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--- current [2018/08/25 19:39] – 9.4.10 James Sentman
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-=====XTension Version 9.4.10=====
+=====Download XTension 9.5.4=====
-Released: 8/25/2018\\
+>2/5/2024 [[current:beta|XTension 9.5.5 Beta 1]] is available.
+Released 12/19/2023\\
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-Download: [[http://www.machomeautomation.com/files/xtension/xtension_990.zip|XTension v9.4.10 (build 990) 8/25/2018]]\\
+Download Universal Binary for all Supported OS versions; [[https://www.machomeautomation.com/files/xtension/xtension_9_5_4.dmg|XTension. v 9.5.4 (build 1085)]]\\
-zipfile md5 = [[tech_notes:md5|8d73e9074f01761741efc2797945f86c]]\\
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-Just some minor bug fixes and support for the new [[supported_hardware:websocket|WebSocket]] database sharing plugin.
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-====Change Log====
-  * NEW: Very alpha WebSocket plugin. Share any or all of your units and global scripts with anything that can connect via a websocket. Vera alpha right now but functional. Comes with a demo page to show how to write javascript to display info from your database live or send commands to units or Global Scripts.
-  * Bonjour or mDNS support is built into XTension for plugins so they don’t have to have any code to manage that themselves.
-  * Fix: the debug mode checkbox in the edit interface dialog may have gotten out of sync if you changed it from another source.
-  * Fix: the JSON server had a bug that would let through some invalid tokens and also display some garbage in the list of tokens that you couldn’t delete. This is all working normally again.
-  * The JSON server is a total rewrite using the new plugin APIv2 protocol. I’ve been testing my setup all week and everything appears fine but please test your JSON/HTTP server setups with this version and email me off the list if there are problems.
-  * Change to the timeout parameter of the async shell command. If you set it to -1 then it will never timeout and just run for as long as it needs to.
-  * Some important changes to logging when an async shell or interface shell doesn’t finish in time and is forced quit. It’s possible that the program can hang when trying to kill an errant shell command so prior to killing it XTension now flushes the log and writes to it that it’s about to try to kill a shell. If you have a hanging problem this version will be better able to catch in the log the last thing it was doing before it happened.
-  * NEW: Totally new Interface list window. The default is to show a mode compact window with a little less information. This makes more things fit on the screen and I like that a lot more. You can still click the gear menu toolbar to turn on “show more info” which will look almost identical to the old display if you liked that.
-  * NEW: the debug checkbox in the interface list window is gone. You can still turn it on and off from the edit interface dialog, the floating interface status dialog, from the contextual menus in the interface window and also the gear menu has an option to turn it on or off. It was wasting space on that window where it wasn’t necessary since there are so many other places to get to it.
-  * New: Plugins can now write a line of info into the space that used to be wasted by the debug checkbox. For example the new JSON server now will tell you what port it’s listening on and how many hits you have had so far. You can clear the hit count by using the contextual menu.
-  * New: Plugins can now setup contextual menu’s for the interface list window that are custom to them like the already mentioned JSON server.
-  * The LIFX plugin now also displays there when it’s scanning and how many units it’s actually found.
-The websocket plugin test page is located inside the plugin folder itself. To get to it and experiment you’ll need to hit the Database menu in XTension and select “show plugins folder for this database” then open the folder in the Finder and open the websocket.isf folder. Inside there is a file called xtensiondemo.html that you can load into a browser and connect to the websocket interface in XTension. It’s pretty messy right now but it works and demonstrates with included javascript how to handle the data from XTension to get live updates to unit changes as well as how to send commands to control them and other things. The documentation is sparse at the moment, but follow the link from the release page to see what it’s like so far.
+**This is an important update for NGROK users.** This updates the ngrok client to support the system changes they are making live. The older version will no longer be supported very soon. Anyone using ngrok tunnels should definitely perform this upgrade as soon as possible.
+**Minimum System Version** for this release is OSX 10.10 but not all plugins will function properly prior to 10.13. Please start the necessary work to upgrade to at least 10.13 or recommended 10.15 or newer. At some point in the near future it will no longer be possible for me to support anything prior to 10.13 and the video plugins will never work prior to Catalina.
+**Rosetta Note:** While the entirety of the main app and all more recent plugins are Universal and run natively on Intel or Apple Silicon there are a few older plugins including the W800 and CM11 that are still Intel only. They run fine under Rosetta and you’ll never notice the difference. The only issue is that Rosetta is not included by default on the new Apple Silicon Macs. You’ll need to first run any Intel app, or do a get info on any app at all and select “open using Rosetta” then the OS will tell you that you need Rosetta and would you like to install it now. Once you complete that those plugins will run normally.
+====9.5.4 Change Log:====
+  * The [[supported_hardware:hue|Phillips Hue]] plugin now properly supports non-dimmable plug in modules.
