LaunchBar Changelog

What's new in LaunchBar 6.18.5

Nov 29, 2023

We’ve identified and fixed an issue that caused occasional delays during input for some users running versions 6.18.3 and 6.18.4.

New in LaunchBar 6.18.4 (Nov 14, 2023)

New in LaunchBar 6.18.3 (Nov 5, 2023)

New in LaunchBar 6.18.2 (Sep 22, 2023)

New in LaunchBar 6.18.1 (Sep 3, 2023)

New in LaunchBar 6.18 (Aug 21, 2023)

New in LaunchBar 6.17 (Apr 18, 2023)

New in LaunchBar 6.16 (Nov 8, 2022)

New in LaunchBar 6.15 (Dec 13, 2021)

New Features:
Added support for shortcuts defined in the Shortcuts.app of macOS Monterey. Those shortcuts are indexed automatically and can be conveniently invoked from LaunchBar. If a shortcut requires text input, this text can be entered after pressing the Space bar or via Send-to.
Added „Giphy GIFs“ search template to search for GIFs on giphy.com.
When the Safari History indexing rule is selected in LaunchBar, pressing Command-Return now invokes the new “Show History in Safari” action, which opens the History page in Safari.
Added a new “iOS Applications” category containing all iOS apps that can be run natively on Apple Silicon Macs.
Appearance:
The overall appearance has been improved and modernized in many areas of the application.
Dozens of newly designed or refined icons, meticulously fine tuned to be pixel aligned for a super crisp look.
Most categories now have dedicated icons instead of the generic cardboard box symbol.
Refined appearance of many UI elements.
Refined appearance of built-in Themes.
The text cursor shown during text input is now more pronounced for better visibility.
Improvements:
Improved Instant Open behavior of indexing rules. For example, when you type EM to select the Emoji indexing rule and keep the M key pressed to trigger Instant Open, you now immediately get to the list of all Emoji symbols.
The Quick Look preview panel is now closed automatically when pressing Tab to invoke Send-to.
Improved support for 1Password.
Improved DuckDuckGo action for better compatibility with macOS Monterey.
Improved item list drawing performance.
Improved algorithm for determining plural forms used in category names.
Excluded duplicate Siri.app entry in applications index.
Script based custom actions that are selected in LaunchBar can now be opened in Action Editor using the new “Show in Action Editor” command from the context menu or by pressing Command-Return.
Improved layout of index window. The „Add Indexing Rule“ button has been moved to the bottom of the sidebar of the index window.
Bug Fixes:
The “Skip Subfolders” indexing option is now properly considered for file packages when the „Search file package contents“ option is turned on.
Fixed: The color of Finder tags was no longer shown on macOS Monterey.
Corrected capitalization of some Emoji names.
Fixed: After invoking the “Clear Clipboard History” or “Clear Recent Items” actions, Instant Send was wrongly offered.
The “Mobile Phone” icon was too large in a pop-up menu of the Preferences window.
Fixed: Some icons were drawn with a shadow heading in the wrong direction.
Fixed: Thin grid lines in the search result list were not properly updated on selection changes.
Corrected text color in Usage window (some labels became invisible in Dark Mode due to their white text color).

New in LaunchBar 6.14.1 (Mar 10, 2021)

New in LaunchBar 6.13.1 (Sep 15, 2020)

New in LaunchBar 6.13 (Sep 1, 2020)

macOS Big Sur:
Added support for macOS Big Sur.
Refined the default theme to blend nicely with the new appearance of macOS Big Sur.
Music:
Re-implemented Music Library indexing.
Added compatibility with Music.app on macOS Catalina.
Songs and albums are now displayed with their album artwork.
Updated Music playback actions.
Search Templates:
Improved management of search templates. There’s now a set of built-in, non-editable search templates, which are kept up to date automatically. And there’s another, separate set of “Custom Search Templates” where you can define your own web searches.
Updated built-in search templates.
Added “All Music” search template (allmusic.com).
Added “Ecosia” and “Ecosia Images” search templates (ecosia.org).
Added German localization of search template names.
Search window:
Improved browsing of sub-search results. When browsing “backwards” (with the left arrow key), a previous sub-search result is preserved.
Improved handling of empty groups in item list.
Improved automatic display of subtitles in item list during browsing.
Actions:
Updated and improved image conversion actions (rotate, flip, resize, compress, etc.). They are now better chainable with subsequent actions – the resulting images can be immediately sent to another action.
Improved help texts of all built-in actions.
A brief description of each action is now displayed in the action’s subtitle.
Updated “Search Dash” action.
Improvements and bug fixes:
Some significant “under the hood” modernization of the entire codebase.
Improved conversion of filename extension to lowercase when renaming a file. The conversion is now performed only if the entire extension is uppercase (example: .JPG → .jpg)
Reorganized sidebar in index window.
Improved compatibility with third-party apps trying to figure out if screen recording is allowed.
Fixed an occasional crash when typing a menu keyboard shortcut.
Fixed an issue when indexing Finder tags which could result in duplicate tags.
Fixed: Opening JavaScript files in Action Editor opened them in Safari.

New in LaunchBar 6.12 (Sep 29, 2019)

New in LaunchBar 6.11.1 (Apr 25, 2019)

New in LaunchBar 6.11 (Apr 24, 2019)

New in LaunchBar 6.10 (Oct 18, 2018)

New in LaunchBar 6.9.6 Build 6165 (Aug 31, 2018)

Further improved compatibility with 1Password 7:
Info browsing of 1Password Login items (selecting the item in LaunchBar and pressing Right Arrow) now also provides access to the item’s Autofill Link. This link can be copy/pasted to other documents – opening them will then open the corresponding login page in your web browser and autofill the login form.
It’s now possible (again) to open non-Login items (like credit cards, secure notes, etc.) via LaunchBar to opens 1Password’s summary window showing all the details of that item.
It’s now possible (again) to trigger a search in 1Password by selecting the 1Password app in LaunchBar and then pressing Shift-Space.
New Features and Improvements:
Numeric increments during text input. You can now press Command-Up/Down during text input to increment/decrement a number at the cursor position by one, or press Shift-Command-Up/Down to increment/decrement it by ten. This comes quite handy in LaunchBar’s calculator, but can be used in many other situations as well, whenever numeric text input is involved (in custom actions, when renaming files, etc.).
Indexing of Share Menu Actions can now be turned on/off separately in the Options pane of the Actions indexing rule.
Improved handling of file items returned by a custom action during text input as a live result. It's now possible to invoke file actions on these files (like Send-to, Move, Copy, Rename, Duplicate, Get Info, etc.).
Command-dragging the LaunchBar window now also works during text input.
Improved “Enter Text” action: Shift-Return (to insert the entered text in the frontmost app) now also explicitly hides the LaunchBar app.
Spaces in search template arguments are now only encoded with plus ("+") in case of HTTP(S) and x-launchbar URLs.
Improved error handling for actions implemented as shell scripts.
Bug Fixes:
Fixed: Clipboard History failed to detect images and PDF content copied from Safari.
Fixed: Clipboard History > Ignore Applications didn't work for 1Password 7 if it was added manually in the preferences window.
Fixed an issue with the “Browse Ulysses” action causing sections not to appear.
Fixed a crash when passing text containing a NULL character to actions implemented as shell scripts.
Fixed a crash when LaunchBar tried to determine whether another application can open documents and that application’s Info.plist was malformed.

