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DESCRIPTION
Growl is a notification system that allows any application to send it a notification, and then it displays it. You can (for example) be notified that you have new email, or that a download completed, etc.
Support for Applescript, Perl, Python, TCL, Cocoa, Carbon, Ruby and more being added.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.2.1:
- New disk image background ([7de3aa4ef83e])
- Fixed Spanish translation error in disk image background ([7de3aa4ef83e])
- Replaced GrowlMail in Extras folder with a link to the GrowlMail web page, since it's now separate from Growl releases ([2608c36bf8e9])
- Updated copyright ranges to include 2010 ([fb2a6317c10c])
Growl
- Handles old plug-ins you can't use anymore more sanely ([384b50bb0ab1])
- Fixed MailMe display generating invalid messages, which may manifest as receiving blank messages or messages getting eaten by mail servers ([40ea1dbbdbc5])
- Speech display now reads notification titles as well as descriptions ([49d5f4f052c8])
- Speech display now obeys the rate set in the Speech prefpane (#112, [acff121c0155])
- WebKit-based displays are now much, much faster ([073a82c1a4fb], [fe44b97253d1], [1f9563105fd9], [d8b57dfcd2ae])
- WebKit-based displays can use frames now ([6fb5820ed75e])
- Hopefully enabled relative URLs in WebKit-based display styles ([04cd118c896e])
- Fixed the positioning hang (#103, [4a2eb058f472])
- Worked around a bug that caused WebKit-based display windows to sometimes be only 1 pixel tall (#108, [6ae6091ed8c6])
- Fixed gradually-increasing memory usage over time, especially when using WebKit-based display styles ([ce8b07d8de26], [cd1d446f791b], [507967d00c44], [693159a5f0e8])
- Fixed forwarding recipients not being able to listen for connections ([8b8d2ecd6c25])
- Fixed a crash when trying to load application tickets with no application name, reported by Hannes Mannerhiem ([07b66c657951])
- Growl now automatically detects when you put plug-ins in the PlugIns folder yourself ([49a403343bf0])
- Added a sample display plug-in for Cocoa display developers ([2eca58333ab2])
- Fixed lazy loading of plug-ins ([9c0b9f927d0e], [4e571142d4ce])
- Growl now loads application tickets once instead of twice ([c5151d9559e7])
- Fixed a memory leak when loading saved application registrations ([f8ebcae026f6])
- Added a log message for when a saved registration contains a bundle identifier that isn't a string ([e423155bfdf1])
- Fixed excessive memory usage in the logging subsystem ([697f666f8b4a])
- Fixed a memory leak when clickable notifications fade out or are clicked, reported by Wim Leers ([275650724c61])
- Fixed bogus disabling of plug-ins that shouldn't have been disabled ([5e2b01d86037], [8fe45fd61f7d])
- Fixed bogus disabling of MailMe when you have no sending accounts set up in Mail ([4ac369b906c7])
- Updated the “Get More Styles” link on the disk image
- Added a version string to the MailMe display ([1c3b7b4c4a12])
- Fixed copying a header file into the release distribution ([233e2eb2e3da])
- The preference pane now displays the revision number for development builds ([f2deb58c350d], [3994e363a689]—this caused the above known bug)
- Fixed displaying the revision number instead of the beta number ([cd4744807767])
- Fixed a bunch of bugs in parsing, comparing, and unparsing version numbers ([d71f842e5297], [8e4e8d23bf2d], [dac1afb94166], [4afa80e74a25], [cf3cc57fd5f7], [ae36d1878499], [ec1cf41d2ca4], [273618d372b1], [5fa478e3475a], [987556ed56e3], [e21dae320e19], [e49d3c2578db], [4a9574d9aaa9], [40f6776be4ce], [683a0b610604], [b6283642466e])
- Fixed many warnings ([bed4a154b38f], [9fefef3a977e], [37955381cd55], [c3d029da13dc], [6b34f4156f6b], [99d368aa61c3])
- Fixed building from a tarball ([f5c4f91c5261])
- Burninated some old code we weren't using ([9a290d3de636], [15cfd9b13707], [2db8a7ee4378])
GrowlSafari
- Restored your ability to click a “Download finished” notification to reveal the downloaded file in the Finder (#118, [d34cd7d301f5])
- Now has an icon ([9b7248bc54c2])
- Robustified in a few places ([9bf3d74dc04f])
GrowlTunes
- Fixed a hang on Snow Leopard under certain circumstances (#114, [1a19b81fa305], [1a71a675d862])
- Fixed notifications that don't have album art showing the iTunes for Mac OS icon when iTunes for Mac OS is installed ([c9988887095c])
- Ripped out code supporting old versions of iTunes; GrowlTunes now requires iTunes 4.7 or later ([1965ad0e7d66])
- Fixed GrowlTunes notifying while iTunes is the active application (#112, [1b90cdbf5fc4])
Growl.framework
- Updated minimum OS version for Growl, preventing bogus installation prompts ([2f99d2f175f4])
- Only ever register with a running GrowlHelperApp, never a GHA that isn't running ([3cbd662ab3c1])
- Fixed a leak in sending the registration event ([987d555071f6])
- Fixed leaks that occurred when running in a garbage-collected application ([845941e3fa7f], [383d84e26955])
HardwareGrowler
- Fixed warnings and analyzer flags ([d969316df385], [a1733bc0be40], [b5cd8c227a69], [ebe7f0a2ff4d], [714a3c623b46], [1a0499744fd3])
growlnotify
- Now uses an Installer package for installation ([729689fd7751], [3d044b381433], [d96c40713701], [08081c3654f0])
- Hotfix: Fixed Installer package's use of en-US (US English) specifically, rather than English generally, which manifested as the Installer package displaying in Portuguese for many users ([b2089e40a2a0])
BeepHammer
- Fixed leaks ([4ec3953889a2], [19e93ceaef16], [febb38b502a7])
- Fixed warnings ([c928953c5ec9], [4077d115b390], [02d3d0481b6b], [53cb25bcdfea], [2cbf094215a6])
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
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| Growl User Reviews (103 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Jul 9 2010 |
MABOROSHI so... besides the updated copyright there's really nothing new with growl itself is there?
