the operating system's menu handling.
  • Reduced memory usage while searching.
  • Fixed:
  • Changing the size of system fonts in Preferences no longer worked on the latest macOS releases. Fixed.
  • Links in the location bar of Browser windows could flicker when hovering over a link in a web page. Fixed.
  • Saving images of web pages via the contextual menu didn't always use the right extension, especially on macOS Big Sur. Fixed.
  • The toolbar search field of search windows didn't adapt to the toolbar width. Fixed.
  • The Download Manager could cause orphaned temporary files. Fixed.
  • Opening and closing many tabs could sometimes cause a visual artifact. Fixed.
  • Removed:
  • Removed plugins: Yahoo Answers, Yahoo Directory, Open Directory, WoW, StackOverflow, Apple Cocoa-Dev, Cocoabuilder, and Topix.

New in DEVONagent 3.11.4 (Dec 17, 2020)

  • NEW:
  • Added a new command View > Quick Look and an alternate command, View > Slideshow (shown when pressing the Shift key), for use with selected search results.
  • Added support for Apple Silicon Macs.
  • Added support for the Brave browser in Preferences > Bookmarks, File > Import, and Windows > Search Sets.
  • Added new AppleScript command `get favicon of`.
  • Improved:
  • Cosmetic changes made for macOS Big Sur.
  • A `filetype:` operator can be added to a search if it's supported by the search engine, e.g., Google.
  • A search can now return up to 10,000 results instead of 1,000.
  • The See Also inspector of browser windows now uses the keywords of a page to find similar results on the web.
  • Improved the HTML-to-text conversion in case of websites containing all text inside `NOSCRIPT` tags, e.g., our Discourse forum.
  • The default encoding is now UTF-8 when none is specified by the site.
  • Updated plugins: Web, Computer Science > ACM Digital Library, References > Internet Public Library, References > SEC.
  • Updated Search Sets: Marketing.
  • RSS feeds scanner and feed handling improved making them more compatible to certain feeds, e.g., Daring Fireball or Google Alerts.
  • Items downloaded via the Download Manager now have the `kMDItemWhereFroms` extended attribute set.
  • Improved compatibility of multimedia files with the Download Manager.
  • Added a `BaseURL` key to the plugin API to specify the base URL for relative links of JSON and XML results.
  • Improved compatibility of the DEVONthink Server plug-in to DEVONthink 3.
  • Improved Open URL service.
  • Improvements to the HTML parser enhances processes like improved scanner compatibility with websites loading images dynamically or the AppleScript command `get embedded images of` in the Pro edition.
  • The Last Safari session script displays an alert if the System Events application doesn't have full disk access.
  • Improved handling of invalid arguments of AppleScript commands.
  • To improve the performance and reduce battery usage, web views on inactive tabs are no longer updated.
  • Background tasks now support automatic graphics switching, potentially increasing the battery life on dual GPU MacBooks.
  • The Support Assistant now uses `https:`.
  • Sending bug reports via MailMate is now supported.
  • A notification is added to the system's notification center each hour during the last twelve hours of the trial.
  • Improved the application registration mechanism.
  • Improved overall reliability.
  • Fixed:
  • DEVONagent Pro could crash in macOS Big Sur on Apple Silicon Macs after trying to print a page. Fixed.
  • Rare crash after going to previous occurrences, e.g., via the button in the Digest tab of search windows. Fixed.
  • Added workaround to alleviate crashes cause by the Adobe PDF Viewer plugin.
  • Completions of a browser window's address bar were not closed after deactivating the application. Fixed.
  • Temporary glitches could be seen in browser windows while exporting paginated PDFs. Fixed.
  • Going to the previous or next result in the Digest tab of search windows did not work as expected with URLs containing highlighted results. Fixed.
  • Conversion of HTML to text sometimes generated wrong titles of scanner objects or links. Fixed.
  • Conflict of `get title of` AppleScript command. Fixed.
  • Many open web views could crash the WebKit framework. Improved by reusing web views.
  • Certain Atom-based RSS feeds were incompatible. Fixed.
  • Rare search engine issue. Fixed.
  • The automatic installation from the disk image could show a Finder alert on macOS Catalina and temporarily freeze the user interface. Fixed.
  • The shortcut control in Preferences > Menu Extra wasn't working properly. Fixed.
  • The welcome video of the Support Assistant didn't work anymore. Fixed.
  • Plugins installed via the Support Assistant into subcategories were not immediately shown in the correct location without a restart. Fixed.
  • Removed:
  • Removed plugins: Bing.

New in DEVONagent 3.11.1 (Jan 17, 2019)

  • NEW:
  • Added support for JSON RSS feeds.
  • Improved:
  • Updated plugins: Government > USA.gov, References > SEC.
  • Renamed the search option Atom, RSS, RSD & RDF feeds to Atom, RSS & JSON feeds.
  • Improved handling of untitled RSS feed items.
  • Improved overall performance and reliability.
  • Fixed:
  • Fixed various visual artifacts including ones affecting tabs on search windows (macOS Mojave).
  • Fixed an issue where opening the License panel could stall the application when a network connection was not available or reliable.
  • Fixed an issue where an alert was not displayed after entering an incorrect license code.
  • Fixed a crash and incomplete display of the window when accessing the Preferences panel (macOS Mojave).

New in DEVONagent 3.11 (Nov 9, 2018)

  • NEW:
  • You can now create search set groups in Windows > Search Sets. The action menu in the Search Sets panel now has New Group and New Set options.
  • Search sets can now be installed via Help > Support Assistant.
  • Added an option to the Support Assistant for installing and updating extras automatically.
  • Improved:
  • Plugins updated: Qwant, Yandex, Blogs > Google Blog Search, News > BBC News, News > Google News, News > Topix, News > World News Network, Patents > Google Patents
  • Search sets updated: Marketing, Mac > Latest News, and Mac > Latest Software.
  • Scanners updated: Thumbnail Galleries.
  • Renamed, merged, and reorganized the default search sets.
  • Merged the Advanced and Exclude tabs of the Search Sets panel.
  • Improved automatic selection of content of web pages after choosing Remember Selection from the contextual menu.
  • The toolbar button Share > Email in a browser window uses the current website's title as the subject line.
  • Improved adding URLs via drag-and-drop in the Downloads window and the Sites tab of a search set.
  • Improved keyboard navigation in outline views of windows like Archive and Search Sets.
  • Renamed Go > Workspace > Update... to Update. The last used workspace is now updated.
  • Added tooltips to the buttons on the Downloads window.
  • Tooltips in the menu extra results now update more quickly.
  • Minor cosmetic adjustments made in Search windows and Properties inspector of browser windows.
  • Improved VoiceOver support.
  • Increased efficiency in handling of RSS feeds.
  • Improved filtering and retrieval of links, especially in Express mode.
  • Results from adsabs.harvard.edu and adsbit.harvard.edu aren't filtered as advertisements any longer.
  • DEVONagent Pro now uses the rendered web page, instead of the underlying HTML code, as the source for See Also, translation, and the "text" AppleScript property.
  • Improved support for search engines allowing parentheses.
  • Improved support for filtering Cyrillic language results.
  • Improved support for "robots.txt".
  • Moved to HTTPS for Web > Translate as well as all URLs linking to our site.
  • Much faster updating of Finder comments of files and folders (macOS El Capitan and later).
  • Generating web page thumbnails uses a new service as Thumbshots will shut down November 15, 2018.
  • Improved overall reliability, including greater compatibility with macOS Mojave.
  • Fixed:
  • Fixed visual artifacts in menus and the Preferences window (macOS Mojave).
  • Fixed an issue in Express mode, where adding a resource to DEVONthink didn't work correctly.
  • Fixed an issue where error pages in browser windows didn't show the correct icon.
  • Fixed an issue where importing or searching the Safari history didn't work (macOS Sierra and later).
  • Fixed an issue where playing a video in the Support Assistant would continue playing audio after the window was closed.
  • Fixed an issue where Scripts > Window > Open Last Safari Session didn't work correctly.
  • Fixed an issue with automatically updating to the latest version.
  • Fixed an issue with the English localization of Edit > Speech > Start and Stop Speaking.
  • Fixed a rare issue with the HTML parser.
  • Fixed a crash if the option to install extras automatically was enabled.
  • Fixed a crash after closing a browser tab or window (macOS High Sierra).
  • Fixed a rare crash caused by memory management.
  • Removed:
  • Plugins removed: IEEE Xplore, Technorati, Lucky Guess.
  • Removed the option to subscribe to welcome tips.
  • The download manager no longer sets Finder comments as it caused automation alerts on macOS Mojave.

