What full version release wouldn’t be complete without a list of issues? Fortunately, with Yasu v2, there have only been a couple of discovered items, which are;

• Authenticating on an older (slower) machine in an account that has a crazy huge number of keychain items may cause Yasu to choke up. This isn’t really a bug in Yasu, it’s a shortcoming in Keychain Scripting. I’ve already signed a deal to license an alternative solution which fixes this. It’ll be part of the next release.
• Running Yasu under a brand new, fresh out of the box account will result in a log file missing error. This goes away once Yasu has been run once. It’ll be fixed in the next point release.

So there you have it, the “known issues” list. Two items for a full version release. Not too shabby, eh? Of course, I’ll add to this list if more are found.

I know it won’t make the front page, but still… Simply awesome.

The moment we’ve all been waiting for…

The new version of Yasu has been released to the general public. Both the team of testers and I have been hard at work the past two weeks ironing out the kinks getting ready for this day. I’m so happy to be able to finally announce it! I’d like to personally thank Faisal Jawdat and Ronald Leroux for their go get ‘em attitude. They really helped make Yasu what it is for this release.

Here are some of the details that you should know about;

• It’s a 10.4 (Tiger) only release. It won’t run on earlier systems
• It’s shareware now. The cost is a whopping $3.50 (payments through Paypal)
• Several new, and one “returning” task
• You finally get the restart, shutdown, etc., so many have asked for
• Admins can authenticate when run under a regular user account
• Admins can save their password to the keychain for easier operation
• Version checking is built in now. No more missing an update
• Other applications can automatically be quit when you start a task run (handy!)
• Securely remove internet related files
• Brand new icon by Yoram Blumenburg
• Better look and feel overall – easier operation
• Too many other enhancements to mention!

Get it! Use it! Tell a friend about it!