Version 3.11.11
This maintenance release includes many updates to plugins and search sets. These include several news outlets, e.g., Reuters, the PubMed site, the Latest Software search set, and even the plugin for our DEVONthink Server edition. Unfortunately, due to underlying changes on some sites, we had to remove some, notably Google-related ones. However, we now use multiple search engines for certain features, e.g., for the See Also inspector, to help ensure good results. Beyond that, we made many fixes and improvements to make our application more reliable and efficient.
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Added Send anonymized analytics data to the
Update settings. See our company's Privacy Policy page for more information on the data we may send.
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Plugins updated: Medical > PubMed, Apple > MacUpdate, BBC News, RocketNews, Reuters, References > Philosophy, and World News Network.
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The updated Web plugin improves support for Bing and now also uses Brave and Ecosia. We no longer use Google. (See the Removed section below.) We also improved filtering of Bing and Ecosia results.
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We updated the Marketing, Mac > Latest News, and Latest Software search sets.
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The
See Also inspector in DEVONagent Pro browser windows now uses multiple search engines to improve reliability.
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We improved the appearance of browser tab preview popovers in macOS Sequoia and later.
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We made various cosmetic improvements to the user interface, e.g., title bar, text colors, and the
Go > Workspaces > Edit panel.
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We improved HTML parsing and conversion, e.g., while crawling pages.
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Searching web pages added to the Sites tab of a search set or using the EngineSite key in plugins now uses multiple search engines.
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We improved link filtering, especially from Brave Search results.
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To prevent DEVONagent Pro from being detected as "unusual activity", we employ better dynamic throttling on Bing and Brave searches.
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A revised user-agent improves compatibility with Bloomberg feeds.
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You can now control the timeout of the download URL and download markdown/json from AppleScript commands more precisely with standard with timeout of x seconds… end timeout handlers.
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In rare cases, the context menu in web views could crash on macOS 15. Fixed.
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Closing the preferences while a shortcut control was active could crash the application. Fixed.
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On macOS Sequoia and later, the font displayed inconsistently in the popup menu of a search window's search field. Fixed.
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In the
Search Sets window, selected sets couldn't be renamed by clicking on them. Fixed.
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Pressing ⌃↩ didn't display the context menu reliably and could change the current selection. Fixed.
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When using a weekly interval in a scheduled search set, the message about the next run reported the day before the chosen day, e.g., showing "Tuesday" when "Wednesday" was chosen. Fixed.
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If the
Download Manager had automatic purging disabled, removing downloaded items would incorrectly remove the downloaded files too. Fixed.
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RSS and Atom feed articles only used the first listed author. Fixed.
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The MacUpdate keywords search didn't work in browser windows. Fixed.
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The encoding parameter of the download markup from AppleScript command incorrectly listed ISO-Latin-1. The default is UTF-8. Fixed.
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The registration panel didn't immediately report success or failure after the trial period expired. Fixed.
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Due to the use of JavaScript to present search results and blocking third-party access, we removed: Google News, Google (PDF), Images & Video > Google Video and YouTube, Blogs > Google Blog Search, Patents > Google Patents, and US Patent Office.
Version 3.11.10
This update tackles a major change by Google that was blocking access to its search results. We've also taken the opportunity to refresh the Yahoo! and Web plugins. Additionally, we've introduced a new plugin for the Brave Search engine and also included a few minor fixes and enhancements to improve your experience.
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Brave Search plugin added.
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Plugins updated: Google, Yahoo!, and Web. These updates also affected the
Web search sets, e.g., Web > Deep.
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Dates not provided by server responses or HTML metadata are now more reliably detected.
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Name editor dialogs can be made larger, e.g., when opened via AppleScript or using the
Go > Workspaces > Add command.
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Unquoted search terms weren't highlighted in a browser window. Fixed.
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Qwant plugin removed.
Version 3.11.9
In this latest release, we've enhanced the filtering and parsing of search results, making it easier to find what you're looking for. We've also refined the user interface to provide a smoother experience and improved compatibility with the latest version of macOS, Sequoia. In addition, we've fixed a number of problems, including eliminating a bug that could cause crashes during searches. As always, we've worked hard to enhance the overall performance and reliability of the application.
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Note:
Starting with version 3.11.9, DEVONagent Pro now requires macOS 11 Big Sur or later.
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Improved filtering of several inputs: non-article Wikipedia pages, Bing search results, and social media links, e.g., for tweeting or sharing.
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Plugins having unspecified or unmatched tags or text ranges more reliably parse HTML pages.
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Indexing, crawling, and converting HTML pages ignores more hidden elements.
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Better updating of tabs and improved appearance.
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Improved support for opening contextual menus via Control-Return on macOS Sequoia.
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The URL commands x-devonagent://show-help and x-devonagent://showHelp support using anchors to open specific sections of the help, e.g., x-devonagent://showHelp#development.
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Improved overall performance, also affecting, e.g., highlighting search occurrences.
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Entering incorrect wildcards in a search could crash the application. Fixed.
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Complex searches including wildcards, proximity operators, and parentheses didn't work correctly. Fixed.
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On rare occasion, word occurrences and matches weren't retrieved correctly. Fixed.
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The
Archive window displayed an extraneous line. Fixed.
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The View toolbar controls of Search windows didn't work correctly on the latest versions of macOS. Fixed.
