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Growl at 1.2, with 64-bit support

Ever since upgrading to Snow Leopard, the one remaining 32-bit niggle I have has been with Growl's preference pane. Today, however,* Growl has released v1.2 of its famous application notification system with, among other things, 64-bit support.

While most of the updates in 1.2 are "behind the scenes," the biggest user-facing improvement is in the upgrade to 64-bit. What this means is that for Snow Leopard users, selecting the Growl preference pane does not require Preferences.app to re-launch in 32-bit compatibility mode.

In addition to the Growl preference pane, GrowlMail and GrowlSafari have been updated to 64-bit and are now Snow Leopard compatible. Further, the Growl framework has been re-written in Cocoa dropping support for the Carbon-based API.

You can see the full list of changes over at Growl's version history page. Growl users should have received a notification to download the update. Alternatively, you can head over to Growl's homepage and click "download" to get your ticket to the notification express.

*Several readers have pointed out that version 1.2, while the current version, wasn't released today but in fact has been out for several weeks. Our apologies.

Ever since upgrading to Snow Leopard, the one remaining 32-bit niggle I have has been with Growl's preference pane. Today, however,* Growl...
 

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Jack L.

I'm trying to figure out something here...what the freak is the deal with all the bashing going on Tuaw? So what, its old news. Big deal. Its not the end of the world. Yeah, I came across this update a while back somewhere else... I don't have a lot of time to check multiple blogs, so it doesn't really bother me if something was "posted somewhere else x days ago" or if an article isn't the most recent news. If you want to "journalistic integrity" (sarcasm, not a poke at the author) go somewhere else. I appreciate the effort these people put forth. The elitist crap I read in the comments makes me hate that I'm lumped in with the stereotypical Mac users (sorry to those that aren't uppity).

November 18 2009 at 10:53 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tariq

Good ol' TUAW...late to absolutely everything. Will you guys ever break this new stereotype?

November 18 2009 at 10:35 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Nikax

BTW, lots of complaints a work about GrowlMail not working. There's some hack on that has to be done to get it to work.

November 18 2009 at 6:15 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Nikax

just in: Mac OS X released!

oh...

November 18 2009 at 6:15 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Robert

Growl 1.2 worked fine but the GrowlMail "Extra" that must be installed separately continually crashed during installation. A workaround is to install Growl 1.2 but use the GrowlMail installer bundled with Growl 1.1.6. See Growl's download page for the Growl 1.1.6 package.

November 18 2009 at 6:01 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Eminemdrdre00

I'm used to getting last weeks news, today on TUAW. But 2 month old news...wow.

November 18 2009 at 1:20 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
rudyarichter

"Further, the Growl framework has been re-written in Cocoa dropping support for the Carbon-based API."

This is incorrect, there has always been a Cocoa API in the Growl framework. The carbon API is still available in the 1.2 framework, it will be removed entirely in 1.3.

-rudy (yes, from the Growl about tab.)

November 18 2009 at 11:27 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Bill

What news they could have told you is that GrowlMail 1.2 breaks after you install the Snow Leopard update 10.6.2, because the latter raises the Mail.app version to 4.2 from 4.1 causing it to reject the GrowlMail 1.2 plug-in as incompatible (because GrowlMail reports itself as made for version 4.1 of Mail.app). A temporary fix is to add some UUIDs to the GrowlMail Info.plist file in the GrowlMail.mailbundle.

This is detailed here:
http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss/browse_thread/thread/abfa0713b85ff806

November 18 2009 at 10:44 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Chris

Guys,

Stop being jerks. It's an honest mistake.

Chris
Growl Project Lead

November 18 2009 at 10:34 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
welchb

Wait wait, I get it.

It's currently 09.28 in the AM. Maybe he thought he got an early release.

*(;

November 18 2009 at 10:29 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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