What's new in Particulars 58
Mar 21, 2024
- Advanced setting to adjust margins of system information on the desktop
- Advanced setting to show an error when no network configuration is found
- Experimental features are now documented in help
New in Particulars 57 (Mar 6, 2024)
- Wi-Fi SSID particular is no longer enabled by default
- Enabling the Wi-FI SSID particular requires the user to grant location permission on macOS 14.4
- If macOS returns a zero-length SSID, Particulars will no longer try to display it
New in Particulars 56 (Dec 11, 2023)
- Performance improvement for automatic text shade
- Fixed layout issues in the Desktop settings tab and the Welcome window on macOS 14
- The previously deprecated -t and -w CLI options have been removed
- Updated crash reporter
- Minimum OS: macOS 12.0
New in Particulars 55 (Nov 6, 2023)
- Model name could be empty on Intel Macs – fixed
New in Particulars 54 (Sep 30, 2023)
- Setting to disable system information on the desktop
New in Particulars 53 (Sep 7, 2023)
- The menu bar icon now shows system information in a popover
- The Settings window no longer resizes when the text size is modified
- Secondary-clicking the menu bar icon shows a menu
- Lab mode no longer restricts the menu bar icon but does restrict secondary-clicking on the menu bar icon
- Settings have been reorganized. The Theme tab is now called 'Desktop' and has all the settings for displaying information on the desktop.
New in Particulars 52 (Jun 10, 2023)
- Improvements to Operating system version name
New in Particulars 51 (Mar 27, 2023)
- Improved support for Macs with a camera housing (notch)
- Fixed crashes where macOS reports no attached displays
- Updated crash reporter
New in Particulars 50 (Jan 23, 2023)
- New particular: Model number (Apple Silicon only)
- New particular: Part number (Apple Silicon only)
- System information on the desktop would be updated more than once at the same time causing unnecessary processing - fixed
- Particulars would use the wrong MAC address for an interface if macOS re-used a network interface name (e.g. en5) – fixed
- Darwin version was missing from the copying menu - fixed
New in Particulars 49 (Jan 3, 2023)
- Lab Mode no longer enables Launch at Login
New in Particulars 48 (Nov 16, 2022)
- The CLI now only outputs in color if the terminal supports color
- The CLI outputs errors to standard error
- The short CLI option for network has been changed to -N. The -t option continues to function but is deprecated and will be removed in a future version
- The short CLI option for Darwin version has been changed to -D. The -w option continues to function but is deprecated and will be removed in a future version
New in Particulars 47 (Oct 23, 2022)
- Support for macOS Ventura 13
- 'System' is now the default theme. The Lato theme is now named 'Classic'
- Fixed a rare crash when changing display position
- macOS Server has been discontinued and server information is not displayed on macOS Ventura
- Updated crash reporter
- Minimum OS: macOS 11.0
- As macOS Catalina is no longer supported, the Today Extension has been removed
New in Particulars 46 (Aug 26, 2022)
- Optional disk space for non-boot disks
- Disk space now updates when a disk is renamed
New in Particulars 45 (Jun 14, 2022)
- Preference to control launch at login in Lab Mode
- Adopts Hardened Runtime
- Updated crash reporter
New in Particulars 44 (Mar 27, 2022)
- JSON output in the CLI: --json
- Property list output in the CLI: --plist
- Header and footer advanced preferences
New in Particulars 43 (Jan 3, 2022)
- Added support for Shortcuts in macOS Monterey 12
- An errant message would be logged in the CLI on Intel Macs without an Apple SoC – fixed
- Updated crash reporter
New in Particulars 42 (Oct 25, 2021)
- Native model name lookup on Apple Silicon
- Public IP address lookup is now compatible with iCloud Private Relay
- Minimum OS: macOS 10.15
New in Particulars 41 (Sep 6, 2021)
- The indent after labels was not calculated correctly - fixed
New in Particulars 40 (Aug 30, 2021)
- Options for reporting available and purgeable disk space
New in Particulars 39 (Jul 5, 2021)
- Operating system version name (e.g., Big Sur, Catalina, etc)
- NAT IP address has been renamed to Public IP address
New in Particulars 38 (Jun 6, 2021)
- New network particular: DNS search domains
- Remove menu bar extra by Command-dragging it out of the menu bar
- SoC could not be turned off in Custom detail level on Apple Silicon – fixed
New in Particulars 37 (Apr 8, 2021)
- Fix rare crashes when formatting MAC addresses
New in Particulars 36 (Mar 26, 2021)
- Optimized discovery of the SoC on Apple Silicon
- Fix rare crash on launch
New in Particulars 35 (Mar 18, 2021)
- Network detail level: customize which pieces of network information are displayed
- Model name now returns a generic model name (e.g., Mac mini or MacBook Pro) rather than the model identifier, when the model name cannot be looked up
- Advanced preference tab renamed to 'Network'
