(Not to steal anyone's thunder concerning a certain sought-after feature in some other application but…)
OmniGraffle 5.0.1 beta 1 is now available for download and it includes a very long list of bug fixes and the like. Much too long to go into depth here, but we've caught and knocked down the immediate and pressing issues that cropped up since the initial release of OmniGraffle 5.0.
A quick look on the horizon for further beta releases reveals more work in polishing up foreign language localizations, but for now please do download and check out the latest release.
Historical release notes
OmniGraffle beta page
No changes since the release candidate a couple of weeks ago.
The sad part about this is that we currently have no dedicated page for version 4 of OmniGraffle, this is something that I hope we can address in a website redesign.
In the meantime, you can find OmniGraffle 4.2.3 and OmniGraffle Professional 4.2.3 at our software archive, and here are direct links:
OmniGraffle 4.2.3
OmniGraffle Professional 4.2.3
Enjoy!
Just a few more fixes that have popped up along the way, we've fixed a recursive NIB crash when running in Spanish as well as addressing another instance of the issue where the .graffle file extension would get appended on export.
The upshot to RC status is that once the final version of OmniGraffle 4.2.3 is out and about, is that version 5.0.1 can go into beta testing, it's currently busy waiting in the wings.
You can find the release candidate of OmniGraffle 4.2.3 at our beta page.
For those of you who are still running OmniGraffle 4, we have a beta release of version 4.2.3 up for downloading. It addresses the last of the Leopard compatibility problems we've encountered and has fixed a few bugs that have cropped up since the release of version 4.2.2.
Peruse the short list of release notes and download the beta at the newly-resurrected beta page.
For those of you who purchased OmniGraffle 4 or OmniGraffle Professional 4 from our online store on or after October 31, 2007; you should have received by now an email from us containing your new license key for OmniGraffle 5. If you haven't received it yet, please let us know.
For those of you who purchased OmniGraffle 4 or OmniGraffle Professional 4 from a retail outlet or online store that's not us, if you contact our sales team at sales@omnigroup.com and provide some form of proof-of-purchase, they can help you out with getting a free upgrade to OmniGraffle 5.
Well, after a lengthy beta testing period, OmniGraffle 5.0 and OmniGraffle Professional 5.0 are now released in final form, we'd like to thank all of the beta testers for their feedback, and I hope we didn't scare too many folks with the lack of a built-in license key in the release candidate.
Pricing
OmniGraffle 5 is currently available for purchase at the Omni Store. It's $99.95, and upgrades from earlier versions of OmniGraffle are $39.95. OmniGraffle Professional 5 is $199.95, and upgrades from earlier versions of OmniGraffle are $74.95. You can find out more pricing and upgrade information at the store.
You can download OmniGraffle 5 or OmniGraffle Professional 5 from the OmniGraffle download page, and a review of the long storied release notes are found here.
Operating System Requirements
OmniGraffle 5 and OmniGraffle Professional 5 require Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) or later to run.
More Information
You can find out more information about the new features at the OmniGraffle product page. There's also a thorough press release up at our news page.
Enjoy!
Oh, we are so close.
For those unaware, a release candidate represents the version of the application that we think is going to wind up being the final release, so in a week or two you can expect the final version of OmniGraffle 5 to be in the spots traditionally held by versions 4, 3, 2, and so forth.
Of course, we're a bit on the cautious side as well, hence the appending of the number 1 after the words “release candidate”.
Quite a few bug fixes and crashes addressed in this release, plus final fit and finish to the localizations.
A very interesting point to bring up:
This release does not have an internal license key as the prior beta releases did, OmniGraffle 5 will operate without a license key for two weeks, so fret not - this is also an important bit of testing going on.
You can download the release candidate from the beta page, and read copious release notes here.
As I gaze out over the release notes, I see there have been many many changes and fixes since the last beta release. I myself am not as familiar with them as I might be, I have been on a short vacation and of course got sick at the end of it, as that's what seems to happen when you go on a short vacation, you get sick.
So some nice folks (notably Andrew and Troy) handled the release today, while I've been watching from afar, trapped in my apartment due to this blasted chest cold.
In any case, we're zeroing in on a final release, getting ever closer, fit and finish and polish and the rest.
You can read Andrew's copious release notes at the historical release notes page, or see them as well at the beta page, where downloading is as always possible.
The dust has settled after the Macworld Expo, and from that chaotic return a new beta release of OmniGraffle 5 has emerged, much like a Phoenix rising from the ashes.
Well, not so much like that, but I like to make my life as exciting as possible.
The big news is that localizations are in place now, there are still a few strings left to be translated yet the application and the Help files are now localized into the seven Tier 1 languages.
Speaking of big, due to the localizations, the downloadable disk images are considerably larger than they had been before (more than twice the size!), as a result we've added English-only downloads in the sidebar of the beta page.
Aside from all that, a couple of crashes fixed, some more bugs addressed, and we move ever forward to a final release.
Please, go and download, and enjoy!
Oh, I know what you're asking yourself:
“What happened to beta 4?”
Well, that particular release wound up on the CD that we're taking down to Macworld, so if you really want to see it, you'll just have to come down and visit us at the booth.
That said, this beta, this beta that is numbered 5, and not numbered 4, has many fixes inside of it, along with those things that were in the beta numbered 4, so I guess you don't really have to come to San Francisco after all. (but we'd like it if you did)
However, what this beta that is numbered 5 does not have are localizations, I'm afraid. They're almost complete but we've run into a snag where the disk images wound up being ginormous, so this go around it's English-only.
Go, see, download, enjoy!