Alfred Changelog

What's new in Alfred 5.5 Build 2257

Mar 18, 2024

New Workflow UI Components for rich interaction with Alfred:
Grid View: With the new Grid View object, show results image and file results in a satisfyingly visual layout!
Dynamically feed in a list of files from the previous workflow object or use JSON to script your input
Customise the column count and image aspect
Include an optional search field to filter the grid results
Text View: A super flexible, editable Markdown and plain text view, expanding your Workflow abilities immensely. Take simple notes or create a fully interactive text editor!
Populate results from a workflow object, a script for dynamic results or a file source
Make the text selectable, or editable within Alfred, with optional continuous spell checking mode when editable
Parse the results as Markdown: Include images, links, code blocks, lists, headers and more within your Markdown content
Dynamically specify footer text and loading text, including hotkey modifier hints
Image View: Browse images in a clean, automatically sized view within Alfred.
Preview a single image from Alfred's results
Preview multiple results with a pagination guide at the bottom and use the arrows to navigate
Stack the view, so it's easy to go back to Alfred results with Esc
⌘O opens the current file in its default app
Use numbers ⌘0 to maximise the window and ⌘9 to Zoom to Fit
PDF View: Browse your PDFs in Alfred
Select and copy text from the PDF
Change the page display via the right-click context menu to show a single page or double page side by side
Navigate through your PDF, and zoom in and out using hotkeys
Stack views on top of Alfred results to quickly go back to them with Esc
Universal Actions:
New "View in Alfred" Universal Action
Takes advantage of rich new views to quickly view images, Markdown, text, pdfs
use ⌘0 to dynamically enlarge the content viewer
Multi select images, view them in Alfred, then use ← or → to quickly switch between them
Improve Workflow Universal Action integration
Fix resolution of variables in keywords when matching Keyword and Script Filter actions in Universal Actions view
New global option on canvas popup menu to toggle treating newly added Inputs and Script Filters as Universal Actions
Update Recent Documents Universal Action to correctly load recents on macOS Sonoma
Additionally add to the recent documents list from Alfred's internal knowledge
More Workflow Improvements:
Workflow Editor now resolves keyword variables on input objects
Renders in italic to differentiate from fixed keywords
Globally disabled and enabled in canvas popup menu options
On running a Workflow, show clickable macOS Notification when Automation Tasks are missing
Clicking the notification will open the "Update Automation Tasks" preferences sheet
New Workflow JSON output key to cache script output for high performance
Includes loose reload mode to show expired results while loading new results
Cache is cleared for specific workflows on using 'reload workflow' AppleScript
Added new "Unstack View" option to Hide Alfred workflow object
Allows for graceful unstacking of stackable views such as the new Image View
Added new Number Slider to Workflow user configuration options
Configure for number range, visual markers and limiting markers (e.g. 10 steps)
Automatically switches min / max if configured incorrectly
Correctly return an error when calling a Workflow External Trigger externally, and the workflow needs user configuration
Fix word truncation in title bar of Workflow debugger
Fix Workflow window veto close logic when using result mod overrides, to prevent default connection veto from being used
Holding ⌥ on the Workflow Gallery menu in the Workflow Editor will now give a "Fix Tools" option to fix broken Homebrew / Xcode instances
Tweak Text Field behaviour in Workflow User Configuration for consistent behaviour
Fix sizing of generated Workflow user config to match the preview size
Fix initial field focus in Show Alfred Workflow object configuration
Allow Automation Task framework more control over workflow stream on task error
General Improvements:
Add "View in Alfred" as new default result modifier action in Advanced prefs, uses new rich views
Overhaul the top level window / view framework to allow for the dynamic heights and widths of the new Workflow UI Components
Rewrite Alfred window location and sizing logic to better constrain to display height
New custom Markdown renderer for Workflow "About" and Change Log
Prevent text from slightly overflowing selection on right side of Alfred Window input fields in macOS 15+
Fix internal search to correctly return Workflow results when there is a manually edited invalid info.plist
When deleting a workflow or snippet, the name is now shown in the confirmation dialog
Update theme editor background to only show system backgrounds which are viewable
Fix theme options position view from clipping tiny Alfred outside of the bounds
Accessibility:
Updated Large Type window to work correctly with VoiceOver
Improved Dialog Conditional Workflow Object configuration VoiceOver
Fixed System Command preferences to better read components
Add new "?Add Default Search Scope" internal search
Add + button for search scopes in File Filter workflow object
Improve accessibility for Dispatch Key Combo object combo field

New in Alfred 5.1.4 Build 2195 (Oct 25, 2023)

New in Alfred 5.1.3 Build 2175 (Sep 26, 2023)

New in Alfred 5.1.2 Build 2145 (Aug 3, 2023)

New in Alfred 5.1.1 Build 2138 (May 30, 2023)

New in Alfred 5.1 Build 2134 (Apr 26, 2023)

Workflows:
Automation Tasks:
New Options sheet to configure and update tasks, available from Workflows > Alfred Gallery > Automation Task Options...
Improvements to the Automation Task updater framework, including option to automatically keep tasks up to date
Automation Tasks can now be added to the Workflow Palette:
Enable in the Automation Task Options sheet
Once in the Palette, they can be searched and added to the workflow like native objects
Framework has been updated to better support internal overridable query input, giving more native experience
Alfred Gallery Improvements:
Updated Workflow Gallery icon hints in workflow list for clarity
When checking for Gallery Workflow updates, Alfred will now alter the workflow list filter to ensure workflows needing updates are visible
Added new option to sort workflow list by Gallery Updated which sorts by Gallery Updates > Gallery Workflows > Alphabetical
Avoid crash in Alfred Preferences' Gallery updater when cancelling the update during the initialisation
Added new Expression Utility workflow object
Allows for easy variable and query expressions such as incrementing variables
Updated Random Utility workflow object
Add new option to get random word from a newline separated string
Updated Reveal File in Finder Action workflow object
Now correctly processes multiple passed-in paths, revealing all paths in Finder instead of only first path
Accessibility Improvements
Overhauled VoiceOver of workflow object configuration sheets: List Filter, File Filter, Script Filter, Dictionary Filter, Running Apps Filter
Add + and - Buttons to the Hotkey Trigger Related Apps tab for improved Accessibility
Improve Alfred Ubiquitous Search (? keyword) to include Workflow Configuration fields (by name or value), and environment variables
Search will also now match variable names used in input object keyword fields
Multiple keywords will also be matched if using the || modifier
Updated Workflow Editor notification system, now made generic to allow for more than simple Alfred Gallery update notifications
Now shows Automation Tasks update available
Click to remove a visible notification
Rename "User Configuration" to "Configuration Builder" in the workflow backend config, to better explain its purpose
Strip irrelevant newlines from text fields in Workflow naming and export sheets when saving
Remove automatic lowercasing of keywords fields in input objects on saving, allowing for case-sensitive variable names
Tweak wording in Workflow Dependencies Management for clarity
Fix incorrect component resizing when selecting "Reset to Defaults" in workflow configuration
Fix text truncation when workflow configuration checkbox text is too long
Tweak Script Filter config UI layout to better vertical align components
System Command workflow object Eject All action updated to use Alfred's new eject framework
Added option to reload workflow on popup in preferences workflow list, useful for when e.g. a symlinked workflow isn't automatically reloading on external edit
Added new Alfred AppleScript command to reveal a Workflow via UID or Bundle Id, and optionally show the Workflow's User Configuration
The Script Filter JSON action property now correctly overrides arg when adding a result to the buffer
Update built-in Script Filter getting started workflow with improved descriptions and notes
The Script Filter keyword is now set as environment alfred_workflow_keyword on running a script to complement || multiple keywords
The Workflow Editor now writes a sorted history of selected workflow UIDs to history.json in Alfred's application support folder, ordered latest selected workflow first
Prefabs with a single item now correctly open the workflow configuration when the option to "Show Configuration Sheet for Newly Added Objects" is selected
Fix dragging Safari into Hotkey Trigger object configuration > Related Apps
Gracefully truncate Workflow name and description in Workflow Editor header and Import sheet
Clipboard and Snippets:
Added the ability to QuickLook Alfred's Clipboard History
Select the item in the history and tap ⇧ or press ⌘Y
Works with text, images and single files
Added new option to convert image data to PNG on pasting
Will result in smaller data output, but may result in loss of colour accuracy or compatibility
Added ⌘O to directly open Files and URLs from the Clipboard History list
The snippet's keyword is now shown in the default results when using the snip keyword
This can be disabled in Alfred's Snippet preferences
Show correct default Snippet Collection icon when searching with ? keyword
Update clipboard image import to use NSPasteboardTypeTIFF (public.tiff) in place of deprecated NSTIFFPboardType (NeXT TIFF v4.0 pasteboard type)
General:
Clarify the Powerpack activation UI, adding spacing and a title label
Update Apple Maps search icon to match current version
Update the 1Password feature preferences to link to the Alfred Gallery 1Password workflow
Tweak file application cache to be more accommodating of alternative unicode spaces
Change Alfred Preferences title bar error messages colour to system red to make it easier to see in dark mode
Update build environment and targets
Significant code review and refinements, removing deprecated code, adding future-proofing
Update mechanisms used for discovering ejectable volumes
Ejectable volumes are now discovered off of the main thread to avoid potential UI pauses
Eject and Eject All commands now have a placeholder result when loading mounted drives, or if no mounts exist to eject
Use new eject framework to discover removable drives to be used in the Copy to... / Move to... Universal Actions
Removed deprecated Alfred 2 theme importing
Migrate URL discovery and testing methods in Custom Web Search feature to update framework
Markdown rendering improvements
Fix horizontal rule rendering in markdown when using macOS Ventura
Fix incorrect interpretation of URLs within brackets
Update URLs to use URL string when title is empty
Fix 'bing' title to 'Bing' in default web searches, and updated to the latest Bing logo
Update ebay default web search icon
Rewrite keyword matching framework for higher performance and new features
Multiple keywords can now be specified in features and workflows by using the || separator
Update auto-completion logic to only complete the keyword if the expected argument type is none
Add back notes in the Contacts viewer using new authorised provisioning profile
Tweak internal vector icon rendering to fix incorrect drop shadows, and increase performance
Update the copied argument when using the ? keyword to prepend navigateto/ which makes for a valid URL scheme on Ventura
Add additional settings keyword to show Alfred's Preferences

New in Alfred 5.0.6 Build 2110 (Dec 13, 2022)

New in Alfred 5.0.5 Build 2096 (Nov 4, 2022)

New in Alfred 5.0.4 Build 2095 (Nov 1, 2022)

New in Alfred 5.0.3 Build 2087 (Oct 12, 2022)

New in Alfred 5.0.2 Build 2073 (Aug 29, 2022)

New in Alfred 5.0.1 Build 2067 (Jul 27, 2022)

Improvements:
Additions to Split Arg utility object
Added new "Discard empty items" option
Improved VoiceOver and keyboard navigation
Improve Automation Task Workflow debug output to show which task is being run
Workflow markdown interpretation now also accepts both star and plus for unordered lists
Update the Workflow Prefab icon to better visually differentiate it in the Palette search
Improve experience on creating scripts via the Workflow Run Script / Script Filter "Create File" button
When no file extension is given to the file name, open the file in the default text editor
Warn when there are duplicate variable names used between Environment Variables and User Configuration in the Workflow Configuration
Palette search now also matches when not using spaces, e.g. "openurl" will now show "Open URL" in the results
Workflow JSON overrides for certain objects improved
Debug utility now allows override of processing outputs, and clear debug text
Speak output now allows override of using VoiceOver
Split Arg now allows override of output mode
Browse in Alfred now allows override of sorting and stacking
Minor fixes and tweaks:
Clear workflow's constants cache on committing an edit to a workflow
Fix spelling in Workflow Prefab dialog 'cavnas' to 'canvas'
Fix spelling in Workflow Debug sheet 'do' to 'to'
Fix button text colour for Workflow Getting Started Follow-Along guide when using macOS Light Mode
Fix scrollbar behaviour in Workflow Configuration > User Configuration sheet when macOS scrollbars set to Always
Add a warning dialog at startup if user doesn't meet minimum macOS 10.14 requirement
Fix correctly saving object configuration when using Run Script or Script Filter set to "External Script" then selecting "Create File" button
Remove / from the {query} and {var} URL encoded character list to make encoding options more forgiving
Make additional tweaks to new URL encoding algorithm to better work with unicode
Update Share Usage link URLs in Alfred Preference's Usage tab to use newer twitter URLs:
Fix scroll view content sizing in Configurable Config Text Area fields
Fix scrollbars on Workflow User Configuration and Automation Task sheets when scrollbars set to always
Tweak size of the Workflow Config backend shared "description" field to better vertically fit text
Update info and error label colours in Workflow Delay utility object config to be dark mode compatible
Fix sizing of Prefab and Favourite sections of the palette to properly fit text when no items are added

New in Alfred 5.0 Build 2057 (Jul 13, 2022)

Workflows:
Brand new Workflow Editor
Completely rewritten from the ground up to put accessibility and performance first
New palette for more efficient workflow creation
Drag and drop to add items to the canvas
Normal and compact mode, and easily expand and collapse sections
Favourites section to host your most used workflow objects
Preconfigured objects, or groups of objects, can be stored in the palette as Prefabs for faster workflow creation
New Workflow landing screen when no workflows are selected, with handy shortcuts
New Getting Started guide
Walks new users through the various aspects of workflow development
Interactive Getting Started section in the palette, with prefabs to drag and connect
New configurable "User Configuration" for workflows
Add simple user-facing preferences to your workflows, making them easier for users to install and set-up
Recognisable controls such as Text fields, check boxes, picker boxes and more
Option for required fields which are highlighted with orange
Assign variable names and default values to each item which are then available throughout your workflow
Configuration shown on importing or upgrading a workflow
Quickly access a workflow's configuration from within the editor using the Configure Workflow button, or ⌘,
Keyboard navigation around workflow objects
Use ⌘ arrows to select objects around the canvas
Use ⌘⌥ left / right to navigate along connection streams
Use ⌘⌥ up / down to navigate to connected siblings
When no objects are selected, arrow keys will navigate the scroll area (⇧ arrows for larger steps)
Improved view focusing progression during actions, making keyboard navigation more predictable
New Workflow object icons to clarify workflow development
Individual connections can now be disabled, allowing for easier workflow development and testing
Efficient automatic workflow object connection with the ⌥ key
When dragging items from the palette or using the palette search, hold ⌥ to automatically connect to selected items
Select an item, hold ⌥ and click items to chain connect the items in order
Select one or more items, hold ⇧⌥ and click items to connect items to the first selected items
When dragging a new connection to an empty space on the canvas, you can now scroll from the edges of the canvas to create more space
Improvements to snapping and sizing to allow for better horizontal alignment
Notes are now intrinsically rendered as part of the object, so they don't get rendered behind other objects
Improved connection path detection, including recognising clicking the alternative path indicator
Improved rendering quality when zooming a canvas
Added alignment options for selected objects, both horizontally and vertically centred or referenced around clicked object
New Inbound Configuration option to modify the incoming argument before it's used
Updated indicator on workflow object input in editor when argument is being modified
The workflow list is now resizable
Hotkey Trigger highlight colour now differentiates when sharing combo with disabled workflows
Related hotkeys on canvas popup menu also show when the related hotkey is within a disabled workflow
Contextual help for workflow objects can now be found in more places
It is now possible to edit a Workflow object note by double clicking it
The "About Workflow" now supports a subset of Markdown
Add pretty introductions and help to your workflows, including images from the workflow's folder
Currently supported: Headers, italic, bold, unordered lists, inline code, separator, local image, links
New Workflow debugger
Debugger is now available at the top level of the Workflow preferences, without the need to select a workflow
Created new Automations object category
Moved Music and System Commands into Automations
Snippet Triggers can now optionally be shown in the Clipboard History / Snippets Viewer
This is a global option available within the Snippet Trigger object configuration
External Trigger updated to optionally enable running of triggers via URL Scheme
Example shown in object configuration
Updated Conditional Utility object
Added cases for evaluating boolean true and false
Added option to hide the "Else" fallback condition
Script Filter
Added new skipknowledge boolean field to the top level JSON
Allows for fixed order result sets while maintaining result UIDs (for item re-selection on reload)
Rename File utility to File Conditional to better represent its purpose
Rename Split Arg to Vars to Split Arg and add option to output as a list of arguments instead of variables
Added convenient popup button for default delimiters e.g. comma, tab, new line
Add new Run Shortcut automation object
Run macOS 12+ specified shortcuts from within your workflow
Specify input as string or file(s)
Choose to ignore Shortcut output and continue, or wait for Shortcut and use its output
Add new Join Arg utility object
Converts multiple input arguments into a single output argument with specified join character
Useful with supporting some Automation Tasks
Add new Running Apps workflow input filter object
Select output from Bundle ID, Path, or Process ID
Add optional result title prefix as a hint to the action
Add new Dialog Conditional utility object
Present a macOS System dialog to the user
Configure title, description and up to 3 available buttons
Multiple outputs, allowing different path based on button pressed
Add new Speak output object
Speaks configured or passed-in text
Stripped back run script environment to ensure external variables don't pollute Alfred's script environment
Update default run script environment path to /opt/homebrew/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
Python 3 has now been added to the default script selection
Note that if Python 3 hasn't already been installed via e.g. Homebrew, this may trigger the Xcode command line tools install
Update the default selected script type for Run Script and Script Filter to zsh instead of bash
New word matching framework
Improves boundary matching beyond whitespace
New "Word based - sequential" matching option available in Script Filter when selecting "Alfred filters results"
List Filter now shares the same matching options available in the Script Filter
/usr/bin/swift has now been added to the selectable language types in Run Script and Script Filter
Prevent clicking through on an unpopulated website in the workflow importer and exporter
Improvements to the placeholder system throughout Workflows
The {query} placeholder will now process placeholder modifiers, e.g. {query.lowercase.trim}
Allows for faster workflow development with fewer utility objects
Access constants, previously only available to Run Script and Script Filter, using {const:constname}, e.g. {const:alfred_workflow_version}
Use {constants} in the Debug Utility to view all constants for a workflow within the workflow debugger
Improve script runtime handler to prevent user-overridden Alfred constants
Debug Utility now uses {variables} to dump all variables, however {allvars} will still be recognised for backwards compatibility.
When duplicating a symlinked workflow, fully resolve the symlinked path so the workflow is correctly duplicated
General:
Alfred now uses the Modern and Modern Dark as the default themes
Roll out enhanced URL handler throughout Alfred allowing for more flexible URL recognition and handling
Remove deprecated UTF-8 option from custom web searches, make all searches UTF-8
Improve Alfred text view undo algorithm to break coalescing on non-alphanumeric breaks instead of timing
Add custom Alfred accent colour to Preferences UI, for improved experience on Big Sur+
Improved icon rendering across the board
Larger hit zones for buttons at the bottom of the Workflows, Themes and Remote Pages lists
Improved macOS Colour palette behaviour in theme editor when changing colour options
Improvements to Ubiquitous Internal Preferences Search, ? keyword within Alfred
Add new blank workflows using ?add workflow
Snippets:
New option to allow resetting of colour, size and font in rich text
Useful for creating formatted snippets which are dark mode compatible
Option also added to Copy to Clipboard Workflow object
Separate icons for Snippets and Snippet Collections for UI clarity
Enable drag and drop of snippets between collections in the preferences
Fix disabled collection colour in preferences dark mode
Universal Actions:
Reveal in Finder Universal Action now works with multiple file selections
Accessibility:
Alfred 5 brings a big overhaul in Accessibility, and marks the start of an ongoing process to refine and improve every aspect of Alfred 5
When searching in Alfred using the ? keyword, or using the Alfred Preferences search, workflows are now correctly focused when searched for and actioned

New in Alfred 4.6.7 Build 1305 (Jun 30, 2022)

New in Alfred 5.0 Early Access (Jun 29, 2022)

