• eBay changed the login procedure in some Countries, and this broke Auction Hunter's ability to login properly. This version fixes the problem.
• Fixed a problem that prevented the high bidder to be retrieved correctly, especially when Auction Hunter's user is winning the bid.

• Because of some eBay web site changes, some Auction Hunter features, like search and drag&drop from browser, stopped working. Now the problem has been fixed.

• Fixed a bug in date handling on Mac OS X 10.6.x.

• Fixed a problem with daylight time savings on eBay France and eBay Spain

PLEASE NOTICE: starting from this release, Auction Hunter requires Mac OS X 10.4 or greater in order to run. This is because we're working to fix some Snow Leopard-specific issues, that forced us to drop 10.3 support.

• Fixed a problem with daylight time savings on eBay France
• Fixed seller name parsing problem
• Fixed date parsing problem on ebay.de, ebay.at, ebay.ch
• Fixed a couple of minor errors on Mac OS X 10.6.x

• Fixed a time zone conversion for items listed on ebay.fr and ebay.es.
• Fixed a problem with item's web page parsing, due to some item page layout changes.
• Enhanced high bidder recognition.
• Fixed a problem with item's web page parsing on ebay.fr and ebay.de, due to some item page layout changes.

• Added the support of the new My eBay "beta" layout.
• Fixed parsing of eBay Motors items.
• Fixed various My eBay synchronization problems.
• Fixed a couple of crashes on Mac OS X 10.3.9.
• Fixed a bug related to the "show new auctions only" feature, that did sometimes display a wrong items list.
• Fixed a bug in search management that caused the application to find just first page of results.
• Fixed a bug that could cause a crash while searching.
• Enhanced login mechanism in order to recognize and avoid situations that may led to unintentional logouts.
• Fixed an incorrect behavior in cookies management that could cause login failure.
• Fixed parsing of some very specific items on ebay.it, that were marked as unavailable.

• Fixed a nasty bug in preferences handling, related to eBay users, that caused user's verification to fail, and sometimes the users being not loaded at startup.
• Synchronization with My eBay area has been partially fixed.

• Partially redesigned login procedure in order to solve the login problem due to recent eBay web site modifications.
• Fixed a bug that caused bid failure when you're the high bidder already.
• Fixed a bug with search results, that caused just the first 50 found items to be listed.
• Fixed an issue that made the application display the message "you've been outbid" just after a bid, even if you're the actual high bidder.
• Fixed a bug that caused a crash when double-clicking onto the image thumbnail, inside the info panel.

• Login and bid mechanisms have been completely rewritten for enhanced reliability.

• Enhanced bid reply page recognition.
• Fixed some problems related to searches.
• Fixed a couple of additional problems with snipes, related to foreign (non-USA) eBay sites.
• Fixed a problem that caused ended items with unknown end date to be mixed with active ones, if the list is sorted by remaining time.
• Fixed high bidder recognition, for bids placed with Auction Hunter.
• Fixed search mechanism: now searches should return the correct number of items.
• Fixed wrong "reserve met" recognition for items found on english sites.
• Fixed some problems when parsing pages in new format.
• Fixed a crash that happened when the application was unable to snipe, after reaching the maximum number of retries.
• Fixed My eBay sync when using foreign (non-USA) eBay sites (the new eBay interface is still unsupported).
• Fixed a bug that could cause auction details being loaded from ebay.com instead of the site where the item was found on.
• Fixed currency parse error that prevented some items from being correctly detailed.
• Fixed minimum bid price recognition.

• Fixed a problem that could cause a crash or make the application become unresponsive.
• Fixed a problem where the application may not be able to understand the bid/snipe result.
• Fixed a rare issue that caused the application to report a login failure even if the login was successful.
• Fixed some item refresh problems.

• Completely revised auction details parsing mechanism.
• Completely revised cookies management.
• Bids and snipes are now performed on the site where the auction was found on.
• When double-clicking on an item, now it will be open in web browser on the site it was found on. You can override this behavior by turning the new checkbox "Always open auctions in browser with preferred site" on ("eBay" preferences panel).
• A new item has been added to the auctions contextual menu, to let you open selected items in browser using one of the supported ebay sites.

• Fixed a couple of problems that could cause a crash under some rare circumstances.

• Enabled version checking for intermediate builds too: a preference has been added to let you choose if the application should check for final releases only or beta versions too.

