DMG Canvas Release Notes

Version 4.0.7
November 2, 2023 - Build 400028

Changes

• Fixes an issue with overriding notarization settings from the command line.
• Updated to address visual problems caused by changes in macOS Sonoma.
• Notarization using the dmgcanvas command line tool can use an App Store Connect API key instead of an app-specific password.
• Added the 'identities' verb to the dmgcanvas command to list usable code signing identities.
• altool support removed entirely now that Apple has discontinued the service.

Version 4.0.6
August 31, 2023 - Build 400025

Changes

• If a particular macOS permissions error occurs when building a disk image, the fix (turning on Full Disk Access) is now suggested.
• AppleID setup trims whitespace from the password etc to avoid possible copy & paste errors leading to authentication failures later on.
• More error information is shown from some commands during the building process if they fail. (Such as uploading for notarization.)
• Fixes for stability improvements.

Version 4.0.5
May 30, 2023 - Build 400020

Changes

• Improved build log formatting for errors during notarization.

Version 4.0.4
May 24, 2023 - Build 400019

Changes

• Fixes the Build & Pause menu item in the toolbar actually doing a Build & Finalize.
• Provides a more helpful error message if DMG Canvas encounters a permissions issue when copying files into the disk image. Full Disk Access permissions may be required.

Version 4.0.3
February 20, 2023 - Build 400018

Changes

• Fixes an issue where the build could sometimes appear to be frozen waiting on notarization.
• Fixes some rare edge case incompatibilities with v3 documents.
• Solves a background text alignment issue (swapping and center- and right-aligned) depending on the computer's CPU architecture. A subtle change on Apple's part caused this. You may need to check your documents now have the correct setting selected, but going forward there will be no issue.
• When using an image with greater than 144 DPI, DMG Canvas now scales that down to 144 as is appropriate for interface usage, and so that the 0.5/1/2x settings are still logical.

Version 4.0.2
January 29, 2023 - Build 400014

Changes

• A dmgcanvas document now has better portability between machines when using notarization.
• Adds warnings when opening a document where an image file or license agreement RTF file is missing. When building with the command line, warnings are treated as errors.
• Addresses a crash caused by a bug in macOS 11.

Version 4.0.1
January 25, 2023 - Build 400011

Fixes

Contains a few fixes for minor interface issues and stability.

Version 4.0
January 24, 2023 - Build 400007

New! Xcode Integration

Generate an Xcode Post-Archive build script to automatically build your disk image.

New! All-New Interface

• An all-new interface that is much more modern and usable.
• An all-new Build Log view, showing the most recent build.
• View all DMG file contents in the sidebar.
• All-new Disk Image view with Summary for an overview of options and macOS version compatibility.

New! Design View Improvements

• View all background layout objects (text and images) in the sidebar.
• Files hidden from Finder are hidden in the design view and shown in the sidebar.
• Improved handling of images for Retina-ready design.
• Updated design view metrics for accurate display of appearance in macOS 13.

New! Building

• Uses the new Apple service for notarization. Note that the Notarization process in DMG Canvas 3 is being deprecated by Apple and will cease to work in late 2023.
• An all-new Build Log view, showing the most recent build.
• A more detailed build log with more error information if encountered.
• New options to select dmg compression formats (LZFSE, LZMA, bzip2, etc)
• Defaults to APFS and LZFSE, for modern disk image distribution with fast decompression and mounting.

New! Misc

• Supports building disk images with Shortcuts.
• Uses a new human-readable document format which is better suited to being included in version control systems.