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Gifox Changelog

What's new in Gifox 2.6.4

Mar 21, 2024
  • This release comes with a bunch of editor and export fixes, as well as general stability and performance improvements. Stay informed on the latest development progress by following @gifoxapp on X.
  • Improvements:
  • Faster and more accurate editor track preview generation.
  • Overall editor performance improvements.
  • Fixes:
  • Exporting would occasionally result in a partly or fully black output.
  • Cutting a recording would reset speed multiplier adjustments.
  • Trimming a recording with adjusted speed was out of sync with mouse movements.
  • Editor wouldn't render correct previews for speed-adjusted recordings.
  • Occasional crash on Intel-based Macs shortly after launching the app.
  • Recording shortcut tooltip wouldn't hide when starting recording with an actual shortcut.
  • In some builds the app would always ask for the output directory after relaunching.
  • Build version wasn't correctly displayed in about and update windows.

New in Gifox 2.6.3 (Dec 21, 2023)

  • This release addresses two big regressions in macOS 14 Sonoma with glitchy interactions and incomplete recordings. Stay informed on the latest development progress by following @gifoxapp on X.
  • Improvements:
  • Optimized performance when moving a recorded window.
  • Fixes:
  • Captured mouse interactions turn out jerky and glitchy on macOS 14 Sonoma.
  • Recordings would sometimes finish incomplete, especially on macOS 14 Sonoma and Intel-based Macs.
  • Exporting to a read-only location would result in a crash.
  • Removing a media item during export would not always cancel the export.

New in Gifox 2.6.2 (Nov 10, 2023)

  • This release improves macOS 14 Sonoma compatibility and brings a couple of fixes.
  • Improvements:
  • Improved animated cursor handling in latest macOS versions.
  • Sharing integrations now use the default browser for signing in.
  • Small library layout tweaks and tidy ups.
  • Fixes:
  • Crash with incomplete fit and fill resizing export preferences.
  • Importing a large number of files at once would freeze the app.
  • Dropbox integration stopped working with incompatible browser error.
  • A scaled cursor was being recorded with a wrong offset location.

New in Gifox 2.6.1 (May 3, 2023)

  • Fixes:
  • Mouse interactions wouldn't get recording.
  • Crash upon editor launch.
  • Occasional crash on Intel-based Macs shortly after launching the app.

New in Gifox 2.6.0 (Apr 27, 2023)

  • This update brings several notable enhancements and long-awaited fixes. It also discontinues support for macOS 10.12 Sierra, enabling Gifox to take advantage of newer and more efficient system features. Stay informed on the latest development progress by following @gifoxapp on Twitter.
  • Improvements:
  • Recompression of internal raw video files is here to save significant disk space! Hooray!
  • Enhanced keyboard interaction capturing now shows modifier key presses and works better with Caps Lock.
  • Shortcuts now always recorded in English, regardless of the selected language – special thanks to Andrey!
  • Minimum supported macOS version is now 10.13 High Sierra, delivering overall performance improvements.
  • Fixes:
  • Countdown for window recording occasionally showed negative values and locked UI.
  • Importing an image sequence would sometimes would cause a crash.
  • Occasional failures during screen recording and export processing.

New in Gifox 2.5.1 (Mar 2, 2023)

  • This release addresses a HiDPI video cropping bug introduced in the previous release and some issues with MP4 exports. As always, you can stay up-to-date with the latest development progress at @gifoxapp on Twitter.
  • Fixes:
  • Cropping a HiDPI video results in a wrong crop area surrounded by a black frame.
  • Exported MP4 video would occasionally miss frames and look choppy.

New in Gifox 2.5.0 (Nov 10, 2022)

  • This release brings a long-awaited video cropping support along with a few other handy features. It also addresses a few bugs and improves the overall performance and stability.
  • Improvements:
  • Support for cropping recorded and imported videos is finally here! Go check it out!
  • Added ability to import an entire directory with supported media files.
  • Improved export speed multiplier preference handling with real-time preview support.
  • Preferences and other windows now remember their last position.
  • Fixes:
  • In rare cases the whole app would freeze up and become unresponsive, typically during a recording or import.
  • A recording and import would occasionally fail at random.
  • The launch at system startup preference would not always indicate correctly if it's enabled or not.
  • A bunch of general behind-the-scenes performance and stability improvements.

