Keyboard Maestro Changelog

What's new in Keyboard Maestro 11.0.2

Dec 6, 2023

Resolved an issue Display Large Text action stealing focus in Sonoma.
Worked around an issue when setting window position and size when the system is animating the changes and gets confused.
Fixed the Alert action to honor the Set Next Engine Window Position action. (forum)
Resolved an issue with keys in the status menu not being handled for a period of time after the Status Menu is opened.
Resolved an issue with Set Variable to Text action and arrays within tokens. (forum)
Set Variable to Text action will error if it is setting an indexed element and the index is out of range. (forum)
Resolved a performance issue with the %FrontDocumentPath% token in the editor.
Possibly resolved an issue with USB Device Key triggers when lots of 0 packets are sent by the device.
Fixed an issue with the non-edit display of OCR languages.
Fixed an issue with non-integer screen refresh rates.

New in Keyboard Maestro 11.0.1 (Nov 7, 2023)

New in Keyboard Maestro 11.0 (Oct 24, 2023)

Editor:
Added New Macro Wizard to quickly make new macros.
Added Security preference pane to sumarise the state and adjust the various system security settings.
Added Macro Group synching option to Disable Macro Group on All Macs. (forum)
Report if macros that are deleted are in use by other macros.
Added deprecated: search string.
Added action:1234 search string.
Added word:wombat search string.
Show Click Location in Quick Look view of images in Click at Found Image action (contstant offsets only).
Added “Do Not Ask Again” option to Evaluate Conditions alert.
Added link to wiki Preferences in the General preferences settings.
Support inserting “¬” characters with option-Return in AppleScript script fields.
Support text completion for Path fields.
Support macros in AppleScript smart groups. (forum)
Added warning if the Keyboard Maestro application is moved while it is running. (link)
Added Find button when deleting a named clipboard that is used by one or more macros.
Added Move Action Up/Down menu items.
Added support to Press a Button action to scan application windows for buttons.
Default new Execute a JavaScript actions to modern syntax and include no variables.
Added live results to the Search and Replace action. (forum)
Engine:
Added keyboardmaestro command line tool for triggering or editing macros.
Added modern JavaScript syntax mode.
Added support for limiting variables passed to scripts.
Added Apple Text Recognition to OCR options (macOS 10.15+). (forum)
Added Active Macro Groups palette to show which groups are active (available via the Help menu or the Status Menu).
Simplified Paste "xyz" submenu in the status menu to just display the text.
Added an option to include macro icons in the status menu.
Added an option to include macro icons in the group status menus.
AppleScript do script now returns results from the Return action.
Execute Macro shortcut returns results from the Return action.
Added Blue Topaz palette theme. (forum)
Request Screen Recording permission if the Pixel condition is used.
Request Contacts permission if the �dressBook% token is used.
Allow Create Unique File action without an output variable to execute without error.
Improved detection and reporting of errors in Browser Actions.
Use custom For Each action name in Display Progress title. (forum)
Added an option to show only images in the Clipboard History Switcher. (forum)
Support Command & Command-Shift Arrows in Spotlight-like windows.
Support processing in variable token array item separators (eg %Variable%Lines[3]n%).
Limit %JavaScript% tokens maximum execution time to half a second.
Support arbitrarily large numbers of files dropped on a palette entry. (forum)
Resolve symlinks for Applications (specifically this helps with the move of Safari in Ventura).
Removed use of deprecated SecKeychainUnlock et al.
Remove the “The text is” (and similar) from the Display Text windows. (forum)
Allow Prompt for User Input sliders to return decimals. (forum)
Triggers:
Added Space Changed trigger. (forum)
Added tapped only once/twice/3 times options to Hot Key and USB Device Key triggers.
Added support for modifiers in Typed String triggers (eg “em⇧” means e, m, tap the shift key). (forum)
Actions:
Added Prompt for Snippet action.
Added Create Calendar Event action (macOS 10.14+).
Added Send Pushover Notification action.
Added Set Screen Resolution action.
Added Select Menu by Name action.
Added Remove Clipboard Flavors action.
Added Set Audio Input/Output/Sound Effects Device actions.
Added Mute/Unmute Audio Device actions.
Added Get Location action.
Added option to Click at Found Image action to wait for the image to appear.
Added option to Find Image on Screen action to wait for the image to appear.
Added Progress Bar option to Group action. (forum)
Added Progress Bar option to Repeat action.
Added support for other kinds of behaviours (eg showing a menu) to the Press a Button action. (forum)
Added an optional HelpURL field to Plug In Actions. (forum)
Added support to Set JSON Value action to delete dictionary or array entries by setting to �lete%.
Added explicit File Move and File Rename options to the Move or Rename a File action. (forum)
Added Hide Other Applications, Bring All Windows to Front and Reopen Initial Windows options to Activate a Specific Application action when already at front.
Added an option to reduce the CPU usage of Pause Until actions for long running pauses.
Support Set Variable to Text action setting array elements of a variable. (forum)
Added configurable themes for Show Palette of Macros action. (forum)
Added option to Applications Palette to default to Hide Others when switching.
Added option to Apply Modifiers to Application action to default to Hide Others when switching.
Add options for All Windows and Reopen Windows to Activate Last Application action. (forum)
Added File option to Stream Deck Set Image action. (forum)
Support Save to File as an output option to the Get a URL, Execute Script/Shortcut, and Plug In actions. (forum)
Support saving images to Clipboard/File in a variety of formats for Get a URL, Execute Script/Shortcut, and Plug In actions.
Adjusted Hide Front Application action to wait for the application to no longer be active before proceeding.
Adjusted Quit Application (et al) actions to wait for the application to terminate (or relaunch).
Conditions:
Add a File Attribute condition. (forum)
Added Macro is Executing condition condition.
Filters:
Added Sentence Case filter.
Added Styled Text to/from RTF filter. (forum)
Adjusted the Word Count filter so that “1.49” is one word.
Tokens:
Added %Safari/Chrome/FrontBrowserWindowName% tokens.
Added %Safari/Chrome/FrontBrowserVersion/LongVersion% tokens.
Added %Safari/ChromeBundleID/Path/Name% tokens.
Added %FrontDocumentPath% token (thanks Chris!). (forum)
Added %ApplicationVersion/LongVersion% tokens. (forum)
Added %KeyboardMaestroVersion/LongVersion% tokens. (forum)
Added %SystemVersion/LongVersion% tokens. (forum)
Added %LastAbortedActionID% token. (forum)
Added %OptionReturn% token (valid in Insert Text by Typing only).
Added %ScreenResolution(s)% tokens.
Added %AudioInputDevice(UID)% tokens.
Added %AudioOutputDevice(UID)% tokens.
Added %AudioSoundEffectsDevice(UID)% tokens.
Added %AudioInputDevices% and %AudioOutputDevices% tokens.
Added %MusicPlayerState% token.
Added %SystemClipboardFlavors% token
Added %PastClipboardFlavors% token
Added %NamedClipboardFlavors% token
Added %TriggerClipboardFlavors% token
Adjusted the %FinderSelection(s)% tokens to return the selected item, not the target of an alias/link. (forum)
Functions:
Added PROCESSORS() function. (forum)
Added MEMORY() function. (forum)
Added UPTIME() function. (forum)
Added an optional second parameter to ROUND, CEIL, FLOOR, and TRUNC functions.
Fixes:
Fixed a performance issue in the editor switching to/from macros with large numbers of triggers. (forum)
Fixed a crash that could happen if the icon of one macro was dependent on another recursively. (forum)
Fixed a possible crash after duplicate Typed String triggers fire and the macros are immediately reloaded.
Fixed an issue with Prompt for User Input sliders with initial values above 100. (forum)
Fixed some issues with the Ruler in text views.
Fixed an issue with the %|% token and emoji. (forum)
Fixed an issue searching for greater than 16-bit unicode characters. (forum)
Fixed some issues with truncating strings with greater than 16-bit unicode characters.
Fixed a glitch in the KeyCaps.icns file. (forum)
Fixed an issue with %FinderSelection% and %FinderSelections% tokens.
Fixed an issue with USB Device Key trigger and MacBook Pro M2 Product ID = 0 keyboards.
Fixed Execute a JavaScript in Custom Prompt action to process tokens on script paths.
Fixed using Helvetica in the Spotlight-like windows.
Fixed keyboardmaestro: URL so it works when the editor is launched.
Fixed Typed String triggers with regular expressions to produce conflict palettes if appropriate.
Fixed an issue with the non-edit trigger display of times in certain time zones. (forum)
Fixed setting Trigger Macro by Name to a Smart Macro Group. (forum)
Fixed a memory leak when finding images. (forum)
Fixed an issue with the Interactive Help listing macro execution multiple times.
Fixed an issue with the Interactive Help not listing recorded Quick Macro executions.
Added some logging for failed Accessibility window manipulations.
Fixed issue where a duplicated search string matched action does not appear matched.
Fixed an issue with overly enthusiastic search field completion suggestions.
Fixed issue with Palettes displaying wide enough to hold a title that is not shown. (forum)
Fixed an issue with the window switcher switching to different monitors. (forum)

New in Keyboard Maestro 10.2 (Sep 6, 2022)

New in Keyboard Maestro 10.1.1 (Sep 6, 2022)

New in Keyboard Maestro 10.1 (Sep 6, 2022)

New in Keyboard Maestro 10.0.2 (Dec 7, 2021)

New in Keyboard Maestro 10.0.1 (Nov 17, 2021)

New in Keyboard Maestro 10.0 (Nov 2, 2021)

