build 2320 changelogdata # Change Log Please note that the Change Log covers all changes including Powerpack-only features. To enjoy all that Alfred has to offer, be sure to buy a Powerpack license. :) --- ## Alfred 5.7.3 Build 2320, Wednesday 1st April 2026 - Add mitigation to macOS Tahoe window rending quirk when using multiple desktop spaces - Update Xcode build environment ## Alfred 5.7.2 Build 2312, Tuesday 9th December 2025 - File Search fallback ranking overhaul - Files will now be requested from macOS in a pre-sorted order - This is due to changes in the underlying metadata index. If you find this affects performance, you can return to the previous behaviour in Alfred's Features > File Search > Search > Default Order - Changed default result limits to 40, 50, 75, 100 to work around sorting issue in default metadata query - Add support for updated Recent Documents in Tahoe - Update parsing of lists in Alfred's Markdown processor - Contacts search now works with multiple first names - Tweak help subtext regarding using metadata for Contacts search only being available in macOS 15 and earlier - Allocate more space for text in onboarding outro screen - Fix a spelling mistake in the File Search Troubleshooting ## Alfred 5.7.1 Build 2307, Monday 6th October 2025 - Tweak to overhauled macOS System Settings search - Bypass caching for custom configured prefPane metadata searches in the default results - Pre-process names to improve matching on (non-break) hyphenated terms such as Wi-Fi - Added missing terminology to certain setting names - Improved icons for certain settings - Added Passwords for macOS 13 and 14 ## Alfred 5.7 Build 2302, Monday 15th September 2025 - Alfred 5.7 is ready for macOS 26 Tahoe - Overhaul built-in macOS System Settings searching, you'll no longer need to use our workflow - Added new macOS Settings proxy in Alfred Remote to be able to correctly launch settings in macOS 13+ - Added AppleScript option to reveal and open the details of a Workflow in Alfred's Preferences - Fix out of bounds issue in Music Mini Player preventing returning to top level navigation - Fix markdown parser to be less greedy for link text - Fix CSV parsing from including a trailing quote when it's the final character in the csv file - Fix logic for file icon type loading to be efficient with external volumes - Add plist boolean to ensure correct behaviour of AutoFill one-time codes in macOS 26+ - Shhh... Added some framework preparation for some pretty stupendous future stuff ## Alfred 5.6.2 Build 2296, Monday 12th May 2025 - Add a description key for Music access when using Alfred's Music Mini Player - Update subtext in Contacts preferences to remove legacy "Address Book" wording --- ## Alfred 5.6.1 Build 2294, Tuesday 6th May 2025 - Enable {var} and {const} placeholders in Fallback Search workflow object Title and Subtext fields - Add additional timing information into file search troubleshooting - Alfred now correctly reads the selected default result subtext via VoiceOver - Fix showing the macOS accent colour in Alfred's default window for native popup menus etc - Add mitigation for non-focusing window Drag and Drop bug in macOS 15.4 --- ## Alfred 5.6 Build 2290, Monday 24th February 2025 ### Workflow Improvements and Fixes - Added fn+Click shortcut in Workflow Editor to automatically align objects to the selected object - Added hint for this in Workflow Editor overlay - Workflow variable placeholders now available in more places e.g. - Alfred 5.5 GUI Views alternative mod connection subtext - Universal Actions trigger name - File Actions trigger name - When deleting a Workflow, add option on dialog to also remove the workflow's cache and data folders - Disabled by default, Alfred will remember the checkbox status - Added option to sort the Workflow list by category in the Workflow Editor - Improve workflow object debugging by displaying when processing of last stream object is complete, and the discarded argument at this point - Fix (null) keyword string when configuring a Workflow subsequent Keyword Input in "keyword" inbound mode, and omitting a keyword in the configuration - Also show a warning message in the debugger of this misconfiguration - Update Music Command Workflow object popup style to match System Command workflow object - Correct prefocus the path field in the Reveal File in Finder Workflow object configuration - Update Grid View buffer behaviour to better match default results - Fix showing Workflow Bundle Id as orange if it contains unexpected characters - Update the Dispatch Key Combo Workflow object config to use a number slider for the dispatch count - Added new `alfred_theme_window_width` workflow script environment variable - Remove the "All Workflow Objects" workflow object from the getting started menu, as the palette provides the same information - Prevent double encoding of + when using %2B when calling a Workflow External Trigger via URL - The External Trigger Identifier configuration will now show as orange text when unsuitable characters are used - Implement External Trigger Identifier conflict resolution logic within the Object Inbound Configuration sheet - Add small message to Run Script and Script Filter Workflow object configurations hinting towards using the "with input as argv" mode - Improve the layout and alignment of the components in the generated Workflow User configuration view - Update "Subtitle" to "Subtext" in List Filter and Grid View Workflow object configurations - Standardise the Input File field parsing behaviour in the Text View and Grid View Workflow UI Objects, and the External Script option of Run Script and Script Filter - These now all accept `{var:}` in the file input field - Update any references of `{var:}` to `{var:varname}` for consistency throughout Alfred's Preferences - Update script-based Workflow object configuration sheets "Create" button greyout behaviour when using External Scripts, now matching the Workflow UI object configuration - Add missing keyboard navigation to Workflow UI configuration sheets - Update the Remote Trigger Workflow object argument config to match the Hotkey Trigger - Improve Script Filter JSON parsing, now skips unexpected item type ### General Improvements and Fixes - The `shutdown` and `restart` commands now correctly respect the macOS "Reopen windows when logging back in" setting found when manually shutting down or restarting your Mac - It's now possible to copy the Alfred version number from the General and Update preferences - Fix AirDrop capitalisation in Alfred's default results - Improve accessibility of Alfred Preferences Workflow Gallery integration - Update the Run NSAppleScript Remote action config message to match the Workflow object config message - Update Subtitle to Subtext for consistency in Alfred's Remote Page configuration - Remove the Alfred 5.5 banner from Alfred's preferences - Remove historic Sonoma 14.0 rendering bug mitigations - Instantiate spell checker on main thread to prevent rare hang when pasting define command immediately after startup - Add tab autocomplete to calculations to resolve the answer into Alfred's input field - Works similar to appending = to a calculation - Updated messaging in Clipboard Viewer when there are no snippets, or no clipboard history, giving better context - Prevent rare crash if inserting a hanging high surrogate into Alfred's text input box programatically - Tweak to Music Mini Player AppleScript in resetting the Alfred playlist before populating - Update Application cache to strip /System/Volumes/Data/ from Application path when on an external drive - Update internal search `?