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MAL Updater OS X Changelog

What's new in MAL Updater OS X 2.4.5

May 16, 2018
  • Bug Fixes and Enhancements:
  • Fixed episode field validation
  • Updated Donation Key validation so it doesn't require an internet connection.

New in MAL Updater OS X 2.4.4 (May 6, 2018)

  • Bug Fixes and Enhancements:
  • Improve title recognition
  • Replaced icons, some by Icons8
  • Fixed Title Recognition for longer titles. Limit the title to 50 chars so the search API won't break.
  • Remove EasyNSURLConnection dependency.
  • Known Issues:
  • MAL Updater OS X does not set the start and end date since those fields are not implemented in the new API yet.

New in MAL Updater OS X 2.4.3 (Apr 3, 2018)

  • This release fixes some potential crashes with the Correction dialog and improves Plex Media Server detection.
  • This version was rereleased due to a deallocation bug. The build number for this version is 20180403
  • Now you can remove the donation reminder, restrictions and unlock features with a donation key. You can get a key by donating. If you have donated already, you can retrieve your key here.
  • This version requires El Capitan or later and is compatible with High Sierra.
  • Bug Fixes and Enhancements:
  • Fix potential crashes with the Correction due to it being deallocated and on some Macs, cause the program to crash.
  • Fixed episode field validation
  • Improved Plex Media Server detection to work with newer versions of Plex Media Server.

New in MAL Updater OS X 2.3.8 (Dec 1, 2017)

  • Bug Fixes and Enhancements:
  • Fix crashes when Plex Media Detection is turned on with a media file having more than one session
  • Fix crash when correcting a title
  • Fix crash when user views About dialog in macOS 10.11 or earlier.
  • Update API URLs and homepage urls

New in MAL Updater OS X 2.3.7.2 (Nov 21, 2017)

  • New Features:
  • Add IP support for Plex Media Server.
  • Add ability to add start and end dates automatically
  • Bug Fixes and Enhancements:
  • El Capitan and Yosemite compatibility is now fixed.
  • Fix crash when a title does not have a poster image
  • Improve title recognition with titles that indicate a season.
  • Improve detection of seasons.
  • Improve auto exceptions.
  • Fix VLC detection.
  • Remove Daisuki detection support since service has been discontinued.
  • Fix crash where a Ping attempt causes the program to crash.

New in MAL Updater OS X 2.3.5.3 (Jul 11, 2017)

  • Bug Fixes and Enhancements:
  • Add additional account checks before scrobbling. These checks are done every 24 hours.
  • Fix the Reauth button in the Login Preferences

New in MAL Updater OS X 2.3.5.2 (Jul 11, 2017)

  • Bug Fixes and Enhancements:
  • Do account verification on the client side
  • Fix correction/detection of OVA or Special titles with no episode number.

New in MAL Updater OS X 2.3.5.1 (Jun 27, 2017)

  • New Features:
  • Hidive and VRV.co stream detection support
  • Bug Fixes and Enhancements:
  • Fix a bug with the share menu not showing up after title correction on first update

New in MAL Updater OS X 2.3.5 (Jun 26, 2017)

  • New Features:
  • NicePlayer detection and improved player detection.
  • Ability to now ignore mplayer based players on a player basis (MPlayer OSX Extended, SMPlayerX, MPlayerX, etc)
  • Support for mplayer2 detection
  • Bug Fixes and Enhancements:
  • Improved recognition of titles (use offical MAL Search API instead)
  • Improved detection (ability to specify new players easily)
  • Fix crashes when there is no favorited count for a given title
  • MAL Updater OS X now resets it's state when an account is removed (reset last scrobbled title and now playing)
  • Various improvements

New in MAL Updater OS X 2.3.3 (Apr 20, 2017)

  • New Features:
  • Add option to show correction dialog when a title is not found
  • Bug Fixes and Enhancements:
  • Fix various crashes
  • Fix detection for Streamlinkdetect where escaped html characters are not unescaped.
  • Changed Regular Expressions Library o CocoaOniguruma
  • Fix bug where opening the preferences window causes the program to freeze if an AFP share is offline while checking if MAL Updater OS X in the startup items.

New in MAL Updater OS X 2.3.2 (Apr 10, 2017)

  • Bug Fixes and Enhancements:
  • Fix Open Stream and Update Feature if a custom player is specified in the streamlink config
  • Fix bug where a program crashes when Auto Exceptions is updated
  • Fix crash when an the scrobbler is finding a ID of a title.
  • Stream detection helper program will no longer crash when it can't receive information about a tab and will continue to check other tabs and browsers.

