BusyContacts Release Notes

BusyContacts 2024.4.1
November 20, 2024
Requires macOS 10.15+

  • ✨ macOS Sequoia related improvements
  • ✨ Improved mapping of UK postcodes
  • ✨ Performance improvements when editing multiple contacts
  • ✨ Improved HTML detection in notes
  • ✨ Ability to turn off HTML detection in notes under Settings > Advanced
  • ✨ Improved support for CardDAV servers that don't support sync tokens properly
  • ✨ Enhanced app performance for handling large volumes of duplicate cards, significantly speeding up editing operations
  • 🔧 Fixed bug where updated photos stored on a remote server would not pull during sync for some users
  • 🔧 Improved support for older macOS versions
  • 🔧 Ongoing stability and performance enhancements

BusyContacts 2024.3.1
September 13, 2024
Requires macOS 11.0+

  • 🆕 macOS 15 (Sequoia) support
  • 🆕 New "Copy All" option added to the context menu; quickly copy multiple phone numbers, emails, or addresses
  • 🆕 Added a new batch removal options for birthdays, anniversaries, numbers, addresses etc in the context menu
  • 🆕 Added a context menu option to bulk-assign city, state, and country to selected contacts using a list of existing names
  • 🆕 Added a context menu option to bulk-assign job titles
  • 🆕 Added a context menu option to bulk-remove contact photos
  • 🆕 New option to include nicknames when printing labels
  • 🆕 TikTok added to Social Profile (IM) field
  • 🆕 New relationship types: grandparent, grandchild, cousin, uncle, aunt
  • 🆕 New settings to disable automatic address detection
  • ✨ Improved handling of automatic HTML detection in notes
  • ✨ Enhanced compatibility with Hookmark markdown links
  • ✨ Improved formatting of WhatsApp numbers
  • ✨ Enhanced detection of hyperlinks within notes
  • ✨ Improved keyboard navigation between edited fields
  • ✨ Enhanced handling of merged changes during background sync
  • ✨ Zip / Postcode lookups now assign localized country names
  • ✨ Auto-completions for names, companies, and addresses now require exact matches to be pre-selected, enabling easier entry of new information without needing to press the escape key
  • 🔨 Fixed a bug where floating info panels would not remember their positions and sizes
  • 🔨 Fixes an issue where setting a number as preferred would get overwritten by Apple Contacts
  • 🔧 Ongoing stability and performance enhancements

BusyContacts 2024.1.2
February 9, 2024
Requires macOS 10.15+

  • 🆕 New custom relationships added to the related field: father / mother / son / daughter in law, nephew, niece
  • ✨ View setting added to disable sorting by phonetic names
  • 🔧 Ongoing stability and performance enhancements

BusyContacts 2024.1.1
January 4, 2024
Requires macOS 10.15+

  • 🔨 Fixed an issue where the font name in print settings would not restore
  • 🔨 Fixed an issue with social media links on Sonoma
  • 🔧 Ongoing stability and performance enhancements

BusyContacts 2023.3.1
September 22, 2023
Requires macOS 10.15+

  • 🆕 You can now batch assign an existing Company to multiple contacts using the Edit menu
  • macOS Sonoma compatibility
  • Improved sorting for Swedish
  • 🔧 Ongoing stability and performance enhancements

BusyContacts 2023.2.1
May 27, 2023
Requires macOS 10.15+

  • 🆕 Workaround added for when related contacts go missing / have their internal identifiers changed. BusyContacts now automatically resolves severed links (only works for newly edited relationships).
  • 🔨 Fixed bug where clicking on a related company contact would not open the parent card
  • 🔧 Ongoing stability and performance enhancements

BusyContacts 2023.1.1
March 22, 2023
Requires macOS 10.13+

  • ✨ macOS 13.3 Mail Plugin compatibility
  • 🔧 Ongoing stability and performance enhancements

BusyContacts 2022.4.5
December 20, 2022
Requires macOS 10.13+

  • Support for adding Mastodon social profile links
  • Improved compatibility with Outlook when emailing a tag of contacts
  • 🔧 Ongoing stability and performance enhancements

