What's new in SMARTReporter 3.1.17
Nov 2, 2018
- Fixed problem where only the SSD part of Fusion Drives would be checked on Mojave
New in SMARTReporter 3.1.16 Build 2291 (Apr 20, 2018)
- Fixed problem where disk-space check could pick up the recovery partition.
New in SMARTReporter 3.1.15 Build 2284 (Mar 12, 2018)
- Fixed problem where disk-space check could pick up volumes that are not real disks
- Fixed possible crash related to clicking on the old Growl notifications on new OS versions
- Fixed extremely rare possibility of a crash
- Fixed very rare possibility of the S.M.A.R.T. self-test causing SMARTReporter to hang
New in SMARTReporter 3.1.14 Build 2226 (Nov 8, 2017)
- Fixed disk-space check to match Finder values when possible
- Fixed problem where disk-space check could pick up the Recovery partition
- Fixed problem where disk-space check could pick up 'High Sierra's APFS snapshots
- Fixed problem where NVMe disks would not be checked
- Fixed problem with 'High Sierra's "VM" Partition showing up in disk names
- Fixed problem where 'High Sierra's APFS snapshots could lead to logged error messages
- Fixed documentation and FAQ for accuracy
New in SMARTReporter 3.1.13 Build 2095 (Mar 14, 2017)
- Fixed problems with R.A.I.D. check hanging or not reporting failures
- Fixed actual time of last check not being updated in some cases
- Fixed infinite loop at welcome assistant upon damaged preferences
- Fixed problems with log-file not updating since 3.1.12 on 10.12
New in SMARTReporter 3.1.12 Build 2004 (Dec 6, 2016)
- Fixed SMARTReporter getting hung if R.A.I.D. check takes too long
- Fixed e-mail delivery check being performed even when no e-mail is configured
New in SMARTReporter 3.1.11 Build 1947 (Sep 11, 2016)
- Fixed broken e-mail delivery not being detected when sending through our server
- Fixed some disks not being recognised by the attribute-check (smartctl / smartmontools)
- Fixed conflict of attribute-check & self-test (smartctl) with system-installed copy
New in SMARTReporter 3.1.10 Build 1927 (Mar 29, 2016)
- Fixed problems with graphs not showing.
New in SMARTReporter 3.1.9 Build 1908 (Mar 23, 2016)
- Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.6.x.
New in SMARTReporter 3.1.8 Build 1899 (Mar 15, 2016)
- Fixed problem with disk names containing Chinese bracket characters
- Fixed problem with the I/O-error check
- Fixed problem that the daily status mail could not be turned on
New in SMARTReporter 3.1.7 Build 1876 (Dec 17, 2015)
- Fixed crash when trying to send e-mail without entering address
- Fixed crash when moving SMARTReporter while it is running
- Fixed wrong number of failing disks displayed in menubar and tooltip
- Improved stability by shutting down S.M.A.R.T. interface after usage
- Fixed rare problem with I/O error check in case of logfile-rotation
New in SMARTReporter 3.1.6 Build 1814 (Apr 30, 2015)
- It contains critical fixes
New in SMARTReporter 3.1.6 (Apr 29, 2015)
- Improved stability
- Fixed problem where some e-mails could not be sent
- Fixed problem with incomplete I/O error detection
- Fixed some dates being displayed in wrong format
New in SMARTReporter 3.1.5 (Dec 16, 2014)
- Fixed problem where self-test could not be performed on some disks
- Fixed problem where wrong values would be reported in disk-space check
- eSellerate: Added hidden option to activate license without user intervention
New in SMARTReporter 3.1.4 (Oct 21, 2014)
- Fixed problem with e-mail delivery
- Fixed problem with temperature not being reported
- Fixed problem with gatekeeper validation of eSellerate version on 10.10
New in SMARTReporter 3.1.3 (Sep 4, 2014)
- Fixed issue with the S.M.A.R.T. self-test progress not being reported
- Fixed issue with e-mail delivery accepting malformed addresses
New in SMARTReporter 3.1.2 (Jun 7, 2014)
- (eSellerate-only) Fix e-mail notification delivery though our server
- Added option to configure the subject for the daily status e-mail
- Added option to exclude some volumes from the disk-space check
- Added option to disk-space check to check for absolute value of free space (in GB)
- Added information from menubar menu icon tooltip also to the menu
- Added menubar menu also to the Dock contextual menu
- Added 2 new icon-sets (thanks to "Brynjar Saunes Bye" for one)
- Compress collected (graph) data and preserve for 120 days instead of just 30 days