- 'Windows' MAC address format renamed to 'Windows/IEEE'
- Updated crash reporter
New in Particulars 34 (Nov 22, 2020)
- Support for Apple Silicon Macs
- Improved the initial position of the preferences window
- Updated crash reporter
New in Particulars 33 (Nov 8, 2020)
- Support for macOS Big Sur 11
- Minor update to Lato font
- Updated crash reporter
New in Particulars 32 (Aug 23, 2020)
- Interface for customizing detail level
- New particular: Darwin version
- Preferences are now arranged in tabs
- Fix rare crash when getting the desktop picture
- Fix rare crash on launch when a Mac does not have an Apple SoC
- Font panel now closes with preferences window or when a standard theme is chosen
- Today Extension now uses standard controls for opening and closing its configuration
New in Particulars 31 (Jul 19, 2020)
- CPU detail is now enhanced with Apple System-on-chip (T-series Security Chip) information on compatible Macs
- Support for 12 displays
- Copy Primary IPv4 address to clipboard
- Copy NAT address to clipboard
- Showing all network interfaces is now an advanced preference instead of an additional detail level
- Updated crash reporter
- Minimum OS: macOS 10.13.4
New in Particulars 30 (Apr 28, 2020)
- Display position: choose were system information appears on the desktop
- Automatic text shade follows display position, uses less RAM, and is more precise
- Lab mode for the Today Extension
- Automatically relaunch when hiding and showing the Dock icon
New in Particulars 29 (Mar 24, 2020)
- Correct default label case in Today Extension
- Automatic text shade could fail with more than one display attached - fixed
New in Particulars 28 (Dec 23, 2019)
- Interface for configuring the Today Extension (click on the version number in the widget)
- Change the letter case of labels
- Interface for changing advanced preferences
New in Particulars 27 (Nov 18, 2019)
New in Particulars 26 (Aug 27, 2019)
- Text Themes: Default, System, Mono
- Custom text theme: full control over font, color, and opacity
- Menu bar extra
- Support for displaying over 1TB of RAM
- Support for 8 displays
- Fine-grained font size
- Redesigned preferences window
- Removed global keyboard shortcut for showing preferences
New in Particulars 25 (Jun 6, 2019)
- Improved GPU formatting
- Automatic text shade mode now works on images stored outside the Pictures folder
- Performance improvements to automatic text shade
- Minimum OS: macOS 10.12
New in Particulars 24 (Sep 21, 2018)
- Support for macOS Mojave including Dark Mode
New in Particulars 23 (Jun 11, 2018)
- Enhancement:
- Short command line options can now be combined
New in Particulars 22 (Feb 15, 2018)
- Removed obsolete items from Help menu.
New in Particulars 21 (Nov 30, 2017)
New in Particulars 20 (Oct 30, 2017)
- Support for removable GPUs in macOS High Sierra 10.13
- Performance improvement after display sleep
New in Particulars 19 (Aug 31, 2017)
- Add Wi-Fi SSID to network information.
New in Particulars 18 (Aug 9, 2017)
- Preferences would show 4 displays when only 3 were connected
- New version numbering scheme
- Updated crash reporter
New in Particulars 1.4.8 (May 2, 2017)
- Fix crash when DHCP lease start time cannot be determined
New in Particulars 1.4.7 (Apr 3, 2017)
- Hide iBridge (Touch Bar) in network configuration
New in Particulars 1.4.6 (Dec 7, 2016)
- Look and feel of Today Extension updated for macOS 10.12 Sierra
New in Particulars 1.4.5 (Nov 18, 2016)
- NAT IP address would display as 'Unknown' when using a public IPv4 address – fixed
- Additional validation of NAT IP address
New in Particulars 1.4.4 (Nov 11, 2016)
- Show CPU count on multiprocessor Macs
- Improvements when getting NAT address
New in Particulars 1.4.3 (Sep 13, 2016)
New in Particulars 1.4.2 (Jun 30, 2016)
- Fix rare crash when retrieving network information
- CLI would display correctly but return an error code when using -a
- Crashes in lab mode are now reported automatically
New in Particulars 1.4.1 (May 20, 2016)
- Fix crash when DHCP lease length is infinite
- Fix display of infinite DHCP lease length
New in Particulars 1.4 (May 16, 2016)
- Disk space is available from the command line interface
- Copying from Dock menu
- CLI option for particulars in detail level
- Copy en0 MAC address to clipboard
- Crash reporting for Today Extension
- Open Preferences from Dock icon
- Fixed a crash when using a non-RGB image as a desktop background with auto text shade
- Fixed a crash when serial number cannot be determined
- Improved layout of long IPv6 addresses in Today Extension
- Fixed layout issues when changing displays
- When scaling down to fit text on desktop, labels would not scale down – fixed
- Lots of performance improvements and under the hood fixes
New in Particulars 1.3.3 (Dec 8, 2015)
- Support for OS X 10.11 El Capitan
- GPU is available from the command line interface
- Fix alignment of labels in Preferences window
New in Particulars 1.3.2 (Nov 29, 2015)
- NAT IP would not be shown while on VPN – fixed