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KeepingYouAwake Changelog

What's new in KeepingYouAwake 1.6.5

Oct 5, 2023
  • updated the Traditional Chinese translation (#198)
  • updated the French translation (#201)
  • removed the advanced setting "Disable menu bar icon highlight color", this behavior can still be enabled using the defaults command: defaults write info.marcel-dierkes.KeepingYouAwake info.marcel-dierkes.KeepingYouAwake.MenuBarIconHighlightDisabled -bool YES

New in KeepingYouAwake 1.6.5 Beta 1 (Sep 3, 2023)

  • updated the Traditional Chinese translation (#198)
  • updated the French translation (#201)
  • removed the advanced setting "Disable menu bar icon highlight color", this behavior can still be enabled using the defaults command: defaults write info.marcel-dierkes.KeepingYouAwake info.marcel-dierkes.KeepingYouAwake.MenuBarIconHighlightDisabled -bool YES

New in KeepingYouAwake 1.6.4 (Nov 14, 2022)

  • Shows in the "Login Items" > "Open at Login" section in System Settings on macOS Ventura if "Start at Login" is enabled
  • Fixes a regression introduced in 1.6.3 where the keepingyouawake:///activate URL scheme stopped working as expected (#193)

New in KeepingYouAwake 1.6.3 (Oct 31, 2022)

  • Added Battery preferences with support for Low Power Mode on compatible Macs (#181)
  • Added a Japanese translation (#182)
  • Updated the Turkish translation (#183)
  • Added an Italian translation (#184)
  • Added an advanced preference to auto-activate when an external screen is connected (#186, #84)
  • Added an advanced preference to deactivate while another user account is active

New in KeepingYouAwake 1.6.3 Beta 1 (Oct 23, 2022)

  • Added Battery preferences with support for Low Power Mode on compatible Macs (#181)
  • Added a Japanese translation (#182)
  • Updated the Turkish translation (#183)
  • Added an Italian translation (#184)
  • Added an advanced preference to auto-activate when an external screen is connected (#186, #84)
  • Added an advanced preference to deactivate while another user account is active

New in KeepingYouAwake 1.6.2 (Aug 3, 2022)

  • Updated the Danish translation (#171, #180)
  • Updated the Sparkle update framework to version 2.0 (#178)
  • Added a Ukrainian translation (#179)

New in KeepingYouAwake 1.6.1 (Feb 6, 2022)

  • added support for notifications, use System Preferences to manage notification settings (#164)
  • please note, this feature is only available on macOS 11 or newer; the previous experimental notifications support has been removed
  • updated the French translation (#146, #169)

New in KeepingYouAwake 1.6.0 (Apr 19, 2021)

  • Raised minimum deployment target to macOS Sierra (#142)
  • Updated icons using the macOS Big Sur style (#141)
  • Added support for the arm64 architecture on macOS Big Sur
  • Created an official website https://keepingyouawake.app/
  • Added a Russian translation (#147, #155)

New in KeepingYouAwake 1.5.2 (Jul 5, 2020)

  • Added the ability to allow the display to sleep

New in KeepingYouAwake 1.5.1 (Dec 30, 2019)

  • Added the ability to customize activation durations in Preferences (#132)
  • Added an advanced preference to quit the app when the activation duration is over (#133) Thanks jamesgecko for the suggestion!
  • Added an Indonesian translation (#137) Thank you ibnuh!

New in KeepingYouAwake 1.5.0 (Jan 21, 2019)

  • Please disable Start at login in Preferences before you update
  • updated Sparkle to the ui-separation-and-xpc version (#109) (#113)
  • Start at login uses a launcher helper app now (#110)
  • the previous login item is not compatible anymore and it is recommended to disable Start at login before updating!
  • please check this wiki page if you encounter problems
  • added an Updates tab to Preferences (#107)
  • enabled the Hardened Runtime security feature (#111)
  • enabled the App Sandbox security feature (#112)
  • custom icons need to be placed in ~/Library/Containers/info.marcel-dierkes.KeepingYouAwake/Data/Documents now and will be migrated during the app update

New in KeepingYouAwake 1.4.3 (Aug 15, 2018)

  • the icon can be dragged out of the menubar to quit on macOS Sierra and newer (#82, suggested by Eitot)
  • support for the keepingyouawake:///toggle action (#96), thanks code918!
  • allows Dark Aqua appearance on macOS Mojave
  • new localizations:
  • Polish (#90) Thank you karolgorecki!
  • Portuguese (#94) Thank you luizpedone!
  • Update German for informal style (#74) Thank you Eitot!

New in KeepingYouAwake 1.4.3 Beta 1 (Aug 4, 2018)

  • the icon can be dragged out of the menubar to quit on macOS Sierra and newer (#82, suggested by Eitot)
  • support for the keepingyouawake:///toggle action (#96), thanks code918!
  • allows Dark Aqua appearance on macOS Mojave
  • new localizations:
  • Polish (#90) Thank you karolgorecki!
  • Portuguese (#94) Thank you luizpedone!
  • Update German for informal style (#74) Thank you Eitot!

