Growl Not Afraid of Mountain Lions Roar

The people behind the Growl project are not afraid of the upcoming Mountain Lion and its neat Notification Center borrowed from iOS.

Far from it, actually. They’ve updated their longstanding system-wide notification app for Mac users, and they’re proudly touting this release as “a major overhaul.”

And with good reason too, since the entire thing has been tweaked from head to toe. You get tabs, new rollup controls, and major improvements to networking.

Growl fans will be greeted by a brand new preference pane overhaul which includes a new slider switch for on/off commands, keyboard support for the position picker, and a general tab relayout.

Furthermore, users get subscription support for the networking tab, a history tab (contextual menu for history table to jump to the app/notification settings), and a tweak that keeps the app running while you switch displays.

Finally, “the Rollup tab is the new home of controls related to the Rollup window,” according to the developers.

More networking tweaks, other enhancements, and bug fixes can be found in the rest of the changelog (reproduced below):

Networking
- Support for Notification-Callback-Target, a URL field in GNTP. Upon click, Growl lets OSX figure out how to open the URL (such as the default browser for an http:// url)
- Subscription support, subscribe to all applications on a remote machine.
- General improvements to networking authentication, removed requirement for, and use of password headers if the password field is blank
- Fix networking crash related to address data resolution.
- Bind to local socket only if not listening for incoming notifications.
- Address data caching, and observation of network changes to clear caches

Applescript
- URL click feedback support, same as Notification-Callback-Target in GNTP

Bug fixes
- Resolved a crash with webkit plugin bridge on creation.
- Resolved a crash with forwarding.
- Resolved an issue where the Speech display waits for previous message to complete causing a CPU drain
- Resolved a crash with CFErrorGetDomain for WebKit Display Styles.
- Fixed duplicate listings of display plugins on reinstall.
- Notification-Callback-Target is now respected, and used, even without the method header.
- Worked around problems with corrupt history databases.
- Fixed a sorting problem when deleting a single entry in the history list

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