` keyword to find the Large Type feature when typing "large type" with a space - Added additional data in File Search troubleshooting --- ## Alfred 5.5.1 Build 2273, Friday 13th September 2024 ### macOS 15 Sequoia - Alfred 5 officially supports macOS Sequoia - Add macOS Sequoia Passwords app by default in Clipboard History ### Workflow Improvements and Fixes - Fix Workflow connection veto close correctly pasting when copying groups of objects - Improve warnings for Number Slider configurable config when marker count is notable - Fixed Grid View JSON Universal Action overrides, which also fixes correctly adding overridden items to the buffer - Fix copying from Grid View when there is no search field visible - Ignore empty paths passed into the Grid View workflow object - When directly calling an input object with multiple keywords and Inbound Mode set to Keyword, use the first keyword - Added a defaults write to change the font size of the workflow debugger ranged between 11 (default) and 24 (big) - `defaults write com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred-Preferences workflows.debuggerFontSize [size]` - Fix issue to refresh a workflow's compound variable cache after updating environment variables via AppleScript - Fix Script Filter not showing Universal Actions panel when JSON `arg` is empty, `action` is populated - Improve handling of missing `arg` in grid view when triggering Universal Actions - Match Automation Task names non-sequentially in Workflow Palette search - Tweak help subtext in various Workflow objects - Tweak Workflow context popup menu to simplify some options - Fix Workflow JSON Config editor to correctly show emoji characters in strings while retaining syntax highlighting - Fix correctly following alternative connections configured as `fn↩︎` in Workflow User Interface Views ### General Improvements and Fixes - Write localhash to prefs.json to aid in advanced workflow creation - Updated Universal Actions file display name code to obtain display name immediately after rename - Increase width of "Match Application's keywords in Default Results" checkbox in Application search options - Modify Usage tab to bring "Copy Stats" button top the top level - Fix Markdown Rendering of image widths when contained within a list - Fix matching `?automation tasks` with a trailing s to open Automation Task Options - Update placeholder icons in theme editor to be more colourful - Improve Terminal integration code, specifically for large inputs - Update Twitter to X in default web search, while retaining 'twitter' as a secondary keyword --- ## Alfred 5.5 Build 2257, Monday 18th March 2024 This is a absolutely huge and significant update! Visit https://www.alfredapp.com/whats-new/ to see what's new and get some great workflows! ### New Workflow UI Components for rich interaction with Alfred - Grid View: With the new Grid View object, show results image and file results in a satisfyingly visual layout! - Dynamically feed in a list of files from the previous workflow object or use JSON to script your input - Customise the column count and image aspect - Include an optional search field to filter the grid results - Text View: A super flexible, editable Markdown and plain text view, expanding your Workflow abilities immensely. Take simple notes or create a fully interactive text editor! - Populate results from a workflow object, a script for dynamic results or a file source - Make the text selectable, or editable within Alfred, with optional continuous spell checking mode when editable - Parse the results as Markdown: Include images, links, code blocks, lists, headers and more within your Markdown content - Dynamically specify footer text and loading text, including hotkey modifier hints - Image View: Browse images in a clean, automatically sized view within Alfred. - Preview a single image from Alfred's results - Preview multiple results with a pagination guide at the bottom and use the arrows to navigate - Stack the view, so it's easy to go back to Alfred results with Esc - `⌘O` opens the current file in its default app - Use numbers `⌘0` to maximise the window and `⌘9` to Zoom to Fit - PDF View: Browse your PDFs in Alfred - Select and copy text from the PDF - Change the page display via the right-click context menu to show a single page or double page side by side - Navigate through your PDF, and zoom in and out using hotkeys - Stack views on top of Alfred results to quickly go back to them with Esc ### Universal Actions - New "View in Alfred" Universal Action - Takes advantage of rich new views to quickly view images, Markdown, text, pdfs - use `⌘0` to dynamically enlarge the content viewer - Multi select images, view them in Alfred, then use `←` or `→` to quickly switch between them - Improve Workflow Universal Action integration - Fix resolution of variables in keywords when matching Keyword and Script Filter actions in Universal Actions view - New global option on canvas popup menu to toggle treating newly added Inputs and Script Filters as Universal Actions - Update Recent Documents Universal Action to correctly load recents on macOS Sonoma - Additionally add to the recent documents list from Alfred's internal knowledge ### More Workflow Improvements - Workflow Editor now resolves keyword variables on input objects - Renders in italic to differentiate from fixed keywords - Globally disabled and enabled in canvas popup menu options - On running a Workflow, show clickable macOS Notification when Automation Tasks are missing - Clicking the notification will open the "Update Automation Tasks" preferences sheet - New Workflow JSON output key to cache script output for high performance - Includes loose reload mode to show expired results while loading new results - Cache is cleared for specific workflows on using 'reload workflow' AppleScript - Added new "Unstack View" option to Hide Alfred workflow object - Allows