- Changed wording of disk-space check to talk about 'volumes' to avoid confusion
- Add information about SSD health to the menu icon tooltip (if attribute-checking is enabled)
- Add information about temperatures to the menu icon tooltip (if attribute-checking is enabled)
- Disabled I/O error checking under non-admin accounts as it wasn't working anyway
- Fixed problems with e-mail notification reliability
- Fixed problems where empty options would show up for graphing
- Fixed problems with french localization (thanks to "Katharina Niedermayr")
- Fixed problem with the placement of the icons in the menubar
- Fixed problem with the disk space check picking up network volumes
- Fixed problem where the disk-space check claims to have checked too many disks
- Fixed problem with sheets improperly resizing
- Fixed notice about running S.M.A.R.T. self-test not being displayed
- Fixed smartmontools GPL license information not being displayed
New in SMARTReporter 3.1.1 (Aug 9, 2013)
New in SMARTReporter 3.1.0 (Jun 7, 2013)
- Fix problem where e-mail delivery to some e-mail addresses would be impossible
- Fix problem where disks in ZFS volumes would not be checked
- Fix problem where labels in the attribute graph would be cut off
- Fix problem with daily status e-mails being delivered at the wrong time (also when crossing DST)
- Increase maximum interval for S.M.A.R.T. checking non-boot disks to a week
- Updated default menu icon set ("Disks") and the icon sets "Signs" and "Black signs" to retina-resolution
- Update to newer Growl SDK to fix annoying log message
- Usability improvements to the history tab, the e-mail sending & the ignore disk-list
- Warn when the Tryout version is still installed and running in addition to the full version
- Improved accuracy of the reported name of disks with I/O errors
- Improved performance and responsiveness
- Allow hiding of the Dock icon without restarting SMARTReporter (starting with 10.7)
- List disks that are actually S.M.A.R.T. checked in the check details information
- Updated smartmontools (v6.1) to support newer disks for S.M.A.R.T. attribute display
- Fixed Swedish localization
- The minimum system requirements have been raised to Mac OS X 10.6.8
- (eSellerate-only) Add option to define arbitrary warning thresholds on S.M.A.R.T. attribute values
- (eSellerate-only) Add information about S.M.A.R.T. attributes to the daily status e-mail (if attribute-checking is enabled)
- (eSellerate-only) Add information about disk temperatures to the menu icon tooltip (if attribute-checking is enabled)
- IMPORTANT: Since this release contains some new features only in the version sold on eSellerate, existing MacAppStore customers can upgrade to the eSellerate version free of charge by sending your purchase receipt to . However, we only recommend the eSellerate version to "power users" - the additional features are only possibly important to advanced users, and installation and updates are more complicated than with the MacAppStore version.
New in SMARTReporter 3.0.5 (Nov 21, 2012)
- Fix problem where false I/O errors could be reported under Mac OS X 10.8
- Fix problem that nothing would be written to the log-file on the first launch
- Fix problem where I/O errors occurring on Disk Images would be reported
- Fix e-mail problem notification being delayed until the alert notification is dismissed
- Fix support for S.M.A.R.T. checking disks contained in a "SoftRAID"
- Add information about configuration problems to the menu icon tooltip
- Add more reliable email delivery mechanism by sending through our server
- Don't show Dock icon when SMARTReporter is opened in while being "hidden"
- Show helpful dialog when opening the main window during configuration problems
- Fixed German localization (thanks to Julien Dirk)
New in SMARTReporter 3.0.4 (Jul 30, 2012)
- Fixed the I/O error check to work on Mac OS X "Mountain Lion" 10.8
- Added support for native on-screen notifications in Mac OS X "Mountain Lion" 10.8
- Added Brazilian Portuguese localization (thanks to Victor Figueiredo)
- Added new menubar icon set to better fit with the default Apple icons
- Fixed possible issues related to I/O error checking, notification interval and log-output
- Never activate discrete GPU in hybrid GPU Macs from 2011 or newer
New in SMARTReporter 3.0.3 (Jul 4, 2012)
- Added the option to purchase outside of the MacAppStore for volume purchase/companies/consultants, etc.