• The multi-category searches didn't work anymore because of the usual eBay web site changes, so we had to change our approach. This version of Auction Hunter performs a separate search for each category, then joins the results as they were coming from a single search. Although this works as expected, there is a side effect: since each category is being searched separately, you may get back a number of results exceeding the maximum results number defined in preferences. Because of this a warning message will be displayed when you add a category to remind you of this (it can be disabled, of course).
• In previous versions category update may fail because of some eBay web site changes; now it should work as expected again.
• A wrong categories popup menu was shown when editing a previously saved search.
• Fixed the "cookies problem" error that occurred, sometimes, during eBay user login.

• Memory management has been enhanced in order to lower the memory requirements.
• Changed the log mechanism to ensure that log messages are saved to Auction_Hunter.log file only.
• Fixed the fast search function for better extended characters handling.
• Fixed a bug in parsing engine that could make the application hang while refreshing items with some specific HTML code in title.
• Fixed some issues that could make the application hang.
• Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when dealing with the folder list.
• Solved a search issue that caused endless searches under some circumstances.
• Fixed a bug that caused searches to return a wrong number of items.
• Fixed a crash under 10.4.11.
• Fixed a "Quick Search" problem when searching with multiple words.
• Fixed several memory leaks.

• Fixed a couple of hangs on Leopard.
• Fixed item's details extraction from eBay web page.
• Fixed a problem in cookies management.
• Fixed a problem with snipes, caused by wrong HTML pages parsing.
• Fixed search results extraction.
• Fixed extended characters handling in search string.
• Fixed "International location" settings within Item Search dialog for German localization.
• Fixed "Fast Search" behavior by ignoring leading and trailing spaces.
• Fixed "Create Archive with Log Files" feature, that failed under some circumstances.
• Fixed an additional problem that could cause snipe failure.

• Fixed a wrong "Quick Search" field behavior.
• Fixed auction list display in French localization.

• Added a new item to the "Help" menu to easen the process of sending reports to our support contact. The application creates a compressed archive of the support files we often need to look at in order to understand a problem's origin (the log files and the Error folder).
• Enhanced eBay user(s) management by adding the ability to check every user at startup. The automatic check can be disabled from within the "eBay" preferences panel, where you can also force a check of your user(s).

• The application has been numbered "1.0" just to avoid confusion, and clarify that Auction Hunter is not beta software!
• Fixed a problem that could cause Auction Hunter return more items than expected when search results returned a single item.
• Forcing online status check does now correctly update the red/green "status light", too.
• Due to some changes to the eBay login pages, Auction Hunter did no more show an error when logging in with a wrong user and/or password; now this works again.
• Fixed a problem related to thumbnail download.
• Partially rewritten the login mechanism in order to solve a cookies management problem due to recent eBay site changes.
• Fixed a couple of problems when editing saved searches.
• Updated French translation (we are still waiting for the completion of German localization. Our apologies!).
• Removed some glitches in notes text editing.
• Some additional Leopard issues have been fixed.
• Bidding result understanding has been improved.
• Solved a network problem when waking the Mac from sleep.

• Some parts of the search engine have been rewritten to lower memory requests and speed up HTML pages processing.
• The mechanism used to determine if the network is actually reachable has been enhanced.

• Fixed all known issues with Mac OS X 10.5: this version runs as expected on Leopard, too.
• Fxed a bug in My eBay import feature, that prevented importing more than 25 items (first listing page).
• Fixed a problem in notes editing window, where Right Arrow and Enter keys weren't handled correctly.
• Image is now retrieved correctly for ended auctions, too.
• Fixed a bug that prevented restoring original category within categories popup, when editing old automatic searches (i.e. searches saved wit an old version of the application).
• Items marked as "Seller away" are now recognized as expected.
• Fixed a bug with search results on eBay Italy.
• Image is now retrieved correctly for ended auctions, too.
• Items resulting from a temporary search (located in folder "Search Results") are actually removed from refresh list when another temporary search is being executed.
• Row height for folders list is now correctly computed based on folder list font.
• Solved a registration problem with some malformed codes.

• Updated to SQLite library version 3.4.2, for better reliability.

• eBay bid result messages have been changed again, so Auction Hunter has been enhanced to better understand these new messages.
• The title of eBay Motors items is now retrieved correctly.
• The sub-categories of eBay Motors are now loaded correctly. PLEASE NOTICE: due to some technical limitations Auction Hunter is currently unable to load more than two levels of eBay Motors sub-categories.
• Fixed a bug that prevented loaded sub-categories from being saved.