New in LaunchBar 6.9.5 Build 6163 (Jun 7, 2018)

New in LaunchBar 6.9.4 Build 6160 (Jan 12, 2018)

New in LaunchBar 6.9.3 Build 6155 (Dec 1, 2017)

New in LaunchBar 6.9.2 Build 6154 (Nov 29, 2017)

New in LaunchBar 6.9.1 Build 6151 (Sep 25, 2017)

New in LaunchBar 6.9 Build 6144 (Jun 25, 2017)

New in LaunchBar 6.8 Build 6140 (Dec 22, 2016)

Improved 1Password integration:
Thanks to the enhanced 3rd party integration of 1Password 6.5 we are now able to provide much more comprehensive access to your 1Password items.
It’s now possible to access all kinds of items (not only logins but also credit cards, secure notes, etc.) from all vaults.
1Password categories (Logins, Passwords, Secure Notes, Credit Cards, Software Licenses, etc.) are now indexed. You can for example type CC to select 1Password’s “Credit Cards” category. You can then browse that category to get a list of all your credit cards stored in 1Password.
Browsing 1Password by selecting the 1Password app and pressing Right Arrow now provides a list of all available 1Password categories.
Opening items that don’t perform a login on a website are now showing a window for viewing and editing that item.
Actions:
New “Safari Tabs” action provides access to all tabs that are currently opened in Safari. Allows to quickly switch to one of those tabs with the keyboard.
New “Font Awesome Icons” action. Provides a list of all icons available in Font Awesome. You can sub-search that list for a particular icon by name, then press right arrow to access details of that icon (Icon Identifier, Unicode, HTML snippet for inserting that icon in your web-page, a link to the icon’s Font Awesome web-page). Font Awesome icons can also be used in your custom LaunchBar actions. Just specify the icon’s “Icon Identifier” in Action Editor.
New “Wiktionary” and “Wikiquote” actions with live suggestions.
New localized “Wikipedia”, “Wiktionary” and “Wikiquote” actions to access those wikis in your preferred non-English language version (according to System Preferences > Language & Region > Preferred languages).
Existing search templates for Wikipedia and Wiktionary are removed from the configuration. Please use the new actions instead. It may be necessary to re-train your abbreviations for these items.
Improved indexing of macOS Sharing Service actions.
Updated Sample Actions (they can be downloaded from obdev.at/launchbar/actions.html)
Improved Emoji support:
Emoji character names are now the same as those in the macOS Character Palette.
It’s now possible to search for emoji by alternative names. For example, type SPORT to find the basketball emoji, or type SPOCK to find a greeting gesture from a place where no man has gone before.
Links to Emojipedia (accessible via Info Browsing of an emoji that’s selected in LaunchBar) now work more reliably with all kinds of emoji, including skin tone modified versions.
Other Improvements:
Improved Calendar input allowing to specify alarms at the time of the event. Example: “Call mom @ 3pm !0min” or just “Call mom @ 3pm !0”
Browsing the Contacts app now shows the Birthdays category, which provides a chronological list of all upcoming birthdays starting from today.
Improved Info Browsing of indexing rules (showing number of indexed items, date of last index update and the item’s indexing rule).
Improved Info Browsing of categories to show the number of items in that category.
Improved Info Browsing allowing to sub-search the displayed item by their label.
Bug Fixes:
Fixed: Browsing into an application to access recent documents or other items related to that app sometimes stopped working.
Fixed: Calendar events and reminders were created without time zone information.
The Clipboard History now shows the correct number of characters if the copied text contains emoji characters.
Fixed: Blinking text cursor disappeared while typing in LaunchBar Calculator or while browsing suggestions during text input.
Disabling an indexing rule now frees the memory occupied by items of that rule.

New in LaunchBar 6.7.2 Build 6136 (Aug 22, 2016)

New in LaunchBar 6.7.1 Build 6135 (Jul 12, 2016)

New in LaunchBar 6.7 Build 6132 (Jun 13, 2016)

New in LaunchBar 6.6.2 Build 6130 (Apr 11, 2016)

New in LaunchBar 6.6.1 Build 6127 (Apr 11, 2016)

New in LaunchBar 6.6.1 Build 6127 (Apr 6, 2016)

New in LaunchBar 6.6 Build 6126 (Mar 23, 2016)

NEW FEATURES:
Added optional Modifier Tap for accessing Snippets. Can be configured in Preferences > Shortcuts.
The iCloud Drive item can now be used as a target for Send To operations.
Info Browsing of images in the Clipboard History now shows metadata like image dimensions, resolution, color profile, etc.
Back browsing with the Left-Arrow key after invoking an action that returns new items now brings back the previous selection – either the action itself (if it was opened via Return or via Text Input), or the source item of a Send To operation (the item that was sent to the action via Tab).
Improved Send To (pressing Tab) in Calculator. If there’s no text selected (i.e. the cursor is blinking), the result of the current calculation is sent, as before. But if you select a part of the calculation, only that selected text is sent.
ITUNES:
Attempting to play a remote track while the computer is offline now shows a message explaining why the playback is currently not possible.
When browsing the Albums category (which shows a list of all albums) the display now includes the album artist in addition to the album title.
The iTunes/Now Playing info (shown when pressing Right Arrow while iTunes is selected) now displays artist or album information for the currently playing track.
Improved heuristics to determine which tracks belong to the same album (should now work same as in iTunes).
Fixed an issue causing some iTunes actions to fail if the iTunes Today Widget was enabled in Notification Center.
Fixed an issue when re-indexing the iTunes Library.
Fixed an issue with Identically Named Songs.
IMPROVED EMOJI SUPPORT:
Added a dedicated hotkey for opening the list of Emoji (Default is Shift-Command-Space).
Browsing the Emoji indexing rule with Right Arrow now first shows a list of all Emoji Categories (like “Activity”, “Objects”, “Smileys & People”, etc.). Pressing Right Arrow again then only shows Emoji from the selected category. To get a flat list of all Emoji, browse the Emoji rule with the Space key.
Emoji are now sorted by “last access”. The most recently used Emoji are therefore shown at the top of the list. You can still get all Emoji sorted alphabetically by browsing the Emoji rule with Command-Right.
Added “Skin Colored Emoji” category. This category contains all Emoji whose skin tone can be modified.
Info Browsing now provides a link to Emojipedia for the selected Emoji.
NEW ACTIONS:
Added “Calculate SHA256 Checksum” action.
Added “Send Little Snitch Feedback” action.
Added “Send Micro Snitch Feedback” action.
Added actions for removing line breaks from text:
Join Lines
Join Lines With Space
Join Lines With Comma
CUSTOM ACTIONS:
Added support for Quick Look in the Resources tab of Action Editor.
Improved include() JavaScript function: Now accepts absolute paths, resolves tilde (~) in path and resolves symbolic links in path.
Added support for parallel HTTP requests in JavaScript.
IMPROVEMENTS:
“Copy (and Paste) File Contents” now works with more plain text file formats (including Markdown).
Improved backwards browsing (with the Left-Arrow key) when switching between different input modes (Text Input, Send To).
Instant Calculate (sending an arithmetic expression to LaunchBar via Send To) now ignores currency symbols in the sent expression.
Applying file path(s) via ⌘V (Paste) or ⌘D (Drop Finder Selection) to a selected item now behaves the same as when these path(s) are sent to that item via Send To, i.e. a list of available file operations is shown (instead of the former pop-up menu).
Improved dragging of files onto LaunchBar. Dragging to right end of the bar selects the dragged file in LaunchBar. Dragging to the left side of the bar applies the dragged file to the selected item.
Improved “Duplicate” action.
OTHER CHANGES:
Removed “Show text input title” option from preferences.
BUG FIXES:
Fixed: After running an AppleScript “LaunchBar AppleScript Runner” would sometimes not terminate properly and instead run indefinitely.
Fixed: Missing color of Finder Tags when running on OS X 10.11.
Fixed: When dragging the LaunchBar window, snap to center / snap to default position didn’t work on external displays.
Fixed an issue causing 1Password bookmarks indexing to fail.
iTunes indexing now ignores iOS apps, iPad apps and iBooks.
Fixed: Instant Send of whitespace string no longer triggers Calculator.
Fixed wrong Merriam Webster Search Template URLs in factory configuration.
Fixed an issue causing rules that were configured to not search subfolders to be never re-indexed.