New Workflow Editor:
The Workflow Editor has been rewritten from the ground up to be higher performance, more efficient, user-friendly and accessible. We've added keyboard shortcuts, new mouse interactions, a customisable and searchable palette, and VoiceOver accessibility of Workflow contents and editing.
Workflows can now be created using keyboard shortcuts, including searching for and inserting workflow objects into the canvas. We've also added a new ⌥click paradigm which allows you to quickly connect, multi-connect or chain-connect workflow objects.
Workflow Palette and Search:
The new Workflow Palette gives you an easy way to navigate, discover and use the broad range of workflow objects available. Simply drag an object from the Palette into the canvas, or hold ⌥ and drag to automatically connect to the currently selected objects.
Add your most-used objects to the Palette Favourites list for quick access, or search and filter the Palette instantly with the / shortcut. Use ↩︎ to add the searched item to the canvas, or ⌥↩︎ to insert and automatically connect.
Configure the Palette to be full, compact, or hidden to suit your workspace. Even when hidden, the Palette Search will be dynamically available when needed.
Workflow Prefabs:
Prefabs enable you to save pre-configured objects, or groups of connected objects, into the Palette. You can then reuse these throughout your workflows just like any other workflow object, saving you time and effort.
In the future, we will add the ability to export and share your Prefabs!
Workflow User Configuration:
Workflow creators can now add simple user-facing preferences to workflows, making them easier for users to install and set up. The Workflow readme supports a subset of Markdown, so you can style your workflow introduction and help.
Use easy text fields, checkboxes, selection lists, file pickers and more to allow users to configure a workflow without having to navigate into individual objects or scripts!
Configuration items can have default values, or can be marked as required, ensuring the user has configured the workflow before it can be used. User values are automatically migrated on updating a workflow.
Automation Tasks:
This is the start of something amazing...
Alfred's Automation Task object adds an ever-growing collection of configurable actions you can add to your workflows as building blocks, without having to think about the code behind it; From resizing images and moving files to getting the current Safari tab or switching to Dark Mode.
The Automation Task collection is aimed at both non-developers, and advanced workflow creators alike. We develop, maintain and enhance the repository of underlying actions, you simply add them to your workflow.
In the future, we will release our task development tool enabling our community to create task actions too!
Run macOS Shortcuts:
It's now possible run macOS Shortcuts as part of your Workflows.
Accessibility & Keyboard-based Workflow Editing:
This is part of our ongoing commitment to make Alfred more accessible and better suited for use with the VoiceOver and Accessibility macOS features.
In addition to the Palette Search and Workflow User Configuration, both of which were conceived with Accessibility in mind, Workflows can now be edited and navigated using the keyboard.
Use ⌘arrows to move between objects on the canvas, or ⌘⌥left or ⌘⌥right to navigate forward and back through connected objects. Navigate to sibling objects using ⌘⌥up or ⌘⌥down.
With VoiceOver enabled, Alfred will be reading the object and connection details as you navigate.
Improved Ubiquitous Search:
Alfred's Ubiquitous search has received more improvements, making it easy to get to a specific preference keyword or snippet directly, and even create a new workflow directly from Alfred's main bar.
And so much more:
Boost your everyday productivity in every way with many more new features and improvements:
We've added Interactive Getting Started guides to introduce new users to the Workflow Editor and walk them through creating their first workflows
Redesigned icons to make workflow objects even easier to recognise
Many new objects to allow you to write even more code-free workflows, including Conditional objects, a Speech output and a Running Apps filter
The Workflow list can now be resized to more easily see long workflow names
Workflow connections can now be disabled in a workflow, preventing Alfred from following that stream when running the workflow
Improved Workflow object snapping and sizing
Contextual help in more places throughout the workflow editor
The Workflow Debugger can be opened and run regardless of a workflow being opened
Added Workflow Object alignment options to horizontally or vertically align the selected objects, centred, or references around clicked object
Improved workflow connection click detection, including improved hit zones for alt-connection hints
Improved colours for hotkey highlighting when sharing combo with other workflows, including disabled ones
Workflow object notes can now be edited by double clicking them
Swift and Python 3 have been added to the available script selections (may trigger Apple Developer CLI Tools automatic install)
External Trigger objects can now optionally be run from the alfred: URL scheme
Snippet Triggers can now optionally be shown in the Clipboard / Snippets viewer
The Script Filter object has a new `skipknowledge` boolean field in the JSON, preventing Alfred from sorting your outputted results when using UIDs for reselection
New word matching framework for higher performance, and more intelligent boundary matching when using e.g. Script and List filters
The {query} placeholder can now have modifiers performed on it e.g. {query.trim.lowercase}
Added {const:} access to Alfred workflow constants, previously only available to the Scripting environment
Alfred now defaults to using the Dark / Light Modern themes to better match macOS
Improved URL handling throughout Alfred
Improved text view undo algorithm to break coalescing on non-alphanumeric breaks instead of timing
Add custom Alfred accent colour to Preferences UI, for improved experience on Big Sur+
Improved icon rendering across the board
Larger hit zones for buttons at the bottom of the Workflows, Themes and Remote Pages lists
Improved macOS Colour palette behaviour in theme editor when changing colour options
New option to allow resetting of colour, size and font in rich text snippets
Separate icons for Snippets and Snippet Collections for UI clarity
Enable drag and drop of snippets between collections in the preferences
Reveal in Finder Universal Action now works with multiple file selections

New in Alfred 4.6.6 Build 1303 (May 25, 2022)

New in Alfred 4.6.5 Build 1299 (Apr 26, 2022)

New in Alfred 4.6.4 Build 1294 (Mar 22, 2022)

New in Alfred 4.6.3 Build 1285 (Feb 15, 2022)

New in Alfred 4.6.2 Build 1280 (Jan 25, 2022)

New in Alfred 4.6.1 Build 1274 (Dec 2, 2021)

New in Alfred 4.6 Build 1266 (Oct 15, 2021)

New in Alfred 4.5.1 Build 1256 (Aug 9, 2021)

New in Alfred 4.5 Build 1253 (Aug 2, 2021)

Universal Actions:
Brand new major feature for Alfred 4 Powerpack Users: See alfredapp.com/universal-actions for details and pretty pictures!
Global Hotkey in macOS to action the selected Files, URLs and Text:
Set your hotkey in Alfred’s Preferences > Features > Universal Actions to get started
Action from within Alfred:
Use your global action hotkey, or the action shortcut combo, to action any selected result or item throughout Alfred
Action file navigation, clipboard history, and even action actions
Built-in Actions:
Over 60 built-in actions, such as copying to your Clipboard, saving as a Snippet, searching the web, showing recent documents for an app or extracting URLs from a block of text
More actions coming soon!
Deep Workflow integration:
Create your own actions, from the simplest text transformation to the most advanced script
String multiple actions one after the other without leaving Alfred
Workflow Keyword and Script Filter objects are conveniently added as default actions
For ultimate control, you can create specific Universal Action triggers where you need them within your Workflows
New Built-in Universal Actions Getting Started workflow
Supporting changes for new Universal Actions feature:
Respect the WebURLsWithTitlesPboardType clipboard content type when importing data from the clipboard for actioning
If configured, correctly implement the tap action keys (e.g. fn and ctrl) throughout the action view hierarchy
New and updated Workflow objects:
Universal Action trigger:
Add actions to Alfred's Universal Actions panel
Select which types of data are relevant from Files, URLs and Text
Select whether to only show if single or multiple items are passed
File Action trigger:
Updated multiple argument mode to match new Universal Action trigger behaviour
Action in Alfred action:
New option to directly jump to certain actions such as Open with, Copy, Move, Email and Recent Documents
The argument type treatment can be selected for passing through to Universal Actions
Previously configured objects default to type "File" for backwards compatibility
Newly created objects default to type "Automatic" for automatic detection of passed type
Workflow object output now correctly passes through the input arguments
AppleScript:
A new "as type" has been added to the Action in Alfred AppleScript, allowing e.g. items to be forced to type "text". See AppleScript Dictionary for more
New action parameter for Script Filter JSON to override arg being actioned per returned result, see JSON documentation for more information
General:
Recognise numpad keys as special when using Dispatch Key Combo objects in Workflows and Remote
Add popup option on Key Combo editor to select numpad keys when using a non-full-size keyboard
Move window hide logic to ensure results clean up always happens at the correct time
Improve logic around mod key recognition for QuickLook, correcting issue where mod taps were sometimes ignored
Update calculator to limit the significant digits to prevent some floating point rounding issues on Catalina and Big Sur
Improve event handling for actions shortcut when using right arrow, preventing repeat (held) key events from performing actions
Update internal Alfred URL parser to correctly recognise empty authority based URLs
Migrate additional internals to use Alfred URL parser
Fix misinterpreted alt+down shortcut combo as right arrow for actioning
Workflows:
Fix layout issue and spelling in Write Text File output object config sheet
Setting the Script Filter quicklookurl parameter to empty string or null is now correctly respected as not wanting quicklook for the specific result
Added new ⇧⌘F Preferences shortcut which will switch to the Workflows tab and highlight the Workflow Filter field

New in Alfred 4.3.4 Build 1229 (Apr 29, 2021)

New in Alfred 4.3.3 Build 1226 (Apr 15, 2021)

New in Alfred 4.3.2 Build 1221 (Feb 16, 2021)

New in Alfred 4.3.1 Build 1214 (Jan 22, 2021)

New in Alfred 4.3 Build 1205 (Dec 14, 2020)

Universal Build:
Alfred's main download and update now runs natively on both Intel and Apple Silicon
Previously, the Universal M1 build was available as a separate download
Theming:
Two new default themes added to take advantage of new theming features in 4.3:
Alfred Modern: Uses the light visual effect window backing with rounded purple highlights
Alfred Modern Dark: Uses the dark visual effect window backing with rounded turquoise highlights
Don't forget that you can choose different themes while in macOS Light and Dark mode, and Alfred will automatically switch
Duplicate these themes to create your own variations in Alfred's Appearance preferences
Added ability to select a native macOS Visual Effect view to back Alfred's window:
Provides more native looking themes, with proper window surround
Fixes fuzzy window corners in macOS Big Sur when using the previous style window blur
Visual Effect options available from the top left blur button in the Theme editor
Deprecated the classic blur, which uses private API and doesn't guarantee future support
Buffer feature will now fill full width of Alfred window if Visual Effect background used, to match native window background
Add new theme options to add round corners to the search field and selected result backgrounds:
Result separators will automatically reduce in width to match the selected result rounded corners
Reduce the width of the selected text background editor to better visualise search field rounded corners
Automatically round the corners of the scroll indicator based on width, to better match the native macOS scrollbar
Relax the maximum rounded corner constraint. Note that if using a visual effect background, macOS can artificially constrain very rounded corners in unexpected ways
Add new theme option for horizontal search field padding, allowing for better search text alignment
Standardised centre padding on secondary views, and disassociate with edge horizontal padding for larger summary / quicklook icons
Only show results scrollbar once scrolling has started, for cleaner default results, and better matching macOS visuals
Cleaner upgrade notification tab at bottom of Alfred window, compatible with modern macOS blur
Update internal framework to better respond to view backing type changes
Drag Alfred window by the Alfred Buffer counter text when there are more buffer items that can visibly fit
Only position the colour picker the first time it's shown (bottom left of the preferences window), otherwise, respect user positioning
Workflows:
Browse in Alfred Action:
Added new sort override options into the Browse in Alfred action object
Facilitates interesting shortcuts such as a hotkey to show the Downloads folder sorted by Created date, newest first
Improve scrolling behaviour in Conditional Utility when macOS scrollbars set to always show
General:
History Improvements:
You can now use ⌃↑ and ⌃↓ to navigate Alfred's default result history at any time
Note: these shortcuts will need to be disassociated from Mission Control's shortcuts to use them in Alfred
Mouse improvements:
Add a new mouse jitter helper to ignore tiny mouse movements in Alfred's results and subviews, preventing unintentional result selection
Correctly select the row directly under the mouse pointer when clicking a result row
File System Navigation:
Improved wording on the sorting popup menu to clarify sort direction instead of ascending and descending
Create new URL Helper to parse raw / non-encoded (RFC 3986) URL strings, paving the way to overhauling Alfred's URL handling:
Update Contact Viewer to use new URL Helper, which fixes e.g. tel handler in Big Sur
Fix Open URL workflow object to correctly show domain label in workflow canvas for non-encoded URLs
Fix Custom Search Open Search lookup to correctly decode special characters
Add additional logic to Open URL workflow object if unable to create valid URL from string
Update Quick Look handler to use new url parser
Improve default fallback logic for direct inputs (e.g. hotkey to input workflow), fixing showing null in fallback result subtext
File Buffer Improvements:
If configured, only clear the contents of Alfred's Buffer on actioning if the action is based on the contents of the buffer (not separate single actions)
Improve keystroke responsiveness if using the Buffer shortcut keys as the first keystroke after showing Alfred
Update internal search to add music icon and keywords where relevant
Preferences:
Tweak preferences Snippets feature icon to better line up with Clipboard feature icon
Clarify the Clear All button for Alfred's clipboard history, and add confirmation sheet
Ensure that the Snippet count is correctly updated for a Collection when adding or removing Snippets
Improve preferences features header to be correctly tinted for the desktop
Fix spacing around table views on Big Sur
Fix non-retina Big Sur rendering issues in the following places:
Icons in the Feature and Workflow view header
Twitter button in usage preferences
"Open Workflow Folder" button in Workflow object editor sheet
Button icons in the top right of the Workflow editor
Troubleshooting:
Allow subsequent files to be dragged into the file troubleshooting once a previous one has completed
Update the file troubleshooting scope check failure to be a warning with additional information on how to fix, and move it to be the final check performed
Allow scope check troubleshooting pass if application nested within mapped volume data path

New in Alfred 4.2.1 Build 1187 (Nov 13, 2020)

New in Alfred 4.2 Build 1180 (Oct 28, 2020)

New in Alfred 4.1.1 Build 1172 (Sep 1, 2020)

New in Alfred 4.1 Build 1167 (Jul 9, 2020)

Workflow editor rendering tweaks to significantly improve the UI performance with very large and complex workflows
Improve visibility of modifiers set on connections, especially when using light object colours
Updated Workflow Objects:
Hotkey Trigger:
The same hotkey combination can now be shared across multiple triggers matching different conditions
Added navigation to related hotkeys on the contextual popup menu for a hotkey trigger in the workflow editor
Prioritisation of shared hotkey to run, with the following priority:
In Focus match takes highest priority, e.g. Hotkey only when Safari in focus
Not in Focus takes secondary priority, e.g. Hotkey only when Spotify not in focus
Falls back to hotkey with no app specific focus configured
Hints shown in orange if a shared hotkey combination is in use
Hotkey Trigger object key combo background changes
Subtext under the hotkey field updates with warning
Show subtle grey background behind application icons on Hotkey Object in workflow editor where hotkey focus mode is set to "don't have focus"
Copy and Paste of object (or object configuration) now also retains the hotkey combo
Note that this will naturally create a conflict which you will have to manually resolve
Script Filter Input:
Fix Run Behaviour sheet "Reset to Defaults" button to also reset the "Argument" section
Copy to Clipboard Output:
Fixed to now correctly use clipboardtextrtf property from passed-in JSON config
Reorganise internal logic to enable plain text clipboard output to be derived from passed-in RTF from JSON config
Only save either clipboardtext or clipboardtextrtf into the configuration
Fixes automatic {cursor} positioning with mismatching rtf / plain text
Arg / Var Utility:
Add option to "pass through" the input argument, allowing for array objects (e.g. list of files) to pass through unprocessed
Clarify the help subtext in the configuration sheet
New Workflow Objects:
File Buffer Action:
Added new workflow action to interact with Alfred's File Buffer
Action in Alfred Action:
Added new workflow action to show Alfred's actions panel for the passed in file
File Utility:
Tests if file exists and outputs on one of two outputs accordingly
Option to also output the UTI for the file as a variable
This could be useful for subsequent branching using a Conditional
New Workflow Object Inbound Configuration:
Access using the "Inbound Configuration..." popup menu for the selected object
External trigger identifiers can now be directly set on external objects
Conflicts are now checked between the External Trigger object, and any external identifiers set
You now have control over how a downstream input object presents its results between Direct and Keyword modes
Direct mode is the previous behaviour, where the input icon is placed to the right hand side and you see no keyword
Keyword mode places the input into Alfred's default results and sets it as unique (same as pressing return on a placeholder)
Workflow objects represent the presence of an external identifier with small hint on object input in Workflow editor
Double click the hint for faster subsequent access to the inbound configuration
The icon for both External Trigger and Call External have been tweaked to match the new hint
Fix internal variable types in workflow editor framework
Added "Filter Workflows by..." on the popup menu for workflow objects in the canvas for hotkeys and keywords
Makes it easier to find workflows with similar hotkeys and keywords
Standardise how an array of arguments is shown in the workflow debugger
Improve various subtexts throughout the workflow object configuration sheets
Snippets and Clipboard:
Snippets can now embed other snippets using the {snippet:} placeholder
Placeholder works in all expected places, for example, the Copy to Clipboard workflow output object
Note that nesting is only one level deep
Added a "Copy Placeholder" on the popup menu for a selected snippet to copy the relevant {snippet:} placeholder
Improve text placeholder framework
Improved processing efficiency by deriving plain text content from already-processed rich text content where applicable
more consistent behaviour between clipboard objects
Fixes issue where the snip keyword wasn't correctly processing rich text placeholders
Fix Snippet keyword to correctly respect the "Auto-paste on Return" option
Option to ignore org.nspasteboard.AutoGeneratedType in the Clipboard History Advanced preferences, enabled by default
Contacts:
Multiple Contact Actions can now be configured with modifier keys
Contact Actions editor sheet now correctly shows "Add" or "Save" button instead of just "Add"
Set the Add / Save button shortcut to be ⌘S
Action text at bottom of Contact Viewer now updates on mod key change to provide action hint
Improve the "type to search" in the Contacts Viewer
You can now press up and down to select the previous or next match for the typed filter
Trim around name components when creating full name
1Password:
Added alternative ⌘↩︎ action to open the selected 1Password bookmark in 1Password instead of Open and Fill
Troubleshooting:
Start process of adding interactive troubleshooting built into Alfred's Help preferences to aid fixing common issues
Also add help links to key troubleshooting help pages
Troubleshooting is written to a Report file, for easy emailing and subsequent support
File Search
Run a number of diagnostic checks on a dragged in file to work out why it isn't being found
General fixes and improvements:
Fix Alfred using (and consuming) up/down key events when IME panel is showing (e.g. Pinyin selection panel)
Note that this fix is more of a "workaround" to a lack of Public API to officially support this
Recognise full width space U+3000 as an activator for Alfred's quick file search mode
Show Base32 decoded data wherever dyn.a UTI types are seen, to give better idea of content
Fix making selected result unique in Alfred's default results if input is configured to be "no space"
Alfred was immediately disassociating the unique result due to incorrect logic
Fix Music feature description text in Catalina to correctly say Music.app instead of iTunes
Fix Dark / Light mode appearance of descriptive text in macOS Rebuild Metadata sheet
Make the snip keyword's subtext more succinct for Copy or Paste text, showing more of the snippet content
Fully resolve [local] symlinks and aliases when using Quick Look, to see the file contents instead of the file icon
Fix twitter web search icon colour
File Buffer Improvements
Show "x+ items" to top left of Buffer when the number of visible items exceeds the available visible space
Correctly re-draw the buffer when additional items are added and removed beyond the visible window width
Add a - button to delete selected custom web searches in the Web Search preferences
Show version number for Application bundles in preview panels (e.g. file system navigation, action panel)
Improve VoiceOver accessibility for hotkey fields, now correctly reads newly inputted hotkey

New in Alfred 4.0.9 Build 1144 (Mar 20, 2020)

New in Alfred 4.0.8 Build 1135 (Jan 17, 2020)

New in Alfred 4.0.7 Build 1131 (Dec 17, 2019)

New in Alfred 4.0.6 Build 1124 (Nov 8, 2019)

New in Alfred 4.0.5 Build 1118 (Oct 15, 2019)

New in Alfred 4.0.4 Build 1111 (Sep 15, 2019)

Add warning at startup when a sync folder is set but the preferences are missing from that folder (e.g. a Volume not currently mounted)
Fix Snippet 'snip' keyword to correctly use rich text snippets
Fix "Email To..." file action in macOS Catalina (Thanks to Alfred user Vitor from our Forum)
Switch default ordering of the clipboard history 'clear' keyword results to be chronological
Tweak some workflow debug messaging
Increase arbitrary URL recognition limit from 500 to 4096 characters
Fix text in welcome message from "to to" to "to do"
Recognise .alfred4workflow file type for importing workflows
File Search:
Force default sort order to file metadata query to ensure most relevant results before Alfred has accumulated internal knowledge
You should see a significant improvement to Alfred's default ranking of results, and more relevant file search results presented
This resolution has been needed in the past due to changes in the underlying macOS metadata, and has now been added permanently
Tweak to File Filter to allow * as the Metadata field. Allows for wide arbitrary matching of multiple metadata fields if used with Words and Split options selected
Fix regression where application alt names words were not being matched, important for non-English app searching in English from mid string e.g. "monitor" to match "Activity Monitor"
Split /Applications (and /System/Applications) from Default Results search scope into separate checkbox to prevent accidental, confusing removal, and to future-proof for Catalina
Add Catalina iCloud Drive location to default search scope (select 'reset' to get default scope paths if they have been customised)
Note: This location seems to be changing throughout the Catalina Beta, so further changes may be needed
Correctly abbreviate files in home folder and iCloud in Catalina instead of showing full System Volume path
Only show iCloud Drive once in file search result subtext for files in the top level iCloud Drive folder
Calculator:
Recognise x as multiplication
Update calculator to ignore basic calculations if prefixed with a permissible character but an unrecognised character sequence
File Actions:
Ensure that scope folders (e.g. Desktop) are correctly found when searching for a folder in Actions such as "copy to" and "move to"
Prevent hang when prefixing a search term with ~ in the "copy to" and "move to" actions
iTunes Mini Player:
Close Mini Player database before moving newly indexed database into position
Ensure that top level results divider line is only drawn in the Mini Player when needed
Improve artist / album counting during indexing
Catalina improvements:
Fix Alfred Mini Player to work with macOS Catalina
Update music data importing to use macOS API (in place of XML)
Show "Music" in place of "iTunes" for Alfred feature preferences and default results