(Version 1.2.1) | |
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 | Jul 9 2010 |
CHRISTOPHER FORSYTHE We fixed quite a bit of problems actually. http://growl.info/documentation/version_history.php
(Version 1.2.1) | |
| Jul 9 2010 |
MABOROSHI Ah there the changes are. Nice!
(Version 1.2.1) | |
 | Jul 9 2010 |
HOLYPOLY oops, too fast on the enter key http://growl.info/
(Version 1.2.1) | |
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| Jul 9 2010 |
HOLYPOLY Download link seems dead, this one works
(Version 1.2.1) | |
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| Jul 9 2010 |
PUMILAMAC The newest version of Growl is currently 1.2.1, MU has not yet been updated. You can see what changed at http://growl.info/documentation/version_history.php
(Version 1.2) | |
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| Apr 12 2010 |
FOXYORB I must admit, Growl grew on me. I wondered why anybody would use this. I am now at a point where I wouldn't be without it. I use screen zoom with the control key quite a lot. Usually my zoom hides the areas where a Growl message would pop up. I wish there where a Display Style that gave me the option to pop the notification right in the centre of the screen.
(Version 1.2) | |
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| May 5 2010 |
MEISHA You can get it close to the middle by using the Bezel display style :)
(Version 1.2) | |
| May 5 2010 |
MEISHA You can get it close to the center by using the Bezel display style. :)
(Version 1.2) | |
| May 5 2010 |
MEISHA Oops sorry, about posting twice. I'm new here and I didn't see my comment in the collapsed mode, so I thought it didn't go through. I get it now.
(Version 1.2) | |
| Mar 5 2010 |
LEO SPILL Love the app. Does an indispensable little job and does it well. It tells me if a download has been completed or what the name is of the next track I am going to be listening to. Lots of 'Growl styles' skins/themes out there... if you are willing to look. My only problem is that SafariGrowl doesn't remember my request for notice on 'download complete' and always reverts to 'compression status' in the preference pane. The feature works fine on the Laptop, just weird how on the works desktop - it can't remember my selection.
(Version 1.2) | |
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| Nov 29 2009 |
MDUPDATE I got fed up of the constant notifications to update. I also hated whenever notifications got on top of media players disrupting movie experience. Yes there are ways to work around these annoyances but why? Why should the user work for growl when growl should work for the user? Is the user watching a movie fullscreen? Don't fraking bother me. Is there a new update? Download and install silently, don't bother me. This utility could have potential, but it's not there yet.
(Version 1.2) | |
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| Dec 7 2009 |
MARK EVERITT Or you could go into the settings panel and untick "Check for updates automatically". It's no win for developers sometimes. This one has obviously tried to do us all a favour by checking for updates, which I appreciate very much. You can't please everybody so they've rightly included the option to turn this off. With this utility you have to do some customisation to get it as you like anyway so is it really that much time out of your day? You could have done it in a tenth of the time it took you to write your review.
(Version 1.2) | |
| Jan 10 2010 |
CHRISTOPHER FORSYTHE There is no way to detect a full screen movie. If there was we'd have a pref for that. But there isn't. If you're getting constant update notifications, you likely have 2 versions of Growl installed, or an old version of Growl installed.
(Version 1.2) | |
| Jan 10 2010 |
CHRISTOPHER FORSYTHE Oh and downloading and installing silently is bad. We'd get a ton of bad feedback about that if we did it. We are looking at Sparkle though.