New in LaunchBar 6.5 Build 6122 (Sep 27, 2015)

New in LaunchBar 6.4.1 Build 6121 (Jul 7, 2015)

New in LaunchBar 6.4 Build 6120 (May 22, 2015)

New Features:
LaunchBar now includes a new Action Editor, making it easier than ever to create incredible actions. Start developing with script templates, configure your action’s runtime behavior, manage localizations and more. Find a detailed feature list below.
“New Folder with Selection” action for multiple selections. The action can be triggered via Shortcut (Control-Command-N) and it’s also accessible via Send-To.
Shared Snippets: You can now select one or more additional snippets folders. Especially useful when synced via cloud services to share certain snippets with other computers, co-workers or friends.
Improvements:
Currency symbols are ignored during calculations.
Instant Calculate: Sending a single number to Calculator now selects the entire number, which makes it easier to apply functions like sin(), sqrt(), etc.
Improved detection of plain text files.
Info Browsing can now also be triggered with Shift-Right if there are currently no staged items.
iCloud documents are now opened with the default application.
Improved list of an application’s recent documents.
Bug fixes:
Fixed unreliable music playback with iTunes 12 when shuffle mode is active.
Fixed an issue causing “Search Dash” action to crash on OS X Mavericks.
Action Editor:
Get an overview of all your installed actions
Several filter options: Built-in Actions, Custom Actions, My Actions, Recently Modified
Search for actions with certain properties.
Share actions via E-Mail, Messages, AirDrop
Create new or modify existing actions:
Easily create new actions from scratch or duplicate existing actions for customization.
Configure action properties, runtime behavior, and more. Values are pre-filled where possible.
Configure and modify action scripts with various scripting languages.
Script templates provided for AppleScript, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Shell script and Swift.
Easily add or remove Suggestions Scripts and Action URL scripts.
Configure script properties.
Open scripts in default editor for editing.
Manage action resources
Add, rename or delete resources.
Set image as action icon.
Manage localization
Add or remove localizations.
Manage localizable strings.
Other Features:
Drag & Drop support for scripts, resources, action icon and more.
Easily open existing actions in Action Editor
From LaunchBar's indexing window.
By sending the action via Send-To.
Preferences to configure reused information like preferred script type, own bundle identifier prefix, contact information.

New in LaunchBar 6.3 Build 6118 (Apr 18, 2015)

Improved Tags support:
We’ve improved our support for Finder tags, allowing you to better work with multiple tags. You can search for files that have multiple tags set, and you can apply multiple tags (add, remove or replace them) in one go. To select multiple tags, you can use LaunchBar’s staging feature.
Sending one or more files to the Add/Remove/Replace Tags actions presents a list of all available tags (as it did before), but you can now select multiple tags from that list.
Items can now be sent to multiple tags to add, remove or replace all existing tags in one go.
When multiple tags are selected in LaunchBar, pressing Return now presents a list of items that have all these tags set. To search for these multi-tagged items in Finder instead, you can press Command-Return.
The tags of an item, that are shown during Info Browsing (by pressing Option-Right) can now be removed conveniently just by pressing Command-Delete. This also works for multiple tags.
Fixed some tag indexing issues: Items with multiple tags or with legacy color labels were not properly indexed under some circumstances.
Multiple Selection Dragging:
Well, we announced this feature already in our 6.2 release notes. But due to an embarrassing mistake in our build process, the feature was not enabled in the released version. But now it finally works and you can drag multiple items from LaunchBar to other applications!
Other Improvements:
Added “Detect Search Templates” bookmarks indexing option. This restores the previous behavior of the bookmarks indexer to automatically detect search templates (URLs containing an asterisk) in your web browser’s bookmarks. If you rather want these URLs to be indexed as regular bookmarks, you can turn off this option.
Added “Instant Calculate” option to Calculator preferences. When you Instant-Send an arithmetic expression to LaunchBar, it automatically calculates and shows the result. When you send a plain number, it’s automatically opened in LaunchBar’s calculator. With this new option you can turn off this behavior, if you prefer to just send the text without any calculator magic.
The dict.cc action now performs its queries via https.
Fixed: The “Move to Trash” action didn’t work for multiple items in conjunction with Path Finder.
Improved display of action result items.

New in LaunchBar 6.2 Build 6117 (Mar 31, 2015)

New Features and Improvements:
Staging: Multiple items in the result list can now also be selected by dragging with the mouse.
Multiple selections (i.e. staged items) can now be dragged from LaunchBar to other applications.
Added support for Fantastical 2.
Improved iCloud Documents / iCloud Drive indexing.
Improved appearance of large type window on OS X Yosemite.
User account items now show the user’s account image.
Added support for showing multiple paths in Large Type.
Improved “Search Dash” action and added support for Dash Beta.
Improved background execution of AppleScripts.
Improved Info Browsing of contact details (phone numbers, email addresses, social profiles, etc.).
Improved subtitle display of contact details that have been selected via full index search.
The “Display in Large Type” action now also works for file paths.
Software Update checks are now performed via https.
Calculator:
Improved Instant Calculate to better distinguish between phone numbers and arithmetic expressions.
Improved Instant Calculate for multiple lines of selected text.
Sending a plain number via Instant Send to LaunchBar now opens that number in Calculator.
Improved automatic insertion of plus operator.
Improved number detection.
Configuration Interface:
Improved information on invalid rules in index window.
The index window now shows the full path of Custom Lists items, and their path is now editable.
LaunchBar Actions:
If two actions have the same bundle identifier, only the one with the higher version will be included in the index. This is important if you’re an Action Developer: Make sure all your actions have a unique bundle identifier and a valid version in the format “major.minor.bugfix”, e.g. “1.4.12”.
Bug Fixes:
Fixed: Pasting clipboard items into Safari form fields sometimes didn’t work.
Fixed an issue causing the Clipboard History to stop working.
Fixed: When deleting iCloud documents, Finder did not become active reliably to show its confirmation dialog.
Fixed: Developer Resources indexing.
Fixed a crash that occurred when using the current WebKit nightly.