New in Alfred 4.0.3 Build 1092 (Jul 4, 2019)

New in Alfred 4.0.2 Build 1088 (Jun 21, 2019)

Fix spelling in Preview feature, "masOS" to "macOS"
Fix spelling in Welcome migration step, "Copy Prefererences" to "Copy Preferences"
Fix incorrect word in Welcome migration log, "Migrating remove" to "Migrating remote"
Fix Preferences internal search results position when preferences window is in full screen mode
Fix variable substitutions in Copy to Clipboard Workflow output object when mode is set to Rich Text
Add missing JSON configuration interface for v4 changes in Large Type workflow object
Improve Alfred's border rendering in macOS Dark Mode
Add in additional Usage Description request texts in info.plist
Improve File Filter workflow object file search query formulation when {var:varname} substitutions are used in the fields
Change the way Alfred displays the version and build number to remove the b for build
Update eject commands to correctly eject after unmounting
Allow Alfred's main window to be also repositioned on screen by dragging the hat
Prepare for Alfred 4 corporate licensing
URL recognition:
Add option for default URL scheme when no scheme specified on typing URL into Alfred, http or https, defaults to https
Correctly recognise all valid characters for URL scheme, allowing for x- based schemes
v3 Regression fixes:
Fix showing result in default results when result has empty title and subtext
Tweak allowing direct input to e.g. Keyword Input with no title / subtitle to show clean input box with no results, but still allow actioning / mod-actioning
Fix missing "Write Text File" subtext on workflow object
Dark Mode:
Fix dark mode for Alfred's Remote Server config sheet
Make nearly black and nearly white in rich text editors convert to the controlTextColor to be dark mode compatible and to match pasting into e.g. TextEdit.app or Mail.app
macOS Catalina changes:
Added /System/Applications/ to Alfred's default search scope (note, you'll have to add this manually if you have previously customised the search scope)
Update how Alfred discovers application icons for features such as Calculator and Dictionary
Update Alfred Remote example pages to correctly discover applications

New in Alfred 4.0.1 Build 1078 (May 30, 2019)

New in Alfred 4.0 Build 1076 (May 30, 2019)

General changes:
Hardened runtime support for macOS
Improved, higher performance application caching for Alfred's file search
Prevent multiple copies of Alfred from running if, for example, a workflow accidentally attempts to re-launch Alfred as a new process
Hotkey display will now track the current keyboard layout (i.e. ⌘L in British layout will now correctly show ⌘N when switching the keyboard to Dvorak)
Improve secondary-view input field / selection list text copy behaviour to match Alfred's main search field: E.g. allows for copy partial selected search term, or partial selected summary text from clipboard history viewer without overriding with "copy entire item" action
Show correct fallback text when query is dynamically updated, for example, pressing = after a calculation to equate the answer
Make 'alfred preferences' correctly match result to show Alfred's preferences in Alfred's default results
Standardise big hat drawing between Workflows and Remote preferences when no workflow or page is selected
Make QuickLook previews change dynamically when changing result item in Alfred's Default Results and File System Navigation
Migrate and modernise many icons into PaintCode
Show "this does nothing" notification when double clicking an alfredpreferences file
Fix locale and macOS language discovery to correctly format dates. Fix applies to all places where dates can be used, e.g. Snippets, Workflow placeholders, Contacts
Change bundle id to "com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred" for now and future:
Future proofs major versions which will now share macOS App Support, cache folders etc
Removes name dependency when using AppleScript to call Alfred, now you can use tell application id "com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred" to search
Note: Also added a "Show Alfred" workflow object which should be used where possible instead of AppleScript call backs
Add "Welcome" window when first launching Alfred:
Pre-activation of Powerpack
Settings backup and migration of older preferences
Configure macOS permissions
Update mechanism for storing and reading preferences sync folder to prefs.json in Alfred's Application Support folder:
JSON contains 'current' value, written at startup to help external scripts find Alfred's preferences if synced
Note, for the time being, the syncfolder is still written to the preferences plist for workflow libraries which may rely on this
Migrate remaining http links to https (to force encryption where unspecified)
e.g. Contact URLs, Workflow website, Remote page examples, 1Password, user proxy settings
Also certain labels throughout the preferences now correctly show https
Preferences:
Ask for confirmation when resetting the default search scope, and if reset, also default to including folders in home
Improved error reporting when workflows, snippets and snippet collections can't be moved to trash (e.g. due to a permissions issue)
The previously selected feature is remember and reselected if the preferences is re-opened within 12 hours
Added easier access to macOS Permissions in Alfred's General preferences. Add an example image of what to expect in the macOS Permissions preferences
When adding fallback triggers, grey out triggers which have already been added so they can't be added twice
Clean up General preferences tab, moving the Alfred Remote download link to the Remote tab
Overhaul to Alfred's Preferences:
Easier to find preferences, and discover new features
New look with Dark Mode support
Performance improvements throughout
Consistency / layout refinements throughout
Moved Application options from Advanced into Default Results feature:
Added option to ignore app keyword metadata, now disabled by default due to strange Spotlight "SEO" practices by 3rd party apps
Updated Features list order for improved relevance:
Moved Clipboard and Snippets higher in feature list, renamed Clipboard feature to Clipboard History
Moved File Preview options from File Search into a top level Feature for better relevance and discoverability
Preferences Search:
Add ⌘F to disallowed hotkeys for OS and Preferences consistency. This is now used throughout Alfred's Preferences for the "Find" function
Added new '?' keyword to search and open Alfred's Preferences directly from Alfred's main search box
When searching for a workflow object, the workflow selected object can now be opened in the canvas by pressing return
New search framework allowing for searching throughout Alfred's features
Added search in Alfred's Preferences (accessible with ⌘F) to find and select preferences:
Searching for 'hotkeys' will show all configured hotkeys
Searching for 'keywords' will show all configured keywords
Snippets:
Snippets searchable from Alfred's preferences search for quick editing
Rich text snippets:
Rich text snippets, editable within the snippets editor
Automatic link detection in snippet editor, allowing for links in snippets
Rich text enabled snippets are prefixed with a asterisk in the snippet list
Snippet sound improvements:
Separated text expansion "play sound" option into individual options for Snippets and Workflow Snippet Triggers
Option to select the sound you'd like to play when expansion happens, including dropping custom sounds in
Sound now played after the expansion (instead of before) for improved latency
Improve user experience when creating first snippet with no collections created:
A new "Default Collection" is automatically created
Update table edit snippet buttons behaviour to always allow for adding snippets
Workflows:
Improved Workflow debugger:
Concurrent debugging across all workflows with filtering down to individual workflows / selected objects
Interactive navigation with clickable links in debugger taking you to relevant source objects in Workflow editor
Uses alfredpreferences: URL scheme allowing for links to be copied and used externally
Add ⌘D to toggle Debugger when in workflow editor
Copy button now copies both plain and RTF versions of the debugger to the pasteboard
Debugger remains enabled when switching between workflows, and switching away from Workflows tab
Size and visibility of debugger is remembered per session when switching / closing / opening workflows
Make stderr messages turquoise unless the script exited with non 0 code
Fix error logging from Run Script to separate stderr and error
Truncate log messages over 100k characters to prevent poor workflow debugger performance
Make {allvars} in the debugger correctly show unicode values
Change the debug distributed message type so Alfred 3 doesn't see Alfred 4 debug messages
New Workflow objects:
Conditional Utility:
If / else if / else conditional with single input and multiple outputs
Simplifies workflow stream flow
Adds greater than / less than comparison, where input and match strings are evaluated as integers
Drag reorder of conditions
Split Utility:
Split the single passed in query argument by a given delimiter, into multiple variables
Random Utility:
Generate a random UUID
Generate a random number with optional range
Pick a random word in a given list
Words are trimmed, and empty strings are removed
Show Alfred:
A simple utility to show Alfred's window with some text
Where possible, this should be used within a workflow instead of AppleScript to re-show Alfred as a "new window"
Browse In Terminal:
Simple action to browse the specified or passed in path in Terminal.app (or custom Terminal specified in Features > Terminal)
Will work with multiple passed in paths, for example, Hotkey file selection (multiple files selected) > Browse in Terminal
Improvements and new features for existing Workflow objects:
Hotkey Trigger:
Added the Find Pasteboard to the available Argument sources
Allows for simple integration into the macOS Find Pasteboard (Note that you can use ⌘E in a Mac app to add the current selection to the Find Pasteboard)
External Trigger:
Update generated example AppleScript to show new application bundle id
Snippet Trigger:
Small tweak to Snippet Trigger object warning text (when Auto Expansion is disabled) to ensure it's not truncated
Keyword Input:
Removed constraint on title needing to be filled to save object
Change "required" in Keyword placeholder text to "Recommended"
Updated fixed inputs (e.g. a hotkey wired into a keyword input) to show a simple Alfred input box with no results when the keyword Input has no title and subtitle
Script Filter Input:
Added option to not set argv when query is empty (under "Run Behaviour" button)
This will be the default behaviour for newly created Script Filter objects. Current objects will be set to pass an empty string to prevent regression issues.
File Filter Input:
Added result sorting options: Alfred's Knowledge (default), Created Date, Last Modified Date
Added option to set the result limit from between 10 and 200 (use larger values with care as this can cause file search performance issues)
Variable placeholders can now be used in the Fields > Search Fields > Value column for easier dynamic creation of file filters (would previously necessitate a JSON Config utility)
Filter Utility:
"Ignoring Case" option now also available to Regex matches
Add {query} placeholder string on config input field to reinforce default value, set default value to empty
Marked as "Legacy Object", recommending the use of the "Conditional Utility" instead
Replace Utility:
Added additional options for Regex option:
Added option for Case Insensitive matching
Added option for Multi-line which causes ^ and $ to match the beginning / end of each line instead of beginning / end of whole string
Play Sound Utility:
Ability to drop a new audio file into the configuration sheet to configure with this sound. The sound is copied into the workflow folder on saving.
No longer limited to m4a and aif files, will also accept others sound types as mp3
Copy to Clipboard Output
Added rich text support with RTF editing directly within the config
Large Type Output
Added styling options for font, colours and alignment
Added background fill selection and fade in speed
Reveal in Finder Action
Added config UI allowing for configuration of passed in path, including static paths
Transform Utility
Rename Camel Case transform to Capital Case to better match operation and placeholders
Placeholder syntax enhancements:
Placeholders improved with standardised syntax {placeholder:variation.modifier}
Added trim transform modifier to trim newlines and white space from the placeholder
Added reverse transform modifier to reverse the placeholder
Added stripdiacritics transform modifier to remove accented characters from the placeholder
Added stripnonalphanumeric transform modifier to remove any non-alphanumeric characters such as punctuation or emoji from the placeholder
Added capitalcase transform as alternative to capitals for consistency
Transform modifiers are now also available to variables and clipboard history items e.g.
For variable named result, transform to uppercase using {var:result.uppercase}
For a historic clipboard item, trim using {clipboard:2.trim}
Transforms can now be stacked, e.g. {var:result.trim.uppercase} or {clipboard:trim.stripdiacritics}
As with Alfred 3, use {clipboard} for current clipboard contents, and {clipboard:0} for latest item from Clipboard History
Variables names should take the format [A-Za-z0-9_]. This is now correctly warned against with orange highlight in the Arg/Var Utility and Workflow Environment Variables
Updated in-app placeholder examples and help subtext to use updated syntax
General Workflow improvements:
Fix default workflow list configuration to show creator
New 'random' dynamic placeholder, available in many areas of Alfred such as snippets and the arg/var utility
{random:UUID} for a random uuid
{random:1..5} for a random number between 1 and 5. These numbers can be omitted for min / max integer range
{random:cheese,apple,biscuits} for a random word from the specified list of words
Show an error sheet when the workflow being imported is invalid rather than failing silently
Tweaks to workflow icons
Added an option to "Export Metadata" for a workflow as a json file
Fix issues which may occur when duplicating a workflow:
Clear bundle id for newly duplicated workflow to prevent two workflows with the same bundle id
Fallback Triggers with matching underlying UIDs in different workflows no longer cause an issue
Standardise default placeholder behaviour when {query} based input fields are empty:
e.g. OpenURL will now accept an empty URL field and assume {query}
Improved descriptive placeholder text instead of just {query}
Change order of workflow canvas top right buttons to Variables, Remote Pages, Export, Debug
New Workflow Export sheet:
Important workflow fields can be verified and amended before exporting workflow
Enable "Hide Extension" option in Workflow Export save dialog (the selected preference is persisted)
New Workflow Import sheet:
Workflow environment variables are now presented and editable on import
Framework tweak to facilitate more robust retain / release cycle for injected workflow into workflow objects
More reliable snippet trigger decommissioning and dealloc when deleting a workflow
Fix Remote Page config layout in features and workflow sheet to be consistent (and not have white line to left in workflow sheet)
If no scheme is defined for workflow website, default to https when opening site from arrow
Show variables in orange as warning in workflow object configuration (e.g. Snippet Trigger, Hotkey Trigger, Split Utility) when variable format isn't correct
Add AppleScript for force reloading of a workflow by the given UID (folder name), or Workflow Bundle ID:
e.g. tell application id "com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred" to reload workflow "workflow-folder-name"
Reports error when workflow isn't found by UID or Bundle ID
Workflow mod connection improvements:
Workflow Connections:
Modifier combinations can now be selected in the connection configuration sheet
Canvas now shows modifier characters on connections to better accommodate compound mods
Modded characters are rendered slightly larger, and background box is more rounded for non-vetoed connections
Script Filter:
Add compound mod overrides for script filters. Use a + in the JSON for mode than one mod, e.g. cmd+shift
Recognise old and updated Apple terminology for mod key definitions in returned JSON e.g. option or alt, ctrl or control, cmd or command
Actions:
Actions moved out from File Search feature into own feature
Fixed result limit when searching in Open With, Copy/Move actions to match the shared result limit in Features > File Search
Updated underlying "Open Terminal Here" action to open the passed folder/item in Terminal app directly rather than using AppleScript
Make "Open Terminal Here" file action work with multiple files (e.g. from the Buffer)
Theming:
Re-written Alfred's font rendering engine, allowing for more predictable font vertical alignment with obscure fonts
Fix theme editor theme list to be case insensitive sorted
Fix search box height sizing calculation (with certain fonts e.g. Avenir)
Note that imported v3 themes may have decreased vertical padding around the search field depending on font (this padding can be added readjusted in the theme editor)
Added new default themes, tweaked current themes for consistency
Automatic macOS Mojave Dark Mode support:
Alfred will now remember the themes you have set in dark and light mode for automatic theme switching
New theme editor
Editing guides while moving the mouse around to see what is being edited and sized
Clarified dynamic help text while editing a theme
Added ability to select font variations based off of the currently selected font (e.g. bold, italic)
Added macOS Font Collections to the font popup menu, allowing access to both system and user created font collections
Contacts:
You can now cmd+return on a contact in Alfred's default results to perform the alternate opening action
If you have contacts configured to open in Alfred, cmd+return will open them in Contacts.app
If you have contacts configured to open in Contacts.app, cmd+return will open them in Alfred
Ensure Alfred correctly hides after opening a contact in macOS Contacts app using ⌘O
Remote:
Updated the Clipboard Snippets object to work with Rich Text, including inserting RTF snippets
Tweak the remote prefs no-page selected background colour (Note that further changes are due on this)
System Commands:
Improvements to Eject and Eject All:
Updated method of unmounting 10.11+:
Predictably unmounts individual mounts on a single device
If the volume is encrypted, it is relocked after being unmounted
Error reporting now shows more details, such as which app is currently preventing a volume from being ejected
Blacklisting:
Volumes in the eject blacklist can now be edited by double clicking on them
The volume blacklist can now contain wildcards (and simple character classes) e.g. [Bb]ackup*
Added com.apple.TimeMachine* to default volume blacklist
Add "Reset" button for eject blacklist in Features > System preferences
File System:
Added dynamic sorting of files to file system navigation
Sort by name, creation date and last modified date
Option to always sort Folders to the top
Sort ascending and descending (click arrow button, or use ⇧⌘S shortcut)
⇧⌘, shows the popup menu for sort options to allow for sort configuration directly from the keyboard
Showing and hiding the navigation preview panel shortcut is performed with ⇧⌘I
Update to File Search workflow object for significantly more flexibility, see workflow changes
When searching for a "documents" folder, append the iCloud container name for Document folders within iCloud
Update Alfred's File Metadata Querier framework to work more consistently with the new {var:...} placeholder ability
Now treating variables in the same way {query} is treated
Remove default query fallback, as it's no longer relevant
User defined scope folders are now not manually parsed / included into results under certain scenarios:
A filter where a constant string value defined for a field which isn't "display name" or "alternative name" won't include scope folders in the filter's results
Any filter fields which are marked as "not" won't be included in the scope folder search
Improvements to File Buffer
Show symbol against a result in Alfred's default results and file system navigation when it is added to the buffer
Update ⌥↑ shortcut key to toggle item in the buffer, instead of just add
Add shortcut help text to tooltip when hovering over buffer item
Make Alfred File Buffer aware of drop "move" operations, and remove files out of the Buffer on drop when the path is no longer valid
Fix File Buffer to predictably show hover-over information on initial mouse over
Overhaul drag and drop of files out of Alfred to now better conform to modern macOS behaviour
Web Searches:
Default to https prefix for non-prefixed URLs typed into Alfred's main window
Removed optional HTTPS on system web searches, always forced to HTTPS now.
Custom search improvements
Added "Lookup..." button to attempt to automatically look up the specified website hosts using OpenSearch or SearchAction
Lookups can only occur for https domains. if no scheme is typed, Alfred will assume https
Useful keyboard shortcuts in the Custom Search panel for fast adding of custom searches without the mouse
Web searches searchable in Alfred's preferences search
Updated system web search icons to more modern equivalents
Large Type:
Fix font vertical alignment issues with certain fonts
Make large tight text slightly less tight to the edge of the screen
Configurable Large Type workflow output object
Calculator:
Update calculator to recognise ÷ as divide symbol
Powerpack:
When activating the Powerpack, if unnecessary additional text is pasted into the fields, try to discover and extract the email address and Powerpack code
Warn user on certain "known" mistypings in email address by highlighing in orange, for example: @gamil.com

New in Alfred 3.8.1 Build 961 (Mar 14, 2019)

New in Alfred 3.8 Build 959 (Feb 10, 2019)

New in Alfred 3.7.1 Build 946 (Dec 18, 2018)

New in Alfred 3.7 Build 938 (Nov 7, 2018)

New in Alfred 3.6.2 Build 922 (Aug 29, 2018)

New in Alfred 3.7 Build 931 Pre-release (Aug 29, 2018)

New in Alfred 3.6.2 Build 916 Pre-release (Jun 13, 2018)

New in Alfred 3.6.2 Build 915 Pre-release (May 25, 2018)

New in Alfred 3.6.1 Build 910 (May 6, 2018)

New in Alfred 3.6 Build 903 (Feb 15, 2018)