Keyboard Maestro 10 expands on the powerful base of previous versions, improving the editor, adding many new actions and triggers, Paste by Name, status menu display, subroutines, and more. Keyboard Maestro 10 requires macOS 10.13 High Sierra or later.
This version is dedicated to Jim Underwood (JMichaelTX), who sadly passed away this year, with thanks for his outstanding assistance and generosity on the forum, spending thousands of hours helping folks get more out of Keyboard Maestro. He will be sorely missed.
Editor:
Added configurable Favorite Actions. (forum) (forum)
Added Select Macro by Name to the macro selector popup. (forum)
Added This Macro and This Macro Group options to the macro selector popup. (forum)
Added search field to macro selector popup.
Added Evaluate Condition Results option.
Disable Evaluate Condition Results after action or safe macro import.
Support dragging a .kmactions file in to an action list.
Add Get functionality to Area selection for various actions like Move & Resize Window and Capture Screen.
Used new Prompt for Screen Rectangle for Get facility of Click Mouse action.
Added search field to Insert All Actions, All Functions, All Tokens, and Variables menus.
Added Select Last Aborted Action menu item.
Added Or by Execute Macro to macros editor listing the Execute a Macro actions referring to this macro. (forum)
Added Cut, Copy & Delete to contextual menu for Macro Group and Macro columns.
Added Copy as Execute a Macro, Set Macro Enable and Mark Macro actions to contextual menu for Macro column.
Added Copy as Set Macro Group Enable and Toggle Macro Group actions to contextual menu for Macro Group column.
Added Paste to the No Action drag target contextual menu when the clipboard contains actions.
Support double-clicking dividers in the editor window to set ideal size.
Support control-up/down arrow in action lists to move actions up/down. Also command-control for top/bottom. (forum)
Support shift-insert action to insert the action above the current selection. (forum)
Added Edit ➤ Insert ICU Date Field menu to insert the various ICU Date components.
Added Edit ➤ Insert ICU Date Field By Name (^D) to insert the various ICU Date components by name.
Added File ➤ Export as Folder and Export All Macros as Folder to export macros as individual files.
Support tapping modifiers in editor search field to insert modifier symbol.
Added Sort Macros by Size.
Added size to Macro Inspector.
Added “size:10000” to search filter.
Added “And 99 Filtered Macros” pseudo macro entry to Macros column when some macros are filtered by the search field.
Added warning on Cancel All Macros, Cancel This Macro, Retry Loop, etc actions if it is not the last action of a sequence.
Engine:
Added option to include Macro Groups in the status menu bar.
Updating icons and title.
Updating information in the menu.
Executing on selection or automatically when the menu is displayed.
Added Group Status Menu trigger.
Added support for manipulating Keyboard Maestro Engine windows in the Manipulate a Window action.
Added Set Next Engine Window Position action.
Subroutines:
Added Subroutine trigger which defined parameters to be passed to the macro.
Added Execute a Subroutine action to execute a macro, passing it parameters.
Added Return from Subroutine action to return a value from subroutine macros.
Triggers:
Added Unlock trigger. (forum)
Added Appearance Changed trigger. (forum)
Added Power Status Changed trigger.
Added “long press” option for Hot Key and USB Device Key triggers.
Disallow adding duplicate redundant triggers (like two Power Status Changed triggers).
Actions:
Added Paste by Name action giving Spotlight-like search of clipboard history.
Added Prompt for Screen Rectangle or Location action.
Added Try/Catch and Throw actions. (forum) (forum)
Added Display Progress action.
Added Display Progress option to For Each action.
Added a Pause Until Change action to detect clipboard, modifiers, keyboard, mouse, or application changes.
Added Create Unique File action.
Added additional field types to the Prompt for User Input action.
Added Date, Time and Date & Time picker fields.
Added Slider fields.
Added Color Well fields.
Added icon chooser selection to Set File Icon and Set Clipboard to Image and other actions.
Added support for selecting multiple files or folders in the Prompt for File action. (forum).
Added support for creating the folder when selecting a new folder in the Prompt for File action.
Added separated by option to Substrings In collection. (forum)
Added option to control text processing of input text for a variety of actions. (forum)
Added option to Search and Replace action to replace only the first or last match. (forum)
Added option to control volume of Speak Text action. (forum)
Added a variety of macro environment variables (eg KMINFO_TriggerValue) to the Execute a Shell Script action.
Added a calculation option to Switch other actions.
An Assert action with an empty condition now always asserts.
Filters:
Added filter Sort, Reverse and Shuffle Lines. (forum)
Added filter Escape for Regular Expression.
Added filter Quote for JSON.
Added filter URL components such as scheme, host and path. (forum)
Added filter Encode & Decode Base64.
Added filter Encode HTML With Numeric Entities.
Added filter Calculate MD5.
Updated to the latest of John Gruber & Aristotle Pagaltzis Title Case filter, and internalized it to remove perl dependency.
Tokens:
Added %LastWindowID% token.
Added %PromptWithListText% token.
Added %PasteByNameText% token.
Added %UserHome% token.
Added %FinderSelection% and %FinderSelections% tokens.
Added �cessedVariables% token.
Functions:
Added DOUBLECLICKINTERVAL, KEYREPEATDELAY, KEYREPEATINTERVAL functions.
Added SCREENINDEX function that returns the index of the specified screen.
Clipboard History:
Added Characters / Words / Lines count to Clipboard History Switcher.
Adjusted Clipboard History Switcher numbering to match %PastClipboard%.
Added Command-Control/Option/Shift-numbers to Clipboard History Switcher to Paste or Set optionally plain clipboards.
Added Option-double-click (or option-Return) in Clipboard History Switcher to set the system clipboard.
Custom HTML Prompt:
Added ProcessAppleScript command to Custom HTML Prompt.
Added option to turn off title bar on Custom HTML Prompt window. (forum)
Added option to make Custom HTML Prompt window transparent. (forum)
Added context sensitive WINDOW function for Custom HTML Prompt window resizing operations.
Debugger:
Added a button in the debugger to edit the macro action. (forum)
Added display of recently accessed variables in the debugger. (forum) (forum)
AppleScript:
Added support for getting and setting the Display in Menu Bar Macro Group settings via AppleScript.
Added “xml” AppleScript property for macros, macro groups and smart groups. (forum)
Added “group xml” AppleScript property for macro groups.
Added “last used” AppleScript property for macros. (forum)
Added “modification date” AppleScript property for macro groups and smart groups.
Added AppleScript support to the editor for showing preference panes.
Added support for AppleScript “edit” command, eg “edit macro 1”.
Added support for AppleScript to get/set the editing property of an editor window.
Added option to Search & Replace to replace only the first or last match.
Added instance parameter to process tokens and calculate commands.
Added selectAction command to select a specific action by id.
Added divider1 and divider2 properties to the editor window.
Added size property to Macro Groups and Macros.
Minor:
Added SF Symbols to Icon Chooser (11.0+)
Added Export as Text Service.
Added Export as Finder Quick Action.
Show notification when the launching editor quits the engine.
Excluded com.microsoft.ole.source..* flavors from clipboard for better Microsoft compatibility.
Adjusted Copy action to note clipboard changes even if the clipboard is not read. (forum)
Adjusted VoiceOver to speak marked status in palette entries. (forum)
Use ENV_PWD to set the current working directory for shell scripts. (forum)
Improved the Share to Forum sheet. (forum)
Support longer variable names in Prompt For User Input when they will fit under the icon.
Support formatting AppelScript and JavaScript conditions.
Support shift arrow selection in Prompt With List (Multiple Selections). (forum)
Converted use of WebView to WKWebView.
Improved appearance of Preferences toolbar in Big Sur.
Improved display of CALCULATE function when the contents are potentially valid.
Support Return/Enter as a keystroke for the ↩ character in the Conflict Palette. (forum)
Added Audio Input and Camera entitlements to the Engine (to allow their use via scripts etc).
Added Restore Excluded Application entry to Applications Palette contextual menu.
Added Tooltips for Palettes. (forum) (forum)
Added AdditionalWebBrowserBundleIDs preference to add alternative bundle IDs for front browser list.
Allow Microsoft Edge and Brave Beta as a possible Front Browser Chrome-equivalent.
Allow Spotlight-like windows to be movable.
Adjusted the hit boxes for various application and macro popup menus. (forum)
Ignore the option key when switching applications in the Applications Switcher if the option key is used in the trigger.
Remove “Instance ” and “Local ” from variable names in Prompt for User Input form.
Report lack of Screen Recording permission when that stops an action from working.
Better reporting of lack of Screen Reporting errors in Find Image and Click Mouse actions.
Added control over OCR Image behaviour when the action fails.
The Macro Group macros in the Global Macro Palette use the Macro Group’s custom icon if any.
Prompt For User Input no longder displays hidden fields in non-edit mode. (forum)
Switched to CWWiFiClient for Wireless Network trigger, token and conditions.
Display some editor alerts within the editor window.
Display some logged error messages more prominently.
Display time trigger time in localized format in non-edit mode.
Avoid logging repeated errors.
Adjusted Write File to fail rather than trash a folder that will be replaced with a file. (forum)
Only report large variables excluded from environment every ten minutes.
Added appropriate window titles (visible via AppleScript/accessibility) to the various “By Name” windows. (forum)
Avoid selecting the macro/group name when deleting macro/groups.
Added action id to failed action log message. (forum)
Added a few more default status menu icon options.
Added additional protections for the Write File action.
Fixed activation of windows so you can use the Clipboard Switcher to paste in to other Keyboard Maestro Engine windows.
Fixed a bug enabling the Send button in the Report Bugs form (irony).
Fixed width of Trigger Macro by Name and other Spotlight-like windows in Big Sur. (forum)
Fixed Paste XML actions. (forum).
Fixed an issue with Prompt For User Input and long variable names. (forum).
Fixed an issue with a couple actions not saving changes when a token was selected.
Fixed an issue with file references to images that included non-ASCII characters.
Improve accessibility of editor toolbar buttons.
Fixed Login Window action in Big Sur (CGSession no longer exists).
Fixed a display issue for popup menus in Plug In Actions. (forum)
Fixed Trim Image to keep the full resolution and DPI.
Fixed a potential crash with the Reveal a File action.
Fixed an issue related to ^ in the Substrings In collection. (forum)
Fixed an issue where renaming a macro via the contextual menu would not scroll the name field in to view.
Fixed an issue with Search and Replace matching multiple times at the end of the string. (forum).
Fixed an issue where the engine might not be notified of macro changes if the editor is quit immediately after making the change.
Fixed an issue with the Sleep Screen action in Apple Silicon Macs.

New in Keyboard Maestro 9.2 (Jan 8, 2021)

New in Keyboard Maestro 9.1 (Jan 8, 2021)

New in Keyboard Maestro 9.0.6 (Aug 3, 2020)

New in Keyboard Maestro 9.0.5 (Feb 26, 2020)

New in Keyboard Maestro 9.0.4 (Dec 3, 2019)

New in Keyboard Maestro 9.0.3 (Oct 11, 2019)

New in Keyboard Maestro 9.0.2 (Sep 12, 2019)

New in Keyboard Maestro 9.0.1 (Aug 28, 2019)

New in Keyboard Maestro 9.0 (Aug 13, 2019)

New in Keyboard Maestro 8.2.4 (Aug 13, 2018)

New in Keyboard Maestro 8.2.3 (Jul 28, 2018)

New in Keyboard Maestro 8.2.2 (Jul 20, 2018)

New in Keyboard Maestro 8.2.1 (Jul 20, 2018)

New in Keyboard Maestro 8.2 (Mar 22, 2018)

New in Keyboard Maestro 8.1.1 (Feb 23, 2018)

New in Keyboard Maestro 8.1 (Feb 23, 2018)

New in Keyboard Maestro 8.0.5 (Jan 29, 2018)

New in Keyboard Maestro 8.0.4 (Nov 27, 2017)

New in Keyboard Maestro 8.0.3 (Oct 5, 2017)

New in Keyboard Maestro 8.0.2 (Oct 3, 2017)

New in Keyboard Maestro 8.0 (Sep 19, 2017)