New in DEVONagent 3.10 (Feb 8, 2018)

  • This release adds a new Google Scholar (Case Law) plugin and updates several other plugins and search sets. For quick queries, it now supports DuckDuckgo Bangs in the internal browser. We've enhanced the support for live streams with the webcam and video scanners and made it a bit easier to create a custom search plugin, pasting in code you may find on our forums. And as always, we have improved the performance and stability of DEVONagent Pro.
  • NOTE: Starting with version 3.10 DEVONagent Pro requires macOS 10.10 Yosemite or later.
  • NEW:
  • Plugins added: Legal > Google Scholar (Case Law) plugin.
  • Added support for DuckDuckgo Bangs in the browser's address bar.
  • Added Markdown and Formatted Notes options to Window > Search Sets > Actions > Add results to DEVONthink > Format.
  • Added Clutter-free layout option to Window > Search Sets > Actions > Add results to DEVONthink. Requires at least DEVONthink 2.9.17.
  • Added support for XML with custom plugins.
  • Added "DatesKeyPath" key (JSON and XML) to retrieve the date of the result.
  • Added optional "method" AppleScript parameter to specify the HTTP method when downloading documents.
  • Added "last downloaded response" AppleScript property to retrieve the last HTTP-Status code and more.
  • Improved:
  • Plugins updated: Patents > Google Patent Search, References > British Library plugins, News > BBC News, News > Reuters, News > RocketNews, Legal > FindLaw, References > SEC.
  • Search sets updated: Marketing, Apple (Feeds), Blogs.
  • Video and webcam scanners work better with live streams.
  • Creating a new plugin no longer requires a URL, making it easier to create a plugin with code copied from our forum.
  • If you have selected to download updates automatically, Update On Quit will be displayed depending on the current progress of DEVONagent. Choosing this menu item will display a window about the pending update.
  • In the plugin editor, changing the default keywords of a plugin now resets the user customized keywords as well.
  • The "paginated PDF" AppleScript property uses the last used print settings and sets the title.
  • Fonts of Preferences > General can be reset by holding the ⌥ Option key.
  • Improved script Scripts > E-mail > Current URL.
  • Improved performance of scanner objects, browser window, search windows, and the Download Manager.
  • Improved character encoding support.
  • Improved filtering of social bookmarking links.
  • Using Help > Report Bug with the ⌥ Option key held creates an extended bug report including the installation path and startup volume format.
  • Fixed:
  • Fixed an issue where an Express search didn't always return all results.
  • Fixed an issue where exporting a report required a .pdf extension, regardless of the previously selected format.
  • Fixed an issue where Preferences > Menu Extra mounted volumes added to the user's startup items.
  • Fixed an issue where selecting a different scanner in browser and search windows caused an exception (macOS 10.9 through 10.12)
  • Fixed an issue where the Express option of search sets was disabled when the secondary query was "*".
  • Fixed an issue where the number of scanner objects for a search result was not always identical to the number of scanner objects shown in the scanner bar.
  • Fixed an issue with sending formatted notes or Markdown documents to DEVONthink.
  • Fixed some minor cosmetic issues with the user interface.
  • Fixed a rare crash caused by background processes.
  • Removed:
  • Disabled Twitter plugin on macOS High Sierra as access to system-wide social accounts is no longer possible.
  • Removed script Scripts > E-mail > Current URL (Mail).
  • Removed plugins Info (News), Info (Images), and Info (Video).

New in DEVONagent 3.9.8 (Aug 25, 2017)

  • Improved:
  • Improved Search mode for automatically searching sites.
  • Improved compatibility to Google Chrome bookmarks.
  • Improved handling of background processes.
  • Help > Report Bug sets the receiver if Postbox is the default email client.
  • Improved overall performance and reliability.

New in DEVONagent 3.9.7 (Jun 2, 2017)

  • NEW:
  • Command See Related Text added to contextual menu of web views; useful to get more precise see-also results.
  • Contextual menu added to See Also pane of browser windows.
  • Improved:
  • All requests sent to Google or Bing use secure connections (https) now.
  • Macintosh News (Latest/More) search sets updated.
  • See Also of search results lists also similar archived results now.
  • Related website are retrieved more reliably.
  • Improved installing and updating of scripts.
  • Fixed:
  • Issue where automatic naming of files, e.g. when dragging results to the desktop, could have failed.
  • Crash related to the DEVONthink databases plugin.
  • Rare crash related to closing the last tab if the tabs bar was always visible.

New in DEVONagent 3.9.6 (May 10, 2017)

  • NEW:
  • Google (PDF) and StartPage plugins added. Tip: Use CoverFlow to scan all found PDF documents easily.
  • Browsers > DEVONthink databases plugin added; scans all web sites bookmarked in the currently opened DEVONthink databases.
  • Contextual menu added to tabs.
  • Option Window > Search Sets > Actions > Destination added for choosing a destination group (requires DEVONthink 2.9.11 or later running concurrently).
  • Options Formatted Note and Markdown added to Data > Add to DEVONthink and to contextual and action menus of search, browser and archive windows (the Markdown option requires the upcoming DEVONthink 2.9.12).
  • Improved:
  • Plugins updated: DuckDuckGo, Computer Science > ACM Digital Library, Medical > PubMed, References > SEC, Science > IEEE Xplore, Social Networking > Twitter.
  • Plugin Browsers > DEVONthink Pro Office renamed to DEVONthink server.
  • Plugins updated (available via Support Assistant): Stack Overflow (Tags), Last.fm Similar Artists Search.
  • Searching in results and in the archive revised; the All options find any entered word in any part of the metadata. This is closer to matching of web pages while crawling and to the behaviour of Spotlight.
  • See Also and bookmarks support also DEVONthink Personal.
  • Revised View toolbar item of Search windows makes it easier to switch views.
  • Web views support zooming via gestures.
  • Plugin menus use localized names if available.
  • Tabs bars use standard icons for Close and Add buttons.
  • Better naming of groups automatically created after adding browser pages to the archive.
  • Automatically generated or proposed filenames avoid characters not supported on Windows.
  • File results to DEVONthink script updated.
  • AppleScript support.
  • Plugin API extended with new, optional 'FileTypes' key.
  • Retrieving of dates improved if neither the metadata nor the server returned a date for a result.
  • Date of search results doesn't abbreviate the year anymore.
  • Date parser improved.
  • Credentials of URLs are no longer displayed or included in exported data anymore; the Sites tab of the Search Sets panel displays the credentials only while editing the URL.
  • Better PDF support on macOS Sierra.
  • Better support for Google Chrome bookmarks.
  • Help > Report Bug provides more information.
  • Icon and image caching optimized; speeds up, e.g., drawing tabs bars.
  • Matching of query terms optimized.
  • German localization updated.
  • Better check for updates.
  • Better console logging.
  • Better overall reliability and performance.
  • Fixed:
  • Crash related to the browser address bar when bookmarks of other browsers are used.
  • Issue where DEVONagent Pro logged some harmless console messages on macOS Sierra.
  • Issue where plugins outside of Application Support folder but not inside application package couldn't be edited.
  • Issue where searches in results or in the archive using proximity operators with wildcards returned inaccurate results.
  • Issue where the contextual menu of archive windows didn't include all Add to DEVONthink options.
  • Issue where the preview popup of inactive tabs containing online PDF documents didn't work on latest macOS releases.
  • Issue where the sorting of archive views wasn't persistent.
  • Issue where trying to drag tabs could close them or create new ones.
  • Issues related to moving DEVONagent Pro to the Applications folder, especially on macOS Sierra.
  • Removed:
  • Obsolete plugins: Blekko, Google Scholar (Legal Opinions & Journals).
  • Obsolete plugins from support assistant: CocoaDev, del.icio.us, Topsy Twitter Link Trackback Search.

New in DEVONagent 3.9.5 (Oct 20, 2016)

  • NEW:
  • Qwant plugin.
  • Exclude tab added to Search Sets panel for excluding domains or links.
  • "ScanTerm" plugin property added to define a term to filter results, e.g., instead of or in addition to the user's secondary query.
  • Alerts dismissed with "Don't show again" can be brought back (see Preferences > General).
  • Changed for macOS Sierra:
  • Disk image is code-signed and includes an alias to the Applications folder.
  • Renamed 'Mac OS X' to 'macOS' in alerts.
  • Improved:
  • HTML pages can be disabled for searches or search sets.
  • Help > Contact us sends an email via the default email client again.
  • Search syntax, e.g., operators or quotes, is removed before copying search queries to the find pasteboard so that Edit > Find > Find Next/Previous can be more often used immediately.
  • Dropping search results onto e.g. Safari's bookmarks inserts bookmarks instead of exported HTML files.
  • Delete & Exclude Domain is now an alternate menu item in contextual and action menus.
  • Google Scholar (Articles) plugin.
  • Marketing search set.
  • Audio Files, Video Files, Thumbnail Galleries, and Linked Documents/Scripts/Sheets/vCard scanners.
  • Advertisement filter.
  • Compatibility to RSS 1.0 feeds.
  • Compatibility of Download Manager (user agent is now identical to user agent of web views).
  • "site:domain" operator in primary query terms is now stripped before matching to facilitate searching sites using the Google, Bing, and Web plugins or search sets using these plugins.
  • Recognition of dates if neither the server nor the HTML metadata specify a date.
  • Compatibility to HTTP proxies.
  • Support for Bonjour servers including IPv6.
  • Handling of URL credentials.
  • Handling of large selections, makes the user interface more responsive.
  • Saved searches include thumbnails, e.g. for DEVONthink.
  • "File results in DEVONthink" action script can be easily customized to store web archives or PDF documents.
  • Optimized crawling.
  • Registration of macOS Services.
  • Handling of background tasks.
  • Checking for updates.
  • Fixed:
  • Crash related to printing a text view (macOS Sierra).
  • Issue where the full screen button of search windows didn't always work (OS X El Capitan and later).
  • Issue where the contextual and action menus of results in browser windows didn't include the command Delete Domain.
  • Issue where the sharing popup menu of browser windows caused unnecessary console messages.
  • Issue where the position of the menu extra was wrong if the menu bar was automatically hidden.
  • Issue where Help > Report Bug didn't work if Apple Mail was the default email client (macOS Sierra).
  • Issue where opening the Preferences pane was delayed.
  • Issue where toolbar items caused console warnings (macOS Sierra).
  • Glitches of properties inspector (macOS Sierra).
  • Glitch of progress indication of the address field of browser windows (OS X El Capitan and later).
  • Glitch of results list in browser windows.
  • Removed:
  • DEVONquery widget.
  • Redundant Tab menu items from Window menu (macOS Sierra).
  • Redundant Sharing submenu of contextual menu of web views (macOS Sierra).

