SMARTReporter History:
2.5.0 (2 Sep 2010):
• IMPORTANT: If you are using e-mail notification of disk-failures with custom settings, please check that it is still working
• Added (optional) automatic check for dangerous "I/O Errors" that are a sign of failing drives
• Added support for notifying you of drive failures through Growl, which can notify you via SMS or pushing to your iPhone (Prowl)
• Added support for sending e-mails with encryption (SSL/TLS) and custom settings (necessary for GMail)
• Usability improvements for seting up e-mail drive failure notifications
• Option to sign up for beta-testing to help development
• Handle case when SMARTReporter is launched from its disk image
• Handle case when SMARTReporter is moved while active
• SMARTReporter defaults to starting in 64-bit mode now
• Added Polish localization (thanks to Jarosław Teterycz)
• Updated Italian localization (thanks to Paolo Zanellati)
• Updated French localization (thanks to Ronald A. Leroux)
• Updated Japanese localization (thanks to Jumpei Suzuki)
• Fixed German localization
2.4.6 (7 Jan 2010):
• Fixed German localization (thanks to Stephy Rul)
• Updated French localization (thanks to Ronald A. Leroux)
• Updated Spanish and Catalan localizations (thanks to José Gil)
• Updated Japanese localization (thanks to Jumpei Suzuki)
2.4.5 (2 Jan 2010):
• SMARTReporter can now display all S.M.A.R.T. attributes by right-clicking a drive in the preferences window
(thanks to the smartmontools project for the attribute calculation)
• SMARTReporter can now perform a short "S.M.A.R.T. self-test" by right-clicking a drive in the preferences window
(thanks to the smartmontools project for the self-test procedure)
• Fix annoying messages being printed to SMARTReporters log-file during its first run
• SMARTReporter automatically restarts itself when turning off visibility in the Menubar
2.4.2 (16 Oct 2009):
• Fix a problem introduced in 2.4.1, annoying messages would be printed into the logfile dozens of times
2.4.1 (16 Oct 2009):
• Fix a issue with the new e-mail sending through Mail.app would not work with multiple recipients
• Fixed French localization (thanks to Amalrik Dumas)
• Some smaller fixes and additions
2.4.0 (17 Sep 2009):
• IMPORTANT: The minimum system requirements have been raised to Mac OS X 10.5
• IMPORTANT: Do not directly upgrade from a release older than 2.3.5, or your preferences won't be taken over
• IMPORTANT: If you are (also) using e-mail notification of disk-failures through Mail.app, please check that it is still working
• Added 64-bit support (on Intel), but by defaults starts in 32-bit mode. To change this use the "Get Info" panel in the Finder on SMARTReporter
• Rewrote the e-mail sending through Mail.app
• Fixed the CrashReport sending facility to only send "real" crashes
• Fixed links to the Apple feedback page in the documentation
• Fixed a bug where adding or removing a harddisk would cause SMARTReporter to believe it has been freshly installed
• Fixed the update-check, which would still check for updates even if disabled (sorry!)
• Make Finder keyboard-shortcuts work directly after dismissing the preferences-window
• Expanded the FAQ
2.3.9 (28 Dec 2008):
• IMPORTANT: Users of Mac OS X 10.3 and 10.4 have to update manually to this release since the update check has been disabled on this platform already
• Fixed a problem with disks attached to Sonnettech ATA-cards would not be recognized with the Sonnettech driver 2.1.4+
• Fixed a problem where SMARTReporter would loose its preferences and add itself to the Login-Items multiple times
• Fixed the "Start on login" feature on Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" through a new Leopard-specific implementation (again)
• Updated Japanese localization (thanks to Jumpei Suzuki)
2.3.8 (20 Aug 2008):
• Disable the update-check on Mac OS X 10.3 and 10.4 as those won't be supported in future releases
• To automatically update to future releases you must first update to this version
• Updated "Sparkle" (the Framework used for Version Checking and Automatic Updates), to fix possible crashes
• Fixed possible crash while sending CrashReports
• Fixed possible problem sending e-mails through broken SMTP-servers