BusyContacts 2022.4.4
December 7, 2022
Requires macOS 10.13+

  • Improved handling of poorly formatted vCard data during import
  • Improved interoperability with Daylite
  • Improved sorting of the Birthday and Anniversary column in List view
  • 🔧 Ongoing stability and performance enhancements

BusyContacts 2022.4.3
November 14, 2022
Requires macOS 10.13+

  • ✨ "Send to BusyContacts" option now shows up on the Services menu when you option+click on selected text. Use this to quickly create contacts from other apps.
  • Mail-plugin support for macOS Ventura 13.1
  • 🔨 Fixed bug where Print dialog would fail to open for some users
  • 🔧 Ongoing stability and performance enhancements

BusyContacts 2022.4.2
October 18, 2022
Requires macOS 10.13+

  • 🆕 WhatsApp now appears as an option for phone numbers
  • Improved detection of organization name and job title when using Quick Entry with pasted contact details
  • Improved detection of nextcloud CardDAV servers
  • During merging of contacts, the same values, but differently cased, are now considered equal
  • 🔨 Fixed bug where info panel would take too much space in list view
  • 🔨 Fixed bug where assignment of a profile image would fail for large JPEGs
  • 🔧 Ongoing stability and performance enhancements

BusyContacts 2022.4.1
October 10, 2022
Requires macOS 10.13+

  • 🆕 WhatsApp now appears as an option for phone numbers
  • Improved detection of organization name and job title when using Quick Entry with pasted contact details
  • Improved detection of nextcloud CardDAV servers
  • During merging of contacts, the same values, but differently cased, are now considered equal
  • 🔨 Fixed bug where info panel would take too much space in list view
  • 🔨 Fixed bug where assignment of a profile image would fail for large JPEGs
  • 🔧 Ongoing stability and performance enhancements

BusyContacts 2022.3.1
July 26, 2022
Requires macOS 10.13+

  • 🆕 Major visual refresh with clean, lean look
  • 🆕 New and improved address book panel. All address books under an account can now be temporarily disabled by turning on Exclusion mode.
  • 🆕 Pinned (i.e. flagged) contacts are now grouped in Card View and appear sorted above other contacts. This behavior can be turned off from Preferences > Views
  • 🆕 New and improved smart filter selector
  • 🆕 New floating smart filter panel
  • 🆕 New app icon
  • 🆕 Improved contact list in Card View
  • 🆕 Contact counts now show against each contact section
  • 🆕 Contact photos in contact list can be turned off optionally from Preferences > Views
  • 🆕 New notes indicator displays against contacts with notes. Can be turned off optionally from Preferences > Views
  • ✨ Colored contact names can be turned on / off from Preferences > Views
  • ✨ Tweets timeline now supports dark mode
  • 🔨 Fixed mail plugin compatibility errors for affected users
  • Fixes hang when loading contacts with a lot of mail activity
  • Hiding the left panel no longer automatically selects "All Tags"
  • 🔧 Ongoing stability and performance enhancements

BusyContacts 1.6.7
May 18, 2022
Requires macOS 10.12+

  • Compatibility support for macOS 12.4
  • New advanced option added to Account preferences to enable syncing of tags as CardDAV "categories" for servers that do not support contact groups natively.
  • 🔧 Ongoing stability and performance enhancements

BusyContacts 1.6.6
April 21, 2022
Requires macOS 10.12+

  • Added mail plugin support for macOS 12.4 Beta
  • 🔨 Fixed bug where edits to phone numbers would not stick on more recent versions of macOS 12
  • 🔧 Ongoing stability and performance enhancements

BusyContacts 1.6.5
March 15, 2022
Requires macOS 10.12+

  • Improved support for 3rd party CardDAV servers
  • Added mail plugin support for macOS 12.3
  • Certain large emails with attachments are now skipped when loading the Mail timeline to improve performance
  • 🔨 Fixed bug where editing a tag name would get interrupted at times due to an ongoing background sync
  • 🔧 Ongoing stability and performance enhancements

BusyContacts 1.6.4
January 22, 2022
Requires macOS 10.12+

  • Improved handling of an iCloud error that would prevent sync from completing
  • Added support for iCloud's CardDAV servers in China
  • 🔨 Fixed an issue where Group name changes from Fastmail would not sync at times
  • 🔨 Fixed an issue where profile photos would not update for iCloud at times
  • 🔧 Ongoing stability and performance enhancements