New in LaunchBar 6.1.6 Build 6113 (Dec 16, 2014)

New in LaunchBar 6.1.5 Build 6112 (Nov 13, 2014)

New in LaunchBar 6.1.3 Build 6110 (Oct 17, 2014)

New in LaunchBar 6.1.2 Build 6108 (Oct 2, 2014)

New in LaunchBar 6.1.1 Build 6106 (Sep 22, 2014)

New in LaunchBar 6.1 Build 6103 (Aug 27, 2014)

General:
Staging Area for creating multiple selections (see below for details).
Changed keyboard shortcuts for Info Browsing from ⇧→ to ⌥→ and “Show Siblings” from ⇧← to ⌥←. These changes became necessary to allow a more consistent set of shortcut used for staging.
Added support for Tower 2 repository bookmark indexing and browsing.
Improved “Compress (ZIP Archive)” action to support multiple selections.
Improved “Move to Trash” action with undo support.
Improved “Sort Lines” actions to preserve the string’s trailing newline.
Improved calculator to properly handle large numbers up to 1,189731495e+4932.
Improved "New Folder" action to suggest a different folder name if an "untitled folder" already exists.
Improved Info Browsing to show download date if available.
Improved “Duplicate” action (⇧⌘D) to also trigger “Rename” so you can immediately apply a reasonable name to the duplicate.
Improved accessibility support.
Staging Area:
Concept of multiple selections in LaunchBar. To learn more about this new feature, read our blog post.
Shortcuts to create multiple selections:
⇧↑ or ⇧↓ stages/unstages a range of items.
⌘↑ or ⌘↓ toggles staging of the selected item.
Comma stages the selected item.
⌘-Click toggles staging of the clicked item.
⇧-Click stages/unstages a range of items.
⌘-A stages all items in current list.
⌫ unstages the selected item.
Escape or ⇧⌫ clears the entire staging area.
Acting on multiple selections
Open multiple items with ↩ (apps, files & folders, contacts & email addresses, bookmarks, emoji, snippets, songs, albums, …).
Press ⇥ to invoke Send To:
Open files with a particular application
Send files to a contact as email attachments
Move or copy files to a folder
Compress (ZIP Archive)
Use actions on multiple selections, for instance:
Move to Trash (⌘⌫)
Duplicate (⇧⌘D)
Eject (⌘E)
Copy (⌘C)
Get Info (⌘I)
Show in Finder (⌘↩)
Inspecting and reviewing staged items
⇧→ shows all currently staged items.
⌫ unstages the selected item and removes it from the list.
While the list is displayed, the items can be rearranged with ⌥↑ or ⌥↓. Useful if the order is relevant (contacts, songs, attachments, …).
Fetching staged items
⇧← turns all selected items into a single “multiple selection” item (rarely necessary, though).
Necessary when opening multiple files from different folders (this is a safety measure, to prevent accidental opening of such a scattered selection).
Calendars & Reminders:
Calendar input is now more flexible and accepts description, location and date/time in arbitrary order (only the location must always be after the description):
@ @
@ @
@ @
Date & Time can now also be specified relative to “now”, for example: “Call Susan @ 20min” to create a reminder that’s due in 20 minutes.
Contacts:
Birthday browsing: Showing contacts born on the same day or in the same year.
Contact labels are permanently visible while browsing.
Dedicated icons for social media profiles.
LaunchBar Actions:
URL-Scheme support for LaunchBar Actions. Actions can now optionally define a script that is called when a URL like x-launchbar:action/com.example.action is opened anywhere in OS X. See the Script Types for more details.
Added support for LaunchBar Actions implemented as Automator Workflows.
Added “Play Sound Effect” Automator action and AppleScript command.
When an action returns a single item, Instant Send is turned on by default.
Added an option that indicates when a script is run for the purpose of generating live feedback (LB_OPTION_LIVE_FEEDBACK).
Added new JavaScript methods:
Added support for working with Base64 data and binary data. See Working with Binary Data for more information.
Added support for loading HTTP requests with arbitrary HTTP methods. Also added a convenience method for POST requests.
Added File.fileURLForPath() and File.pathForFileURL().
Added methods for opening and closing LaunchBar’s QuickLook window for any URL.
Added LaunchBar.systemVersion.
Fixed: LaunchBar Actions implemented in AppleScript caused launch of applications during indexing. Also, these actions now must specifically declare in their Info.plist the fact that they accept or require arguments (previously, implementing the appropriate handler in the script was sufficient).
Fixed: Action result items that only have a path or URL set didn’t appear in LaunchBar.
Fixed: If LBResultType was set to path and that path contained the tilde character (˜), it was not expanded for the resulting items.
Updated Developer Documentation to reflect changes and provide information on how to use the new features.
Other improvements and bug fixes:
x-launchbar URLs can now optionally contain a double forward slash after the scheme.
Fixed an issue with “Open Location” where the TLD was not removed when entering a dot.
Fixed ClipMerge behavior in iTerm 2 when its “Copy Selection” preference is enabled.
Minor bug fixes and improvements.

New in LaunchBar 6.1 Build 6102 Pre (Aug 5, 2014)

New in LaunchBar 6.1 Build 6101 Pre (Aug 5, 2014)

New in LaunchBar 6.0.2 Build 6015 (Jul 5, 2014)

New in LaunchBar 6.0.1 Build 6013 (Jun 21, 2014)

New in LaunchBar 6.0.0 Build 6011 (Jun 12, 2014)

Brand-new User Interface with Themes:
Larger default interface
Several built-in alternative themes
Theme switching via abbreviation search
Plenty of new, beautifully designed icons
New app icon
Improved Configuration Interface:
Streamlined configuration UI
Rules in the sidebar are now organized in groups.
Configuration changes are now saved automatically.
Index updates now happen fully automatically. The Schedule pane for configuring index updates is therefore no longer necessary.
Deleting/adding rules is now the recommended way to select the desired set of features. Disabling of indexing rules is still possible, but only via contextual menu (no more checkboxes).
Additional Indexing Rules:
Reminder Lists
Emoji
Finder Tags
Safari iCloud Tabs
Safari Top Sites
Safari Reading List
LaunchBar Themes
Transmit Bookmarks
Additional Built-in Actions:
Add/Remove/Replace Finder Tag
Remove All Finder Tags
Clear Text Input History
Current Safari Page
Enter Color
Open AirDrop Window
Send via AirDrop
Send LaunchBar Feedback
Powerful custom, script-based actions:
Extend LaunchBar’s feature set with custom actions written in your favorite scripting language (JavaScript, AppleScript, Python, Ruby, Shell Script, PHP, …)
Custom actions can return arbitrary result items or suggestions that are displayed immediately, while entering text.
Embedded resources like icons, helper scrpts, audio files, binaries, …
Optional execution in background.
Simple double click installation of third-party actions.
Optionally only allow execution of actions that have a valid code signature.
Text Input Live Results:
Calendar & Reminder input live feedback.
Calculator live results and history of previous calculations.
“Open Location” provides suggestions while entering URLs.
Live Web Searches:
Google
Wikipedia
DuckDuckGo
dict.cc
Support for custom live web searches via LaunchBar Actions.
Info Browsing:
Press Shift-Right Arrow to access information about a selected item like:
Image Properties (dimensions, color profile, …)
File Size
Modification Date, Creation Date
Finder Tags
Disk Capacity & Usage
Plain text file contents
XML/plist file contents
An application’s user defaults
and more, …
Info Browsing can also be triggered with ⌃⌥⌘-Right Arrow
For many items it can also be triggered just just by pressing Right Arrow.
Usage Statistics:
Statistics about:
Superpower Usage
Saved Time
LaunchBar Invocations
Accessible via ⌥⌘U shortcut or action menu.
Other Features:
Fully automatic index updates.
Improved Send To target item suggestions (e.g. File Operations, Tag Actions, …)
Improved presentation of contact cards, including contact images.
Support for FaceTime Audio as caller script.
Support for AirMail as default email client.
Sending text to an item accepting text input (e.g. search actions) and pressing the space key opens text input to allow editing the search term.
Improved Recent Documents browsing. Now includes all documents that can be opened with the selected application, sorted by access date. This allows you to access recently used documents even for apps that do not support the standard Cocoa API (like Adobe applications).
Subtitle display is now turned off by default. Subtitles can be shown temporarily by holding down the ⌃⌥⌘ modifier keys.
Back-tab (⇧⇥) during Send To now selects the previous item in the list (⇥ selects the next one).
LaunchBar 6 requires OS X 10.9 Mavericks.
Removed and Replaced Features:
The index window’s Schedule pane has been removed because it’s no longer needed. All index updates are now performed automatically.
Removed .clip.rtf / .clip.txt support. The same functionality can be accomplished with the Snippets indexing rule.
Replaced color label actions with corresponding actions for Finder tags.
Removed support for legacy contacts applications (Entourage, Eudora, …)
Removed support for legacy web browsers (Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Camino, Shiira)
Removed search templates that were replaced by live search actions.