• Added some new search options to the "Item Search" dialog.
• Updated to SQLite library version 3.4.1, for better reliability.

• Fixed a parse bug when searching on italian and spanish sites.
• Fixed a problem due to some eBay site changes.
• Fixed a problem with "save item's page" feature.

• Fixed item details update accordingly to additional eBay site changes (we are working to be less dependent from minor eBay platform changes).

• Added recognition for Hong Kong Dollar currency.
• Added a new preference setting to the eBay preferences panel, to specify the destination Country for shipping costs. Shipping costs are now extracted based on the shipping countries popup menu on the bottom of the item's page, when available.
• Updated to SQLite version 3.4.0, for better database management.

• Fixed item details update accordingly to latest eBay site changes.
• Fixed a crash that happened sometimes when canceling a snipe on one or more items.
• Fixed the parse of some specific item pages.
• Fixed some glitches and terms in French localization.
• Enhanced recognition of bid error messages.
• Fixed some interface glitches.
• Fixed a rare startup problem.
• Stored categories have been moved from the preferences file to the database: this should improve application startup time.
• Fixed some glitches related to user definition, within "eBay" preferences panel.
• Fixed item details refresh problem, resulting in wrong "Buy It Now" price.

• Some very generic, anonymous informations when checking for the availability of a new release are sent out (Mac OS X version and language, processor type) to allow us to better focus on new features. If you don't like to send them, you can use the Auction Hunter preferences dialog to disable this behavior.

• Fixed a problem that in a few cases prevented registration code to be accepted.
• Fixed a problem with the "Unregister" feature.
• Fixed a typo in the trial notification dialog.
• Fixed some problems with french localization.
• Fixed glitch in german interface, where start/end time was not visible in bottom panel.

• Added a network status indicator to the main window: you can also click it to force network status detection.
• Added the item "eBay Users Management..." to the "File" menu
• Added French localization, thanks to Yves-Hervé Dujardin

• Fixed a glitch in the Setup Assistant
• Fixed a glitch in the Subcategories selection dialog
• Fixed a glitch in the Preferences window
• Removed Network Status notification: now status changes are added only to the application log window.

• Added "Check Network Status" item to the "Utilities" menu, to force the application check eBay site reachability
• Added "Network Status Changed" notification: as ever, you can disable it from Growl preferences panel if you don't need it. Network reachability changes are also logged to the Auction Hunter "Log" window.
• Updated to SQLite version 3.3.17, that should grant better database management performances

• Fixed a very rare crash that occurred when parsing auction details page
• Fixed a wrong behavior that could prevent a snipe from being executed under very rare circumstances
• Fixed a crash that occurred when the application wasn't able to insert a new user into the Keychain
• Enhanced eBay bid reply page recognition including a couple of new error messages
• Fixed a bug that could cause incomplete web archives generation when saving an auction's page
• Fixed a bug that could lock the application on exit
• Fixed a glitch in Alarm setup dialog (German localization only)
• Fixed a problem with searches on eBay Belgium site

• Resized "Item Search" dialog to better fit into 1024x768 monitors
• Upgraded to Growl version 0.7.6
• Upgraded to SQLite version 3.3.13
• Added Sparkle support to allow easier updates installation

• Fixed a problem that prevented items being found when searching for "Reserve price set/not set"
• Fixed a bug in automatic search duplication that could cause a crash when editing a duplicate search
• Fixed a bug in "Sum auction prices"
• Fixed a subtle bug that prevented correct startup with corrupted "LogFile" contents
• Fixed "top-down images" problem

• A new "Disabled snipes" special folder has been added
• Opening multiple items in Safari now creates a tab for each item instead of a new window
• You can now open items in your web browser keeping it in background, by pressing "Alt" key when hitting return or enter
• Better bid and snipe result recognition
• Snipe does now retry up to 10 times if the bid page is "not reachable"
• Time is now synchronized every 15 minutes, using the external time server specified in preferences: this will ensure the application is always using correct time even if your Mac's clock isn't perfectly aligned.
• Added automatic retry when getting a "Page not responding" during a snipe
• "eBay Time" window has been completely redesigned
• Enhanced network delay computation in order to make snipes more reliable
• Added eBay user ID to "snipe details" column
• Added sub-categories selection for more effective searches: you can now search into multiple sub-categories at once
• Added "every 5-10-30 minutes" to automatic search frequency popup menu
• Added "Duplicate search" button to the Automatic Searches window toolbar
• Glitch: bid and snipe windows won't be kept in front of other windows anymore when switching to other applications
• Added splash screen