EDITOR IMPROVEMENTS:
Added new Assistance system to help novices trouble shoot any early issues.
Large Text size support in editor lists (Macros, Groups, Library, etc).
Added Machine Learning system to By Name selectors.
Added dragging of macros/macro groups to action macro selector popup menus.
Added basic Touch Bar support.
Added Actions menu.
Added Run Macro menu and toolbar item to run the currently selected macro.
Added Engroup Actions (into a new Group, Macro, For Each, While, etc) (forum).
Added Degroup Actions.
Added Paste Replacing for actions (forum).
Added Select Macro by Name.
Added Insert Function by Name.
Added Insert Token by Name.
Added Insert Variable by Name.
Added File ➤ Share menu.
Added Import Macros Disabled menu command.
Adjusted Import Macros menu command to require the Option key.
Added Edit ➤ Insert Token ➤ Named Clipboard hierarchical menu.
Added �lete% to the Insert Token menu.
Show an indiciator of the kind (token, variable, calculation) of each field in the editor.
Support negation (-) in the search fields (forum).
Default to last used variable when creating new actions.
Support changing Safari actions to/from Google Chrome actions.
Support styled text in comments.
Added an option to hide disabled macro groups.
Added wiki search to Help menu.
Added Make Alias for macros (and command-option dragging macros to groups).
Play Sound supports sounds in ~/Library/Sounds and ~/Sounds.
Click on macro group label (top right) to select the enclosing macro group.
Adjusted the disclosure behaviour of Execute Macro action.
Added Space, Escape, and Help to the Hot Key selection menu.
Added a disabled color to the action color menu to indicate the color means a matched search.
Added Copy as XML to copy macro groups, macros or actions as XML (forum).
Added View ➤ Select Groups Column menu item.
Added View ➤ Select Macros Column menu item.
Added View ➤ Edit Name menu item.
Added View ➤ Reveal Parent Group menu item.
Added View ➤ Last Used, Last Edited, Previous Edited, Next Edited menu items (forum).
Added Select Macro option to macro selector popup menu.
Added Philippe Martin's Multiple Clipboards to the Macro Library.
Added Rename Finder Files to the Macro Library.
Show a warning on “Press and Hold” actions that are the last action of the macro.
Show a warning when using Open File to open applications with the Default Application.
Show a warning when an Application trigger cannot fire because of the macro group's settings.
Show a warning when a For Each action does not use its variable.
Show a warning when a string containing test looks like it should be a string matching test.
Support pasting XML actions (forum).
Changed to a patterned color for the search matching indicator (forum).
Color invalid Calculation conditions (forum).
Adjusted the appearance of disabled actions to make them more clearly disabled (forum).
Support quitting the editor by closing the editor window.
When showing a mapping from an empty variable show italic “empty”.
Show “No Forms Found” (etc) when Safari/Chrome popups cannot find any valid entries (forum).
Minor tweaks to the overall appearance.
Removed misleading “Matching” from Search & Replace “String” search.
Double clicking icon image wells opens and sets the Icon Chooser.
The Modifiers condition no longer allows setting a modifier to be both pressed and not pressed (forum).
Support dragging macros and macro groups into the macro action list:
No modifiers: Execute the Macro / Show the Macro Group
Option: insert a copy of the macro’s actions
Command-Shift: Enable the Macro / Macro Group
Option-Shift: Mark the Macro
Support dragging files in as macros or actions:
Applications as Activate Application action.
Scripts as the appropriate Execute Script action.
Other files as Open File actions.
FULL APPLESCRIPT SUPPORT IN THE EDITOR:
Macro Groups, Smart Groups, Macros, Triggers, Actions are all AppleScirpt OSA objects. Examples:
properties of smart group “Enabled”
make new smart group with properties {name:“Enabled”, search strings:{“enabled:yes”}}
set search strings of smart group “Test2” to {“ABC”, “DEF”}
set name of macro 1 to “Great!”
tell macro group “New Stuff” to make new macro
select action 1 through 3 of action 2 of macro “Working”
set enable of macro group “Turn Off” to false
set color of action 1 of macro “Bright” to “red”
set selection to global macro group
move first action of macro “Source Macro” to end of actions of macro “Dest Macro”
delete second action of macro “Target Macro”
duplicate every macro group whose name starts with “Test”
set m to duplicate action 1 of macro “Macro33” to after action 2 of macro “Macro32”
duplicate (selected macros) to macro group “Test4”
REVAMP CLIPBOARD HISTORY SWITCHER & NAMED CLIPBOARD SWITCHER:
New combined appearance.
Additional information (source, type, size, pixel size, time, index).
Drag Reordering.
Drag from the switcher to image or text fields.
Contextual menu to Paste, Paste Plain, or Paste Image, Duplicate.
Contextual menu to just set the current clipboard without pasting.
Large Text size support in Clipboard Switchers.
Support excluding applications from the clipboard history.
EXPANDED MIDI SUPPORT:
Added MIDI Control Change trigger.
Added MIDI raw packet trigger (SysEx, HUI protocol, etc).
Support MIDI trigger recording when the text fields are focused in background.
Added Send MIDI raw packets so you can send any kind of MIDI packet.
Send MIDI action uses calculations so you can send varying notes and control changes.
Handle and split multiple MIDI packets received in a single system MIDI packet.
ADDED LOCAL AND INSTANCE VARIABLES:
Added the concept of Local Variables, local to the macro they are in.
Added the concept of Instance Variables, local to macro execution group they are in.
ADDED DICTIONARIES:
Added the concept of dictionaries, mapping (case insensitively) a dictionary name and key name to a value.
Added Set Dictionary Value action.
Added %Dictionary[Dict,Key]% text token.
Added collection of Dictionaries and Keys in a Dictionary.
Added full AppleScript support for accessing Dictionaries.
NEW TRIGGERS:
Added Cron trigger.
Added Gesture triggers drawn with the trackpad or mouse.
Added Audio Output Changed triggers drawn with the trackpad or mouse.
Added Remote trigger via a Keyboard Maestro server.
Added Clipboard Filter trigger.
Added Audio Output Device Changed trigger.
Added Idle trigger (trigger after the Mac is idle for N minutes).
Added Export Trigger File which lets you trigger a macro by opening a file.
NEW ACTIONS:
Added Show Palette of Macros action with (optional) Touch Bar action.
Added Get Touch Bar Selection action.
Added Prompt With List action (forum).
Added Get a URL action (including getting images) (forum).
Added Remote Trigger action.
Added Trigger Macros by Hot Key action.
Added Front Browser actions that work on the most front Safari or Chrome browser (forum).
Added stdin input for Execute a Shell Script action.
Send SMS/iMessage Action (forum).
Added Prompt For File/Folder action.
Added Continue Loop action (continues on to the next iteration).
Added Retry This Loop action (restarts the current iteration).
Added Assert action.
Added Split Path action to split a path into its component parts.
Added File as an input/output to many text actions.
Added File and Text as an input option to Lines In & Substrings In collections.
Added initial value to Trigger Macro by Name action.
Added option to restrict the macros in the Trigger Macro by Name action.
Added option to include inactive or disabled macros in Trigger Macro by Name action.
Added option to Play Sound action to play asynchronously (forum).
Added option to Alert action to play a sound (forum).
Added option to New Folder action to create intermediate folders.
Added asynchronous option to Custom HTML Prompt action.
Added resizable option to Custom HTML Prompt window.
Added non-floating option for Custom HTML Prompt window.
Added data-kmhandleschemes/KMHandleSchemes() to Custom HTML Prompt action.
Added Notify/Stop on Error to execute script actions.
Set �tionResult% token to stderr for execute script actions.
Pass parameters to Trigger Macro by Name using search // parameter.
Support XPath in all the Web Browser actions.
Generalized Filter action inputs and outputs.
Generalized Search using Regular Expression action inputs and outputs.
Generalized Search and Replace action inputs and outputs.
Simulate Keystroke can send the key to a non-front application.
Insert Text by Typing can send the keys to a non-front application.
Support Search and Replace action processing the input for each replacement.
Added Full Screen test to Front Window condition.
Added title matches option to Manipulate Window action.
NEW CONDITIONS:
Added , != numeric conditions.
Added “starts with” and “ends with” to string conditions.
Added “is before” and “is after” to string conditions that were missing them.
Added Action Result condition.
Added Mouse Button condition.
Added “is hidden” et al to the Application condition.
Added Trigger Clipboard and Named Clipboard options to the Clipboard condition.
NEW COLLECTIONS:
Added collection of Variables.
Added collection of Dictionaries.
Added collection of Keys in a Dictionary.
Added sort order to the Folder Contents collection.
NEW TOKENS:
Added %TriggerClipboard% token to return the text of the triggered clipboard.
Added %KeyboardLayout% token to return the current input source.
Added weekday option to %ICUDateTimePlus/Minus% tokens to find next occurrence of a specific day of the week.
Added %Hex2%, %Oct3%, �c5%, %Bin8% tokens to convert calculations to other bases.
Added �lculateFormat% token with selected or specified format.
Added %RandomUUID% token to generate a random Unique ID.
Added %AudioOutputDevice% token to return the currently selected Audio Output Device.
Support XPath in the %SafariField% (and other) tokens.
Added %FrontBrowserTitle%, %FrontBrowserURL%, etc tokens.
Added %FoundImage% token to return the results of the last attempt to find an image (forum).
Added %AlertButton%, %PromptButton%, %HTMLResult% tokens. Deprecated equivalent variables (forum).
NEW FUNCTIONS:
Added FRONTBROWSERTABCOUNT, FRONTBROWSERTABINDEX, FRONTBROWSERISCOMPLETE functions.
Added PIXEL(Red|Green|Blue|Hue|Saturation|Brightness|White|Cyan|Magenta|Yellow|Black,x,y) color function.
Added context sensitive DPI(X|Y) and SOURCEDPI(X|Y) functions.
ENGINE IMPROVEMENTS:
Added preference to show Conflict Palettes in the Touch Bar.
Support text with percent characters in text functions in token fields.
Only require Shift-Option-Control click on status menu to cancel all macros.
Added Machine Learning system to Trigger Macro by Name selector.
Added options to macro groups to be always active and show a palette sometimes.
Variables used in calculations can themselves contain calculations that are implicitly evaluated.
Support == as a synonym for = in calculations.
Support negative array indices for access from end of an array (calculation or Variable token).
Support 0 array indices for count of the elements in an array (calculation or Variable token).
Support executing an array of actions from AppleScript “do script” commands.
Restore front application before executing kmtrigger: macros (forum).
Display Text window closes immediately if Return is hit once (forum).
Added an option to turn off notifications of macro groups being activated/deactivated (forum).
Adjusted Typed String triggers with “affects actions” option to only uppercase the first letter.
Added “Activate Clipboard Switcher” to the Paste status menu.
Periodically write the clipboard history to disk.
MINOR IMPROVEMENTS AND CHANGES:
Removed or renamed confusing use of “Default Clipboard”.
Prefer %SystemClipboard% over the older %CurrentClipboard%.
Support Home/End in Trigger Macro By Name and Add Action windows.
Adjusted the Select Menu action to return a failed ActionResult if the menu item is disabled.
Turning on/off the iOS web server preference properly changes the Rendezvous publications.
Changing any web browser settings kills all existing connections.
Added “disabled” option to importMacros AppleScript command.
Default to importing macros disabled unless the Option key is held down.
Adjusted a case where a “for one action” palette opens a Conflict Palette.
Adjusted the iTunes Control AppleScripts.
Added “exit”, “break”, “loop” as search strings to various actions.
Added “ask”, “input”, “InputBox” as search strings to prompt actions.
Added the Keyboard Maestro version number to the Share text.
Resolved display of executing macros for asynchronously executed macros (forum).
Improved error message for File Action.
Fixed Fast User Switch action.
Disallow return characters in macro/group names.
Updated Share to Forum category names to match forum changes.
Removed Growl support.
Removed Always Hide Other Applications support.
BUG FIXES:
Fixed behaviour of Close After Action when you Command-V in the Clipboard Switcher.
Fixed Corsair K95 RGB Gaming Keyboard Device Key name display.
Fixed width issue with various scrolling lists.
Fixed a possible crash with Folder change triggers.
Fixed an issue compiling scripts that reference Keyboard Maestro itself.
Fixed an issue cropping images with non-nominal (72) DPIs (forum).
Fixed an issue composing on to images with non-nominal (72) DPIs (forum).
Fixed an issue if macros hold multiple semaphore locks.
Fixed an issue with Set Network Location and non-ASCII names.
Fixed a possible issue with columns resizing unexpectedly.
Fixed consistency of arrows for meaning left, right, width, height in actions (forum).
Fixed unlocalized display of Focused Window trigger in non-edit mode.
Fixed issue with number steppers and empty fields (forum).
Fixed inconsistent “Exit From Loop” menu name to “Break From Loop”.
Fixed icon centering in Icon Chooser.
Fixed double clicking macro names to select the title field.
Fixed some cases where popup menus occluded text fields.