New in MAL Updater OS X 2.3.1 (Apr 1, 2017)

  • New Features:
  • Added automated installer for streamlink
  • Detection of streamlink streams that are currently open.
  • Bug Fixes and Enhancements:
  • Fix crashing bug where auto exceptions and manual exceptions cause the program to crash
  • Fix the correction dialog if a user selects a title with no total episodes
  • Open stream dialog should select the best stream quality by default

New in MAL Updater OS X 2.3 (Mar 27, 2017)

  • New Features:
  • IINA and VLCX player support
  • Ability to change Auto Scrobble timer interval.
  • Ability to queue updates while you are offline and scrobble these queued items when online.
  • Improved detection for Episode 0 specials
  • Ability to enable the weekly experimental builds channel, if you have a donation key registered.
  • Viewster stream detection now works.
  • Netflix and Funimation stream detection now works in Google Chrome
  • Added Open Stream and Update support for Streamlink
  • Fixes and Enhancements:
  • Modal alert boxes will now show as sheet windows
  • Improved Plex Stream Detection
  • Fix Funimation stream detection
  • Code immprovements and updated frameworks
  • Fix crash when Kitsu search is enabled.
  • Changed the timer mechanism to reduce number of CPU wakes and power usage on portable Macintosh computers
  • Improved Kodi/Plex Detection so there is no delay if the host is not up.
  • Code Improvements and removing some deprecated functions.

New in MAL Updater OS X 2.3 Update 3 (Mar 24, 2017)

  • New Features:
  • VLCX player support
  • Ability to change Auto Scrobble timer interval.
  • Fixes and Enhancements:
  • Modal alert boxes will now show as sheet windows
  • Improved Plex Stream Detection
  • Code immprovements and updated frameworks
  • Fix some crashing issues.

New in MAL Updater OS X 2.3 Update 1 (Jan 21, 2017)

  • New Features:
  • Ability to queue updates while you are offline and scrobble these queued items when online.
  • Improved detection for Episode 0 specials
  • Ability to enable the weekly experimental builds channel, if you have a donation key registered.
  • Fixes and Enhancements:
  • Auto Exception improvements and the URL containing that data moved to a new location.

New in MAL Updater OS X 2.2.13 (Jan 21, 2017)

  • New Features:
  • Ability to remove the donation reminder with a donation key
  • Fixes and Enhancements:
  • Fixed the status item icon so it appears correctly.

New in MAL Updater OS X 2.2.12.1 (Nov 5, 2016)

  • Fix Viz stream detection.

New in MAL Updater OS X 2.2.12 (Sep 6, 2016)

  • Fixes and Enhancements:
  • Add proper detection support for chaptered MKV files
  • Fixed Crunchyroll detection
  • Saving credentials to Keychain (logging in) now works on OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion)
  • Move Application dialog will no longer show up in macOS Sierra due to changes with Gatekeeper.
  • Update Appcast URL to new location

New in MAL Updater OS X 2.2.11 (Jul 1, 2016)

  • New features:
  • MyAnimeList Stream Detection Support
  • Fixes and enhancements
  • Atarashii API 2.1 Search API is now used for title recognition
  • Add Google Chrome Canary and Chromium Stream Detection Support

New in MAL Updater OS X 2.2.10 (Apr 17, 2016)

  • New Features:
  • Added support for Beamer and Squire.
  • Added support for MAL Updater OS X to use Hummingbird.me search API for improved title recognition.
  • Fixes and Enhancements:
  • UI Fixes in the Exceptions Preferences

New in MAL Updater OS X 2.2.9 (Apr 2, 2016)

  • This build adds Safari Technology Preview support for stream detection, improves title detection and updates frameworks.
  • New Features:
  • Safari Technology Preview support has been added for stream detection
  • Fixes and Enhancements:
  • Anitomy updated to latest source code
  • Updated Sparkle Framework
  • Appcast now uses HTTPs officially instead of redirecting to the HTTPs version
  • Fix crash when the Atarashii-api does not return the synopsis due to layout changes on MyAnimeList
  • Use string score comparing to improve detection accuracy

New in MAL Updater OS X 2.2.8.1 (Jan 10, 2016)