(Version 1.2) | |
| Nov 29 2009 |
ARCHAEOGEEK Growl is basically a must have app, all has been said, as a notification framework, people have been trying to get the same working on the other major platforms. And one thing I feel must be said, because it's a big thank you to the devs, there's a tendency for deaf accessibility to be done with the "cause a seizure-inducing blink" school of thought, but this is basically the best accessibility tool in this situation to replace sound notifications, without exceptions.
(Version 1.2) | |
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| Jan 10 2010 |
CHRISTOPHER FORSYTHE I'd like to hear more about accessability and what we can do. If you have any feedback please ping us on the discuss mailing list. | |
| Nov 10 2009 |
SHANE C SMITH Growl Mail no longer works in 10.6.2, I guess I'll have to wait for an update.
(Version 1.2) | |
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| Jan 10 2010 |
CHRISTOPHER FORSYTHE Or just go download the update to GrowlMail. Go to the Growl site and download the GrowlMail download.
(Version 1.2) | |
| Feb 4 2010 |
YOGI COACH I'm a big fan of Growl, but find the Herald software more useful than GrowlMail for my purposes. It's free, well thought-out and highly configurable. And it works great with Mac OS X 10.6.2.
(Version 1.2) | |
| Oct 9 2009 |
CASTLE ROSE Oh come on! Tiger support Droped! Why? Not every one upgrades the the latest operating system every year. Tiger is not THAT old to drop support for it. Please make v1.2.1 Tiger compatible.
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| Oct 24 2009 |
LIVINGS124 If you don't keep your OS up to date, why do you need to keep your software up to date?
(Version 1.2) | |
| Oct 26 2009 |
CASTLE ROSE @LIVINGS124: Either you missed my point or you're a smart azz. Mac OS X 10.4.x 'Tiger' was released on April 29, 2005, not so long ago. Further more, the PowerBook G4 I use for my business is not supported by Mac OS 10.6.0 'Snow Leopard'. All of my Adobe products, Quark, FTP, browsers, fonts, utilities, widgets, drivers, communication programs, ect. work great as is. I have not found a compelling reason to even update to Leopard just to get some more bells and whistles I don't need. As a small business owner i have to weigh the costs and benefits of each expense. Sadly I often I find business tend to forget the SERVICE in their customer service. Of course Growl is freeware/domationware and I greatly appreciate the work they do. I just hope if there are any bugs or security issues with the Tiger version they will continue to be patched. I could go on but i hope my point is clear now. -Thanks.
(Version 1.2) | |
| Oct 26 2009 |
LIVINGS124 Supporting the OS for 4.5 years seems more than enough to me. 1.1 still works fine. Should they stop adding more advanced new features so that your old system that does not support this functionality can have a couple of not as interesting new abilities? If you do not want to upgrade your OS for new bells and whistles, then don't complain you can't update your open source software for more bells and whistles.
(Version 1.2) | |
| Nov 10 2009 |
CHRISTOPHER FORSYTHE To be frank, we have 3 developers and 1 project manager working on Growl. 1 of those is a full time student. The other is a full time developer at a prestigious mac shop. The last is a full time doctor. So we have one guy who can work on Growl for maybe 5 hours a month (doctor). Another guy who can work on Growl 10 hours a week (dev) , and the last guy can do the same (student). I can work on Growl roughly 10 hours a week as well (project manager). When considering what we could and could not support, based on the fact that the Growl project is entirely volunteer supported, we had to make judgement calls. 10.4 was released over 4 years ago. No new hardware supports it. Very few of us have a box to test on, and it makes the testing process go much longer. The testing process for 1.1 itself got extended another month due to 10.4. So just on a testing basis alone did we think about dropping 10.4. Then you have to consider maintenance of code. There is a large amount of code that we were able to remove and stop maintaining once we dropped 10.4. The ability to do this made the codebase smaller, and easier to read. Finally, it is hard to work with old API's. It is unreasonable to expect unpaid volunteers to work on something they do not want to work on. Period. I've forced people to do that before when I worked as the Project Manager of Adium. We needed Group Chat support, and I basically told one guy to do it or else. He did it, then he quit the project. People stop working on things if they are forced to do something they don't want to do. Let me put it another way. Supporting 10.4 is like supporting ie 6. You can do it, but why? For a group of people with barely a lot of time, it's not worth doing it. I hope this explanation helps. By the way, livings works on another mac app. Saying "it's not that old!" is not a good argument for either of us. We both have to make judgement calls based on cold hard fact and not emotion. I simply don't have the resources to support 10.4 at the prefpane and extras level, and I'm sure the argument to livings doesn't really shine through compared to resources either. Open source projects are supposed to be fun. Threads like this make it not fun. Come up with a better argument for 10.4 support that addresses all my points and more and we'd maybe rethink it, but currently 10.4 support for the prefpane and extras is gone and won't be returning. I hope this helps you understand our reasoning. | |
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