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Aerial Changelog

What's new in Aerial 3.3.8

Apr 28, 2024
  • What's new:
  • Move weather API to https. This may fix issues with weather that some were experiencing
  • Add extra checks for filesize in case you have corrupted videos (from failed downloads) in your cache. This may fix black screen issues where you only see the overlays.
  • Please note:
  • Because of new restrictions in macOS Sonoma, some features (location, shell integration, etc) now require AerialCompanion to run in your menu bar in order to work.

New in Aerial 3.3.7 (Jan 22, 2024)

  • Fix spanned mode on macOS 12/13

New in Aerial 3.3.6 (Jan 18, 2024)

  • Workaround for Sonoma bug with some multi monitor systems with particular alignments (on top of each other, or with less than 50% vertical overlap)

New in Aerial 3.3.5 (Nov 13, 2023)

  • What's new:
  • Fix screen disabling that was broken as part of Sonoma multiple monitor workarounds (...)
  • Please note:
  • Because of new restrictions in macOS, some features (location, shell integration, etc) now require AerialCompanion to run in your menu bar in order to work.

New in Aerial 3.3.4 (Oct 9, 2023)

  • Add workaround for night shift under macOS Sonoma
  • Add workaround for location services under macOS Sonoma

New in Aerial 3.3.3 (Oct 8, 2023)

  • What's new:
  • Fix Overlays appearing where they shouldn't on Sonoma
  • Please note:
  • If you used a previous beta, go into "More videos" and press refresh now for the macOS source to get the new videos right away
  • macOS Ventura 13.3 and 13.4 have issues with multiple monitors. Apple fixed the bug in macOS 13.5.

New in Aerial 3.3.2 (Oct 4, 2023)

  • Fix companion exiting while running under Sonoma and putting your mac to sleep

New in Aerial 3.3.1 (Sep 26, 2023)

  • Fix HDR videos not working when macOS source was enabled
  • Fix black screen issues under companion on multiple monitors

New in Aerial 3.3.0 (Sep 23, 2023)

  • Add 14 new videos from California "Super blooms", Monument Valley & Oregon
  • Disable videos fades under Companion
  • Built with Xcode 15
  • Fix retina video playback on Sonoma 🎉
  • Fix retina text on Sonoma 🎉
  • Fix screen detection under Sonoma 🎉
  • All videos are now available as 4K 240FPS 🎉
  • Import localised video names from Apple's manifest
  • Import localised category names from Apple's manifest
  • Import catagories from Apple's manifest
  • Remove tvOS 10 manifest
  • Fix paused wallpaper restarting under Companion when exiting the screen saver
  • Universal audio support. Any app that plays audio will now show up in Aerial's Music overlay, including Apple Music, Spotify, VLC, or even Safari 🎉

New in Aerial 3.2.7 Beta 9 (Sep 7, 2023)

  • Built with Xcode 15beta8
  • Fix retina video playback on Sonoma 🎉

New in Aerial 3.2.7 Beta 8 (Sep 7, 2023)

  • Built with Xcode 15beta8
  • Fix retina text on Sonoma 🎉

New in Aerial 3.2.7 Beta 7 (Sep 6, 2023)

  • Built with Xcode 15beta6
  • Fix screen detection under Sonoma 🎉
  • Import latest macOS manifest with all 120 videos available as 4K 240FPS 🎉
  • Import localised video names from Apple's manifest
  • Import localised category names from Apple's manifest
  • Import catagories from Apple's manifest
  • Remove tvOS 10 manifest

New in Aerial 3.2.7 Beta 5 (Aug 15, 2023)

  • Built with Xcode 15beta6
  • Fix paused wallpaper restarting under Companion when exiting the screen saver
  • Partial workaround for screen detection in Sonoma, this should help people that have monitors with different screen resolutions. This is a workaround for a pretty annoying Sonoma bug and will bring back multimonitor features to most.

New in Aerial 3.2.7 Beta 4 (Jul 17, 2023)

  • What's new:
  • Built with Xcode 15beta3
  • Fix speed not resuming correctly under Companion, after the screensaver was stopped
  • Fix local sources erasing custom metadata at startup
  • Please note:
  • There is currently a bug with multiple monitors and macOS Ventura 13.3.X that affects all third party screen savers and some Apple ones. The bug IS fixed in macOS 13.5beta5 if you can install it.
  • Under Sonoma, there are many issues still, including multi monitor support!

New in Aerial 3.2.7 Beta 3 (Jul 12, 2023)

  • Build with Xcode 15beta3
  • Add workaround for high CPU usage on macOS Sonoma. Please read this for more information : #1305 (comment) If you run Sonoma, it's recommended you force quit legacyScreenSaver (Wallpaper) so the new version can be used. Alternatively, post installation, reboot your mac.
  • Please note:
  • There is currently a bug with multiple monitors and macOS Ventura 13.3.X that affects all third party screen savers and some Apple ones. The bug IS fixed in macOS 13.5beta5 if you can install it.
  • Under Sonoma, there are many issues still, including multi monitor support!

New in Aerial 3.2.7 Beta 2 (Jul 6, 2023)

  • Build with Xcode 15beta1
  • Fix a stupid crash in 3.2.7b1. With many thanks to DHK on Discord for his help!
  • Universal audio support. Any app that plays audio will now show up in Aerial's Music overlay, including Apple Music, Spotify, VLC, or even Safari 🎉
  • Add more emojis in logs
  • Disabled migration from super old old Aerial versions

New in Aerial 3.2.7 Beta 1 (Jun 21, 2023)

  • Build with Xcode 15beta1
  • Add preliminary support for 240 FPS videos from macOS 14
  • Add global speed control for companion 1.5.0 beta 4

New in Aerial 3.2.6 (Jun 18, 2023)

  • More window constraints (thanks @dnicolson !) + bring back resizable windows everywhere
  • Fix can't open option from System Settings twice in a row in macOS Ventura
  • Bring back HDR video playback in System Settings's preview in macOS 13.4 and macOS 14beta1
  • Fix wind units wrongly displayed in some cases in forecasts (m/s)
  • Please note: There is currently a bug with multiple monitors and macOS Ventura 13.3.X that affects all third party screen savers and some Apple ones. The bug is partially fixed for 2 monitors only in 13.4. Apple is aware of the issue and working on fixing it.

New in Aerial 3.2.5 (May 14, 2023)

  • Add extra window constraints (thanks @dnicolson !)
  • Local folders are refreshed at startup (finally)
  • Fix (again) playback speed indicator not showing up in some cases

New in Aerial 3.2.4 Beta 1 (Mar 31, 2023)

  • Local folders are refreshed at startup (finally)

New in Aerial 3.2.3 (Jan 30, 2023)

  • If nothing is selected in the UI, Aerial will no longer fill your cache.
  • Fix playback speed not appearing in macOS Ventura.
  • Fix timer message not appearing when "Disable for next launch" wasn't checked.
  • Compiled with Xcode 14.2

New in Aerial 3.2.2 Beta 2 (Jan 20, 2023)

  • Fix playback speed not appearing in macOS Ventura.

New in Aerial 3.2.2 Beta 1 (Jan 8, 2023)

  • Fix timer message not appearing when "Disable for next launch" wasn't checked.
  • Compiled with Xcode 14.2

New in Aerial 3.2.1 (Nov 2, 2022)

  • Fix a bug with companion integration where cache wouldn't be in the correct place in some cases
  • Add weather refresh every 15 minutes!

