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 ===== Requirements ===== ===== Requirements =====
  
-Keyboard~~Maestro~~requires ​OS~~X 10.10.0 or later (10.10.or later recommended).+Keyboard~~Maestro~~10 requires ​macOS 10.13 or later.
  
 ===== Distribution ===== ===== Distribution =====
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 Development of Keyboard~~Maestro~~7 began in late 2014 was was released in July 2015.  Version 7 concentrated on streamlining the editor, adding things like Smart Groups, auto-completion,​ Insert Action by name and menu, disclosure folding for sub-action lists, renaming, coloring, and adding notes to actions and more.  Version 7 also added themed palettes, and the usual plethora of new actions and triggers. Macro Groups could now be targeted at specific windows, and macros could be triggered by window, folder or clipboard changes. ​ It was followed by a succession of releases throughout 2016. Development of Keyboard~~Maestro~~7 began in late 2014 was was released in July 2015.  Version 7 concentrated on streamlining the editor, adding things like Smart Groups, auto-completion,​ Insert Action by name and menu, disclosure folding for sub-action lists, renaming, coloring, and adding notes to actions and more.  Version 7 also added themed palettes, and the usual plethora of new actions and triggers. Macro Groups could now be targeted at specific windows, and macros could be triggered by window, folder or clipboard changes. ​ It was followed by a succession of releases throughout 2016.
  
-Development of Keyboard~~Maestro~~8 ​ began in late 2018.  Version 8 concentrated on further refinements to the editor, including AppleScript support, in-built assistance, variable text sizes, machine learning, dragging, Touch Bar support, expansion of various action menus and more.  Also new is enhanced MIDI support, Local/​Instance variables, Dictionaries,​ Gesture, Cron and Remote triggers, and a bunch of new actions, conditions, collections and tokens.+Development of Keyboard~~Maestro~~8 began in late 2016.  Version 8 concentrated on further refinements to the editor, including AppleScript support, in-built assistance, variable text sizes, machine learning, dragging, Touch Bar support, expansion of various action menus and more.  Also new is enhanced MIDI support, Local/​Instance variables, Dictionaries,​ Gesture, Cron and Remote triggers, and a bunch of new actions, conditions, collections and tokens.
  
-Going forward, we plan to develop Keyboard~~Maestro aggressively,​ bringing it to new levels of both power and ease of use in the long tradition of both Mac~~OS ​and Stairways~~Software.+Development of Keyboard~~Maestro~~9 began in mid 2018.  Version 9 concentrated on adding Dark Mode support across all of Keyboard Maestro, multiple editor windows to the editor, OCR support, wide ranging JSON support, and extending support for regular expressions. ​ Version 9 also brings support for Stream Deck, and has a hardened runtime and is notorized for additional security. ​ There is also a plethora of new actions and lots of other refinements. 
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 +Development of Keyboard~~Maestro~~10 began in early 2021.  Version 10 added further refinements to the editor, including saved Favorite actions and lots of extensions to contextual menus. The Engine also received some new facilities like displaying macro groups in the menu bar and more control over engine windows. There were a variety of new triggers and actions, including the “long press” option for Hot Key triggers and Paste by Name, Prompt for Screen Location, displaying progress, Try/​Catch/​Throw actions, and more. 
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 +Going forward, we plan to develop Keyboard~~Maestro aggressively,​ bringing it to new levels of both power and ease of use in the long tradition of both macOS and Stairways~~Software.
  
 ===== Credits ===== ===== Credits =====
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 * Random Ideas for NSTimer+Blocks. * Random Ideas for NSTimer+Blocks.
 * For [[https://​opencv.org/​|OpenCV]]. * For [[https://​opencv.org/​|OpenCV]].
 +* For [[https://​github.com/​douglascrockford/​JSON-c|JSON_Checker]].
 +* To [[http://​leptonica.org/​|Leptonica]]
 +* For SocketRocket.
 +* For Tesseract.
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 Thanks to Ken, Corentin, Stephen, Brad and others for their great assistance with beta testing. Thanks to Ken, Corentin, Stephen, Brad and others for their great assistance with beta testing.
  
-Thanks to Jim Underwood for outstanding assistance on the forum and wiki.+Thanks to Jim Underwood for outstanding assistance on the forum and wiki. Jim passed away in 2021 and he will be sorely missed.
  
 Thanks to Christopher Stone and ComplexPoint and many others for their great help on the forum. Thanks to Christopher Stone and ComplexPoint and many others for their great help on the forum.
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 Thanks also to the many others who have provided input and support over the past decade. Thanks also to the many others who have provided input and support over the past decade.
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 ===== Warranty ===== ===== Warranty =====
  
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 ===== Licenses ===== ===== Licenses =====
  
-Keyboard~~Maestro is copyright ​2017 Stairways Software Pty Ltd.  All Rights Reserved. ​ You may use this application for a short trial period and then you must purchase the application or stop using it.+Keyboard~~Maestro is copyright ​2021 Stairways Software Pty Ltd.  All Rights Reserved. ​ You may use this application for a short trial period and then you must purchase the application or stop using it.
  
 Keyboard~~Maestro is licensed on a per user basis and individual users may use it on up to five Macs.  You must purchase a license for each user using Keyboard Maestro. Keyboard~~Maestro is licensed on a per user basis and individual users may use it on up to five Macs.  You must purchase a license for each user using Keyboard Maestro.
  
-Trademarks owned by Third Parties such as Mac, Mac OS X, OS X, and BBEdit, are owned by their respective owners and no license is granted for their use.+Trademarks owned by Third Parties such as Mac, macOS, Mac OS X, OS X, and BBEdit, are owned by their respective owners and no license is granted for their use.
  
 ===== Fine Print ===== ===== Fine Print =====
manual/Administrative_Details.txt · Last modified: 2023/10/09 23:28 by peternlewis