New in Gifox 2.4.2 (Aug 10, 2022)

  • Fixes:
  • Recording would stop during screen configuration change, like display rearrangement, connecting or disconnecting an external monitor, etc.
  • Captured cursor may appear wrong size on different screens.

New in Gifox 2.4.1 (Jun 15, 2022)

  • Fixes:
  • Recording would often immediately quit after starting especially on machines with higher GPU specs.
  • Import and export might occasionally fail at random.

New in Gifox 2.4.0 (Jun 8, 2022)

  • Improvements:
  • Support for importing GIFs and image series is finally here!
  • Video editor now supports MP4 (H.264) and MOV (ProRes 422) export.
  • Improved color accuracy handling in exported GIFs.
  • Ability to set capture countdown and duration in preferences.
  • Library media items now display file size and playback duration details.
  • Fixes:
  • Animated cursors would get captured incorrectly and appear distorted.
  • Captured mouse interactions would sometimes get misplaced when capturing a window.
  • Dropbox accounts with enabled Vault would fail to sync and list folders.
  • Occasional crashing during recording with certain screen configurations and video cards.

New in Gifox 2.3.1 (Feb 15, 2022)

  • This release addresses the issue with Gifox Pro validation, very sorry for the troubles everyone!

New in Gifox 2.3.0 (Aug 23, 2021)

  • This release comes with Apple Silicon support, plus a bunch of improvements and fixes. As always, you can stay up-to-date with the latest development progress at @gifoxapp on Twitter.
  • Improvements:
  • Apple Silicon architecture support is finally here!
  • Better handling of multi-file imports.
  • Improved library popover layout on Big Sur.
  • Display message when attempting to import unsupported file types.
  • Improve editor playback time restoring handling.
  • Improve system privacy permission dialogs.
  • Fixes:
  • Recording renaming during export wouldn't be applied.
  • Recording leftovers wouldn't always be deleted from user library folder.

New in Gifox 2.2.5 (Nov 12, 2020)

  • This release addresses export issues introduced in previous 2.2.4 version and focused on smaller fixes minor improvements.

New in Gifox 2.2.4 (Oct 13, 2020)

  • Improvements:
  • Faster and improved GIF exporting.
  • New library item layout with animated switching.
  • Ability to rename exported files directly from the app.
  • Hide library popover after drag-n-dropping items into other apps.
  • Fixes:
  • Dragging library items into trash bin would no longer delete them inside the app.
  • Feedback request would not hide after ignoring it.

New in Gifox 2.2.3 (Aug 25, 2020)

  • This release is focused on stability and bug fixes. As always, you can stay up-to-date with the latest development progress at @gifoxapp on Twitter.
  • Improvements:
  • Selection now can be resized across entire edge and not only with edge-points.
  • Fixes:
  • Gifox would sometimes fail with "something went wrong" message after a few days of running in background, see issue #159 at our GitHub tracker.

New in Gifox 2.2.2 (Aug 2, 2020)

  • Here comes the long awaited full-screen mode recording support along with lesser improvements and fixes. As always, you can stay up-to-date with the latest development progress at @gifoxapp on Twitter.
  • Improvements:
  • Support for recording in full-screen mode! Yey!
  • Failed recordings are no longer auto-deleted when dismissing errors in library.
  • Selection frame and cursors should no longer be captured at recording start.
  • Better export error diagnostics and handling.
  • Fixes:
  • Disabled shortcuts would bind to letter A on app relaunch.

New in Gifox 2.2.1 (Jul 2, 2020)

  • This update brings improved stability and takes care of occasional crashes. As always, you can stay up-to-date with the latest development progress at @gifoxapp on Twitter.
  • Improvements:
  • Improved edit playback and export stability.
  • New sharper-looking icons in library popover.
  • Stop recording shortcut is now enabled only during recording session.
  • Fixes:
  • Crash on macOS Sierra when opening export preferences.

New in Gifox 2.2.0 (Jul 2, 2020)

  • We haven't been so excited about an update for a very long time! This release brings video conversion support, considerable performance improvements, and several notorious bug fixes! As always, you can stay up-to-date with the latest development progress at @gifoxapp on Twitter.
  • A huge-huge thanks to Felipe and Chad who helped with testing and finding a solution for the selection crash, see full story in issue #139 at our GitHub tracker.
  • Improvements:
  • Support for converting QuickTime videos into GIFs! Yes!
  • Significantly improved export performance and time.
  • Reworked and simplified export playback frame rate and speed configuration.
  • Improved keyboard support for copying and deleting items inside library popover.
  • Fixes:
  • Crash while making very large area selection on macOS Catalina on older Mac models.
  • Export would occasionally get stuck and never finish.
  • Memory consumption no longer gets out of control during large recordings and exports.
  • Editor playback would consume large amounts of memory eventually leading to crash.
  • Occasional crash when attempting to reopen the app until it has finished launching.
  • Edited recording sometimes would not properly open in editor and export black image.
  • App would get locked after manually closing missing output directory dialogue.
  • Occasional crash during welcome dialogue navigation.