New in LaunchBar 5.6.4 Build 1022 (May 7, 2014)

New in LaunchBar 5.6.3 Build 1021 (May 7, 2014)

New in LaunchBar 5.6.2 Build 1020 (Dec 20, 2013)

New in LaunchBar 5.6.1 Build 1019 (Oct 23, 2013)

New in LaunchBar 5.6 Build 1018 (Oct 21, 2013)

New in LaunchBar 5.5.2 Build 1013 (Jul 1, 2013)

New in LaunchBar 5.5.1 Build 1011 (Jun 13, 2013)

New in LaunchBar 5.5 Build 1008 (Jun 8, 2013)

Snippets:
The new Snippets feature is a fast and easy way to work with often–used pieces of small text. Instead of typing the same text again and again, you just select a snippet in LaunchBar and hit Return. Optional placeholders allow you to include things like clipboard contents (including multiple items from your clipboard history) or the current date & time in your snippets.
For more information, take a look into the new help chapter or read our blog post about it.
Workflows:
LaunchBar now provides tight integration with Automator workflows, allowing you to run them from within LaunchBar, optionally pass text or file arguments, and to return the results back to LaunchBar.
Various Automator actions for getting workflow results back to LaunchBar and for accessing LaunchBar features from within your workflows.
Send to LaunchBar
Display in Large Type
Display in Notification Center
Perform Action
Perform Service
Paste in Frontmost Application
and more…
Simple import and export options for sharing workflows with others.
More information is available in the related help chapter.
Accessibility / VoiceOver Support:
In addition to the existing “Speak selected item” option LaunchBar now also supports spoken feedback via VoiceOver. In the medium run the “Speak selected item” option is planned to be replaced completely in favor of VoiceOver.
Folders and other collections of items are described with the number of contained items.
Songs are described with title, artist and duration.
64-bit Compatibility:
LaunchBar is now 64-bit compatible. Note that due to the larger pointer size of the 64-bit architecture you may notice an increased memory consumption when running applications in 64-bit mode. LaunchBar is still fully 32-bit compatible as well, so you may choose to run it in 32-bit mode for a smaller memory footprint. To run a program in 32-bit mode, right-click the program icon in Finder, choose “Get Info” and check the “Open in 32-bit mode” option.
Improved iTunes Support:
“Identically Named Tracks”. This new feature detects tracks with the same name but from different albums or artists. This gives you quick access to alternative recordings of the same song. They are accessible either via browsing the details of a song, or via the new “Identically Named Tracks” category.
Fixes an issue with iTunes playback. With the the “Play from Album” option set, only the album’s first track was played.
Improved playback of tracks with no album.
Improved Calendar Support:
Improved creation of calendar events
Significantly improved date parsing algorithm (rewritten from scratch), supporting a much wider range of date input formats in different languages.
Improved compatibility with Reminders.app
Improved Contacts Support:
Added support for linked cards.
New: Indexing of social profiles (Twitter profiles, Facebook profiles, etc.).
You can now quickly send tweets to selected contacts via OS X 10.8 sharing services.
A new “Department” category automatically groups all contacts from the same department.
Mobile phone numbers are now collected in an additional “Mobile Phone Numbers” category (but they are still listed in the regular “Phone Numbers” category).
Mail.app’s “Previous Recipients” now have a dedicated icon to make them better distinguishable from email addresses that are contained in your address book. And they are now collected in the new “Previous Recipients” category.
Fixes a rare crash during contacts indexing.
New iCloud Documents indexing rule:
This new indexing rule adds all documents that are stored in iCloud to your LaunchBar index.
Other Improvements and Bug Fixes:
Added Sharing Service Actions (Post on Twitter, Post on Facebook, Send via AirDrop, …) actions.
OS X services (from LaunchBar’s Services indexing rule) are now displayed with the icon of the app that provides the service.
UI Improvements
Added: “App Store Applications”, “Non App Store Applications” categories.
Improved detection of Google Chrome and Chromium bookmark files (bookmarks within profiles are now supported).
Improved German localization.
Improved support of third party email clients.
Fixes search feature in LaunchBar’s Help.
Revised Help Chapters.
Added support for Mailplane 3.
Improved Automatic Software Update.
Fixes an issue with indexing of symlinked Preference Panes.
Fixes an issue when sending selected text via Instant Send to Mail.app.
Fixes an issue causing LaunchBar not to hide after invoking a service.
Fixes abbreviation search bug in subsearches.
Several other minor bug fixes and improvements.

New in LaunchBar 5.4.3 Build 949 (Apr 11, 2013)

New in LaunchBar 5.4.2 Build 946 (Mar 12, 2013)

New in LaunchBar 5.4.1 Build 944 (Jan 17, 2013)

Improved compatibility with iTunes 11.
Improved accessibility (VoiceOver support) in index window.
Redesigned toolbar icons in index window.
Redesigned iTunes icons for Artist, Album and Track.
Improved compatibility with SparkleShare.
Improved Dash.app support. Selecting Dash.app and pressing Space now triggers the “Look up in Dash” action. It’s also possible to send a search string to Dash.app via Instant Send.
Instant Send can now also handle shell-escaped file paths.
Updated ADC documentation indexer to support iOS6 and Xcode 4.5 documentation.
Improved indexing and display of mounted volumes.
Improved “Switch to Calculator when typing digits” preference option. It’s now possible to enter abbreviations that start with a digit (e.g. “1P” in order to select “1Password”), even when this preference option is turned on. Therefore we’ve now turned on this option, even if was explicitly turned off before (but you can turn it off again, if you really don’t want to use it, even now with its improved behavior).
Improved “Copy Name” action. Copies all names (separated with line breaks) in case of multiple file selections.
Improved display of an app’s recent documents.
Improved display of working directory when entering Terminal commands.
Improved “Assign Abbreviation” and “Show in Index” commands. These commands now properly consider the “Access items via sub-search only” option.
During text input (e.g. when entering text argument for a script or a search template) it’s now possible to trigger spell checking with the standard Command-; shortcut.
Improved detection of labeled email addresses during Instant Send.
Minor calculator improvements.
Fixes a bug in Dialectic integration.
Fixes an issue causing iTunes’ “Go to Current Song” command to fail when playing a song via LaunchBar.
Fixes an issue causing the “Show in iTunes” action to fail.
Fixes an issue that caused LaunchBar not to hide after receiving a file via drag & drop.