New in Keyboard Maestro 7.3.1 (Oct 25, 2016)

New in Keyboard Maestro 7.3.0 (Sep 14, 2016)

New in Keyboard Maestro 7.2.1 (Aug 6, 2016)

New in Keyboard Maestro 7.2.0 (Jun 23, 2016)

Added token variable array access like %Variable%Var[5]%
Added 'is before' and 'is after' to Clipboard, Text, Script, Environment Variable and Variable conditions.
Added 'is before' and 'is after' to Switch case action.
Added CALCULATE() function which processes token text and then calculates.
Added CHARACTERS(), WORDS(), LINES() functions which process token text.
Added trigger: and hotkey: search filter.
Added name: search filter.
Added Evergreen palette theme thanks to @iampariah on the forum.
Added Reopen Windows option to Application Switcher.
Clipboards display plain text when rich text is blank and plain text is not.
Use canonical order of modifiers with Smart Group searching.
Allow Private Use Characters (like ) in Typed String triggers.
Make the All Macros Smart Group immutable.
Macros take on the icon of the action if there is a single non-comment icon.
Add “Delay” as synonym for Pause/Wait when searching for actions.
Better file name for exports of more than one macro.
Show calculation in Set Variable to Calculation title.
Support text token expansion in Substrings In collection.
Focus on key input field when Type a Keystroke action is added but not when disclosed.
Defend against a crash when the system cannot find a running application.
Added Write/Append File action disable backslash or text token processing option.
Added Insert/Display Text action disable backslash or text token processing option.
Added Set Clipboard to Text action disable backslash or text token processing option.
Fixed Set Variable to Text action disable backslash or text token processing option.
Fixed code signing issue for macOS sierra.
Fix wiki help links for File and Plug In actions.
Fix variables with unicode characters in calculations.
Fixed an issue with the rotating status icon when the editor was also performing tasks.
Avoid filling the log up complaining about missing optional Results field in Plug In actions.
Fixed a display glitch in Plug In actions.
Deleting the first item of the clipboard history did not fire the (/trigger/Clipboard Changed) trigger.
Adjust Prompt for User Input action to not set default keys for incorrectly “Cancel Macro” flagged buttons.
Fixed a bug in the Typed String trigger after a simulated delete and optional non-ASCII character.
Use localizedStandardCompare for palette ordering.
Added %ExecutingThisMacro%, % ExecutingThisMacroGroup%, % ExecutingThisMacroUUID% tokens.
Added %FinderInsertionLocation% token (usually path to front Finder window).
Fixed an issue tracking window changes immediately after the app is launched.
Fixed Set Action Delay action for This Macro to apply to the whole macro, not just the action list.
Fixed issue with %TriggerValue% token for the Focused Window trigger.
Fixed Set Macro Enable action not causing palettes to adjust.
Fixed Press Command, Press Tab, Release Command, Release Tab bug.
Fixed line count to include blank lines.
Fix spelling of 'focused'.

New in Keyboard Maestro 7.1.1 (May 9, 2016)

New in Keyboard Maestro 7.1 (May 9, 2016)

New Execute a JavaScript in Custom Prompt action.
Added timeout to Custom HTML Prompt.
Added window.KeyboardMaestro.Trigger( macro, value ) to Custom Prompt.
Clear HTML Result Button variable when Custom HTML Prompt starts.
Custom HTML Prompt can autofocus on textareas.
Custom HTML Prompt added call to KMDidShowWindow().
Added Paste Above.
Use custom icon for Macro Group Icon Palettes.
Detect and report Secure Input Mode process.
Detect and report idiotic "Allow JavaScript from Apple Events".
Added support for configurable Safari and Chrome applications.
Added an option to Set Variable to Text to disable backslash or text token processing.
Added AppleScript setvariable/getvariable commands, primarily for JXA.
Allow action timeouts of hundredths of a second.
Editor now quits the Engine on launch if all modifiers are held down.
Imported macros are now disabled if all modifers are held down.
Search Variable/Clipboard actions now fail if the match fails.
Save revisions even if Keyboard Maestro editor was open over night.
Adjusted non-recursive For Each Path in Folder to read the entire folder at the start.
Adjusted short trigger display for arrows and Page Up/Down.
Adjusted Pixel condition a little.
Allow Share to Forum of macros with , or ; in their name.
Allow %Variable%Variable Name%.
Allow Max Concealed Position of 1.
Allow text tokens in the Press Button action.
Performance improvements in some editing cases.
Remove white popup menu hover bug in El Capitan by default.
Fixed display of Move Mouse, Found Image title text field.
Fixed variable popup in Write/Append text to file editor.
Fixed Variable selector popup not working in Find Image action.
Verify code signing of version control update file.
Use HTTPS for all wiki linked help.
Use HTTPS for all version control, feedback, crash reporting, etc.
Use HTTPS for all documentation and web site links.
Make Click Link operate asynchronously.
Avoid excessive slowdown while typing in Set Variable to Browser Field action editor.
Fixed a crashing issue with finding images on screen.
Fixed a crashing issue with undo.
Fixed restoring selection issue with undo.
Fixed a potential bug that can corrupt variable types in the Custom HTML Prompt action.
Fixed handling of Escape in Share to Forum sheet.

New in Keyboard Maestro 7.0.3 (Jan 13, 2016)

New in Keyboard Maestro 7.0.2 (Dec 16, 2015)

New in Keyboard Maestro 7.0.1 (Dec 16, 2015)

