An updated version of the Yasu 2.5.5 beta (b2) has been released, and is downloadable from here (or on the Yasu page). This version fixes some archived log removal issues for Leopard. Go get your copy now!

Okay, so it’s been a little quiet on the ranch lately. There’s been lots of stuff going on with the day job (an awesome change of positions), band (gigs galore, personnel changes) and family (very important stuff, that). Besides, there’s just been nothing worth saying on the Apple front since it’s all about the iPhone anymore (I’m a Blackberry user myself).

Anyway… Here’s some good news for those who’ve been having troubles with Yasu. A new public beta (2.5.5 v285) is available for download here (and on the Yasu page itself).

This version addresses the following:

• The French localization was totally borked somehow (for the last few releases). It’s fixed now and should work properly.

• The finish “ping” sound was extremely distorted on some machines (Intel only?) when it played. Changed the format from .wav to .aiff. It seems to play much better — at least on my MacBook Pro.

• Speaking of the ping — I’ve turned it off by default. It can be enabled manually by launching the Terminal.app and typing
  
  defaults write org.jimmitchell.yasu PlaySound -int 1
  
  at the prompt, and it can be turned back off by replacing the “1″ (one) with a “0″ (zero). This will be a preference in v3 (yes, there will be a version 3 eventually).

• Added some extra Leopard specific cache cleaning paths, also known as the “Darwin” paths, for Safari as well as the other major Apple apps (thanks to Artie Hall for pointing this one out).

• And this is a big one. I’ve changed the long running processes back to running inside of shell scripts, rather than trying to be clever and run them in spawned NSTask processes. Some of you are saying “What the heck is that supposed to mean?” Basically, it means that if you click out of the Yasu window when it starts, for instance, the Repair Permissions step, you won’t be able to click back into the window until it moves to the next routine. I have a sneaking hunch this has something to do with the sporadic keychain corruption issues — since it never happened until v2 when I introduced this “feature”. Yes, it’s an inconvenience, but it’s just something we’ll all have to live with.

So give it a try if you’re a daring soul. Remember – it’s a public beta release. There could be issues lurking. It shouldn’t be used in a mission critical setting. Oh, and please – don’t do me the favor of announcing the public beta on VersionTracker or MacUpdate. That will only steal the thunder when I release it for real sometime next week. Thanks.

As always, huge thanks go out to everyone who’ve been supportive and donated over the past few months while my life has been crazy as all heck and I’ve not been able to provide the type of support I’d like to give. We’ll see if we can fix that moving forward.