Changelog

- DropDMG now double-checks the positions of invisible icons to make sure they don’t appear on top of your layout.

- Fixed a bug where some errors when applying a layout were not properly handled.

- Improved the following sections of the manual:

- Change Image Passphrase...
- Command-line tool
- Creating a DropDMG Quick Action
- Signing
- Verify Signature...
- Why don’t the icons appear in the desired positions in the mounted disk image?

- Updated various user interface elements and documentation to reference updated locations in System Settings.

- Added an ellipsis to the “Create macOS Install Disk...” command and updated it for macOS 14 Sonoma.

- Each help page now has a link to a Google translation so you can view it in a different language.

- Made various fixes and updates to prevent Cocoa from logging warnings.

- When creating a “New Blank Disk Image…”, there is now a preset size for “macOS Install Disk”.

- Worked around a macOS change that could cause the filename column of the log to be truncated.

- Improved the “Format” section of the manual.

- Added “HdiutilFilesystem” to the esoteric preferences. This makes it possible to use APFS when creating a disk image from a folder, which can make it faster for the end user to copy files from the mounted disk image.

- Tried to work around a change in macOS 13 that could cause DropDMG to crash at quit if you had used the font panel.

- Fixed bug where setting a disk image to auto-open would sometimes fail when running on an Apple Silicon Mac.

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- Made various code modernizations.

- Updated the "Create macOS Install Disk" prompt and documentation.

- Renamed Preferences to Settings.

- DropDMG now requires macOS 10.13 or later.

- Updated the "Signing" section of the manual.

- Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when type-selecting in a table view.

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- Updated the "Security & Privacy Access" documentation.

- The "Append version number" option and Layouts version number placeholders now work with iOS apps on Mac.

- Worked around a bug that could cause a crash when burning a disc.

- Improved the error message when the source folder and destination folder are the same.

- Updated the "Segments" section of the manual.

- Updated the Chinese localization.

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- Updated the "Create macOS Install Disk" prompt and documentation for macOS 12 Monterey.

- Updated the Format and Segments sections of the manual for macOS 12 Monterey.

- Updated the crash reporter for macOS 12 Monterey.

- The command-line tool no longer times out for very long operations.

- Improved DropDMG's error handling when setting a custom volume icon and making the mounted disk image auto-open.

- Improved DropDMG's error handling when reading license agreement information from a disk image.

- Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when updating the Activity Window when multiple operations were in progress at the same time.

- DropDMG now declares notch compatibility for the new MacBook Pros.

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- Worked around a bug in macOS 10.15 that prevented the "Enter Passphrase..." sheet from working from within the "Get Image Info...", "Mount Image...", and "Verify Image..." panels.

- DropDMG now maintains its own error log files, so you can still access information for troubleshooting when the macOS system log isn't working properly.