New in DEVONagent 3.9.4 (Mar 3, 2016)

  • New:
  • Option added to reset fonts to factory settings (holding ⌥Option in Preferences > Web changes the Select button to Reset).
  • Open Video In Tab, Download Video, and Open Video In New Window contextual menu command added to HTML 5 videos (OS X El Capitan or later).
  • Improved:
  • ACM Digital Library, Baidu, Facebook, SEC, and Twitter plugins updated.
  • Marketing, New Software, Macintosh News (Latest), and Macintosh News (More) search sets updated.
  • Saving web browser tabs with File > Save As and exporting reports with File > Export > Report remembers the last choosen format.
  • Format popup of File > Save As panel better structured.
  • Web links and bookmarks, e.g., captured, archived, or copied, have better default names.
  • Clearing recent searches and enabling private browsing clears the system-wide find pasteboard.
  • Handling of HTML refreshs and frames improved; fixes the Baidu plugin too.
  • OPML support made more reliable.
  • Filtering of links to translation services improved.
  • Filtering of advertisements, analytics, and tracking improved.
  • Support for XML/JSON plugins using HTTP POSTs improved.
  • Handling of background tasks made more reliable.
  • Sparkle framework updated.
  • Overall reliability and performance improved.
  • Fixed:
  • Depending on print settings, footers and headers were added to exported or captured PDF documents.
  • Copying selected rows of tables didn't work on OS X El Capitan.
  • After expanding an outline item OS X El Capitan returns the wrong selection.
  • Glitch of trial button.

New in DEVONagent 3.9.3 (Nov 12, 2015)

  • Changes for OS X El Capitan:
  • Added support for App Transport Security.
  • Fixed non-appearing launch and progress panels.
  • Fixed glitch of "Plugins" panel.
  • Fixed Twitter access.
  • Fixed flipped footers/headers of printed web views.
  • NEW:
  • Safari scripts for script menu extra (will be installed in ~/Library/Scripts/Applications/Safari)
  • Videos in web views support fullscreen viewing.
  • Improved:
  • Updated plugins: "Computer Science > StackOverflow" and "Legal > EUR-Lex".
  • PDF reports add real link annotations that don't depend on data detectors anymore.
  • "Preferences > General > Interface > Alternating row colors in view" is now disabled by default.
  • Automatically updated web browser user agent strings should be more compatible to modern websites.
  • Caching of web pages.
  • Throttling of network traffic avoids CAPTCHAs in case of search sets using lots of Google plugins.
  • Idle system sleep is disabled while searching.
  • VoiceOver support.
  • Overall reliability.
  • Fixed:
  • Worked around possible issues of PDFKit framework.
  • Glitch of toolbar of "Search" windows.
  • Crash in case of broken workspaces.
  • Random crash after selecting a group in the "Archive".
  • Removed:
  • Support for OS X Lion and earlier.

New in DEVONagent 3.9.2 (Jul 29, 2015)

  • Improved:
  • Compatibility to OS X Yosemite and El Capitan.
  • Title of online PDF documents displayed in web views is now used if available.
  • "Data > Add to DEVONthink > via Clip to DEVONthink" is now also available if the frontmost tab doesn't display HTML.
  • "Download Manager" uses up to eight concurrent downloads on OS X 10.10.3 or later again.
  • Alignment of menu extra window in case of crowded menu bars.
  • New "Search windows" use default plugin settings instead of using the last used plugin settings.
  • Updated icon of "Web > Inspectors > Objects" menu item.
  • "Twitter" and "Thumbnail Gallery" scanners.
  • HTML 5 support of "Video" and "Audio" scanners; "Video" scanner recognizes WEBM, 3GPP and 3GP2 videos.
  • Optimized scanning by "Objects" pane.
  • "Marketing" and New "Software" default search sets extended and updated.
  • Advertisement filter.
  • Following of links.
  • Filtering of links to social bookmarking.
  • UTF-32 support.
  • HTML-to-text conversion.
  • Handling of HTML/HTTP dates.
  • IFRAMEs are no longer stripped from feeds.
  • HTML 5 support of "get embedded objects of" AppleScript command.
  • Communication with background tasks; more reliable termination of tasks on quit.
  • Revised startup alert in case of invalid installation outside of the Applications folder.
  • Registration file is now stored in Application Support to avoid conflicts with preferences cleaners.
  • Downloads queue is now stored in Application Support.
  • Memory management.
  • Overall performance and reliability.
  • Further minor improvements.
  • Fixed:
  • Sending email via SMTP could fail.
  • Glitches of "History" menu.
  • "Data > Add to DEVONthink > Resource" was enabled if no resource was loaded.
  • "File > Export > Digest as Map (PDF)" didn't work any longer.
  • "See Also" pane wasn't updated after selecting tabs.
  • "See Also" pane was updated even when it was not visible.
  • Intro movie didn't play due to recent changes in WebKit’s event handling.
  • "get embedded objects of" AppleScript command.
  • Crash (caused by ShortcutRecorder framework) after changing the system appearance.
  • Typo in the license agreement.

New in DEVONagent 3.9.1 (Apr 9, 2015)

  • NEW:
  • Recipes scanner looking for pages containing recipes; supports microdata, RDFa and microformats.
  • Stack Overflow and GitHub Code Search plugins.
  • Improved:
  • Source code scanner — finds code e.g. on Stack Overflow, GitHub, and developer.apple.com.
  • Email scanner — recognizes email addresses in HTML metadata, too.
  • Thumbnail Galleries scanner and Marketing default search set.
  • Search window — shows snippets found by Recipe/Code scanners and highlights occurrences if matching of objects is enabled.
  • History menu — shortens long items.
  • Icons of scanners and the browser toolbar.
  • Export to DEVONthink — adds application name and version, the name of the search set, and the search query to the comments.
  • HTML to plain text conversion.
  • Compatibility to invalid BASE URLs of web pages.
  • Requests while testing plugins are throttled, too.
  • Handling of HTTP forwards.
  • Handling of background tasks.
  • Error logging to the console.
  • Overall performance and reliability.
  • Fixed:
  • Graphical glitches of the tab bar on OS X Yosemite.
  • Compatibility to "feed:https:" links sent by Safari.
  • Crashes when performing multiple searches concurrently.

New in DEVONagent 3.9 (Feb 19, 2015)

  • NEW:
  • New "Inspectors" pane. This makes the interface more consistent and easier to use scanners while browsing results. This pane includes properties, See Also, and objects.
  • "Properties" pane added to browser windows showing metadata of the current HTML page. The metadata can be selected and copied.
  • Menu item "Data > Delete Domain" to delete all results from the selected domains; "Data > Delete & Exclude Domain" is now an alternate menu item.
  • Alternate menu item "Help > Report Bug" to comfortably send bug reports.
  • Support for .webhistory and .webbookmark bookmark files.
  • Retina splash screens.
  • Improved:
  • History of Safari 8.x is supported and therefore can be imported or searched again.
  • All Google plugins use https:// now.
  • "References > SEC" plugin updated.
  • More precise See Also algorithm. Improves also summaries and topics.
  • Default search set "Web (Movies)" updated.
  • "Linked Audio/Video Files" scanners now support embedded streams and videos; renamed to "Audio/Video Files".
  • Objects panes are more responsive.
  • Retrieval of object thumbnails optimized.
  • Scanning for objects in browser and search windows optimized.
  • Excluding of domains or links ("Preferences > Search") is now 8 to 200 times faster.
  • Setting of Finder comments by the "Download Manager" optimized.
  • Revised and unified many keyboard shortcuts.
  • Heavily revised "Web" menu.
  • Slightly revised contextual menus.
  • More reliable automatic restoring of remembered browser selections on OS X Yosemite.
  • Sorting uses system-wide settings.
  • "DEVONthink" and "View" toolbar items of search windows support text-only toolbars and toolbar overflow menus.
  • Selecting a different sound in "Windows > Search Sets > Actions" plays the sound.
  • Scripts of "Scripts" menu are cached and so their properties are persistent during runtime.
  • Handling of "Scripts" menu is more compatible to third-party software.
  • Compatibility to OS X Yosemite 10.10.2.
  • Memory management to work around issues of OS X.
  • French localization.
  • Overall performance and reliability.
  • Fixed:
  • "Data > Delete & Exclude Domains" didn't fully support "Log" tab.
  • "Scripts" menu icon on OS X Yosemite.
  • Some scripting issues.
  • Reduced number of concurrent downloads on OS X Yosemite due to HTTP issues of OS X 10.10.x.
  • Memory leaks in case of extensive lists of filtered links and domains.
  • Further minor bugs and glitches.
  • Removed:
  • Obsolete "Tubes" scanner.

New in DEVONagent 3.8.3 (Dec 10, 2014)

  • NEW:
  • "DuckDuckGo" plugin.
  • New option "Preferences > Menu Extra > General > Cancel search after opening result".
  • Improved:
  • Search set "Macintosh News (Latest/More)".
  • Search set "Blogs & Usenet" renamed to "Blogs".
  • Plugin "Facebook Profiles" updated.
  • If the metadata of a search result doesn't include a date, DEVONagent Pro tries to retrieve the date from the plain text of the result.
  • Better VoiceOver support.
  • Sending email messages and executing scripts by search sets is more reliable.
  • Better handling of HTML and HTTP dates.
  • Termination of (frozen) background tasks, e.g. on quit, is more reliable.
  • Overall performance and reliability.
  • Fixed:
  • Appearance of menu extra icon in dark menu on OS X Yosemite.
  • Opening a result didn't always close the preview popover of the menu extra.
  • The Digest view of search window was scrolled to the top regularly while searching.
  • Issue of the feed parser causing invalid URLs.

