1 December 2023 - next release later in December 2023 will only support macOS Sonoma. By every new release of SwiftUI and macOS there are several new features which also are beneficial for RsyncUI. The result is the macOS Sonoma version of RsyncUI includes enhancements not in the other versions. And it is difficult to maintain two release of RsyncUI. There are too many #avaliable statements in code which makes the code more vulnerable for bugs.
Breaking changes
On every new release of macOS, Swift, SwiftUI and Xcode there are new features only supporting the latest release. RsyncUI is not an advanced application, but there are some features only available on each version of macOS. With Swift 5.9, Xcode 15 and macOS 14 Apple introduced the @Observable macro. On previous macOS versions, the property wrapper @StateObject in combination with ObservableObject and Combine, are used to create binding to mutable properties. The new macro simplifies how to create bindings and there is also quite a boost in performance. The performance part is not that important for RsyncUI, but lesser code is better code. There is also a new @Bindable property wrapper which create bindings to mutable properties of @Observable objects.
And there are other properties only available for the latest version of macOS which also makes it difficult to support other than the latest versions of macOS for RsyncUI.
MacOS 14 Sonoma
This applies for version 1.7.8 and 1.7.5 of RsyncUI.
There are two versions of RsyncUI supporting macOS Sonoma. The default version is available from Homebrew and supports macOS Monterey and later. And there is a build for macOS Sonoma only which includes migrating objects and bindings to the new @Observable macro. Migrating code to the new macro is a breaking change and that is why there are two builds.
On macOS 14 is the ContentUnavailableView, an interface, which display when the content is unavailable. If the user enters a filter search with no result the new interface displays a default view.
And the new navigation by NavigationStack within RsyncUI will only be available for macOS 14 when released. See more info about NavigationStack.
MacOS 13 Ventura and later
Features only available on macOS Ventura and later:
- within the main view, double click on row for estimate and execute
- within the Tasks view ( Add tasks), copy and paste tasks by shortcuts
⌘Cand⌘Vand Edit menu
MacOS 12 Monterey
On macOS Monterey, double-click on a task is not available. The only way to check the output from an estimation run within the main view on macOS 12 is to estimate all tasks, dismiss the estimated view, and check the output from rsync the i from the toolbar main view.
Select the wand and stars on the toolbar for estimate all tasks.
After the estimate run, Dismiss the view.
From the main view select a task and the i from the toolbar.
And the result of the estimation run is displayed.