2.3.7 (20 Feb 2008):
• IMPORTANT BUGFIX: REALLY fixed the crashes on 10.3.x this time
• IMPORTANT BUGFIX: REALLY fixed the crashes with the Spanish, Russian and Catalan localizations
• Updated French localization (thanks to Ronald A. Leroux)
2.3.6 (19 Feb 2008):
• IMPORTANT BUGFIX: Fixed crashes on 10.3.x caused by the Update-Framework
• IMPORTANT BUGFIX: Fixed crashes occurring when the Sytem-Language matches Spanish, Russian or Catalan
• Fixed Italian localization
2.3.5.1 (6 Feb 2008):
• IMPORTANT BUGFIX: Disabled the new Leopard-specific "Start on login" as it seems to crash
2.3.5 (6 Feb 2008):
• Disabled the "Harddrive Configuration seems to have changed" dialogue (as it could be annoying and the defaults for new drives are sane anyway)
• Fixed the reporting of crashes (of SMARTReporter) to work under Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard"
• Fixed the "Start on login" feature on Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" through a new Leopard-specific implementation
• Renamed preferences-files to avoid possible conflicts (the old one is automatically reused)
• Renamed & moved drive-data-file to the "ByHost" folder for net-booting support (the old one is automatically reused)
• Updated "Sparkle" (the Framework used for Version Checking and Automatic Updates), to fix possible crashes during updates
• Added a new menu-icon-set named "Colored Dots" (thanks to Sayyad Glassford)
• Expanded the FAQ
2.3.2 (2 Oct 2007):
• Updated all hyperlinks in the application and the documentation because of the move to a new hosting for website & e-mail
2.3.1 (7 Sep 2007):
• Fixed file permissions which could cause SMARTReporter to fail/crash for unprivileged users
2.3.0 (5 Sep 2007):
• SMARTReporter now prints more information about the checked disk to the logfile, so you can distinguish HDDs of the same model
• Added Italian localization (thanks to Paolo Zanellati)
• Added Russian localization (thanks to Artem Timofeev)
• Added more comprehensive localization capabilities
• Fixed a crash that could occur while sending an e-mail
• Fixed some more crashes (presumably)
• Fixed the e-mail sending to default to UTF-8 instead of US-ASCII
• Fixed the e-mail sending which would not work under some conditions
• Fixed the update-check, which would still check for updates even if disabled (sorry!)
• Fixed the reporting of crashes (of SMARTReporter) to work under Mac OS X 10.3.x, include additional information and ignore some crashes which are not related to SMARTReporter
• Fixed the "Donate" option which was broken in 2.2.5
• Fixed small memory leaks
• Fixed problems with hot-plugged disks (eSATA) (added disks would not be checked if not present during SMARTReporters launch)
• Improved handling of hot-plugged disks (eSATA) (don't show dialogue about newly added disks if you open the preferences window manually)
• Updated Japanese localization (thanks to Jumpei Suzuki)
• Updated the FAQ and ReadMe (including the description and system requirements)
2.2.5 (14 Mar 2007):
• Added ability to check for updates automatically
• Added option to use red menu-icon when a disk is failing
• Added new menu items: "Send Feedback…", "About SMARTReporter", "Open ReadMe…", "Open FAQ…", "Open History…"
• Added three new menu-icon-sets (thanks to Alex)
• Added Japanese localization (thanks to Jumpei Suzuki)
• Added check if SMARTReporter crashed with option to send me the details
• Fixed the "Donate" option to point to an english page instead of a german one
• Fixed a possible problem with strings not appearing in dialogs, leading to dialogs without text
• Fixes for e-mail sending
• Fixed a small memory leak
• Updated French localization (thanks to Fabio)
• Updated Spanish and Catalan localizations (thanks to José Gil)
2.2.1 (16 Feb 2007):
• Fixed an problem sending e-mails introduced in 2.2
• Fixed the new option "refrain from checking the disks when on battery power" which produced an infinite dialogue-loop
• Added Computer Name to the "disk-failure-notification e-mail"
• Added spinning progress indicator while sending test mails
• Fixed layout problems in french localization
• Fixed a possible crash when re-using the preferences generated on another Mac.