New in DEVONagent 3.8.2 (Oct 16, 2014)

  • Changes for OS X Yosemite:
  • User interface elements adapted to OS X Yosemite.
  • Inverse display of results is disabled by default on OS X Yosemite.
  • Improved inverse display of results.
  • Private browsing wasn't reenabled after relaunching.
  • Menu extra preview popover fixed.
  • Further visual glitches corrected.
  • NEW:
  • Baidu plugin.
  • Clear button added to search field of search windows.
  • "Share" submenu added to contextual menu of web views (requires at least OS X Mountain Lion).
  • Improved:
  • Search field and progress indicator of search windows merged, similar to DEVONagent Express.
  • Search fields always use system default look.
  • New plugin assistant improved.
  • Display and naming of URLs.
  • Secondary search term, if specified, is used for highlighting and summarizing instead of the default term.
  • Title of search windows shows if no plugins or search sets are enabled.
  • Too long names in "Move To" contextual menu are now truncated after seven words.
  • Scanners are more accurate.
  • Filtering of links to social media (e.g. retweeting).
  • "Twitter ID", "Thumbnail Gallery", "Tube", "Linked Audio/Video", and "Embedded Multimedia" scanners enhanced and more reliable.
  • Updated user agent of web views is more compatible, e.g. to GitHub.
  • Better parsing of dates.
  • German localization.
  • Overall performance and reliability.
  • Fixed:
  • Rare delays or freezes after loading a web page.
  • Popup menu of "Go > Bookmark > Add" panel.

New in DEVONagent 3.8.1 (Jul 17, 2014)

  • NEW:
  • "Edit > Deselect All" is now an alternate menu item of "Edit > Select All" and available after pressing the ⇧Shift modifier key (or the shortcut ⌘⇧A).
  • Matching of HTML pages supports Open Graph properties (title and description), too.
  • Improved:
  • MacUpdate plugin updated.
  • Twitter Accounts scanner is more reliable.
  • Amazon search results are skipped while crawling.
  • Many scripts are executed in the background.
  • Handling of background tasks is more reliable.
  • German localization.
  • Overall performance and reliability.
  • Fixed:
  • Incompatibility to DEVONthink 2.7.6 causing e.g. delays.
  • The address bar wasn't always updated.
  • Inconsistencies of displayed remaining trial time.
  • Glitch of "Window > Search Sets > Actions > Add Results to DEVONthink > Format".
  • Support for RSS feeds using "isPermaLink=false".
  • Description of several search sets still mentioned Exalead.
  • Rare crash after closing the "Plug-Ins & Scanners" panel.
  • Rare issue of split views.

New in DEVONagent 3.8 (Apr 17, 2014)

  • his update adds a new language-aware plugin for searching Amazon, makes keyword searches from the address bar language-aware, and improves the clarity of some menus and tooltips. It also introduces JSON-based plugins and accepts results from search engines in JSON format. Many plugins as well as some scanners and search sets have been updated. This update is recommended for all users.
  • NEW:
  • "Shopping > Amazon" plug-in (language-aware).
  • Keywords entered in the address bar of browser windows use language-specific engines if possible.
  • "Recently used" submenu for quick access to recently used plugins and search sets.
  • Browser windows support FTP on OS X Mavericks.
  • Support for JSON-based plugins.
  • The plugin editor allows to switch between property list and JSON format (requires at least OS X Lion).
  • Support for JSON queries.
  • Optional "UserAgent" plugin key allows to specify the HTTP user agent.
  • Improved:
  • Menu extra shows "No results" instead of giving no feedback in case of no results.
  • Expansion tooltips of menu extra results wrap too longs titles instead of truncating them.
  • Recent searches appear in a submenu of the menu extra or the popup menu of search field of search windows.
  • Inactive results in the menu extra are easier recognizable.
  • Search results support VoiceOver.
  • Plugins updated: "Apple Cocoa-Dev", "DEVONtech Forum", "Facebook Profiles", "FDA", "FindLaw", "Google Patents Search", "Google Scholar (Articles)", "Google Scholar (Legal opinions and journals)", "Gutenberg.org", "Healthfinder.gov", "Images", "Info (Images)", "Poetry", "RocketNews", "US Patent Office", "Wikipedia", "Wiktionary", "Yahoo News", and "Yandex".
  • Plugin "Koders Code Search" becomes "Ohloh Code Search", "FirstGov" becomes "USA.gov".
  • "Linked Audio Files" and "Linked Video Files" scanners support certain JavaScript links; "Tubes" scanner supports JSON.
  • "Marketing" default search set updated.
  • Support for Yahoo.
  • Support for news feeds.
  • Filtering of links to cached results and to social bookmarking and social networking sites.
  • "EngineUrl", "EngineNextUrl", "KeywordsUrl", and "NextLinkName" keys of XML and JSON plugins can be suffixed with a language to use language-specific engines.
  • Localizations.
  • Fixed:
  • Not all XML plugins using the "SkipsCrawling" key could be tested.
  • Expansion tooltip of results.
  • Issue with searching in found PDF documents.
  • Removed:
  • Obsolete plugins: Exalead, Google Government, Googlism, Scinet, Scirus, Usenet Groups, and Webshots.
  • Deprecated plugin key "ReformatPreformattedText".

New in DEVONagent 3.7 (Feb 13, 2014)

  • NEW
  • "Twitter Accounts" scanner returning all links referencing unique Twitter IDs.
  • URLs disallowed by instructions for Robots are logged (see "Log" tab).
  • Improved:
  • More elegant highlighting of selected items in lists.
  • Plugins updated: "References > JSTOR", "References > SEC", "Blogs > Technorati".
  • Search sets updated: "Marketing", "Macintosh News (Latest)", and "Macintosh News (More)".
  • Scanners updated: "Tube" (again compatible to YouTube).
  • Scanning of links by many scanners.
  • Reliability of action script "Convert results to RSS feed" in case of lots of results.
  • Several (action) scripts updated so that they don't depend on the edition/identifier of DEVONthink any longer.
  • "Creating Your Own Plugins" tutorial updated.
  • Display of remaining trial time.
  • Standard error logging redirected to file "Console.log" in application support folder. The messages are still logged to the Console application too.
  • French and German localizations.
  • Sparkle framework updated.
  • Sandboxing of App Store version.
  • Overall performance and reliability.
  • Fixed:
  • Search sets panel wasn't automatically shown after opening .agentSet files from the Finder.
  • Minor issues with URL handling, e.g. occassional empty tabs after ⌘Command-clicking on OS X Mavericks.
  • Handling of filenames beginning with "~" (tilde) by various Automator actions.
  • Robots handling of forwards.
  • Glitch of print settings of web views.

New in DEVONagent 3.6 (Nov 28, 2013)

  • NEW:
  • Plugins for searching IEEE Xplore and EUR-Lex.
  • AppleScript command for retrieving objects of an HTML page for a specified scanner.
  • "Go > Workspaces > Update" command for updating an existing workspace.
  • Improved:
  • "Blekko", "Patents > Google Patents Search", and "Science > American Chemical Society" plugins updated.
  • Maximum download size increased to 64 MB.
  • Too small icons in "Objects" panes of "Search" and "Browser" windows are now upscaled.
  • Reporting of new results (see "Window > Search Sets > Advanced > Results") more reliable, especially in "Express" mode.
  • Image scripts use now the "Thumbnail Gallery" scanner and support JPEG 2000 files.
  • Extended plugin APIs support new "PingUrl" key for sending an initial request to an engine before searching, e.g. to disable JavaScript.
  • Fixed:
  • Plugins didn't send login requests before searching.
  • CSV export is again compatible to, e.g., Quick Look.
  • XML plugins specifying multiple "EngineUrl" strings couldn't be fully tested.
  • Automator support
  • Rare glitch of popover of menu extra.
  • Incompatibility to, e.g., google.com.au.
  • Removed:
  • "Science > Science Gems" plugin.
  • "Patents > WIPO" plugin.

New in DEVONagent 3.5.2 (Oct 2, 2013)

  • This maintenance release cleans up the user interface, improves compatibility, and fixes a number of bugs. This update is recommended for all users.
  • NEW:
  • Right- or ⌃Control-clicking the menu extra icon opens a menu similar to the action menu to give, e.g., access to the preferences or quit the application.
  • Improved:
  • "Data > Add All to Archive" is now an alternate menu item of "Data > Add to Archive" and therefore only visible after pressing the ⇧Shift key.
  • DEVONthink commands are hidden if DEVONthink isn't installed.
  • Updated "Tube" scanner is again compatible to YouTube.
  • Revised user agent of web views should improve compatibility to certain websites.
  • Download Manager sets "com.apple.metadata:kMDItemWhereFroms" extended attribute for Spotlight/Finder.
  • Fixed:
  • The integrated DEVONagent Express is now signed for Gatekeeper and therefore can be launched also from the disk image.
  • Count of found scanner objects wasn't always correct.
  • Issues of plugin handling of integrated DEVONagent Express.
  • Printing of rich text views on OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
  • Size of icons in bottom bar of results pane of browser windows.
  • Inverted unread icon was missing.
  • Further minor bugs and glitches.
  • Removed:
  • "Start at login" option from "Preferences > Menu Extra" of the App Store version. Starting/Stopping automatically adds/removes the menu extra to/from the login items.

New in DEVONagent 3.5.1 (Jul 25, 2013)

  • NEW:
  • The "Linked Documents" scanner supports WordPerfect files.
  • A new "Buy Now" button in the window title bar of unregistered copies of DEVONagent Pro shows the remaining trial time.
  • Improved:
  • Plugins updated: "Apple > MacUpdate", "Social Networking > Twitter" (requires at least OS X 10.8, 64-bit mode, and a valid Twitter account).
  • Printing of digest of search windows and of text and source views of browser windows improved, including options to print header and footer and rewrap contents.
  • Appearance of menu extra revised to comply with App Store guidelines.
  • Visual appearance of text, source, and summary views revised.
  • Contextual menus of web views, e.g. in case of embedded images, extended.
  • Automatic repositioning of menu extra menu.
  • Workaround added for feeds provided by Digg Reader that are not RSS-2.0-compliant.
  • German localization.
  • Fixed:
  • Highlighting of occurrences in PDF documents created by Adobe InDesign disabled on OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion due to bugs of Mac OS X's PDFkit framework.
  • Unnecessary bouncing of the Dock icon.
  • Last frame of search windows wasn't always restored after deminimizing.
  • Glitches on and related to bugs in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.
  • Glitch after restoring workspaces, e.g. on startup.
  • Checking for updates on startup could freeze DEVONagent Pro, e.g. when the server was unresponsive.
  • Minor bugs and glitches.
  • Removed:
  • "Scripts > Update Scripts Menu", the menu is now automatically updated.
  • Obsolete "download web archive from" AppleScript command.

