8.4. Do I need it?

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I understand that 8.4 is purely a Catalan update, and I’ve no plans to move to Catalan any time soon.

So, any other compelling reason to jump to 8.4?

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Don’t think it is purely for Catalina but that is the main focus. Certainly no new features. Release notes…

RapidWeaver 8 8.4.1 (20817)

  • Added a check to make sure plugins have been code signed as required by macOS 10.15
  • Fixed a crash when adding a resource to a project

RapidWeaver 8 8.4 (20812)

This is an essential update for all RapidWeaver users, especially those running macOS Catalina.

  • Fixed a crash when right clicking a link in Styled Text on Catalina
  • Fixed some thread issues in Catalina
  • HTML page no longer looses “show in navigation” setting when migrating from RW7 to RW8
  • Fixed an issue with AmazonS3 showing access denied on some files
  • Various other fixes and improvements to keep RapidWeaver running smoothly
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I see none of those listed issues, but i do get plenty of others. Although I think most are S4, not RW related, per se.

One big issue for me, which I know others experience and I think is S4, and it’s a problem that often results is loss of work, is the crashing on undo issue. I don’t think this is hugely widespread, but I see it on three machine with different OS’s: If you click undo more than once, sometimes, in fact most of the time, RW crashes. I know the obvious workaround is to save before using undo, but in the workflow it’s easy to forget.

Anyone know if this is fixed with 8.4?

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I’m on 8.4.1 since its release and can confirm that the crashing on undo issue is still there… :-/

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Balls. Thanks.

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My understanding is that the crashing caused by repeated use of undo was a Stacks issue. This issue has been around for a long time and I was convinced it was fixed with the last update to Stacks, right up to the point where RW7 crashed after a couple of undos. It is improved but not completely fixed.