If you're a developer of an app that supports Growl (or an app to which you intend to add Growl support), you may also want to check out our developers' version history.
- 1.1.2
- Extras improvements
- GrowlMail fix: In Summary mode, post one notification (per account) after *all* messages come in
- Preference pane improvements
- About tab layout improvements (English only)
- Standardized layout for all built-in display preferences (English only)
- Sounds menu now reads from /Library/Sounds and ~/Library/Sounds
- Default is now the first entry in any popup it appears in
- Fix notifications to default to menu bar's screen if the desired screen isn't available
- Separators appear between distinct groups in popups
- Update German translation
- Fix broken iCal prefs in certain localizations
- Installer improvements
- Fix System Preferences not quitting on non-English systems
- Fix background image transparency
- Fix GrowlMail installer to note and enforce Mail not running
- 1.1.1 ([4616])
- General Notifications
- Improved speed of notifications, particularly the Music Video display style which was noticeably slow in 1.1 compared to 0.7.x
- Fixed the Music Video display style on multi-monitor configurations
- Fixed improper behavior if a display plugin was installed externally in addition to being shipped with Growl
- Fixed color preferences for the iCal display style in French, Swedish, and Russian
- Turned off the Sync Notification in HardwareGrowler by default
- Improved display of iTunes notifications by GrowlTunes when no composer is specified for a song
- Restored the "Show Growl Notification" Automator action which was accidentally removed from Growl 1.1
- Fixed a potential hang while installing Growl on Mac OS X 10.4.
- Fixed improper behavior if a display plugin was installed externally in addition to being shipped with Growl
- Updated Dutch, French, pt_BR, Russian, and Swedish localizations
- 1.1
- General New stuff
- There is now a global positioning system built into Growl (took 2 years to make!).
- There are now close buttons available on notifications when you mouse over them.
- Multiple performance enhancements/memory leaks fixed up. The only problem at this point should be webkit message views.
- Totally redesigned applications tab.
- There is now a sound option available per notification.
- Application level positioning. (#657)
- Growl no longer adds itself to the applications list. (#547)
- Resolved issue where positioning would lock up. (#612)
- Improved the way that the login item for Growl is created. We now use an Apple recommended option. (#487)
- Growl will not load plugins which may cause problems upon upgrade. (#585)
- Resolved an issue where notifications would be slow. (#270)
- Growl no longer loads all plugins at startup. (#391)
- Growl loads application icons only when needed. (#392)
- Improved the appearance of the menu item. (#538)
- Our localizers rock! Thanks to everyone who contributed. We have vastly improved localizations for a whole slew of languages in 1.1.
- Added a new display, iCal.
- Added a bunch of user created displays, such as Above the Night.
- Lots of improvements to HardwareGrowler in regards to picking up changes.
- 0.7.6
- General
- Resolved multiple issues with localizations
- 0.7.5
- General
- Significantly improved performance when an application registers with Growl for the first time
- Made the Spotlight importer universal
- Preference Pane
- Fixed a bug in which preference changes might not immediately be respected by notifications
- Improved localizations
- Extras
- Now ships with Rawr-Jour
- Improved GrowlMail to open the mail message if the Growl notification is clicked
- Fixed searching for album art from Amazon in GrowlTunes
- 0.7.4
- Preference Pane
- Made Growl and all Extras into Universal Binaries
- Extras
- Made all Extras Universal Binaries
- Scripts
- Deprecated XChat script in favor of native support in X-Chat Aqua. Script still ships for XChat X11 users, but is no longer supported.