BusyContacts 1.6.3
December 14, 2021
Requires macOS 10.12+

  • macOS 12.1 mail Plugin compatibility
  • New preference added to disable mail plugin and use Spotlight instead. Useful if you rely only on 3rd party apps such as MailMate.
  • 🔧 Ongoing stability and performance enhancements

BusyContacts 1.6.2
November 5, 2021
Requires macOS 10.12+

  • Critical fix for recently changed iCloud app-specific password requirements
  • 🔧 Ongoing stability and performance enhancements

BusyContacts 1.6.1
October 26, 2021
Requires macOS 10.12+

  • * macOS Monterey support
  • * Mail plugin adds compatibility support for macOS Monterey
  • * Empty / bogus messages returned by Spotlight are now filtered out automatically
  • * Ongoing stability improvements

BusyContacts 1.6.0
July 16, 2021
Requires macOS 10.12+

  • 🆕 Support for showing Mail Activity for contacts has been added for macOS 10.15 (Catalina), 11.0 Big Sur and 12.0 Monterey Beta. This requires installation of a Mail Plugin from under BusyContacts > Preferences > Updates.
  • 🔨 Fixed bug where the cursor would at times go back to the Info Panel from search
  • 🔨 Fixed bug where Twitter authentication was failing for a number of users
  • 🔧 Ongoing stability and performance enhancements

BusyContacts 1.5.2.1
April 15, 2021
Requires macOS 10.12+

  • Improved reporting of errors received during sync with Google
  • 🔨 Fixed bug where the department property would not appear correctly within the Contact List
  • 🔧 Ongoing stability and performance enhancements

BusyContacts 1.5.2
April 3, 2021
Requires macOS 10.12+

  • Show All Tags shortcut added under View menu
  • Improved handling of "quota exceeded" errors when syncing with Google
  • 🔨 Fixed pasting of company LinkedIn URLs
  • 🔨 Fixed a bug where the app would not automatically sync in the background if the internet was unavailable for a long period of time
  • Added additional entitlements for MailMate
  • 🔧 Ongoing stability and performance enhancements

BusyContacts 1.5.1
January 5, 2021
Requires macOS 10.12+

  • The "Copy Name & Address" option, when clicking on an address, now copies the job title and the company name too
  • 🔧 Ongoing stability and performance enhancements

BusyContacts 1.5.0
December 18, 2020
Requires macOS 10.12+

  • 🆕 Apple Silicon support
  • 🆕 Office 365 Hybrid Authentication support
  • 🆕 When restoring from a backup, you can now restore selected address books as local, "on my mac" address books. This allows you to restore contacts selectively instead of replacing all your existing contacts with a previous snapshot.
  • 🔨 Fixed a bug where the app may crash when dragging / dropping contacts to notes
  • 🔧 Ongoing stability and performance enhancements

BusyContacts 1.4.11
November 14, 2020
Requires macOS 10.11+

  • New keyboard shortcut to switch to All Tags (⌘+⌥+k)
  • Ongoing stability and performance improvements

BusyContacts 1.4.10
September 10, 2020
Requires macOS 10.11+

  • Patch for a recent breaking change in how iCloud stores contacts, which resulted in internal server errors
  • Ongoing stability and performance improvements

BusyContacts 1.4.9
August 27, 2020
Requires macOS 10.11+

  • Improved integration with MailMate for email indexing on macOS Catalina and above
  • Increased number of past and future repeating events from BusyCal can now show in the Activity list
  • "Categories" CardDAV property is now ignored for iCloud as it isn't supported
  • 🔨 Fixed a bug where deleted tags from iCloud would at times remain visible in BusyContacts
  • 🔨 Fixed a bug where birthdays to an Exchange server would at times sync a day off
  • Ongoing stability and performance improvements

