Yasu 2.5 was released today which fixes how the periodic scripts (daily/weekly/monthly) are run for compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). Nothing else in the application needed to be changed (wOOt).

You can get the latest version from the Yasu page. Release notes can be viewed on the release notes page. Questions, comments, bug reports should be shared in the forums.

[UPDATE] Version 2.5.1 has been released which fixes the inderterminate progress indicator not animating in the status panel.

Some real good news…

I’ve been able to fully qualify Cache Out X for use on Leopard. There were no major path changes that affected the operation of that application. I do need to add a path for the removal of Safari history & cookies, but as it is, those paths are broken under Tiger as well — which is most likely due to changes in Safari 3. I’m also aware of some other browser paths (Opera) that aren’t right which I need to get around to fixing. Bottom line is; while there are a couple of long-standing broken paths, running Cache Out X on your Leopard install is okay to do. I’ll try to get an update out the door by early next week.

Yasu requires a very small change to how the daily, weekly & monthly scripts get run, but aside from that there’s nothing else that needs tweaking. I’ll be updating it either this evening, tomorrow or Friday at the latest (very busy week). In fact, if you wanted to run Yasu 2.1.1 on Leopard until I can get the new version done, it’s totally okay to do. The only thing that won’t work is the weekly cron script. The daily & monthly actually run okay.

There you have it. It’s okay to run Cache Out X and Yasu on Leopard – though a very minor update to Yasu is on the way to fix the weekly cron script from not running, and one on the way for COX to fix browser paths.

Any questions, be sure to use the forums to ask ‘em.

Ooh. Here’s some news that just made my day! Yasu is reported to “work as expected” when run under Leopard build 9a559 on a 17″ PowerBook G4. There were no adverse affects the user could see, and the log file showed no incidents worth reporting. It may be that happy dance will get posted to YouTube after all.

However… Until I can qualify Yasu on my own install of 10.5, I do not guarantee that everything is okay yet.

To reiterate… I’ve not seen it with my own eyes, so I can’t say with 100% confidence all is well running Yasu on Leopard. I just know that my application worked for the individual who reported back to me, no more, no less.

More later as other reports come in.

A quick note for the readers to let you all know that Yasu 2.1.1 was released today. This latest version addresses an issue where a home folder was kept on a different partition than the system, the partition name had a space in it, and the home folder was protected by FileVault.

Not your everyday set of circumstances, but it’s still a recommended update for all users. You can download the latest version from:

http://jimmitchell.org/yasu/