  • Fixes and Enhancements:
  • Fix potential crash if detect stream happens to crash.
  • Fix issue with MAL Updater OS X crashing with titles that do not have a total episode count with the latest version of Atarashii-api

New in MAL Updater OS X 2.2.8 (Nov 28, 2015)

  • Note: MAL Updater OS X is now Developer ID signed. It's no longer required to disable Gatekeeper. Also, you need to login as the user account information is now stored in the Keychain.
  • New Features:
  • Funimation Support has been added (All browsers excluding Chrome)
  • Enhancements and bug fixes:
  • Username and password is now stored in the Login Keychain
  • OS X 10.10 El Capitan Compatibility
  • Updated Anitomy Framework

New in MAL Updater OS X 2.2.7.1 (Aug 31, 2015)

  • New Features:
  • MAL Updater OS X is now Developer ID Signed
  • Enhancements and bug fixes:
  • Fix issue where you can't create ignore rules for Viewster

New in MAL Updater OS X 2.2.7 (Aug 17, 2015)

  • New Features:
  • Viewster Support (Beta)
  • AppleScripting support
  • Enhancements and bug fixes:
  • Fix issue where MAL Updater OS X crashes when Kodi/Plex RPC support is enabled
  • MAL Updater OS X is now compatable it the newest version of Atarashii-API. Older versions are no longer compatible
  • AnimeSols support removed since the company is now defunct

New in MAL Updater OS X 2.2.5.1 (Apr 1, 2015)

  • Enhancement: Add option to recognize title from the file name with the Kodi/Plex Theater RPC API (required if you are using a Plex Agent)
  • Fix: Fixed bug where movies and one episode specials are added, but does not set the title to complete.

New in MAL Updater OS X 2.2.5 (Mar 31, 2015)

  • new: Added Kodi/Plex Theater JSON RPC API Detection support as an Advanced Option
  • new: Show on MyAnimeList Toolbar icon replaces Perferences Toolbar Icon in the status window
  • new: Donation reminder has been added (can be surpressed)
  • enhancement: Detection for Episode 0 specials has been added
  • enhancement: Updated Anitomy Library
  • fix: Improved Crunchyroll detection for certain URLs
  • fix: Colons are removed from titles when title recognition (finding the title ID) is performed

New in MAL Updater OS X 2.2.4 (Mar 7, 2015)

  • New: Added Anime Sols and Wakanim Stream detection support
  • Enhancement: Updated Anitomy Library
  • Fix: Improved Netflix Detection under Yosemite for Macs that support the HTML5 Player
  • Fix: Improved Auto Exceptions (it should accept all detected titles while ignoring case)

New in MAL Updater OS X 2.2.3 (Feb 17, 2015)

  • new: You can now correct a title without adding an exception rule
  • enhancement: Ability to use auto exception rules that apply to all fansub and stream releases
  • enhancement: Stream detection can now properly detect seasons
  • enhancement: All the toolbar icons are now Retina ready
  • fix: Improved Netflix Detection
  • fix: Fixed a potential bug that might cause a crash
  • fix: Fixed disable vibrancy option under Yosemite
  • fix: Fixed a bug where update status toolbar icon does not enable when the title already exist on the list and is pending confirmation
  • fix: Various source code and memory usage improvements

New in MAL Updater OS X 2.2.2 (Feb 9, 2015)

  • This release fixes some minor bugs, makes minor improvements to the recognition engine and adds Plex Media Server support (via the web interface):
  • New: Plex Media Server detection is now supported (web interface only, can be through plex.tv/web/app or locally)
  • Enhancement: Title Ignore is now checked for streaming detection
  • Enhancement: Slightly reduced memory usage
  • Enhancement: Improved Season (thanks to improved season parsing in Anitomy) and show type detection (e.g. Special, OVA) while ignoring invalid episode types (OP, ED, PVs)
  • Enhancement: Add more options in Software Update preferences to set frequency of checking for software updates and an option to download updates automatically.
  • Enhancement: Auto Exceptions is now enabled by default
  • Enhancement: Roccat Browser is now supported for stream detection.
  • Fix: Fixed a minor bug where player source shows up as null instead of the player name in some cases

New in MAL Updater OS X 2.2.1 (Jan 28, 2015)

