AppFresh 0.8.1 was just published in the stable update feed. The new release fixes most important known issues and adds some minor new features, including more flexible definition of scan locations and an improved version detection. If AppFresh keeps reporting wrong versions for apps such as Opera and Google Earth, please try to reset the version information using the menu action in the main menu.

Complete list of changes:

• Find applications outside /Applications
• Fixed the bug where no applications would be displayed at all
• Improved version detection for some apps
• Restore column ordering/width on launch
• Improved the log console (check out the Window menu)
• Fixed default download folder on Leopard (~/Downloads)
• Skipping properly updates categories
• Fixed category dragging bugs
• Fixed a file system case sensitivity issue
• Fixed a bug in downloading updates
• Fixed inspector release notes/description display after download locator cancel
• Fixed empty progress category bug

Since the release of AppFresh 0.8, we started using a second update feed so you can follow bugfixes and new features more closely. If you experience any problems, please make sure to check out the new nightly update feed, selectable in the preferences.

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With the immediate availability of AppFresh 0.8 we finally released a great set of changes and bugfixes that aim at making AppFresh more stable and usable. The list of installed applications as well as the toolbar have been completely redesigned. AppFresh now lists all applications in a nice table view, making it easy to customize the attributes of interest, to browse groups or to use drag&drop. For downloading and installing updates, AppFresh now uses an integrated download manager, making it easy to add and cancel downloads in the background.

While preparing the upcoming release of AppFresh 1.0 we also started thinking about its licensing. We always wanted to keep AppFresh free while under development and change to some commercial licensing with release 1.0. But at this years WWDC we were encouraged in many talks we had, to go a different way and have been thinking about it ever since. We are not yet sure about all details, but we want AppFresh to be used by as many people as possible. That’s why we want to keep AppFresh free for personal use, even after release 1.0. We will get into more detail by the end of the year, but we still thought it’s of some interest already.

With AppFresh 0.8 we also introduce a way to follow beta versions more frequently. In the preferences you can now choose to follow beta builds.

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