Alfred V2.0.4 Released: Tweaks & Performance Improvements
Since Alfred v2 was released, you've been putting every feature to the test and creating amazing workflows. It's been an absolute pleasure to see the many ways workflows have helped make your everyday tasks easier, quicker and more fun!
Version 2.0.4 brings many improvements to Alfred 2's new features, with even better performance and robustness. This release also sets the foundation for the exciting plans we have for v2.1. :)
- Add in <arg></arg> as an optional replacement to <item arg=""> which allows for newlines in the argument and other various xml advantages
- Respect prefix text when using a hotkey passed through to a workflow
- Add in soft failing for incompatible workflows (for future proofing workflows)
- New option to exclude podcasts in Alfred's mini player, only include podcasts which are available and can play
- Change http links to https links for buy.alfredapp.com throughout Alfred's preferences
- Check for write permissions on Alfred 2.app when updating to avoid quiet fail situations
- Perform URL validation in the custom web search configuration and Open URL workflow object configuration (also validates local URL schemes)
- Make Alfred use file type icons instead of file icons on external volumes for increased performance
- Make Alfred more robust when it comes to dodgy and invalid missing fields in OS X metadata results
- Robustness in file navigation view to prevent crash when using two "Browse in Alfred" actions simultaneously in a workflow
- Move filecache into Databases sub folder with other Alfred database files for tidiness
- Refine the photoshop -> ps fuzzy modifiers to not affect other apps
- Respect the "show in Default Results" tickbox for the iTunes play/pause keywords
- Make the fallback sheet table fields non-editable text as this doesn't actually do anything
- Remove unnecessary logging in file search to make things more efficient
- Find Spotlight Comments in the copy to / move to action folder destination search
- Escape \ and $ for "Open Terminal Here" action
- Separate preferences script editor Menlo font loading into fixed with font loader
- Default to system font if specified font isn't found to make Alfred more resilient to missing fonts
- When pasting from Alfred's clipboard history viewer, retain the original source app information (icon)
- Better update logic when switching between pre-releases and general releases in the update prefs
- Fix buffer icon upside down issue in certain situations due to icon caching
- Fix minor memory leak in workflows using metadata querier
You can update to v2.0.4 in Alfred's preferences, or if you're still on Alfred v1, you can download v2 from our website.