BusyContacts 1.4.8
June 26, 2020
Requires macOS 10.11+

  • Ongoing stability and performance improvements

BusyContacts 1.4.7
June 3, 2020
Requires macOS 10.11+

  • 🔨 Fixed a bug where column sizes in List view would not correctly restore for some users
  • 🔨 Fixed a bug where new tags for a new contact syncing to a Google account would not sync correctly
  • 🔨 Fixed a bug where manually selecting "email" from the share menu would open multiple copies of the compose email sheet
  • Ongoing stability and performance improvements

BusyContacts 1.4.6
May 10, 2020
Requires macOS 10.11+

  • Improved searching of partially entered phone numbers
  • MailMate, when installed, is automatically used in Email spotlight lookups. Setting it as default mail client is not required anymore.
  • 🔨 Fixed inverse relationship for "son". Where gender is specified, the correct lable (i.e. mother / father) is used.
  • 🔨 Fixed a bug where a confirmation prompt would incorrectly appear when cutting contacts
  • 🔨 Fixed a bug where fractions entered into top / left layout margins during printing would round-off to the nearest integer
  • 🔨 Fixed a bug where the cursor would go to the end of the notes field when the contact is updated during sync in the background
  • 🔨 Fixed a bug where Apple Mail would not compose emails correctly at times
  • 🔨 Fixed for macOS 10.14 and below, where sending an email with attachments would fail at times
  • 🔨 Fixed attachment of .vcf files when using AirMail as the default mail client
  • 🔧 Ongoing stability and performance enhancements

BusyContacts 1.4.5
February 5, 2020
Requires macOS 10.11+

  • Improvements to background syncing for users with many accounts
  • 🔧 Ongoing stability and performance enhancements

BusyContacts 1.4.4
February 1, 2020
Requires macOS 10.11+

  • Significant sync speed improvements for Google Contacts
  • 🔨 Fixed drag and drop to Apple Mail. It now correctly attaches a vCard. To copy just the contents, select a contact, CMD+C to copy and paste into Mail.
  • Improved search to work with partial keywords
  • Improved auto detection of Exchange web services when connecting to a self-hosted Microsoft Exchange account
  • 🔧 Ongoing stability and performance enhancements

BusyContacts 1.4.4
February 1, 2020
Requires macOS 10.11+

  • Significant sync speed improvements for Google Contacts
  • 🔨 Fixed drag and drop to Apple Mail. It now correctly attaches a vCard. To copy just the contents, select a contact, CMD+C to copy and paste into Mail.
  • Improved search to work with partial keywords
  • Improved auto detection of Exchange web services when connecting to a self-hosted Microsoft Exchange account
  • 🔧 Ongoing stability and performance enhancements

BusyContacts 1.4.3
January 8, 2020
Requires macOS 10.11+

  • Improved background sync speed when used with multiple accounts
  • When editing a contact's picture, you can now use an attached Camera to take a picture
  • Large contact photos are now automatically compressed for CardDAV servers that have internal limits on photo dimensions
  • 🔨 Fixed a bug with smart filters on custom labels
  • Workaround for bug where Google Contacts would frequently update the modification date for a card that hasn't in fact changed
  • 🔧 Ongoing stability and performance enhancements

Catalina Users: If you see a "Download Failed" error during update, simply double-click on the downloaded installer package in your Downloads folder to install.
BusyContacts 1.4.2
October 21, 2019
Requires macOS 10.11+

  • App Sandboxing improvements for Catalina
  • In list view, clicking on the column header a third time, when changing sorting direction, now removes the column from the sorting list
  • Photo size, when zoomed, is restored upon relaunch
  • The "in the date range" filter for Birthdays and Anniversaries now ignores the year in order to correctly filter on birth-date "day / month" combinations
  • 🔨 Fixed a bug where where a newly created contact on a Google Addressbook would at times lose selection after sync
  • Improved date format recognition when pasting dates into the Birthday / Anniversary fields.
  • 🔧 Ongoing stability and performance enhancements
Catalina Users: If you see a "Download Failed" error during update, simply double-click on the downloaded installer package in your Downloads folder to install.