• Ignored delete keys autorepeat, to avoid unwanted deletions
• Selection in Automatic Searches list is now bound to selected objects and not to row index
• Fixed "Hot Item" menu handling: now it's always active, regardless of the item status
• Fixed a problem with extended characters in search words
• Fixed a bug that could cause crash when quitting the application

• Snipe execution reliability has been enhanced by removing eBay time synchronization: now Auction Hunter relies on your Mac's clock only, so be sure to keep it in sync automatically with a time server!
• Added the ability to define 7 label colors and descriptions, to be assigned to single items in list. Items can be searched by label using a newly added "Find" panel, and can be sorted in list by using the new "Label" column. Labels can also be automatically applied by automatic searches and "My eBay" import.
• Added "Hot Items" concept, to allow custom "update schema". You can choose to update "plain" items with a different schedule from "hot" ones: for example you could choose to update plain items only at end and hot items only during last hour. These items can also be searched through the database using a newly added "Find" panel. Items can also be marked as "hot" by automatic searches and "My eBay" import.
• Image column maximum size has been raised to 256 pixels

• Auction Hunter is now able to find text within notes just added or modified.
• Importing auctions from My eBay now works as expected.
• Removed duplicate "Outbid" messages
• Checking the "Import all items in folder" checkbox, within "Sync with My eBay" dialog, doesn't disable other checkboxes anymore.
• Once one or more auctions are deleted from list, next available auction will be selected instead of first one.
• Fixed parsing for a specific kind of items that were mistakenly marked as ended.

• Added a very basic "cookies management" window to the preferences to check, export and clear the cookies for any single eBay ID

• Fixed a bug that caused the auction image to be displayed upside-down
• Fixed a couple of problems in date and price parsing that could cause item update failure
• Fixed a bug that caused bid and snipe failure on Mac OS X 10.3.9 and some other strange behaviors on Mac OS X 10.4
• Fixed a bug that caused multiple "outbid" notifications

• A checkbox "apply to all folders" has been added to the list customization dialog
• Added the "Ignore items already in database" flag for "Sync with My eBay" feature
• Image window can now be resized
• Added a column "Bid" to display in list your max bid on the item
• Added a column "Cost" to display in list the sum of current bid and shipping price

• Now the "Find in database" searches the "eBay Results" folder, too
• Fixed a bug in database version checking
• Fixed a bug in "Change Password" dialog that caused application crash
• Fixed a bug in password management that prevented eBay users list to be loaded
• Better results recognition: Auction Hunter does now ignore the "suggested" items added by eBay on result pages
• Cookie management has been enhanced, fixing some earlier errors in bidding and listing engines

• Added "Ended auction" search criteria to the "Find in database" dialog
• Enhanced "Find in database" dialog to allow dynamic criteria usage
• Better "Dutch Auction" support, with bidder recognition
• Added the ability to enable/disable eBay sites for category update ("eBay" preferences panel)
• Added the ability to disable the snipe confirmation dialog. A new item in "Window" menu is available to reset all of the warning dialogs
• "Seller Away" items are now recognized and displayed with a specific icon on the left of the title
• Moved application password to the Keychain
• Enhanced cookies handling

• Fixed Growl notification support: now you'll be correctly notified for snipe results too
• Auctions with snipe have now maximum refresh priority, so they'll be refreshed before any other active auction
• Fixed a bug that caused some "Buy Now Only" auctions to be shown as sold although they weren't
• Fixed a flickering effect when showing auction image within its own window
• Fixed a bug related to dragging images from browser
• Growl notification for snipes is now working as expected
• Fixed a glitch within search dialogs, where a couple of pixels was cut on the left of "Automatic Searches" parameters

• Growl notification system is now supported: this way you can configure the behavior of any notification from within the Growl preferences panel.
• Better "Multiple Item Auctions" support: now you can specify a quantity from within the bid or snipe dialog
• A "Reset" button has been added to "Find" dialog

