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Official Macintosh Client Release Notes

This page documents the feature enhancements, bug fixes, and changes made in the DynDNS® Updater for Mac

Internet Guide integration - set your DNS servers dynamically without interfering with VPN connections.
Improved diagnostic email template with more useful information for troubleshooting.
Reduced logging of non-warning messages by default.
Fix for a version problem with the widget present in the beta release.

Fixed issue causing daemon to not start on boot up in OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
Fixed a bug that could cause a deadlock when initializing SSL in some rare cases.
Fixed a bug that would cause the updater to say "The DynDNS Updater daemon was installed but could not be launched" when the install had actually failed.
Changed how the path is determined when installing the daemon to be a little more resilient.

Fixed bug where a host or account could be set inactive if an error occurred while updating hosts.
Fixed a bug where a host could potentially not update if the IP changed while the daemon isn't running.
Fixed the Check IP update URL.
A few minor text changes to make error messages more descriptive.
Made the interface IP checking code a bit more robust.

Added a problem description dialog to assist users in generating a diagnostic email.
Added a timestamp to daemon log messages.
Fixed a bug where the daemon wasn't exiting in a timely fashion when OS X was in the shutdown process.
Fixed a bug where the application wouldn't run from a path with non-ASCII characters in it.
Fixed a bug where NOCHG wasn't sent to the DynDNS server for flags like MX, wildcard, etc.
Removed excess logging to help make diagnosing problems easier.
Compressed the account-host info printed in a diagnostic email to shorten the text.

Fixes and improvements.

Brand new version with many, many changes