New in DEVONagent 3.5 (Apr 23, 2013)

  • New:
  • Plug-in "References > British Library."
  • Added "Format" popup menu to "Window > Search Sets > Actions > Add results to DEVONthink." Available formats are resource, bookmark, summary, paginated and unpaginated PDF, and web archive.
  • Action script "File Results in DEVONthink Pro" to easily file new results in DEVONthink Pro's global inbox. One group is created for each search set/query.
  • Command "Add PDF to DEVONthink" added to contextual menu of PDF results viewed in a browser window.
  • Improved:
  • Plugins "News > Rocketnews" and "References > SEC" updated.
  • Plugin "Browsers > DEVONthink Pro Office" (now compatible to authenticated server of DEVONthink Pro Office 2.5 and later).
  • Search sets "Macintosh News (Latest/More)" updated (now looks for Mountain Lion news).
  • Enhanced action script "Convert Results to RSS Feed" creates the RSS files in ~/Sites/rss. After enabling web sharing the feed can be easily viewed.
  • Action scripts can access the HTML source of results.
  • Filtering of links to social bookmarking and to cached pages.
  • Tube and video scanners; Tube scanner is again compatible to e.g. YouTube and Dailymotion.
  • Reliability of import of web browser bookmarks.
  • Caching of thumbnails of objects.
  • Support for thumbnails downloaded from thumbshots.com.
  • "Preferences > Email" now uses the system-wide keychain.
  • Handling of HTML/HTTP dates.
  • Retina graphics added.
  • French and German localizations.
  • Minor user interface improvements.
  • Overall reliability.
  • Fixed:
  • The embedded version of DEVONagent Express didn't exclude the specified hosts/links.
  • Bookmarklets had no icon in the "Bookmarks" pane of browser windows.
  • Support/Welcome Assistant didn't work on non-admin accounts.
  • Crashes of web browser windows.
  • Minor memory leaks of download manager and search windows.
  • Glitch of Dock icon on Mac OS X 10.6.8.
  • Further minor bugs and glitches.

New in DEVONagent 3.4 (Nov 15, 2012)

  • New:
  • "Follow links" pop-up menu with more granular control over which links are followed.
  • Sites of search sets can not only be crawled but also be searched using common search engines.
  • History in "Go" menu includes timestamps.
  • New search set "Macintosh News (More)" demonstrates the new search possibilities of search sets.
  • Improved:
  • Notification center messages on OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.
  • Network errors are now usually displayed directly in the web browser.
  • Search set "Macintosh News" renamed to "Macintosh News (Latest)."
  • "Apple (Feeds),""Macintosh News (Later),""Marketing," and "New Software" default search sets.
  • "Images & Videos > Infos (Videos)" and "Legal > Google Scholar (Legal opinions & journals)" plugins.
  • "Thumbnail Galleries" and "Tube" scanners more reliable; the "Tube" scanner is again compatible to YouTube.
  • Plug-ins "References > Wikipedia" and "Dictionaries > Wiktionary" query language specific sites depending on the selected language.
  • Amazon, Dell and eBay aren't excluded by default anymore.
  • Localized sorting of most views.
  • Left/right arrow keys can now be used to expand or collapse multiple selected items in list and outline views, too.
  • Keyboard shortcuts.
  • Support assistant.
  • Compatibility to RSS 2.0 feeds.
  • HTML/XML encoding support.
  • More precise handling of number of results per plugin if the option "Ignore Umlauts" is enabled.
  • Cocoa/XML plug-in API extended.
  • Further optimizations for 64-bit mode.
  • Sparkle framework updated.
  • Reliability and performance.
  • Memory management.
  • Fixed:
  • Plugin "Blogs > Google Blog Search."
  • Clicking on objects with ⌘ held in the "Results" tab of search windows did not select multiple items.
  • Font size of RSS style sheets on Retina displays.
  • WebKit bugs cannot crash DEVONagent Pro anymore when using AppleScript to create web archives.
  • Added some workarounds for glitches on OS X 10.7.5 and 10.8.
  • Minor glitches.
  • Removed:
  • "Newspaper" RSS style sheet (the font wasn't available on all systems).
  • Obsolete plugin "Apple > Macintosh News."

New in DEVONagent 3.3 (Aug 14, 2012)

  • New:
  • Default toolbar item "Share" for sharing the current page. OS X 10.8 "Mountain Lion" or later.
  • DEVONagent Pro uses notifications on OS X 10.8 "Mountain Lion".
  • Digest supports topics with up to three words.
  • Plugin "Legal > Google Scholar" searching for legal opinions and journals.
  • "Go" menu lists up to 20 items of today's browsing history.
  • Option for exporting OPML files for outlining and mindmapping from digests.
  • App Store variant is sandboxed. Therefore DEVONagent Pro no longer sets Spotlight comments for downloaded files and the action script "Convert Results to RSS Feed" is not available in the App Store version.
  • Improved:
  • Compatibility to OS X 10.8 "Mountain Lion".
  • 64 bit support.
  • High-resolution application icon for Retina displays.
  • "Back" and "Forward" buttons of browser windows pop up history menus after clicking on them for some time.
  • Cookie handing of Download Manager.
  • "Support Assistant" shows an activity indicator while loading data from the Internet.
  • Current state of browser windows and tabs is saved more often.
  • Search set "Marketing" updated.
  • Google plugins updated and simplified.
  • Plugin "Google Scholar" renamed to "Google Scholar (Articles)."
  • Plugin "Discussion Lists > Usenet Groups" for reliability in Agent mode.
  • "Tube" scanner.
  • "Wikipedia" plugin.
  • Retrieval of link descriptions, e.g. in "Express" mode.
  • Support for Google plugins, e.g. caching of previews.
  • Handling of URLs containing pseudo-anchors.
  • Compatibility to Text Expander.
  • French localization.
  • Memory usage reduced.
  • Overall performance and memory management.
  • Fixed:
  • Black input fields on many web pages (affected only OS X 10.7.4).
  • "File > Save As…" didn't add a saved search to "File > Open Recent."
  • Useless "Only text" option of toolbar of browser windows was enabled.
  • Dates older than Jan 1, 2001 were not used.
  • Automatically opening the application after a crash didn't reopen the last used browsers and tabs.
  • Minor issues in "Support Assistant."
  • Further minor bugs and issues.
  • Removed:
  • Growl support.

New in DEVONagent 3.2 (May 8, 2012)

  • This maintenance release updates a number of plugins, improves the help integration, and fixes a number of minor issues. This update also makes it possible to download DEVONagent Pro as a trial version from the DEVONtechnologies website and use it with a valid Mac App Store receipt.
  • New:
  • DEVONagent Pro accepts a valid Mac App Store receipt, too.
  • Tutorials are directly accessible from the Help menu and the front page of the Welcome Assistant.
  • Express mode is compatible to the DuckDuckGo plugin.
  • Action scripts receive found scanner objects, too.
  • Improved:
  • See Also drawer uses only supported URL schemes returned by DEVONthink Pro.
  • Handling of feeds not containing dates.
  • Scripting supports categories of Atom feeds.
  • Retrieval of titles and descriptions for links, e.g. for the results of the Facebook Profiles plugin.
  • Updated plugins: Medical > PubMed, Images & Videos > Webshots, and Images & Videos > Picsearch.
  • Updated Tube scanner.
  • Animated frame changes of tooltip of menu extra results.
  • Plugin Patents > Google Patents Search updated.
  • Help integration.
  • Overall performance and stability.
  • Fixed:
  • Script Post > To del.icio.us doesn't require user/password anymore and uses the current tab instead of a new one.
  • Glitches of scheduled search windows.
  • Crash while browsing results.
  • Incompatibility of tab bar to Accessibility.
  • Removing user-defined XML plugins from subcategories didn't work.
  • Click to Play button in Welcome Assistant was not localized.
  • Keychain scripting is no longer used as its not available anymore on OS X 10.7 "Lion" and later.
  • Minor other user interface glitches.
  • Rare issue of search engine returning too many results in case of complex queries.
  • Cursor is now an arrow instead of an I-beam over popup and clear buttons of search fields.

New in DEVONagent 3.1.2 (Mar 30, 2012)

  • NEW: Support for Google Chrome bookmarks.
  • NEW: Scripts inside the subfolder "Toolbar" can be added to the toolbar of search and browser windows. Custom icons are used if available.
  • Improved: See also support for the DEVONtechnologies user forum.
  • Improved: Apple Mail is no longer used as fallback if sending email fails.
  • Improved: Support Assistant.
  • Fixed: Disabled plugins were listed in the popup menu of the menu extra.
  • Fixed: Search engines returned too many results in case of proximity operators followed by multiple other words or operators.
  • Fixed: Localized names for Safari's reading list.
  • Improved: Updated References > SEC plugin.
  • Improved: French localization.
  • Improved: About and splash panels.
  • Fixed: Minor interface glitches.