Allow 10.10.0-2, with a warning about Yosemite bugs.
New Safari/Google Chrome Tab now works if there are no windows open.
Added Gemmell Purple palette style.
Add control over notification of timeout failures.
Turn gear icon blue if there is a note attached to the action.
Support opening .kmaction files to add it to the current macro.
Support Option-Return/Enter in Trigger Macro by Name to edit the macro.
Fixed a crash when you switch the Screen Capture area to "Area".
Fixed a crash when editing the theme style of a macro group with no macros.
Fixed a crash and other issues with the Folder Changed trigger.
Fixed Wireless trigger multiple firing issue.
Fixed Application "All Applications" trigger to only trigger for foreground applications.
Fixed the Copy/Cut actions, not waiting long enough.
Fixed the Copy to Named Clipboard action, not waiting long enough.
Fixed Escape doing Get instead of Cancel on the Share to Forum sheet.
Fixed use of user locale for %ShortDate% et al tokens.
Fixed web server custom.css MIME type set to text/css.
Fixed multiline text fields in plugin action editors.
Fixed a problem with clipboard history in Word 2016.
Fixed non-edit display of hot key tapped twice trigger.
Fixed gear menu icon to update when the action was not disclosed.
Fixed Undo while search field is selected to apply only to the search field.
Fixed Find Image action to return the full results (left,top,width,height,fuzz).
Fixed Set Color of actions on first control click to have color swatches.
Changed Share to Forum to use PNG instead of TIFF.
ChangedShare to Forum to post by https.
Worked around system bug with GetProcessForPID that affected activating applications.
Cleaned up some application handling code.
Detect possible re-entrant call to load macros.
Editor Improvements:
Added Smart Groups.
Added Insert Action by Name.
Added autocomplete of text tokens, functions, variables and search tokens.
Added Insert Action menu to Edit menu.
Added disclosure folding for sub-action lists.
Added action menu and contextual menu to macro actions.
Added option to rename actions.
Added color option to actions.
Added note option to actions.
Added control over Abort on Failure of actions.
Added control over Notification on Failure of actions.
Added Sort by Date Created; Use Count; Time Saved.
Added Paste Above to action/contextual menu.
Added Help link to action/contextual menu.
Added Help link when option-selecting triggers/actions/functions/tokens/collections/conditions.
Added status line below Macro Groups and Macro columns.
Added Get/Go buttons to Mouse Click action.
Added Macro Inspector window.
Added Mouse Display window.
Added Share button to main editor window.
Share macros or actions directly to the forum.
Added Import/Export of sets of actions.
Changed search in editor to support words and quoted phrases.
Changed search to support group:, app:, universal:, all:, enabled:.
Highlight found triggers and actions in editor.
Changed error display to only orange if the issue is an invalid variable value.
Used/Backward/Forward/History macro history buttons.
Improved display of toggle buttons (eg Modifiers/Days of the Week).
Honor user's locale setting for First Day of the Week.
Require Command-Delete to delete Macros Groups and Macro Groups.
Added Deselect All in the Edit menu.
Added Enter Action and Parent Action in the Edit menu.
Single click on a selected item deselects other items.
Sort the trigger list, conditions list and collection list.
Limited the size of the Undo stack in the editor.
Changed Insert Token and Function menus to be hierarchical.
Add an "All Macros" entry in the macro selector popup macro.
If you delete a macro, macro group or action, the following item is selected.
Themed Palette Styles:
Lots of different color styles.
Control style, size, columns, opacity.
Control whether the icon, text or trigger is shown.
Control whether the palette shrinks to an icon when not in use.
Macro Additions:
Added Macro Groups available in Focussed Window Macro Group targeting.
Added Macro Groups available when applications are or are not running.
Added Focussed Window Changed Trigger.
Added Folder Changed Trigger.
Added Clipboard Changed Trigger.
Added Sleep Trigger.
Added support for double tap, triple tap, etc, Hot Key triggers.
Added support for double tap, triple tap, etc, Device Key triggers.
Added Custom HTML Prompt action.
Added Switch/Case Action.
Added Group Action.
Added Execute Javascript for Automation (JXA) action.
Added Execute Swift Script action.
Added Simulate Hardware Key action.
Added Type Modifier Key action.
Added Set Action Delay action to control various speeds.
Added Mark Macro action to mark/unmark status menu and palette icons.
Added option to Press and Hold/Repeat keys, modifiers or hardware keys.
Added option to Press and Hold mouse buttons.
Added Swift and Javascript for Automation to Script Condition.
Added Found Image on Screen collection to For Each action.
Added explicit Area option to Screen Capture action.
Added Screen Area limits for Found Image searches.
Added Any Window Title condition.
Added Set Keyboard Layout action.
Added Conceal/Reveal All Palettes actions.
Added Cut/Copy/Paste actions. CutCopy wait for the clipboard to change.
Added Content Type/Kind, and Where From attributes to Get File Attribute.
Added Added Date, Downloaded Date, Last Used Date attributes to Get File Attribute.
Added Finder Comment to Get/Set File Attribute.
Added Invisible to Get/Set File Attribute.
Added Open 1Password Bookmark action.
Added SECUREINPUT() function.
Added CONCEALEDPALETTES() function.
Added MENUBARHEIGHT() function.
Added SCREENVISIBLE() function.
Added %ScreenVisible% text token.
Added %MacroNameForUUID%UUID% text token.
Added Macro/Macro Group enabled/disabled/active/inactive condition.
Added specific area option to Capture Screen Image action.
Added Always Nominal Resolution option to Capture Screen Image action.
Added option to exclude errors (STDERR) from script output.
Added option to mouse action to allow drag destination to be absolute.
Added filter to quote for AppleScript, Shell Script, JavaScript and Swift.
Added filter to Percent Decode URLs.
Added filter to get the value of a Named Variable or Named Clipboard.
Added "with parameter" option for Execute Macro action.
Allow Text Tokens in variable name of Set Variable to actions.
Allow Text Tokens in Select Menu Item.
Allow Text Tokens and menu paths (Edit->Copy) in Menu Condition.
Engine Additions:
Added optional Paste menu to Status Menu (with Paste Plain (shift) and Set-only (option)).
Added kmtrigger: URL Scheme trigger (with parameter).
Expand default clipboard history to 200 items.
Added some clipboard flavor exclusions that cause problems in Word 2011 reading EBMS flavors.
Added some clipboard flavor exclusions that cause problems in Word 2016 reading OLE LINK flavors.
Added .width and .height in variables with only two entries (eg "123,456").
Added .fuzz option to calculations (specifically for the Found Image collection).
Restrict environment variable size of variables to 100k.
Variables whose names start with "ENV_" override regular environment variables (eg "ENV_PATH").
Added "with parameter" option for AppleScript "do script" triggered macros.
Added parameter option for Web Server triggered macros.
Palette and Status Menu triggered macros report the modifiers in the TriggerValue token.
Default recorded mouse clicks to not restoring the mouse location.
Added an implicit semaphore at the start of a quick recorded macro.
Added option for Conflict Palette to appear under the mouse.
Added option for Macro Group palettes to appear under the mouse.
Added option to Application Switcher to allow switching only one window.
Added Display Large option to execute and display text actions.
Added AppleEvent to retrieve all the macro groups/macros even the inactive ones.
Updated Trigger Macro By Name window.
Updated Web Search window.
Editor Minor Changes:
Allow up to 9999 Seconds/Minutes/Hours in Periodic Trigger.
Added link to Keyboard Maestro Wiki in the Help menu.
Added link to Regular Expression Unicode Properties reference in the Help menu.
Search Variable/Clipboard results show if the captured data includes more text than displayed.
Added information to empty web browser action insertion menus.
Wireless Network trigger can now fill in wifi text field.
Added Insert Text by Typing variant to action selector.
Added Click at Found Image variant to action selector.
Preserve leading spaces in non-edit script display.
Better preserving of selection when compiling AppleScripts.
Changing Write File format while holding the option key disables changing the extension.
Added a cache of rich text for compiled scripts to avoid needing to recompile them.
Updated Or by Script to include JavaScript and Swift, as well as optional parameters.
Minor Changes:
Fixed system rewriting h to H in ICUDateTime formats.
Fix Yosemite NSSpeechSynthesizer bug that stops Speak Text working properly.
Removed defunct Fix Finder Selection Bug fixed in Yosemite.
Removed offline Help.
Added SequentialConflictPalette hidden preference.
Dropped the recording manual pause time from 1.0 down to 0.25 seconds.
Increased the limit on Typed String triggers to 100 characters.
Added hidden preference to stop mouse clicks from zapping the typed string buffer.
When referencing applications or system preferences, references are stored relative to the home directory if appropriate.
The actions list becomes focussed when it is closed and contained the focus.
Added DetailDisplayExtraStyle hidden preference.
Added ReportUpdatesWhenEditorActivates hidden preference.
Cut/Copy to Named Clipboard action waits until the clipboard changes.
Use Notification Center instead of Growl for most notifications.
Added hidden preferences to control Notification Center displays.
Limit clipboard flavor sizes to 10MB (with hidden preference).
Play various sounds as System Sounds so they honour the "Play sound effects" preference.
Added accessibility support to Application and Window Switchers.
Changed Conflict Palette to prefer alphabetical hot keys including digits over index hot keys.
Changed MOD/AND/OR/etc to take precedence over variable names so Variable MOD Variable works.
Bug Fixes:
Fixed spelling of height in Get Image Size action.
Fixed a possible race condition with "one action" macro palettes.
Fixed a case where the "Must be unique" checkbox could be difficult to click.
Restrict split view resizing to clicks that are near the divider.
Corrected TRIGGERTIME() to be relative to 1970 epoch.
Support lowercase pi character in calculations.
Issues with shifted characters in emulators/remote desktops might be resolved.
Handle surrogate pairs in non-edit/HTML displays.
Fixed Macro Group Disabled/Enabled display toggle when many toggles happen quickly.
Fixed a potential crash when looking for buttons in applications with poor accessibility support.
Fixed an issue where the Execute Macro action could refuse to set the macro.
Fixed flashing focus ring for text views.
Fixed a possible crash when setting a hot key.
Fixed %Screen%Front%, %Screen�ck%, %Screen�ck2%, %Screen%Mouse%.

New in Keyboard Maestro 7.0 (Jul 22, 2015)

Editor Improvements:
Added Smart Groups.
Added Insert Action by Name.
Added autocomplete of text tokens, functions, variables and search tokens.
Added Insert Action menu to Edit menu.
Added disclosure folding for sub-action lists.
Added action menu and contextual menu to macro actions.
Added option to rename actions.
Added color option to actions.
Added note option to actions.
Added control over Abort on Failure of actions.
Added control over Notification on Failure of actions.
Added Sort by Date Created; Use Count; Time Saved.
Added Paste Above to action/contextual menu.
Added Help link to action/contextual menu.
Added Help link when option-selecting triggers/actions/functions/tokens/collections/conditions.
Added status line below Macro Groups and Macro columns.
Added Get/Go buttons to Mouse Click action.
Added Macro Inspector window.
Added Mouse Display window.
Added Share button to main editor window.
Share macros or actions directly to the forum.
Added Import/Export of sets of actions.
Changed search in editor to support words and quoted phrases.
Changed search to support group:, app:, universal:, all:, enabled:.
Highlight found triggers and actions in editor.
Changed error display to only orange if the issue is an invalid variable value.
Used/Backward/Forward/History macro history buttons.
Improved display of toggle buttons (eg Modifiers/Days of the Week).
Honor user's locale setting for First Day of the Week.
Require Command-Delete to delete Macros Groups and Macro Groups.
Added Deselect All in the Edit menu.
Added Enter Action and Parent Action in the Edit menu.
Single click on a selected item deselects other items.
Sort the trigger list, conditions list and collection list.
Limited the size of the Undo stack in the editor.
Changed Insert Token and Function menus to be hierarchical.
Add an "All Macros" entry in the macro selector popup macro.
If you delete a macro, macro group or action, the following item is selected.
Themed Palette Styles:
Lots of different color styles.
Control style, size, columns, opacity.
Control whether the icon, text or trigger is shown.
Control whether the palette shrinks to an icon when not in use.
Macro Additions:
Added Macro Groups available in Focussed Window Macro Group targeting.
Added Macro Groups available when applications are or are not running.
Added Focussed Window Changed Trigger.
Added Folder Changed Trigger.
Added Clipboard Changed Trigger.
Added Sleep Trigger.
Added support for double tap, triple tap, etc, Hot Key triggers.
Added support for double tap, triple tap, etc, Device Key triggers.
Added Custom HTML Prompt action.
Added Switch/Case Action.
Added Group Action.
Added Execute Javascript for Automation (JXA) action.
Added Execute Swift Script action.
Added Simulate Hardware Key action.
Added Type Modifier Key action.
Added Set Action Delay action to control various speeds.
Added Mark Macro action to mark/unmark status menu and palette icons.
Added option to Press and Hold/Repeat keys, modifiers or hardware keys.
Added option to Press and Hold mouse buttons.
Added Swift and Javascript for Automation to Script Condition.
Added Found Image on Screen collection to For Each action.
Added explicit Area option to Screen Capture action.
Added Screen Area limits for Found Image searches.
Added Any Window Title condition.
Added Set Keyboard Layout action.
Added Conceal/Reveal All Palettes actions.
Added Cut/Copy/Paste actions. CutCopy wait for the clipboard to change.
Added Content Type/Kind, and Where From attributes to Get File Attribute.
Added Added Date, Downloaded Date, Last Used Date attributes to Get File Attribute.
Added Finder Comment to Get/Set File Attribute.
Added Invisible to Get/Set File Attribute.
Added Open 1Password Bookmark action.
Added SECUREINPUT() function.
Added CONCEALEDPALETTES() function.
Added MENUBARHEIGHT() function.
Added SCREENVISIBLE() function.
Added %ScreenVisible% text token.
Added %MacroNameForUUID%UUID% text token.
Added Macro/Macro Group enabled/disabled/active/inactive condition.
Added specific area option to Capture Screen Image action.
Added Always Nominal Resolution option to Capture Screen Image action.
Added option to exclude errors (STDERR) from script output.
Added option to mouse action to allow drag destination to be absolute.
Added filter to quote for AppleScript, Shell Script, JavaScript and Swift.
Added filter to Percent Decode URLs.
Added filter to get the value of a Named Variable or Named Clipboard.
Added "with parameter" option for Execute Macro action.
Allow Text Tokens in variable name of Set Variable to actions.
Allow Text Tokens in Select Menu Item.
Allow Text Tokens and menu paths (Edit->Copy) in Menu Condition.
Engine Additions:
Added optional Paste menu to Status Menu (with Paste Plain (shift) and Set-only (option)).
Added kmtrigger: URL Scheme trigger (with parameter).
Expand default clipboard history to 200 items.
Added some clipboard flavor exclusions that cause problems in Word 2011 reading EBMS flavors.
Added some clipboard flavor exclusions that cause problems in Word 2016 reading OLE LINK flavors.
Added .width and .height in variables with only two entries (eg "123,456").
Added .fuzz option to calculations (specifically for the Found Image collection).
Restrict environment variable size of variables to 100k.
Variables whose names start with "ENV " override regular environment variables (eg "ENV PATH").
Added "with parameter" option for AppleScript "do script" triggered macros.
Added parameter option for Web Server triggered macros.
Palette and Status Menu triggered macros report the modifiers in the TriggerValue token.
Default recorded mouse clicks to not restoring the mouse location.
Added an implicit semaphore at the start of a quick recorded macro.
Added option for Conflict Palette to appear under the mouse.
Added option for Macro Group palettes to appear under the mouse.
Added option to Application Switcher to allow switching only one window.
Added Display Large option to execute and display text actions.
Added AppleEvent to retrieve all the macro groups/macros even the inactive ones.
Updated Trigger Macro By Name window.
Updated Web Search window.
Editor Minor Changes:
Allow up to 9999 Seconds/Minutes/Hours in Periodic Trigger.
Added link to Keyboard Maestro Wiki in the Help menu.
Added link to Regular Expression Unicode Properties reference in the Help menu.
Search Variable/Clipboard results show if the captured data includes more text than displayed.
Added information to empty web browser action insertion menus.
Wireless Network trigger can now fill in wifi text field.
Added Insert Text by Typing variant to action selector.
Added Click at Found Image variant to action selector.
Preserve leading spaces in non-edit script display.
Better preserving of selection when compiling AppleScripts.
Changing Write File format while holding the option key disables changing the extension.
Added a cache of rich text for compiled scripts to avoid needing to recompile them.
Updated Or by Script to include JavaScript and Swift, as well as optional parameters.
Minor Changes:
Fixed system rewriting h to H in ICUDateTime formats.
Fix Yosemite NSSpeechSynthesizer bug that stops Speak Text working properly.
Removed defunct Fix Finder Selection Bug fixed in Yosemite.
Removed offline Help.
Added SequentialConflictPalette hidden preference.
Dropped the recording manual pause time from 1.0 down to 0.25 seconds.
Increased the limit on Typed String triggers to 100 characters.
Added hidden preference to stop mouse clicks from zapping the typed string buffer.
When referencing applications or system preferences, references are stored relative to the home directory if appropriate.
The actions list becomes focussed when it is closed and contained the focus.
Added DetailDisplayExtraStyle hidden preference.
Added ReportUpdatesWhenEditorActivates hidden preference.
Cut/Copy to Named Clipboard action waits until the clipboard changes.
Use Notification Center instead of Growl for most notifications.
Added hidden preferences to control Notification Center displays.
Limit clipboard flavor sizes to 10MB (with hidden preference).
Play various sounds as System Sounds so they honour the "Play sound effects" preference.
Added accessibility support to Application and Window Switchers.
Changed Conflict Palette to prefer alphabetical hot keys including digits over index hot keys.
Changed MOD/AND/OR/etc to take precedence over variable names so Variable MOD Variable works.
Bug Fixes:
Fixed spelling of height in Get Image Size action.
Fixed a possible race condition with "one action" macro palettes.
Fixed a case where the "Must be unique" checkbox could be difficult to click.
Restrict split view resizing to clicks that are near the divider.
Corrected TRIGGERTIME() to be relative to 1970 epoch.
Support lowercase pi character in calculations.
Issues with shifted characters in emulators/remote desktops might be resolved.
Handle surrogate pairs in non-edit/HTML displays.
Fixed Macro Group Disabled/Enabled display toggle when many toggles happen quickly.
Fixed a potential crash when looking for buttons in applications with poor accessibility support.
Fixed an issue where the Execute Macro action could refuse to set the macro.
Fixed flashing focus ring for text views.
Fixed a possible crash when setting a hot key.
Fixed %Screen%Front%, %Screen�ck%, %Screen�ck2%, %Screen%Mouse%.