for graceful unstacking of stackable views such as the new Image View - Added new Number Slider to Workflow user configuration options - Configure for number range, visual markers and limiting markers (e.g. 10 steps) - Automatically switches min / max if configured incorrectly - Correctly return an error when calling a Workflow External Trigger externally, and the workflow needs user configuration - Fix word truncation in title bar of Workflow debugger - Fix Workflow window veto close logic when using result mod overrides, to prevent default connection veto from being used - Holding ⌥ on the Workflow Gallery menu in the Workflow Editor will now give a "Fix Tools" option to fix broken Homebrew / Xcode instances - Tweak Text Field behaviour in Workflow User Configuration for consistent behaviour - Fix sizing of generated Workflow user config to match the preview size - Fix initial field focus in Show Alfred Workflow object configuration - Allow Automation Task framework more control over workflow stream on task error ### General Improvements - Add "View in Alfred" as new default result modifier action in Advanced prefs, uses new rich views - Overhaul the top level window / view framework to allow for the dynamic heights and widths of the new Workflow UI Components - Rewrite Alfred window location and sizing logic to better constrain to display height - New custom Markdown renderer for Workflow "About" and Change Log - Prevent text from slightly overflowing selection on right side of Alfred Window input fields in macOS 15+ - Accessibility - Updated Large Type window to work correctly with VoiceOver - Improved Dialog Conditional Workflow Object configuration VoiceOver - Fixed System Command preferences to better read components - Add new "?Add Default Search Scope" internal search - Add + button for search scopes in File Filter workflow object - Improve accessibility for Dispatch Key Combo object combo field - Fix internal search to correctly return Workflow results when there is a manually edited invalid info.plist - When deleting a workflow or snippet, the name is now shown in the confirmation dialog - Update theme editor background to only show system backgrounds which are viewable - Fix theme options position view from clipping tiny Alfred outside of the bounds --- ## Alfred 5.1.4 Build 2195, Wednesday 25th October 2023 - macOS Sonoma - Remove visual glitch mitigation and fixed window size option if using Sonoma 14.1 as FB13188204 is fixed - Fix layout of initial Permission Request window, preventing truncated text on "Don't show again" checkbox - Fix the File Action workflow trigger to strictly filter for the specified file types - You'll now only see the trigger in Universal Actions if all given files satisfy the specified file types - Tweak Powerpack preferences tab layout for visual clarity - Update Workflow framework to tweak behaviour of nil arguments converted to argument arrays differently to improve Automation Task behaviour - Added `alfred_workflow_description` to the workflow constants to provide the Workflow's description - Prevent unnecessary parameters from being saved in Workflow plist when they are no longer relevant - Show current version in Update preferences when a new update is available - Tweak wording for macOS metadata reindex button to "Rebuild macOS Metadata Index" - Tweak Automation Tasks in workflow editor to prevent stacked event listeners --- ## Alfred 5.1.3 Build 2175, Monday 25th September 2023 - macOS Sonoma - Add certain temporary mitigations to a Sonoma visual glitch until workaround can be established, or Sonoma bug fixed (FB13188204) - If you're experiencing rendering bugs in Alfred's default results, enable the "Default Results Fixed Size" in Alfred's General preferences - Add additional countries to "Where are you" for website localisation - Default to google.com for Google searches, matching Safari's behaviour - More reliably logged in to Google account when using Google related searches - Added option in Alfred's General preferences to return to previous local domain behaviour - Fix Workflow debugger crashing when attempting to post nil argument - Update theme footer margin to be fixed at predictable 10px instead of using search field margin - Using ⌘Esc within Alfred will now close Alfred regardless of stacked views - e.g. if you've navigated from the default results to the Universal Actions view, ⌘Esc will hide Alfred instead of taking you back to the default results - Tweak Alfred window and view automatic sizing calculation to better constrain to short screen resolutions - Fix internal URL scheme to open workflows by both Workflow UID, falling back on to Workflow Bundle ID - Move Universal Actions "No matching actions" to footer for more consistency with FS Navigation - Remove superfluous characters from end of "Loading volumes, please wait...ec" message - Begin removal of Sonoma rendering bug mitigation code - Update framework file picker to re-select file in popout Open dialog in e.g. User Config and File Picker --- ## Alfred 5.1.2 Build 2145, Wednesday 2nd August 2023 - macOS Sonoma tweaks - Tweak framework of file and app opening, fixing the opening of web pages saved as Web Apps - The {snippet:...} placeholder is now processed in the Arg/Var, Large Type, and Write File Workflow objects - As these 3 objects operate in plain text, rich text snippets will be converted to plain text - Note: It's not recommended to use this placeholder if you intend to publish your workflows, as the snippet may not exist - Add a new Script Type of `/bin/zsh --no-rcs` which gives a cleaner environment for running Workflows - This is the default script language for newly created Run Script and Script Filter objects - Improve passive Gallery Workflow update checking - Tweak and clarify wording on workflow message dialogs, e.g. Prefab dialog when no objects selected --- ## Alfred 5.1.1 Build 2138, Tuesday 30th May 2023 - Improve VoiceOver in default results for files with differing filename and Display Name - Tweak Preferences Snippet table sizing to prevent ... truncation in header - Tweak Alfred Preferences update message when unable to connect to CDN to download update - Tweak help subtext in Workflow File Filter and File Action Trigger configuration - Tweak Checkbox label description for clarity in Workflow Configuration Builder - Add 'Resolve Dependencies' and 'Automation Task Options' to the ? keyword internal search - Update Amazon search url to latest format, and include additional country localised domains - Add installed Automation Task version into exported diagnostics - Remove outdated Permissions Enabled example in Permissions helper sheet - Clarified help text in Dispatch Key Combo Workflow object --- ## Alfred 5.1 Build 2134, Wednesday 