New in DEVONagent 3.1.1 (Dec 8, 2011)

  • NEW: Scripts > Window > Open Last Safari session opens last Safari session.
  • NEW: Search windows display number of unread results in upper right corner.
  • NEW: Names of plugins can be used as "Mozilla keywords" in browser window address bar.
  • Improved: Slightly revised scanner popup menus.
  • Improved: See Also results for new DEVONtechnologies website and apple.com.
  • Improved: Embedded Multimedia scanner renamed to Tubes.
  • Improved: Revised and completed German and French localizations of description of scanners.
  • Fixed: See Also pane listed sometimes related websites twice.
  • Fixed: Automator actions compatible to OS X 10.7 Lion and DEVONthink Pro (Office) 2.x.
  • Fixed: Issues with handling of saved searches.
  • Fixed: Some menu items were not disabled in OS X Lion's fullscreen mode.
  • Fixed: Support Assistant updated for new DEVONtechnologies website.
  • Fixed: Support Assistant did no longer show tutorials.

New in DEVONagent 3.1 (Nov 3, 2011)

  • Improved: DEVONtech Forum plugin.
  • Improved: Reliability, performance, and memory management.
  • Fixed: Further minor bugs and glitches.
  • NEW: Completely revised, dynamic See Also pane.
  • NEW: More useful See Also results for the DEVONtechnologies website and Apple's developer website.
  • NEW: Contextual menu command Add Image To Archive.
  • Improved: Slightly revised highlighting of selected objects in icon views.
  • Improved: View > Show Icon Previews toggles the icons in all currently visible panes.
  • Improved: Escape key can be used to exit full screen mode of search windows on OS X 10.7 Lion.
  • Improved: Scripts menu supports custom icons.
  • Improved: Plugin Assistant recognizes additional parameters.
  • Improved: AppleScript support.
  • Improved: Mac App Store compatibility.
  • Fixed: Frame and zooming of search windows were not always correct.
  • Fixed: Advertisement filter didn't always work on OS X 10.7 Lion.
  • Fixed: Several glitches of download manager on OS X 10.7 Lion.
  • Fixed: Adding images to DEVONthink sometimes submitted a wrong MIME type.
  • Fixed: Random bug of See Also causing poor results.
  • Fixed: Opening multiple selected objects in PhotoStickies could launch multiple copies of PhotoStickies.
  • Fixed: Icon previews were not shown for all DEVONthink Pro results.
  • Fixed: Several glitches in the Support Assistant.

New in DEVONagent 3.0.1 (Sep 2, 2011)

  • New:
  • Support for OS X 10.7 Lion's full screen mode.
  • New command Add page/frame address to DEVONthink in contextual menus of web views.
  • New command Quick Look Attachment(s) in contextual menus of text view of Digest tab.
  • Clicking with Command pressed on results in sidebar of browser windows or on See Also results opens them in a new tab.
  • Primary and secondary query terms support now words separated by hyphens: e.g. e-mail is identical to (email OR "e mail") and therefore matches email, e-mail, or e mail.
  • Results and scanner objects views support selecting by entering the first characters of the name of an item.
  • Improved:
  • Images plugin, Twitter completely rewritten.
  • Science > Scirus plugin returns more results.
  • Multimedia, Webcam, and Thumbnail Gallery scanners.
  • Macintosh News, Marketing, and New Software search sets.
  • Preference option Menu Extra > Open results > In DEVONagent renamed to In DEVONagent Pro.
  • Very small icon previews are scaled up to the desired size in expansion tooltips of menu extra.
  • Handling of thumbnails, titles, summaries, and links returned by Yahoo.
  • Compatibility to some sites.
  • Delayed reloading of Cover Flow while searching in results.
  • DEVONagent Express has been relocated inside the app package and therefore the option to start it at login might have to be reenabled.
  • Default RSS style sheet is now stored in "~/Library/Application Support/DEVONagent".
  • Fav icons of webpages are now stored in "~/Library/Caches/(bundle ID)/Icons.storage".
  • Preferences of menu extra are now stored in "~/Library/Application Support/DEVONagent/MenuExtra.plist".
  • Reliability when using invalid search sets.
  • Performance on OS X 10.7 Lion.
  • 64 bit support.
  • Fixed:
  • Various smaller fixes for OS X 10.7 Lion.
  • Search sets of DEVONagent Express were not always immediately updated.
  • Toggling Show Text Summary In Menu via the menu extra's action menu didn't immediately update the menu.
  • Social Networking > Facebook Profiles didn't return all results.
  • Icon previews of expansion tooltips of menu extra were not automatically updated.
  • Workaround added to anchor/fragment handling for Twitter.
  • Fav icon and URL of addressbar wasn't immediately reset after seelcting e.g. a bookmark.
  • It's no longer possible to quit the app while an update is installed.
  • Sparkle updates are disabled if an unknown framework is discovered.
  • Removed:
  • Obsolete Google Directory plugin.

New in DEVONagent 3.0.0 (Jul 21, 2011)

  • Searching the internet:
  • Better search results, summaries, digests, ranking.
  • Support for wildcards, more natural phrase matching.
  • New Plugin Assistant that allows to easily create new search plugins.
  • New possibility to edit and test plugins internally.
  • Settings drawer is now a tab.
  • Searches can be saved and reopened later.
  • Results can be appended to (saved) searches, older results can be skipped.
  • Searching in results, improved searching in the archive.
  • Express mode for fast searches without filtering.
  • Integrated DEVONagent Express.
  • Improved search engine:
  • New scanners and plugins, e.g. for Bing, the App Store, or DEVONthink Pro Office.
  • Updated plugins, scanners, and search sets.
  • Support for PDF, PostScript, OpenOffice, Oracle Open Office, RTF, and Microsoft Word documents.
  • Possibility to match title, text, URL, keywords, description, and objects.
  • New search operators and options, e.g. 'OPT' and fuzzy searching.
  • Web browsing:
  • Much improved Web browsing and news feed reading experience.
  • Bookmark management.
  • Sidebar in browser window unifies drawers.
  • Customizable toolbar in browser windows.
  • Improved integration of scanners.
  • Cover Flow for searching and browsing plus previews/snapshots of web pages.
  • See Also drawer lists also archived results as well as documents from DEVONthink Pro and related web pages.
  • Improved Archive and Download Manager.
  • User experience:
  • Reworked user interface.
  • Improved performance, responsiveness, compatibility, and reliability.
  • Improved interoperability with third-party applications and DEVONthink.
  • Support for Mac OS X 10.6 and OS X 10.7, e.g the extended Services menu and the Dock icon badge.
  • Much extended export capabilities.
  • 64 bit support.
  • Growl support.
  • Welcome Assistant.

New in DEVONagent 3.0.0 Beta 4 (Jun 11, 2011)

  • New:
  • Menu extra allowing to search using DEVONagent from anywhere on your Mac. New preferences panel to configure the behavior of the menu extra.
  • New default search sets Bing and Google returning ca. ten unfiltered results.
  • References > Highbeam plugin.
  • File > Export > Report supports OPML and HTML.
  • Clicking on words in the text pane of the digest with the Option key held updates the topics map.
  • Selected topics can be copied to the clipboard or dragged to other applications.
  • Search sets can be exported with drag-and-drop, e.g. to the Desktop.
  • Simple asterisk wildcards in phrases, e.g. "word1 * word2" (like 'BEFORE' but more precise).
 
  • Improved:
  • References > Gutenberg.org plugin.
  • Thumbnail Gallery scanner.
  • Slightly simpler display of results, reports, and previews.
  • Missing preview icons (if enabled) are downloaded before exporting PDF reports.
  • Data > Add to DEVONthink > Resource supports web archives and improves support for HTML pages.
  • Automatically adding results to DEVONthink no longer uses the group selector. Requires DEVONthink 2.0.8 or later.
  • Searching in results is also possible in the Digest tab.
  • Better suggested filename for reports and saved searches.
  • Growl notification after archiving results counts only successfully archived results.
  • Handling of badge count of DEVONagent's Dock icon.
  • Further minor UI improvements.
  • Handling of primary and secondary search terms.
  • Filtering of advertisements and social bookmarking.
  • By default search sets match now title, text, and URL.
  • Saved searches contain even more internal metadata.
  • DEVONagent recognizes common HTML error pages returning no error code.
  • Error logging more complete.
  • Search windows and views are updated more often.
  • Archive is flushed to disk more often.
  • HTML frames and refreshs are now used less often.
  • Automatic installation supports e.g. also /Applications replaced with a symbolic link.
  • English and German stop words.
  • HTML/XML encoding support.
  • HTML parser more compatible to buggy code.
  • Support for more date formats.
  • Plugin API.
  • Memory management and performance.
 
  • Fixed:
  • Incorrect calculation of weights resulting in poor topics.
  • Adding of plain texts to DEVONthink.
  • Excluded domains or links were not applied to HTTP redirects and forwards.
  • Bookmarks pane was not always initialized.
  • Title of browser windows or tabs was not always correct.
 
  • Removed:
  • Obsolete default sets of version 2.x are now always removed automatically.
  • Script 'View results as one HTML page'.
  • Default set 'Web (Webcams)'.
 
  • Known Issues:
  • Menu extra is not yet a stand-alone applet.
  • Article filter is not yet available.
  • Some plugins still have to be updated or optimized.
  • Sending email still requires the unreliable and deprecated Message framework.
  • 1Password is not yet compatible to DEVONagent 3.0.
  • French localization not yet updated.

New in DEVONagent 3.0 Beta 3 (Mar 30, 2011)

  • New:
  • Menu extra allowing to search using DEVONagent from anywhere on your Mac. New preferences panel to configure the behavior of the menu extra.
  • New default search sets Bing and Google returning ca. ten unfiltered results.
  • References > Highbeam plugin.
  • File > Export > Report supports OPML and HTML.
  • Clicking on words in the text pane of the digest with the Option key held updates the topics map.
  • Selected topics can be copied to the clipboard or dragged to other applications.
  • Search sets can be exported with drag-and-drop, e.g. to the Desktop.
  • Simple asterisk wildcards in phrases, e.g. "word1 * word2" (like 'BEFORE' but more precise).
 