New in Aerial 3.2.0 (Oct 25, 2022)

  • Many macOS Ventura fixes for the new System Settings
  • Add the ability to disable overlays when running under Companion
  • Sidebar will no longer disappear when resizing Aerial's window
  • Resizing the window when running under Companion will correctly reposition the overlays
  • Fix missing translation
  • & a few other fixes

New in Aerial 3.1.4 Beta 1 (Oct 17, 2022)

  • Add the ability to disable overlays under Companion

New in Aerial 3.1.3 (Sep 11, 2022)

  • Logs are now finally capped to 1 MB...

New in Aerial 3.1.2 (Aug 30, 2022)

  • Fix an issue with settings on macOS < 10.15

New in Aerial 3.1.1 (Aug 29, 2022)

  • Fix an issue where for some people, settings kept being reset all the time. Sorry about that one!

New in Aerial 3.1.0 (Aug 20, 2022)

  • Fix the missing field in overlays > message allowing you to pick between text and shell script
  • Unified settings on macOS Catalina+ ! Aerial now properly shares settings between the screen saver and when running under Aerial Companion in Destkop mode or Fullscreen mode. This was already the way Aerial worked prior to Catalina. Settings are now shared again. Massive thanks to @xmddmx for their assistance on this !
  • Fix an annoying issue on macOS Ventura System Settings crashing/restarting the mini preview every second or so. This only happened if the mini preview was trying to play a HDR Video.
  • Disabled video preview on HDR videos in "Browse Videos", as this also causes crashes on Ventura. Video preview will still be available when running Aerial settings under Companion, until this gets fixed.
  • Fix locations not showing correctly when using a non default cache
  • Clicking the hidden videos at the bottom right will now take you to your hidden videos, so you can manage them
  • Add a new "mute all macOS sounds", this will mute your mac completely while the screensaver is running, and unmute before quitting
  • Add support for tvOS 16 manifest, replacing tvOS 15. There are no new videos yet ;)
  • Fixed show log button and general look of the advanced panel that was cut on the bottom
  • Fix for macOS not creating correctly some container folders
  • Removed contextual menu from "Browse videos" that didn't work correctly
  • Added a contextual menu on the Now Playing view, so you can easily favorite/hide a category (eg: hide Space videos)
  • Fixed some crashes when disabling all sources or hiding all videos
  • Known issues:
  • Album art is no longer working for Apple Music, this is not linked to this build, but has been an issue for a while since Apple changed something to their API. Hopefully a solution will be in an upcoming build.

New in Aerial 3.1.0 Beta 4 (Aug 17, 2022)

  • What's new:
  • Fix locations not showing correctly when using a non default cache
  • Clicking the hidden videos at the bottom right will now take you to your hidden videos, so you can manage them
  • Add a new "mute all macOS sounds", this will mute your mac completely while the screensaver is running, and unmute before quitting
  • Add support for tvOS 16 manifest, replacing tvOS 15. There are no new videos yet ;)
  • Fixed show log button and general look of the advanceed panel that was cut on the bottom
  • Known issues :
  • Album art is no longer working for Apple Music, this is not linked to this build, but has been an issue for a while since Apple changed something to their API. Hopefully a solution will be in next build.

New in Aerial 3.1.0 Beta 3 (Aug 14, 2022)

  • Fix an annoying issue on macOS Ventura System Settings crashing/restarting the mini preview every second or so. This only happened if the mini preview was trying to play a HDR Video.
  • Disabled video preview on HDR videos in "Browse Videos", as this also causes crashes on Ventura. Video preview will still be available when running Aerial settings under Companion, until this gets fixed.

New in Aerial 3.1.0 Beta 2 (Jul 17, 2022)

  • Unified settings on macOS Catalina+ ! Aerial now properly shares settings between the screen saver and when running under Aerial Companion in Destkop mode or Fullscreen mode. This was already the way Aerial worked prior to Catalina. Settings are now shared again. Massive thanks to @xmddmx for their assistance on this !
  • Known issues:
  • Album art is no longer working for Apple Music, this is not linked to this build, but has been an issue for a while since Apple changed something to their API. Hopefully a solution will be in next build.

New in Aerial 3.1.0 Beta 1 (Jul 13, 2022)

  • Fix the missing field in overlays > message allowing you to pick between text and shell script
  • Released as a beta as this is the first build compiled with Xcode 14. If you see compatibility issues or weird stuff, please let me know !

New in Aerial 3.0.9 (Apr 23, 2022)

  • Fix Aerial's settings hanging. This used to happen when you disable some video sources

New in Aerial 3.0.8 Beta 2 (Apr 5, 2022)

  • Fix updater that kept asking for beta1, sorry about that one !

New in Aerial 3.0.8 Beta 1 (Mar 31, 2022)

  • Tentative workaround for those who have issues with Aerial staying frozen instead of having your mac going to sleep. This is not a great workaround, see the related issue here for more information (#1225), but should make do until a proper fix is found

New in Aerial 3.0.6 (Feb 15, 2022)

  • Fix the overlay panel that was no longer able to scroll
  • Fix an issue with shell script message overlay not displaying at startup
  • Fix an issue when running Aerial in wallpaper mode in Companion 1.4beta1 that caused it to black screen when coming out of "normal" screensaver mode

New in Aerial 3.0.5 (Feb 8, 2022)

  • Fix a crash from 3.0.4 in macOS Mojave (10.14) and earlier. This build is compiled with Xcode 13.2.1 (13.3 beta seems to be the issue)

New in Aerial 3.0.4 (Feb 7, 2022)

  • Fixed the retina text detection to only enable it by default on arm Macs, as this is known to cause issues on some Intel Macs. You can change the setting manually in Advanced under "Retina text". If enabled, the overlay texts will look crisper.
  • Added new hooks for the upcoming version of companion for Desktop background and This monitor only modes

New in Aerial 3.0.2 (Jan 23, 2022)

  • Fixed an issue where you couldn't see the bottom of the overlay windows. If you resize the window, you may need to switch to another overlay and back to get things to display as expected. This is a temporary fix until I find a better one
  • Improved some wording

New in Aerial 3.0.1 (Jan 20, 2022)

  • Fix a hang/crash when setting a cache location on an external/network drive. Sorry about that one !

New in Aerial 3.0.0 (Jan 18, 2022)

  • Add support for all tvOS 15 videos, including the latest Iceland and Scotland videos
  • Add a new UI that lets you easily pick multiple locations at once, so you can more easily pick what you want to see
  • Add support for changing your cache location in Monterey, including internal drive, external drive and network mounts
  • Add Apple Music and Spotify support and other improved overlays (time, weather, etc)
  • Add support for vertical monitors

New in Aerial 2.3.4 Beta 8 (Sep 24, 2021)

  • Add preliminary support for tvOS 15 videos 🎉 Videos won't have an individual name for now, next version will fix it.

New in Aerial 2.3.4 Beta 7 (Aug 27, 2021)

  • Improved the vertical orientation detection
  • Fixed cases where videos would not be shown on the correct screen

New in Aerial 2.3.4 Beta 6 (Aug 27, 2021)

  • Add an option in advanced that will make sure only vertical videos play on vertically oriented screens, and horizontal videos on horizontal screens. If you see issue, please uncheck the box in Advanced and report, thanks !