BOOKMARKS:
Improved Google Chrome support:
Better discovery of profile folder when there is a single profile
Ability to select profile if more than one profile exists (in Alfred's Web Bookmarks feature preference; not synced, so selected profile can be different per machine)
Improved, more consistent bookmark search behaviour:
Now matches arbitrary word order in search query
Flatten unicode space characters for better international word boundary support
Bookmark's folder will now be matched regardless of location in the typed query
TEXT EXPANSION, SNIPPETS AND CLIPBOARD:
Snippet Viewer and Snippet keyword now give consistent results
Clipboard history and snippet search now treats query spaces as wildcards for wider result matching
Improve reliability of sequential snippet expansion (one snippet immediately followed by a second snippet)
Improve snippet time / date placeholder regex recognition to be more precise
⌘S on a selected snippet in the Snippet Viewer now edits the snippet in Alfred's Preferences
Added new snippet search options (in Features > Snippets preferences):
Snippet content can now be optionally searched in the Snippet Viewer and from the Snippet keyword
Snippet word matching mode can now be disabled allowing for broad non-anchored search to match the clipboard history search
Added new option to enable diacritic and unicode case insensitive searching of clipboard history items:
Note that with very large clipboard databases, this can have an small effect on performance as Alfred implements a custom SQLite function for matching
LARGE TYPE:
The Large Type options have been moved from Appearance > Options to the Features preferences to make it more discoverable
Added new option to set the Large Type font
FILE SEARCH / NAVIGATION:
Add ability to toggle visibility of preview view in Alfred's File System Navigation view. New button in bottom right of navigation view with shortcut ⇧⌘I
Updated search handler to perform less overall queries for lower resource usage
Prioritise files above bookmarks in the default file search, i.e. file types selected in Alfred's Default Results preferences
Added subtext to file search placeholders (open, find, in, tags), and added a please wait message if macOS response is slow
Fix small memory leak in file actions preview panel
macOS 10.13 file search improvements:
Force default macOS metadata query sort order to be more predictable for when Alfred has no internal knowledge in macOS 10.13 (change backed out after Apple fixed bug in 10.13.2)
Moved metadata query result handling off the event thread for improved responsiveness
WORKFLOWS:
New AppleScript to set and remove workflow configuration variables (See AppleScript dictionary)
Fix connection rendering quirk when adding new objects in canvas by dragging to empty space
Also migrate the "with space" option on input objects when updating a workflow with "Migrate my settings" selected
Fix AppleScript Run Command definition to make the trigger id argument non-optional
Fix help button link in workflow about / environment variables sheet
GENERAL FIXES AND IMPROVEMENTS:
Minor tweaks to default result item re-selection logic and performance
Fix selected shortcut highlight colour in secondary view selection lists (e.g. navigation and actions views)
Modernise web search icons for YouTube, Gmail and Weather
When using macOS High Sierra and Alfred's Lock command, Alfred will now simulate cmd+ctrl+q for instant lock
Add iTunes Mini Player playlist local (non-synced) suffix for unique Alfred playlists per Mac (Improves Mini Player behaviour when iTunes is syncing playlists)
Pressing return on terminal command keyword with no command typed now correctly sets it as the only visible result (framework tweak)
Tweak to threading for background image loading in preferences Appearance tab to ensure integrity of UI thread
Deferred creation of Alfred Preferences package initial subfolders until they are needed, which reduces potential syncing conflicts when first setting Alfred up on multiple Macs and the initial Mac's preferences haven't fully synced / propagated
Added additional information when setting up syncing, including a warning when user selects iCloud Drive
List of preferences unique to each Mac when syncing moved from Advanced preferences to syncing help page, added help button linking to syncing page

New in Alfred 3.6 Build 903 Pre-release (Feb 12, 2018)

New in Alfred 3.6 Build 901 Pre-release (Feb 8, 2018)

New in Alfred 3.6 Build 900 Pre-release (Feb 6, 2018)

New in Alfred 3.6 Build 897 Pre-release (Jan 31, 2018)

New in Alfred 3.6 Build 895 Pre-release (Jan 29, 2018)

BOOKMARKS:
Improved Google Chrome support:
Better discovery of profile folder when there is a single profile
Ability to select profile if more than one profile exists (in Alfred's Web Bookmarks feature preference; not synced, so selected profile can be different per machine)
•Improved, more consistent bookmark search behaviour:
Now matches arbitrary word order in search query
Flatten unicode space characters for better international word boundary support
Bookmark's folder will now be matched regardless of location in the typed query
TEXT EXPANSION, SNIPPETS AND CLIPBOARD:
Added new option to enable diacritic and unicode case insensitive searching of clipboard history items. Note that with very large clipboard databases, this can have an small effect on performance as Alfred implements a custom SQLite function for matching
Clipboard history and snippet search now treats query spaces as wildcards for wider result matching
Improve reliability of sequential snippet expansion (one snippet immediately followed by a second snippet)
Improve snippet time / date placeholder regex recognition to be more precise
Added new snippet search options in features preferences:
Snippet content can now be optionally searched
Snippet word matching mode can now be disabled allowing for broad non-anchored search to match the clipboard history search
FILE SEARCH / INTERACTION:
Updated search handler to perform less overall queries for lower resource usage
Added subtext to file search placeholders (open, find, in, tags), and added a please wait message if macOS response is slow
Fix small memory leak in file actions preview panel
macOS 10.13 file search improvements:
Force default macOS metadata query sort order to be more predictable for when Alfred has no internal knowledge in macOS 10.13 (change backed out after Apple fixed bug in 10.13.2)
Moved metadata query result handling off the event thread for improved responsiveness
WORKFLOWS:
New AppleScript to set and remove workflow configuration variables (See AppleScript dictionary)
Fix connection rendering quirk when adding new objects in canvas by dragging to empty space
Also migrate the "with space" option on input objects when updating a workflow with "Migrate my settings" selected
Fix AppleScript Run Command definition to make the trigger id argument non-optional
Fix help button link in workflow about / environment variables sheet
GENERAL FIXES AND IMPROVEMENTS:
Minor tweaks to default result item re-selection logic and performance
Fix selected shortcut highlight colour in secondary view selection lists (e.g. navigation and actions views)
Modernise web search icons for YouTube, Gmail and Weather
When using macOS High Sierra and Alfred's Lock command, Alfred will now simulate cmd+ctrl+q for instant lock
Add iTunes Mini Player playlist local (non-synced) suffix for unique Alfred playlists per Mac (Improves Mini Player behaviour when iTunes is syncing playlists)
Pressing return on terminal command keyword with no command typed now correctly sets it as the only visible result (framework tweak)

New in Alfred 3.5.1 Build 883 (Oct 19, 2017)

New in Alfred 3.5.1 Build 882 Pre-release (Oct 9, 2017)

New in Alfred 3.5 Build 875 (Sep 26, 2017)

NEW: BOOKMARKS FEATURE:
Added new "Bookmarks" feature for indexing and searching bookmarks, removing dependence on macOS metadata:
NOTE: If previously including bookmarks in default results, this option will need to be re-enabled in Features > Bookmarks
Fixes bookmark searching in macOS 10.13 where macOS metadata has been removed
Currently supports Safari and Google Chrome. Note that the option to select Safari and Chrome are not synced to allow different per-Mac settings
Now searchable in default results or via keyword (convenience vs lower noise)
Bookmarks are matched by title, hostname, or folder when searching
Option to open bookmarks in the macOS default browser, or the bookmark's respective source browser
WORKFLOW IMPROVEMENTS:
Fix "Snippet Trigger" to correctly enable and disable when the parent workflow is enabled and disabled
Fix field tabbing in "Fallback Search" trigger object configuration sheet
Fix correctly updating file path field in "Open File" action object configuration when deleting item from left path icon box
Improvements to Script Filter workflow object:
Significant enhancements regarding Alfred filtering JSON output results. New Match Mode options, for word boundary, exact or word based matching, available from cog next to "Alfred Filters Results" checkbox. New JSON "match" property (string) to override default "title" matching. Updated help pages for Match Mode (additional contextual help button on Match Mode sheet), and JSON output spec.
Fix per-item result variables in JSON output (was incorrectly compounding result item variables)
Improve efficiency of 'rerun' flag in JSON output, preventing unnecessary reruns from occurring. Now uses a serial operation queue, and only reruns the very last requested rerun after script execution triggered by user input
Fix dynamic configuration of object fields (when passing JSON into object input)
When JSON defined 'rerun' is out of range (5), give a debug warning instead of a hard error. Rerun flag is ignored if out of range
Fix workflow connection logic issue when using JSON mod overrides with no matching configured mod connection. Now correctly respects the default (non mod) connection window behaviour configuration.
CLIPBOARD IMPROVEMENTS:
Performance tweaks to Alfred's Clipboard Manager, specifically when new clipboard content is recognised
Improve snippet text auto expansion behaviour when Caps Lock is enabled
Fix snippet date placeholder regex to allow multiple date placeholders on single continuous line
GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS:
New Fallbacks option to show fallback searches in default results, even when there are results. If specified in Alfred's Default Results feature, Alfred will show fallbacks at the bottom of the results list... Unless a search item has been selected, e.g. pressing return on the 'open' file search or on the 'google' web search. Unless a workflow has a fixed input, e.g. a chained workflow input, or a hotkey wired to an input.
Updated logic on maintaining and releasing the currently selected result in the default results list
Framework and performance improvements involving Alfred's workspace manager. Fix window visibility event order to make sure app specific hotkeys (specifically, hotkeys set to be active when Alfred is visible) are correctly registered.
Add AppleScript command for showing Alfred's Actions Panel for the given file e.g. tell application "Alfred 3" to action "~/Desktop". This accepts one or more paths as the argument
Add AppleScript command for showing Alfred's File System Navigation with the given path / search string e.g. tell application "Alfred 3" to browse "~/Desktop/"
Alfred Framework updates for better macOS 10.13 compatibility
Reduce blur radius on default "Frosty Teal" theme for higher performance in macOS 10.13

New in Alfred 3.5 Build 867 Pre-Release (Sep 5, 2017)

NEW: BOOKMARKS FEATURE:
Added new "Bookmarks" feature for indexing and searching bookmarks, removing dependence on macOS metadata:
NOTE: If previously including bookmarks in default results, this option will need to be re-enabled in Features > Bookmarks
Fixes bookmark searching in macOS 10.13 where macOS metadata has been removed
Currently supports Safari and Google Chrome. Note that the option to select Safari and Chrome are not synced to allow different per-Mac settings
Now searchable in default results or via keyword (convenience vs lower noise)
Bookmarks are matched by title, hostname, or folder when searching
Option to open bookmarks in the macOS default browser, or the bookmark's respective source browser
WORKFLOW IMPROVEMENTS:
Improvements to Script Filter workflow object
Fix per-item result variables in JSON output (was incorrectly compounding result item variables)
Fix dynamic configuration of object fields (when passing JSON into object input)
When rerun is out of range (5), give a debug warning instead of a hard error. Rerun flag is ignored if out of range
Made out of range JSON 'rerun' value a Warning instead of Error
Improve efficiency of 'rerun' flag in JSON output, preventing unnecessary reruns from occurring:
Now uses a serial operation queue, and only reruns the very last requested rerun after script execution triggered by user input
Fix workflow connection logic issue when using JSON mod overrides with no matching configured mod connection:
Now correctly respects the default (non mod) connection window behaviour configuration
CLIPBOARD IMPROVEMENTS:
Performance tweaks to Alfred's Clipboard Manager, specifically when new clipboard content is recognised
Improve snippet text auto expansion behaviour when Caps Lock is enabled
Fix snippet date placeholder regex to allow multiple date placeholders on single continuous line
GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS:
Updated logic on maintaining and releasing the currently selected result in the default results list
Add AppleScript command for showing Alfred's Actions Panel for the given file e.g. tell application "Alfred 3" to action "~/Desktop"
Add AppleScript command for showing Alfred's File System Navigation with the given path / search string e.g. tell application "Alfred 3" to browse "~/Desktop/"
New Fallbacks option to show fallback searches in default results, even when there are results:
If specified in Alfred's Default Results feature, Alfred will show fallbacks at the bottom of the results list...
Unless a search item has been selected, e.g. pressing return on the 'open' file search or on the 'google' web search
Unless a workflow has a fixed input, e.g. a chained workflow input, or a hotkey wired to an input
Framework and performance improvements involving Alfred's workspace manager:
Fix window visibility event order to make sure app specific hotkeys (specifically, hotkeys set to be active when Alfred is visible) are correctly registered

New in Alfred 3.4.1 Build 860 (Jul 22, 2017)

WORKFLOWS:
Update Script Format JSON output with new features:
Add per item (and per item mod) variables which are passed out of the object on actioning the result
Add per mod customisable images (i.e. dynamically change the result icon when a user holds a mod key)
Please note that, as the Script Filter XML output is legacy, it remains unchanged
Fix Script Filter default fallback image order if no icon specified in JSON/XML:
Fall back to Script Filter icon first, then Workflow icon
Prevent incompatible workflows from loading in macOS 10.12.4+ if they contain an older version of 3rd party library Alfred-Workflow:
Give link to troubleshooting page to automatically update and re-enable these workflows
Use new separate view for 'no workflow' and 'incompatible workflow' display in workflow editor, giving more future flexibility
Add new "Snippet Trigger" getting started guide to + button of the workflow editor
Fix snippet database cache to correctly update when snippet triggers are duplicated
Reduce workflow trigger connection constraints, allowing new Snippet Trigger to be connected to input objects
Tidied rendering of hotkey object in workflow canvas, removing gradient
Update workflow import message, notifying that snippet triggers are also stripped on new workflow import
Improved workflow save performance, removing some unnecessary saves
GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS:
Fix unexpected unicode search behaviour in file system navigation
Intelligent removal of ' quick-search prefix when showing fallback searches
Add tel:{query} as suggested custom URL scheme for phone numbers in contacts integration
Reorganise and standardise simulated key event framework for text expansion and clipboard pasting
Replace text expansion "Slow down simulated key events" option with slider from Fastest (default) to Slowest
Add help button on Snippet Expansion config sheet in preferences
Add option to restore clipboard contents after using Snippet Viewer for snippet (option shared with snip keyword)
Add option to allow data marked as concealed in clipboard history, concealed data ignored by default
Fix Alfred Text Service icon to properly hide after accessibility is enabled
Fix Screen Saver system command in macOS 10.13
Reduce blur radius and increase opacity of default themes for higher performance in macOS 10.13

New in Alfred 3.4.1 Build 858 Pre-Release (Jul 4, 2017)

WORKFLOWS:
Add new "Snippet Trigger" getting started guide to + button of the workflow editor
Fix snippet database cache to correctly update when snippet triggers are duplicated
Reduce workflow trigger connection constraints, allowing new Snippet Trigger to be connected to input objects
Tidied rendering of hotkey object in workflow canvas, removing gradient
Update workflow import message, notifying that snippet triggers are also stripped on new workflow import
Improved workflow save performance, removing some unnecessary saves
Update Script Format JSON output with new features:
Add per item (and per item mod) variables which are passed out of the object on actioning the result
Add per mod customisable images (i.e. dynamically change the result icon when a user holds a mod key)
Please note that as the Script Filter XML output is legacy, it remains unchanged
Fix Script Filter default fallback image order if no icon specified in JSON/XML:
Fall back to Script Filter icon first, then Workflow icon
Prevent incompatible workflows from loading in macOS 10.12.4+ if they contain an older version of 3rd party library Alfred-Workflow:
Give link to troubleshooting page to automatically update and re-enable these workflows
Use new separate view for 'no workflow' and 'incompatible workflow' display in workflow editor, giving more future flexibility
GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS:
Fix unexpected unicode search behaviour in file system navigation
Intelligent removal of ' quick-search prefix when showing fallback searches
Add tel:{query} as suggested custom URL scheme for phone numbers in contacts integration
Reorganise and standardise simulated key event framework for text expansion and clipboard pasting
Replace text expansion "Slow down simulated key events" option with slider from Fastest (default) to Slowest
Add option to allow data marked as concealed in clipboard history, concealed data ignored by default
Fix Alfred Text Service icon to properly hide after accessibility is enabled
Fix Screen Saver system command in macOS 10.13

New in Alfred 3.4 Build 850 (Jun 20, 2017)

CLIPBOARD AND SNIPPETS:
Added new {datetime} placeholder which allows for simple combined date and time formatting with short, medium, long and full
Add batch editing of auto expansion for selected snippets
Tidy up the snippet collection preferences to better match Alfred's preferences
Added option to duplicate a snippet from the context popup menu in the Snippet feature preferences
Update Snippets feature preferences search to also search snippet content
Fix snippet keyword conflict highlighting in Snippet feature preferences table
Fix issue where Clipboard History could miss an entry from an app which clears clipboard content, and delays before repopulating copied data (seen with Maps.app)
Improvements and simplifications to the snippets and snippet collection framework (for performance and robustness)
Added context help button to Snippet Collection edit sheet, and updated help link on Collection edit sheet
Fix snippet placeholder processing order to prevent double processing of certain clipboard placeholders
Small tweak to Automatic Snippet Expansion to make conflicting keyword expansion more predictable (now always expands first matching one)
Ignore org.nspasteboard.ConcealedType pasteboard types for clipboard history
Added advanced scripted text expansion using a new Workflow 'Snippet' trigger object:
Type a snippet keyword into any macOS window to directly run a workflow
Dynamically create snippet content using the power of Alfred's Workflows, then automatically paste back to app
Enables multi-part text expansion such as form filling
Added date arithmetic to date placeholders throughout Alfred:
Supported (Y)ear, (M)onth, (D)ay, (h)our, (m)inute, (s)econd
e.g. {datetime +1Y -2M +2h:medium} (See context help for more syntax examples)
Arithmetic can be stacked, i.e. add and subtract multiple days in single equation
Add a new "Placeholder" helper button to the bottom left of text areas which support placeholder replacements (Workflow / Snippet / Remote):
Added insertable examples for date, time, clipboard and cursor
Added per-collection snippet keyword prefix and suffix:
Allows better and faster control over how and when snippets are found and auto-expand
Collection prefix and suffix are edited per collection, but shown per snippet in table
Improved collection display in preferences, with snippet count, prefix and suffix shown
Prefix and suffix are exported and imported with collections
Added toggle to enable or disable entire snippet collections:
Applies to (Clipboard) Snippet Viewer, Snippet keyword and Snippet auto expansion
WORKFLOWS:
Add 'Snippet' Trigger workflow object to support new scripted text expansion feature, detailed above
Fix border rendering around Dispatch Key Combo output object input field when view doesn't have focus
Fix tab field focusing order on OpenURL workflow action configuration
Fix initial focus on keyword field in Dictionary Filter input object config sheet
Fix unexpected behaviour when pressing - button during editing of a new workflow environment variable value
Fix incorrect visual selection after using insert object from the popup menu
Cleanly close STDIN for workflow Scripts, preventing scripts wanting standard input from waiting indefinitely
Update URL validation in OpenURL object configuration to be aware of variables
Small tweak to workflow object config sheet layout to better line up UI components
Ensure that the workflow list is correctly updated when a workflow is saved (e.g. last modified date)
Overhauled and simplified workflow import framework code, specifically with migrations
Update workflow script editor text area, now shows the empty script / default script suggestion as grey text
Improve debug output for Script Filter, showing queued and run arguments
Add help hint on Terminal Command config page, suggesting Run Script as alternative
Improve mouse tracking calculation within Workflow canvas, preventing tracking when hovering over debugger
Show error message in Alfred's Preferences when Alfred is unable to save a workflow (e.g. permissions issue)
Add workflow editor Object Alignment Guides for easier object layout, available from the workflow canvas popup menu options:
Alternatively, hold the 'option' key while hovering items on the canvas to see alignment guides
Added option for not trimming script filter argument, for when spaces are significant to your workflow:
Updated the trimming of Input Filter arguments to be more intelligent
Add dispatch "Count" option to the Dispatch Key Combo output object; Dispatch a key combo between 1 to 10 times:
If count is set greater than 1, count is shown on workflow object in canvas
Output an AppleScript error on calling Alfred when the workflow id or trigger id is not found, or if the workflow is disabled:
See context help for "External" Trigger workflow object for error codes
FILE SYSTEM:
Show the Finder "Display Name" in File Actions panel for better consistency (specifically for file extensions)
Update global action's "File Selection" hotkey to be Alfred aware, now works within Alfred's default results and File System navigation
ITUNES:
Updated behaviour track transport controls:
Now better compatible with special case playlists such as Genius
Added new "back" track command, matching Apple Keyboard / iTunes intelligent behaviour of restart or previous track
Updated iTunes Mini Player previous track button behaviour to the new "back" behaviour
Updated Alfred Remote with new "Back Track" option, with associated example template
Updated iTunes Action workflow object with "Back Track" option, with associated workflow template
GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS:
Update LinkedIn search in default web searches to latest URL
Add a help button next to the main Alfred hotkey, linking to hotkey help and troubleshooting
Fix quirk when right clicking for popup menu within Alfred's preferences when window isn't key
Increase auto-updater timeout interval to 60s for users on very poor network connections

New in Alfred 3.4 Build 843 Pre-Release (Jun 9, 2017)

New in Alfred 3.4 Build 840 Pre-Release (Jun 7, 2017)

CLIPBOARD AND SNIPPETS:
Fix issue where Clipboard History could miss an entry from an app which clears clipboard content, and delays before repopulating copied data (seen with Maps.app).
Small tweak to Automatic Snippet Expansion to make conflicting keyword expansion more predictable (now always expands first matching one)
Added advanced scripted text expansion using a new Workflow 'Snippet' trigger object:
Type a snippet keyword into any macOS window to directly run a workflow
Dynamically create snippet content using the power of Alfred's Workflows, then automatically paste back to app
Enables multi-part text expansion such as form filling
WORKFLOWS:
Add 'Snippet' Trigger workflow object to support new scripted text expansion feature, detailed above
Add dispatch "Count" option to the Dispatch Key Combo output object; Dispatch a key combo between 1 to 10 times
Fix incorrect visual selection after using insert object from the popup menu
Update URL validation in OpenURL object configuration to be aware of variables
Small tweak to workflow object config sheet layout to better line up UI components
Ensure that the workflow list is correctly updated when a workflow is saved (e.g. last modified date)
Overhauled and simplified workflow import framework code, specifically with migrations
Add workflow editor Object Alignment Guides for easier object layout, available from the workflow canvas popup menu options:
Alternatively, hold the 'option' key while hovering items on the canvas to see alignment guides
Added option for not trimming script filter argument, for when spaces are significant to your workflow:
Updated the trimming of Input Filter arguments to be more intelligent
ITUNES:
Updated behaviour track transport controls:
Now better compatible with special case playlists such as Genius
Added new "back" track command, matching Apple Keyboard / iTunes intelligent behaviour of restart or previous track
Updated iTunes Mini Player previous track button behaviour to the new "back" behaviour
Updated Alfred Remote with new "Back Track" option, with associated example template
Updated iTunes Action workflow object with "Back Track" option, with associated workflow template
GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS:
Fix quirk when right clicking for popup menu within Alfred's preferences when window isn't key