  • new: Auto Exceptions has been added to deal with fansub group releases who continue to number their episodes (e.g. Aldnoah Zero). Also, socially driven.
  • new: Add ability to set offsets and thresholds to Anime Exceptions.
  • new: Now you can find the correct titles that MAL Updater OS X was unable to find due to search API limitations and have them added to the Anime Exceptions.
  • enhancement: Season recognition has been improved
  • enhancement: Scrobbler activity can now be seen in Console.app
  • enhancement: MAL Updater OS X can check synonyms, if any provided from the limited search API
  • enhancement: OmniWeb 5 and 6 is now supported for stream detection with support for sites that require scraping.
  • enhancement: Detection from Movist is now supported
  • enhancement: Confirmation of New Titles is now enabled by default
  • enhancement: MAL Updater OS X will report back the title that it couldn’t find instead of saying “Can’t find title. Retrying in 5 mins.”
  • enhancement: Updated Anitomy library
  • enhancement: Show synopsis will appear when you select a title from the list when searching a title for title correction
  • fix: Crunchyroll detection has been improved
  • fix: Fixed some bugs relating to the correction feature when confirmation of new titles/updates is enabled
  • fix: Fix bug where Update Status menu item enables when a new title is unconfirmed
  • fix: Fixed bug where Anime Exceptions list couldn’t be exported due to correct titles using UTF-8 characters

New in MAL Updater OS X 2.2 (Jan 19, 2015)

  • NEW: Ability to start MAL Updater OS X at startup
  • NEW: Global Hotkeys to Toggle Auto Scrobble, On-Demand Scrobbling, Confirm pending updates and show status screen
  • NEW: Ability to confirm updates for NEW: or existing titles before applying the update to your MyAnimeList
  • NEW: Added support for more streaming sites (AnimeNewsNetwork video player, Viz, AnimeLab and Netflix) – Netflix support only works on Safari or Webkit
  • ENHANCEMENT: Kodi (formerly XBMC) Support with videos on local file system or played over a network share (no UPnP or web video)
  • ENHANCEMENT: Ability to update episode number under Update Status
  • ENHANCEMENT: Ability to reauthorize account if password has been changed
  • ENHANCEMENT: Status window shows the video file MAL Updater OS X detected from (mplayer, VLC, etc)
  • ENHANCEMENT: Actual detected title is now shown on the menu and notifications instead of the detected video file title
  • ENHANCEMENT: Updated Anitomy library
  • FIX: MAL Updater OS X will check every player instead of stopping when it detects a player open for usable video filenames.
  • FIX: Improved title detection
  • FIX: Re-add the arrow for the Share button so it doesn’t look awkward under Yosemite.

New in MAL Updater OS X 2.1.9 (Dec 15, 2014)

  • New Features and Enhancements:
  • Share functions are now accessible from the menu
  • Add option to ignore file names as well (Regular Expressions accepted)
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Detected Episode is checked against the total episode count (if any)
  • Fixed update correction feature with the corrected title not being added to the anime exceptions list
  • Stream detection now supports Webkit
  • Lower memory usage and file size due to deprecating ASIHTTPRequest
  • API URL will automatically change to the new one if the old ones (http://mal-api.com or https://malapi.shioridiary.me) is detected.

New in MAL Updater OS X 2.1.8 (Dec 15, 2014)

  • New Features:
  • Add Yosemite UI Additions to status window (can be disabled)
  • Detection engine now uses Anitomy C++ Anime Video File Title Parser
  • Exception list and correction features to fix incorrect updates and titles that can’t be detected
  • Ignore Directory list (MAL Updater OS X will not detect and update titles in those directories)
  • Icons now are in glyphs style instead.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed bug where MAL Updater OS X will try to update a title when there is no video playing in the player.

New in MAL Updater OS X 2.1.7 (Dec 15, 2014)

  • New Features:
  • SPlayerX Support
  • Search Cache (quickens the Scrobbling process by storing previously updated title IDs with detected titles, can be disabled)
  • Last Scrobbled Title and ability to edit status for last updated title is now accessible from the MAL Updater OS X Menu
  • Fixes:
  • Better detection for video files with a specified season in the file name and is a part of the show’s title
  • Interface fixes and additional checks added before a user can log off.

New in MAL Updater OS X 2.1.6 (Oct 29, 2014)

  • New Features:
  • Crunchyroll and Daisuki Support (Safari and Chrome only)
  • Share Service Support (Facebook, Twitter, etc)
  • Smaller Program Size
  • On Demand Scrobbling
  • mpv support
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Improved Recognition Engine
  • Icon is now Retina
  • Video Player selection/detection is determined automatically