+  * Fixed a problem with the [[supported_hardware:wiz|Wiz plugin]] that would log errors as the libraries now return the name of the scene rather than it’s ID as they did previously.
+  * Fixed the error that was logged while trying to create a symlink to the internal python version if you did not have a /usr/local/bin folder on your machine.
+  * The python symlink is now created inside the XTension Support folder “pythonxt” and you can use that to run python scripts inside XTension or from elsewhere but using the XTension settings. It is especially useful if you are running python scripts from an async shell script in XTension as they will inherit all the path info to run properly where running the built in python may cause errors.
+  * NEW: Added an option to delay quitting. This will popup a window asking if you really meant to quit, stopping accidental shutdown of the entire program due to misplaced fingers. The window will count down for 30 seconds and then quit the app. This window does not come up if the system tells XTension to quit as if before a restart or something similar. Find the checkbox to turn it on in the Preferences.
+  * NEW: Added the option to send a value of 0 for a dimmable Unit to the On script if there is no Off script. Normally a value of 0 for any dimmable unit will be sent to the Off script rather than the On script. Unless there is no off script. This meant that previously you potentially had to duplicate some of your logic for handling values in the On and Off script. When this is turned on in the Preference, and a Unit has no Off script. The On script will be run instead with the future value set to 0. This is on by default, but if it causes you issues with some of your scripting you can turn it off in the preferences window.
+  * Fixed the incorrect link to the mailing list signup page in the purchase dialog.
+  * Removed some debug logging I failed to remove before the last release. This was in the conversion of potentially confused strings into floats and so did not affect every plugin, but might have logged confusing information occationally.
+  * There was a change in AppleScript support in OS versions from Ventura on that would actually enforce some, but not all, of the scripting dictionary flags that have never, in the entire history of the Mac, mattered. So us developers got sloppy and failed to add things like the “optional” flag to all the verbs reliably. The first I’ve found and fixed was with the Speak verb where it would tell you that the “in” parameter was required. It is no longer required. So far I have not found any other such issues and a visual search through the dictionary did not reveal any more such issues, but it’s entirely possible there are more parameters that are not properly marked as optional. If you find any such errors please let me know.
+  * The Interface list window can now be sorted by CPU Usage, Memory Usage and Process ID. This only works if you have the “show more information” option turned on in the gear menu on the window. This can be a great aide in finding the plugin process that is eating up all your CPU or memory and linking a python process shown in the Activity Monitor to the plugin it’s actually running. They all just say “python” in the monitor. But now it’s easier to find the PID number in the list if you sort by it.
+  * Updated the [[xtension_manual:ngrok|ngrok client]] version to 3.5. This is an important update if you are using this service as the old version will no longer be supported sometime in January. There were many changes to the usage of the client, and many more to the layout of the configuration file. I believe I have them all sorted out, but if you have issues let me know. All output from the client is logged during startup so you can check immediately if it thinks it started the tunnels or if it logged errors instead.
+  * I had previously hidden some of the lower level debugging aids in the contextual menus by having people hold the option key while right clicking. There is really no need for this extra step so I removed it. The Contextual menus for Units and Interfaces will have their “log debug data” and “Reveal in Finder” options at the bottom of all the contextual menus for them. This will make it easier to collect info for me if things start behaving oddly.
+  * I added the same debug logging info to the contextual menus of global scripts should it ever be necessary to get a look at that.
+  * To that debug output I added another line of info comparing the length of the Unit Address in both bytes and glyphs. This might be helpful to more easily discover if a plugin or a bug somewhere has inserted invisible characters into the Address field of a Unit causing things to get disconnected in the database and potentially making more and more units being created when there really should be only the one.
+  * There were some significant updates and improvements in the main program libraries that will make many things run faster and smoother. So far my testing of all of them work just fine. They aren’t a thing I can turn off though, they are just part of the latest compiler update. It will depend on what you’re doing, how busy your machine is and how fast it is in general whether you’ll see any difference at all. Usually the things they improved aren’t an issue until you’re doing something many times in a row. So I expect that the main improvements will be in window redrawing and things like that, but if you have a machine that is very busy it may improve that somewhat throughout.
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+NOTE: This disk image no longer includes the older legacy plugins that will not be updated for newer OS versions. If you still need to run the [[supported_hardware:cm19]], [[supported_hardware:cm15a]], [[supported_hardware:zwave]] or the various Smarthome X10 interfaces please download [[tech_notes:catalina|the legacy plugins package from here]] and install the ones you need via the “Install Plugin” menu item of the “Database” menu.
 =====Previous Releases=====
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-=== Older Versions ===
-[[beta|The Changelog and Download links for builds between 763 and version 9.1 can be found here]]