New in Aerial 2.3.4 Beta 5 (Jul 13, 2021)

  • Added an extra error message when pasting a URL with extra spaces or special characters at the end

New in Aerial 2.3.4 Beta 4 (Jul 8, 2021)

  • What's new:
  • Added playback speed control. You can individually make a video go faster or slower in settings !
  • Fixed missing artwork when playing tracks in Apple Music from outside of your Library (typically from Explore tab).
  • Added humidity in Weather's Current Weather overlay
  • You can now enable/disable wind and humidity in Weather's Current Weather overlay
  • Notes:
  • Playback speed will cause some overlays to not work as expected, mostly the locations one when there are multiple of them, but possibly others, in this beta.
  • When playing tracks outside of your library in Apple Music, Artworks may be wrong for very common album names in this beta

New in Aerial 2.3.4 Beta 3 (Jul 5, 2021)

  • What's new:
  • Apple Music and Spotify integration. You can now get an overlay that shows the artist/track playing, and its artwork.
  • Some important notes:
  • For Apple Music to correctly display artworks, make sure you correctly configure the storefront with the country of your Apple ID
  • The song currently playing while Aerial starts won't be shown. However, all the following tracks will be displayed, as Aerial can only detect track changes for now.

New in Aerial 2.3.4 Beta 2 (Jun 12, 2021)

  • Removed the black rectangle under the city name for Weather introduced in previous beta
  • Add the ability to set a custom Clock format
  • Add the ability to set a custom Date format

New in Aerial 2.3.4 Beta 1 (Jun 10, 2021)

  • Fix long city names in Weather that weren't properly wrapped if very long
  • Fix inaccurate wind with imperial units
  • Add m/s as an option for weather with metric units
  • Add some tentative support for Monterey beta 1. Aerial 2.3.3 works perfectly with Monterey, but this beta adds the ability to set a cache location on your main hard drive. External drives are not supported by this beta but will be in a later one !

New in Aerial 2.3.3 (May 16, 2021)

  • Fix labels being misaligned in weather forecasts if you disabled Wind
  • Add current weather to the forecasts
  • Add the ability to add the city name

New in Aerial 2.3.2 (Apr 29, 2021)

  • Fixed a very embarrassing bug where using Time adaptation would fail on some locals where there are currently no astronomical sunrise or sunset. Very sorry about that ! If you experienced crashes in northern locations in the past few months, this will fix it.
  • Add a better error message when you manually type a City in weather that is not understood by the weather API

New in Aerial 2.3.1 (Apr 27, 2021)

  • Fixed an issue with Aerial not being immediately dismissed when you exited the screensaver. This may be a new issue in Big Sur (or Catalina), Aerial stayed up for about 5/7 seconds still playing video in the background while not being visible. This caused performance issue and in some case (custom videos with sound) would leave to sound playing when you came back on your desktop for some seconds. This is no longer the case !
  • Moved to a slightly different forecast API from OpenWeather to comply with their open source licence terms. You'll notice the hourly forecast is in 3 hours steps now, the day forecast is also slightly less precise than before.
  • Added Humidity data to the weather reports
  • Wind and Humidity can be enabled/disabled

New in Aerial 2.3.0 (Apr 23, 2021)

  • Add Korean translation thanks to Howon Kim !
  • Completely new weather API thanks to OpenWeather
  • Weather Symbols now scale correctly based on your font size
  • Add new forecast options for weather (next 6 hours, next 3 days, next 7 days)
  • Add color symbols on Big Sur for weather
  • Add higher quality rendering for weather symbols on Big Sur
  • Messages can now be multi-lines
  • You can also run a shell script and show it's output on screen as a message

New in Aerial 2.2.8 Beta 5 (Apr 22, 2021)

  • Add Korean translation thanks to Howon Kim !
  • Add new forecast options for weather (next 6 hours, next 3 days, next 7 days)

New in Aerial 2.2.8 Beta 4 (Mar 12, 2021)

  • Add proper scaling for the weather information overlay, things will now look right independent of the font size you use
  • Add color symbols on Big Sur for weather

New in Aerial 2.2.8 Beta 3 (Mar 7, 2021)

  • Fix locale override not being used on Countdown and Timers
  • Add Wind direction +speed
  • Fix rounding on temperatures

New in Aerial 2.2.8 Beta 2 (Mar 5, 2021)

  • Replace Yahoo Weather with OpenWeather (no more logo !)
  • Shell scripts are now run asynchronously

New in Aerial 2.2.8 Beta 1 (Mar 3, 2021)

  • Messages can now be multi-lines
  • You can also run a shell script and show it's output on screen as a message

New in Aerial 2.2.6 (Jan 12, 2021)

  • Contains multiple workarounds for interactions with the latest Aerial Companion beta

New in Aerial 2.2.5 (Jan 10, 2021)

  • Fix a weird inverted color bug on the sidebar on macOS 10.12 and 10.13 that seems to have been introduced in some recent Big Sur SDK
  • Add an extra workaround when Location services are explicitely denied but Aerial has coordinates stored

New in Aerial 2.2.4 (Dec 11, 2020)

  • Fix Cache panel not showing up correctly with Automatic downloads disabled.
  • Add Time Machine exclusion option when Automatic downloads are disabled.

New in Aerial 2.2.3 (Dec 3, 2020)

  • Fix streaming code that was used on the very initial launch if you had no video cached. Streaming is not recommended for normal usage but if you happen to have no video cached, and downloads disabled, you will stream. This is not supported and not recommended!
  • Fix Light Mode/Dark Mode detection when macOS's appearance was set to automatic. Also fixed this detection when using high contrast/accessibility modes.

New in Aerial 2.2.2 Beta 1 (Dec 3, 2020)

  • Add more debug logging on time restriction
  • Modified the screensaver closing to improve memory handling in Companion's Windowed/Desktop modes

New in Aerial 2.2.1 (Nov 30, 2020)

  • Add a new refresh feature and refresh now button on sources, so Aerial can automatically get new videos again from all your sources
  • Pressing the refresh now on a local source will rescan your directory for new videos

New in Aerial 2.1.5 (Nov 24, 2020)

  • Fix the manually pick path for 10.14 and older systems
  • Fix the automatic downloader that would only download videos in alphabetic order instead of shuffling them
  • Add the new icon, thanks to Inferno Design
  • Add Russian translation thanks to (null)

New in Aerial 2.1.4 Beta 1 (Nov 19, 2020)

  • Fix the automatic downloader that would only download videos in alphabetic order instead of shuffling them
  • Add the new icon, thanks to Inferno Design

New in Aerial 2.1.3 (Nov 17, 2020)

  • Fix the cache rotation feature that didn't rotate, sorry about that!

New in Aerial 2.1.2 Beta 2 (Nov 16, 2020)

  • Better fix for the cache rotation feature that, hmm, didn't rotate! Oops!

New in Aerial 2.1.2 Beta 1 (Nov 16, 2020)

  • Fix for the cache rotation feature that, hmm, didn't rotate! Oops!

