Qwik Weather Change Log
- v1.30 Released 30 May 2024
- Added support for the Open Weather 3.0 API, including adding logic to deal with hard API rate limits since the 2.5 API will be deprecated in June 2024
- Added preference to show color menu bar weather icons (old feature request)
- Updated documentation
- v1.29 Released 4 May 2024
- Added some extra error handing because of the upcoming Open Weather 2.5 API deprecation is causing some postal code lookups to fail — will upgrade to the 3.0 API soon
- Added keyboard shortcuts for quitting and accessing preferences
- Attempted to disable weather updates when your Mac goes to sleep to help avoid unexpected
crashes
- Made some internal changes making it easier to enhance the program in the future
- Fixed various UI issues
- v1.28 Released 31 March 2024
- Finally fixed the resolution of the app icon
- Attempt to prevent from being started in most locales/countries that do not support Postal Codes
- Fixed some issues that could leak RAM
- Fixes a small bug where the most recently added weather location will become the default if
selected and deleted
- Locks the weather location field when adding a new location, so it doesn’t get overwritten
- Fixed an issue with the weather tooltips not appearing under macOS Sonoma
- v1.27 Released 30 September 2023
- Verified this program works on macOS Sonoma
- Improved event handling, so must options can be changed almost immediately
- Fixed a typo in the About box dialog
- Fixed a bug in the round off temperature preference that did not reflect in the display until the next
weather update
- v1.26 Released 15 July 2023
- Added an FAQ page and menu option
- Added support for the Air Quality Index rating
- Improved how Preferences are handled, so they can be manually changed or reset if needed
- Use the User’s locale information to set defaults like whether their temperature should use Celsius
- Removed support for 5 minute refreshes as there was no value for supporting this
- v1.25 Released 21 May 2023
- Added an option to use an alternate OpenWeather API Key
- Improved macOS version detection
- v1.24 Released 6 May 2023
- Added option to override all weather locations and always use GeoIP lookups to get the weather for the user’s current location
- Added some logic to try to recover more gracefully for an occasional program crash
- v1.23 Released 2 April 2023
- Made it possible to retry failed Internet connections rather than just exit
- Use Open Street Map to display the geographical location of the current weather location
- Inserting GeoIP-derived locations from the Manager Weather locations window now no longer get
automatically added to the locations list
- v1.22 Released 26 March 2023
- GeoIP-derived weather locations are now automatically saved in the Manage Weather locations list
- You can now insert the Postal and country code for your location in the Manage Weather locations list using GeoIP lookup
- Made some improvements to how Postal code input is validated, which should minimize the prospect of crashes
- v1.21 Released 21 March 2023
- Qwik Weather will now automatically update the weather when awaking from sleep
- Made some additional internal changes
- v1.20 Released 18 March 2023
- Added an option to let you randomly select a weather location
- Made some internal changes
- v1.19 Released 5 March 2023
- Use a Geo IP lookup to determine the weather for your location when first run OR when you remove all previously defined weather locations
- Fixed a bug with displaying keyboard shortcuts < 3 keys
- Now supports locations with UTF-8 characters
- Made Qwik Weather a universal binary