Growl for Mac Goes Under Major Redesign

Growl for Mac has been updated with a major redesign. The app, which could be replaced in terms of importance with OS X Mountain Lion's Notification Center, tries to stay relevant with this update prior to the official unveiling of the next major version of OS X.  

Image: The Growl Project

Complete list of changes included in this update:

General

• Applications Tab Redesign! This is a major overhaul, and should be much easier to use.
• Moved Rollup controls to separate tab.
• Major improvements to networking.

Preference Pane overhaul

• New slider switch for on/off switches
• Added keyboard support to position picker.
• General Tab Relayout.
• Networking tab - Add support for subscription
• History Tab, contextual menu for history table to jump to the app/notification settings
• Rollup tab is the new home of controls related to the Rollup window.
• Adding a new display should not require a restart of Growl now.

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.

Growl for Mac is available for $1.99 in the Mac App Store [Link].