BusyContacts 1.4.1
September 15, 2019
Requires macOS 10.11+

  • 🆕 Modern Authentication (MFA / 2FA / SSO) support for Office 365 accounts
  • Collapsed address books no longer automatically expand when selecting contacts
  • Added UI changes to require additional privileges to access mail / messages on macOS Mojave and Catalina
  • Improved detection and handling of unavailable mail / messages for a contact
  • 🔨 Fixed a rare bug where, under specific conditions, two words separated by a space would merge together in notes or multi-line addresses
  • 🔨 Fixed a bug with Google Sync where creating a new contact with a new group would at times not reflect the change on other devices until the contact is edited a second time
  • 🔨 Fixed a bug where committing changes to a field would at times cause focus to jump to the Title field
  • 🔧 Ongoing stability and performance enhancements

BusyContacts 1.3.5
June 2, 2019
Requires macOS 10.11+

  • Sync improvements for large address books
  • 🔧 Ongoing stability and performance enhancements

BusyContacts 1.3.4
May 29, 2019
Requires macOS 10.11+

  • Improvements to photo retrieval for iCloud
  • 🔧 Ongoing stability and performance enhancements

BusyContacts 1.3.3
May 19, 2019
Requires macOS 10.11+

  • Added support for CommuniGate Pro CardDAV server
  • Improved reporting of connectivity errors
  • Improved "sync at launch" for accounts with Push sync enabled
  • Improved processing of large HTML notes for Exchange
  • Improved connectivity for custom Exchange accounts
  • Switching address format when editing a card now retains partially entered addresses
  • 🔨 Fixed smart list filtering rules for anniversary dates
  • 🔨 Fixed a crash when adding shared address books on Exchange for a user with no name set
  • 🔨 Fixed dragging contacts into an email's body (Apple Mail) to paste contact details
  • Auto-complete now no longer pre-selects the first suggestion in order to allow you to type in a period / space etc
  • "Printing labels" is now a little more lenient with malformeded addresses
  • Performance improvements
  • 🔧 Ongoing stability and performance enhancements

BusyContacts 1.3.2
December 19, 2018
Requires macOS 10.11+

  • New context menu options to "Show only this / all / none" when right-clicking on an Address book
  • Improvements to accounts preferences
  • Compatibility improvements with some CardDAV servers, including Google Contacts
  • 🔨 Fixed a bug where linked cards would show for disabled accounts
  • 🔧 Ongoing stability and performance enhancements

BusyContacts 1.3.1
November 15, 2018
Requires macOS 10.11+

  • Improved exchange authentication process
  • Improvements to auto-linking contacts across different services
  • Advanced connection options now available for Exchange / CardDAV when adding new accounts
  • 🔨 Fixed a bug that would at times cause the currently highlighted contact to lose selection
  • 🔨 Fixed selection of previously selected contacts after a quit & relaunch
  • 🔨 Fixed selection of contacts with a lot of notes causing the profile photo to scroll out of view
  • Includes fixes for changes made to iCloud's CardDAV servers recently
  • 🔧 Ongoing stability and performance enhancements

BusyContacts 1.3.0
October 18, 2018
Requires macOS 10.11+

  • Dark Mode for macOS Mojave (10.14). You can optionally set BusyContacts to always use the lighter appearnce from View > Apperance.
  • Improvements to auto-discovery of CalDAV / Exchange accounts
  • 🔨 Fixed duplicate / delete card menu options at times become unavailable
  • 🔨 Fixed an auto-save bug where changes to notes would at times sync with a delay
  • 🔨 Fixed a bug where moving a contact between address books would duplicate the card on IceWarp servers
  • 🔨 Fixed an glitch where making modifications to notes after performing a search would retain the highlighted words
  • System support for LinkedIn and Facebook was removed in macOS 10.14. BusyContacts relied on OS support, and so these services are no longer available starting 10.14
  • The main contact list now shows longer names in full when possible
  • 🔧 Ongoing stability and performance enhancements

BusyContacts 1.2.17
September 27, 2018
Requires macOS 10.11+

  • Fix for Google's recent changes to their backend, causing crashes upon launch
  • macOS Mojave compatibility fixes (Dark mode support will come later)
  • 🔧 Ongoing stability and performance enhancements