New in Alfred 3.4 Build 832 Pre-Release (May 24, 2017)

CLIPBOARD AND SNIPPETS:
Added new {datetime} placeholder which allows for simple combined date and time formatting with short, medium, long and full
Add batch editing of auto expansion for selected snippets
Tidy up the snippet collection preferences to better match Alfred's preferences
Added option to duplicate a snippet from the context popup menu in the Snippet feature preferences
Update Smippets feature preferences search to also search snippet content
Fix snippet keyword conflict highlighting in Snippet feature preferences table
Improvements and simplifications to the snippets and snippet collection framework (for performance and robustness)
Added context help button to Snippet Collection edit sheet, and updated help link on Collection edit sheet
Fix snippet placeholder processing order to prevent double processing of certain clipboard placeholders
Added date arithmetic to date placeholders throughout Alfred:
Supported (Y)ear, (M)onth, (D)ay, (h)our, (m)inute, (s)econd
e.g. {datetime +1Y -2M +2h:medium} (See context help for more syntax examples)
Arithmetic can be stacked, i.e. add and substract multiple days in single equation
Add a new "Placeholder" helper button to the bottom left of text areas which support placeholder replacements (Workflow / Snippet / Remote):
Added insertable examples for date, time, clipboard and cursor
Added per-collection snippet keyword prefix and suffix:
Allows better and faster control over how and when snippets are found and auto-expand
Collection prefix and suffix are edited per collection, but shown per snippet in table
Improved collection display in preferences, with snippet count, prefix and suffix shown
Added toggle to enable or disable entire snippet collections:
Applies to (Clipboard) Snippet Viewer, Snippet keyword and Snippet auto expansion
WORKFLOWS:
Output an AppleScript error on calling Alfred when the workflow id or trigger id is not found, or if the workflow is disabled. See context help for "External" Trigger workflow object for error codes
Add dispatch "Count" option to the Dispatch Key Combo output object; Dispatch a key combo between 1 to 10 times
Fix border rendering around Dispatch Key Combo output object input field when view doesn't have focus
Fix tab field focusing order on OpenURL workflow action configuration
Fix initial focus on keyword field in Dictionary Filter input object config sheet
Fix unexpected behaviour when pressing - button during editing of a new workflow environment variable value
Overhauled and simplified workflow import framework code, specifically with migrations
Ensure that the workflow list is correctly updated when a workflow is saved (e.g. last modified date)
FILE SYSTEM:
Show the Finder "Display Name" in File Actions panel for better consistency (specifically for file extensions)
GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS:
Update LinkedIn search in default web searches to latest URL
Add a help button next to the main Alfred hotkey, linking to hotkey help and troubleshooting

New in Alfred 3.3.2 Build 818 (Apr 11, 2017)

New in Alfred 3.3.2 Build 817 Pre-Release (Apr 7, 2017)

New in Alfred 3.3.1 Build 806 (Feb 27, 2017)

New in Alfred 3.3.1 Build 805 Pre-Release (Feb 21, 2017)

New in Alfred 3.3 Build 801 (Feb 8, 2017)

CLIPBOARD AND SNIPPETS:
More efficient pre-processing of snippet results when using snip keyword
Add "Rename" on popup menu for selected snippet collection
Add "Edit" to popup menu for selected snippet
Move {clipboard} processing to after {date} / {time} processing for most predictable and consistent output
Added new {clipboard:x} placeholder to obtain items from Alfred's clipboard history, where x is the history offset:
e.g. {clipboard:0} is latest, {clipboard:1} the previous item and so on
This can be useful for snippets / snippet expansion to perform clever custom merging of the clipboard
WORKFLOWS:
New icons for workflow objects
Added new "Clipboard" Getting Started guide to demonstrate new workflow features
Fix regression preventing workflow File Action trigger from saving custom action icon
Improved behavior when adding Getting Started / example / template workflows, adding to currently selected category
Updated spell / define input filter to work asynchronously, resulting in smoother performance
Fix layout issue in Write File object configuration sheet for "Allow empty files" tick box
Updated "All Workflow Objects" Getting Started guide with new objects
Updated 'Should I watch this movie' example workflow
Add {date}, {time} and {clipboard}, {clipboard:x} style placeholders to relevant objects:
Added to Write File and Large Type Workflow Output objects
Added to Arg and Var / JSON Utility objects
Note that this inherently also adds {clipboard:x} to the Copy to Clipboard Output object
1PASSWORD:
Added vault selection to hide specific vaults from Alfred's results
Added option to "Only show Logins" if you aren't interested in seeing all 1Password data in Alfred's results
Added separate columns for 'type' and 'vault' added in 1Password feature preferences
All 1Password columns are now sortable in the preferences item preview table
Recognize multiple URLs in a 1Password web login and show separate entries in Alfred's search results
FILE SYSTEM:
Added default cmd+i shortcut on selected file results to show Finder's Get Info view
Added 'Macintosh HD' to the default eject blacklist
Overhauled file interactions, moving back to using Finder / AppleScript for copy, move and delete:
Now gives a more useful feedback notification when the action fails
Correctly deals with permissions and app translocation
Gives Finder progress for larger files
Improved, simplified logic in file actions view:
Now also recognizes file packages
ALFRED REMOTE:
Add new System volume control to System Commands
Reorganize the System Command popup menu into groups matching workflow System Command
Update System Command remote page example to include new commands
GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS:
New icons for File Actions and iTunes Mini Player
A number of optimizations and improvements to further reduce the distributable size
Improved word based searching in Alfred Preferences Web Search / Workflow search fields
Update LinkedIn built in web search to latest search URL
Update Rotten Tomatoes and Wolfram default searches to https
Improve responsiveness by opening files and apps asynchronously in certain scenarios
Improved calculator number formatting, now properly respecting macOS grouping separator if not forced
Added popup menu when right clicking on Alfred hat in default results which matches status bar menu:
Gives Alfred's version number, access to Alfred's preferences, check for updates, quit
Added new option in Advanced preferences to restore clipboard content after using a hotkey which obtains the current selection in macOS:
Note that this isn't the default behavior as there is a memory implication for buffering clipboard content

New in Alfred 3.3 Build 801 Pre-release (Feb 1, 2017)

New in Alfred 3.3 Build 797 Pre-release (Jan 30, 2017)

New in Alfred 3.3 Build 795 Pre-release (Jan 27, 2017)

New in Alfred 3.3 Build 787 Pre-release (Jan 21, 2017)

CLIPBOARD AND SNIPPETS:
Add "Rename" on popup menu for selected snippet collection
Add "Edit" to popup menu for selected snippet
Move {clipboard} processing to after {date} / {time} processing for most predictable and consistent output
Added new {clipboard:x} placeholder to obtain items from Alfred's clipboard history, where x is the history offset e.g. {clipboard:0} is latest, {clipboard:1} the previous item and so on. This is available anywhere which processes.
More efficient pre-processing of snippet results when using snip keyword
WORKFLOWS:
Fix regression preventing workflow File Action trigger from saving custom action icon
Improved behavior when adding getting started / example / template workflows, adding to currently selected category
Updated spell / define input filter to work asynchronously, resulting in smoother performance
Fix layout issue in Write File object configuration sheet for "Allow empty files" tick box
Updated "All Workflow Objects" Getting Started guide
Add {date}, {time} and {clipboard}, {clipboard:x} style placeholders to relevant objects:
Added to Write File and Large Type Workflow Output objects
Added to Arg and Var / JSON Utility objects
Note that this inherently also adds {clipboard:x} to the Copy to Clipboard Output object
1PASSWORD:
Added vault selection to hide specific vaults from Alfred's results
Added option to "Only show Logins" if you aren't interested in seeing all 1Password data in Alfred's results
Added separate columns for 'type' and 'vault' added in 1Password feature preferences
All 1Password preferences columns are now sortable
Recognize multiple URLs in a 1Password web login and show separate entries in Alfred's search results
FILE SYSTEM:
Overhauled file interactions, moving back to using Finder / AppleScript for copy, move and delete
Now gives a more useful feedback notification when the action fails
Correctly deals with permissions and app translocation
Gives Finder progress for larger files
Improved, simplified logic on file actions panel
Now also recognizes file packages
Added default cmd+i shortcut on selected file results to show Finder's Get Info view
Added 'Macintosh HD' to the default eject blacklist
ALFRED REMOTE:
Add new system volume control to System Commands
Reorganise the System Command popup menu into groups matching workflow System Command
Update System Command remote page example to include new commands
GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS:
Added popup menu when right clicking on Alfred hat in default results which matches status bar menu: Gives Alfred's version number, access to Alfred's preferences, check for updates, quit
Improved word based searching in Alfred Preferences Web Search / Workflow search fields
Added new option in Advanced preferences to restore clipboard content after using a hotkey which obtains the current selection in macOS
Note that this isn't the default behavior as there is a memory implication for buffering clipboard content
Update LinkedIn built in web search to latest search URL

New in Alfred 3.2.1 Build 768 (Dec 8, 2016)

New in Alfred 3.2.1 Build 764 Pre-release (Dec 6, 2016)

New in Alfred 3.2 Build 759 (Nov 8, 2016)

WORKFLOWS:
Fix issue where corrupted workflow prevented Alfred Preferences Workflows tab from displaying
Fix fn+return mod override connection behavior in default results on macOS Sierra
Improvements to workflow canvas creation usability:
Drag from a connection to an empty space to create a new workflow object at that location
Click a workflow output to create and connect a new workflow object to the right
Automatically select any newly added workflow objects to allow for immediate moving or removing by keyboard
Hint on canvas for how to add the first workflow object with an empty workflow
Script Filter enhancements:
The script output can now tell Alfred to re-run the script after a set period of time
Scripts can now output variables
Variables are passed through to the object output connections when actioning results
Variables are passed back into subsequent runs of the script within the same session
New "Advanced Script Filters" getting started workflow which covers the new concepts
Tidy up default examples when changing script type with no script entered
'quicklookurl' now also accepts file paths and internally converts to file URLs (treated as a file path if it has a / or ~/ prefix)
Fix cleaning stream variables before processing causing variables to be lost on looping workflows
Higher performance processing of JSON/XML to results
Improvements and additions to other Workflow objects:
'Hotkey' trigger object can now pass currently focused application through to workflow as a variable allowing for app context filtering
'Copy to Clipboard' output object now accepts {cursor} placeholder to move cursor to selected position (only works when auto-pasting)
Improvements for symlinked workflows:
Fully resolve path to info.plist before writing to ensure symlinked workflows are written to correct folder
Fully resolve workflow folder before exporting to allow for symlinked workflow folders to be exported
Improvements to built-in Getting Started and Example workflows:
Add new "Simple Folder Search" built-in workflow example
Renamed "Script Filter Output" to "Script Filter" for better consistency
Added new "Advanced Hotkeys" getting started guide to cover hotkey active app variables
Updated the "All Workflow Objects" getting started workflow to add new objects
CLIPBOARD AND SNIPPETS:
Add {cursor} placeholder to move cursor to selected position within pasted snippets (including Alfred Remote)
Show a warning in Alfred's Snippets preferences if an app is preventing text expansion by locking secure input
If using option to slow down key events, slow them a little more than v3.1.1
Prevent clipboard merging from incorrectly merging non-text clipboard entries by their description (e.g. images and file)
More efficient processing of snippets in Alfred Text Service
FILE SYSTEM:
Make Alfred's Application cache also convert names to latin for e.g. pinyin search
Higher performance caching of scope folders when initialising metadata search
Work around macOS file localiation bug (e.g. folders in the home folder weren't correctly localising in search)
Correctly clean up file summary panel after hiding
Add "Previews" tab under File Search feature:
Move Quick Look option from Advanced to Previews
New option to disable rich previews altogether
New options to not load actions/navigation rich previews for specified types and within specified folders
When the rich preview panel isn't required, the selected file type icon is shown instead
1PASSWORD INTEGRATION:
1Password integration updated to be compatible with 1Password 6.5+
Alfred now shows results from multiple vaults, including 1Password Families / Teams
All items are now shown from your 1Password:
Logins are opened directly in your default browser
Other items (such as Secure Notes) are opened in 1Password mini
GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS:
Fix navigating out of empty folder behavior in Copy To / Move To file actions
Make all help subtext throughout Alfred's preferences darker for better readability
Update references of OS X to macOS throughout Alfred and Alfred Preferences
Prevent Alfred's Preferences Appearance tab from unnecessarily switching to discrete GPU on dual GPU laptops
Fix issue where quickly dragging a file out of Alfred's main results could result in the incorrect file being dragged
Update iTunes option to ignore movies and tv shows from miniplayer, also ignore music videos
Streamlined various aspects of Alfred's core for higher performance
Fix spelling mistake in Advanced > Proxy settings

New in Alfred 3.2 Build 750 Pre-release (Oct 30, 2016)

WORKFLOWS:
Fix issue where corrupted workflow prevented Alfred Preferences Workflows tab from displaying
Fix fn+return mod override connection behavior in default results on macOS Sierra
Updated the "All Workflow Objects" getting started workflow to add new objects
Add new "Simple Folder Search" built-in workflow example
Improvements to workflow canvas creation usability:
Drag from a connection to an empty space to create a new workflow object at that location
Click a workflow output to create and connect a new workflow object to the right
Automatically select any newly added workflow objects to allow for immediate moving or removing by keyboard
Hint on canvas for how to add the first workflow object with an empty workflow
Script Filter enhancements:
The script output can now tell Alfred to re-run the script after a set period of time
Scripts can now output variables
Variables are passed through to the object output connections when actioning results
Variables are passed back into subsequent runs of the script within the same session
New "Advanced Script Filters" getting started workflow which covers the new concepts
Tidy up default examples when changing script type with no script entered
'quicklookurl' now also accepts file paths and internally converts to file URLs (treated as a file path if it has a / or ~/ prefix)
Improvements and additions to other Workflow objects:
'Hotkey' trigger object can now pass currently focused application through to workflow as a variable allowing for app context filtering
'Copy to Clipboard' output object now accepts {cursor} placeholder to move cursor to selected position (only works when auto-pasting)
Improvements for symlinked workflows:
Fully resolve path to info.plist before writing to ensure symlinked workflows are written to correct folder
Fully resolve workflow folder before exporting to allow for symlinked workflow folders to be exported
CLIPBOARD AND SNIPPETS:
Add {cursor} placeholder to move cursor to selected position within pasted snippets (including Alfred Remote)
Show a warning in Alfred's Snippets preferences if an app is preventing text expansion by locking secure input
If using option to slow down key events, slow them a little more than v3.1.1
FILE SYSTEM:
Make Alfred's Application cache also convert names to latin for e.g. pinyin search
Rename "File Search" feature to "File System" to better reflect contents
Higher performance caching of scope folders when initialising metadata search
Work around macOS file localiation bug (e.g. folders in the home folder weren't correctly localising in search)
Add "Previews" tab under File System feature:
Move Quick Look option from Advanced to Previews
New option to disable rich previews altogether
New options to not load actions/navigation rich previews for specified types and within specified folders
When the rich preview panel isn't required, the selected file type icon is shown instead
1PASSWORD INTEGRATION:
1Password integration updated to be compatible with 1Password 6.5+
Alfred now shows results from multiple vaults, including 1Password Families / Teams
All items are now shown from your 1Password
Logins are opened directly in your default browser
Other items (such as Secure Notes) are opened in 1Password mini
GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS:
Fix navigating out of empty folder behaviour in Copy To / Move To file actions
Make all help subtext throughout Alfred's preferences darker for better readability
Update references of OS X to macOS throughout Alfred and Alfred Preferences
Prevent Alfred's Preferences Appearance tab from unnecessarily switching to discrete GPU on dual GPU laptops
Fix issue where quickly dragging a file out of Alfred's main results could result in the incorrect file being dragged
Update iTunes option to ignore movies and tv shows from miniplayer, also ignore music videos
Streamlined various aspects of Alfred's core for higher performance
Fix spelling mistake in Advanced > Proxy settings

New in Alfred 3.1.1 Build 737 (Sep 19, 2016)

New in Alfred 3.1.1 Build 737 Pre-release (Sep 17, 2016)

New in Alfred 3.1.1 Build 734 Pre-release (Sep 13, 2016)

New in Alfred 3.1 Build 718 (Aug 31, 2016)

WORKFLOWS:
Update "Delay" workflow utility to accept fractional seconds e.g. 0.5
Prevent workflow list popup menu from showing when there is a sheet showing in the preferences window
Performance enhancements around workflow object configuration setting and getting
When showing a direct / chained input in Alfred, and the textfield is empty, use cmd+backspace to reset Alfred to default state
Fix "Debug" workflow utility to correctly process multi item input arguments
Add new "Call External Trigger" workflow output object:
Calls trigger directly, avoiding the need to use AppleScript
Pass through argument and variables to trigger (in same or different workflow)
Ability to use variables directly within workflow and trigger fields for callback style functions
Update the "External Trigger" workflow object to better reflect the new "Call External Trigger" object
Add new "Call External Trigger" Getting Started workflow
Add new "Hide Alfred" workflow utility:
Gives more control when preventing Alfred from hiding in a connection
Add new "Dispatch Key Combo" workflow output to simulate a keypress within OS X:
Prevents the need to use AppleScript to simulate keypresses
Update key combo framework code to share between Remote and Workflow Object
GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS:
Improved overall performance and responsiveness, especially when Mac is under load
Added ability to drag files out of Alfred's file buffer
Improved reliability of simulated mod key release when using Alfred Hotkeys
Show the document preview instead of the file icon in the recent document file action
Fix allowing cmd+s and Esc as key combos in Remote configuration
Prevent rare scenario where auto-expanding snippet could cause Alfred to display
Speed up Large Type fade in animation
Improve performance of Actions panel
Update iTunes AppleScript to disable shuffle before playing Alfred playlist (iTunes now this again)
Add updated email attachment support for Airmail 3
Tuned metadata queries for macOS Sierra for higher performance
Improved file preview display, showing compact style view of documents / movies etc
Fix spelling mistake in Alfreds's preferences... From "Apples's" to "Apple's" ;)
Fix alias files correctly opening when using file system navigation

New in Alfred 3.1 Build 718 Pre-release (Aug 30, 2016)

New in Alfred 3.1 Build 710 Pre-release (Aug 2, 2016)

New in Alfred 3.1 Build 708 Pre-release (Aug 2, 2016)

WORKFLOWS:
Update "Delay" workflow utility to accept fractional seconds e.g. 0.5
Prevent workflow list popup menu from showing when there is a sheet showing in the preferences window
Performance enhancements around workflow object configuration setting and getting
When showing a direct / chained input in Alfred, and the textfield is empty, use cmd+backspace to reset Alfred to default state
Add new "Call External Trigger" workflow output object:
Calls trigger directly, avoiding the need to use AppleScript
Pass through argument and variables to trigger (in same or different workflow)
Ability to use variables directly within workflow and trigger fields for callback style functions
Update the "External Trigger" workflow object to better reflect the new "Call External Trigger" object
Add new "Hide Alfred" workflow utility:
Gives more control when preventing Alfred from hiding in a connection
Add new "Dispatch Key Combo" workflow output to simulate a keypress within OS X:
Prevents the need to use AppleScript to simulate keypresses
Update key combo framework code to share between Remote and Workflow Object
GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS:
Added ability to drag files out of Alfred's file buffer
Improved reliability of simulated mod key release when using Alfred Hotkeys
Show the document preview instead of the file icon in the recent document file action
Fix allowing cmd+s and Esc as key combos in Remote configuration
Prevent rare scenario where auto expanding snippet could cause Alfred to display
Speed up large type fade in animation
Improve performance of actions panel
Update iTunes AppleScript to disable shuffle before playing Alfred playlist (iTunes now re-supports this)
Work around macOS 10.12 metadata server bug which triggered reindexing when searching for apps in Alfred (bug reported to Apple). Note that this fix means tag results won't appear in the default results with unintelligent search; use the 'tags' keyword for tag searches
Add updated email attachment support for Airmail 3

New in Alfred 3.0.3 Build 694 (Jul 18, 2016)

