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Ghost Desktop Changelog

What's new in Ghost Desktop 1.7.0

Aug 13, 2018
  • Support for Ghost's new Koenig editor
  • Various visibility, sometimes leading to a blog's admin page not showing up, have been fixed
  • The app is now better at detecting whether a blog has been added or removed
  • Some entries in the window menu needed some fixing for edge cases (and got it)
  • We've improved security a bit. Just in case.
  • The automatic login was brittle has been greatly improved.
  • The error page wouldn't show up correctly - that's been fixed, too (Thanks, @lunaticmonk!)
  • "New icon color" is now only shown when appropriate

New in Ghost Desktop 1.6.0 (May 28, 2018)

  • We’ve upgraded Electron to v2.0.2, increasing the security and stability of Ghost Desktop. Most importantly, we’ve moved from Chrome 59 to 61, which makes the app just a tiny bit faster.
  • Speaking of upgrades, we also upgraded our UI Framework Ember to v3, bumping it by a whole major version. That’s good! That’s a lot of improvements!
  • We used to run our own auto-updater service to bring you new versions of Ghost Desktop, but are now moving to a GitHub-provided one.
  • Users shouldn’t care, but we still want to share the great news that all our tests are passing again, giving Ghost Desktop an A+ in its own test again.

New in Ghost Desktop 1.5.2 (Jan 30, 2018)

  • 1.5.2 is a little patch release that updates the version of Electron. It does however contain an important security fix, so we urge all users to update to this version.

New in Ghost Desktop 1.5.1 (Dec 18, 2017)

  • Changelog:
  • 🎨 CSS injections that slightly change the layout of your Ghost admin page in the app are now made at the right time, ensuring that you never see two logos at the same time.
  • 🙊 We have temporarily hidden the spellchecker configuration. The editor in Ghost is currently in flux and we'll make sure to re-enable it once we're done improving it.
  • ⚡️ A bunch of people had trouble adding their blogs because we failed to correctly identify said blogs as, well, blogs. That's fixed.

New in Ghost Desktop 1.5.0 (Nov 21, 2017)

  • Update package-lock.

New in Ghost Desktop 1.4.0 (Sep 14, 2017)

  • This new Ghost Desktop release comes with improved support for Ghost 1.0 (and newer), upgrades all the internal plumbing to the latest versions, and fixes a few issues. In short, it's a good ol' release that should be less buggy, faster, and more supportive of your blog.
  • Changelog:
  • 🌙 Support for Night Shift
  • 🎨 Support for blog icons
  • ⌨️ Support for shortcuts on Ghost 1.x
  • 🔒 Improved reliability for username/password stored in the operating system vaults
  • 🐛 Fixed (even more) issues with auto-updates
  • 🐧 Linux: Improved package metadata
  • 📦 Plumbing: Upgraded to Chrome 58, Node 7, Electron 1.7.6
  • 📦 Plumbing: Upgrade Ember to 2.15 and all the respective addons to their latest version

New in Ghost Desktop 1.3.0 (Jul 28, 2017)

  • Bug fix: 🐛 There were a few bugs around "Find" (which can be triggered with Cmd + F or Ctrl + F). They should be gone now!
  • Design: 🎨 The DMG now comes with a custom icon (thanks to @mcizol)
  • Plumbing: 📦 Upgraded to Electron 1.6.8, Chrome 58
  • Plumbing: 📦 Upgraded to Ember 2.12, Ember-Electron 2

New in Ghost Desktop 1.2.1 (Feb 11, 2017)

  • New feature: 🎉 You can now order your blogs in the quick switcher. Simply pick them up and drag them around!
  • Bug fix: 👓 Sometimes, the vibrancy effect on macOS (the slight transparency) would get lost after a refresh. We're refreshing extra hard now, ensuring that the window doesn't turn white in embarrassment.
  • Bug fix: 💌 Got names with cool characters? Our apologies for not respecting that, sometimes presenting you your characters in encoded form. They should now always come in a human-readable format.
  • Bug fix: 🔥 On Windows, the app would sometimes refuse to quit. The window would be closed, but the process would just hang out in your task explorer. That doesn't sound too bad, but that process would also keep Ghost from starting again. That's obviously bad manners, we should be better now.
  • Bug fix: 🎨 If you're on Windows and sometimes noticed a thin white frame around your window, we fixed that.
  • Plumbing: 📦 Updated to Electron 1.4.15.