New in Aerial 2.1.1 (Oct 23, 2020)

  • Add a fallback if you select "Secondary displays" as an output but not have any connected, Aerial will now fallback by playing on your main screen
  • Fix multiple issues with HDR playback being selected on some machines running 10.14 and earlier and causing black screens
  • Fix hardware detection popup that wasn't filled correctly (oops)
  • Fix hardware detection for DTK users
  • Note : this build works on both Intel and Apple Silicon

New in Aerial 2.1.0 (Sep 29, 2020)

  • Local videos! It took a while but you can finally add your own videos to Aerial again with 2.1! You can add as many folders as you like, each will appear as its own local source for easier management.

New in Aerial 2.0.10 (Sep 24, 2020)

  • Fixed some bugs introduced in 2.0.9 (double sources and possibly some black screen issues)

New in Aerial 2.0.9 (Sep 14, 2020)

  • Fixed the Time Machine ignore setting. You will need to check the box again, files are no longer moved (which created a lot of issues for many people), Aerial adds itself to your Time Machine exclusion list when you check that box now.
  • Add Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil) and extra Spanish translation thanks to Renan Sigolo Ferreira!
  • Fixed a crash when clicking Caches settings with an empty cache
  • Fixed an issue with cache override on 10.14 and earlier

New in Aerial 2.0.8 (Sep 7, 2020)

  • Fix community videos for Chinese users
  • Fixed the Cache indicator not working correctly on Unlimited cache or manual download mode
  • Little Snitch users will need to make sure they allow https://aerialscreensaver.github.io/

New in Aerial 2.0.7 (Aug 31, 2020)

  • Reverted the retina text by default. To enable it, go to Settings, Overlays, Text Settings then High Quality Text Rendering. Enabling this option seems to cause issues on some systems with Intel GPU.

New in Aerial 2.0.6 (Aug 30, 2020)

  • Add updated Japanese translation
  • Improved source view with categories
  • Brought back retina looking text that went away in 2.0.5
  • Note: Big Sur Beta users, there's an issue currently regarding 3rd party screen savers, check this post on how to get back your settings and cache : #1036 This macOS bug affects not only all versions of Aerial, but all 3rd party screen savers.

New in Aerial 2.0.5 (Aug 27, 2020)

  • Fix potential performance issue on some systems with 2 screens or more
  • Fix an issue where you could see Night videos by Day, despite having asked Aerial to adapt to your time/location
  • Fix sidebar look not being transparent on Big Sur
  • Add a cache for latest location found, for when you go from WiFi to Ethernet only
  • Fix a refresh bug with location services in the UI

New in Aerial 2.0.4 (Aug 25, 2020)

  • What's new:
  • Fix a crash in some systems introduced in 2.0.3 when you set your video cache to be ignored by Time Machine. This build will solve previously crashed systems with no need to reset preferences. Sorry about that one!

New in Aerial 2.0.3 (Aug 25, 2020)

  • Add exclude from Time Machine option for cache
  • Add (hopefully) manual cache override
  • Add a better view of cache usage
  • Add more information about source usage
  • Changed links to new website
  • Add daily rotation for video
  • Renamed "On rotation" to "Currently playing" hopefully this will confuse people less :)

New in Aerial 2.0.2 (Aug 23, 2020)

  • Added Japanese translation thanks to DrMORO617
  • Updated German translation Thomas W
  • Fixed a bug where weather wouldn't appear when jumping versions when updating

New in Aerial 2.0.1 (Aug 21, 2020)

  • Removed the download progress while the screen saver runs, you can re-enable it in Settings > Cache
  • Added a new UI to visualise exactly which type of video will show at which time in Settings > Time
  • Added a button to launch the setup panel again in Settings > Advanced
  • Fixed a few bugs

New in Aerial 2.0.0 (Aug 20, 2020)

  • What's new:
  • A lot!
  • Whole new UI with previews, that feels right at home on macOS Big Sur, it's even resizable!
  • New cache options, you can finally set a limit to your cache size, and ask Aerial to periodically grab new videos, so it never ever again fills up your disk.
  • New videos : 20 videos that were donated by a 3rd party artist, please check out the Settings > Custom Sources to know more about them.
  • A whole new rotation concept: you can quickly switch from watching Space videos, to only Night videos with a couple of clicks
  • You can now favorite videos (so Aerial will never delete them) or hide them (so they won't bother you again)
  • Sunset and Sunrise videos show at the appropriate time now if you enable time adaptation
  • And so much more

New in Aerial 2.0.0 Beta 15 (Aug 19, 2020)

  • This beta introduces 20 new videos from a 3rd party artist, you can find more details about them in Custom Sources.
  • Fixes:
  • A lot

New in Aerial 2.0.0 Beta 14 (Aug 17, 2020)

  • Fixed the UI on macOS 10.13 and earlier
  • You can now remove a source
  • New download indicator with better visibility, brought back the warning if you tried to quit while downloads were ongoing
  • Per video vibrance is now an option to be enabled in filter
  • Added a reset all settings button in Settings > Advanced
  • And more fixes

New in Aerial 2.0.0 Beta 12 (Aug 16, 2020)

  • Fixes:
  • This version adds better error messages when a network error occur
  • Known issues:
  • On macOS 10.13 and earlier, the preference panel UI appears shrunk. This will be fixed in a later build.

New in Aerial 2.0.0 Beta 11 (Aug 14, 2020)

  • Fixes:
  • Fix location services not working in first time setup. It also now includes an help button for users running macOS Mojave and earlier
  • Fix Download Now button not properly reloading the video list, and various bugs of this sort
  • Fix UI not updating itself in many places
  • Many UI fixes

New in Aerial 2.0.0 Beta 10 (Aug 13, 2020)

  • Fixes:
  • There's a new first time setup for new users, if you are an existing users it will take you through some of the new things in v2 too
  • Fix hidden videos showing in All Videos
  • Added a menu to Unhide all hidden videos
  • Some more UI tweaks on pre Big Sur

New in Aerial 2.0.0 Beta 9 (Aug 12, 2020)

  • Fixes:
  • A better fix with sources not saving correctly
  • Reworked the custom sources UI, tvOS will be hidden from now on as this is needlessly confusing
  • Fix many icons and video count

New in Aerial 2.0.0 Beta 8 (Aug 12, 2020)

  • Fixes:
  • Added a workaround for the video description of Dubai Night 2
  • Fixed a bug with sources not saving correctly

New in Aerial 2.0.0 Beta 7 (Aug 11, 2020)

  • New translation:
  • Swedish translation thanks to @sam_ !
  • Fixes:
  • Brings back the video descriptions for the oldest tvOS 10 videos that were missing
  • Minor UI fixes

New in Aerial 2.0.0 Beta 6 (Aug 9, 2020)

  • Fixes:
  • Many fixes

New in Aerial 2.0.0 Beta 5 (Aug 5, 2020)

  • Fixes:
  • Minor UI fixes

New in Aerial 2.0.0 Beta 4 (Aug 3, 2020)

  • Fixes:
  • Weather

New in Aerial 2.0.0 Beta 3 (Aug 3, 2020)

  • New features:
  • Added vibrance filter for non HDR content, to bring more pop to SDR videos if needed
  • Added a right click menu to the sidebar
  • Fixes:
  • Too many to list

New in Aerial 2.0.0 Beta 2 (Jul 31, 2020)