WORKFLOWS:
Fix issue which prevented argv arguments being correctly being passed to workflow scripts configured as External Scripts
Correctly recognise number types in JSON config passed out of JSON Config and scripts doing dynamic configuration
Update Workflow getting started guides, placing workflow name before "Getting Started" for clarityour workflow
The workflow version is now set as script environment variable alfred_workflow_version
Fix issue preventing dictionary filter language from being correctly applied:
If you are experiencing an issue, re-save the configuration for the dictionary filter in y
CLIPBOARD AND SNIPPETS:
Use ditto for snippet collection export for wider snippet filename compatibility
Make the snippet name field optional (but still recommended if sharing a collection)
Fettle timing in Alfred Text Service for better support of non-standard apps
Fix correctly showing Alfred as the source app in Clipboard History when copying from Alfred's text input field
Allow the clipboard history clear keyword to work with clipboard history persisting disabled
Reorganised options between snippets and clipboard preferences for better relevancy:
'Show "All Snippets" at top of Clipboard History' option is now in clipboard preferences
Added new option "Show snippets when searching Clipboard History" on by default:
Disable to prevent your snippets from showing in the default clipboard history search results
Significant improvement to snippet database caching performance:
Useful if you have very large snippet databases
Bring forward the logic to ignore clipboard content for specified apps:
Also allows Adobe users to work around Illustrator memory bug on copy
GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS:
Improve deployment and update mechanism in preparation for macOS 10.12
Fix compatibility issue for OS X 10.9 in List Filter workflow object configuration
Fix font menu showing with ctrl+click as well as right click in theme editor
Fix spell / define keywords to automatically detect language when "Default" language is used
Provisioning for Powerpack activation when sharing a bootable external drive between multiple Macs (requires defaults write)

New in Alfred 3.0.3 Build 692 Pre-release (Jul 15, 2016)

New in Alfred 3.0.3 Build 685 Pre-release (Jul 13, 2016)

New in Alfred 3.0.2 Build 676 (Jun 15, 2016)

New in Alfred 3.0.1 Build 670 Pre-release (May 27, 2016)

New in Alfred 3.0.1 Build 656 Pre-release (May 26, 2016)

Snippet Improvements:
Limit characters in snippet collection names to allow for maximum sharing and syncing compatibility
Sanitise snippet filenames on import to ensure reliable syncing
Tidy up export of snippets
Reorganise the text expansion code for higher performance and more resilience to external influences
More reliable dead key state resetting in Alfred Text Service
Fix date regex for arbitrary {date:} replacement tag. Was incorrectly matching multiple date formats in single paragraph.
Strip out characters from snippet filename when saving which may cause syncing issues (i.e. emoji with Dropbox)
Allow spaces in snippet keywords: Render spaces as ␣ in the snippets table view to make it clear when there are spaces being used
Clipboard Improvements:
Add actual word count and character count to clipboard history text items summary view
Improve performance of clipboard history viewer and auto pasting by only reloading text for pasting if necessary
Make clip truncation in the clipboard history viewer more intelligent
Fix the "Clear History" button in Alfred's Clipboard preferences
Workflow improvements:
Ensure that number values are correctly passed into environment variables when running scripts
In Arg and Var workflow object, ensure that Arg {query} is replaced with empty string if passed in argument is empty
When running scripts, fall back to decoding as ASCII string if UTF-8 fails. Fixes rare scenarios when scripts unexpectedly return empty contents.
More resilience against unexpected CSV data when dragging CSV into the list filter
Improve the dynamic file search workflow example
Correctly process the JSON Utility output, deeply replacing {query} and (query)
General improvements and fixes:
Option to touch alias files after opening them in Alfred to enhanced ranking, on by default: This is useful if you want to make aliases for applications, and add aliases to Alfred's default file types.
Fix issue with AppleScript files running twice when finding them for running in file search mode
Fix default results auto-complete for no-argument items
Improved wording on activation error sheet
Add Ukraine to locations
Fix help button in migration assistant
Fix mistake in changelog
Don't start Alfred 3 if Alfred 1 is running to prevent clashes
Improve reliability of initial migration, specifically if users had Alfred 2 synced in the past

New in Alfred 2.8.4 (Apr 29, 2016)

New in Alfred 2.8.3 (Mar 10, 2016)

New in Alfred 2.8.2 (Jan 12, 2016)

New in Alfred 2.8.2 Pre (Jan 10, 2016)

New in Alfred 2.8.1 (Nov 18, 2015)

New in Alfred 2.8 (Sep 22, 2015)

New in Alfred 2.7.2 (Sep 1, 2015)

Improvements:
Significantly improve Alfred's focusing behaviour, not taking active from the currently focused app. This improves a number of things including clipboard history paste behaviour with a multi screen setup.
Bring the Alfred window forward in the window hierarchy
Ability to manually add and edit UTIs in the Features > Default Results > Advanced preferences and Workflow File Filter input configuration
Replace iTerm integration with custom integrations, and update help page to link to updated custom iTerm scripts https://github.com/stuartcryan/custom-iterm-applescripts-for-alfred
Updated icons / favicons for built in web searches
Add option for custom URL handler to open selected contact in user defined app
Improved logic for auto-discovery of 1Password bookmarks-default.json 3rd party integration
Add new Apple SF fonts (Text / Display) to theming if available on Mac
Update all internal *.alfredapp.com URLs to new site URLs, also use https by default for these sites
Update Alfred's help keyword to use new website search with https
Do some validation on workflow bundle IDs, and warn (orange text) if it contains characters other than [a-zA-Z0-9._-]
Recognition of Japanese ideographic [full width] space character as keyword 'with space' separator
Improve the 'define' and 'spell' keywords, giving more accurate results and reducing duplicates. Also, consistently make 'define' always show typed word as first result regardless of correctness (as Dictionary may have an answer which Alfred doesn't, e.g. Wikipedia)
Fix the result order for spell and define to keep the results more relevant (rather than order based on usage)
Default to Alfred Yosemite theme if no theme is selected
Add a "Copy Paths to Clipboard" action for multiple [buffer] items
Update General preferences signup form to use updated Campaign Monitor signup url
Prepare for moving the Alfred Remote System Command confirmations to iOS (as double tap) instead of Mac (alert dialog)
Switch to using Alfred's file cache for the "Open With..." action, allowing for faster results and respecting fuzzy settings
Fixes:
Fix crash in Alfred when using Alfred's hotkey to hide Alfred and Quick Look is showing
Remove irrelevant items from the iTunes Mini Player such as apps (issue introduced around iTunes 12)
Remove iTunes store link from within mini player
Prevent truncation of labels in Run Terminal Command sheet
Fix File Buffer Compatibility toggle for 'Remove All' via shift+alt+backspace
Prevent silent exception in selection list (e.g. actions) when trying to action an item if there is no visible rows
Truncate tail for clipboard history items instead of truncate middle (introduced with filenames)
Fix the iTunes previous / next actions and track display for Apple Music
Update email signup REGEX to accept new TLDs

New in Alfred 2.7.2 Build 400 Dev (Aug 19, 2015)

New in Alfred 2.7.2 Build 388 Dev (Aug 6, 2015)

New in Alfred 2.7.1 Build 387 (Apr 15, 2015)

New in Alfred 2.7 Build 385 (Apr 14, 2015)

Alfred Remote Improvements:
Add key combo dispatching to Remote (no longer need to use AppleScript)
Added OS X Preference Panels to the Remote Items [+] popup for adding (also tidy up framework for adding items)
Option to "Hide from this Mac" for Remote pages, to hide pages not relevant to that specific Mac
Dragging Remote page items now allows for dragging over existing items, allowing DnD within a full page
Add Remote Server keywords for stop, restart in Alfred's results
New Menu item to "Reset Icon and Label" for Remote page items both on single items and all items in a page
Use correct display name in Remote page examples rather than filename
More robust image caching / refreshing for Remote page prefs
Truncate head on path text for Alfred Remote launch file action
Change "Looking for iOS Remote" to "Waiting for iOS Remote" along with further description in Add iOS Remote sheet for more obvious UX
Update Remote naming convention to match Workflow actions
More reliable mod key simulated release / key combo dispatching release
Workflow Improvements:
Run Script actions and outputs can now run concurrently, new option in workflow object prefs
Sensible defaults for script {query} escaping and default query assignment examples
Add arbitrary query limits to certain internal workflows to prevent bloating
Add "Delete" item in popup menu on workflow canvas for deleting objects
Improve accuracy of key speed record, it now also counts deletes back to scratch
Track keyboard layout changes for Alfred dispatched keycodes, making commands more reliable
Add LC_CTYPE=UTF-8 encoding to script environment
Add PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8 environment variable for Python scripts
Fixes and Improvements:
Ensure that homebrew folders are added to new installs of Alfred
Less intrusive update notification, now displayed as a small tab to the bottom left of Alfred window rather than old modal dialog
Bring the Alfred window in front of modal dialogs
Fix the clipboard history ignore apps table (remove non-editable editable field)
Update text in file search prefs Applescripts to AppleScripts
When tab is selected to show actions for the selected result, backtab (shift+tab) now auto-completes the selected result.
Respect alfred:ignore if set as a tag in OS X (currently only works a Spotlight Comment)
Clarify appearance "default screen" text to reflect actual behaviour (Alfred shows on the screen you drag him to)
Don't trim the string in the "Copy to Clipboard" output workflow object
Centre truncate result titles and filesystem navigation results which is more useful for long filenames
Correctly show Scientific Notation in calculator if answer over 15 digits

New in Alfred 2.6 Build 374 (Jan 27, 2015)

New in Alfred 2.5.1 Build 308 (Oct 22, 2014)

New in Alfred 2.5 Build 299 (Oct 6, 2014)

Web and Security Improvements:
Update any cachefly.alfredapp.com references and auto update checks to operate over https
Add option for https in default web searches, on by default
Allow non encoded characters in custom web searches, workflow urls and remote urls. Makes adding URLs much easier and more predictable.
Don't escape @ to @ when URL encoding a mailto from email command and contacts viewer
Update google icons to new style and add specific icons for google maps and translate
Workflow Improvements:
Make Title (keyword input) and Placeholder Title (script / file filter inputs) required workflow input fields to prevent confusion
Modify behaviour on direct queries to make sure placeholder text is correctly shown when the argument is specified as required
For fixed inputs (from hotkeys / external triggers / remote), correctly respect 'required argument' when arg is empty (i.e. don’t action)
Change workflow input filter behaviour to prevent unnecessary script execution if argument hasn't changed. Also update trimming behaviour on direct input to match default input
Reorganise Alfred’s main window for fixed inputs (hotkeys / external triggers / remote) and initially process input to show results or placeholder text
Update the workflow examples to have 256px icons for future proofing
Add icons to iTunes commands (e.g. play, random), also show these icons in workflow config
Searching for workflows in Preferences fails to find word after '(' or '{' or '['
Fix refresh issue when using a direct input where results weren’t cleaned out properly if Alfred was already visible
General Improvements and Bug Fixes:
Update resource icons to 256px for future proofing (e.g. Alfred Remote)
Increase saved icons (workflows, web searches etc) to 256px for future proofing
Modify caching policies for any internal URL requests to ignore the OS X URL caching
Fix small memory leak in Alfred Preferences script action sheet (Doesn’t affect Alfred core)
Prevent irrelevant results with “Quick Search” disabled and pressing space
Prevent flicker in Alfred's UI when disassociating a uniquely selected result (e.g. google web search) when deleting backwards on the search field
Change 'less' to 'fewer' in file search preferences help subtext
Improve help subtext for File Search > Inside Files
Fix Alfred main window subtext y position and incorrect crop in file actions browser
Tidy up Alfred debug log
Fix IMDB non english locale searches with a diacritic string
Sort the fallback searches from the [+] button to make it easier to find the fallback you want
Update method for OS X version checking removing deprecated Gestalt call
Add additional help buttons in Workflows and Appearance preferences
Start Improving help documentation
Update build tools to Xcode 6

New in Alfred 2.5 Build 290 Pre (Sep 9, 2014)

Web and Security Improvements:
Update any cachefly.alfredapp.com references and auto update checks to operate over https
Add option for https in default web searches, on by default
Allow non encoded characters in custom web searches, workflow urls and remote urls. Makes adding URLs much easier and more predictable.
Don't escape @ to @ when URL encoding a mailto from email command and contacts viewer
Update Google drive to new URL
Workflow Improvements:
Make Title (keyword input) and Placeholder Title (script / file filter inputs) required workflow input fields to prevent confusion
Modify behaviour on direct queries to make sure placeholder text is correctly shown when the argument is specified as required
For fixed inputs (from hotkeys / external triggers / remote), correctly respect 'required argument' when arg is empty (i.e. don’t action)
Reorganise Alfred’s main window for fixed inputs (hotkeys / external triggers / remote) and initially process input to show results or placeholder text
Update the workflow examples to have 256px icons for future proofing
Add icons to iTunes commands (e.g. play, random), also show these icons in workflow config
Searching for workflows in Preferences fails to find word after '(' or '{' or '['
Fix refresh issue when using a direct input where results weren’t cleaned out properly if Alfred was already visible
General Improvements and Bug Fixes:
Update resource icons to 256px for future proofing (e.g. Alfred Remote)
Increase saved icons (workflows, web searches etc) to 256px for future proofing
Modify caching policies for any internal URL requests to ignore the OS X URL caching
Fix small memory leak in Alfred Preferences script action sheet (Doesn’t affect Alfred core)
Prevent irrelevant results with “Quick Search” disabled and pressing space
Prevent flicker in Alfred's UI when disassociating a uniquely selected result (e.g. google web search) when deleting backwards on the search field
Change 'less' to 'fewer' in file search preferences help subtext
Improve help subtext for File Search > Inside Files
Fix Alfred main window subtext y position and incorrect crop in file actions browser
Tidy up Alfred debug log

New in Alfred 2.4 Build 279 (Aug 16, 2014)

Compatibility Improvements:
OS X Yosemite Compatibility, Alfred 2 officially supports Apple's upcoming operating system
Updated Alfred preferences framework to provide a unified synced / non synced preference codebase for Alfred, giving better reliability
Theming Improvements:
Add new default OS X Yosemite Light and Dark themes
Sharper status bar icon which respects Yosemite theming
Add the experimental default window blur into appearance > options, no longer a preferences hack
Add Helvetica Neue and Helvetica Neue Light to Alfred's theme editor selection
Don't sync window position as different Macs may have very different location requirements
Fix quirky footer text in theme editor when cycling through options such as fonts
Update Alfred to use Helvetica Neue for built in default themes and a number of views across the app
Update the "Show Result Subtext" appearance settings and add in a few nice new options such as only show subtext for selected row, or only show for alternative (modifier) actions
Add a 'show subtext' modifier option in Alfred's advanced preferences. This allows to peak at the default subtext, e.g. file path, if the subtext is hidden in the theme
When Large Type is showing, make cmd+c copy the visible text to the clipboard, then hide and deactivate Alfred
General Improvements and Bug Fixes:
New option to fuzzy match file system navigation results, on by default in Alfred's Features > File Search > Navigation options
Add some useful alfred_ variables to the script environment to help get commonly required Alfred information.
Add http_proxy and https_proxy support (option in Alfred's advanced preferences) for workflows
Add the proxy exception list to workflow script environment as no_proxy variable
Prevent update type from being greyed out when disabling auto updates
Add a placeholder page in Alfred's preferences for Alfred Remote
Escape pipe symbol in folder names for the "Open Terminal Here" action
More robust nil checking when searching for snippets when doing placeholder replacements
Fix failure moving / copying a file when name contains grave accent
Diacritic insensitive genre searching in iTunes mini player
Improve handling of double tap hotkey combos to prevent accidental triggering
Prevent smart substitutions in workflow Terminal Command and Copy to Clipboard object editors
Prevent right click table popups when sheets are visible in preferences
Better dialog feedback on sync folder selection (e.g. when folder is already in use)
More reliable mechanism for reshowing preferences on restart (i.e. when re-setting sync folder)
Make clipboard history activation / watching more robust, improving performance
Don't persist internal clipboard items when clip history is disabled
Tweak vertical position of result text when subtext isn't visible
Update DuckDuckGo logo to latest design in default web searches

New in Alfred 2.4 Build 275 Beta (Jul 28, 2014)

Compatibility Improvements:
OS X Yosemite Compatibility, Alfred 2 officially supports Apple's upcoming operating system
Updated Alfred preferences framework to provide a unified synced / non synced preference codebase for Alfred, giving better reliability
Theming Improvements:
Add new default OS X Yosemite Light and Dark themes
Sharper status bar icon which respects Yosemite theming
Add the experimental default window blur into appearance > options, no longer a preferences hack
Add Helvetica Neue and Helvetica Neue Light to Alfred's theme editor selection
Don't sync window position as different Macs may have very different location requirements
Fix quirky footer text in theme editor when cycling through options such as fonts
Update Alfred to use Helvetica Neue for built in default themes and a number of views across the app
Show result subtext for alternative (modifier) actions when subtext is hidden. Option available in Appearance preferences
When Large Type is showing, make cmd+c copy the visible text to the clipboard, then hide and deactivate Alfred
General Improvements and Bug Fixes:
New option to fuzzy match file system navigation results, on by default in Alfred's Features > File Search > Navigation options
Add http_proxy and https_proxy support (option in Alfred's advanced preferences) for workflows
Prevent update type from being greyed out when disabling auto updates
Add a placeholder page in Alfred's preferences for Alfred Remote
Escape pipe symbol in folder names for the "Open Terminal Here" action
More robust nil checking when searching for snippets when doing placeholder replacements
Fix failure moving / copying a file when name contains grave accent
Diacritic insensitive genre searching in iTunes mini player
improve handling of double tap hotkey combos to prevent accidental triggering
Prevent smart substitutions in workflow Terminal Command and Copy to Clipboard object editors
Prevent right click table popups when sheets are visible in preferences
Better dialog feedback on sync folder selection (e.g. when folder is already in use)

New in Alfred 2.3 Build 264 (May 8, 2014)

New Features:
New 'external trigger' workflow object for running workflows from outside of Alfred using AppleScript
Update 'Open File' workflow action to allow static files to be opened with the specified application
Context sensitive workflow hotkeys, ability to automatically register and deregister hotkeys for the currently focused app in OS X
When disabling a workflow, also deregister the hotkeys. This requires a little responsibility on the part of the hotkey user to avoid registering hotkeys elsewhere in OS X
New options to set new workflow defaults such as creator and readme, available on the [+] new workflow button
Add 'text for copying' and 'text for large type’ and dynamic mod subtext overrides to Script Filter XML (see script filter xml example for more info)
Promote Preference Panes into Alfred’s internal file cache for higher performance, better i18n and fuzzy matching
Bring back window blur hack in Mavericks with added resilience
Tidy up 'Eject' framework and add "Eject All" to the available System Command workflow actions
Improvements:
Update workflow Script XML example to include the new Alfred 2.3 attributes
Add "Copy" button in debugger to copy the current content of log to clipboard
Improve and clarify certain aspects of debug logging
Always output returned script XML from a Script Filter when logging is set to "All Information", regardless of error
Make sure that the debugger is only hidden if the workflow selection is changed by a user, and not on an external reload
Option to remember the last selected workflow category when re-opening Alfred, in the ‘Edit Categories’ preferences
Show system default mail client icon with 'email' command, not fixed to Mail.app icon/li>
Clarify the popup auto update dialog, adding a note to show if the user is currently following pre-release builds
Better re-selection of workflows when changing categories, filtering and editing
Popup menus on workflow canvas for e.g. configure / copy / paste etc. Prevent accidental dragging of workflow objects when clicking by reducing initial sensitivity
More intelligent creation of workflow from pre-defined templates, now allowing users to set the name and icon, and be pre-filled with workflow defaults
A few preferences UI refinements
Update to latest Xcode 5.1 and clang
Bug Fixes:
Fix rare script output UTF8 decoding error resulting in missing data returned from a script. Manifested in script filter returning large XML which parsed as invalid
When renaming categories, ensure that related workflows have their categories updated correctly
chmod -x unnecessary flags from some bundled example and template workflows
Remove the un-wired "Confirm" option for the 'eject all' feature preferences
Prevent duplicate names in the categories editor
Prevent deleting workflow objects / connections while dragging or connecting them, leading to undesirable behaviour
Prevent smart substitutions in Terminal integration custom AppleScript editor preferences

New in Alfred 2.3 Build 264 Pre (May 1, 2014)

New in Alfred 2.3 Build 262 Pre (Apr 29, 2014)