  • Improved:
  • References > Gutenberg.org plugin.
  • Thumbnail Gallery scanner.
  • Slightly simpler display of results, reports, and previews.
  • Missing preview icons (if enabled) are downloaded before exporting PDF reports.
  • Data > Add to DEVONthink > Resource supports web archives and improves support for HTML pages.
  • Automatically adding results to DEVONthink no longer uses the group selector. Requires DEVONthink 2.0.8 or later.
  • Searching in results is also possible in the Digest tab.
  • Better suggested filename for reports and saved searches.
  • Growl notification after archiving results counts only successfully archived results.
  • Handling of badge count of DEVONagent's Dock icon.
  • Further minor UI improvements.
  • Handling of primary and secondary search terms.
  • Filtering of advertisements and social bookmarking.
  • By default search sets match now title, text, and URL.
  • Saved searches contain even more internal metadata.
  • DEVONagent recognizes common HTML error pages returning no error code.
  • Error logging more complete.
  • Search windows and views are updated more often.
  • Archive is flushed to disk more often.
  • HTML frames and refreshs are now used less often.
  • Automatic installation supports e.g. also /Applications replaced with a symbolic link.
  • English and German stop words.
  • HTML/XML encoding support.
  • HTML parser more compatible to buggy code.
  • Support for more date formats.
  • Plugin API.
  • Memory management and performance.
 
  • Fixed:
  • Incorrect calculation of weights resulting in poor topics.
  • Adding of plain texts to DEVONthink.
  • Excluded domains or links were not applied to HTTP redirects and forwards.
  • Bookmarks pane was not always initialized.
  • Title of browser windows or tabs was not always correct.
 
  • Removed:
  • Obsolete default sets of version 2.x are now always removed automatically.
  • Script 'View results as one HTML page'.
  • Default set 'Web (Webcams)'.

New in DEVONagent 3.0 Beta 2 (Feb 3, 2011)

  • Note: This public beta runs until March 31, 2011, and needs to be replaced by a new public beta or the final version until then.
 NEW: Plugins References > Gutenberg.org and Computer Science > ACM Digital Library; References > Gutenberg renamed to Gutenberg.de.
  • NEW: Navigation bar added to the Results tab of search windows for accessing all scanners that returned items; also includes buttons for switching icons sized, downloading objects, and accessing the action menu.
  • NEW: Digest tab and Cover Flow of search windows support Go > Next/Previous Result.
  • NEW: Contextual menu command Remember/Forget Selection added to web views. Simplify taking notes, using services, or adding to DEVONthink.
  • NEW: View > Inverse Appearance toggles the appearance of results in search/browser windows. Also available in action menu of results pane of browser windows.
  • NEW: Toolbar item View added to search windows, enables or disables Cover Flow and shows or hides icon previews.
  • NEW: Preferences option Search > Exclude Domains supports simple wildcards; new option Search > Exclude Links excludes URLs containing these strings or matching these simple wildcards.
  • NEW: Help buttons added to all preference panes.
  • NEW: 'LinkSuffix' key for XML plugins for appending the specified suffix to matching links (e.g. to access results without using JavaScript).
 Improved: Scanners Linked Video, Webcams, Linked Documents, Thumbnail Gallery, Wallpapers, and Multimedia.
  • Improved: Bottom bar of Digest tab includes buttons to go to the next/previous results in the digest text.
  • Improved: Revised default toolbar of search windows
  • Improved: PubMed plugin.
  • Improved: Apple (Feeds) default search set.
  • Improved: Plugin assistant recognizes more URL parameters, improves support or Google custom searches.
  • Improved: Old archives are no longer renamed and so remain accessible from DEVONagent 2.3.1.
  • Improved: Help and DEVONagent menus slightly rearranged.
  • Improved: Welcome Assistant.
  • Improved: More reliable filtering of links to search engines.
  • Improved: Following links using a user-defined term matches now also URLs.
  • Improved: Crawl patterns ignore HTTP POST requests and local file URLs.
  • Improved: Recognition of publication, creation, modification, and generation dates; handling of HTML/HTTP dates.
  • Improved: English/German stop words.
  • Improved: AppleScript support.
  • Improved: Error handling.
  • Improved: Visual appearance.
  • Improved: Overall performance.
 Fixed: Betas were limited to 60 hours of runtime.
  • Fixed: Incompatibility to Yahoo Groups.
  • Fixed: Double-clicking on words in the topics map did not work if the clicked word was not part of the topics list.
  • Fixed: Keywords for Cocoa plugins entered in the address bar of browser windows caused exceptions.
  • Fixed: Closing a modal name/bookmark editor dialog via the title bar disabled all menus and windows.
  • Fixed: Opening a saved search when DEVONagent was not already open could cause wrong topics.
  • Fixed: Trying to open an already opened saved search again opened another, empty window.
  • Fixed: Security issues with the Mac OS X firewall by adding code signatures to the application; improves also the keychain handling.
  • Fixed: Various minor bugs and glitches.
 
  • Removed: Obsolete code for Mac OS X 10.4.
  • Removed: Some usage of private APIs.
 
  • Known Issue: Several plugins still have to be updated or optimized.
  • Known Issue: Sending email messages still requires the unreliable and deprecated Message framework.
  • Known Issue: Article filter not yet available.
  • Known Issue: 1Password is not yet compatible to DEVONagent 3.0.

New in DEVONagent 3.0 Beta 1 (Dec 17, 2010)

  • Based on the DEVONsphere foundation now bringing: better quality of summaries and digests, heavily improved ranking of results, support for wildcards, more natural phrase matching (e.g. "DEVON tech" matches also 'DEVON-tech' or 'DEVON++++tech').
 
  • Support for Internet locations, e.g. .webloc, using the data fork.
  • Support for canonical URLs.
  • Added automatic detection of HTTP redirect/forward patterns to other hosts.
  • Growl support, can be customized using the Growl preferences.
  • Welcome Assistant.
 
  • Support for DEVONthink. It is e.g. possible to drag results to DEVONthink.
  • Printing.
  • Support for Mac OS X 10.6's extended Services menu.
  • Cache, history, and archive handling.
  • Reliability of scheduled searches.
  • Support for FTP URLs.
  • Unification of URLs.
  • User agent is now always up to date.
  • AppleScript support.
  • Preferences enhanced and extended.
  • Folder '~/Library/Application Support/DEVONagent' and its contents can be replaced with aliases or symbolic links.
  • Error logging.
  • Check for update mechanism, e.g., by using the latest Sparke framework.
  • Overall performance, responsiveness, compatibility, and reliability.
  • Known Issues:
  • User interface and appearance (e.g. of search windows) is not yet final.
  • Several plugins still have to be updated or optimized.
  • Sending emails requires still the unreliable and deprecated Message framework.
  • Article filter not yet available.
  • 1Password not yet compatible to DEVONagent 3.0.
  • User Interface:
  • Sidebar in browser windows unifying bookmarks, objects, and results. Also visible in full screen.
  • Settings drawer of search windows replaced with Settings tab.
  • The number of found results, objects, or occurences of found words is shown in titles or as badges.
  • The Dock icon now displays the number of found results.
  • Snapshots of results or previews are used where applicable.
  • Icons added to many places allow to easier distinguish plugins, filters, scanners, objects, etc.
  • Shortcut Option-Left/Right expands/collapses all children in outline views whereas Left/Right expands/collapses only the selected item.
 
  • Appearance of all windows, toolbars, and panels revised.
  • Menu bar, contextual menus, action menus, and pop-ups revised, reordered, and cleaned up.
  • Standardized naming of items in Window and Web menus.
  • Edit > Spelling is now Spelling and Grammar.
  • F1 through F35 can be assigned to scripts in Scripts menu.
  • Tooltips added to many more interface elements.
  • Alert sheets.
  • Multiple selected URLs of the log can be copied to the clipboard and pasted to the Download Manager of DEVONagent or DEVONthink Pro, to a search set, to DEVONthink, to Safari etc.
  • Some shortcuts changed for compatibility.
  • Support for Spaces.
  • Application and document icons.
  • Inter-App Interaction:
  • Integration with del.icio.us and Twitter (via scripts).
  • Scripts for emailing results, opening tabs ins DEVONthink Pro, and for downloading objects of results.
  • See Also drawer lists now similar archived or other found results as well as related web pages and similar results in DEVONthink Pro.
  • Summary can be added to DEVONthink.
  • Results can be added as PDFs or web archives to DEVONthink.
  • Search results, browser windows, and tabs can be exported as bookmarks.
  • Object views can copy multiple selected items to the clipboard and support also Edit > Copy URL. In addition, it is now possible to drag selected items, e.g. to the Download Manager, to search sets, or to DEVONthink.
  • Previews of websites are shared with DEVONthink and are created both automatically and while browsing.
  • Data > Add to DEVONthink > via Clip to DEVONthink... opens the Clip to DEVONthink bookmarklet.
 
