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-=====XTension Version 9.4.38=====+=====Download XTension 9.5.4=====
  
-(NOTE: a [[current:beta|beta version of 9.4.39]] is available for Hubitat plugin users with enhanced door lock support) +>2/5/2024 [[current:beta|XTension 9.5.5 Beta 1]] is available
-Released: 3/14/2021\\ + 
-\\ +Released 12/19/2023\\
-Download for all Supported OS versions; [[https://www.machomeautomation.com/files/xtension/xtension_9_4_38.dmg|XTension. v 9.4.38 (build 1038)]]\\+
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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 +Download Universal Binary for all Supported OS versions[[https://www.machomeautomation.com/files/xtension/xtension_9_5_4.dmg|XTensionv 9.5.4 (build 1085)]]\\
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-**Minimum System Version** for this release is OSX 10.10 but not all plugins may function properly prior to 10.13\\ +
-Maximum supported version is Big Sur but some problems and cosmetic issues remain when running on Apple Silicon. \\ +
-This version is built with the latest compilers and libraries available and should be able to run on Big Sur with minimal issues, though some remain. and you should report them to be if you are crazy enough to be running that on your server ;)+
  
 +**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.
  
-====9.4.38 Change Log:====+**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.
  
-  NEW[[supported_hardware:ping|Ping Plugin]] Control in detail how and when pings are sent to devices on your local network or the internet. Keep track of statistics and reliability information. +**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 onlyThey run fine under Rosetta and you’ll never notice the differenceThe only issue is that Rosetta is not included by default on the new Apple Silicon MacsYoull need to first run any Intel app, or do 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.
-  The Hubitat plugin MAY now be able to control door locks. I have not yet been able to get my own door lock onto it’s network but I’ll be finishing up the testing of that next week for the next version. The plugin will also create units for each of the pin codes associated with your lock (or may, as I said I haven’t been able to test that yet) but they are not yet linked to the actual entering of specific pin code. So don’t worry if you see those units just ignore them until the next release when they will actually be useful. +
-  * Fix to the Hue plugin so that it will not log errors continually if you have an unrecognized sensor type or device typeThis does not mean the sensor will then be automatically recognized or that the device will be controllable. I may need to collect some more information from you to get new devices working. +
-  * Fix to the new RFX plugins when connecting via a serial port as opposed to a network connected device. These fixes were contributed by our most excellent user and now python guru Dave Fleck! Thank him if you’re now able to get this working :) +
-  * Fix to the new RFX plugins when parsing temperatures from the Temp/Humidity/Barometer devicesPreviously the negative temperature bit was being ignored. Or rather it was not ignored but due to typing too fast I was multiplying the temperature by 1 instead of -1 when flipping the temperature negativeAs you can imagine this was not effective in setting the temperature below 0. This is untested at the moment since it is topping out in the high 70s here and I can’t get my test device to send a signal from inside the freezer so let me know if this works or not. +
-  * Added new debugging verbs: [[dictionary:unitinformation:xtsetdata|XTSetData]] and [[dictionary:unitinformation:xtgetdata|XTGetData]]. These verbs allow access to the keyed database values for unit. Settings that are normally not available to the user and therefore have the possibility of corrupting the database entry for a unit if used incorrectly so don’t use these unless I ask you to or have documented a procedure for them. +
-  * Wrote wiki entries for the other 2 debugging verbs that were already there but undocumented. [[dictionary:unitinformation:logdebugdata|logDebugData]] and [[dictionary:unitinformation:xtremovedata|XTRemoveData]] +
-  * Changed the restart after a crash functionality. If XTension crashes due to an AppleScript issue it will restart in verbose logging mode so that any corrupt scripts or other useful information will get logged. It will also restart with log caching turned off so it will take longer to write all those log lines but hopefully if a problem continues it will be easier to go back and figure out which script it has corrupted or what else has gone wrong. As soon as the database is finished loading these temporary logging changes are turned off so they don’t continue to fill the log file until you restart normally.  +
-  * Internally a huge amount of work was done in the continuing saga to handle other scripting engines. If you really wished now you could turn on python scripting and actually use the command line to enter single line python programs. The only command I’ve implemented for it so far is the writeLog command so it’s not very interesting yet, but it’s definitely a milestone to get that far! No changes have been made to the current apple script implementation yet at all so you should see none of this in the course of regular usage.+
  
 +====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===== =====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]]+
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