New Features:
New 'external trigger' workflow object for running workflows from outside of Alfred using AppleScript
Update 'Open File' workflow action to allow static files to be opened with the specified application
Context sensitive workflow hotkeys, ability to automatically register and deregister hotkeys for the currently focused app in OS X
When disabling a workflow, also deregister the hotkeys. This requires a little responsibility on the part of the hotkey user to avoid registering hotkeys elsewhere in OS X
New options to set new workflow defaults such as creator and readme, available on the [+] new workflow button
Add 'text for copying' and 'text for large type’ and dynamic mod subtext overrides to Script Filter XML (see script filter xml example for more info)
Promote Preference Panes into Alfred’s internal file cache for higher performance, better i18n and fuzzy matching
Bring back window blur hack in Mavericks with added resilience
Tidy up 'Eject' framework and add "Eject All" to the available System Command workflow actions
Improvements:
Update workflow Script XML example to include the new Alfred 2.3 attributes
Add "Copy" button in debugger to copy the current content of log to clipboard
Improve and clarify certain aspects of debug logging
Always output returned script XML from a Script Filter when logging is set to "All Information”, regardless of error
Make sure that the debugger is only hidden if the workflow selection is changed by a user, and not on an external reload
Option to remember the last selected workflow category when re-opening Alfred, in the ‘Edit Categories’ preferences
Show system default mail client icon with 'email' command, not fixed to Mail.app icon/li>
Clarify the popup auto update dialog, adding a note to show if the user is currently following pre-release builds
Better re-selection of workflows when changing categories, filtering and editing
Popup menus on workflow canvas for e.g. configure / copy / paste etc. Prevent accidental dragging of workflow objects when clicking by reducing initial sensitivity
More intelligent creation of workflow from pre-defined templates, now allowing users to set the name and icon, and be pre-filled with workflow defaults
A few preferences UI refinements
Update to latest Xcode 5.1 and clang
Bug Fixes:
When renaming categories, ensure that related workflows have their categories updated correctly
chmod -x unnecessary flags from some bundled example and template workflows
Remove the un-wired "Confirm" option for the 'eject all' feature preferences
Prevent duplicate names in the categories editor
Prevent deleting workflow objects / connections while dragging or connecting them, leading to undesirable behaviour
Prevent smart substitutions in Terminal integration custom AppleScript editor preferences

New in Alfred 2.2 Build 243 (Mar 13, 2014)

New Features:
New debugging options for Workflows. Click the bug icon when editing a workflow. Debug filtering options available such as selecting the unique object you would like to see the debug info for, and error or full log info
New organisation options and filtering for workflows, with categorization. Available in Workflow preferences search drop-down
Copy and Paste workflow objects e.g. from one workflow to another
Added option on workflow list popup menu to duplicate workflows
Default support for Airmail.app added for creating emails with attachments
Option to use metadata for contacts search instead of Address Book API. Gives better word based and diacritic matching.
Singapore added to the web locations
Improvements:
Improve Alfred’s knowledge sorting for fixed and unique filter results (e.g. a hotkey attached to file filter, or uniquely selecting the ‘open’ file search)
Correctly detect and format addresses in the contact viewer, fixes issue where e.g. US address formatting wasn't correct
Clarify the 1Password advanced prefs for 1Password 3 and 1Password 4 differences
Add some Amazon web localisations for AU, BR, CN, MX, IN instead of falling back to amazon.com
Improved reindexing with option to delete /.Spotlight-V100/ for most thorough metadata reindex
Add back in touching folders to latest time-stamp to enhance subsequent sorting in Alfred (and Spotlight). Preference in Alfred’s Features > File Search > Advanced
Multi-selection now allowed in Workflows for re-categorisation and deletion
Respect alternative metadata names in app cache for better internationalized matching
Request contacts access on starting Alfred rather than first searching for better user experience
List hotkeys in correct order to match Apple’s HCI guidelines (ctrl, alt, shift, cmd)
More efficient fixed font loading
Show contact suffix if available, e.g. BSc
Ensure that multi part surnames are found in Alfred e.g. Mc Smith
Nicer icon for the ‘tags’ keyword similar to Finder’s tag icon
Turn off smart quotes and substitutions by default for snippets editor
Better Unicode support for full URLs in the Open URL workflow action
Reset the iTunes XML patch cache when reloading the music library
Fall back to workflow icon if icon is nil in Script Filter (currently shows a folder icon)
Improved rendering in workflow editor canvas
Bug Fixes:
Prevent smart quotes in the AppleScript workflow action editor
Fix text in reindex terminal window as dot is no longer shown in Spotlight magnifying glass when reindexing
Remove non working Appsfire web search as it now uses AJAX and Appsfire are shifting business models
Remove irrelevant popup options when there is an invalid workflow
Update Google images / maps URLs to newer format (non subdomain)
Remove (+) copy mouse icon when dragging fallback categories in preferences
Remove erroneous ‘Name:’ label from File Action trigger preferences
Improve reliability of multi-file buffer grid preview (actions view) on hovering mouse
Ensure object is correctly re-selected in workflow editor when resizing window, or showing the workflow debugger
Remove ability to use Dropbox’s Apps folder for syncing as this is still causing quirks for a small number of users (only affects new syncs)
Remove window flicker when using the “Use Spotlight metadata for searching contacts” and opening contact in Alfred
Fix incorrect tooltips in workflow editor
Code refinement and performance enhancements

New in Alfred 2.1.1 Build 227 (Nov 18, 2013)

New in Alfred 2.1 Build 218 (Oct 25, 2013)

New in Alfred 2.0.9 Build 214 (Oct 4, 2013)

New in Alfred 2.0.8 Build 212 (Sep 18, 2013)

New in Alfred 2.0.7 Build 205 (Aug 8, 2013)

New in Alfred 2.0.6 Build 203 (Jul 19, 2013)

New in Alfred 2.0.5 Build 202 (Jun 12, 2013)

New in Alfred 2.0.4 Build 199 (Jun 3, 2013)

Add in as an optional replacement to which allows for newlines in the argument and other various xml advantages
Respect prefix text when using a hotkey passed through to a workflow
Add in soft failing for incompatible workflows (for future proofing workflows)
New option to exclude podcasts in Alfred's mini player, only include podcasts which are available and can play
Change http links to https links for buy.alfredapp.com throughout Alfred's preferences
Check for write permissions on Alfred 2.app when updating to avoid quiet fail situations
Perform URL validation in the custom web search configuration and Open URL workflow object configuration (also validates local URL schemes)
Make Alfred use file type icons instead of file icons on external volumes for increased performance
Make Alfred more robust when it comes to dodgy and invalid missing fields in OS X metadata results
Robustness in file navigation view to prevent crash when using two "Browse in Alfred" actions simultaneously in a workflow
Move filecache into Databases sub folder with other Alfred database files for tidiness
Refine the photoshop -> ps fuzzy modifiers to not affect other apps
Respect the "show in default results" tickbox for the iTunes play/pause keywords
Make the fallback sheet table fields non-editable text as this doesn't actually do anything
Remove unnecessary logging in file search to make things more efficient
Find Spotlight Comments in the copy to / move to action folder destination search
Escape \ and $ for "Open Terminal Here" action
Separate preferences script editor Menlo font loading into fixed with font loader
Default to system font if specified font isn't found to make Alfred more resilient to missing fonts
When pasting from Alfred's clipboard history viewer, retain the original source app information (icon)
Better update logic when switching between pre-releases and general releases in the update prefs
Fix buffer icon upside down issue in certain situations due to icon caching
Fix minor memory leak in workflows using metadata querier

New in Alfred 2.0.3 Build 187 (Apr 18, 2013)

Give Alfred's Auto Updater its own tab with change log
Migrate user set hotkeys and keywords when updating a workflow
Make no results from a script filter correctly fall back to fallbacks
Make the script filter item uid attribute optional, and generate a UUID for these instead. This prevents Alfred from learning the returned result order so will respect the XML returned order
Sort saved workflow [input] objects based on y position for more predictable initial no-knowledge ordering
Add hidden knowledge for placeholder items - Allows for web searches / workflows to be ranked higher in the default results
better logic on alternative modifiers, allows default mod actions on invalid results
Respect opening contacts metadata files in Alfred's contact viewer if setup
don't show "View contact in Alfred' subtext for non Powerpack users
Capitalise Finder in 'reveal file in finder' modifier press subtext
Fix spelling mistake 'searchces' when deleting a custom search
add option to escape backslashes in {query} for scripting
default backslash escaping for script workflow templates and examples
When using cmd+c on a contact in Alfred's results, copy the name rather than the contact id
Reset iTunes mini player if node stack typed mismatch, prevents nil caused double characters
Add placeholder AppleScript for NSAppleScript configuration window with no AppleScript
improve "Open With" matching to use kMDItemKeywords fields which also match app char names from 10.8.3
fix issue with typed word not showing with define keyword in certain scenarios
Add and improve timer logging for better performance profiling
Change resizing mode on snippets table in prefs to make more useful
If cmd+down on file, navigate into the containing folder
Show reason sheet why non-PP users can't import themes or workflows rather than just not doing anything
more efficient eject workflow which only loads the volumes if it needs to
Don't grey out advanced 'sync' button for non-Powerpack users, instead, explain Powerpack is needed
Rename 'Update" to "Save" in the workflows detail editor to prevent confusion
If a person is marked as a company, then prefix with the company in Alfred's results
Add in support for Mailplane 3 email attachments
Trim large type text to ensure there are no hanging characters before displaying
More clear 'grey out' behaviour for alt connection sheet when selecting 'none' as the connection modifier
show full path at bottom of recent documents window
Add type to filter documents in the recent documents action
Fix some text in the v1 import sheet
Switch out some unused NSLogs
add resilience against certain Address Book scenarios
Move application file cache database into app support folder to prevent auto cache cleaner apps from breaking or slowing Alfred
Fix issue where joining comments and keywords in the app cache caused a selector not found when assuming an id was an array
More robust default browser selection when populating browser info into workflow object config browser selection
Fix time modifiers for snippets e.g. {time:short}
Code review and remove the unused update controllers from the general prefs
Fix spelling mistake in Google Suggest workflow example

New in Alfred 2.0.3 Build 184 Pre (Apr 17, 2013)

Give Alfred's Auto Updater its own tab with change log
Migrate user set hotkeys and keywords when updating a workflow
Make no results from a script filter correctly fall back to fallbacks
Make the script filter item uid attribute optional, and generate a UUID for these instead. This prevents Alfred from learning the returned result order so will respect the XML returned order
Sort saved workflow [input] objects based on y position for more predictable initial no-knowledge ordering
Add hidden knowledge for placeholder items - Allows for web searches / workflows to be ranked higher in the default results
better logic on alternative modifiers, allows default mod actions on invalid results
Respect opening contacts metadata files in Alfred's contact viewer if setup
don't show "View contact in Alfred' subtext for non Powerpack users
Capitalise Finder in 'reveal file in finder' modifier press subtext
Fix spelling mistake 'searchces' when deleting a custom search
add option to escape backslashes in {query} for scripting
default backslash escaping for script workflow templates and examples
When using cmd+c on a contact in Alfred's results, copy the name rather than the contact id
Reset iTunes mini player if node stack typed mismatch, prevents nil caused double characters
Add placeholder AppleScript for NSAppleScript configuration window with no AppleScript
improve "Open With" matching to use kMDItemKeywords fields which also match app char names from 10.8.3
fix issue with typed word not showing with define keyword in certain scenarios
Add and improve timer logging for better performance profiling
Change resizing mode on snippets table in prefs to make more useful
If cmd+down on file, navigate into the containing folder
Show reason sheet why non-PP users can't import themes or workflows rather than just not doing anything
more efficient eject workflow which only loads the volumes if it needs to
Don't grey out advanced 'sync' button for non-Powerpack users, instead, explain Powerpack is needed
Rename 'Update" to "Save" in the workflows detail editor to prevent confusion
If a person is marked as a company, then prefix with the company in Alfred's results
Add in support for Mailplane 3 email attachments
Trim large type text to ensure there are no hanging characters before displaying
More clear 'grey out' behaviour for alt connection sheet when selecting 'none' as the connection modifier
show full path at bottom of recent documents window
Add type to filter documents in the recent documents action
Fix some text in the v1 import sheet
Switch out some unused NSLogs
add resilience against certain Address Book scenarios
Move application file cache database into app support folder to prevent auto cache cleaner apps from breaking or slowing Alfred
Fix issue where joining comments and keywords in the app cache caused a selector not found when assuming an id was an array
More robust default browser selection when populating browser info into workflow object config browser selection
Fix time modifiers for snippets e.g. {time:short}
Code review and remove the unused update controllers from the general prefs

New in Alfred 2.0.1 Build 173 (Mar 18, 2013)

New in Alfred 2.0 Build 165 (Mar 14, 2013)

New in Alfred 2.0 Build 164 (Mar 14, 2013)

New in Alfred 2.0 Build 163 (Mar 14, 2013)

New in Alfred 1.3.3 Build 267 (Feb 20, 2013)

New in Alfred 1.3.2 Build 265 (Dec 7, 2012)

New in Alfred 1.3.1 Build 261 (Aug 25, 2012)

New in Alfred 1.3 Build 249 (Jul 18, 2012)

NEW FEATURES / IMPROVEMENTS
Ability to drop files directly into image wells (e.g. Extensions)
Option to show thousands delimiter in calculator output
Show all configured matches in default results with scrollbar instead of maximum of 9
Option to make Alfred's result text smaller making Alfred feel more compact
Option to hide Alfred before showing Large Type (in Appearance > Large Type prefs)
Update the 'share' button in the Usage prefs to make it easier to tweet stats
Add a new 'quit all' command to quit all running applications
Add support for transient data in Clipboard History - Makes Alfred play better with e.g. Text Expander
Improved subtext rendering, more clear / readable
Update CacheFly CDN distribution links to cname on alfredapp.com
Re-enable clipboard history when deactivating / reactivating Powerpack license
Place maths calculation result back into the search query by suffixing your query with =
Export Alfred UTI types (theme / extension) for better OS integration
Remove more OS deprecated code for future proofing
Make "Action all items" option to "Action visible items" now Alfred shows loads of results by default
Make cmd+return reveal in Finder by default, plus work in file system navigation
Defend against rare case insensitive duplicates from the Application Cache
Allow Tab through actions panel workflow if Tab set as action modifier
Respect the fade in option for Large Type window in Alfred's appearance prefs
Support ideographic full stops in URLs (automatically convert them to decimal point)
Show the current selected track in iTunes mini player when iTunes is paused
Don't show the iTunes track growling (from global hotkeys) when the mini player is visible
Launch iTunes in the background when showing the Mini Player and iTunes is not launched (10.7+)
Add to knowledge when using Open and Open With actions
Update twitter icon to new style
Make ebay searcher UTF8
Update Google Mail to Gmail now that Gmail is globally used
Replace Yahoo Weather with Wunderground (now that Yahoo weather no longer works with URL scheme)
Remove bit.ly searcher (no longer works with URL scheme)
Option to configure the subject line when emailing files (Features > Email prefs)
Improved initial search performance by removing unnecessary pre-checks
Quick Look file based results:
Tap the Shift key (or ⌘Y) to view the OS X Quick Look window for the selected result
Works in default results and File System navigation
Hide preview window with Shift key (or ⌘Y)
Alfred file buffer - "Multi File Select":
Buffer view above Alfred input field with mouse-over preview
Multiple file selection from Finder Selection
Use ⌥ with arrows to interact with the file buffer (instructions in File Buffer preferences)
Actions for multiple files such as copy, move, delete, email
Configurable expiry of buffer
1Password Improvements:
Option to show 1Password bookmarks in default results without '1p' keyword
Add additional 1Password keychain discovery logic when using Dropbox
Automatically re-cache 1Password data when the 1Password keychain updates
Make 1Password matching case insensitive
Ignore conflicted dropbox files to prevent duplicates
Fix the Tab autocomplete for bookmarks
Copy 1Password 1Click URL to the clipboard for the selected item with ⌘C
BUG FIXES:
Fix spelling / grammar mistakes in iTunes, Email and Calculator prefs
Prevent an odd situation in Global Hotkeys prefs outline view right menu
When using a Global Hotkey for web searches, correctly escape newlines
Change 'The Netherlands' to 'Netherlands' in Alfred's location prefs
Prevent stack log error when double clicking empty space in Custom Searches table
Fix potential nil string in Clipboard Merging from halting Clipboard History
Hidden option around memory leak in OS X 10.7.4 (if people ask for this)
More reliable key tap rejection to prevent false action / quick view activation
Better invalidation of window shadow on size change
More defensive code against large query strings and invalid metadata

New in Alfred 1.2 Build 220 (May 1, 2012)

NEW FEATURES:
Added official support for OS X Mountain Lion
Significant update to keyword based matching when looking inside files (using the 'in' keyword) for multiple words: Alfred now searches for disjoint keywords. Custom file search filters now also have the option to split search keywords.
Advanced option for the default file search to add any file types you like. Still recommend using the 'open' and 'find' keywords (or prefix a search with [spacebar] to enter file search mode)
Code sign Alfred with Developer ID in preparation for future versions of OS X
When using 'email' keyword, option to choose to open Contact View if there is more than one email address, otherwise email the primary address
Add a "Browse Folder in Alfred" for the file you have found in Alfred's results to open File System Navigation
Dragging files out of Alfred's default results is now available to non-Powerpack users too!
Add 2 new themes to the default available themes - Dark and Smooth & Pistachio
1Password 1Click Bookmark integration:
Enable and cache stored bookmarks in Alfred's Features preferences
Option to 'reload' cached bookmarks
Ignore trashed items (3rd pre-release)
Better detection of installed app and keychain (3rd pre-release)
More accurate matching on name and URL in results (4th pre-release)
Overhaul to file search matching algorithm (more info on tumblr: http://goo.gl/XDZmU):
Non continuous word based matching
No longer need to wildcard for non-anchored searches
Large Type support for currently typed text and selected items using ⌘L:
Show large type for phone numbers, email and addresses in the Powerpack contact card viewer
New preferences (Appearance > Large Type) to change style of large type text
Contextual large type for certain types of results, for example, the Calculator's result
Force Large Type for the currently typed string in the default results using ⌘⇧L
Wrap larger lines of text to try and keep large type text sane
Improvements and new features for the Clipboard History:
Clipboard merge function, hold ⌘ and press C twice to merge the selected text with the previous history item
Option to place merged item directly back into OS X clipboard buffer for instant pasting without Alfred's clipboard history
Significantly improved snippet matching with ranking based on keyword match, prefix and name
1.2 Pre-release 2 adds better merge detection when switching between apps
Improvements and additions to Global Hotkeys:
New global hotkeys for currently selected text in OS X - Extensions, Web Searches, Custom Searches, Extensions
New Global Hotkey option to paste the latest history item as plain text without having to show Alfred
Assign global hotkeys to snippets of text for instant pasting, e.g. your favourite email signature
Updated Global Hotkey support for iTunes including items such as rating current iTunes track
New Growl support for certain global hotkeys to feed back when they have been activated, e.g. rating an iTunes track
IMPROVEMENTS:
Remove Alfred.app from Alfred's results and replace it with an 'alfred' keyword which opens the preferences
Option to pass Address Book contact's address field to custom URL scheme, defaults to opening in Google Maps
Ability to switch first name and last name in contact viewer for better localisation
More exact matching for 'Text Files' in the default results, matching plain text and rtf. This now correctly excludes irrelevant text based items such as .ics
More accurate matching of clipboard snippet names by using word boundaries instead of plain text
Match the 'Open With / Copy To / Move To' search scope to the File Search scope for better predictability
Add Xcode's new Applications location to the default file search
When dragging a folder into the Global Hotkey prefs, add it as a new 'path' hotkey rather than 'file' for better flexibility
Improvements to the spelling keyword to allow for non defined words to be suggested - better for international word lookup
Match the mouse based user experience in the Contacts view to the rest of Alfred
Remove deprecated code to be more future proofed for OS X
Improved decimal point configuration to support more locales (notably German locale being able to force . separator in output)
Code refinements, stripping older legacy code and improving some code paths for better performance
More intelligent volume eject to try and avoid showing warnings when not necessary
Add separator between default and custom themes and sort custom themes alphabetically
Double click on a URL in Alfred's URL preferences to launch it (to match new 1Password prefs)
BUG FIXES:
Intelligence when editing in the calculator to prevent prefixed / from entering file system navigation
Fix Phone and Email advanced address book settings for OS X Snow Leopard 10.6
Use correct 'mute' AppleScript when using the Alfred iTunes Mute Global Hotkey
Make sure Address Book icon shows correctly in future versions of OS X
For large clipboard items, show 1000+ character count instead of being fixed at 999 characters
Fixed / improved some text throughout the preferences
Make MAS version startup / welcome sheet non resizable and close using Esc key
Allow ⌘^Q and ⌘^W as hotkeys, previously blocked by over-protective code
Less aggressive scientific notation rounding for the calculator for better 0 approximation
Fix Sparrow mail issue where emailing a file showed 'invalid' as the address when not pre-selecting a TO user in Alfred
Fix grammar in the iTunes mini player, correctly showing track plurals
Fix divider theme transparency issue in clipboard viewer
Fix hotkey issue when trying to set a hotkey for an Alfred item which performs a paste or OS copy
Update the core window renderer to fix a quirk behind the preference cog with transparent themes

New in Alfred 1.1 Build 189 (Feb 16, 2012)