  • Pages added to DEVONthink can be used standalone, too, e.g. in Safari or on Windows.
  • Adding results to DEVONthink adds "DEVONagent" plus the name of the used plugin and its version to the comments.
  • Data > Add To DEVONthink > HTML Page renamed to Resource. Sends not only HTML but any downloaded resource visible in the current browser tab.
  • All scripts overhauled.
  • Browsing:
  • Internal, fully editable bookmark list.
  • Sidebar can include bookmarks from all open DEVONthink Pro databases, Bonjour services, and saved workspaces.
  • Toolbar of browser windows is now a standard toolbar which can be customized. In addition, it is now also possible to switch Cover Flow and fullscreen modes via the toolbar.
  • Address bar shows an icon if the current tab is already part of one of the open DEVONthink Pro databases; address bar supports Delete, Option-Delete, and Control-K.
  • 'Leopard' and 'Newspaper' stylesheets for feeds.
  • Support for custom stylesheets in '~/Library/Application Support/DEVONagent/StyleSheets'.
  • Enclosures (e.g. podcasts or downoads) of feeds are supported.
  • Cover Flow mode can be used as alternative way to display browser tabs. Cover Flow can be used in full screen mode, too, and double-clicking a tab switches back to standard mode.
  • Safari-4.0-style zooming.
  • Preferences > Web > Images > Scale to fit shrinks stand-alone images to fit.
  • Support for revised bookmarks of Safari 4.0 and later.
  • Invalidate server certificates can be ignored on demand.
 
  • Tabbed browsing, e.g. by keeping the selected tab always visible and with an optional pop-up menu listing all tabs. New command Data > Open In Tabs.
  • Auto-completion in address bar.
  • Stylesheets for news feeds.
  • Advertisement filter.
  • Download manager.
  • Workspaces remember more properties and are saved in a new, separate file.
  • Command-clicking on bookmarks does no longer open a new tab (only double-clicking with Command held does from now on), Command is used to select and deselect multiple bookmarks instead.
  • PDF documents without pagination use the 'screen' media style now and therefore retain the original screen layout.
  • Going to previous/next occurrence in web views.
  • Filtering of invalid URLs, e.g. data: bookmarks of Safari.
  • Support for feeds with relative links (e.g. Google Groups), improved retrieval of dates of feeds, support for more date formats of feeds, and improved compatibility to RSS feeds of news.google.com.
  • Feed scanner converts all returned URLs to feed:// so that it's easier to re-use them.
  • Importing or using Firefox or OmniWeb bookmarks supports feeds.
  • OPML import more reliable.
  • HTML refresh and encoding handling.
  • Handling of referrer when opening a frame or page in a new tab or window.
  • Support for wrong charset/encoding definitions of feeds and HTML pages
  • Compatibility to local domains.
  • Compatibility to third-party WebKit extensions/hacks.
 
  • Buttons of browser windows no longer perform their action on mouse-down.
  • 'localhost' is (internally) converted to 127.0.0.1.
  • Searching:
  • Support for PDF, PostScript, OpenOffice, Oracle Open Office, RTF, and Microsoft Word documents.
  • Searches can be saved and re-opened. A saved search includes the term, the used set or plugin, the settings, the results, their sorting, the digest, the log, and a preview for Quick Look and DEVONthink.
  • The digest, the topics maps, or a search report can be exported.
  • New results can be appended to the previous search.
  • Completely reworked Search window: Results tab combines the former Pages tab with Cover Flow functionality and adds Objects sub-tab; Go > Previous/Next is supported; former Settings drawer is now a tab and allows to restrict the search to title, text, URL, keywords, description and objects, and to select which file types to search.
  • Results can be manually marked as read or unread.
  • 'OPT' operator to specify optional search terms that do not change the search results but their ranking.
  • Fuzzy option added to Settings tab of Search windows and to General tab of search sets.
  • Code scanner looking for code snippets, Linked Scripts scanner looking for linked AppleScript scripts.
  • Search results can be searched from the toolbar; supports also operators and wildcards as well as the the Ignore Diacritics and Fuzzy options.
  • HTML meta attributes (keywords and description) based on Dublin Core supported; modification date is retrieved from various meta attributes.
  • Advanced tab added to search sets containing the Search In, Files, and Results settings. All other tabs have been reworked and cleaned up, too.
  • Format options of File > Export > Results panel renamed to Bookmark, Text, Rich Text, and Resource. The last option exports the originally downloaded page or document in its original format.
  • Found or archived results remember which plugin and scanner was used to find them
  • Found occurrences in styled email messages are highlighted bold and red.
 
  • Results of See Also for live web views.
  • All Images and All Links scanners can now be used for searching, too, e.g. to find images or links matching the secondary query.
  • Option to ignore umlauts ignores now all diacritics.
  • Topics of Digest include now also phrases with two words.
  • Occurrences in title or URL are highlighted if applicable.
  • Default digest (without any selected topics) highlights occurrences now, too.
  • Sorting.
  • Log tab.
  • Filtering of results returned by search engines.
  • 'Spam' filter. Filtering of re-captchas added.
  • Filtering of links to cached pages, to translation services, and to social bookmarking services.
  • The Only new pages filter is always applied.
  • English and German stop word lists.
  • Handing and parsing of news feeds.
  • Automatic following of links; automatic follow links term is shown if no term has been entered by the user.
  • Reliability, compatibility, and performance of scanners and filters.
  • Conversion of HTML pages and feeds to plain text, e.g. for indexing.
  • Indexing of numbers separated by '.' or ','.
  • HTML/CSS parsers (e.g. more compatible to buggy HTML code).
  • Unifying characters with a different width.
  • Conversion of common ligatures to their single characters.
  • Pages not matching without followed links are no longer skipped.
  • Max download size supports now up to 4,096 KB; the default is 512 KB.
  • Plugins, Scanners, and Search Sets:
  • Plugin Assistant. Easily create your own XML plugins.
  • Toolbar added to Plugins & Scanners panel that allows to add, edit, duplicate, test, reveal and delete plugins.
  • Plugins: App Store, Blekko, DEVONthink Pro Office (searches DEVONthink Pro Office via web sharing), Exalead, Google Blog Search, Mac OS X Downloads, Unfolding News, Yahoo Answers, Yandex.
  • New Close window option added to Schedule tab.
 
  • XML and Cocoa plugin architecture; XML plugins can be language-specific.
  • Most plugins and scanners overhauled and updated.
  • MSN search plugin updated to use Bing now.
  • Search sets updated with better combinations of search engines and options.
  • Language-specific plugins are listed in bold.
  • Search Sets panel remembers the last used search set.
  • Archive and Download Manager:
  • Toolbar search of Archive window supports also operators and wildcards as well as the the Ignore Diacritics and Fuzzy options.
  • Sort > Unsorted lists results in their natural order.
  • Action menu added to Download Manager.
 
  • Date column is resizable and displays as much information as possible.
  • Source URLs are stored as extended file system attribute ('kMDItemWhereFroms').
  • Usability of Archive window.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Workaround added for stupid Adobe Acrobat Internet plugin.
  • Issues with creating new search sets.
  • Issues with Bonjour support.
  • Issues related to bookmarklets.
  • Issues related to sorting.
  • Accessing search engines did not ignore robot instructions.
  • Handling of keywords in address bar.
  • Typos in localizations.
  • Memory leaks.
  • Many more minor bugs and glitches.
  • Removed:
  • Various obsolete menu commands.
  • Obsolete plugins: Alexa, Ask, Beaucoup, Bloogz, Complete Planet, Czech Metacrawler, Dogpile, Excite, Feedster, Fybersearch, Galaxy, Gigablast, Icerocket, IncyWincy, Info, Lycos (Discussions), MacMinute, Pandia, SciSeek, Scrub The Web, Search > Meta > ..., SearchSight, Seekport.de, SMEALSearch, Thunderstone, VersionTracker, Wisenut, Wotbox.
  • Obsolete scripts: 'Add bookmark to URL Manager Pro', 'Notify via Growl', 'Open tabs in DEVONthink Pro 2'.
  • Rastered/aligned scrolling in various views and panels.
  • Contextual menu extension (only available on Mac OS X 10.5).
  • Use of functionality deprecated by Mac OS X 10.5.
  • Danish localization.

New in DEVONagent 2.3.1 (Jun 12, 2008)

  • NEW: 'Open Current URL in RSS Reader' script, opens the URL of the frontmost browser window in the default RSS reader.
  • NEW: Button of web PDF views to save document to download folder (Mac OS X 10.5 'Leopard' only).
  • NEW: Smart update handling using Sparkle.
  • Improved: Plugins updated: Citeseer, Clinical Trials, DEVONtechnologies user forum, Email, Feeds, Linked Audio, Linked Video, Healthfinder, Nucleotide, PubMed, MedlinePlus, Medscape, WebMD.
  • Improved: Scanners updated: Thumbnail Galleries, Wallpapers, Webcams.
  • Improved: Search sets updated: Macintosh News, Marketing.
  • Improved: and advertisement filters.
  • Improved: Thumbnail retrieval for scanners.
  • Improved: Following of links.
  • Improved: Unification of URLs.
  • Improved: Retrieval of author from RSS feed.
  • Improved: Retrieval of titles/descriptions for links.
  • Improved: Filtering of links to social bookmarking and translation services, search engines.
  • Improved: Compatibility to bad HTML/XML code and bookmarks not conforming to RFC 1808.
  • Improved: Handling of browsing history.
  • Improved: 'Open Linked JPEG Images' and 'Open Linked JPEG Images in Tabs' scripts.
  • Improved: Shortcut for full screen mode changed to Command-F8 for compatibility with Spaces on Mac OS X 10.5 'Leopard'.
  • Improved: Contextual menu plugin more compatible on Mac OS X 10.5 'Leopard'.
  • Improved: Further minor user interface enhancements.
  • Improved: JavaScript support optimized for Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later.
  • Improved: Naming of shortcuts for scripts supports also 'shft' instead of 'shift'.
  • Improved: Error logging.
  • Improved: French localization.
  • Improved: Overall search and archiving performance.
  • Improved: Compatibility to Mac OS X 10.4 'Tiger'.
  • Fixed: Bug causing links to be followed.
  • Fixed: Possible issues with Mac OS X 10.5 'Leopard' and Intel-based Macs.
  • Fixed: Minor bugs and glitches.
  • Removed: 'Add Results to DEVONthink Pro' script. Will be part of a future release of DEVONthink Pro.