  • Fixes:
  • Independent mode on multiple screens no longer working
  • Many, many icons looking wrong when selected, or just plain wrong
  • Sidebar not being loaded correctly at startup
  • And many crashes related to sidebar and video loading

New in Aerial 2.0.0 Beta 1 (Jul 30, 2020)

  • New features:
  • A completely new UI, with thumbnails and a large preview, so you never have to guess again which video is which. It's even resizable !
  • You can now favorite and hide videos
  • New "On rotation" setting, so you can quickly change from playing one category to another
  • Completely new cache management, you can now limit the size of your cache, and optionnally decide to periodically replace old videos with newer ones. If you'd rather download everything, or manage things yourself, no worries, you still can
  • If you enabled cache management, Aerial will now download videos in the background while its running when needed
  • You can now restrict downloads to only an approved list of WiFi networks
  • Sparkle has been removed from Aerial, it's replaced by a new AerialUpdater. More info in the issues linked above.
  • Fixes:
  • Fix no longer could exit the screensaver

New in Aerial 1.9.2 (Jul 2, 2020)

  • Fix weather in location mode, for users of macOS prior to Catalina

New in Aerial 1.9.1 (Jun 7, 2020)

  • Add an option to hide battery indicator when full
  • Fix weather not appearing at the correct position
  • Fix a crash with some center settings

New in Aerial 1.9.1 Beta 1 (May 27, 2020)

  • Add an option to hide battery indicator when full
  • Fix weather not appearing at the right position

New in Aerial 1.9.0 (May 26, 2020)

  • New features:
  • Aerial can now display current weather conditions. This is done through Yahoo! Weather's API and can be configured in the Info tab.
  • The textual battery indicator is now replaced with icons
  • Add a 12/24h override to the Time info.
  • New options to quickly select day/night videos
  • Added an option to unmute sound in custom videos
  • Add Italian translation, many thanks to @marguglio !
  • Other:
  • And many bug fixes.
  • Please note that some individual Info settings may be reset to their defaults, this is the case for the Clock which will be enabled again if you had disabled it previously. Sorry for the inconvenience.

New in Aerial 1.8.3 Beta 11 (May 3, 2020)

  • Fix missing weather icons (for good this time)

New in Aerial 1.8.3 Beta 10 (May 3, 2020)

  • Better charging icon
  • Possible fix for some crashes with weather
  • Possible fix on night detection

New in Aerial 1.8.3 Beta 9 (May 3, 2020)

  • Weather icons should be sharper
  • Night time calculation should now be correct
  • Add a new battery icon indicator, set as default

New in Aerial 1.8.3 Beta 8 (Apr 29, 2020)

  • Flat icons should look much crispier now
  • Potential fix for issues with dates

New in Aerial 1.8.3 Beta 7 (Apr 26, 2020)

  • Fix sun icon being misnamed, causing a crash with sunny conditions (sorry!)
  • Made the plist more human readable/editable for 3rd party tools

New in Aerial 1.8.3 Beta 6 (Apr 26, 2020)

  • Add a new icon set exported from SF Symbols for weather
  • Fixed night icons not showing, on SF Symbols and Yahoo's default icons

New in Aerial 1.8.3 Beta 5 (Apr 24, 2020)

  • Fix the weather text field that didn't validate
  • Fix vertical alignment of weather logo and text
  • Add a new advanced option to unmute videos

New in Aerial 1.8.3 Beta 4 (Apr 22, 2020)

  • Fix (again) the beta update feed (sorry again !)
  • Fix Location info not showing on some systems

New in Aerial 1.8.3 Beta 3 (Apr 21, 2020)

  • Add Fahrenheit on Weather, fix weather not working for some cities
  • Add new options to easily check day or night videos

New in Aerial 1.8.3 Beta 1 (Apr 19, 2020)

  • New features:
  • Add a new Weather info. This is still super experimental and will be improved in next betas
  • Add a 12/24h override
  • Add Italian translation, many thanks to @marguglio !
  • Fix:
  • Fix some locale bugs with Catalina
  • Fix looping if you only had one video in your playlist

New in Aerial 1.8.2 (Mar 26, 2020)

  • New features:
  • Add a new Date Info
  • Add a new Timer Info similar to Countdown, except it's a timer (say, 5 minutes)
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix text overlap bug
  • Fix Location description bug when skipping videos on multiple monitors
  • Fix and updates Countdown's display options
  • Updated translations:
  • Polish translations thanks to @Soruk !
  • Chinese Simplified/Traditional translations thanks to @LinkeyLeo !
  • Arabic translations thanks to @kachikulu !

New in Aerial 1.8.2 Beta 4 (Mar 24, 2020)

  • Fix the overlap bug for smaller screens/large fonts
  • Add a Date info to show the current date

New in Aerial 1.8.2 Beta 2 (Mar 20, 2020)

  • Fix the seconds thing not working in Countdown info, removed year/months from the countdown info
  • Add a new Timer Info similar to Countdown, except it's a timer (say, 5 minutes)

New in Aerial 1.8.2 Beta 1 (Mar 11, 2020)

  • Add updated .pl translations
  • Tentative fix for a description bug when skipping videos on multiple monitors

New in Aerial 1.8.1 (Mar 9, 2020)

  • New features:
  • Changed "Random" to "Random corner" for location info randomness. Bottom/top center positions are now ignored here, but they can be used manually.
  • Fix a preference panel crash if you disabled auto updates.

New in Aerial 1.8.1 Beta 1 (Feb 25, 2020)

  • Changed "Random" to "Random corner" for location info randomness. Bottom/top center positions are now ignored here, but they can be used manually.

New in Aerial 1.8.0 (Feb 19, 2020)

  • New features:
  • New update system for macOS Catalina, you will now be notified and be able to download new versions. Aerial will still not be able to self update in Catalina, this is a sandboxing limitation that can't be worked around for the time being, but you will no longer experience silent failed updates
  • Add shadow controls
  • Add translations for the new tvOS 13 videos in French
  • Add a new Countdown information option
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix the high sierra textfields workaround in new UI
  • Fix battery detection in macs with no battery (oops)
  • Fix localization that no longer worked in Catalina (come on...)
  • Misc:
  • Moved Sparkle from Cocoapods to a git submodule, updated Sparkle to 1.23

New in Aerial 1.7.2 Beta 3 (Feb 16, 2020)

  • More shadow options
  • Fix High Sierra workarounds in new UI

New in Aerial 1.7.2 Beta 2 (Feb 16, 2020)

  • Fix text clipping issues with some fonts
  • More UI cleanup, add a new Text settings option in Info tab

New in Aerial 1.7.2 Beta 1 (Feb 14, 2020)

  • Add a new update check that shows a message at the top of the screen, when the screensaver is running, to let you know that a new version is available. This is still a work in progress and will be improved in the next beta. More info here : #909
  • Add an option to change the shadow radius of the texts
  • Add a new Countdown info type

New in Aerial 1.7.1 (Feb 12, 2020)

  • Brings back "Allow right arrow to skip" for macOS versions prior to Catalina. That feature still won't work on Catalina.
  • Add seamless looping if you only have one video in your playlist.
  • Fix "new style" settings that weren't saved immediately, causing a discrepancy if you didn't close the preferences panel before launching the screen saver (with a hot corner).