Version 3.11.8
Today's release adds a new plugin for the Ecosia search engine. It also includes updates to some plugins, search sets, and scanners. For more focused search results with Google and Web plugins, DEVONagent Pro uses verbatim searches, and proximity searches, e.g., using the NEAR operator, produce better results. Also, audio and video files no longer play automatically, speeding up browsing your results, and importing from Safari now allows adding even larger histories. And we made several fixes and improvements for better performance and reliability.
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Plugin updated: American Chemical Society.
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Scanners updated: Wallpaper, Video, and Webcam.
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The Web or Google-based plugins now use verbatim searches to provide more focused results.
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Occurrences are more reliably matched and highlighted in the results of complex proximity queries.
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Browsing search results is now faster as audio and video files will not automatically play when the page is loaded.
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The text color has been changed to improve contrast, e.g., in the results and summaries.
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Importing from Safari or using the History plugin support larger web histories.
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The date of an item in the search results is included when adding it to DEVONthink.
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When sending results to DEVONthink as formatted notes, the stylesheets in use are merged. This reduces the file size while more closely maintaining the appearance.
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When using the
Download window, invalid information regarding attachments in the web content is ignored.
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The HTML and XML parser is now more reliable and performant.
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HTML source now displays with better syntax coloring.
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The authentication panel now looks the same from the AppleScript command,
Download window, and a browser window.
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Any numerical prefixes on the names of scripts and templates, e.g., 1., are ignored. This improves sorting the scripts and templates menus.
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The name of scripts and templates can now be localized with a Contents > Resources > LocalizedNames.strings file inside the script or template package.
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AppleScript and JavaScript for Automation (JXA) are more reliable.
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A new hidden preference, DontSetFindPboard, disables using macOS' shared clipboard. This eliminates search terms used in DEVONagent Pro from being automatically used in other applications, e.g., EasyFind.
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If DEVONagent Pro terminates abnormally, the last used browser windows and tabs as well as the Archive window aren't reopened. This alleviates potential crashes caused by content in one of those windows.
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Pop-ups that automatically opened and closed could crash the application. Fixed.
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Localized values for some parameters in a plugin via the Plugins & Scanners panel weren't retained when closing the editing window. Fixed.
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The Video scanner could slow the display of items in the Objects inspector of a browser window. Fixed.
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In the latest versions of macOS, the action button didn't appear correctly in the sidebar and inspectors in a DEVONagent Pro browser window. Also, the font size in the address bar and toolbar search field was incorrect. Fixed.
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A stray vertical line could be seen in the
Search Sets window. Fixed.
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The localization of the Browser > DEVONthink Server plugin was incorrect. Fixed.
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When using phrase-based proximity searches, e.g., "James Webb" NEAR "big bang", DEVONagent Pro didn't always match all occurrences. Using them in the results or the
Archive window could return too many results. Fixed.
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Using a NOT operator before parentheses wasn't properly provided to some search engines. Fixed.
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The notification about invalid server certificates wouldn't accept user input. Fixed.
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The description of the get items of feed AppleScript command was incorrect. Fixed.
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Obsolete plugins: Neeva, StartPage.
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Obsolete scripts: Post > To del.icio.us, Post > To Twitter.
Version 3.11.7
Today's maintenance release brings three new plugins: Neeva, Caselaw, and IEEEXplore. Scripts and scanners, e.g., the Wallpaper scanner, now retrieve more image formats. In the DEVONagent Pro browser, the See Also inspector makes even better suggestions, and for RSS crawling you can use more feeds. For better search results, DEVONagent Pro handles filtering advertisements a bit more aggressively. And as always, we made fixes and again increased overall performance and reliability.
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Added Legal > Caselaw plug-in to search the Caselaw Access Project. Please note this plug-in is very fast but also has site-imposed limitations.
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Added Science > IEEEXplore plug-in. Please note this plug-in uses always express mode (no filtering) as the website requires JavaScript.
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Saving and capturing web page images, e.g., via the context menu in a DEVONagent Pro browser window is now more reliable, retaining the original data and filename, when possible.
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Linked and embedded images of web pages gathered by scripts and scanners, e.g., the Thumbnail Gallery, Webcam, and Wallpaper scanners now include WebP, JPEG, and JPEG2000 files. The retrieval of these items is also more reliable.
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The
See Also inspector in DEVONagent Pro browser windows now shows better results and more quickly.
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Links in the results popovers in the menu extra look better.
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Mastodon articles have better names automatically added.
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Improved compatibility with even more RSS feeds.
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Extended the Marketing search set and removed any obsolete entries.
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More reliable and more aggressive advertisements filter.
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Improved handling of invalid responses for attachments. They are skipped and not added to the Download Manager.
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Improved percent escaping in links and URLs.
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The user agent is now more broadly compatible with search engines.
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Invalid URLs are now more consistently logged.
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Updated the code for recording keyboard shortcuts. Please note that this will require setting user-defined shortcuts again.
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A system-wide notification is shown every day and also every hour during the last 24 hours of the trial.
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Improved overall reliability and performance.
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In rare cases, exporting web pages as single-page PDF documents added a second page. Fixed.
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Search and highlighting could sometimes fail, e.g, with greek characters. Fixed.
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Images were sometimes saved with the wrong extension. Fixed.
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The progress indicator of a DEVONagent Pro browser window's address bar wasn't accurate on the latest versions of macOS. Fixed.
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The alert and email in the case of outdated licenses wasn't correct. Fixed.
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