New in LaunchBar 5.4 Build 943 (Nov 9, 2012)

New in LaunchBar 5.3 Build 938 (Jul 28, 2012)

New in LaunchBar 5.2 Build 909 (Apr 25, 2012)

New Features and Improvements:
When LaunchBar is opened via hotkey it no longer shows its own menu bar. Instead, the menu bar of the currently active application remains visible.
Improved implementation of Instant Send.
When a text action is invoked via Send-to or Instant Send (for example, when sending text to a search template, service or script), the text is now registered in the text input history. The text can then be accessed in a subsequent text action via Shift-Space or Shift-Return.
Improved LaunchBar’s Recent Items list (which can be invoked with Command-B) to include folders that have been traversed via browsing, or have been used as an argument for actions such as "Open Terminal Here" (Command-T).
New built-in action: Clear Recent Items
When entering a web search, Command-Return can now be used to create the URL that represents the query rather than actually performing the search.
Enhanced browsing functionality: Shift-Left can be used to show the contents of the selected item’s parent folder. This is especially useful while browsing an application’s recent documents.
The list of available search template URL text encodings has been extended.
Updated MacUpdate search template in the factory configuration.
The "Append English filename" option has been re-added to LaunchBar Preferences > Advanced.
Redesigned icons in preferences window.
Improved iCal Support:
Creating calendar entries no longer requires iCal to be running.
When entering calendar entries it’s now possible to specify multiple alerts, separated with a blank character. Example: Meeting @ Feb 12 4d! 30m!
The default alert time for all-day events and reminders is now 8:00 AM.
Improved iTunes Support:
Significantly improved performance of iTunes playback in case of large iTunes libraries.
iTunes playback now also works with iCloud remote tracks and iTunes Match.
Improved detection of classical genres in iTunes, considering localized genre names. This information is used for determining the “Primary Artist” of a track.
Improved iTunes playback: When selecting a song from a playlist, the song is now played in the context of that playlist.
Improved Applications Indexing:
Improved indexing of installed applications. The indexer now utilizes the Spotlight index for retrieving the locations all installed applications.
Improved indexing to include Wi-Fi Diagnostics.app in the Applications index.
Improved indexing to find applications that are located inside Xcode’s application package.
Improved Developer Support:
Updated developer documentation indexing to work with documentation sets installed by Xcode 4.3.
Improved developer documentation indexing. It's now possible to specify the desired platform (OS X, iOS, All Platforms).
The developer documentation is grouped by platforms in categories (e.g. "Mac OS X Developer Guides", "iOS Reference Files", "Developer Tools Release Notes" etc.). This allows to sub-search within a particular subset of documentation files.
Improved Info.plist / NSServices browsing, showing all service names at a glance.
Bug Fixes:
Fixes an issue that could cause LaunchBar to be shown without a shadow immediately after login.
Fixes an issue with the LaunchBar Help causing some chapters to be unaccessible.
Fixed: Switching to LaunchBar with Command-Tab didn't open the bar.
Fixes an issue with the placement of the LaunchBar window in fullscreen mode.
Fixes an issue with the display of the search result list when the LaunchBar window position is at the bottom of the screen.
Fixes a rare crash that could occur when upgrading from an older version of LaunchBar.
Fixes an issue with address book labels containing parentheses.
Fixes a crash that could occur while indexing the services of certain third party applications.
Fixes an issue causing some preference panes to be displayed with a wrong icon.
Fixes an issue causing the Messages.app beta to be still shown as iChat.app.
Fixes an issue causing LaunchBar to appear at the wrong location with apps running in fullscreen mode.
Addresses an issue causing the entered abbreviation to be displayed at the wrong location.
Fixes a crash related to Services indexing.
Fixed: In Lion, selecting Terminal.app and pressing Space didn’t offer the “Run Terminal Command” action.
Fixed: Finder > Recent Folders browsing didn’t work in Lion.
Fixes an issue with the playback of Best Of Lists.
Fixes an issue when attempting to replace a file with itself.
Fixes a rare line break issue in the large type display.
Removed Features:
Removed the “Play from Music Library” playback option.

New in LaunchBar 5.1.3 Build 719 (Jul 18, 2011)

New in LaunchBar 5.1.2 Build 716 (Jul 2, 2011)

New in LaunchBar 5.1.1 (Jul 2, 2011)

New in LaunchBar 5.1 (Jul 2, 2011)