New in Aerial 1.7.1 Beta 1 (Feb 4, 2020)

  • Brings back "Allow right arrow to skip" for macOS versions prior to Catalina. That feature still won't work on Catalina.
  • Add seamless looping if you only have one video in your playlist

New in Aerial 1.7.0 (Jan 30, 2020)

  • Note: This is a large rewrite, a few settings will be reset to default, including video format preference (4K, HDR), my apologies for this but those were needed to introduce some new features
  • New features:
  • New text rendering! Aerial can now display information (such as location information, time, etc) on multiple screens with new animations and better transitions. The settings for these are found in the new "Info" tab.
  • Support for the 11 new Sea videos that were just released. If you do not see the videos after the update, please go to the "Updates" tab and press "Check Now" in the New videos section.
  • New "Battery" Info can tell you your battery status (charging, %, etc)
  • Infos can now be shown in more positions on screen (top center, bottom center, and screen center)
  • Important fixes:
  • Fix the mini video issue on some systems using macOS Catalina, more info about this here : #871

New in Aerial 1.6.5 Beta 4 (Jan 21, 2020)

  • Fix the mini video issue on some systems using macOS Catalina, more info about this here : #871
  • Fix a crash introduced in beta3 when changing battery or video format option in older macOS versions

New in Aerial 1.6.5 Beta 3 (Dec 30, 2019)

  • This is a large internal rewrite, some settings will be reset to default, such as the video format (1080p, 4K, HDR). Please change your settings after installing this build !
  • Add Battery information
  • Add Screen Center position for Info
  • Fix Info order in the bottom row

New in Aerial 1.6.5 Beta 2 (Dec 19, 2019)

  • This is a large internal rewrite, some settings are unaccessible in this build, they'll reappear in next one. Please be aware if installing.
  • You'll need to reconfigure what used to be in the Text tab in the new Info tab. The old text tab is now empty and will disappear soon.
  • Location information, custom message, and clock are now fully independent. You can set them with different fonts, and have them show on different screens too
  • Rewritten animation layers with better transitions
  • Added new center bottom/top/screen options for the position of the infos

New in Aerial 1.6.5 Beta 1 (Dec 8, 2019)

  • Add a new "mirrored" mode that mirrors the video vertically on multiple screens (many thanks @justMaku). The old mirrored mode was renamed as cloned mode
  • Descriptions are now shown on all screens in mirrored/cloned mode
  • Mostly internal changes to prepare next update

New in Aerial 1.6.4 (Nov 1, 2019)

  • Clarify what HDR means with a popup and clearly say that those are separate files and not just a rendering mode
  • Fix cache size detection that still looked in the read only cache folder in Catalina instead of appSupport
  • Fix an incorrect tooltip for Video Sets
  • Fix old files estimation, move/trash old videos features that would always delete HDR files, and would look in the wrong folder in Catalina.

New in Aerial 1.6.3 (Oct 24, 2019)

  • Fix a bad crash with custom videos and HDR.

New in Aerial 1.6.2 (Oct 8, 2019)

  • The file you want is Aerial.saver.zip.
  • Fix a hang in Catalina when you can't/have a hard time resuming from screensaver.
  • Fix Custom Videos in Catalina. You can also drop a folder there to automatically add it.

New in Aerial 1.6.1 (Oct 3, 2019)

  • Fixes the hang/crash happening when playing the next video on some systems with multiple monitor, since 1.5.0. Many thanks to @markusem !

New in Aerial 1.6.0a (Sep 27, 2019)

  • This is a hotfix for 1.6.0, it includes all the changes and fix a cache detection bug for /Library/Caches/Aerial.

New in Aerial 1.6.0 (Sep 27, 2019)

  • This version includes support for the 15 new videos introduced in tvOS 13, including the 10 Sea videos and 5 new Space videos 🎉
  • Adds HDR support for macOS Catalina 🎉
  • Starting with this release, Aerial is properly signed and notarized 🎉
  • Cache mechanism was changed to accommodate changes in macOS Catalina. We recommend you double check your cache settings after upgrading.
  • Add Dutch translation by @sebastiaanspeck !
  • Add Traditional Chinese and update Simplified Chinese translations by @LinkeyLeo !
  • Add advanced mode for finely tuning the Spanned viewing mode in multi monitor configurations
  • This version includes many fixes for various issues including with multi monitor setups and better support for older versions of macOS.
  • If you are using or planning to upgrade to macOS Catalina, we very much suggest you check this issue about what to expect : #801

New in Aerial 1.5.1 Beta 13 (Sep 26, 2019)

  • Add the new tvOS 13 videos, including the Sea videos and some new space videos!

New in Aerial 1.5.1 Beta 12 (Sep 12, 2019)

  • Fix Night Shift for Catalina 🎉
  • Fix textfields getting ignored on close in High Sierra and earlier
  • Add Advanced Mode for manual monitor positioning in the new Spanned Mode

New in Aerial 1.5.1 Beta 11 (Aug 12, 2019)

  • Add a workaround fix for multi monitor, requires Catalina beta5+ to work

New in Aerial 1.5.1 Beta 10 (Jul 16, 2019)

  • Add Traditional Chinese and update Simplified Chinese translations. Many thanks to @LinkeyLeo !

New in Aerial 1.5.1 Beta 9 (Jul 9, 2019)

  • Massive simplification of the localization concept, you now simply either leave default (use preferred language) or pick from the list

New in Aerial 1.5.1 Beta 8 (Jul 8, 2019)

  • Add Dutch translation by @sebastiaanspeck !
  • Fix "Reset to default" cache button that failed in betas
  • Fix false "customvideos.json" error message

New in Aerial 1.5.1 Beta 7 (Jun 26, 2019)

  • Add workaround message box to change cache folder in Catalina.
  • Fix POI no longer loading in beta 5/6.
  • Aerial will now use ~/Library/Application Support/Aerial as it's default cache for new users.
  • If you are not using Catalina, this beta should be safe enough to use.

New in Aerial 1.5.1 Beta 6 (Jun 25, 2019)

  • Fix many many many many bugs regarding new split cache introduced in beta5.
  • Aerial should be near fully usable in Catalina, except changing Cache Folder and Night shift. More info on the thread below on what changed.
  • If you are NOT using Catalina, while this should be much safer than beta5, you may still want to wait one more beta. Feedback on non Catalina OS would be welcome though !

New in Aerial 1.5.1 Beta 5 (Jun 24, 2019)

  • Fix the broken control panel on Catalina (oops) 🎉
  • Split the cache in two, JSONs and logs now go to Application Support (not changeable by user). More information below. Expect a beta6 soon.
  • If you are NOT using Catalina, you might want to skip this one as the new split cache is unfinished.

New in Aerial 1.5.1 Beta 4 (Jun 11, 2019)

  • Disable HEVC on older macOS versions
  • Fix multiple display detection
  • The default for HDR for Catalina is set to off in this build. If you installed beta3 and are already using HDR, this will not change a thing for you. See below on how to change configuration in Catalina and enable/disable HDR.

New in Aerial 1.5.1 Beta 3 (Jun 10, 2019)

  • Add HDR support for Catalina. HDR is set as default in this beta, considering Catalina can't access the control panel. See the issue below for more instructions about caching and everything.