26th April 2023 ### Workflows - Automation Tasks - New Options sheet to configure and update tasks, available from Workflows > Alfred Gallery > Automation Task Options... - Improvements to the Automation Task updater framework, including option to automatically keep tasks up to date - Automation Tasks can now be added to the Workflow Palette - Enable in the Automation Task Options sheet - Once in the Palette, they can be searched and added to the workflow like native objects - Framework has been updated to better support internal overridable query input, giving more native experience - Alfred Gallery Improvements - Updated Workflow Gallery icon hints in workflow list for clarity - When checking for Gallery Workflow updates, Alfred will now alter the workflow list filter to ensure workflows needing updates are visible - Added new option to sort workflow list by Gallery Updated which sorts by Gallery Updates > Gallery Workflows > Alphabetical - Avoid crash in Alfred Preferences' Gallery updater when cancelling the update during the initialisation - Added new Expression Utility workflow object - Allows for easy variable and query expressions such as incrementing variables - Updated Random Utility workflow object - Add new option to get random word from a newline separated string - Updated Reveal File in Finder Action workflow object - Now correctly processes multiple passed-in paths, revealing all paths in Finder instead of only first path - Accessibility Improvements - Overhauled VoiceOver of workflow object configuration sheets: List Filter, File Filter, Script Filter, Dictionary Filter, Running Apps Filter - Add + and - Buttons to the Hotkey Trigger Related Apps tab for improved Accessibility - Improve Alfred Ubiquitous Search (? keyword) to include Workflow Configuration fields (by name or value), and environment variables - Search will also now match variable names used in input object keyword fields - Multiple keywords will also be matched if using the || modifier - Updated Workflow Editor notification system, now made generic to allow for more than simple Alfred Gallery update notifications - Now shows Automation Tasks update available - Click to remove a visible notification - Rename "User Configuration" to "Configuration Builder" in the workflow backend config, to better explain its purpose - Strip irrelevant newlines from text fields in Workflow naming and export sheets when saving - Remove automatic lowercasing of keywords fields in input objects on saving, allowing for case-sensitive variable names - Tweak wording in Workflow Dependencies Management for clarity - Fix incorrect component resizing when selecting "Reset to Defaults" in workflow configuration - Fix text truncation when workflow configuration checkbox text is too long - Tweak Script Filter config UI layout to better vertical align components - System Command workflow object Eject All action updated to use Alfred's new eject framework - Added option to reload workflow on popup in preferences workflow list, useful for when e.g. a symlinked workflow isn't automatically reloading on external edit - Added new Alfred AppleScript command to reveal a Workflow via UID or Bundle Id, and optionally show the Workflow's User Configuration - The Script Filter JSON `action` property now correctly overrides `arg` when adding a result to the buffer - Update built-in Script Filter getting started workflow with improved descriptions and notes - The Script Filter keyword is now set as environment alfred_workflow_keyword on running a script to complement || multiple keywords - The Workflow Editor now writes a sorted history of selected workflow UIDs to history.json in Alfred's application support folder, ordered latest selected workflow first - Prefabs with a single item now correctly open the workflow configuration when the option to "Show Configuration Sheet for Newly Added Objects" is selected - Fix dragging Safari into Hotkey Trigger object configuration > Related Apps - Gracefully truncate Workflow name and description in Workflow Editor header and Import sheet ### Clipboard and Snippets - Added the ability to QuickLook Alfred's Clipboard History - Select the item in the history and tap ⇧ or press ⌘Y - Works with text, images and single files - Added new option to convert image data to PNG on pasting - Will result in smaller data output, but may result in loss of colour accuracy or compatibility - Added ⌘O to directly open Files and URLs from the Clipboard History list - The snippet's keyword is now shown in the default results when using the snip keyword - This can be disabled in Alfred's Snippet preferences - Show correct default Snippet Collection icon when searching with ? keyword - Update clipboard image import to use NSPasteboardTypeTIFF (public.tiff) in place of deprecated NSTIFFPboardType (NeXT TIFF v4.0 pasteboard type) ### General - Clarify the Powerpack activation UI, adding spacing and a title label - Update Apple Maps search icon to match current version - Update the 1Password feature preferences to link to the Alfred Gallery 1Password workflow - Tweak file application cache to be more accommodating of alternative unicode spaces - Change Alfred Preferences title bar error messages colour to system red to make it easier to see in dark mode - Update build environment and targets - Significant code review and refinements, removing deprecated code, adding future-proofing - Update mechanisms used for discovering ejectable volumes - Ejectable volumes are now discovered off of the main thread to avoid potential UI pauses - Eject and Eject All commands now have a placeholder result when loading mounted drives, or if no mounts exist to eject - Use new eject framework to discover removable drives to be used in the Copy to... / Move to... Universal Actions - Removed deprecated Alfred 2 theme importing - Migrate URL discovery and testing methods in Custom Web Search feature to update framework - Markdown rendering improvements - Fix horizontal rule rendering in markdown when using macOS Ventura - Fix incorrect interpretation of URLs within brackets - Update URLs to use URL string when title is empty - Fix 'bing' title to 'Bing' in default web searches, and updated to the latest Bing logo - Update ebay default web search icon - Rewrite keyword matching framework for higher performance and new features - Multiple keywords can now be specified in features and workflows by using the || separator - Update auto-completion logic to only complete the keyword if the expected argument type is none - Add back notes in the Contacts viewer using new authorised provisioning profile - Tweak internal vector icon rendering to fix incorrect drop shadows, and increase performance - Update the copied argument when using the ? keyword to