[ANN] FoxTrot Search products 5.5.1b2 available for testing

[CTM info]

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CTM Development is pleased to announce version 5.5.1b2 of its FoxTrot Search products, now available for testing:

Download links:

FoxTrot Professional Search:

http://ctmdevcom.ipage.com/download/beta/ft_pro_search_551b2.dmg

FoxTrot Personal Search:

http://ctmdevcom.ipage.com/download/beta/ft_pers_search_551b2.dmg

FoxTrot Search Server:

http://ctmdevcom.ipage.com/download/beta/ft_search_server_551b2.dmg

WE NEED FEEDBACK PLEASE. Very often, we post these intermiediate releases and hear almos nothing - we cannot assume that all is good unless you say so ! Please report back to us via the foxtrot-discuss group or directly if you prefer, but please do report as we would like to release 5.5.1 final ASAP.

Best regards,

jean michel/ctm qa      

 

Release notes - FoxTrot Search products version 5.5.1b2

Note: FoxTrot 5.x is a paid upgrade for users of version 4.x and earlier

Version 5.5.1b2

Bug fixes

• [5.5.1b2] installing a new version of FoxTrot without uninstalling the previous one could sometimes produce unexpected behaviour

• [5.5.1b2] the automated report generated from the FoxTrot First Aid dialog now contains more detailed information

• Fixed a case where all indices could disappear in version 5.5

• Fixed a case where the user could be prompted for a login and/or password to use the local index

• Under certaom rare circumstances, indexing could never terminate when a Spotlight metadata importer had a memory leak

• Improved handling of Chinese, Japanese and Korean text

• The toolbar, and some menu items, could misbehave on OS X 10.7 to 10.9

• The FoxTrot system menu could misbehave on OS X 10.11

• An error dialog could appear when clicking the Edit menu

[Ajk Sanders]

Hi,

Using 5.5.1b1 when I select "Check for Updates…" from the FoxtrotPro menu, I get the message that I am already using the newest version available.

"Notify me of beta versions" is checked in my application preferences.

Thanks

Alistair

[Ajk Sanders]

Another thing (this is in 551b2 and several earlier versions)

In the preferences, whenever I click on "System Menu" it always switches on the Foxtrot search field in the menu bar.

I switch it off every time, but just selecting the "system menu" tab always activates it again.

Thanks

Alistair

[Ajk Sanders]

Should have said this is running on Yosemite 10.10.5

[FoxTrot Engineering]

Ajk Sanders wrote:

>Using 5.5.1b1 when I select "Check for Updates…" from the FoxtrotPro menu,
>I get the message that I am already using the newest version available.

Yes, 5.5.1b2 is a private beta for the members of our discussion group.

>In the preferences, whenever I click on "System Menu" it always switches on
>the Foxtrot search field in the menu bar.

Will be fixed.

Thanks for the reports


Jérôme - CTM Engineering


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[Mark Friedman]

How can I join the private beta group?  I've been using the professional search for years on my Mac and, mostly it's been OK.

But the crawler is still buggy and I'd like to help;  I'm attaching a log of some of the errors.  Maybe they can help you identify the cause.

[CTM Development]

Sir,

We have noted your interest and will contact you privately when we are ready to seed the next version.

In the meantime, if you have reproducible crawler issues, we are interested in seeing these. I know it sounds like an easy excuse, but we have found that some crawler isues really are due to bugs in third-party metadata importers which sometimes hog memory without releasing it for instance... and can be worked around by disabling the offending mdimporter in FoxTrot First Aid (option-command on launch).

regards,

jean michel/ctm qa

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