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BusyCal Release Notes

Change History

BusyCal 1.2.2 (March 7, 2010)

  • Fixed bug that could create damaged detached events
  • Prompt if no Me Card when sending/receiving meeting invitations
  • Attendees can now decline a single occurrence of a repeating meeting
  • Removed the name "BusyCal" from meeting invitations and responses
  • Changing repeat end date could make event disappear
  • Support Google alarms < 5 minutes
  • Support ISO-8859-1 and Shift-JIS in .ics files
  • Better compatibility with .ics/.vcs files created by Outlook
  • Default font size increases apply to info panel notes field as well
  • Show To Do status in Month view even when not showing start time
  • Info panel no longer blanks unnecessarily when an edit comes in over the LAN
  • Numerous minor bugs fixed
  • Several obscure crashes fixed

BusyCal 1.2.1 (Feb. 6, 2010)

  • Fixed crash when creating a backup
  • Fixed crash when deleting malformed events
  • Fixed crash when sorting in List view
  • Fixed crash when undoing a new event
  • Fixed crash when accessing Keychain
  • Fixed mini month snap-to-fit inconsistency
  • More efficient syncing of dynamic WebDAV feeds (like Tripit)
  • Support for showing events via Today app
  • Added warning dialog when updating if AppTrap is installed

BusyCal 1.2 (Jan. 25, 2010)

  • New global font size preference
  • New Calendar Groups feature
  • Fixed several crashes
  • Fixed several google syncing bugs
  • Fixed row highlighting bug in List View
  • Fixed other miscellaneous bugs

BusyCal 1.1.2 (Jan. 6, 2010)

  • Birthdays before 1940 weren't being calculated correctly in 32 bit mode
  • Improved handling of deleted Google calendar feeds
  • Changed Decade date range in List View from 2000-2009 to the more correct 2001-2010
  • Changed "MobileMe" source list header to "Mail"
  • Fixed crash that could happen when resizing events in the Week view
  • Fixed crash that could happen if an edit and a conflict occurred at the same instant
  • Fixed crash caused by a nil calendar name

BusyCal 1.1.1 (Dec. 28, 2009)

  • Fixed Google sync internal error
  • Fixed Google sync could not delete entry error
  • Fixed Google sync error that could cause orphaned calendars
  • Fixed Google sync error that displays calendar titles as UIDs
  • Fixed corrupted font crash
  • Fixed undo stack crash
  • Fixed hang when repeatedly paging with Command-Left/Right arrow
  • Improved Bonjour and Google network efficiency
  • Meeting responses show local time in email body
  • Location field is selectable in read-only events
  • Mini-month current day updates at midnight
  • End time zone popup now behaves properly
  • Completed To Dos sort to bottom in calendar view
  • Handle malformed Exchange ics files
  • Handle WebDAV feeds with trailing \ character in UID

BusyCal 1.1 (Dec. 6, 2009)

  • Added mini-month calendar to source list.
  • Support for 64-bit and Garbage Collection on Snow Leopard.
  • Support for three-finger scrolling.
  • Duration column added to List View.
  • Added an "at start" alarm interval.
  • Admin password no longer required to update Dock icon, except during a software update.
  • Support both shift-return and option-return for line feeds.
  • Clear stale data in info panel when an event moves out of view.
  • Better memory management when syncing with Entourage.
  • Better handling of malformed ics files.
  • Better date handling when scheduling events with no year.
  • Better handling of 4-digit year input.
  • Fixed bug affecting recurring events starting prior to 1930
  • Hide info panel when app is minimized.
  • Fixed preference setting for default calendar app.
  • Various recurring event bug fixes.
  • Option to display more descriptive time zone names.
  • Backups filenames are stored in yyyy-mm-dd format.
  • Fixed various Google syncing bugs.
  • Fixed crash caused by unicode non-breaking space characters.
  • Fixed crash caused by corrupted system font.
  • Improved logging.

BusyCal 1.0.3 (Oct. 29, 2009)

  • Fixes Alarm menu bug.

BusyCal 1.0.2 (Oct. 26, 2009)

  • Fixes Daylight Savings Time bug.

BusyCal 1.0.1 (Oct. 22, 2009)

  • Dock icon updates properly to show today's date
  • Alarms can be added to events on the Birthdays calendar
  • Info panel description field scrolls properly when entering lots of text
  • Text in read-only notes field can be selected/copied
  • URLs are clickable in read-only notes field
  • Follow event to its new date when changing date in info panel
  • Faster launching
  • Fixed Undo crash
  • Fixed Delete Duplicates crash
  • Fixed Sticky Notes editing crash
  • Recover from failed BusySync database upgrades
  • Don't allow multiple Google Connections for the same account
  • Fixed Google permission errors
  • Fixed malformed Google meeting requests
  • Fixed malformed Google degenerate recurrences
  • Don't allow Organizer to add self as attendee
  • Import non-UTF-8 ics files
  • Process meeting replies that don't match original recipient's name or email
  • Fixed custom weekly repeat bug
  • Fixed completion date data-entry bug in List View
  • Fixed end time recurrence exception bug
  • Fixed Auckland, New Zealand time zone bugs
  • Fixed To Do sorting in calendar
  • Completed To Dos can be dragged to original due date

BusyCal 1.0 (September 28, 2009)

  • Final 1.0 release.

