First Post-Retreat Release

Hi everyone!

This update is a small one, we're still recovering from our first company retreat, which was AMAZING.

You can read all about it in Natalie's trip report here.

I’m on a boat!

Here's what's new in today's release:

All versions: we fixed the elusive "properties revert to default" bug, which was caused by using a slider in a property inspector and accidentally moving the mouse outside of the Mockups window. I know, crazy huh? Thanks to Diana, Jim Jarret and Chris Michael for the debugging help!

All versions: you can now hit ENTER or F2 to enter a group to edit its contents. Thanks Adi Roiban for the good idea!

Mockups for Desktop: when pasting from your clipboard, we detect if it contains BMML and interpret it properly for you. This was a feature request by Max Andersen (via Twitter), who needs it for his SWT to BMML tool.

Mockups for Desktop: added {mockup-name} to Label and Paragraph controls. It's like {mockup-path}, but it only returns the name of the mockup file.

Mockups for Desktop: fixed a bug with exporting to PDF while inside a group. Thanks John Booker for the bug report (via email).

Mockups for XWiki: fixed a bug with the image dialog.

We also fixed a number of issues with myBalsamiq, and plan on updating the beta on our production machines this week.

How do I update?

Easy! Just use our badge button below! Blog-via-email readers, head to our download page instead.

As always, if you hit any snags with the new build let us know immediately and we'll fix it right up! 🙂

For posterity, these are the version numbers of today's release:

Mockups for Desktop: version 1.8.8

Mockups for Confluence: version 1.8.9

Mockups for JIRA: version 1.8.7

Mockups for XWiki: version 1.8.7

Mockups for FogBugz: version 1.8.8

Web Demo: version 1.8.7 launch it

What else is going on?

After these few stability releases, Marco is now working on components again full-time

Valerie is working from our Bologna office for July to help train Natalie some more

Mike is working on the balsamiq.com redesign, as well as helping with GetSatisfaction

Luis is hacking away at myBalsamiq like a maniac.

I'm working on automating some of our back-office processes to prepare us for our future growth

We are offering a 50% discount on Mockups for Desktop as part of this cool bundle of Web Apps for designers: http://www.appsumo.com - the bundle ends on Wednesday 7/21 at 9:00am PST so tell your friends fast! 🙂

Also, have you checked MockupsToGo lately? There are a bunch of new widgets there, with more added all the time...thanks to all for contributing! 🙂

Onward!