New in Keyboard Maestro 6.4.8 (Jan 13, 2015)

New in Keyboard Maestro 6.4.8 Beta 5 (Jan 12, 2015)

New in Keyboard Maestro 6.4.8 Beta 4 (Jan 3, 2015)

New in Keyboard Maestro 6.4.8 Beta 3 (Dec 30, 2014)

New in Keyboard Maestro 6.4.8 Beta 2 (Dec 29, 2014)

New in Keyboard Maestro 6.4.8 Beta 1 (Dec 18, 2014)

New in Keyboard Maestro 6.4.7 (Sep 5, 2014)

New in Keyboard Maestro 6.4.6 (Jul 31, 2014)

New in Keyboard Maestro 6.4.5 (Jul 23, 2014)

New in Keyboard Maestro 6.4.4 (Jul 23, 2014)

New in Keyboard Maestro 6.4.3 (Jun 3, 2014)

New in Keyboard Maestro 6.4.2 (Jun 3, 2014)

New in Keyboard Maestro 6.4.1 (Apr 16, 2014)

New in Keyboard Maestro 6.4 (Mar 26, 2014)

Added support for Mavericks Tags.
Added Get File Attribute: Tags. Mavericks only.
Added Set File Attribute: Tags (set, add, toggle, or remove). Mavericks only.
Added Semaphore Lock/Unlock actions.
Added Asynchronous option to Execute Macro
Added Asynchronous option to Execute Shell Script, AppleScript and JavaScript.
Improved VoiceOver support for lists and buttons.
Improved accessibility support.
Added speech rate to the Speak Text action.
Added importMacros AppleScript command.
Added deleteMacro and deleteMacroGroup AppleScript commands.
Added Tab to the hot key/simulate keystroke popup menus.
Added %ExecutingMacroUID% token.
Added Mouse, Front, Back, Back2 options to the SCREEN function.
Added TRIGGERTIME() function.
Added GMTOFFSET() function.
Added �dressBook%Note% text token.
Added SimulateKeystrokeDeadKeyDelay private preference.
Added various Cancel action varieties to the action selector.
Adjusted Typed String trigger to make diacritical sensitivity independent of case sensitivity.
SCREENSAVER() returns true if screen is locked.
Set �tionResult% on timeout failures.
Allow selection of .xpc applications.
Changed Keychain access to use direct code instead of security utility.
Fixed a crash when evaluating expressions of the form "("
Stop clicks while deferred selection change pending, perhaps fix editor crashes.
Fixed "Any Application" launch/quit trigger to only include foreground apps.
Added macro/action to Macro Cancelled message.
Add Help menu items for Regular Expression and ICU Date Time reference.
Fixed a potential crash in the window switcher setup.
Fixed a potential crash then launching shell scripts.
Fixed a potential crash finding buttons with bogus accessibility information.
Fixed a memory leak in the image finding code.
Fixed a potential crash showing the contact sheet.
Fixed issue where time triggers would not fire if any changes were made within 30 seconds before the scheduled time.
Fixed an issue with continuous timer triggering during daylight savings change over.
Fixed a potential crash with action editors.
Adjusted a few names in the action selector.
Fixed Accessibility Alert display in Mountain Lion.
Worked around a potential crash in the system preferences settings.
Fixed an issue with non-edit display of Repeat actions.
Fixed an issue with non-integral sized images (seriously!).
Fixed an issue with shell scripts that waited for stdin input.
Offer Getting Started emails even to registered users.
Stop Time Saved for automatic (from editor) actions.
Conflict Palette correctly highlights selection characters for macro names with sorting codes.
Forcefully disabled dash and quote substitution in Insert Text and Scripts action editors.
Word count treats contracted (eg I've) words as a single word.
Resolved a problem typing some characters on some keyboards (eg ` on Swiss German keyboards).
Resolved a problem with double clicking in the Finder.
Resolve a problem with repeating triggers and Show Status Menu.
Pause action merges together when recording pauses.

New in Keyboard Maestro 6.3 (Nov 13, 2013)

Changes:
Added Typed String trigger "Diacriticals do not matter" option.
Add Typed String Trigger "regular expression match".
Add Typed String Trigger "only after word break" option.
Typed String simulates deletes before displaying the conflict palette.
Added TypedStringClearTime private preference (default 5 seconds).
Added TypedStringClearWithShiftSpace private preference (default on).
Typed String triggers do not clear the Typed String buffers (simulated characters do).
Added Clear Typed String Buffer action
Added Crash Reporter.
Added Substrings In collection.
Merged Lines In collections.
Added Lines In Named Clipboard collection.
Added �tionResult% token.
Removed Press Button Result, Mouse Click Result, Select Menu Result variables.
Added %Trigger%, %TriggerBase%, %TriggerValue% tokens.
Removed USB Device Name, Mounted Volume Name variables.
Added delay before and after dragging in the drag mouse action.
Vastly improved performance of actions that write named clipboard entries.
Changed various informative alert sheets to use notifications instead.
Highlight errors in calculations in more places.
Added option to Fix Finder Selection Bug in appropriate collections and actions.
Added support for separators (-) in Prompt For User Input popup menus.
Added support for code_display formatted menu items in Prompt For User Input popup menus.
Use minus sign (-) instead of no entry sign (\) for Delete.
Periodically trim log files.
Added URL for keyboardmaestro://m=Activate Application Switcher
Added URL for keyboardmaestro://q=Activate
Added URL for keyboardmaestro://g=All Macros/q=Activate
Added URL for keyboardmaestro://a=Execute
Added URL for keyboardmaestro://c=All Actions/a=Execute
Hold Command key while pasting to toggle Close On Action in Clipboard Switchers.
Added support for displaying time saved in Days, Months or Years.
Added SYSTEMVOLUME() function.
Only force setting the Find Pasteboard if it actually changes value.
Added support for option-arrow keys in switcher grid view.
Allow more use of shortcut letters in switchers with non-English keyboards.
Added warning to Status Menu if Accessibility is disabled for Engine.
Reduced apparent Energy impact by reducing polling for clipboard changed.
Added getall option to gethotkeys AppleScript engine command.
Bug fixes:
Use a more modern method to simulate hardware keys which should resolve the Volume Control action issues.
Wireless triggers would fire even if the macro was disabled or inactive.
Save empty calculations even though they are invalid.
Fixed Substring action when source and dest are different named clipboards.
Fixed an issue with MIDI notes and non-zero channels.
Removed Text Suite from AppleScript dictionary.
Mouse Drag locked the engine up while dragging.
Fixed potential crash when when Open/Close CDROM action fails.
Screen image highlighting worked only on one screen in Mavericks.
Fixed SCREEN(Internal,coord) and SCREEN(External,coord).