prepend navigateto/ which makes for a valid URL scheme on Ventura - Add additional `settings` keyword to show Alfred's Preferences --- ## Alfred 5.0.6 Build 2110, Tuesday 13th December 2022 - Alfred Gallery Early Access - Browse Workflows on our new Workflow Gallery at https://alfred.app/ - Almost 100 workflows already added, and hundreds more already in review to be added over the Early Access period - Install workflows directly into Alfred using the "Install in Alfred" button in the gallery - Keep Gallery workflows updated to their latest versions from directly within Alfred's Preferences - Manage Homebrew dependencies for Gallery workflows automatically using the new Resolve Dependencies feature - Overhauled the macOS Reindexing sheet and underlying framework - Add Voice Over accessibility to Contacts Viewer - Remove unused Show button from Alfred's macOS Notification - It's now possible to hide individual default actions from the default view in the Workflow Editor when no Workflow is selected - Right-click in the view and select the action you would like to hide - Improve AppleScript behaviour for updating and removing workflow configuration - Fixes bug where prefs.plist wouldn't be written under certain circumstances - Replace out some legacy Workflow icons with updated icons - Update Remote template icons to use updated Workflow icons - Strip kbd tags in markdown interpretation - Improve underlying view layout calculation of Workflow user configuration - Clear the icon cache for a Workflow when updating or reinstalling the workflow - Fix incorrectly caching Alfred theme when directly accessing feature views after a macOS dark mode toggle - Added option to ignore Universal Clipboard file lists in the clipboard history --- ## Alfred 5.0.5 Build 2096, Thursday 3rd November 2022 - Date placeholder rollbacks and enhancements - Roll back 5.0.4 POSIX formatting fix, as this turned out to break language settings for formatted dates - Fix 24h custom date formatting with the following: - Add new `{isodate:...}`, `{isotime:...}` and `{isodatetime}` placeholders which fix locale to POSIX and conform to ISO 8601 - Using `{isodatetime}` will give 24h fixed ISO 8601 format `yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZZZZZ` - Updated template for sortable date time placeholder template to use iso formatting, to fix in 24h - Added new Date and Time ISO 8601 placeholder template --- ## Alfred 5.0.4 Build 2095, Tuesday 1st November 2022 - macOS Ventura Tweaks - Clean up search result subtext for apps in the Cryptexes folder - Pre-cache Safari's updated location - Workflow Tweaks - Workflow user configuration values can now be set and removed via AppleScript - Add "Configure..." item on Workflow list popup menu, and clarify button text to "Configure Workflow..." in Workflow editor header - Add : label suffixes in Workflow user configuration back end items - Update placeholder dates to use POSIX fixed formatting for user defined formats - Fix List Filter object configuration sheet resizing - Clean up the AppleScript dictionary definition descriptions - Correctly open Aliased packages and apps from the File System Navigation - Improvements to file search scoping and troubleshooting - Added additional options to the search scope Reset... button - Reset to Applications and Home - This enables Applications, disables Folders in Home, and adds ~ along with a few more relevant folders - Reset to Full Disk - This disables Applications and Folders in Home, and adds / - Improve home folder discovery when Folders in Home is selected, rejecting more potentially irrelevant folders - Alter home folder location detection, and add redundancy check - Default to adding ~ to scope if unable to detect home folders - File Search Troubleshooting - Add more details to the file readability step - Add 3 actual MDQuery searches for the file based on defined scope, home and all - Add progress indicator, as MDQuery may not return instantly --- ## Alfred 5.0.3 Build 2087, Tuesday 11th October 2022 - macOS Ventura Preparation - Update build environment - Update Alfred's build target version, and remove deprecated API calls - Remove legacy text rendering (some custom themes may need tweaks) - Tweaks to Mini Player AppleScript to fix certain tracks from not playing - Tweaks to labels and descriptions in Features preferences - Workflow User Configuration updates - Add "Default Value" for Popup configuration item - Update File Picker to have user editable field which also accepts e.g. `{var:}` - Added a placeholder configuration field to the File Picker - Performance tweaks to image caching - Tweaks to background local IP lookup for the Alfred Remote preferences --- ## Alfred 5.0.2 Build 2073, Monday 29th August 2022 - Prepare for updated v5 Corporate Powerpack activation - Hide folder's Icon file from navigation to match Finder behaviour - If required, this can be brought back using `defaults write com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred fsShowFolderIconFiles 1` - Palette improvements - Favourited Workflow palette items are now prioritised above non-favourited items in the palette search - Add "Filter" to "Running Apps" object in palette for consistency - Write File Workflow output object improvements - Add "Prepend" option to file writing - Add option to write relative file to workflow's cache folder - Improve accessibility descriptions and tabbing order - Remove /System/Volumes/Data/ from path subtext for file searches (default search and custom workflow file filters) - Warn in workflow User Configuration when there are duplicate Environment Variable keys - Add "Open Editor Shortcuts Help" to Workflow canvas popup menu - Opens useful guide and cheatsheet for operating the canvas effectively using the keyboard - Add `⇧⌥arrows` shortcut to Workflow editor to match `⇧⌥click` behaviour of connecting but not moving the selection - Update Custom Search configuration test button to match encoding behaviour of resulting Custom Search - Update `{clipboard}` placeholder to better conform to `{placeholder:variation.modifiers}` - `{clipboard.lowercase}` and `{clipboard:2.lowercase}` is now the recommended syntax - `{clipboard:lowercase}` still works for backwards compatibility - Fix the help link on the Workflow Dialog Conditional object - Improve URL syntax parsing for Workflow markdown - Now also makes plain URLs clickable - Workflow Export dialog - Improve accessibility of fields and responder order - Tweak help subtext on Workflow export dialog - Update Workflow Replace utility to pre-process newlines and tabs in RegEx replacement template --- ## Alfred 5.0.1 Build 2067, Wednesday 27th July 2022 - Improvements - Additions to Split Arg utility object - Added new "Discard empty items" option - Improved