What's new in Maxel 2.6.0
Jan 13, 2020
- Fixes a crash when starting a download from the built-in browser on 10.15 Catalina. Older versions of macOS are unaffected.
New in Maxel 2.5.2 (Dec 9, 2019)
- Fixes bug where HTTP Basic auth was not working
New in Maxel 2.5.1 (Nov 19, 2019)
- Fixes a crash in 2.5.0
- Has new extension for Safari 13
New in Maxel 2.5.0 (Nov 15, 2019)
- New extension for Safari 13
New in Maxel 2.4.1 (Oct 29, 2018)
- Catching up with the latest app store version, for automatic updates, purchase Maxel on the Mac App Store
- MacOS Mojave 10.14 is required for this version
New in Maxel 2.3.3 (Feb 15, 2017)
- Fix localization bug in French display of times
- Fix crash during file saving
- Fixed crash which occurred during long running downloads which caused Maxel to not be able to access files
- Fixed bug where Maxel did not persist the first file in the queue if restarted
- Other bug fixes
New in Maxel 2.3.2 (Jan 25, 2017)
- Fixed issue where Maxel would not start for users on older versions of Mac OS X without a TouchBar
New in Maxel 2.3.1 (Jan 25, 2017)
- Fixed issue where Maxel thought files with redirects were corrupted
- Fixed crashes
- Fixed issue where Maxel forced filenames to lowercase
New in Maxel 2.3 (Jan 17, 2017)
- Added Touch Bar support for you lucky new Macbook Pro owners
- Maxel will now take an HTTP or SOCKS proxy URL in its preferences
- SFTP directories won't be downloaded and instead will result in an error
- Added error to indicate when servers don't support multipart even though they claim to
- Fixed crash which occurred when saving a file which is being finalized
New in Maxel 2.2 (Oct 24, 2016)
- Localization release. Purchase Maxel on the Mac App Store to get updates sooner.
New in Maxel 2.1.1 (Jun 13, 2016)
- Fixed issue where maxel did not accept URL from extension when first launched
- Fixed issue with automatic termination not working
- Fixed crash in file segment view
New in Maxel 2.1 (May 16, 2016)
- New stuff:
- New segment view visualizes which bytes you have, and replaces the old list of segments
- Added signup button for the beta program in Preferences
- Add setting to auto-paste clipboard in add sheet in Preferences
- Changes:
- Download bundles which are renamed will retain their name during finalization. They can also be moved mid-download and Maxel will still finalize them correctly.
- Fixed crashes and other minor improvements
New in Maxel 2.0.2 (Apr 11, 2016)
- Fixed crash which occurs when scheduler reloads a file which isn’t visible due to a filter.
New in Maxel 2.0.1 (Apr 6, 2016)
- Fixed the following bugs:
- Fixed crash which occurred for files lacking progressdata
- Fixed crashes which could occur in the built-in browser
- Maxel will no longer retry downloads which don't support multiparting
New in Maxel 2.0 (Apr 1, 2016)
- New file format. Maxel will automatically convert your old saves to the new format. This will let me do cool things in the future like changing the number of connections on the fly or auto-scheduling connections
- Dock icon can now display progress remaining and speed: right click the dock icon to customize
- Info view is now detachable. Future releases will focus on improving this view with more info
- Maxel now renders custom previews of incomplete files, showing how much has been downloaded already
- And lots of small improvements.
New in Maxel 1.24.4 (Mar 22, 2016)
- Disabled kerberos authentication, which was never really used that much and masked other valid auth methods. Maxel now officially supports the following auth methods: Basic, Digest, and NTLM.
New in Maxel 1.24.3 (Mar 10, 2016)
- Fixed a bug where ftp and SFTP downloads had the incorrect content size
New in Maxel 1.24.2 (Feb 10, 2016)
- Maxel can now multi-part more downloads.
New in Maxel 1.24.1 (Jan 13, 2016)
- Features:
- Maxel will now rename files to avoid conflicts if a file with the same name already exists
- Added preference option to auto-clear completed downloads
- Maxel now sets the where-from extended attribute like Safari
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed error message popping up when quitting and starting Maxel with completed downloads
- Fixed crash which could occur when downloading a non-splittable download in the built-in browser
- Properly handle servers which don't follow the HTTP spec exactly right
New in Maxel 1.24.5496 (Nov 21, 2015)
- Add button and menu option to remove all completed downloads
- Fix UI issues in file hasher
- Clarify how automatic termination works
- Fix crash in built in browser starting a download
- Misc. browser improvements
- Maxel now renames files to avoid conflict if the file already exists
- Preference setting to auto-clear completed downloads
- Set “where from” extended attribute
- Properly handle servers which don’t follow the HTTP spec
New in Maxel 1.23.1 (Nov 14, 2015)
- Fixes a bug in adding files from the browser extensions.
New in Maxel 1.23 (Nov 8, 2015)
- This version brings big usability improvements to the built-in browser and bug fixes.
- Other Features:
- Added ability to clear all completed downloads as a menu option and toolbar button (hidden by default, right click and customize to use)
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixed some UI issues in file hash computing
- Clarified how automatic termination works in preferences
- Fixed a crash that occurs when trying to add from the builtin browser while maxel is running
New in Maxel 1.22.5 (Oct 10, 2015)
- Fixed several performance bugs, crashes, and freezes
- Added some small features in the add sheet
New in Maxel 1.22.3 (Sep 27, 2015)
- Added keyboard shortcut to search: cmd alt F
- Add sheet is now resizable
- Downloads triggered from browser are also auto-started when option is enabled in prefs
- Added “Create Directory” button to folder selection boxes
- Fixed crash which occurred when browser window was open for > 10 seconds
- Fixed crash which could occur after closing the browser
New in Maxel 1.22.1 (Sep 4, 2015)
- Version number fixed, previous version was a typo
- Fixed some crashes
- Maxel now does http digest auth in addition to http basic auth
New in Maxel 1.22 (Sep 4, 2015)
- Add new preference option to skip add sheet. Pairs nicely with the new and improved Chrome and Safari browser extensions, have you tried them yet?
- Browsers open modally to catch authenticated downloads one by one, so once you log in with the first window, the rest will pick up your credentials
- Other:
- Maxel now sets HTTP referral field
- Computer will not sleep during downloads
- Increased connection timeout from 10 to 30 seconds
- No longer requires public key for SSH key-based auth, only private key
- Even more:
- Improved logging
- Improved performance: less cpu usage
- Fixed a number of freezes and crashes
New in Maxel 1.21.2 Build 4309 (Apr 18, 2015)
- Maxel now uses a better user agent so websites can identify the user as a Mac user
- Add sheet now intelligently extracts URLs from rich text
- Add sheet now automatically inserts newlines when dragging and dropping text
- Added preference option to Autostart after adding files
- Reduced minimum window size
New in Maxel 1.21.1 Build 4197 (Feb 11, 2015)
- This version brings several UI enhancements submitted by users:
- Status Bar Mode: Maxel now has a status icon and can run without a Dock icon, configurable in its preferences
- Scope Bar: You can now easily filter files that are running, pending, or done
- Maxel now uses auth cookies from the built-in browser to start managed downloads when possible