New in KeepingYouAwake 1.4.2 (Sep 16, 2017)

  • support cmd+w and cmd+q keyboard shortcuts in the preferences window (#56)
  • preferences now remember the window position
  • allow option-click on the menu bar icon (#59)
  • fixed the incorrect full-screen behavior of the preferences window (#71)
  • updated Sparkle to 1.18.1
  • More localization updates:
  • Spanish (#70)
  • Dutch (#73)
  • improvements to the French translation by alexandreleroux (#63)
  • Danish (#78)
  • Turkish (#79)
  • Chinese (Simplified) (#87)
  • Chinese (Traditional zh-Hant-TW) (#89)

New in KeepingYouAwake 1.4.2 Build 1040203 Pre (Sep 9, 2017)

  • support cmd+w and cmd+q keyboard shortcuts in the preferences window (#56)
  • preferences now remember the window position
  • allow option-click on the menubar icon (#59)
  • fixed the incorrect fullscreen behavior of the preferences window (#71), thanks Eitot!
  • updated Sparkle to 1.18.1
  • more localization updates:
  • Spanish (#70)
  • Dutch (#73)
  • improvements to the French translation by alexandreleroux (#63)
  • Danish (#78)
  • Turkish (#79)
  • Chinese (Simplified) (#87)
  • Chinese (Traditional zh-Hant-TW) (#89)

New in KeepingYouAwake 1.4.2 Build 1040201 Pre (May 13, 2017)

  • Updated Sparkle to 1.17.0 (#80)
  • More localization updates:
  • Danish (#78)
  • Turkish (#79)

New in KeepingYouAwake 1.4.2 Pre (Mar 28, 2017)

  • support cmd+w and cmd+q keyboard shortcuts in the preferences window (Issue #56)
  • preferences now remember the window position
  • allow option-click on the menu bar icon (Issue #59)
  • fixed the incorrect full-screen behavior of the preferences window (Issue #71), thanks Eitot!
  • more localization updates:
  • Spanish (Issue #70)
  • Dutch (Issue #73)
  • improvements to the French translation by alexandreleroux (Issue #63)

New in KeepingYouAwake 1.4.1 (Jan 5, 2017)

  • Localization support:
  • German
  • French (Issue #51)
  • Korean (Issue #64)
  • Removed advanced preference to allow the display to sleep (didn't work properly and lead to confusion):
  • the info.marcel-dierkes.KeepingYouAwake.AllowDisplaySleep preference was removed
  • a similar, more powerful replacement feature will be introduced soon

New in KeepingYouAwake 1.4.0 (Apr 17, 2016)

  • Added a preferences window that replaces seldom used menu items and surfaces advanced and experimental preferences
  • You can now set the default activation duration for the menu bar icon in preferences
  • Removed the advanced preference for info.marcel-dierkes.KeepingYouAwake.PreventSleepOnACPower
  • Added an advanced preference to allow display sleep while still preventing system sleep (Issue #25)
  • Ability to set a battery level on MacBooks where the app will deactivate itself (Issue #24)
  • Upgraded to Sparkle 1.14.0 to fix potential security issues

New in KeepingYouAwake 1.3.1 (Dec 8, 2015)

  • Fixed Sparkle Updates (Broken thanks to App Transport Security in OS X 10.11 and GitHub disabling HTTPS for pages) If you know someone with Version 1.3.0, please let them know that 1.3.1 is available and can be downloaded manually to receive future updates. This is a nightmare come true… 😱
  • Fixed rendering for custom icons: They are now rendered as template images
  • Added advanced settings to disable the blue highlight rectangle on click. Enable it with (replace YES with NO to disable it again): defaults write info.marcel-dierkes.KeepingYouAwake info.marcel-dierkes.KeepingYouAwake.MenuBarIconHighlightDisabled -bool YES

New in KeepingYouAwake 1.3 (Nov 4, 2015)

  • Support for custom menu bar icons. Just place four images named ActiveIcon.png, [email protected], InactiveIcon.png, [email protected] in your ~/Library/Application Support/KeepingYouAwake/ folder. The recommended size for these images is 22x20 points
  • hold down the option key and click inside the "Activate for Duration" menu to set the default duration for the menu bar icon
  • Basic command line interface through URI schemes:
  • you can activate/deactivate the sleep timer with unlimited time intervals
  • you can open KeepingYouAwake from the command line with a custom sleep timer duration
  • the seconds, minutes and hours parameters are rounded up to the nearest integer number and cannot be combined at the moment

New in KeepingYouAwake 1.2.2 Beta 1 (Aug 13, 2015)

  • Basic command line interface through URI schemes:
  • you can activate/deactivate the sleep timer with unlimited time intervals
  • you can open KeepingYouAwake from the command line with a custom sleep timer duration
  • the seconds, minutes and hours parameters are rounded up to the nearest integer number and cannot be combined at the moment

New in KeepingYouAwake 1.2.1 (Jan 21, 2015)

  • Fixed an issue where "Start at Login" would crash when clicked multiple times in a row (Fixed by registered99, thank you!)
  • Less aggressive awake handling when the MacBook lid is closed by using the caffeinate -di command instead of caffeinate -disu
  • You can revert back to the previous behaviour by pasting the following snippet into Terminal.app: defaults write info.marcel-dierkes.KeepingYouAwake.PreventSleepOnACPower -bool YES
  • ctrl + click will now display the menu