VoiceOver and keyboard navigation - Improve Automation Task Workflow debug output to show which task is being run - Workflow markdown interpretation now also accepts both star and plus for unordered lists - Update the Workflow Prefab icon to better visually differentiate it in the Palette search - Improve experience on creating scripts via the Workflow Run Script / Script Filter "Create File" button - When no file extension is given to the file name, open the file in the default text editor - Warn when there are duplicate variable names used between Environment Variables and User Configuration in the Workflow Configuration - Palette search now also matches when not using spaces, e.g. "openurl" will now show "Open URL" in the results - Workflow JSON overrides for certain objects improved - Debug utility now allows override of processing outputs, and clear debug text - Speak output now allows override of using VoiceOver - Split Arg now allows override of output mode - Browse in Alfred now allows override of sorting and stacking - Minor fixes and tweaks - Clear workflow's constants cache on committing an edit to a workflow - Fix spelling in Workflow Prefab dialog 'cavnas' to 'canvas' - Fix spelling in Workflow Debug sheet 'do' to 'to' - Fix button text colour for Workflow Getting Started Follow-Along guide when using macOS Light Mode - Fix scrollbar behaviour in Workflow Configuration > User Configuration sheet when macOS scrollbars set to Always - Add a warning dialog at startup if user doesn't meet minimum macOS 10.14 requirement - Fix correctly saving object configuration when using Run Script or Script Filter set to "External Script" then selecting "Create File" button - Remove / from the {query} and {var} URL encoded character list to make encoding options more forgiving - Make additional tweaks to new URL encoding algorithm to better work with unicode - Update Share Usage link URLs in Alfred Preference's Usage tab to use newer twitter URLs - Fix scroll view content sizing in Configurable Config Text Area fields - Fix scrollbars on Workflow User Configuration and Automation Task sheets when scrollbars set to always - Tweak size of the Workflow Config backend shared "description" field to better vertically fit text - Update info and error label colours in Workflow Delay utility object config to be dark mode compatible - Fix sizing of Prefab and Favourite sections of the palette to properly fit text when no items are added --- ## Alfred 5.0 Build 2057, Wednesday 13th July 2022 ### Workflows - Brand new Workflow Editor - Completely rewritten from the ground up to put accessibility and performance first - New palette for more efficient workflow creation - Drag and drop to add items to the canvas - Normal and compact mode, and easily expand and collapse sections - Favourites section to host your most used workflow objects - Preconfigured objects, or groups of objects, can be stored in the palette as Prefabs for faster workflow creation - New Workflow landing screen when no workflows are selected, with handy shortcuts - New Getting Started guide - Walks new users through the various aspects of workflow development - Interactive Getting Started section in the palette, with prefabs to drag and connect - New configurable "User Configuration" for workflows - Add simple user-facing preferences to your workflows, making them easier for users to install and set-up - Recognisable controls such as Text fields, check boxes, picker boxes and more - Option for required fields which are highlighted with orange - Assign variable names and default values to each item which are then available throughout your workflow - Configuration shown on importing or upgrading a workflow - Quickly access a workflow's configuration from within the editor using the Configure Workflow button, or ⌘, - Keyboard navigation around workflow objects - Use ⌘ arrows to select objects around the canvas - Use ⌘⌥ left / right to navigate along connection streams - Use ⌘⌥ up / down to navigate to connected siblings - When no objects are selected, arrow keys will navigate the scroll area (⇧ arrows for larger steps) - Improved view focusing progression during actions, making keyboard navigation more predictable - New Workflow object icons to clarify workflow development - Individual connections can now be disabled, allowing for easier workflow development and testing - Efficient automatic workflow object connection with the ⌥ key - When dragging items from the palette or using the palette search, hold ⌥ to automatically connect to selected items - Select an item, hold ⌥ and click items to chain connect the items in order - Select one or more items, hold ⇧⌥ and click items to connect items to the first selected items - When dragging a new connection to an empty space on the canvas, you can now scroll from the edges of the canvas to create more space - Improvements to snapping and sizing to allow for better horizontal alignment - Notes are now intrinsically rendered as part of the object, so they don't get rendered behind other objects - Improved connection path detection, including recognising clicking the alternative path indicator - Improved rendering quality when zooming a canvas - Added alignment options for selected objects, both horizontally and vertically centred or referenced around clicked object - New Inbound Configuration option to modify the incoming argument before it's used - Updated indicator on workflow object input in editor when argument is being modified - The workflow list is now resizable - Hotkey Trigger highlight colour now differentiates when sharing combo with disabled workflows - Related hotkeys on canvas popup menu also show when the related hotkey is within a disabled workflow - Contextual help for workflow objects can now be found in more places - It is now possible to edit a Workflow object note by double clicking it - The "About Workflow" now supports a subset of Markdown - Add pretty introductions and help to your workflows, including images from the workflow's folder - Currently supported: Headers, italic, bold, unordered lists, inline code, separator, local image, links - New Workflow debugger - Debugger is now available at the top level of the Workflow preferences, without the need to select a workflow - Created new Automations object category - Moved Music and System Commands into Automations - Snippet Triggers can now optionally be shown in the Clipboard History / Snippets Viewer - This is a global option available within the Snippet Trigger object configuration - External Trigger updated to optionally enable running of triggers via URL Scheme - Example shown in object configuration - Updated Conditional Utility object - Added cases for evaluating boolean true and false - Added option to