OutpostRelease notes
What changed in each version of Outpost, newest first. The app updates itself; this is the record.
Patch Changes
- The accounts popover is tighter: less padding around and between accounts, and each account's sign-out button stays faded until you hover it.
- Calendar actions are now in the ⌘K command menu: open the calendar, create an event, jump to today or step forward and back, switch between day, week, month and N-day views, show or hide weekends, declined events and week numbers, and edit, answer or join the event you have open.
- Pressing Escape on a message you've started now asks whether to save it as a draft, discard it, or keep writing — an untouched composer still closes straight away. Escape on a new message also returns you to the list instead of leaving an empty composer behind, and pressing C while reading a conversation now starts a reply at the bottom of the thread. Replies open with the cursor in the message, not the To field.
- The dark theme is now a deeper, cooler near-black with crisper borders and the blue accent. Outpost also uses the Geist typeface throughout, including the small labels, tabs and times that used to be monospace, so the app matches the new Outpost download page.
- Outpost now paces its Gmail requests to stay inside Google's per-account limit, and always keeps part of that limit free for what you're doing, so a first-time sync no longer stops your mail from loading. If Gmail still asks Outpost to slow down, you'll see a countdown until it resumes. In the meantime, labels and the conversations you open load from what's already on your Mac, instead of spinning forever.
- Outpost now works without a server. It talks to Gmail, Google Calendar and your Google contacts directly, and keeps your mail and calendar on this computer, so the app opens instantly on what it already has. Sign in with Google once for each account — there is no separate Outpost account any more, and your Google sign-in is kept in your system keychain. Because of the change you'll be asked to sign in again after updating. New mail is checked every 30 seconds while Outpost is open. Snoozed threads and scheduled sends now fire while Outpost is running; anything due while it was quit happens as soon as you open it again.
- Messages in a conversation and the compose window no longer have a coloured bar down their left edge, so the reader looks cleaner. Drafts are still marked with their Draft label.
- Settings scrolls again, so every section below the first screen is reachable, and the section list on the left stays in view as you scroll.
- Pressing Tab in the To, Cc or Bcc field now adds the highlighted suggestion. Type part of a name, pick a contact with the arrow keys, and Tab fills it in.
- Click anywhere on a message's header in a thread to collapse it, not just the gap beside the sender.
- The unread counts in the top bar and the sidebar no longer make the layout jump while they load: a placeholder holds their place until the numbers arrive.
Patch Changes
- Outpost now reads in a proportional typeface instead of monospace, so sender names, subjects and previews are easier to scan and fit more on each line. Your connected accounts have moved out of the sidebar into a switcher next to the Outpost name at the top: click the avatars to see each account, sign one out or add another. An amber dot appears there when an account needs reconnecting.
Patch Changes
- On a Mac, the Outpost menu now has Check for Updates… right under About Outpost. It checks for a new version straight away, then offers the update or tells you you're up to date.
- The calendar no longer opens under two sidebars. The sidebar now follows what you're looking at: mailboxes and accounts in mail, the mini month and your calendars in the calendar. Inbox and Calendar have moved to the top bar beside the sidebar button, labels are tucked into a collapsible group, and opening or closing the sidebar on the calendar is smooth again.
Patch Changes
- Gmail now stays connected after you sign in again, and Outpost no longer sends you round the Connect Google screen in a loop. You can also drag, drop or paste screenshots straight into the feedback form.