New Features:
New Automatic software updates to check, download and install new versions. Turned off by default (unless you’ve already turned on update notifications in a previous version). Can be turned on in LaunchBar Preferences > Software Update.
New The list font size can now be adjusted in Preferences > Appearance.
The default font size of the search result list has been increased.
New Allows to specify locations when creating iCal events. The location must be separated with another '@' character. Example: "Meeting with Bob @ Joe’s Cafe @ next Mon 3pm". You can press the Tab key to enter the '@' more quickly.
New Adds support for third party calendar event creation utilities. You can choose your preferred calendar input method in Preferences > Actions > Options. You can choose between LaunchBar, Fantastical (http://flexibits.com/fantastical) and QuickCal (http://quickcalapp.com/).
New If an application provides a text service, this service can now be easily triggered by selecting that application and pressing Space. For example, to post a new tweet via Twitter, select the Twitter.app, press Space and enter your message.
New Adds support for indexing Google Chrome bookmarks and history.
New Adds support for indexing Chromium bookmarks and history.
New Adds “Search App Store” functionality: Select the App Store application and press Space to enter your search.
New After opening a search template you can press Shift-Space to insert the most recently used search string from other templates. This makes it easier to repeat a search with a different search engine.
New Bookmarks and URLs can now be edited prior to opening them by pressing Space. Note that those URL changes are NOT written back to your bookmarks file.
New When browsing contact detail categories (Phone Numbers, Email Addresses, Postal Addresses), the corresponding values are displayed next to the person’s name.
New For advanced iTunes Library management there’s now an “Identically Named Albums” category. It’s actually a spin-off of our improved iTunes indexing. It’s created whenever your iTunes Library contains identically named albums from different artists.
New Adds a new “Copy Screenshot of Selected Window Without Shadow” to built-in actions.
New Adds a new “Run Shell Command” action. The entered command is executed in background, without opening a Terminal window.
New Adds a new “Clear Clipboard History” action. Alternatively, Option-Delete can be used to clear the history while the history list is opened.
New The “Hide Dock Icon” option will now be preserved across updates, provided that the update gets installed via automatic software update.
New When turning on the “Hide Dock Icon” option in Preferences > Advanced, the necessary application restart can now be performed automatically.
Improved File Content Browsing & File Content Search:
Browsing & Search now works for all file types that can be converted into plain text (.txt, .rtf, .rtfd, .html, .h, .m, .doc, .webarchive, etc.)
The Search File Contents action can now be triggered more conveniently with Command-F. Alternatively, it can still be triggered with Option-Space or Control-Space.
Property List Browsing (Developers, you will love this!): Select a *.plist file and press Right Arrow to browse the plist hierarchy. Works also with a number of other filetypes such as .strings, .dict, .pbxproj or .ini and more.
When browsing text, a line of text can now be further browsed by pressing Right Arrow. The line will then be split into white space separated tokens.
Improvements:
Improves Mac OS X 10.7 Lion compatibility. Note: For best compatibility with Lion’s new full screen mode feature you should turn on LaunchBar Preferences > General > Nonactivating Mode and hide the Dock icon via LaunchBar Preferences > Advanced > Hide Dock Icon.
Improves iTerm support, adding support for iTerm 2.
Adds key repeat support when browsing the running apps list with Command-Space/Space.
Browsing the running apps list upwards (with the Shift key held down) now performs a wrap around (same as when browsing the list downwards without the Shift key).
Improves Instant Open: Press and hold an abbreviation character along with the Shift key can now be used to temporarily suppress the Hide Other Applications option (which you may have turned on in Preferences > Actions > Option).
Improves Quick Look support.
Improves handling of keyboard layouts, especially the various Dvorak variants.
Improves abbreviation search algorithm.
Corrected www.oanda.com currency conversion search templates in factory configuration.
Automator workflows in /System/Library/Services are now indexed by the Services indexing rule.
Improves the “Copy” and “Copy and Paste” actions. These actions now ask for a text to be entered when invoked directly with Return.
Improves the handling of custom AppleScript actions (which can be placed in ~/Library/Application Support/LaunchBar/Actions).
Improves the “Set Color Label” actions.
Improves automatic index updates when running LaunchBar in nonactivating mode.
Improves automatic application index update when installing or updating applications from the Mac App Store.
Improves ADC documentation indexing.
Improves display of Finder color labels.
Bug Fixes:
Fixes a hanging issue when using Modifier Taps on Mac OS X 10.4.
Fixes an issue when creating iCal events in a calendar whose name isn’t unique across multiple accounts.
Fixes an issue when indexing DevonTHINK database files.
Fixes an issue when quitting applications from within LaunchBar’s app switcher in nonactivating mode.
Fixes an issue with Opera bookmarks indexing.
Fixes an issue with the User Accounts indexing rule causing user names with non-ASCII characters to be displayed incorrectly.
Fixes an issue with playback of equally named albums in iTunes.
Fixes an issue that could cause the LaunchBar window to refuse keyboard input when running in nonactivating mode with Automatic Hiding turned off.
Fixes a display issue with items containing line break characters in their name.
Addresses an issue with the Calendar > Show in iCal action.
Fixes an issue causing Paste and Remove from History to fail in conjunction with BBEdit or TextWrangler.
Fixes an issue when showing a large list of items on a small screen.
Fixes an issue with ClipMerge causing a wrong line separator to be used when merging rich text.
Removed Features:
Removes support for Sherlock Channels.
Removes support for Watson Tools.

New in LaunchBar 5.0.4 Build 682 (Feb 3, 2011)

New in LaunchBar 5.0.3 Build 673 (Oct 18, 2010)

Added support for Firefox bookmark folders.
Phone numbers are now formatted according to the “Automatically format phone numbers” option specified in Address Book preferences.
Added support for phonetic first name / last name of Address Book contacts.
Calculator: The letter “a” can now be used as a placeholder for the most recent calculator result. For example, if you have just calculated “2 + 3” you can then enter “a * (a + 8)” to calculate “5 * (5 + 8)”.
Added “round” to built-in Calculator functions. Example: round(1.225|2) results in 1.23
Improved iTunes indexing and playback if the iTunes library contains equally named albums from different artists. Note that the “album artist” must be set accordingly in iTunes, so that LaunchBar can distinguish between the different albums.
Added “Bing”, “Bing Images” and “Linguee” to factory search templates.
Added support for browsing Aperture’s recent libraries. Select the Aperture application in LaunchBar and press Right Arrow to get the list of recent libraries.
New AppleScript property “has keyboard focus”. Tells if the LaunchBar window currently has keyboard focus.
Added “Secure Empty Trash” action.
Clipboard History: Improved heuristics for detection and naming of image items.
Browsing backwards (with the left arrow key) has been improved for invisible files.
Improved indexing of Developer Documentation.
The currently used iTunes library is now detected more reliably.
Sorting by modification date (which can be accomplished by browsing a collection with Command-Right Arrow) now also works with categories (e.g. PDF Documents, Numbers Documents, etc.)
Improved indexing of Address Book labels.
Improved “Empty Trash” action.
Improved “Eject” action.
Improved “Start Screen Saver” action.
Improved “New TextEdit Document” action.
Improved Cyberduck bookmark icons.
Improved iCal calendar indexing.
iCal input: Improved date parsing on non-English systems.
Improved recent documents access on Mac OS X 10.5.
Improved German localization.
Fixed an issue causing keypresses not to reach the active application immediately after closing LaunchBar.
Fixed Internet Movie Database (IMDb) search template in factory configuration.
Fixed an issue causing the “Open Terminal here” action (Command-T) to fail if iTerm was selected as the preferred terminal application.
Fixed an issue when browsing the contents of an indexing rule with the space bar.
Fixed an issue when browsing the list of running apps backwards with the Shift key held down (e.g. Command-Shift-Space).
Fixed an issue with recent documents of Snow Leopard’s new QuickTime Player.
Fixed: On Mac OS X 10.6 some CoreServices apps were missing from the Applications index (Ticket Viewer.app, Certificate Assistant.app, Directory Utility.app, etc.)
Fixed an issue when creating all-day calendar events.
Fixed an issue with the “Show in Current Finder window” action.
Fixed an issue with LaunchBar’s Help index file.
Fixed a minor memory leak when copying images from rich text documents.
Implemented workaround for a Mac OS X bug that caused detection of modifier taps to fail under some circumstances.
Some internal code cleanup.