New in Aerial 1.5.1 Beta 2 (Jun 7, 2019)

  • The file you want is Aerial.saver.zip.
  • Starting with this release, Aerial is properly signed and notarized 🎉
  • Default cache path will now go to user directory, this will no longer be configurable under macOS 10.15 Catalina as screensavers are now sandboxed
  • Add optional "fit" mode instead of filling the screen with videos, this feature is subject to change !
  • Add extra debugging options for multiple displays configurations

New in Aerial 1.5.0 (May 31, 2019)

  • Completely rewritten multi monitor support. You can now enable and disable individual displays in the new Display tab.
  • New "Spanned" viewing mode. Selecting this mode will span an Aerial video on all your (selected) screens. You can even adjust margins.
  • Add your own videos to Aerial using the new Custom Videos features. You can add your own videos in the new video manager (found in the menu below the video list).

New in Aerial 1.4.99 Beta 7 (May 29, 2019)

  • Videos will now play muted (!)
  • Video manager now shows informations about resolution and duration of a video
  • Fix stepper not working when adding a poi, fixed seeking when adding a poi
  • 4K custom videos now have the correct 4K badge in main UI
  • customvideos.json is now pretty printed for easier manual editing
  • Closing the custom video manager now properly reloads the video list in main UI

New in Aerial 1.4.99 Beta 6 (May 26, 2019)

  • This version adds the ability to add your own (custom) videos to Aerial to playback with a new editor. Find more information in this issue #786 !

New in Aerial 1.4.99 Beta 4 (May 16, 2019)

  • This build is similar to beta3 but add extra logging to track a performance bug.

New in Aerial 1.4.99 Beta 3 (May 15, 2019)

  • Fix misplaced text in mirroring/spanned mode after using the right arrow key
  • Add a fade out when using the right arrow key for cleaner transition
  • Fix live update of spanned margins in preview panel
  • Add vertical margin value to spanned mode
  • Add new right click actions on video list, download video and move to trash

New in Aerial 1.4.99 Beta 2 (May 14, 2019)

  • Add quit confirmation if downloads are ongoing
  • Add optional milliseconds to logs for finer performance debugging
  • Add the ability to add an horizontal margin in cm between displays for the new spanned mode
  • Fix performance bug with right arrow to skip in mirrored and spanned mode

New in Aerial 1.4.99 Beta 1 (May 12, 2019)

  • New Displays tab, Display selection is now independent from viewing mode (mirrored, etc). This tab includes a visualisation of your current setup (mirroring what you see in System Preferences > Displays)
  • You can now manually select the screens you want to use in Aerial (see this issue : #732)
  • You can now span an Aerial on your selection of screen (see this issue : #194)

New in Aerial 1.4.10 Beta 3 (May 8, 2019)

  • Tentative fix for right arrow doesn't skip all views when running multiple monitors and different Aerial on each monitor
  • Tentative fix for missing key events

New in Aerial 1.4.10 Beta 2 (May 6, 2019)

  • Fixes the "Power saving on low battery" option that was unreliable in previous version.

New in Aerial 1.4.10 Beta 1 (May 2, 2019)

  • Tracking down the Chrome "uncommon download issue".
  • This build updates Sparkle to 1.21.3.

New in Aerial 1.4.9 (May 1, 2019)

  • This version fixes a crashing bug for homebrew users, sorry about that !

New in Aerial 1.4.8 (May 1, 2019)

  • Support for January 25th video updates (finally)
  • Automatic updates support through Sparkle. You can manage how Aerial updates itself in the settings
  • Localization for community support in Arabic, Chinese Simplified, English, French, German, Hebrew, Polish and Spanish! Thanks to all the contributors. If you want to help, check our repository we very much welcome new contributions
  • You can now skip an Aerial with the right arrow key
  • You can now save your favorite videos sets to enable them quickly

New in Aerial 1.4.7 Beta 12 (Apr 30, 2019)

  • New features:
  • This is just the last test version for the beta update system, specifically for @SeanMSmith ! Everyone else can safely skip this update.

New in Aerial 1.4.7 Beta 11 (Apr 30, 2019)

  • New features:
  • Check now buttons for updates now gives better feedback
  • Stylistic cleanup by @SeanMSmith !
  • This update will only be available on the beta track in order to test the update system

New in Aerial 1.4.7 Beta 10 (Apr 27, 2019)

  • New features:
  • You can now get beta updates too through Sparkle, through a different appcast
  • Now also updates while screensaver is running, not just when you launch the control panel once in a while
  • Swift 5 migration
  • Chinese simplified thanks to @LinkeyLeo

New in Aerial 1.4.7 Beta 9 (Apr 19, 2019)

  • New features:
  • Adds the ability to save your favorite sets of videos for easy reuse
  • Fix the broken auto update process, next time you auto update, Aerial/System Preferences will restart cleanly

New in Aerial 1.4.7 Beta 8 (Apr 18, 2019)

  • New features:
  • Arabic translation by @kachikulu
  • You can now pick your favorite translation in settings

New in Aerial 1.4.7 Beta 7 (Apr 12, 2019)

  • New features:
  • German translation by @moeffju
  • Hebrew translation by @kaaspad
  • Bugfix:
  • Reenabled the . workaround that was enabled only pre-Mojave for distortions/crashes with video playback on Intel macs (avoids the show clock workaround).

New in Aerial 1.4.7 Beta 6 (Feb 22, 2019)

  • New feature :
  • Polish translation thanks to Soruk ! If you want to contribute another language, check our github repository for more information, we welcome all contributions !

New in Aerial 1.4.7 Beta 5 (Feb 14, 2019)

  • Spanish and French community translations are now bundled, with early support for more. Check the readme for more information in the tooling we use (lokalise.co), we more than welcome new languages if you want to contribute !

New in Aerial 1.4.7 Beta 4 (Feb 8, 2019)

  • New feature:
  • Spanish translation for community descriptions

New in Aerial 1.4.7 Beta 3 (Jan 29, 2019)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix video check button not getting reenabled and message not being updated
  • Fix crashing startup bug with Sparkle never being initialized

New in Aerial 1.4.7 Beta 2 (Jan 27, 2019)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Disabled force login to desktop

New in Aerial 1.4.7 Beta 1 (Jan 26, 2019)

  • New features:
  • Support for January 25th video updates
  • First release with Sparkle auto update (you may not be able to rely on it in this beta).
  • Bug fixes :
  • Better handling of missing Cache folder.