- Improved stability
- Improved the optional disk-space check not to check mounted server volumes
New in SMARTReporter 3.0.2 (Jun 12, 2012)
- Fixed issue introduced in v3.0.1 that could make SMARTReporter crash or stop working
- Fixed memory leaks and generally improved memory consumption
New in SMARTReporter 3.0.1 (May 28, 2012)
- Fixed problem where not all disks contained in connected R.A.I.D. sets would be S.M.A.R.T.-checked
- Fixed problem SMARTReporter would become unresponsive during automated attribute checks
- Fixed problem where the database would become corrupted and SMARTReporter would refuse to launch
- Improved the optional disk-space check not to check removable volumes (DVD, USB-stick) or special volumes (MobileBackups)
- Improvements for sending emails through Apple Mail
- Added Swedish localization (thanks to Pär Boberg)
- Added French localization (thanks to Ronald A. Leroux)
- Fixed German localization (thanks to Oliver Gumprecht)
- Fixed S.M.A.R.T. attribute display for some disks
- Fixed location of the log-file
- Prevented switch to discrete GPU in hybrid GPU Macs when opening the "Settings" tab
- Updated smartmontools (r3529) to support newer disks
- Use fixed-width font for output of advanced S.M.A.R.T. utilities
- Spelling fixes
New in SMARTReporter 3.0.0 (May 28, 2012)
- REWRITTEN: completely new version of SMARTReporter with major new features
- REDESIGNED: completely overhauled user interface to be more capable and easier to use
- SMARTReporter now automatically detects and warns about configuration problems with the notifications
- Added support for hot-plugged disks, always check all connected disks
- Added a "Status" tab that shows a status summary of all 4 disk checks and notifications
- Added I/O-Error checking for disks that do not support S.M.A.R.T. (e.g. external disks)
- Added option to send an daily status report of all disk checks via email
- Added option to schedule regular short S.M.A.R.T. self-tests
- Added option to schedule regular S.M.A.R.T. parameter checks
- Added option to plot graphs of all collected information (e.g. plot disk temperature over time)
- Added option to display SMARTReporter in the Dock
- Added customized problem notifications (including changing the icon) for I/O-Error and R.A.I.D. problems
- Added an optional check for free disk space
- Added option to specify how often failed checks should trigger the problem notifications
- Added option to customize the text for all problem notifications
- Added integrated log-file viewer
- Added option to exclude disks from I/O-Error checks
- Added "context-sensitive, intelligent" help texts to ease configuration
- Added I/O error checking for non-admin accounts
- Ensured Mac OS X 10.8 compatibility
- The minimum system requirements have been raised to Mac OS X 10.6.6
- SMARTReporter 3 is now distributed only through the Mac App Store and costs 4.99$ / 3.99€
New in SMARTReporter 2.7.1 (Dec 16, 2011)
- Added compatibility with Growl version 1.3
- Added compatibility with Xserve / SAS hardware
- Added 5 new icon-sets (thanks to Pietro Faraone)
- Added placeholder replacement for notification e-mail header
- Updated Swedish localization (thanks to Pär Boberg)
- Updated Japanese localization (thanks to Jumpei Suzuki)
New in SMARTReporter 2.7.0 (Aug 30, 2011)
- Added display of a "tooltip" with the current status when resting the cursor on the menu-icon
- Added option to check attached Software-RAIDs for being degraded or offline
- Fix another warning message in the logfile (about inability to read from the system-logfile)
- Some smaller changes and fixes
New in SMARTReporter 2.6.2 (May 3, 2011)
- Another fix for error messages about not being able to open the log file
- Fixed possible crash while sending e-mails
- Added Swedish localization
New in SMARTReporter 2.6.1 (May 2, 2011)
- Fixes for the new I/O error check system:
- Fixed possible crash
- Fixed error messages about not being able to open the log file
- Updated French localization
New in SMARTReporter 2.6.0 (Apr 14, 2011)
- Completely rewritten the I/O error check option to work great on all systems
- Re-enabled the I/O error check option on Mac OS X 10.5.x (Leopard)
- Make sure this option is enabled since previous versions might have disabled it
- Completely rewritten logging , unimportant messages aren't written to the system log file
- Attention, the log-file format has changed
- S.M.A.R.T. failures will be "broadcast" to all connected terminal users
- Updated the functionality to check S.M.A.R.T. attributes and perform S.M.A.R.T. self-tests
- Updated smartmontools (r3314) to support newer drives especially on 32bit & PPC
- Added option to perform a "long S.M.A.R.T. self-test"
- Added option to view results of previous self-tests without starting a new self-test
- Various usability improvements to these functions
- Add more details including the serial number to the "disk-failure-notification e-mail"
