You! Thank you for your patience as I face a very busy July. I hope to have Demeter 1.5 beta 3 out sometime in early August (or sooner if time permits). Until then, please keep the feedback on beta 2 coming.

This week you may see less of me as I switch to a brand-spanking new Intel mac.

I will also be out of town every once in a while through the month of July as I visit family. Releasing Demeter 1.5 is of the utmost priority for me and rest assured that I will do my best to get it released ASAP. Your feedback has been appreciated and I appreciate your continued feedback throughout this beta process.

Many Thanks
~K

Catch it at the Demeter page at http://www.hurrikenux.com/Demeter.

The announcement commences:

I have been hard at work on the next iteration of Demeter. The next version will be 1.5 and will be based on the Shiira 2.x sources. A beta will be released this evening for testing to give everyone an idea what is in store for this new version. Demeter 1.x will see a minor update to add 10.3.9 support back in, fix some bugs, and give a stable final release. Portions of the new Demeter site will debut tonight, along with the download link to the beta. The forum will be restructured to account for Demeter 1.5 and 1.x.

This release will be BETA for now meaning that it will be subject to bugs. Some things that were problems in Shiira 2.x are fixed, some still remain. This will give an opportunity to collect all of these issues in one place and get them fixed. The forum will also have a suggestion area where you can give your own input on what you would like to see in Demeter 1.5.

Everything should be live by 7:00 PM EDT (Miami Time Zone)

Tomorrow an announcement is coming on the current state of Demeter. Check this page as well as the forums tomorrow as well. The update should be up about 1pm EDT (Miami Time Zone).

I will be making some announcements shortly to announce the current development status and what you can expect in future releases. I hope to have this news up this weekend, but I'll have to see if I can get some things wrapped up first.

If you haven't seen or picked up the MacUpdate Parallels promo that was released today, take a look.

Thanks to everyone who has sent in donations!

With this I bring some exciting news. Soon, I will be porting Demeter to a new platform. With the launch of WiiWare shall come the launch of WiiMeter. Its time Opera had some competition and Demeter will be bringing WebKit to the Wii. With all these W's its hard not to be excited. Award Fair Demeter with praise!

Safari 3.1 is out now, get it through Software Update. Even if you use Demeter instead of Safari, the update not only updates Safari but also WebKit - the core on which Safari, Demeter, OmniWeb, Shiira, etc. render web pages. Rendering improvements in Safari should also hold true in Demeter. So go get that update!

If you are like me, you noticed some strange issues after installing the Leopard Graphics Update 1.0. Mainly, these concern some sleep issues and even some booting issues. For me, my computer would not sleep, and on forced sleep would crash on wake with a garbled screen. I have a Power Mac G5 with a 7800GT, but this issue has even presented itself on some laptops.

A fix was collaborated upon by Mati and Link Dupont at the Apple Support site. I updated it to replace files even if they are newer.
Link to the thread:
Apple Support Thread
Link to my updated fix:
Unofficial Rollback 1.2

Only install this if you are having issues. This is not supported by Apple and make sure you know about what you are doing before installing this (meaning make extra SURE you believe this to be related to the Leopard Graphics Update).