New in Aerial 1.4.6 (Dec 13, 2018)

  • New features:
  • Support for October 30th and December 5th video updates
  • Add back the periodic check for the new videos, by default will check once a week. You can disable it in cache panel
  • Right clicking a video on video list will show a menu to view the video in QuickTime
  • For new users, Aerial will put it's cache in /Library/Caches instead of the user directory to save space for multiple users on the same computer. You can move that directory manually if you want, Aerial will pick it up
  • Add new options in Advanced panel to move or trash the old duplicate videos
  • Bug fixes:
  • Download indicator at the bottom left of the screen now shows live progress
  • This indicator also has a tooltip with progress
  • Changed the individual video indicator to a round one
  • More space for longer video names
  • Fixed alignments with scrollbar
  • Videos are now queued in alphabetical order
  • Menu fix on 10.13.6

New in Aerial 1.4.6 Beta 7 (Dec 12, 2018)

  • Fixes for macOS 10.9 (WIP)
  • Support for new videos from december 5th

New in Aerial 1.4.6 Beta 6 (Dec 5, 2018)

  • Tentative fix for crash on startup with previous betas
  • For new users, Aerial will put it's cache in /Library/Caches instead of the user directory to save space for multiple users on the same computer

New in Aerial 1.4.6 Beta 5 (Nov 22, 2018)

  • New feature:
  • Right clicking a video on video list will show a menu to view the video in QuickTime

New in Aerial 1.4.6 Beta 4 (Nov 21, 2018)

  • Fixes:
  • Videos are now queued in alphabetical order
  • Settings weren't correctly saved in beta3
  • Possible menu fix on 10.13.6

New in Aerial 1.4.6 Beta 3 (Nov 19, 2018)

  • Fixes:
  • Download indicator at the bottom left of the screen now shows live progress
  • This indicator also has a tooltip with progress
  • Changed the individual video indicator to a round one
  • More space for longer video names
  • Fixed alignments with scrollbar

New in Aerial 1.4.6 Beta 2 (Nov 19, 2018)

  • Fixes:
  • Weekly/monthly checks should work on this beta
  • New features:
  • If you haven't installed a 1.4.6 beta before, 1.4.6 will get the new manifests and videos from Apple as they changed on october 30th.
  • Add a feature for translators, you can now create a /locale/ folder in your Aerial Cache folder and drop a translation file for easier development (no need for Xcode to rebuild the bundle). Just name your file {countrycode}.json (eg. fr.json) and Aerial will pick it up at startup. If you are unsure of your preferred language country code, you can find the file that Aerial is looking for in debug logs

New in Aerial 1.4.6 Beta 1 (Nov 11, 2018)

  • Fixes:
  • If you never used Aerial before, you will see duplicate videos because Apple changed their source files on october 30th. This beta fixes this!
  • If you previously used Aerial, this beta will download the new manifest from Apple. You may need to redownload videos, please see this issue for more details : #630
  • New features:
  • Aerial will now periodically check by default (weekly) for new videos from Apple's manifests.

New in Aerial 1.4.5 (Nov 5, 2018)

  • New features:
  • Pick an alternate video format on battery
  • Disable Aerial on low battery/battery
  • Allow Dark Mode to override time preferences
  • Better brightness controls & more help tooltips
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix video playback corruption issues on High Sierra
  • Fix UI issues on High Sierra
  • Fix issues on timezones where dawn/dusk can't be calculated (eg: south pole)

New in Aerial 1.4.5 Beta 2 (Nov 1, 2018)

  • Fixes:
  • If you are using High Sierra, you may not be able to type in some of the fields in the screensaver options in . As a workaround, we provide an additional download, AerialConfig.app(.zip). This is a standalone version of Aerial's configuration panel. Changes you will make in this app will be applied to the screensaver. Please only use this as a workaround for High Sierra, macOS Mojave users DO NOT need this app !
  • Possible fix for video driver issues on High Sierra
  • Fix shadow on clock/messages
  • Add community description for Dubai night 2
  • New features:
  • Pick an alternate video format on battery
  • Disable Aerial on low battery/battery
  • Allow Dark Mode to override time preferences

New in Aerial 1.4.4 (Oct 30, 2018)

  • New features:
  • New sunset/sunrise dusk/dawn calculation modes from coordinates, Aerial can gather your location using your Mac's location service (you'll be asked for permission). Includes multiple calculations modes for dusk to better suite everyone's needs
  • Control brightness, Aerial can progressively dim the brightness of your screen when it plays. Includes extra options to only enable at night or on battery
  • Add an option to define the margins from the border where descriptions should appear, changed the default for something more sensible
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix (very) high memory consumption when downloading or streaming videos
  • Fix crashes introduced in 1.4.2 with community descriptions and translations enabled together
  • Clock sometimes didn't show on some videos, clock text being clipped when using a non monospaced font
  • Better thumbnail with rounded corners
  • And many UI tweaks/fixes

New in Aerial 1.4.3 (Oct 30, 2018)

  • Fix a memory retain cycle while downloading or playing cached videos

New in Aerial 1.4.2 (Oct 30, 2018)

  • Many important bug fixes:
  • Fixes some black screens on streaming (if you still experience issues while streaming, we highly recommend you cache the videos !)
  • Fixes an issue when you manually cleared the cache folder and deleted the JSON files
  • Fixes many multi monitor issues (proper retina detection per monitor and many more)
  • Fixes preview button not working
  • Fixes descriptions not showing on multiple lines if you pick a very large font
  • and many more
  • Some new features:
  • Community location description, with better descriptions on many of the older videos (english only for this version)
  • Updated video names
  • Added logging options in Advanced panel, with better error messages when something goes wrong
  • You can now stop video downloads
  • You can now disable seconds on clock
  • We now have a retina thumbnail in System Preferences

New in Aerial 1.4.1 (Oct 17, 2018)

  • This version fixes some pretty important bugs:
  • Fix mirroring not working on macOS 10.13
  • Fix multi monitor bugs
  • Fix Aerial crash on Macs with a case sensitive APFS volume
  • And adds some new features:
  • Better names for the videos
  • New location information for "old" videos (London, SF, etc)
  • You can now change the font/size of the location information displayed during videos
  • New options for text display (custom message, same styled clock, etc)
  • Add a "Main display only" option for multiple monitor setups

New in Aerial 1.4 Beta 9 (Oct 1, 2018)

  • This version adds support for the new tvOS 12 videos. Please notice that some of the videos from the previous versions will not be available in this version, as Apple no longer uses them on tvOS 12.
  • Fix "Done" button not closing on Mojave
  • Adds optional video description
  • Support for 1080p H.264/1080p HEVC/4K HEVC
  • And other fixes

New in Aerial 1.2 (Dec 19, 2016)

  • Adds caching everything on demand through Preferences
  • Removes duplicate videos.
  • NOTE: The manifest loaded from Apple includes some video files twice, although with different names. Aerial now goes through and does a HEAD request to all videos to get their content lengths and culls the list with that added information. Takes a second longer to start the screensaver, so I'll be looking into caching this in the future.

New in Aerial 1.2 Beta 5 (Jan 11, 2016)

  • Adds caching everything on demand through Preferences
  • Removes duplicate videos.

New in Aerial 1.2 Beta 4 (Jan 11, 2016)

  • Offline Mode added
  • Fixes bug where cache setting wasn't shown correctly in preferences window.

New in Aerial 1.2 Beta 3 (Jan 11, 2016)

  • Fixes black screen issue.
  • Fixes hot corner issue.

New in Aerial 1.2 Beta 2 (Jan 11, 2016)

  • Fixes issue with last beta where next video wouldn't play

New in Aerial 1.2 Beta 1 (Jan 11, 2016)

  • Adds automatic caching as videos play

New in Aerial 1.1 (Jan 11, 2016)

  • It is now Mavericks compatible, but will show videos in aspect ratio mode instead of fill mode.
  • Added custom thumbnail.
  • Now gives an error if trying to install on an unsupported OS X version.
  • Removed debug log. (Thanks to @nheagy, Issue #1)