New in Keyboard Maestro 6.0.1 (Jun 7, 2013)

New in Keyboard Maestro 6.0 (May 24, 2013)

Major Changes:
Requires Mac OS X 10.8.
Macro Syncing - share your macros across multiple Macs.
Plug In Actions - use or write new actions.
Full support for Styled Text and Named Clipboards.
Support for controlling Safari and Google Chrome web pages.
Trigger Macros by Name - trigger any active macro from a single key.
Fantastic new icons from Iconaholic.
Customizable macro icons and a new Icon Chooser and creator.
Macro Debugger allows stepping through macros.
Retina Happy Graphics.
New Triggers:
USB Device is attached or detached.
Wireless Network is connected or disconnected.
Volume is mounted or unmounted.
At Engine Launch.
New Actions:
Plug In Actions - write your own!
Show a Menu.
Search Variable or (Named) Clipboard and capture components of regular expressions.
Get Substring from Variable or (Named) Clipboard.
Activate macro groups including showing as a palette.
Copy (Named) Clipboard to (Named) Clipboard.
Display notification in the Mountain Lion notification center.
Set Variable to Keychain Password and Set Keychain Password to Text.
Stop Screen Saver.
Sleep and Wake Screens.
Set Network Location.
Set Find Pasteboard.
Lots of new Debugger actions:
Start or Finish Debugging.
Control whether new macros start Paused or Running.
Breakpoint or Continue this macro or all macros.
Breakpoint, Continue, Step Into, Out or Over other macros.
Toggle Global Macro Palette.
Clipboards & Styled Text:
Apply Styles (Font, Colors, Underlines, etc) to (Named) Clipboard.
Search & Replace Clipboard preserves styles.
Filter Clipboard preserves styles.
Text Tokens preserves styles (particularly the clipboard tokens).
Named Clipboards preference pane allows editing styled text or setting images.
Extend Set (Named) Clipboard to Text to support styled text.
Extend Insert Text to support pasting styled text.
Extend Write File to support writing styled text.
Extend Display Text to support styled text.
Extend Composite Image to support styled text.
Extend Set Clipboard to Text to allow specifying Named Clipboards.
Extend Set Clipboard to Past Clipboard to allow specifying Named Clipboards.
Extend Search & Replace Clipboard to allow specifying Named Clipboards.
Extend Filter Clipboard to allow specifying Named Clipboards.
Extend Apply Text Factory to allow specifying Named Clipboards.
Safari and Google Chrome Actions:
New Window with URL.
New Tab with URL.
Next Tab, Previous Tab, Select Tab.
Set URL, Set Title.
Wait to Finish Loading.
Click Link.
Get/Set Fields.
Submit or Reset a Form.
Focus or Select a Field.
Execute JavaScript.
New text tokens %SafariTitle%, %SafariURL%, %SafariReadyState%, %SafariField%, %SafariJavaScript%.
New text tokens %ChromeTitle%, %ChromeURL%, %ChromeReadyState%, %ChromeField%, %ChromeJavaScript%.
New functions SAFARITABINDEX(), SAFARITABCOUNT(), SAFARIISCOMPLETE().
New functions CHROMETABINDEX(), CHROMETABCOUNT(), CHROMEISCOMPLETE().
Preferences:
Extend Named Clipboards preference pane to allow editing.
Added Variables pane to Preferences, including editing.
Added selectable and contributable status menu icons.
Editor & UI:
Added Sort by Macro Modification.
Added Sort by Macro Execution.
Macros and Macro Groups can now have custom icons.
Status Menu lists and allows you to cancel running macros.
Added Duplicate command for Macro Groups.
Detect and report when the system is stuck in Secure Input mode.
Added a Set Time Out button at the bottom of the macro editor.
Copy as Image and Copy as Text for macros and actions (and contextual menu).
Enhanced the non-edit display to show full details of actions.
Enhance the conflict palette to allow selecting with letter keys.
Added ISO Section, JIS Yen, Underscore, Key Pad Comma, Eisu and Kana to hot key popup menu.
Hold down shift while pasting from the clipboard switchers to paste as plain text.
Don't expand calculation fields just because they are negative.
Option click on the Macro Group Palette Keyboard Maestro icon to edit the macro group.
Adjusted the size of application icons in menus to 16x16.
Improved the look of the macro group activation toggle display.
Left/Right Arrows disclose/close actions. Option-Left/Right applies to all actions in that list.
Remember the location of the conflict palette.
Recorded clicks can be adjusted to any corner of the main screen or front window after recording.
Added recording count down before starting recording.
Added a Pause button to the recording window.
Added an Insert 1 Second Pause button to the recording window.
Record mouse drags.
Record mouse right, centre and other button clicks.
Added "Or by Ruby script" to script trigger examples.
Added "Or by script" to Quick Macro action.
Added Expand/Collapse Action and Expand/Collapse All Actions menu items.
Remember activation of macro group palettes across changes of applications.
Changed View -> Edit menu to Start/Stop Editing Macros.
Triggers:
Allow non-ASCII characters in typed string triggers.
Command or Control keys, or shift-space cancels a typed string trigger.
Allow delete and correct in typed string triggers.
Allow While Logged in Trigger to trigger ever second (previously the minimum was 3 seconds).
Actions:
Better text insertion of non-ASCII characters with dead keys.
Extend Resize Image to support Resize to Fit option.
Enhanced Manipulate Window action to allow specifying an application.
Extended Execute Script to allow storing the output to (Named) Clipboard.
Extended Set Variable to Calculation to allow custom number formatting.
Enhanced Screen Image condition to allow "contains uniquely" and "does not contain uniquely".
Enhanced performance of finding an image on the screen by 2 to 20 times.
Added ability to visually see images found on the screen.
Added option in Activate Application to control whether all windows are activated.
Add Move & Resize option to Manipulate Window.
Add defaults options to Move & Resize Window for Left/Right column, etc.
Added default text setting for Search Web action.
If Prompt For User Input field starts with a | then token expansion happens before separator parsing.
Support text token expansion in iTunes and QuickTime Player controls.
Added Minimize and Unminimize to Manipulate Window.
Added Select Menu Result, Mouse Click Result and Press Button Result variables to report results.
Text Tokens:
New text token %|% allows you to position the cursor after insertion.
New text token %ICUDateTimeFor%.
New text token %WirelessNetwork%.
New text token %MacUUID% to identify this Mac.
Added Main,Second,Third,Internal,External as special screen indexes for %Screen%.
Support adding months or years in the ICUDateTimePlus/Minus token.
Calculation Functions:
Added Main,Second,Third,Internal,External as special screen indexes for SCREEN().
Added . notation for accessing point/rectangle coordinates (eg Screen1.width).
Added Context Sensitive Calculation Functions:
IMAGE(Width|Height) - the action image size.
SOURCEIMAGE(Width|Height) - the action source image size.
WINDOW(Left|Right|Top|Bottom|Width|Height|MidX|MidY) - the action window coordinates.
LENGTH() - the action text length.
FONTSIZE() - the original font size during the Apply Style action.
Added an optional percentage offset to the coordinate functions, eg SCREEN(External,Left,52%).
Added CLIPBOARDSEED() function which changes when the clipboard does.
Allow Em or En dash or Unicode Minus symbol as synonyms for minus in calculations.
Conditions:
Added USB Device Condition to test for the existence of specific devices.
Added Wireless Network Condition to test for connections to specific networks.
Added Text Condition.
Enhanced Menu condition to test for marked (checked) menus.
Enhanced Button condition to test for checkbox states.
Enhanced Front Window condition to test non-front applications.
Collections:
Added the ability to count downwards in the Range collection.
In Detail:
Removed the ability of the AppleScript process tokens command to leak Password/PW variables.
Added com.adobe.illustrator.hfs to the excluded clipboard flavour list.
Removed default 0.01 delay between adding keys to the event queue.
Reduced the overhead of Pause Until.
Added option to disable a macro group on just this Mac.
Added "reload" AppleScript command to the editor.
Consider a focussed sheet to be the front window for window indexing purposes.
Technical:
Requires Mac OS X 10.8+
64-bit only with Automatic Reference Counting.
Web Server is built into Keyboard Maestro Engine.
Bug Fixes:
Capslock disabled the Command-Tab Keyboard Maestro application switcher.
Worked around an issue where Safari copies non-text data.
Move Mouse, with Restore Mouse Location checked but hidden, does nothing.
Added code to remove "safe save" .dat files from preferences folder.
Fixed issue if Application Switcher is triggered with just the shift key as a modifier.
Fixed Switch to Next Application erroneous timeout abort.
Fixed the power calculation (x^y).
Fixed the ternary calculation (x?y:z).
Fixed sorting characters showing up in macro group palette titles.
Fixed a potential crash involving windows without titles.
Fixed finding an image on the screen on Retina screens.

New in Keyboard Maestro 5.3.2 (Jul 30, 2012)

New in Keyboard Maestro 5.3.1 (Jul 9, 2012)

New in Keyboard Maestro 5.3 (May 22, 2012)

New in Keyboard Maestro 5.2 (Apr 19, 2012)

Compatibility Note: Tokens being parsed in some actions may mean single percents now need to be doubled (%%)
Compatibility Note: Tokens now parse for \x characters, so the backslash may need to be doubled (\\)
New File actions:
New Folder.
Move (or rename) a file or folder.
Copy a file or folder.
Duplicate a file or folder.
Trash a file or folder.
Delete a file.
Delete a file or directory (recursively).
Read a file to a variable or to the clipboard (can be an image or styled text).
Write to a file from a variable or the clipboard (can be an image or styled text).
Get/Set File Attributes.
New Filters:
Last Path Component
Delete Last Path Component
Path Extension
Delete Path Extension
Base Name
Expand Tilde In Path
Abbreviate With Tilde In Path
Resolve Symlinks
Standardize Path
New Tokens:
%WindowFrame%n% (and WindowPosition, WindowSize) token.
%WindowName%n% token.
%Application%n% token.
%NetworkLocation% token.
%ICUDateTimePlus% token for displaying offseted formatted (eg now + 3 days).
%LineFeed%, %Return%, %Tab%, %Space% tokens.
\a,\b,\e,\f,\t,\r,\n characters.
%NN% or %NNNN% tokens for arbitrary hex unicode characters.
New Calculation functions:
MOUSEX, MOUSEY, MOUSEBUTTON( n ) - mouse coordinates and button states.
SCREEN( n, Left|Right|Top|Bottom|Width|Height ) - screen frame coordinates.
WINDOW( n, Left|Right|Top|Bottom|Width|Height ) - window frame coordinates.
SCREENCOUNT - the number of screens (displays).
WINDOWCOUNT - the number of windows in the front application.
IDLE - the number of (fractional) seconds the Mac has been idle.
MILLISECONDS (or MILLS or MS) - fractional milliseconds since startup.
SECONDS - fractional seconds since startup.
TIME - return (unix) time in seconds since 1970.
JD, MJD, and TIME enhanced to allow specifying year,minth.day,hour,minute,second.
TIME2JD, TIME2MJD, JD2TIME, JD2MJD, MJD2TIME, MJD2JD conversion functions.
YEAR, MONTH, DAY, DOW, HOUR, MINUTE, SECOND functions which take a unix time in seconds since 1970.
APPLICATIONS function that returns the number of running applications.
ONLINE function returns whether the Mac is currently connected to the Internet.
BATTERY function returns whether the Mac is currently running off battery power.
SCREENSAVER function returns whether the Mac is currently displaying the screen saver (or the display is off).
Added Edit -> Insert Token menu.
Added Edit -> Insert Function menu.
Tokens with numbers in them can now be calculations (eg %WindowFrame%3+4%)
Improved code signing for Snow Leopard.
Added option click on the File Reference buttons to reveal the target file in the Finder.
Allow dragging of files/folders to file reference buttons.
Fixed the Open URL action to actually allow tokens in the URL.
Fixed a potential crashing bug precachine application icons (particularly prevelent in Mountain Lion)
Fixed an issue with repeating triggers on daylight saving days with more than 24 hours.
Avoid com.adobe.illustrator.aicb clipboard flavor to prevent issues with Adobe Illustrator.
Fixed a bug in window placement when moving windows back on the screen.
Fixed a potential crash with the MIDI action editor.

