Hazel beta page

Hazel 2.2 beta is now available for testing. Please be advised that this is a pre-release and will be buggy. It is highly recommended that you backup your rules. Use at your own risk.

Please keep all discussion about this release to the beta forums or email.

Hazel 2.2b5 (Hazel-2.2b5.dmg)
Requires Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or above

Simply download the disk image above and open it if your browser doesn't do so automatically. Double-click Hazel.prefPane to install.

Upon installation, Hazel will run in evaluation mode for 14 days, after which it will switch to demo mode. For more details, check the FAQ

If you run into any problems, our Support page can help you out.

Changelog

Version 2.2b5

This is a release candidate.

User Interface changes:

• Updated credits in Help.
• Help button in the AppleScript editor now hooked up.

Core changes:

• Fixed memory leaks.
• Fixed App Sweep crash if Time Machine is not being used.
• Fixed error messages being logged when uninstalling files even when it was successful.
• Miscellaneous fixes, cleanup and tweaks.

Version 2.2b4

User Interface changes:

• Added Help for new 2.2 features.

Core changes:

• Fixed bug where extra hazeldb files were being created.
• Added "ScanInvisibles" default. If set, Hazel will not ignore invisibles, instead processing them like any other file.
• Added "IgnoredBackupDirs" default. It is an array of directories that when determining whether an app is installed, App Sweep will ignore if that app is underneath that directory.
• HFS busy flag is now ignored. Files with this flag set will not be considered busy. It was unclear whether any program uses this correctly and there were cases where programs were setting the flag incorrectly.
• Miscellaneous fixes and tweaks.

Version 2.2b3

User Interface changes:

• Fixed multiple duster icons appearing. Note, this fixes the problem from this version onwards. You may still experience it when first upgrading to this version.

Core changes:

• Fixed crashes when Safari 4 preview is installed.

Version 2.2b2

User interface changes:

• Fixed crash when selecting the "Run AppleScript" action. Happened if the user never ran Script Editor before.
• Changed the name of the file argument (from "infile" to "theFile") for when writing an embedded AppleScript.
• Widened rule window to match width of System Preference's window (at least, Leopard's version of it).
• Color label picker now displays the label name when moused over. Also, shows selection frame when moused over (a la Finder).
• Cosmetic changes.

Version 2.2b1

New Features:

• Ability to create patterns for matching. Use the "matches" operator.
• Ability to create custom tokens. Define them in your match patterns and then use them in your rename/sort/Growl actions.
• AppleScripts and shellscripts can now be embedded into the rules. No external files needed. Scripts can be edited right in Hazel.
• Added new GTD-like date matching. Dates can be compared against "Today", "This Week", "This Month" and "This Year" which align with the calendar concepts of days, weeks, months and year.
• Added "is in the next" operator for dates. Useful for dates in the future (like due dates).
• Added "Subfolder Depth" attribute which is how many levels deep from the top folder (the top folder being at depth 0). Can now control what rules apply to what levels of a folder hierarchy.
• AppleScripts can now return a record with special keys to communicate back to Hazel:
• hazelStop: If set to true, Hazel will stop processing the current rule, considering it to have executed successfully. Subsequent actions in this rule will not be run.
• hazelSwitchFile: If set to an alternate file, subsequent actions will act on this file instead of the original one passed in. You can use this when the file is "transformed" (like turned into an archive) or if you want to re-target another file, like the parent folder.

User interface changes:

• You can now select multiple rules in the rule list (finally).
• Added new formatting options for the "Domain" token. Clicking on it will allow you to get its "base" domain or strip it down even further by dropping the TLD. For instance, "www.example.com" can be formatted as "example.com" or "example".
• Script pop-ups now keep track of any currently used scripts.
• Fixed underlining of the "month" token's menu items. While the numerical forms should have underlines to indicate number of digits, they make no sense for the prose forms (Dec & December).
• Tweaked the color label picker on Leopard to more closely resemble Finder's current look.
• Miscellaneous tweaks.

Core changes:

• App Sweep will prompt for a password if any support files' permissions require it.
• App Sweep now picks up any installed QuickLook plugins.
• Various internal fixes.