New in Gifox 2.1.4 (Apr 14, 2020)

  • This is a hotfix update for macOS 10.13 users and earlier. As always, you can stay up-to-date with the latest development progress at @gifoxapp on Twitter.
  • Fixes:
  • Buttons are not showing up in library popover on macOS 10.13 and earlier.
  • Captured window no longer gets misplaced when switching tabs or moving it while recording.

New in Gifox 2.1.3 (Apr 12, 2020)

  • This update delivers improved graphic processing and attempts to fix the returned issue with Gifox using significant energy on multi-GPU Macs. As always, you can stay up-to-date with the latest development progress at @gifoxapp on Twitter.
  • Improvements:
  • Increased playback speed accuracy, especially for first-time exported GIFs.
  • Much faster and more efficient graphic processing and rendering when using editor.
  • Library popover now gets displayed when repeatedly opening Gifox, for example, from Dock or Finder.
  • Editor track previews are now pixel-sharp and no longer look smudged.
  • Fixes:
  • Updated GPU-switching handling to address significant energy usage on multi-GPU Macs.
  • In rare cases the app would crash on the startup if data store gets corrupt.

New in Gifox 2.1.2 (Mar 15, 2020)

  • This update improves the app stability and issue diagnostics. As always, you can stay up-to-date with the latest development progress at @gifoxapp on Twitter.
  • Improvements:
  • Reworked licensing troubleshooting views and information.
  • Added diagnostic data export in status bar and library menus.
  • Fixes:
  • Crash when the edited GIF gets deleted in Finder.

New in Gifox 2.1.1 (Mar 15, 2020)

  • This update brings improved export quality and takes care of failing recordings on older macOS versions. As always, you can stay up-to-date with the latest development progress at @gifoxapp on Twitter.
  • Improvements:
  • Window shadows in free-selection mode are now captured even with shadow capturing disabled in preferences.
  • New lossless capture format delivers improved export graphics without compression artifacts.
  • Fixes:
  • Larger area recordings occasionally would fail on older macOS versions.

New in Gifox 2.1.0 (Mar 15, 2020)

  • This update brings back the export resizing support with other minor improvements and addresses a couple of issues, including very annoying crashes introduced with version 2.0. As always, you can stay up-to-date with the latest development progress at @gifoxapp on Twitter.
  • Improvements:
  • Rescaling export configuration with HiDPI-only option is back!
  • Remember the last opened preference tab.
  • Fixes:
  • Window shadow would get captured even when disabled in preferences.
  • Changing window shadow capturing in the quick-configuration was taking effect only in the next recording.
  • Occasional crashes and freezes during recording, including when resizing the captured window.

New in Gifox 2.0.1 (Dec 8, 2019)

  • Patch update to address a few issues with the previous release. As always, you can stay up-to-date with the latest development progress at @gifoxapp on Twitter.
  • Improvements:
  • Better dark mode support in preferences, welcome and licensing windows.
  • New and improved screen recording permission validation.
  • Fixes:
  • Closing configuration popover in editor would cause a crash on macOS Catalina.
  • Show correct composition height in editor configuration summary.
  • Keyboard interactions wouldn't be tracked without manually adding Gifox to system accessibility privacy settings on macOS Catalina.

New in Gifox 1.6.1 (Oct 1, 2018)

  • Improvements:
  • New crash diagnostic system with better issue reporting to help us track and fix bugs quicker.
  • More accurate recording progress indication in main assistant popover.
  • Faster assistant popover display with a large number of stored recordings.
  • Added privacy policy and FAQ links into the status bar menu.
  • New preferences to control crash and usage data sharing.
  • Fixes:
  • Significantly reduced random crashes during active Gifox usage under low CPU availability.
  • Consecutive and very short recordings would sometimes fail with a yellow warning sign.
  • Restoring shortcut preferences would not always activate reset hotkeys.