BusyCal 1.0b17 (September 26, 2009)

  • Fixed info panel tab ordering
  • Fixed crash in List View Notes pane
  • Fixed crash when type-selecting in To Do list
  • Printing prints only the results displayed on screen when search filtering
  • Display localized time zone in popup

BusyCal 1.0b16 (September 25, 2009)

  • Improved printing
  • Fixed keyboard input bug when tabbing between fields
  • Time Machine support
  • Snow Leopard Sync Services optimizations
  • Alarm menu/dialog bug fixes
  • ics invitation timezone fix
  • Fixed several crashers

BusyCal 1.0b15 (September 14, 2009)

  • Dock icon shows current date
  • New Find Duplicates command
  • Notes no longer shown in week view event tiles
  • Fixed several crashers

BusyCal 1.0b14 (September 9, 2009)

  • Display Title of short duration events in Week View
  • Display Location and Description in Week View events
  • Fixes word wrap artifacts in Week View
  • Zoom in/out in Week view with option-scroll wheel
  • Scroll Two-week view one week at a time
  • Weather icons don't overlap dates
  • Styles can be applied to events in calendar without being in text-edit mode
  • Support copy/paste of events into Mail
  • Display calendars in source list grouped by CalDAV, Exchange and IMAP
  • Duplicate events are detected on initial sync and deleted
  • Fixes Google recurring event syncing bug
  • Fixes meeting invitation time zone bug
  • Fixes several crashers

BusyCal 1.0b13 (August 27, 2009)

  • Snow leopard compatible
  • Fixed several crashers
  • Improved WebDAV calendar syncing
  • Improved attendee auto-fill
  • Fixed several meeting invitation bugs
  • Fixed Mail message URLs
  • Fixed repeating event bug
  • Fixed escaped URLs

BusyCal 1.0b12 (August 20, 2009)

  • WebDAV calendars now appear and behave the same in BusyCal and iCal
  • Various meeting invitation bug fixes and enhancements
  • Supports database conversion from BusyCal to BusySync (requires BusySync 2.2.1)
  • Added safe boot mode (hold down option-key while launching)
  • Fixed several crashers
  • Mail message URLs now work properly
  • Detects and removes duplicate alarms
  • Added Registration and embedded store

BusyCal 1.0b11 (August 9, 2009)

  • Fixed bug when syncing custom alarm sounds with iCal
  • Fixed several text formatting errors
  • Fixed several international and 24-hour clock formatting errors
  • Repair validation errors when converting BusySync database
  • Improved info panel data entry, date parsing, and commits
  • Disable Prev/Next when editing text
  • More default calendar colors
  • Smoother moon icons

BusyCal 1.0b10 (August 2, 2009)

  • Show more banners per day
  • Small/Medium/Large Banner size preference
  • Improved support for international date and time formats
  • Fixed decrementing date field for Banners in European time zones
  • Prompt if no Me Card when creating email alarm
  • Don't sync custom alarm sounds over LAN if client doesn't have sound
  • Deleted calendars no longer show in List View
  • Support non-UTF-8 WebDAV ics subscriptions
  • Fixed several crashers

BusyCal 1.0b9 (July 29, 2009)

  • Fixed WebDAV memory leak
  • Fixed international date formatting errors in info panel
  • When text field has focus, Prev/Next (Cmd-left/right arrow) is disabled

BusyCal 1.0b8 (July 28, 2009)

  • Fixed NSURLConnection memory leak
  • Fixed crash when switching time zones
  • WebDAV subscriptions remain in iCal
  • WebDAV color changes stick
  • Restart alarm menu bar app after sparkle update

BusyCal 1.0b7 (July 27, 2009)

  • Fixed crash in Preferences
  • Fixed crash when importing events with null titles
  • Fixed crash when importing pending meeting invitations
  • Fixed repeating To Do bug

BusyCal 1.0b6 (July 26, 2009)

  • First public beta release
  • Cleaned up new user defaults
  • Don't allow editing of read-only WebDAV events

BusyCal 1.0b5 (July 25, 2009)

  • Several iTIP meeting invitation bug fixes
  • Holiday flag is no longer cleared when refreshing a WebDAV calendar
  • Import "null" alarm sounds from iCal as "Basso"
  • Selecting an item on Alarm menu selects event and unhides calendar

BusyCal 1.0b4 (July 23, 2009)

  • Calculate calendar source list before processing iTIP invitations
  • Display "generating logs" progress dialog
  • Update list of today's alarms at midnight

BusyCal 1.0b3 (July 22, 2009)

  • Fixed crash when importing/subscribing to null WebDAV calendar.
  • Changed menu shortcuts: Go to Today (CMD-T), Go to Date (CMD-SHIFT-T), New To Do (CMD-K).
  • Automatically quit Alarm menu bar app if BusyCal is deleted in Finder.
  • Alarm menu updates at midnight when BusyCal isn't running.

BusyCal 1.0b2 (July 21, 2009)

  • Fixed errors when subscribing to malformed Toodledo WebDAV calendar
  • Fixed date handling of ToDos on Remember the milk WebDAV calendar
  • Fixed international date formatting errors

BusyCal 1.0b1 (July 20, 2009)

  • First private beta release.