Particulars Release Notes

Version 26 – Aug 23rd 2019

  • Text Themes: Default, System, Mono
  • Custom text theme: full control over font, color, and opacity
  • Menu bar extra
  • Support for displaying over 1TB of RAM
  • Support for 8 displays
  • Fine-grained font size
  • Redesigned preferences window
  • Removed global keyboard shortcut for showing preferences

Version 25 – June 5th 2019

  • Improved GPU formatting
  • Automatic text shade mode now works on images stored outside the Pictures folder
  • Performance improvements to automatic text shade
  • Minimum OS: macOS 10.12

Version 24 – September 20th 2018

  • Support for macOS Mojave including Dark Mode
  • Minimum OS: OS X 10.11.2

Version 23 – June 8th 2018

  • Short command line options can now be combined

Version 22 – February 15th 2018

  • Removed obsolete items from Help menu

Version 21 – November 27th 2017

  • Add RAM type and speed

Version 20 – October 29th 2017

  • Support for removable GPUs in macOS High Sierra 10.13
  • Performance improvement after display sleep

Version 19 – August 30th 2017

  • Add Wi-Fi SSID to network information

Version 18 – August 8th 2017

  • Preferences would show 4 displays when only 3 were connected
  • New version numbering scheme
  • Updated crash reporter

Version 1.4.8 – May 1st 2017

  • Fix crash when DHCP lease start time cannot be determined

Version 1.4.7 – March 31st 2017

  • Hide iBridge (Touch Bar) in network configuration
  • Minimum OS: OS X 10.7.2

Version 1.4.6 – December 6th 2016

  • Look and feel of Today Extension updated for macOS Sierra 10.12

Version 1.4.5 – November 17th 2016

  • NAT IP address would display as 'Unknown' when using a public IPv4 address – fixed
  • Additional validation of NAT IP address

Version 1.4.4 – November 11th 2016

  • Show CPU count on multiprocessor Macs
  • Improvements when getting NAT address

Version 1.4.3 – September 12th 2016

  • Support for macOS Sierra 10.12
  • Support for macOS Server 5.2

Version 1.4.2 – June 29th 2016

  • Fix rare crash when retrieving network information
  • CLI would display correctly but return an error code when using -a
  • Crashes in lab mode are now reported automatically

Version 1.4.1 – May 19th 2016

  • Fix crash when DHCP lease length is infinite
  • Fix display of infinite DHCP lease length

Version 1.4 – May 15th 2016

  • Disk space is available from the command line interface
  • Copying from Dock menu
  • CLI option for particulars in detail level
  • Copy en0 MAC address to clipboard
  • Crash reporting for Today Extension
  • Open Preferences from Dock icon
  • Fixed a crash when using a non-RGB image as a desktop background with auto text shade
  • Fixed a crash when serial number cannot be determined
  • Improved layout of long IPv6 addresses in Today Extension
  • Fixed layout issues when changing displays
  • When scaling down to fit text on desktop, labels would not scale down – fixed
  • Lots of performance improvements and under the hood fixes

Version 1.3.3 – December 8th 2015

  • Support for OS X El Capitan 10.11
  • GPU is available from the command line interface
  • Fix alignment of labels in Preferences window

Version 1.3.2 – April 17th 2015

  • NAT IP would not be shown while on VPN – fixed

Version 1.3.1 – April 2nd 2015

  • Fixed issue with Server.app outside of /Applications
  • Fixed issue with missing IPv6 router address

Version 1.3 – December 30th 2014

  • Command line interface (CLI)
  • New particular: DHCP (IPv4) server and lease
  • Advanced preference: Prevent application hiding
  • Live updates in the Today Extension

Version 1.2 – October 16th 2014

  • Today Extension (Widget) for OS X Yosemite 10.10

Version 1.1 – October 2nd 2014

  • New particular: Serial number
  • New particular: GPU
  • New particular: MAC address
  • Detail levels
  • Preferred display
  • Copy system information to clipboard
  • Advanced preference: CIDR notation subnet mask
  • Advanced preference: Custom detail level
  • Display build with OS X Server version
  • Replace model identifier with model name
  • Terminates immediately on logoff
  • Tall content may have been clipped – If required, text size is now scaled down to fit all content on screen
  • Content may have been drawn behind the Dock – fixed
  • Updated look
  • Launching Particulars from Finder when it's already running displays it's preferences
  • The allNetworkInterfaces preference is removed in favor of Detail levels

Version 1.0.1 – July 17th 2014

  • RAM quantities that end in zero, e.g. 20 GB, would be incorrectly formatted without the trailing zero – fixed
  • Fixed memory leaks
  • Additional help options
  • Additional documentation

Version 1.0 – July 1st 2014

  • First public release

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