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New Improved Fixed Removed Version 3.11.11 This maintenance release includes many updates to plugins and search sets. These include several news outlets, e.g., Reuters, the PubMed site, the Latest Software search set, and even the plugin for our DEVONthink Server edition. Unfortunately, due to underlying changes on some sites, we had to remove some, notably Google-related ones. However, we now use multiple search engines for certain features to help ensure good results. Beyond that, we made many fixes and improvements to make our application more reliable and efficient. Added Send anonymized analytics data to the Update settings. See our company's Privacy Policy page for more information on the data we may send. The updated Web plugin improves support for Bing and now also uses Brave and Ecosia. We no longer use Google. (See the Removed section below.) We also improved filtering of Bing and Ecosia results. We improved the compatibility of the DEVONthink Server plugin when using a self-signed certificate. We updated the Marketing, Mac > Latest News, and Latest Software search sets. The default maximum download size is 2 MB now. We improved HTML parsing and conversion, e.g., while crawling pages. We improved link filtering, especially from Brave Search results. To prevent DEVONagent Express from being detected as "unusual activity", we employ better dynamic throttling on Bing and Brave searches. A revised user-agent improves compatibility with Bloomberg feeds. Closing the preferences while a shortcut control was active could crash the application. Fixed. The registration panel didn't immediately report success or failure after the trial period expired. Fixed. Due to the use of JavaScript to present search results and blocking third-party access, we removed: Google News, Google (PDF), Images & Video > Google Video and YouTube, Blogs > Google Blog Search, Patents > Google Patents, and US Patent Office. Version 3.11.10 With this update we've introduced a new plugin for Brave Search and removed the Qwant plugin. Brave Search plugin added. Plugins updated: Google, Yahoo!, and Web. Slashdot, Sciencemag, and arXiv are no longer excluded by default. Qwant plugin removed. Version 3.11.9 In this latest release, we've enhanced the filtering and parsing of search results, making it easier to find what you're looking for. In addition, we've fixed a number of problems, including eliminating a bug that could cause crashes during searches. As always, we've worked hard to enhance the overall performance and reliability of the application.
Note: Starting with version 3.11.9, DEVONagent Express now requires macOS 11 Big Sur or later.
When manually checking for updates, the alert shows a Release Notes button if no updates are available. Plugin updated: MacUpdate. Search sets updated: Mac > Latest News. Improved filtering of several inputs: non-article Wikipedia pages, Bing search results, and social media links, e.g., for tweeting or sharing. Plugins having unspecified or unmatched tags or text ranges more reliably parse HTML pages. Indexing, crawling, and converting HTML pages ignores more hidden elements. Entering incorrect wildcards in a search could crash the application. Fixed. Complex searches including wildcards, proximity operators, and parentheses didn't work correctly. Fixed. Clinical Trials plugin. Version 3.11.8 Today's release adds a new plugin for the Ecosia search engine. For more focused search results with Google and Web plugins, DEVONagent Express uses verbatim searches. Also, it uses even larger browser histories. And we made several fixes and improvements for better performance and reliability. Plugin added: Ecosia. Plugin updated: American Chemical Society. Search sets updated: Marketing and Mac > Latest News. The Web or Google-based plugins now use verbatim searches to provide more focused results. Occurrences are more reliably matched and highlighted in the results of complex proximity queries. Using the History plugin supports larger web histories. The HTML and XML parser is now more reliable and performant. A new hidden preference, `DontSetFindPboard`, disables using macOS' shared clipboard. This eliminates search terms used in DEVONagent Express from being automatically used in other applications, e.g., EasyFind. The localization of the Browser > DEVONthink Server plugin was incorrect. Fixed. Using a `NOT` operator before parentheses wasn't properly provided to some search engines. Fixed. Obsolete plugins: Neeva, StartPage. Version 3.11.7 Today's maintenance release brings three new plugins: Neeva, Caselaw, and IEEEXplore. For better search results, DEVONagent Express handles filtering advertisements a bit more aggressively. And as always, we made fixes and again increased overall performance and reliability. Added Neeva plug-in. Added Legal > Caselaw plug-in to search the Caselaw Access Project. Please note this plug-in is very fast but also has site-imposed limitations. Added Science > IEEEXplore plug-in. Please note this plug-in uses always express mode (no filtering) as the website requires JavaScript. Links in the results popovers in the menu extra look better. Extended the Marketing search set and removed any obsolete entries. More reliable and more aggressive advertisements filter. Improved percent escaping in links and URLs. Invalid URLs are now more consistently logged. Updated the code for recording keyboard shortcuts. Please note that this will require setting user-defined shortcuts again. Improved overall reliability and performance. Search and highlighting could sometimes fail, e.g, with greek characters. Fixed. The alert and email in the case of outdated licenses wasn't correct. Fixed. Version 3.11.6 ... 1.1 … Version 1.0 Initial release.