- 0.7.3
- Menu Item
- Replaced the menu item artwork with new artwork provided by Rich Mullins
- Resolved an issue where the menu item would not launch after relogging back in. ( #376
- 0.7.2
- Preference Pane
- Fixed preference pane crash on 10.3 when using the German or Japanese localization (#240)
- Clarified "Squelch mode" by rewording it; now says "Log only, don't display" (#217)
- Fixed logging preferences (#250)
- Fixed cosmetic issue with hyperlinks in the about tab (#248)
- Status item checkbox is now updated when stopping the status item with growlctl (#242)
- Styles
- Localizations
- Added Czech localization by Frantisek Erben
- Added Simplified Chinese localization by JT Lee
- Extras
- Fixed GrowlSafari package installer permissions (#223)
- Fixed HardwareGrowler build settings (#239)
- GrowlMail better truncates long message bodies
- GrowlTunes now coalesces its notifications (for displays that support it)
- GrowlSafari no longer requires SIMBL
- Better search for contact icons in GrowlMail
- Changed for the GrowlTunes stars from black star (★) to pinwheel star (✯) to work around the Mshtakan issue introduced in Mac OS X 10.4 (Commit 2943)
- Possibly resolved a high resource usage issue regarding networking (Commit 2945)
- 0.7
- Growl Core
- Preference Pane
- Display Plugins
- New display: WebKit (#2). See WebKit style documentation for more information.
- New display: Brushed (#5)
- Bezel: new option for fading/shrinking (#170)
- Bezel: two new variants (#30)
- More customizable colors (#86, #34)
- MusicVideo: new effect when a queued notification fades in (#125)
- Mouse over effect for Bezel, Brushed, Bubbles and Smoke (#144)
- Hold non sticky notifications on screen with mouseover (#133)
- Multimonitor support (#87)
- Smaller notifications without title or description (#56)
- Duration sliders (#54)
- Opacity sliders (#44, #74)
- Extras
- New automatic summary option for GrowlMail
- Fixed summary mode (#100)
- GrowlMail is now compatible with Mail 2.0 (Tiger)
- Fixed GrowlMail image fetching from Address Book (#198)
- Fixed GrowlTunes showing 5 stars for unrated tracks (#127)
- GrowlSafari now sends different notifications for short and long downloads (#106)
- GrowlSafari can now send notifications for RSS feed updates
- growlnotify can wait until the notification is clicked or timed out (#42)
- 0.6.2
- Growl Core
- Growl 0.5 had a version of '1.0'; we now account for this mistake in the update-checker. Fixes #113.
- Preference pane
- The 'start at login' checkbox now inserts Growl at the top of the list rather than the bottom, in case you have Growl-using applications in the list that haven't registered yet. Fixes #166.
- We now just use the Growl claw as our icon inside System Preferences. Fixes #111.
- Clicking the 'Check for updates' button no longer crashes System Preferences. Fixes #8 and #48.
- Framework
- Applications that use the framework should no longer crash on Mac OS X 10.2.x.
- Extras
- GrowlTunes
- GrowlTunes should always properly handle no-star ratings now. Fixes #165.
- GrowlSafari
- GrowlSafari now requires Safari 1.3.
- Other
- Growl will now only install on a system volume (fixes #71).
- 0.6.1
- Framework
- Fixed a crash. Thanks to Timothy Hatcher for finding this issue.
- Extras
- Updated Entourage Advanced script to work with Growl 0.6.x.
- 0.6
- Growl Core
- Notifications can now have priority. The current selection of priority is Very Low, Moderate, Normal, High, and Emergency.
- Preference pane
- Added a 'Check for updates' button.
- Added controls to override priority and stickiness of notifications.
- Added a button to remove the selected application from the list.
- Displays
- New this version (in alphabetical order):
- Log by Nelson Elhage
- MailMe by Mac-arena the Bored Zo
- Music Video by Jorge Salvador Caffarena
- Smoke by Matthew Walton
- Speech by Ingmar Stein
- Support in Bubbles and Bezel for priority.
- You can change the colours in Bubbles now.
- New this version (in alphabetical order):
- Localizations
- German, by Ingmar Stein
- 0.5
- Initial release.
- Preference pane
- General Tab
- Applications Tab
- Display Options
- New Displays
- Bubbles
- Bezel