BusyContacts 1.2.16
September 25, 2018

  • Improvements to handling Google account keychain authentication errors
  • Improved handling of duplicate and conflicting responses from some CardDAV servers
  • 🔨 Fixed an issue where the editor would lose selection of the currently edited contact in case a change wasn't part of the currently applicable filter
  • 🔨 Fixed activity panel not showing emails / messages on macOS Mojave
  • macOS Mojave compatibility fixes
  • Ability to change the update frequency from Preferences > Updates
  • 🔧 Ongoing stability and performance enhancements

BusyContacts 1.2.15
July 25, 2018

  • Improved push sync detection for iCloud accounts before falling back to 15-minutes sync
  • 🔨 Fixed a bug where events interrupted while syncing with exchange would at times report unknown errors
  • 🔨 Fixed an important issue where certain timezones would not get translated correctly when fetching events from Exchange
  • 🔨 Fixed an issue where smart apostrophes would prevent BusyCal from looking up a contact
  • 🔧 Ongoing stability and performance enhancements

BusyContacts 1.2.14
July 2, 2018

  • 🔨 Fixed a bug where the app would hang when switching between smart filters
  • 🔨 Fixed a bug where certain rich text characters in notes would prevent them from showing fully
  • 🔨 Fixed a crash when undoing in notes
  • 🔨 Fixed an issue that would prevent some users from downloading updates from within the app (you will still need to download the update manually one last time)
  • Performance improvements
  • 🔧 Ongoing stability and performance enhancements

BusyContacts 1.2.13
May 16, 2018

  • 🔨 Fixed a bug where the app would hang when switching between smart filters
  • Performance improvements
  • 🔧 Ongoing stability and performance enhancements

BusyContacts 1.2.12
May 13, 2018

  • Performance improvements
  • 🔨 Fixed an issue where the currently edited contact would at times lose selection
  • 🔨 Fixed detection of BusyCal installed via Setapp
  • 🔧 Ongoing stability and performance enhancements

BusyContacts 1.2.11
April 18, 2018

  • 🔨 Fixed detection of BusyCal for showing Calendar events
  • 🔧 Ongoing stability and performance enhancements

BusyContacts 1.2.10
April 17, 2018

  • 🆕 Accounts can be disabled without deleting them from under Preferences > Accounts
  • Improved account discovery for custom CalDAV servers
  • 🔨 Fixed Google Authorization issue (please click 'Authorize' one more time, if prompted)
  • 🔨 Fixed a bug where sync would not automatically trigger upon network-state change
  • Improved account discovery for custom CardDAV servers
  • 🔧 Ongoing stability and performance enhancements

BusyContacts 1.2.9
April 12, 2018

  • 🔨 Fixed Google Authorization issue (please click 'Authorize' one more time, if prompted)
  • 🔨 Fixed a bug where sync would not automatically trigger upon network-state change
  • Improved account discovery for custom CardDAV servers
  • 🔧 Ongoing stability and performance enhancements

BusyContacts 1.2.8
March 16, 2018

  • Improved readability of contact names against lighter colors
  • Improved auto-save in notes
  • Improved automatic conflict resolution during sync
  • General performance improvements and contact searching speed (from BusyCal)
  • Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

BusyContacts 1.2.8
March 16, 2018

  • Improved readability of contact names against lighter colors
  • Improved auto-save in notes
  • Improved automatic conflict resolution during sync
  • General performance improvements and contact searching speed (from BusyCal)
  • Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

BusyContacts 1.2.7
December 8, 2017

  • Keychain/authentication improvements
  • 🔨 Fixed photo cropping and scaling issues
  • Cancel previous spotlight search when spawning a new one
  • Other miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

BusyContacts 1.2.6
November 28, 2017

  • 🔨 Fixed persistent login prompts
  • Display contact photos in a circular mask
  • Checking an address book in source list selects it
  • Other miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

BusyContacts 1.2.5
November 14, 2017

  • Fixes bug with Activity List not showing Messages
  • Fixes bug when deleting Fruux address books

BusyContacts 1.2.4
October 26, 2017

  • Fixes bug that caused Preferences to get reset on High Sierra
  • Updates FastMail CardDAV endpoint

BusyContacts 1.2.3
October 1, 2017

  • Fixes crash on High Sierra when selecting Inbox notifications
  • Fixes Localization issues