New in Keyboard Maestro 5.1 (Mar 20, 2012)

New in Keyboard Maestro 5.0.3 (Oct 12, 2011)

New in Keyboard Maestro 5.0.1 (Jul 19, 2011)

New in Keyboard Maestro 5.0 (Jul 4, 2011)

Requires 10.6 and Intel.
Control Flow - Pause Until, If/Then/Else, While, Until and Repeat with extensive conditional tests.
Variables - permanently stored and accessible in a variety of ways.
Calculations - based on variables or a variety of functions.
Macro Library built in with ready-to-use macros.
Undo/Redo - finally!
Enhanced Application Switcher with Cover Flow, Force Quit, Get Info and Reveal.
Enhanced Window Switcher with Cover Flow of Applications and window depth sorting.
Enhanced Clipboard History with Favorites, Quick Look and Send clipboard to another Mac.
Application Launcher.
Control Flow & Variables & Calculations:
New Control Flow actions Pause Until, If/Then/Else, While, Until and Repeat.
Extensive conditional tests (Application, Window, Menu, Button, Modifiers, and many more).
Permanently stored variables containing text, or arrays of numbers.
Prompt For User Input action (with text, passwords, popup menus and checkboxes).
Most action fields can contain calculations (e.g. Pause 60*Time in Minutes).
Set Variable to Text action with tokens.
Set Variable to Calculation action (with array access).
Search & Replace Variable action (with regex and tokens).
Use Variable action to adjust mouse, windows, applications, and more.
Filter Variable action.
Enhanced Clipboards:
Added Quick Look to Clipboard History and Named Clipboard Switchers.
Added Favorites to Clipboard History.
Send Clipboard to other Macs (appears in clipboard history, ready for access).
Delete Past Clipboard action.
Search & Replace Clipboard action (with regex and tokens).
General Improvements:
Favorites category in action list.
Configurable timeouts for individual actions.
Macro Revisions.
Applications listed in Status Menu.
Use regular expressions in menu or button name matching by prefixing with ^.
Typed String triggers can ignore case or remember case.
Insert Text actions can honour case of remember case Typed String triggers.
Allow triggering on "any" application activations, launches or quits.
New and Improved Actions:
Set Macro Enable action.
Speak Text action.
Play Sound action.
Action to display text.
Show/Hide the global macros palette action.
Manipulate Window action can now operate on window with index N.
Manipulate Window action can now center a window at any point.
Generalized Search Web action to allow any URL.
Added Relaunch & Force Quit options to Quit action.
Added "Current Application" option to Quit action.
Open Finder Selection action optionally with a specific application.
Added "with specific application" to Open File or Folder action.
Added "with specific application" to Open URL action.
New Text Tokens:
Token for variables.
Token for Named Clipboards.
Tokens for Current Track name, album, artist, ratingstars, etc.
Tokens for Current Application, Current Mouse, and Front Window details.
Tokens for Screen Frame and System Volume.
Tokens for Address Book Name, Email, etc.
Tokens for Executing Macro and Macro Group name.
Enhanced Scripting:
Variables can be accessed or written via AppleScript.
Variables are available to Shell Scripts.
Execute Script can store results in a variable.
Support for AppleScript command to calculate expressions.
Support for AppleScript command to process tokens.
AppleScript command to reload the macros in the Keyboard Maestro Engine.
AppleScript command to play sounds.
Enhanced Application & Window Switcher & Application Launcher:
Added new Application Launcher.
Applications listed in Status Menu (Running, Recent, Applications, Utilities).
Added Force Quit (press k twice).
Added Get Info (press i).
Added Reveal in Finder (press r).
Added Relaunch (press l). E.g. press k k l to Force Quit & Relaunch.
New icon badges.
Mouse Rollover limited to when you change icons.
Popup contextual menu in Application Switcher & Window Switcher.
Option to disable mouse rollover in Application Switcher & Window Switcher.
Control the opacity of Application Switcher & Window Switcher.
Option to have Window Switcher sort by window depth.
Allow switching through applications in Window Switcher.
Added Cover Flow style to Application Switcher.
Changed to using an alpha colour, removed the alpha slider, and now honours the brightness.
Command-Option-Control-Shift-Click on Status Menu icon to cancel all macros.
Removed support for Zonic KRM - online purchases only now.
Private preference (DisableAnimation) to disable all animations.
Private preference (FavoritesDisplayName) to adjust spelling of Favorites.
Support org.nspasteboard.TransientType (et al) and have the clipboard history ignore them.
Support org.nspasteboard.AutoGeneratedType for Insert Text by Pasting.
Named Clipboard popup New Clipboard leaves the user editing the name.
Up/Down arrow moves the clipboard selection when clipboard switcher search field is selected.
Enable/Disable button is properly disabled for Global Macro Group.
Command-W closes palettes.
The Recording window preserves its location.
Import menu is properly grayed out only when it should be.
Removed the Key Repeat preference from Application/Window Switcher.
Multiple Quick Macros would conflict because UIDs were not unique.
Searching for Cut, Copy or Paste in the Action list would not find the actions.
The number pad keys can now select duplicate macros from the duplicate macro palette.

New in Keyboard Maestro 4.3.2 (Aug 16, 2010)

New in Keyboard Maestro 4.3.1 (Aug 16, 2010)

New in Keyboard Maestro 4.3 (May 7, 2010)

New in Keyboard Maestro 4.2 (Mar 30, 2010)

New in Keyboard Maestro 4.1.1 (Mar 3, 2010)

New in Keyboard Maestro 4.1 (Feb 22, 2010)

New in Keyboard Maestro 4.0.2 (Jan 28, 2010)

New in Keyboard Maestro 4.0.1 (Dec 22, 2009)

New in Keyboard Maestro 4.0 (Dec 8, 2009)

New in Keyboard Maestro 3.5 (Dec 9, 2008)

New in Keyboard Maestro 3.4 (Aug 19, 2008)

New in Keyboard Maestro 3.3 (Jul 15, 2008)

New in Keyboard Maestro 3.2 (Jun 25, 2008)

New in Keyboard Maestro 3.1 (May 30, 2008)

Clipboard History Switcher - never lose your clipboard again.
Added actions for setting the clipboard to: specific text including tokens like current date. Named Clipboard. Past clipboards from the Clipboard History.
Added an action to save the clipboard to a Named Clipboard.
Added clipboard filters: Remove Styles; Set line endings to Mac, Unix or Windows/DOS; Change case (Uppercase, Lowercase, Capitalize and John Gruber�s Title Case); Trim Whitespace or Wrap or Unwrap text; Change quotes to Smart, Dumb or French; Encode and decode HTML entities; Zap control characters; Count characters, words or lines.
Added an action for applying BBEdit Text Factories to the current clipboard.
Clipboard Switcher windows can be moved and resized and can stay open if desired.
Manipulate Window can now center the window on its current screen.
Pause can now pause for fractional seconds (eg 0.75).
Insert Text can now insert via typing simulated keystrokes.
Keyboard Maestro Engine�s do script now supports executing any action based on its XML code.
do script now waits for the action to finish before completing.
You can ask Keyboard Maestro Engine if it is currently executing any macro.
The system clipboard is no longer restored after actions that set it (such as Insert Text via Paste or Use Named Clipboard). This avoids race conditions related to when the system clipboard is restored. However, you can restore the system clipboard with the Set Clipboard To Past Clipboard action or use the Clipboard History Switcher to choose any past clipboard.
Fixed crash with %CurrentClipboard% token.
Disabled macros no longer conflict with new macro hot keys.
Fixed a bug where the recorded click could be relative to the wrong sheet.
Move "Check For Updates" to Keyboard Maestro menu.
You can set the macro palette icon size with defaults write com.stairways.keyboardmaestro.engine macroPalette IconSize -int N
Open Third Party Licenses folder from Help menu.
Fixed bug in Time Trigger minute display.
Defer Clipboard Switcher Copy/Cut until clipboard selection is made.
Clicking on the paste clipboard window will re-focus it.
Delete excluded application did not save change.
AppleScript result display was not Unicode-savvy.
Fixed a potetial crash in with Execute AppleScript.
Fixed an issue with time triggers and sleep.

New in Keyboard Maestro 3.0.1 (Apr 18, 2008)

New in Keyboard Maestro 3.0 (Apr 8, 2008)

Recording - create macros by recording what you do
Record Quick Macros - record and replay without changing applications
Enable and disable macros and macro groups
Try macros and individual actions as you create them
New PC Switcher Pack from Rakesh Kumar
Via AppleScript do script
Via built in web server
Using any hot key (eg unmodified A)
Execute inline Unix script text
Execute inline AppleScript text
Unix and AppleScripts can display their results briefly
Execute Automator Workflows
Log Out action
Activate the Program, Window or Clipboard switchers
Record Quick Macros
Direct support for inserting extended (ICU) date formats
Horizontal Scroll Wheel support
Manipulate Window resize smaller or to a specific size
Streamlined main window
Streamlined macro editor window
Automatic (sparklish) updating
Exported macros include group information
Cleaned up and/or simplified pretty much every action and trigger editor
Running Applications are shown in popup menus rather than requiring disk navigation
Display an approximation of the time saved
Spruced up the switcher windows, including adding program switcher icon grid view
Cute little square buttons
Added rename buttons for those who can�t figure out how to rename
Added video tutorials to the documentation
All HIView goodness
Dropped support for PowerMate
Dropped support for version 1 preference files
Dropped support for Classic processes
Dropped support for 10.3
Window/Program/Clipboard Switchers are now activated as any other macro
Hot keys shown without the dash (ie, ^J not ^-J)
Improved display of hot keys with longer and more key names
Fixed up keyboard focus
gethotkeys AppleEvent to return current active hot key macros
Move preferences to a subfolder
Switched to extensible property lists for preference and macro files
Improved some icons (thanks Opacity!)
Remove and reduce many artificial delays
Add extra default macros for Quick Macro support
Add Check for Update in Help menu
New clipboards created with good default name
Macro Palette displays in all spaces
Add actions after selection
Improve macro deletion messages
Set default clipboard text
Window switcher no longer brings window to the front just to close it
Double click, return, and button to rename
Display Number Pad hot keys
Display stderr from executed shell scripts
Support all AppleScript formats
Disable Hot Keys before simulating keys
Improved Press Button ability to find buttons
Warn about missing access for assistive devices