- Fixed problem where S.M.A.R.T drive failure notifications could be triggered too often
- Updated French localization (thanks to Ronald A. Leroux)
- Improved integration with "VoiceOver"
- Option to donate via "flattr" as well as various sharing/bookmarking links on the website
- Some smaller problems fixed
New in SMARTReporter 2.5.8 (Mar 21, 2011)
- IMPORTANT BUGFIX: Fixed a problem where SMARTReporter could cause Mail.app to forget your Mail server password
- Updated the FAQ
- Some smaller problems fixed
New in SMARTReporter 2.5.7 (Mar 14, 2011)
- Disabled I/O error checking on Leopard as system bugs may result in crashes
- Inform the user that the I/O error check option needs admin priviledges and don't spam the logfile if this isn't the case
- Enabled keyboard shortcuts in the application
- Updated (the intel version of) the integrated smartmontools to version 5.40
- Fix progress of S.M.A.R.T. self-tests to count forward
- Hidden option to disable the welcome-screen for enterprise-deployments
- Updated Japanese localization (thanks to Jumpei Suzuki)
New in SMARTReporter 2.5.6 (Oct 21, 2010)
- Fixed a problem where automatic updates would result in a broken installation, necessitating a re-download.
- SMARTReporter's code is now (really really) signed with a digital certificate.
New in SMARTReporter 2.5.5 (Oct 16, 2010)
- Fixed a problem where e-mail delivery would not work (introduced in v2.5.1)
- Fixed a problem where unchecked drives would still be S.M.A.R.T.-checked at app-start
- SMARTReporter's code is now (really) signed with a digital certificate
New in SMARTReporter 2.5.4 (Oct 4, 2010)
- Fixed two problems related to I/O error checking introduced in 2.5.3:
- Sometimes I/O errors that actually happened some weeks ago were reported as new
- I/O errors occurring on the first 9 days of a month were not detected
- Fixed automatic update-check which would not work automatically in some cases
- Fixed donation option not to send users to a german version of the paypal website
New in SMARTReporter 2.5.3 (Sep 20, 2010)
- IMPORTANT BUGFIX: finally fixed the I/O error checking option to be high performance and crash-free - if you previously had to disable the option or it turned itself off, you can turn it on again in the preferences
- Fixes for e-mail sending using custom settings (only PLAIN authentication was supported between 2.5.0 and 2.5.2)
- Keychain integration for the e-mail password when using e-mail sending with custom settings
- Fix a problem where sending e-mails could take up to a few minutes
- Improved "Growl"-integration
- SMARTReporter's code is now signed with a digital certificate
- Fixed German localisation (thanks to Oliver Gumprecht)
- Extended the localization capabilities
New in SMARTReporter 2.5.2 (Sep 14, 2010)
- IMPORTANT BUGFIX: This update fixes several possible problems (CPU consumption & crashes) related to the I/O error checking option introduced in v2.5
- The CPU consumption for doing an I/O error check should be much lower using this version.
- The I/O error check is re-enabled on PPC machines as it actually works fine on most PPC macs and the possible crash is actually related to Mac OS X 10.5 and not PPC
- SMARTReporter should automatically disable I/O error checking if it detects that either of these problems is still occuring on your Mac
- Enabled support for S.M.A.R.T. attribute checking on PPC machines
New in SMARTReporter 2.5.1 (Sep 6, 2010)
- Fixed the crash on PPC machines (by temporarily disabling the new "I/O Error" checking feature there)
- Fixed a problem where the e-mail settings configuration would not be enabled if multiple addresses to deliver to were entered
- Fixed a problem where trying to send custom e-mails without setting an address to send from would result in a crash
New in SMARTReporter 2.5.0 (Sep 3, 2010)
- IMPORTANT: If you are using e-mail notification of disk-failures with custom settings, please check that it is still working
- Added (optional) automatic check for dangerous "I/O Errors" that are a sign of failing drives
- Added support for notifying you of drive failures through Growl, which can notify you via SMS or pushing to your iPhone (Prowl)
- Added support for sending e-mails with encryption (SSL/TLS) and custom settings (necessary for GMail)
- Usability improvements for seting up e-mail drive failure notifications
- Option to sign up for beta-testing to help development
- Handle case when SMARTReporter is launched from its disk image
- Handle case when SMARTReporter is moved while active
- SMARTReporter defaults to starting in 64-bit mode now
- Added Polish localization (thanks to Jarosław Teterycz)
- Updated Italian localization (thanks to Paolo Zanellati)
- Updated French localization (thanks to Ronald A. Leroux)
- Updated Japanese localization (thanks to Jumpei Suzuki)
- Fixed German localization
New in SMARTReporter 2.4.6 (Jan 8, 2010)
- Fixed German localization.