New Features:
Assign custom actions and extensions to Contact Viewer metadata types
Configurable advanced 'Show Alfred' global hotkey with ability to bring selected text into Alfred
Ability to set a filter's default action to an extension instead of just opening it. Allows for improved workflow for selecting a particular file and actioning it with a custom action
Ability to 'replace' a current extension of the same name when importing - allows for easier upgrading of extensions
Renaming of hotkeys is now possible by right clicking (or double clicking) on the hotkey in the list
Added a 'help' keyword which gives quick access to search Alfred's help site
Intelligent type matching with spell / define keywords. If you start spelling with a capital letter, ensure this is carried through to all spelling suggestions
Drag reordering URLs in Alfred's URL global hotkeys prefs to set tab (or window) order in your default browser
Drag reorder Applications / Files in Alfred's File Group extension prefs to set launch order
Improvements:
Wildcarding in the clipboard history view with * for more flexible searching through history
Non anchored Name search for snippets in the clipboard viewer (for more 'interesting' matching)
The iTunes Mute keyword now mutes iTunes instead of setting volume to 0. This allows toggling of mute by typing mute again. Automatically un-mutes on playing from mini player.
Turn off iTunes Mini Player DJ mode when selecting a random album to prevent confusion
Workflow extension parameters now have the option to be Required / Optional / None, allowing for keyword to be linked directly to workflow with no extension
De-duplicate URLS which are in history and are typed as new so you don't see URLs twice (once typed and once from history)
Place cursor position to the right of the path when using a global hotkey to open a file path in Alfred's file system navigation
Improved URL matching for localhost and sites which use ports (e.g. localhost:8888)
Ignore certain schemes from URL recognition e.g. site: kind: as these work better on fallback / finder based searches
Improve some of the help subtext throughout the preferences for clarity
Remove all spaces from query for maths calculation as they are unnecessary. Also allows for space delimiting on large numbers for clarity
Remove legacy code from Alfred, doing a nice big tidy up on the way for improved efficiency
Add a gap in the Features > Default Result prefs between Essential and Extras
Improved contact card notes field (no longer truncates to the right for multiple lines)
Improvements to iTerm2 focusing after 'open terminal here' and terminal commands
More useful message on invalid licenses
Allow for valid spaces in URL recognition
Add the additional items which are now synced to the help text in the syncing prefs
Bug Fixes:
Prevent the confirmation dialog from showing when deleting from views in Alfred's preferences when no rows are selected
Defend against potentially dodgy iTunes metadata, especially with Match
Use the correct Amazon online store when Ireland is selected as locale
Make sure the application name is correctly shown in the Global Hotkeys list when dragging a new application in
When using the Random Album function outside of the iTunes Mini Player, reload the library if needed instead of doing nothing
Change spelling to Luxembourg in locales (tsk tsk @vero)
Fix wording for AppleScript extension subtext (was accidentally the same as shell script)
Correctly encode URLs typed into Alfred which contain accented characters
Fix keypad enter key to work in contacts viewer
Make default Facebook search UTF-8
Clear search context when changing query prefix (fixes e.g. exiting contact viewer, then prefixing name with google)
Trim the 'custom home folder location' before use as trailing newlines gave strange behaviour
Ensure that contacts are still opened in the contact viewer with the new filter action customisation

New in Alfred 1.0 Build 179 (Nov 30, 2011)

Global Hotkeys:
Significant improvements to Powerpack Global Hotkeys:
Assign hotkey to Application and optionally toggle show/hide with assigned hotkey
Assign hotkeys to your extensions and optionally pass a parameter
Assign hotkeys to Alfred's built in system commands such as Sleep, Empty Trash etc
Assign hotkeys to Alfred's iTunes functions such as Random Album, next, previous, iTunes volume
Assign hotkeys to groups of URLs to show all your favourite sites in a single keypress
Assign a hotkey to a folder to browse in Finder or directly within Alfred's filesystem navigation
Global Hotkey Syncing between your macs
Relative ~ paths for hotkeys linked to files for better syncing 
New Features:
New Payment process: We now accept CC payments & PayPal directly: alfredapp.com/purchase
Remember recently typed URLs for subsequent recall / use. New preferences section to configure this:
cmd+c now copies information for the current result in Alfred's default results (e.g. file path or URL)
Improvements to snippets preferences allowing for searching and sorting for editing: 
Improvements:
Improved preferences, consistency and performance
Snippets can now be used when the Clipboard History is disabled
Show the clipboard history source icon next to the clipboard history icon for better context
Show a nice generic icon to represent web links rather than the Safari document icon
More available custom fallback searches (6 instead of 3)
Allow wildcarding in iTunes search and also improve search accuracy
Flatten diacritics in iTunes search for more predictable matching
Better distinction between Album and Artist icons in iTunes mini player
Tickbox to enable/disable individual extensions
Improved / less imposing look to the "Alfred should have found something" fallback result:
Better URL handling and recognition (can now accept things like messages://)
Nicknames now accepted in Alfred's 'Email to' action
Drop folders directly into Alfred's search scope list
Increase the total storage time for clipboard history to 3 months
Allow for + for space encodings in custom searches to support more site searches
Improve accuracy when using double tap hotkeys, ensuring that shift doesn't interfere
If {query} is used in a custom search's title, no longer automatically appending {query}
Alfred can now eject all items in /Volumes (set this in the preferences)
Improve the 'play' keyword to also look at file name as well as track name
Allow extension parameters to be marked as 'optional' as well as 'required' for more flexiblility
Global [advanced] option to mark AppleScripts as 'run' instead of 'open' (can still open using cmd+o)
Update to newer Growl framework
Remove and update deprecated code to make Alfred more future proof
Make the delete/backspace key work for deleting extensions for consistency
Bug Fixes:
Improve defence against odd unicode character entry into Alfred search box
Run "empty trash" command in the background to prevent blocking Alfred with very many trash items
Fix subtext for iCloud synced contacts for correctly showing in Alfred
Ensure that ~ correctly resolves to the home folder in the actions views
Make the numpad "enter" key work the same as the "return" key
Better handling of symbolic linked folders and files in Alfred's file system navigation
iTunes keywords now removed from the default results when disabled in prefs
Remove trailing slash from Applications when using the Finder Selection hotkey
Remove defunct § key from launching the iTunes mini player (legacy)
When importing a new extension, correctly scroll to the new extension in the list
Correctly launch contact web addresses when they are missing the http://
Work around Lion bug where isCaseInsensitiveLike was failing for certain strings causing a hang
No longer miss off the first letter of an email address if setting the email keyword to @
Stop custom search icon from being lost when adding a second custom search with identical URL
Fix help text on reindexing shell script, changing 'any key' to 'enter' for continue

New in Alfred 0.9.10 Build 152 (Aug 24, 2011)

New in Alfred 0.9.9 Build 146 (Aug 1, 2011)

New in Alfred 0.9.1 Build 129 (Jun 25, 2011)

New in Alfred 0.9 Build 123 (May 12, 2011)

New in Alfred 0.8.2 Build 107 Beta (Feb 27, 2011)

New Features:
Address Book Integration [initial work] - ability to view contacts in Alfred (PP)
Import and Export of Alfred Themes (PP)
The ability to search within files using the 'in' keyword - configurable from the file prefs
Change 'find' and 'open' behaviour to allow scrolling past the max displayed results (configurable in the preferences between 20 and 40)
Add 'scrollbar' style indicator to show more rows available (hideable in prefs). This is for all views with more results e.g. find/open keywords, iTunes mini player, file system navigation
Add custom url scheme for automatically adding custom searches to Alfred
Ability to copy the custom search alfredapp url to the clipboard from the custom search prefs
Add default website locales for India, China, Hong Kong, Slovakia, Taiwan, Iceland
Add Amazon.it to Italian web locale
Option to make 'email' keyword launch gmail with an email for that contact (PP)
Ability to change Selected Text / Subtext colour in theming (PP)
Option for iTunes mini player to only play longer albums when selecting random features (5 or more songs, PP)
Improvements:
Make cmd+o open folders in Finder when in File System Navigation. Also, add option to default to return opening folders in Finder (PP)
Add custom searches to the selectable fallback search lists (PP)
Sending files as attachments through Sparrow mail is now supported (PP)
Confirm when user presses the [-] button on the colour theme, before theme is deleted (PP)
Truncate results and paths centrally (using ellipses) instead of fading out, meaning you can better see the filename for long paths. This also means the fade doesn't ruin transparent based themes in the Powerpack
Hide contacts with no email address with 'email' keyword + match by email too in query (PP)
Confirmation on pressing 'reset' button for search scope
Add page up/down keys (or fn+up/down on small keyboards) to all views with more than visible results available
Add Mouse Scroll wheel / Track Pad scrolling of results
Improve file finding to not wildcard word anchored search queries
Take Album Artist into account when parsing iTunes XML to keep correct grouping album grouping by artist (PP)
Force match http:// and https:// as URLs regardless of what follows. Also add afp:// to recognised URLs
Add 'reload' keyword to reload the application cache
Rework the preferences window to make more resilient to a very rare crash and fix for keyboard navigation
Bug Fixes:
Add .info as understood domain names for URL recognition
Make Application Cache respect alfred:ignore spotlight comment
Fix quirk where Alfred was not showing Finder.app until the application cache was reloaded
When "remember your query" is used, Run in Terminal doesn't go away at next query
Respect alternative name (internationalised name) when dynamically reloading the application cache
Only show default 'email' searcher when email address entered (to prevent visual quirking)
Prevent the google docs search from redirecting back to #all or #home and not showing a search result (thanks @hjertnes)
Substitute | (pipe) with | in custom searches as this is a non standard character - makes it easier adding google translate custom queries
Remove gradient fading which ruins transparent themes. Make theming work better with non RGB selected colours.
Confirm reindexing before performing the command (to prevent terminal hang on sudo command)
Fix broken help button link to fallback search help page
Fix some of the F keys not functioning correctly as hotkeys
Fall back to file name for search results if kMDItemDisplayName metadata is missing (prevents blank being shown on results)
Fix unusual crash in iTunes mini player when 'Hide Mini Player after selecting song' is selected
Fix some spelling and grammar errors in the preferences
Fix in actions when typing "open with..." as soon as there's a space, the action disappears
Trim whitespace and newlines from license code to prevent invalid rejection
Update Google web searches to use UTF8 to fix some diacritics not being encoded properly
Significantly improved colour scheme editor with live preview (PP)
Make the scrollbar colour editable in the themes editor (PP)
Make ` selectable for the home folder preferences key in file system navigation (PP)
Fix word based matching for actions i.e. being able to type finder to match 'open in finder' (PP)
Change Wolfram Alpha to UTF8 as certain characters were not being encoded properly
Make cmd+o work in core results view for consistency
Add hungary & Luxemburg as web locales
Allow copying of contact details (plus emailing / visit web address) from an Address Book contact result (PP)
Make it much more obvious which colour you are about to edit / are editing in the Theme editor (PP)
Custom alfredapp:// URL for installing themes, copyable from the themes prefs to share on websites (PP)
Make 'Open Terminal Here' action work with files too [open folder of selected file in terminal] (PP)
Option to 'opt out' of home folder being included in default search scope
Make cursor more visible on all themes by making it the same colour as the search text
Better represent transparency in the theme editor + make scrollbars and dividers drawn source over (PP)
Use cmd+c on selected contact item in Address Book itegration to copy it to the clipboard, update text at bottom of window to reflect this (PP)
Force Alfred to find Microsoft documents when 'documents' is ticked for default search, even though MS2011 seems to incorrectly remove the document metadata to identify these as generic documents.
fix obscure crash when pasting from some Microsoft products into Alfred (containing a trailing null character)
Make the 'action all visible items' work with web searches too
Fix wording on Run in Terminal result item to prevent text changing (PP)
Fix search scope for default search (was always using file search scope for anything other than applications)
Change default search scope to include /developer/applications rather than all /developer (less noisy results, especially for folders)
Add Powerpack message on themes view to prevent confusion for non PP users
Notify users that unticking home folder can affect results (PP)
Decrease the double tap key interval to .26 seconds instead of .3 to reduce false activations
Prevent exception when there is a dodgy contact card (PP)
When viewing a contact card, cmd+o opens the entire card in Address Book (PP)
Fix cmd+o to work correctly in the default searcher (always open file regardless of context)

New in Alfred 0.8.1 Build 96 Beta (Jan 11, 2011)

New in Alfred 0.8.89 Beta (Dec 18, 2010)

New features:
Recent Documents: Remember which documents have been launched and show the most recent documents per application (PP)
Clipboard Snippets: Save commonly used snippets to paste easily from Clipboard (PP)
Custom Fallback Searches: Choose your own fallback searches so that when Alfred doesn't find a local result, i.e. if you prefer Bing (PP)
New System Command: Ability to eject dmg / superdrive / all / usb drive with 'eject' keyword
Show inline word definition preview for define command (from dictionary)
Powerpack Improvements:
Properly escape the 'open terminal' action path to ensure the correct folder is entered. Add option for 'copy path' escaping too.
Option to hide the iTunes mini player after a song has been selected
Remove layer backed view from iTunes album art (no fading but ~5 to 8mb less mem)
Improve performance for genres in iTunes Mini Player
iTunes store link for currently playing artist in mini player in top level view
Added ability to filter by song title after selecting artist in iTunes Mini Player
Set Enter as the 'paste' key in clipboard history (and cmd+c copy the selected item back to the clipboard)
Delete key (fn + Backspace on smaller keyboards) to delete Clipboard item
Add items to knowledge when actioning them directly from filesystem navigation
General Improvements:
Relevancy improvement: Keyword linked knowledge learning taking into account date and OS X last used metadata
Fix fuzzy matching to be considered in Knowledge - Sorting now works by keyword as well as date
When opening files / folders, update 'last used' metadata to better contribute to the new knowledge sorting system
Fix define/spell keywords in dictionary to show the correct items, ability to select the language in prefs
Option to make the 'spell' results paste to OS X rather than copy to clipboard
Cache the 'startup item' state so that it doesn't need to be obtained going into prefs to prevent momentary hanging
Make Alfred Preferences window remain visible when showing Alfred (makes it easier to play with configuration)
Cache last known state of apps at shutdown for instant startup
Full UX sweep, look at every feature and how it can be improved
Add a 'Alfred didn't find what you were looking for' message at the bottom of the window which takes you to a help page. This fallback can be hidden in the fallback preferences.
Add South Korea and Indonesia to locales
Tickbox to turn off app caching (to keep md query closed and save mem, recommended to keep caching on)
New usage tab / graph! Delay load the usage graph (to when tab is shown)
Added a preference for decimal separators in Calculator result output, plus make comma separator more flexible (mixed mode)
Add option to Web Searches to recognise URLs in Alfred main window
Preferences keyword to show Alfred prefs
Bug fixes:
Stop cmd+down drilling into incorrect folder when scrolled down in fs navigation
Fix iTunes listings where albums with the same name were not displaying such as "Greatest Hits"
Fix Double Tap CMD hotkey with Caps Lock on
Fix bug which caused Alfred to crash when testing a custom search and then showing Alfred without clearing the dialog first
Strip white spaces from end of a URL when pasted into Alfred to prevent
Fixed bug where the degree symbol crashed the advanced calculator, making the calculator much more robust at testing permissible characters

New in Alfred 0.7.2 Beta (Oct 25, 2010)

NEW: Clipboard History (Powerpack):
Text-based storage of items copied to the clipboard
Hotkey access and quickly searchable history
Paste selected history item directly into current app from Alfred
Persistent (including reboot) for a user-defined amount of time (24h/1w/1m)
Easy-to-clear history which ignores user-defined apps (e.g. 1Password & Keychain)
Improved: File System (Powerpack):
Ability to show last browsed path in File System Navigation (hotkey / keyword)
Ability to show Result Actions panel for selected item in Finder (hotkey / keyword)
Change Tab behaviour in File System Navigation to auto-complete
When pasting a file system path into Alfred core, navigate to that path in file system navigation
'Tab' auto-complete on File System Navigation, similar to shell
Respect symbolic links when navigating through File System
Type Ahead on Result Actions to narrow down selection (e.g. type "em" to filter to "email" then press Enter)
Load file previews off the main thread in File System Navigation to prevent Alfred slowing down
New Result Actions:
Open folder in Terminal.app
Show Package Contents for application
Copy path to clipboard
Improved: iTunes Mini Player (Powerpack):
Add ability to 'Play all songs by Artist'
Improved 'random' algorithm for random albums
Prevent random Album from playing TV shows / Videos
Partial match albums in default iTunes mini player search
Overhaul database structure to improve efficiency and performnce
Show Alfred core if using hotkey from iTunes mini player instead of hiding Alfred
Toggle to turn off Alfred using its own Playlist when selecting songs
Other Powerpack Improvements:
Support for Mailplane and Postbox 2 (Alfred will automatically detect your client. More clients coming soon.)
Make 'email' keyword accept open ended argument to allow for entries not in your address book such as 'email [email protected]'
Use mailto: instead of AppleScript for email keyword, to work with the current default mail client
Small marker at bottom of navigation views to show that there are more items (shown under cmd+9)
General Improvements:
A number of performance enhancements to both default search and Powerpack features
Ability to clear a hotkey by using the Esc key
Force write of preferences to disk when closing the prefs window to help people wanting to sync / backup
Better emacs binding support to navigate results / actions instead of arrow keys
Overhaul hotkey system to allow more flexibility for future and powerpack features
Intelligent 'up folder' using backspace on File System Navigation and itunes player to replace alt-enter. Also cmd+up as per Finder.
Experimental option to turn of CoreAnimation to prevent auto switching of graphics cards in newer MBPs
Reorganise and improve Features preferences, separating Powerpack group
Lots of UI consistency improvements and usability changes (too small to list here)
Bug Fixes:
Prevent (in rare cases) UI pause when accessing prefs and NAS / Network Share unavailable
Fix some spellings to match Apple's standard (Shut Down / Log Out)
Remove unnecessary CoreAnim from Custom Sites as its not showing in very isolated cases with a corrupt user profile
Prevent quirk when selecting 'browse folder' action and then removing full path in file system navigation - Now returns to correct window size
Make correct song play if if Alfred iTunes Playlist resorted
Changes from pre-release:
RwC Logo on About page
Postbox Express now supported
prevent 'up folder' in fs nav if path ends in double slash //
Make 'open in terminal' the non top item in actions
make sure fallback search string works properly (wasn't updating)
Allow user to define the Alfred.app Playlist name
Clear iTunes DB on build number change (not version number change)
Leave out videos and non audio when playing 'all tracks by artist'
Option to randomise when playing 'all tracks by artist'
Show Album Artworks and Song Count on 'all tracks by artist' node
New 'Random Album in [Genre]' default iTunes mini player option
If you start typing a query core then switch to mini player, retain search query
fix ctrl+n / ctrl+p in actions menu
hide /dev and /mach_kernel in file system navigation

New in Alfred 0.7.1 Beta (Sep 23, 2010)

Significantly improved iTunes Mini Player, now indexes the iTunes Library XML directly. Improvements include:
Browsing music by Genre/Album/Artist
Animated scrolling through related artwork for selected result
Ability to play a random album
Non indexed drive and NAS support - Much more resilient against missing metadata
Supports all types of music imported into iTunes (wav etc)
Very basic Playlist support (this will improve soon)
Using a temporary Alfred.app Playlist to provide a predictable playlist order
If Alfred core is already showing, make iTunes hotkey show the mini player rather than hide core
Make rating work off of persistent id rather than 'current track' to make more reliable
Delete iTunes database on upgrade to ensure the latest version of indexing.
Make refresh view work on dark L&F (will be made more consistent in future release)
Keyboard shortcuts for current song star rating (cmd+alt+number)
Change play hotkey to alt+cmd+down to group with forward and back
Add alt+cmd+up for random album at any point
Pad the persistent id hex string with 0 to match db id (make album show correctly on random)
Add 'Play random album' inside individual Genre nodes (at top for easy access)
Add 'Artists for genre' inside individual Genre nodes
Ability to ignore the tracks that aren't ticked in iTunes (optional in prefs, includes all by default)
Show more playlists and better icons to represent playlist type
Filtering of playlists by typed name inside playlist node
Add +1 onto the descriptor at index playlist loop as missing last playlist item
cmd+r hotkey to reindex itunes library (when player open)
prevent selection panel from taking first responder (so focus always stays in text input)
Option to Play all songs by a particular artist: SLOW so 'hidden' option for now using boolean pref key itunes.showPlayAllTracksByArtist
New Features:
New usage counter on the about tab - see how addicted you are ;)
Option to filter out calendar items in file find preferences
Added Romania, Mexico, Argentina and Brazil to locales
Bug Fixes:
Fire selection changed when using the mouse to update the right hand summary (affects all panels, fs nav, actions etc)
Capture keyboard input immediately after hotkey activation for cases where Alfred is prevented from opening instantly
Correctly show iTunes artwork for artwork with non-square aspect ratio
Better 'forced' single tap support with hotkey.forceSingleModifier hidden pref
Prevent potential instability if OS X can't identify the location of some core apps like iTunes.app and Dictionary.app