• The alarm is now correctly disabled once it has been removed
• Old alarm is now removed when you modify a previously set alarm
• "eBay Spain" and "eBay Ireland" categories are now correctly updated
• Fixed a problem that could cause bad eBay time sinchronization
• Fixed a problem with eBay preferences panel that could reset your preferred eBay site
• Fixed a problem with Alarm dialog that could prevent a correct alarm setup

• Auction Hunter is Universal Binary now
• "Best Offer" is now supported: you can also search for auctions having this feature enabled
• "Ad Auctions" are now correctly recognized
• Added tooltips to show notes related to listed items
• Added "Notes" column to show notes within items list
• "Columns Settings" is now a hierarchical menu with two new items: "Apply column settings to all folders" and "Use column settings as default".
• Added the ability to "hide" the folder list by dragging view separator close to the left border of the window
• Search dialogs do now remember last search details. A "Reset" button is available to clean dialog contents.
• Added the ability to delete selected auctions from all folders by pressing Control-Alt-Backspace or Control-Alt-Delete keys
• Added the "Ignore items already in database" flag for automatic searches
• Added the ability to choose a different font for both auctions and folders list

• "My eBay Import" now remembers previously selected folders
• Fixed "My eBay Import" to ignore previously imported items
• Fixed a rather rare crash when quitting the application
• Fixed "next refresh date" shown in window
• Auction Hunter does now correctly extract items numbers from text dropped either onto application icon or within application window
• Fixed eBay login problem with passwords having some special characters
• Better bid result detection
• Fixed a rare bid problem
• Fixed a drawing bug that could sometimes draw images inverted top-down within item info panel
• Fixed a wrong behavior when replacing auction image by dragging a picture from some eBay "image hosting" web pages
• Fixed a bug that that was causing note overlapping

• A new resizable "Image" column is available for the list view.
• You can now change the selected auction picture by dragging a new one onto the image area within the information panel.
• A new and more understandable icon has been associated to Auction Hunter special folders, such as "Active Items" and "Search Results".
• A new preference to use the eBay 24 hours time format when showing auction details has been added to the Preferences window.
• A new icon has been added to the "Status" column to indicate Live Auctions.
• Added support for eBay Spain and eBay Ireland.
• Added German localization.

• Added timeout handling to prevent snipe failure due to network delays.
• Item location is now correctly parsed again after eBay changes.
• Fixed some problems related to the integrity of data entered in the preferences window.
• Fixed a problem that for some auction formats could have affected the identification of pictures.
• The number of absentee bids for Live Auctions is now correctly displayed.
• Fixed some parsing problems related to shipping costs data.
• Fixed a problem with saving item pictures under some rare circumstances.
• Fixed a problem related to folder relocation.
• Items removed by eBay are now handled in a better way. If needed, you can also force in Auction Hunter the update of these items.

• A "saving changes" window is being shown when you quit the application, just to let you know what's happening if the application doesn't immediately quit.

• Fixed a couple of crashes that could happen when updating details for some specific auctions.
• New item details page format (just introduced by eBay) is now supported.
• Current bid is now correctly displayed for "Buy It Now" auctions.
• Fixed start/end date display within information panel: "AM/PM" is no more shown when your system is set to use 24-hour clock format.

• 4 new columns are available for the list view: item location, item country, auction start time and shipping costs. Now you can display in the list any of the details available within "info panel".
• "Best Offers" option added to "My eBay Import" dialog.
• "New Folder..." item added to any "folders pop-up" within "My eBay Import" and "Search" dialogs. This way you'll be able to add folders from within the dialog without having to close it.
• Added "shipping costs" handling: related details are both visible within "info panel" and list view.

• Fixed a crash related to items with huge descriptions.
• "My eBay Import" should now allow you to import more than 25 items.
• Fixed "Item search" dialog behavior: version 0.9.9.1 did always search with "All of these words" option, regardless of the item selected in the popup menu.
• Fixed a problem with eBay Motors auctions.
• Categories are now updated at least every 24 hours and not at every application launch.
• Saved searches are now called "Automatic Searches".
• Fixed a couple of bugs related to newly added folders: now they are correctly highlighted when new (unseen) auctions are added to them.
• Fixed a couple of dialog windows glitches.
• Fixed some folder management issues.
• Fixed "time advance" control within "auction alarm" dialog: it won't display AM/PM anymore.
• Fixed date control within search dialogs (automatic search setup section): date should be displayed correctly now.