hide the "Else" fallback condition - Script Filter - Added new `skipknowledge` boolean field to the top level JSON - Allows for fixed order result sets while maintaining result UIDs (for item re-selection on reload) - Rename `File` utility to `File Conditional` to better represent its purpose - Rename `Split Arg to Vars` to `Split Arg` and add option to output as a list of arguments instead of variables - Added convenient popup button for default delimiters e.g. comma, tab, new line - Add new `Run Shortcut` automation object - Run macOS 12+ specified shortcuts from within your workflow - Specify input as `string` or `file(s)` - Choose to ignore Shortcut output and continue, or wait for Shortcut and use its output - Add new `Join Arg` utility object - Converts multiple input arguments into a single output argument with specified join character - Useful with supporting some Automation Tasks - Add new Running Apps workflow input filter object - Select output from Bundle ID, Path, or Process ID - Add optional result title prefix as a hint to the action - Add new Dialog Conditional utility object - Present a macOS System dialog to the user - Configure title, description and up to 3 available buttons - Multiple outputs, allowing different path based on button pressed - Add new Speak output object - Speaks configured or passed-in text - Stripped back run script environment to ensure external variables don't pollute Alfred's script environment - Update default run script environment path to `/opt/homebrew/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin` - Python 3 has now been added to the default script selection - Note that if Python 3 hasn't already been installed via e.g. Homebrew, this may trigger the Xcode command line tools install - Update the default selected script type for Run Script and Script Filter to zsh instead of bash - New word matching framework - Improves boundary matching beyond whitespace - New "Word based - sequential" matching option available in Script Filter when selecting "Alfred filters results" - List Filter now shares the same matching options available in the Script Filter - `/usr/bin/swift` has now been added to the selectable language types in Run Script and Script Filter - Prevent clicking through on an unpopulated website in the workflow importer and exporter - Improvements to the `placeholder` system throughout Workflows - The `{query}` placeholder will now process placeholder modifiers, e.g. `{query.lowercase.trim}` - Allows for faster workflow development with fewer utility objects - Access constants, previously only available to Run Script and Script Filter, using `{const:constname}`, e.g. `{const:alfred_workflow_version}` - Use `{constants}` in the Debug Utility to view all constants for a workflow within the workflow debugger - Improve script runtime handler to prevent user-overridden Alfred constants - Debug Utility now uses `{variables}` to dump all variables, however `{allvars}` will still be recognised for backwards compatibility. - When duplicating a symlinked workflow, fully resolve the symlinked path so the workflow is correctly duplicated ### General - Alfred now uses the Modern and Modern Dark as the default themes - Roll out enhanced URL handler throughout Alfred allowing for more flexible URL recognition and handling - Remove deprecated UTF-8 option from custom web searches, make all searches UTF-8 - Improve Alfred text view undo algorithm to break coalescing on non-alphanumeric breaks instead of timing - Add custom Alfred accent colour to Preferences UI, for improved experience on Big Sur+ - Improved icon rendering across the board - Larger hit zones for buttons at the bottom of the Workflows, Themes and Remote Pages lists - Improved macOS Colour palette behaviour in theme editor when changing colour options - Improvements to Ubiquitous Internal Preferences Search, ? keyword within Alfred - Add new blank workflows using `?add workflow` ### Snippets - New option to allow resetting of colour, size and font in rich text - Useful for creating formatted snippets which are dark mode compatible - Option also added to Copy to Clipboard Workflow object - Separate icons for Snippets and Snippet Collections for UI clarity - Enable drag and drop of snippets between collections in the preferences - Fix disabled collection colour in preferences dark mode ### Universal Actions - Reveal in Finder Universal Action now works with multiple file selections ### Accessibility - Alfred 5 brings a big overhaul in Accessibility, and marks the start of an ongoing process to refine and improve every aspect of Alfred 5 - When searching in Alfred using the ? keyword, or using the Alfred Preferences search, workflows are now correctly focused when searched for and actioned --- # Changes made during the Alfred 5 Early Access ## Alfred 5.0 GM1 Build 2057, Wednesday 13th July 2022 - A few further tweaks to URL processing - Preparation for General Release, removing Early Access banner from prefs ## Alfred 5.0 EA11 Build 2053, Tuesday 12th July 2022 - Fix Early Access regression in URL query argument handling throughout Alfred - Open URL workflow object - Improve flexibility of URL placeholder handling by offering two new options to Encode {query} and Encode {var:} - These are checked by default, and are best left checked under normal use of this object - When unchecked, options are passed to the URL processor unchanged, giving developer control over encoding - Overhaul Accessibility for the Open URL object, with correct tab focus ordering, and better VoiceOver descriptions ## Alfred 5.0 RC1 Build 2050, Monday 11th July 2022 - Run Shortcut Workflow Automation Action - Update underlying shortcut execution from using 'shortcuts' command line tool to calling AppleScript 'Shortcut Events' instead - Fixes issue where passed file paths were copied to macOS temporary folder so couldn't be operated on - Update shortcuts logic to fall back to No Input when overriding JSON with an out of range value input mode value - Fix layout on resizing Workflow configuration sheet environment variables tab - Workflow Debugger log messages output from the Debug workflow object now show as system yellow in the debugger to better stand out - Update iTunes to Music in Mini Player volume commands - Update default "Search in Finder" fallback to show correct Finder subtext in Alfred's results - General Release preparations - Remove EA from bundle version number (Preferences are still in Early Access mode) - Improve Alfred Preferences Powerpack tab and activation process - Remove Powerpack requirement from using Early Access build - Tweaks to the Onboarding / Welcome process ## Alfred 5.0 EA10 - Accessibility - Add + and - buttons to Launch Apps / Files Workflow Object configuration sheet