New When an address book contact is selected, Shift-Space can be used to quickly create a new email message.
New When Terminal.app is selected, press Space to quickly enter a command to be run in a new Terminal window.
NewShow pre-release versions option in Preferences > Software Update to get notified about beta versions and nightly builds.
Fixes an issue causing network mounts not to appear in the Mounted Volumes list on OS X Lion.
Fixes an incompatibility with sandboxed applications on OS X Lion.
Fixes an issue when pressing Space on .applescript files.
Fixes an issue with Calculator on Mac OS X 10.4.
Adds a private user default named SpaceKeyShowsRelatedURLs for customizing the behavior when pressing Space on URLs.
LaunchBar 5.1.2 - July 1, 2011
Fixes an issue with iCal event creation.
LaunchBar 5.1.1 - July 1, 2011
Fixes a crash at startup related to iTunes indexing.
LaunchBar 5.1 - July 1, 2011
Show changes since LaunchBar 5.1 beta 2 only
New Features
New Automatic software updates to check, download and install new versions. Turned off by default (unless you’ve already turned on update notifications in a previous version). Can be turned on in LaunchBar Preferences > Software Update.
New The list font size can now be adjusted in Preferences > Appearance.
The default font size of the search result list has been increased.
New Allows to specify locations when creating iCal events. The location must be separated with another '@' character. Example: "Meeting with Bob @ Joe’s Cafe @ next Mon 3pm". You can press the Tab key to enter the '@' more quickly.
New Adds support for third party calendar event creation utilities. You can choose your preferred calendar input method in Preferences > Actions > Options. You can choose between LaunchBar, Fantastical (http://flexibits.com/fantastical) and QuickCal (http://quickcalapp.com/).
New If an application provides a text service, this service can now be easily triggered by selecting that application and pressing Space. For example, to post a new tweet via Twitter, select the Twitter.app, press Space and enter your message.
New Adds support for indexing Google Chrome bookmarks and history.
New Adds support for indexing Chromium bookmarks and history.
New Adds “Search App Store” functionality: Select the App Store application and press Space to enter your search.
New After opening a search template you can press Shift-Space to insert the most recently used search string from other templates. This makes it easier to repeat a search with a different search engine.
New Bookmarks and URLs can now be edited prior to opening them by pressing Space. Note that those URL changes are NOT written back to your bookmarks file.
New When browsing contact detail categories (Phone Numbers, Email Addresses, Postal Addresses), the corresponding values are displayed next to the person’s name.
New For advanced iTunes Library management there’s now an “Identically Named Albums” category. It’s actually a spin-off of our improved iTunes indexing. It’s created whenever your iTunes Library contains identically named albums from different artists.
New Adds a new “Copy Screenshot of Selected Window Without Shadow” action to built-in actions.
New Adds a new “Run Shell Command” action. The entered command is executed in background, without opening a Terminal window.
New Adds a new “Clear Clipboard History” action. Alternatively, Option-Delete can be used to clear the history while the history list is opened.
New The “Hide Dock Icon” option will now be preserved across updates, provided that the update gets installed via automatic software update.
New When turning on the “Hide Dock Icon” option in Preferences > Advanced, the necessary application restart can now be performed automatically.
Browsing & Search now works for all file types that can be converted into plain text (.txt, .rtf, .rtfd, .html, .h, .m, .doc, .webarchive, etc.)
The Search File Contents action can now be triggered more conveniently with Command-F. Alternatively, it can still be triggered with Option-Space or Control-Space.
New Property List Browsing (Developers, you will love this!): Select a *.plist file and press Right Arrow to browse the plist hierarchy. Works also with a number of other filetypes such as .strings, .dict, .pbxproj or .ini and more.
New When browsing text, a line of text can now be further browsed by pressing Right Arrow. The line will then be split into white space separated tokens.
Improvements
Improves Mac OS X 10.7 Lion compatibility. Note: For best compatibility with Lion’s new full screen mode feature you should turn on LaunchBar Preferences > General > Nonactivating Mode and hide the Dock icon via LaunchBar Preferences > Advanced > Hide Dock Icon.
Improves iTerm support, adding support for iTerm 2.
Adds key repeat support when browsing the running apps list with Command-Space/Space.
Browsing the running apps list upwards (with the Shift key held down) now performs a wrap around (same as when browsing the list downwards without the Shift key).
Improves Instant Open: Press and hold an abbreviation character along with the Shift key can now be used to temporarily suppress the Hide Other Applications option (which you may have turned on in Preferences > Actions > Option).
Improves Quick Look support.
Improves handling of keyboard layouts, especially the various Dvorak variants.
Improves abbreviation search algorithm.
Corrected www.oanda.com currency conversion search templates in factory configuration.
Automator workflows in /System/Library/Services are now indexed by the Services indexing rule.
Improves the “Copy” and “Copy and Paste” actions. These actions now ask for a text to be entered when invoked directly with Return.
Improves the handling of custom AppleScript actions (which can be placed in ~/Library/Application Support/LaunchBar/Actions).
Improves the “Set Color Label” actions.
Improves automatic index updates when running LaunchBar in nonactivating mode.
Improves automatic application index update when installing or updating applications from the Mac App Store.
Improves ADC documentation indexing.
Improves display of Finder color labels.
Bug Fixes
Fixes a hanging issue when using Modifier Taps on Mac OS X 10.4.
Fixes an issue when creating iCal events in a calendar whose name isn’t unique across multiple accounts.
Fixes an issue when indexing DevonTHINK database files.
Fixes an issue when quitting applications from within LaunchBar’s app switcher in nonactivating mode.
Fixes an issue with Opera bookmarks indexing.
Fixes an issue with the User Accounts indexing rule causing user names with non-ASCII characters to be displayed incorrectly.
Fixes an issue with playback of equally named albums in iTunes.
Fixes an issue that could cause the LaunchBar window to refuse keyboard input when running in nonactivating mode with Automatic Hiding turned off.
Fixes a display issue with items containing line break characters in their name.
Addresses an issue with the Calendar > Show in iCal action.
Fixes an issue causing Paste and Remove from History to fail in conjunction with BBEdit or TextWrangler.
Fixes an issue when showing a large list of items on a small screen.
Fixes an issue with ClipMerge causing a wrong line separator to be used when merging rich text.