BusyContacts 1.2.2
September 30, 2017

  • Fixes Activity List not showing emails and chats on High Sierra
  • Fixes problem pasting multiple contacts from clipboard into other apps
  • Improvements to exception handling

BusyContacts 1.2.1
August 30, 2017

  • Fixes Google Login errors
  • Fixes Exchange 2016 autodiscovery issues
  • Pause auto-linker when duplicating or editing a card
  • Fixes crash in auto-linker when creating a new card
  • Other miscellaneous bug fixes

BusyContacts 1.1.9
July 6, 2017

  • Fixes Exchange Delegate crash
  • Retries failed Google login attempts after 15 minutes

BusyContacts 1.1.8
May 26, 2017

  • Specifies app-specific password required for iCloud accounts

BusyContacts 1.1.7
February 2, 2017

  • Improved handling of iCloud login errors
  • Minor bug fixes

BusyContacts 1.1.6
January 19, 2017

  • Added support for Google AppAuth
  • Improved on-boarding process for adding new accounts
  • Updated on-boarding setup assistant graphics
  • 🔨 Fixed language code crash

BusyContacts 1.1.5
December 9, 2016

  • Changed bullet character used for Date Stamp
  • Minor bug fixes

BusyContacts 1.1.4
November 8, 2016

  • 🔨 Fixed lookup of linked Contacts in BusyCal
  • 🔨 Fixed Exchange syncing memory leak

BusyContacts 1.1.3
October 14, 2016

  • 🔨 Fixed Exchange auto-discovery failed login dialog

BusyContacts 1.1.2
September 14, 2016

  • Sierra compatible
  • Added photos to Inbox change notifications
  • 🔨 Fixed Text size menu commands and prefs
  • 🔨 Fixed sync error when creating contact on Exchange via Quick Entry
  • 🔨 Fixed iCloud sync error for vCards containing social profile links
  • 🔨 Fixed linking error for URLs that contain # character

BusyContacts 1.1.1
July 20, 2016

  • Display prompt to re-enter password if Google OAuth token has changed
  • 🔨 Fixed crash if nil results when syncing with Twitter
  • Localization changes

BusyContacts 1.1
June 15, 2016

  • Compatible with BusyCal 3 (as well as BusyCal 2)
  • Updated app icon and preference icons
  • Minor bug fixes

BusyContacts 1.0.8
October 19, 2015

  • 🔨 Fixed crash when storing backups to iCloud Drive
  • Added support for upper-case country codes in address format metadata

BusyContacts 1.0.7
September 25, 2015

  • 🔨 Fixed bug editing Company field

BusyContacts 1.0.6
September 18, 2015

  • Compatible with macOS 10.11 El Capitan
  • 🔨 Fixed bug where photos added in BusyContacts could exceed iCloud max size
  • 🔨 Fixed bug in Activity List when displaying/opening MailMate messages
  • 🔨 Fixed bug starting Skype Chat if field label contained (work) or (home)
  • 🔨 Fixed bug with Duplicate Card menu command becoming disabled after an edit
  • Added support for sending emails in AirMail 2.5

BusyContacts 1.0.5
August 12, 2015

  • 🔨 Fixed crash in List View introduced in version 1.0.4
  • Backups are stored to BusyContacts Container if no backup folder is selected
  • German localization: Role → Funktion

BusyContacts 1.0.4
August 10, 2015

  • Added support for displaying MailMate messages in Activity List
  • Added support for 8-bit Content-Transfer-Encoding for Mail messages in Activity List
  • 🔨 Fixed bug displaying Birthdays on wrong date for Exchange contacts
  • Birthdates in BusyCal will show company name for cards marked as a Company
  • 🔨 Fixed bug in Smart Filters when searching Last Modified date
  • 🔨 Fixed bug in Time Zone lookup for various area codes
  • Added more Asian address formats: Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam
  • Improved sorting of Kanji names and diacriticals
  • Improved scrolling speed
  • 🔨 Fixed bug importing unicode tags
  • 🔨 Fixed bug restoring private tags from a backup
  • 🔨 Fixed bug with Tag/Group names disappearing or duplicating when syncing with Kerio
  • Added support for VALUE=URL parameter on PHOTO property when syncing via CardDAV
  • 🔨 Fixed tab order when adding custom fields
  • Print first name first on Labels & Envelopes
  • Print Company name in return address on Envelopes when selected
  • Print Kanji postal code symbols and names in proper order on Labels & Envelopes
  • 🔨 Fixed crash when printing custom envelope sizes on Mavericks
  • 🔨 Fixed orientation of International Envelope sizes ISO C2, C3 and C5

