Power Manager 3 Version History

New in v3.7.2

February 2008

• Improved Quick Status interface.
• Improved feedback field to allow multiple line comments.
• Improved status menu 'nothing pending' icon.
• Minor documentation improvements.
• Fixed potential crashing bug when rescheduling events.

New in v3.7.1

December 2007

• Improved syslog logging support.
• Improved removal experience.
• Fixed a rare bug in daily trigger calculation.

New in v3.7

October 2007

• New wake action.
• Added time zone support.
• Added starting and stopping events from Quick Schedule.
• Added cancelling pending events from Quick Schedule.
• Updated Login Window pmauthctl to support multiple installation mechanism names (Mac OS X 10.5).
• Updated AMRollOverButton code.
• Improved System Preference interface restrictions when locked.
• Improved upgrade process to remove legacy preference file.
• Improved status menu 'none' icon (Mac OS X 10.5).
• Improved status menu to truncate event names longer than 64 characters.
• Improved status menu's messages to differentiate between stopped and empty event queue.
• Improved documentation.
• Improved removal script.
• Reduced System Preference's Console logging to only failed daemon requests.
• Moved daemon preference file back to /Library/Preferences/.
• Safe guarded against bug in IOPM queue.
• Fixed status menu hide/show bug (Mac OS X 10.5).
• Fixed KVO bug in the Schedule Assistant.
• Fixed Schedule Assistant bug caused by behavioural differences in tab views (Mac OS X 10.5).
• Fixed incorrect icon bug in System Preference (Mac OS X 10.5).
• Fixed an occasional visual bug in the event performing window.
• Fixed a visual bug in the status menu event transition.

New in v3.6.2

May 2007

• Fixed uninstaller script bug that caused Automator to crash.
• Fixed cosmetic bug in calculating status menu's width.
• Fixed restart request in uninstaller script (Mac OS X 10.3.9).
• Safe guarded against missing resource in System Preference.
• Safe guarded against effects of an interrupted uninstaller run.
• Removed numerous authorisation requests in uninstaller (Mac OS X 10.3.9).

New in v3.6.1

April 2007

• Fixed inactivity trigger drift after power cycle.

New features in v3.6

March 2007

• Import and export schedules from the System Preference.
• Copy and paste events in the System Preference.
• Drag and drop support; accepts XML/Property List drags, provides RTF and plain text descriptions.
• New Automator action to Quick Schedule an event (Mac OS X 10.4 or later).
• New Automator action to start and stop the scheduler (Mac OS X 10.4 or later).
• New Automator action to get the next pending event (Mac OS X 10.4 or later).
• New Automator action to cancel events (Mac OS X 10.4 or later).
• New Automator action to delay events (Mac OS X 10.4 or later).
• New Automator action to filter events by name, type, or action (Mac OS X 10.4 or later).
• New inline AppleScript documentation (Mac OS X 10.4 or later).
• New AppleScript Guide.
• Rewrote AppleScript support; better meets expected behaviour.
• Status menu icon dimmed until one hour before event; reduces visual impact until needed.
• Improved status menu descriptions by removing redundant event description.
• Removed redundant AppleScript commands where r/w properties exist.
• Renamed all API parameters EventID to UniqueID.
• Added a Remove Power Manager option to the System Preference.
• Improved the uninstaller script with a restart dialog.
• Improved the first-run and end-of-demonstration experiences.
• Fixed inaccurate AppleScript dictionary properties marked as r/o, despite being r/w.
• Fixed inaccurate error message in event validator when exceeding maximum value.
• Fixed demo expiry code that caused events to remain in the pending queue.

New features in v3.5

January 2007

• New architecture offering improved security and reduced disk access.
• Padlock respects administrators and security preferences in the System Preference.
• Cancel or delay any pending event.
• Menu bar status item shows pending events.
• Schedule Assistant to get you started quickly.
• Quick Schedule for one off events.
• AppleScript, Automator, and command line scripting support.
• Less intrusive pending events notification dialogs; never takes the keyboard focus.
• Improved pending event notifications when showing login window.
• Undo support in System Preference.
• Security rights granted through Mac OS X's Authentication Policy database.
• Named events provide better reasoning behind schedule.
• Any combination of days available to Daily events.
• Software update check in System Preference.
• launchd support on Mac OS X 10.4 and later.
• Distribution script based installer on Mac OS X 10.4 and later.
• Subdivided installer packages for easier customization.
• Improved interface and feedback.
• Renamed Fast User Switch to Login Window.

New features in v3.2.1

March 2006

• Universal Binary (Intel and PowerPC native);
• Fixed potential crash when cancelling events;
• Fixed potential notification drift after wake.

New features in v3.2

February 2006

• New fast user switch action;
• New inactivity trigger;
• New daemon option for configuration updates by URL;
• New support for waking from sleep before pending events;
• New Dashboard widget;
• Schedule changes are now applied immediately;
• Support for Spotlight searches;
• Bug fixed to support edits made by authorised but non-administrator users;
• Tidied up final notification dialog box message;
• Apple Installer bug bypassed by no longer using drive checking script.

New features in v3.1

September 2005

• New log out action;
• New restart action;
• New option to 'Delay' pending events;
• New option to 'Cancel' pending events;
• Users logging in with an event pending are immediately informed;
• Application friendly shut down process;
• Idle sleep disabled during pending event;
• New scheduling engine.

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