- Updated French localization.
- Updated Spanish and Catalan localizations.
- Updated Japanese localization.
New in SMARTReporter 2.4.5 (Jan 4, 2010)
- SMARTReporter can now display all S.M.A.R.T. attributes by right-clicking a drive in the preferences window (thanks to the smartmontools project for the attribute calculation)
- SMARTReporter can now perform a short "S.M.A.R.T. self-test" by right-clicking a drive in the preferences window (thanks to the smartmontools project for the self-test procedure)
- Fix annoying messages being printed to SMARTReporters log-file during its first run
- SMARTReporter automatically restarts itself when turning off visibility in the Menubar
New in SMARTReporter 2.4.2 (Oct 17, 2009)
- Fix a problem introduced in 2.4.1, annoying messages would be printed into the logfile dozens of times.
New in SMARTReporter 2.4.1 (Oct 16, 2009)
- Fix a issue with the new e-mail sending through Mail.app would not work with multiple recipients
- Fix a problem with the french localization (thanks to Amalrik Dumas)
- Some smaller fixes and additions
New in SMARTReporter 2.4.0 (Sep 18, 2009)
- IMPORTANT: The minimum system requirements have been raised to Mac OS X 10.5
- IMPORTANT: Do not directly upgrade from a release older than 2.3.5, or your preferences won't be taken over
- IMPORTANT: If you are (also) using e-mail notification of disk-failures through Mail.app, please check that it is still working
- Added 64-bit support (on Intel), but by defaults starts in 32-bit mode. To change this use the "Get Info" panel in the Finder on SMARTReporter
- Rewrote the e-mail sending through Mail.app
- Fixed the CrashReport sending facility to only send "real" crashes
- Fixed links to the Apple feedback page in the documentation
- Fixed a bug where adding or removing a harddisk would cause SMARTReporter to believe it has been freshly installed
- Fixed the update-check, which would still check for updates even if disabled (sorry!)
- Make Finder keyboard-shortcuts work directly after dismissing the preferences-window
- Expanded the FAQ
New in SMARTReporter 2.3.9 (Dec 29, 2008)
- IMPORTANT: Users of Mac OS X 10.3 and 10.4 have to update manually to this release since the update check has been disabled on this platform already
- Fixed a problem with disks attached to Sonnettech ATA-cards would not be recognized with the Sonnettech driver 2.1.4+
- Fixed a problem where SMARTReporter would loose its preferences and add itself to the Login-Items multiple times
- Fixed the "Start on login" feature on Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" through a new Leopard-specific implementation (again)
- Updated Japanese localization (thanks to Jumpei Suzuki)
New in SMARTReporter 2.3.8 (Aug 21, 2008)
- Disable the update-check on Mac OS X 10.3 and 10.4 as those won't be supported in future releases
- To automatically update to future releases you must first update to this version
- Updated "Sparkle" (the Framework used for Version Checking and Automatic Updates), to fix possible crashes
- Fixed possible crash while sending CrashReports
- Fixed possible problem sending e-mails through broken SMTP-servers
New in SMARTReporter 2.3.7 (Feb 22, 2008)
- IMPORTANT BUGFIX: REALLY fixed the crashes on 10.3.x this time
- IMPORTANT BUGFIX: REALLY fixed the crashes with the Spanish, Russian and Catalan localizations
- Updated French localization (thanks to Ronald Leroux)
New in SMARTReporter 2.3.6 (Feb 20, 2008)
- Fixed crashes on 10.3.x caused by the Update-Framework
- Fixed crashes occuring when the Sytem-Language matches Spanish, Russian or Catalan
- Fixed spelling in the Italian localisation
New in SMARTReporter 2.3.5.1 (Feb 7, 2008)
- IMPORTANT BUGFIX: Disabled the new Leopard-specific "Start on login" as it seems to crash
New in SMARTReporter 2.3.2 (Oct 4, 2007)
- Updated all hyperlinks in the application and the documentation because of the move to a new hosting for website & e-mail.