New in LaunchBar 5.0.2 Build 655 (Nov 4, 2009)

New in LaunchBar 5.0.1 Build 649 (Oct 20, 2009)

New in LaunchBar 5.0 (Oct 20, 2009)

New in LaunchBar 5.0 RC4 Build 644 (Aug 28, 2009)

New in LaunchBar 5.0 RC3 Build 641 (Jun 16, 2009)

New in LaunchBar 5.0 RC2 Build 639 (May 30, 2009)

New in LaunchBar 5.0 RC1 Build 637 (Apr 30, 2009)

New in LaunchBar 5.0 Beta 7 Build 635 (Mar 31, 2009)

New in LaunchBar 5.0 Beta 6 Build 633 (Feb 28, 2009)

New in LaunchBar 5.0 Beta 5 Build 632 (Jan 28, 2009)

New in LaunchBar 5.0 Beta 4 Build 631 (Jan 27, 2009)

New in LaunchBar 5.0 Beta 3 Build 630 (Jan 2, 2009)

New Clipboard History default action: Paste as Plain Text.
The Clipboard History action “Copy and Paste” has been changed to “Paste”, so the current clipboard contents are no longer altered when pasting a clipboard history item.
Added “Send to” support for Clipboard History items (by pressing the Tab key).
Reduced memory footprint of Clipboard History.
The Clipboard preferences help button now opens the correct help page.
Creating iCal events: Several bug fixes and improvements when entering time and date.
The hour/minute separator (colon or dot) can now be omitted in non-ambiguous cases (e.g. Fri 0800-1030). However, it’s still necessary to enter the separator in ambiguous cases (Jan 13, 2010 vs. Jan 13, 20:10)
Fixed an issue when entering time ranges across noon or midnight (e.g. 10-12.30pm)
Fixed an issue when entering only weekday and time (e.g. Fri 7.30pm)
Added “Recompress Image” actions.
Fixed an issue when dragging multiple files onto LaunchBar’s Dock icon.
Added missing German localization in software update check.
Fixed an issue causing LaunchBar not to hide when started automatically at login.
Fixed an issue with Instant Send / Get Finder Selection (Command-G) when there was nothing selected in Finder.
The shortcut for “Run in Background” / “Execute in Background” has been changed from Shift-Return to Option-Return to resolve a conflict with the new “Apply last entered text to selected item” feature, which also uses the Shift-Return shortcut.
The “Check Spelling While Typing” setting of LaunchBar’s input window is now preserved across restarts.
Fixed some issues with Asian input methods in LaunchBar’s text input field.
The ClipMerge sound effect can now be customized by providing one or more sound files in the ~/Library/Application Support/LaunchBar/Sounds/ClipMerge folder. If this folder contains more than one sound file, the sound effect will be chosen randomly.
Improved ClipMerge when typing Command-C-C via key repeat (when Command-C is kept pressed until ClipMerge is performed).
The Command-Space-Space app switcher can now be cancelled with Escape while the Command key is still pressed.
Files can now be sent to Services menu actions via “Send to”.
Fixed an issue causing launched applications not to become active (occurred only when running LaunchBar without a Dock icon).
Fixed a crashing issue when invoking Entourage actions on computers not having Entourage installed.
Fixed a rare crashing issue at startup.

New in LaunchBar 5.0 Beta 2 Build 627 (Dec 15, 2008)

New in LaunchBar 5.0 Beta 1 Build 626 (Dec 5, 2008)

New in LaunchBar 4.3.7 Build 567 (Apr 7, 2008)

New in LaunchBar 4.3.6 Build 565 (Apr 4, 2008)

New in LaunchBar 4.3.5 Build 561 (Feb 22, 2008)

New in LaunchBar 4.3.4 (Jan 19, 2008)

New Features and Improvements:
When sub-searching a folder's contents via Space bar, the search is now performed recursively across all subfolder levels (provided that they are indexed by LaunchBar). In contrast, sub-searching via Right Arrow key only searches the very first folder level (same as in previous versions).
The Files and Folders indexing rule now allows to specify folders to be skipped depending on their contents. For example, to skip all folders that contain an Xcode Project File, add //*.xcodeproj to the rule's "Skip Subfolders" list.
Added "Quit Application" to built-in AppleScripts. Allows to quit a selected application via "Send To".
Improved application scanner to provide access to the following CoreServices applications: Archive Utility, Installer, Network Diagnostics, Screen Sharing.
Improved Instant Calculate to accept multiplication sign (?) and division sign (�).
Improved "iTunes - Play/Pause" script to better work during playback from a separate iTunes playlist window.
Improved fast user switching support: The User Accounts indexing rule now provides access to Leopard's guest account.
Revised HTML syntax of help files.
LaunchBar's file icon caches are now updated more reliably.
Bug Fixes:
Running Automator Workflows didn't work on Leopard. Fixed.
Fixed a bug in the "New Mail Message" AppleScript.
Address Book changes are now observed more precisely. Prevents unnecessary index updates while editing in Address Book.
Fixed a performance issue related to arrow key browsing (most noticeable when browsing an application's recent documents).
Fixed a crashing issue when running Calculator with Autohiding turned off.
Slightly enhanced overall performance due to improved handling of running processes.
UTF-8 files are now handled correctly with "Append Text" and when browsing or searching a text file's contents.
Wrong Calculator results when using comma as decimal separator. Fixed.
Fixed an issue when browsing the contents of the system's root folder (some hidden Unix folders wrongly showed up).

New in LaunchBar 4.3.3 (Nov 23, 2007)

New Features and Improvements
Instant Calculate: If the text sent via Instant Send appears to be a valid calculator expression, the results are displayed automatically.
The built-in calculator can now be utilized from external applications via URL commands (e.g.: x-launchbar:calculate?expression=(1 sqrt(5))/2&title=Golden Ratio).
Improved "Files an Folders" indexing rule. The "Skip subfolders" option now allows to skip particular folders as well as folders with a matching name. It's now also possible to drag the desired folders to the list.
Improved x-launchbar:execute URL command. The new "argument" parameter gets any necessary quoting and escaping applied automatically.
Added "Send to" support for mailing labels.
Added support for running "scptd" AppleScript bundles.
Improved Calculator input on notebook keyboards: The key left from the "1" key can be used to enter a decimal separator.
Improved auto-detection of thousand separators: In ambiguous cases (e.g. "12.000 3,123") LaunchBar now considers the number format as specified in System Preferences > International.
The Autohiding of LaunchBar can now be turned off temporarily, e.g. to make the selected item a better accessible target for subsequent drag and drop operations. Click the gear wheel icon and choose "Turn Hiding Off" from the menu.
Improved "Show in Finder" action to work around a bug in Finder.
Improved compatibility with Safari 3.
Improved file icon caching.
Improved sending URLs to applications via "Send to".
Different types of OmniOutliner documents are now grouped in a single category.
The "Send to LaunchBar" services menu shortcut has been changed to Command-Shift-F1 to prevent conflicts with some third party applications.
The "Hide Classic Applications with Command-H" and "Hide Others with Command-Option-H" options have been removed.
Improved Leopard Compatibility
The appearance of the LaunchBar window has been slightly adjusted to better match the new look of Leopard.
Developer Documentation index scanner updated for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
Dock index scanner updated for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
Improved compatibility with Time Machine.
Fixed "Recent Projects" browsing for Xcode 3.
Fixed a crashing issue with the Sherlock indexing rule on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
Fixed an incompatibility of the "New Mail Message" script with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
LaunchBar now properly considers the system's generic folder icon.
Bug Fixes
Fixed an issue with Calculator's auto-detection of thousand separators.
Fixed an issue causing Calculator to fail with some Asian keyboard layouts.
Typing fn-period no longer hides LaunchBar.
Accidental attempts to move the home folder to the trash are now prevented.
When placing the bar at the bottom of the screen, there's no longer a one pixel gap below the bar.
Fixed an issue causing Instant Send to stop working when opening System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse.
Fixed an issue causing LaunchBar sometimes to become active after quitting other applications.
Fixed an issue sometimes causing the fade in/out animation to jerk.
Fixed an issue that sometimes caused "Look Up in Dictionary" to fail if Dictionary.app wasn't yet running.
Fixed an issue when playing a disabled iTunes track in "Play from Album" mode.
Fixed an issue with the iPhoto Library index scanner.