What's new in SelfControl 4.0.2
Nov 2, 2021
- Improvements:
- Fix issue with permissions for Homebrew users
New in SelfControl 4.0.1 (Oct 7, 2021)
- Minor bug fixes for 4.0 release
New in SelfControl 4.0 (Oct 7, 2021)
- Improvements:
- Rewritten blocking system for faster block starts and fewer bugs
- Redesigned timer window, with button to view running blocklist
- Automatic error reporting
- System notification when block ends
- Various minor bug fixes and UI tweaks
New in SelfControl 3.0.3 (Sep 13, 2020)
- Improvements:
- Compatible with macOS Big Sur
- Minor bug fixes
New in SelfControl 3.0.2 (Jul 13, 2020)
- Improvements:
- Terminology change: whitelist/blacklist --> allowlist/blocklist
- Temporarily disable tampering detection feature due to false positives
New in SelfControl 3.0.1 (May 28, 2020)
- Fix bug with overly-aggressive anti-tampering system
New in SelfControl 3.0 (May 15, 2020)
- Improvements:
- Big rewrite to reduce bugs!
- New anti-tampering protections 😉
- Better cache-clearing for smoother stops/starts
- Fix a wide variety of bugs (and probably create more)
New in SelfControl 2.3.2 (Dec 8, 2019)
- Improvements:
- Add support for Dark Mode 🌚
New in SelfControl 2.3.1 (Nov 25, 2019)
- Improvements:
- Fix bugs with new "Extend Block Timer" feature
New in SelfControl 2.3 (Oct 23, 2019)
- Improvements:
- Fix crashes on macOS Catalina (10.15)
- Add "Extend Block Timer" feature
- Add Danish translation (courtesy of Helmuth Mikkelsen)
- Various localization fixes/improvements
- Other minor improvements and bugfixes
New in SelfControl 2.2.2 (Oct 19, 2017)
- Improvements:
- Fix potential crash on blocklist removal with modified hosts file
- Fix issue with app name showing in Chinese in Spotlight for some users
New in SelfControl 2.2.1 (Aug 9, 2017)
- Improvements:
- Compatible with macOS High Sierra
- Translated to Persian/Farsi, Dutch, and French (thanks to paymon23, mettekou, and sbibauw)
- SelfControl now asks to move itself to the Applications folder
- Fix 2.2 crash on launch with certain languages
New in SelfControl 2.1.1 (Jan 19, 2016)
- Improvements:
- Better security for updater.
New in SelfControl 2.1 (Jan 4, 2016)
- Improvements:
- New icon (by Joseph Fusco)
- Bug fixes
New in SelfControl 2.0.2 (Oct 22, 2014)
- For Mac OS X 10.7+ only. Please don't upgrade while a block is running.
- Improvements:
- Fixes major issues with localized copies
- Looks better on OS X Yosemite
New in SelfControl 2.0.1 (Oct 21, 2014)
- For Mac OS X 10.7+ only. Please don't upgrade while a block is running.
- New Features:
- Fixes issues with manual block clearance in localized versions
- Looks better on Yosemite
New in SelfControl 2.0 (Oct 13, 2014)
- New Features:
- Supports Mac OS X Yosemite (10.10) with a completely rewritten blocking engine
- Use SelfControl in two new languages (Turkish and Brazilian Portugeuse)
- New failsafes make sure the block is removed on time
- Better experience for first-time users
- Revamped Preferences window
- Block pre-made lists of distracting websites
- Automatically whitelists related websites
- Various bug fixes and improvements
New in SelfControl 1.5.1 (Mar 13, 2013)
- New Features:
- Fix crash
- Add Italian translation (thanks to ilTofa)
- Other minor improvements and bug fixes
New in SelfControl 1.5 (Feb 7, 2013)
- New Features:
- Fix freeze/crash on 10.8
- Improve blocking of Google/YouTube services
- Blocks begin much faster
- IPv6 blocking
- Other minor improvements and bug fixes
New in SelfControl 1.4.4 (Dec 13, 2012)
- New Features:
- Fix code signing for Gatekeeper compatibility
New in SelfControl 1.4.3 (Dec 10, 2012)
- Fix crash on 64-bit Leopard systems
New in SelfControl 1.4.1 (Dec 7, 2012)
- New Features:
- Added warning when Google services are blocked
- Fixed Swedish translation
- Added help options for permablocks
- Other minor improvements and bug fixes
New in SelfControl 1.4 (Jul 12, 2012)
- New Features:
- Added translations in Swedish, Spanish, German, and Japanese
- Fixed crash on Leopard
- Other minor improvements and bug fixes
New in SelfControl 1.3 (Sep 3, 2010)
- New Features:
- Automatic checkup safety system to eliminate permablocks
- UI refresh
- User-settable block duration/intervals
- Other minor improvements
New in SelfControl 1.2.2 (May 20, 2010)
- New Features:
- Automatic host file backups for safety
- Various stability improvements
New in SelfControl 1.2 (May 18, 2009)
- Incorporates white lists and other improvements.
New in SelfControl 1.1 (Apr 8, 2009)
- The wiz, Charlie Stigler, just built a 1.1 version with 10.4 compatibility, automatic updates, port-wide block capability (aka better facebook blocking) and some bug fixes.
New in SelfControl 1.0 (Apr 2, 2009)