Version 2.2
What's New in 2.2 (build 11510)
- IMPORTANT: If you do not upgrade to 2.2, you will not be able to scan in, update, or look up new items automatically as of August 15, 2009. (Your current items will continue to exist, of course.) Amazon now requires all users of their data (eg, Delicious Library) to digitally 'sign' requests for information - this update includes code to do this.
- Snow Leopard compatibility
- This is the first version that works under Snow Leopard.
- There was a bug in my code (see below) which appeared rarely under Leopard, but very often under Snow Leopard, thus making Delicious Library 2 very flakey on Snow Leopard.
- The largest single source of crashers and strange warning messages for Delicious Library 2.x has been fixed: the dreaded "recommendations" bug. This bug was rare but annoying - it could affect anywhere a list is displayed in Delicious Library 2, including the Synopsis , Reviews, and Recommendations tabs in the details pane, the list of items in the "manual item creation" sheet, and the list of active fetches in the "Activity" panel. (I finally found a way to reproduce this bug and was able to figure out what I'd done wrong and fix it.)
- Manual item searches with characters like "ü" or "é" just started failing again, because Amazon has changed how searches need to be encoded. This release changes to their new (more sane) system.
- Manually searching for videos on Amazon Japan was only finding VHS titles, because that site (like Amazon Canada and France) hasn't actually merged its VHS and DVD offerings the way Amazon's documentation describes. We now search only for DVDs instead of only VHS titles, since we had to choose one, and it seems like more people will want to manually find DVDs. (Note that if you scan an item's barcode or drag a URL from any Amazon, any item (DVD or VHS) will be added - this note only applies to items added with the manual search window.)
- The harmless but very annoying "stream had too few bytes" modal panel that would pop up occasionally for some users (specifically, once every two days when you clicked on an item that wasn't downloaded from Amazon) is gone.
- Debug panel options are turned off in final release builds, so if beta testers accidentally turned on maximum logging and forgot about it, they don't find that Delicious Library is suddenly super-slow and possibly also crashy (eg, when the log overflows the computer).
- Fixed a tiny display bug where "Slumdog Millionaire" (or ANY movie with the consecutive letters "umd" in its title) would display as a Sony mini-disc.
- iPhone App Removed
- Amazon has forced us to remove our companion iPhone application from the iTunes App Store, pursuant to section 4(e) of the contract we must operate under as long as we use their data. They declined to specify any reasons for the exclusion of mobile devices.