BusyContacts 1.0.3
April 20, 2015

  • Added Envelope Printing
  • Added menu command for copying a contact's busycontacts:// URL to clipboard
  • Added support for tag expansion in BusyCal's attendee and contact fields
  • Added contextual menu when control-clicking on a field value for copying, etc.
  • Improved background syncing and auto-linking to avoid editing hiccups
  • Improved busycontacts:// URL handler API to accept AB UIDs and support creation of new contacts
  • Facebook syncing is now done via AddressBook framework to deal with Facebook API shutdown on April 30th
  • LinkedIn syncing is now done via AddressBook framework to deal with LinkedIn API shutdown on May 12th
  • Display confirmation dialog when filtering by tag and deleting a contact
  • 🔨 Fixed "is not set" Smart Filter bugs
  • Miscellaneous bug fixes

BusyContacts 1.0.2
March 26, 2015

  • Added support for opening contacts in BusyContacts from third-party launchers (e.g. Alfred, LaunchBar, etc.) via addressbook:// URL handler
  • Control-clicking on a field value in the info panel displays a contextual menu
  • Phones with custom labels are treated as iPhones for action menu purposes
  • Added support for custom date formats when inputting Birthdays and other dates
  • 🔨 Fixed Exchange Birthdays bug that caused some birthdays to be off by a day
  • Added support for importing vCards with '.vcard' extension
  • CardDAV bootstrapping now searches ports 8843 and 8800
  • Improved change notifications for social networks
  • Tags are reloaded after deleting an address book
  • Tag filter restored after quit/relaunch
  • Birthdays are refreshed in BusyCal after deleting an address book
  • Tag Groups are not stored to Google if more than 2258 members
  • 🔨 Fixed crash when parsing corrupted email in Activity List
  • Deactivated spotlight mail searching when window minimized

BusyContacts 1.0.1
February 26, 2015

  • Added Address Formats for other countries
  • Added Role property to Smart Filters
  • Added Simplified Chinese localization
  • Added delete icon in Print dialog for removing image from labels
  • Added support for FullContact CardDAV server
  • Added support for additional A4 Avery Labels (L7160, J8160)
  • Allow setting of different Me Card per account
  • Backups are now performed immediately after first sync of each account
  • Changed default address book colors
  • Display chat sessions in Activity List for Me Card
  • Display only one email in Activity List if duplicates exist
  • Display warning when merging many cards
  • Don't fuzzy match Related field
  • Don't show Facebook birthdays in calendar by default
  • Don't synthesize group changes until first sync completes
  • 🔨 Fixed Activity List spinner
  • 🔨 Fixed Birthday is Today Smart Filter
  • 🔨 Fixed Exchange Office 365 Push bug
  • 🔨 Fixed Exchange authorization cookie error
  • 🔨 Fixed Exchange incorrect update property error
  • 🔨 Fixed Exchange legacy field labels
  • 🔨 Fixed Google CardDAV endpoint when migrating accounts from macOS Contacts
  • 🔨 Fixed Localization errors
  • 🔨 Fixed area code lookup for displaying local time zone
  • 🔨 Fixed auto-cap bug in Address field
  • 🔨 Fixed bug when moving contacts between Fruux address books
  • 🔨 Fixed iCloud Push Sync bug
  • 🔨 Fixed importing of unicode line breaks in multiline fields
  • 🔨 Fixed parsing of gb2312 encoded Mail messages
  • 🔨 Fixed symlinked Mail folder permissions bug
  • Improved area/country code lookup of Messages in Activity List
  • LinkedIn cookies are preserved to prevent frequent login dialogs
  • LinkedIn refresh interval limited to 1 hour max to avoid quota errors

BusyContacts 1.0
February 11, 2015

  • Final 1.0 release.