Download Growl 1.3.1

Growl is a program for Mac OS X that allows the notifications of other programs in various styles can be displayed on the screen. For example, a pop-up can be shown when a file has been downloaded, when a new e-mail has been received or when someone comes online in a chat program. The developers released version 1.3.1 a few days ago and provided the following list of changes:

Version 1.3.1

General

• Added a quit confirmation box so that it’s harder to quit Growl by accident
• Added a way to run Growl in the background
• Added a way to disable Rollup
• Added a way to toggle logging per application
• Added an indicator in the menu item that there is unread history, the menubar icon pulses
• Resolved an issue where the text in Smoke looked different than in 1.2.x
• Resolved an issue where Growl would activate discrete graphics mode
• Resolved an issue with Flash and GNTP
• Resolved an issue where Bezel, Music Video, or Nano would cause Growl to crash
• Resolved an issue where settings for applications would not appear to save until restarting Growl
• Resolved an issue where the Displays tab would not show a new style if a new style is installed while the settings are open
• Resolved an issue where the Displays tab would list multiple copies of the same displays when previewing

Version 1.3

Big Change Summary

• Growl is now 10.7 Lion compatible
• Added a Rollup window for when you are away. Replaces a screen full of sticky notifications while away.
• Artwork has been updated. Thanks to Iiro!
• Growl is now distributed via the App Store.
• Developers can communicate with Growl in a Sandbox environment now. See our documentation for more details.
• Adds in GNTP networking.
• Growl is a standalone application now. Growl is no longer a System Preference preference pane.

General

• Added GNTP networking support
• Added a way to view previous notifications, called History
• Added a “Use System Default” to the speech options so that someone using Growl can choose to use the system defaults
• Updated the menubar and toolbar icons to look better, thanks to Iiro
• Overall cleanup of the interface to help improve things for everyone
• Resolved an issue where Growl would not claim or process .growlRegDict files
• Resolved an issue where the sound device would go to the default sound device and not the alert sound device when the alert sound device is selected
• Resolved an issue where Growl would be listed in the Applications tab
• Resolved an issue where the Applications tab will not live reload when an application registers while the preferences are open
• Resolved an issue where configuring an application would sometimes switch to a different application

Developer Items

• Added a way to communicate with Growl about an XPC
• Removed support for the long ago deprecated NSDistributedNotificationCenter methods from the Growl .5 and Growl .6 era.

AppleScript

• Added the ability to dismiss Growl notifications via AppleScript
• Added the ability to enable/disable Growl via AppleScript
• Added the ability to check to see if Growl is paused
• Updated the AppleScript implementation to account for changes in OS X between 10.2 and 10.7
• Updated the description of the sticky parameter to not be misleading