2.2.0 (31 Jan 2007):
• Added option to refrain from checking the disks when on battery power
• Added option to limit the maximal size of the logfile
• Added option to configure the path and name of the logfile
• Added a new menu-icon-set named "Grey & Red"
• Fixed detection of disks in Intel-Macs if an additional disk is connected to the optical disk bay
• Fixed French localization again
• Improved User Interface by splitting it into three tabs
• Improved folder icon for the SMARTReporter folder (thanks to Merv)
• Improved visual display of the disk-checking-interval to make it more clear that it is editable
• Improved detection of the IP-address
• Modified default text of the "test-e-mail" so it can't be confused with a real "disk-failure-notification e-mail"
• Expanded the FAQ
2.1.5 (Mar 2006):
• Make SMARTReporter finally work on the Intel-Macs
• Fixed a crash on Laptops that had a Flash-Card inserted
• Fixed a small memory leak
• Fixed a bug in the Disk-Image-packaging
• Fixed French localization (thanks to Ronald A. Leroux)
• Added a FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions - with answers ;-)
• Added some string-localizations
2.1.0 (Dec 2005):
• Compiled as Universal Binary
• Added ability to customize the "disk-failure-notification e-mail" message
• Added ability to deliver the "disk-failure-notification e-mail" to multiple addresses
• Added link to the homepage to the menu
• Added a new menu-icon-set named "NewGrey" (thanks to Dolfter Hofsté)
• Added an improved icon for SMARTReporter (thanks to Matthew Barry)
• Added a folder icon for the SMARTReporter folder (thanks to Matthew Barry)
• Fixed crash with sending e-mails to very "capable" servers like CommuniGate Pro using authentication
• Fixed small memory leak
2.0.1 (Jul 2005):
• Work around a bug in 10.3.x where the SMARTReporter-menu would not respond
• Auto-update login-item if application is moved
2.0 (Apr 2005):
• IMPORTANT BUGFIXES: the "disk-failure-notification e-mail" always looked like a "test-email" when sending using Mail.app and otherwise the machines name and address were cut off
• Include the MAC-address in the "disk-failure-notification e-mail"
• Fixed email-notification not to display a "timeout" error when trying to send with the wrong password with some broken servers (like smtp.mac.com)
• Added Spanish and Catalan localizations (thanks to José Gil)
• Spelling fixes in the application and documentation
• Now brings up the preferences-window when in invisible-mode and SMARTReporter is double-clicked
• Auto-add to login-items on first start
2.0b5 (Dec 2004):
• Fixed an e-mail related crash-bug
• Added German localization (thanks to Hans Hermann Meyer)
• Don't select first row in the disk list (for better readability)
• Bugfix: the disk name shouldn't be editable
• Now it's possible to get the hidden menu-item even back when SMARTReporter is already running, by launching it again and holding down alt (option)
• The icon now looks better on dark background
• Fixed some memory-leaks
2.0b4 (Nov 2004):
• IMPORTANT BUGFIX: if you've used 2.0b1 or 2.0b2 and have set "display as colored dot" and then upgraded to 2.0b3 you won't see the menu of SMARTReporter! this has been fixed
• Added hostname and ip-address to the "disk-failure-notification e-mail"
• Added French localization (thanks to Jean-Luc Evrard)
2.0b3 (Nov 2004):
• Display the finder-visible disk (partition) name(s) in the disk list, for better usability, and to be able to distinguish two disks of the same model
• Add option to refrain from displaying SMARTReporter in the menu-bar. You will have to hold down alt (option) during a future application launch to make it visible again.
2.0b2 (Nov 2004):
• Completely reworked the "notification by e-mail" feature
• Changed the 'Display Log…' feature to be handled by 'Console.app'
• The Log file is now persistent across sessions and is stored in '~/Library/Logs/SMARTReporter.log'
• Opening multiple instances of SMARTReporter on the same machine at the same time is now disabled
• Renamed Quit menu item & Preferences window for better usability
2.0b1 (Oct 2004):
• Redesigned, intuitive user-interface
• Added options what to do on a disk-failure:
• Send an e-mail
• Launch an application/applescript/file
• Display an alert
• Added options to change the appearance in the menu-bar:
• Ability to choose "icon sets" for the menu-icon
• Added a menu-icon-set which is completely grey for better integration with other menu-icons (thanks to Jim Younkin)
• Ability to use small colored dots instead of beautiful icons (ugly, but saves menu-bar-space)
• Improved the documentation and added section about what to do when a disk-failure is predicted
• Improved the textual output of the application for better usability
• Live-update the log window
• Fixed a bug related to detecting a self-installed launch-item
1.0 (Jul 2004):
• Should be compatible with all disks attached to ATA-cards (if Apple supports S.M.A.R.T. for the ATA-card)
• Ask user on first usage if SMARTReporter should launch after boot.
• Made the "Current Status" values in the Disk-Configuration window more readable
1.0b3 (Jun 2004):
• Made "start at login" menu item work (toggle if SMARTReporter should start at login)
• The windows and dialogs of SMARTReporter will now always be displayed in front, so you can't miss them
• Colorized the "Current Status" values in the Disk-Configuration window
• Now tests for Mac OS X 10.3
1.0b2 (May 2004):
• Fixed documentation
• Added log window
• Removed unnecessary debug output (to Console.app)
1.0b1 (Apr 2004):
• Initial public release