to make more accessible - Improve memory efficiency of Automation Tasks when running internal scripts - Run Shortcut Workflow Automation Action - Add (default) input option to ignore passed argument - This prevents certain Shortcut app scripts from failing due to an unexpected input being passed - Improve task caching to better respect overridden options - Stop workflow when the Shortcut action errors, shown in the Workflow debugger ## Alfred 5.0 EA9 - Accessibility - Improve the Alfred Preference's Music Feature VoiceOver descriptions - More label changes in Preferences from iTunes to Music - Update Automation Task workflow object to respect Task UID configuration override (e.g. using the JSON Config utility object) - Workflow Shortcuts Automation action - Stop workflow stream if no Shortcut selected, or there is a Shortcut error - Enable Workflow object configuration overrides - Add System Bold to the available standard fonts in Alfred's theme editor ## Alfred 5.0 EA8 - Accessibility - Improve VoiceOver of selected workflow object in canvas - Now reads additional visual information on the object such as the defined keyword for a Keyword Input - Reads the attached canvas note for the object - Reads defined hotkey value - Remove macOS Bug workaround which verbally changed modifier keys to text in Hotkey View accessibility - Fix prevents double reading of mod keys, please let me know if you don't hear the mod keys anymore - Update Automation Task workflow object to respect config overrides (e.g. using the JSON Config utility object) - Automation Task Updater improvements - Configured Automation Tasks with a missing underlying Task now show as red in canvas - Tasks will automatically reconfigure themselves once updated tasks are installed, and canvas update - Improve robustness of workflow array stream processing to ensure non-strings are correctly processed by objects - Workflow Configuration Sheet (the sheet under the [x] button) - Update the help button link location to a more suitable page - Make the user config preview sheet width better match the live sheet to aid text decisions - Update the default Mini Player keyword to "music", because apparently leaving it as "itunes" wasn't being retro-funny ;) ## Alfred 5.0 EA7 - Workflow Canvas and Accessibility - Update Speech Workflow output object with option to automatically use VoiceOver for output - Enabled by default for newly added objects, falls back to using macOS Speech Synthesiser - Added `⌥arrows` to automatically connect while navigating in the canvas - The "next selected object" for connection uses the same logic as using `⌘arrows` - Added `⌥⌫` to remove connections to and from the selected object(s) - Added `⌘↩︎` to show the popup menu for the selected object(s) - Automation Tasks - Add the initial Automation Task update mechanism, currently available from within the Workflow Automation Task object - Downloads and installs (or reinstalls) the Automation Tasks from our official repository - Additional changes are coming here before General Release - Update the task argument validation to discard irrelevant arguments being passed in, and then check the Task expected input count on the remaining items - Allows for much more flexibility when adding Automation Task objects throughout a workflow - Add additional debugging output in the Workflow debugger to show which arguments are being used, and which have been discarded - Fixed the help button link location in the Workflow configuration (the sheet under the [x] button) - Loosen the URL validation within the Open URL Workflow Object configuration, now allowing for e.g. `{query}/xyz` or `{var:xyz}` - Prevent non-configured Workflow Snippet Triggers from showing in the Snippet Viewer - Pass .icloud files to Finder for opening, which will instigate a download and open of these files - Prevent Workflow and Automation Task auto-generated configuration text fields from incorrectly wrapping with long text - Added + and - buttons to the Clipboard History App Ignore list in Alfred's Preferences to improve accessibility - Added links to follow-along counterpart webpages for the Workflow getting started guides ## Alfred 5.0 EA6 - Open URL workflow object - Updated to now recognise multiple input arguments, and process defined URL for each argument - Improves flexibility when used in combination with new and updated workflow objects, including the Automation Task object - Workflow User Configuration Backend - Add new option to Copy an entire item (on item's popup menu), and paste it as new (from + button) - Make Workflow user configuration backend subtext descriptions non-selectable - Workflow readme markdown improvements - Improve link detection, and remove Open URL confirmation check - Fix markdown syntax, now using asterisks for bold, italic, and bold italic - Fix accessibility label in Features > General prefs for Remove Scope Folder button - Fix logic in Running Apps filter to prevent over-caching - Fixes issue with Quit keyword showing irrelevant items ## Alfred 5.0 EA5 - Add ⌘K as shortcut to clear the Workflow Editor debugger - Update Workflow preferences Workflow filter to be aware of non-strings when filtering - macOS Ventura compatibility improvements ## Alfred 5.0 EA4 - Tweak canvas overlay - Move down on the canvas, and make slightly smaller - Swap Apple mouse emoji for the word "Click" - Add a close button to the top right - Put focus back into palette search field when clicking a search result - Improve the Powerpack tab layout (this will change before general release) - Update various text throughout Alfred's preferences - Improve the Learn More Prefab which is part of the 5th Workflow Getting Started guide ## Alfred 5.0 EA3 - Fix the palette guide height calculations when macOS Scrollbars are set to "Always" - Spell check the change log and fix speeling mistakes ;) - Add hyperlinks to workflow readme markdown (shows URL when clicking to confirm opening) - Add a message within the Automation Tasks workflow configuration linking to early access workflow (currently not online) - Add new canvas overlay to help discover some of the new keyboard shortcuts - Can be hidden from canvas popup menu, under the options submenu - Tweak canvas background opacity by a fraction to work around odd Monterey flicker ## Alfred 5.0 EA2 - Fix spelling in onboarding from Actiavted to Activated - Fix `{query}` replacement in Dialog Conditional - Tweak font attributes in Workflow guides - Prevent crash when using the Dialog Conditional and editing workflow while dialog visible - When duplicating a symlinked workflow, correctly duplicate workflow instead of doing nothing - Remove a couple of erroneous NSLogs which were in for development - 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