New in Ghost Desktop 1.2.0 (Jan 4, 2017)

  • New feature: Windows users will notice a super cute new frame! Black has always been cool, but together with a condensed menu, it's the new look for the spring 2017 season.
  • New feature: Linux now has a maximize button, so that you can fill your whole screen with Ghost goodness. Sorry, we honestly didn't notice that we didn't have one until now.
  • New feature: Deep linking for Windows and macOS is now enabled. We're not doing too much with it yet, but if you're developer, you should check out the deep links documentation to see what cool things you can do to interact with Ghost Desktop. We even have a little' code example: This plugin for GitHub's Atom allows you to publish posts directly from the editor. We'll be doing all kinds of cool stuff with those deep links soon.
  • Bug fix: If you're running Ghost in a local network (for instance on localhost), you'll now be able to connect to it.
  • Security: New SSL certificates mean that old versions of Ghost Desktop will soon refuse to connect to your blog, if it's running on https.
  • Plumbing: Upgrading to Electron also included an update to the latest version of Chromium.

New in Ghost Desktop 1.0.0 (Oct 28, 2016)

  • New feature: 🎨 If you're on macOS, you will notice a snazzier titlebar, leaving more space for your creativity and blog posts!
  • Bugfix: 🔧 We had a bunch of issues with the automatic blog login - they should now be a thing of the past.
  • Bugfix: 🔧 Deleting all blogs no longer results in a white screen (oops, sorry for that one...)
  • Bugfix: 🔧 If you manage a large number of blogs, you may have noticed issues with some of them seemingly randomly unloading when you switch away. This is now fixed.
  • Plumbing: 📦 We upgraded to Chromium 54, Electron 1.4, Ember 2.8, and Node 6.9.

New in Ghost Desktop 0.7.0 (Oct 27, 2016)

  • New feature: 🔍 You can now "Find in Page" - simply hit Command + F on macOS or Ctrl + F on Windows to bring up the new search bar.
  • New feature: 🎹 Speaking about keyboard shortcuts, check out the window menu for a bunch of new shortcuts - you can now navigate through your blog by just using your keyboard. Command + N / Ctrl + N takes you to your navigation settings, for instance.
  • New feature: 💨 The quick switcher can now disappear - check the window menu to toggle it.
  • New feature: ⚡️ If you change your credentials on your blog without updating them in Ghost Desktop, we'll now walk you through updating them in this little app, too.
  • New feature: 🎨 The blogs will now receive more pleasant colors. As always, if you don't like it, simply right-click it in the quick switcher and select New Icon Color.
  • New feature: 🎨 Also, you'll see a new font in action - we're now going with your operating system's default font. That's what you're used to - and it'll load faster, too.
  • Bugfix: 👀 The "loading" indication screen is now faded out to please your eyes. Hopefully.
  • Bugfix: 🔧 We improved the internals a bit, making Ghost Desktop more stable and less prone to errors.
  • Plumbing: 📦 Upgrade to Electron 1.3.5, Chrome 52, Node 6.3.

New in Ghost Desktop 0.6.0 (Jul 27, 2016)

  • Bug fix: Image uploads via drag & drop now work
  • Bug fix: Pasting large amounts of texts is now dramatically faster
  • New feature: Upgrade notifications for Ghost Core (when seen in Ghost Desktop) are now more specific which portion of your app is out of date
  • New feature: You can now connect blogs behind HTTP Basic Authentication
  • New feature: The macOS dmg is now fancy
  • New developer feature: We now have release channels
  • New developer feature: DMG creation and code signing instructions have been streamlined
  • Plumbing: Upgrade to Electron 1.2.7, Node 6

New in Ghost Desktop 0.5.1 (Jun 8, 2016)

  • New feature: The spellchecker is now configurable, meaning that you can configure Ghost to use any of the dictionaries that your operating system has installed.
  • Bugfix: If you switch back-and-forth between Ghost Desktop and another app, we'll now keep your focus around - you can now Alt Tab between Ghost Desktop and other apps without having to click back into the editor.
  • Bugfix: The zoom configuration is now properly remembered.
  • Bugfix: The auto updater will now work again
  • Plumbing: Upgrade to Chromium 51, Node 6, Electron 1.2

New in Ghost Desktop 0.4.0 (May 5, 2016)

  • New feature: You can now configure a custom zoom level for the whole app. Go to the preferences to check it out!
  • Bug fix: On Ubuntu, we now have a set maintainer field
  • Bug fix: If you're with a network, but without a working Internet connection, the auto updater service will no longer complain about that (and instead just wait until you have a connection again)
  • Bug fix: If you have links in your blog post, they used to open inside the app. Oops. That's fixed, too.
  • Bug fix: Notifications now have the correct title.
  • Bug fix: When a blog is deleted, we now also remove the password from the operating system's keychain.

New in Ghost Desktop 0.3.2 (Apr 28, 2016)

  • Bug fix: Contributors are now pulled during build, no longer on the client