Release Notes

Android 4.0+ Devices

30/04/2014: v4.3u4

Bugfixes

• attempted fixes for dev console errors, notably caused by xposed
• warning 'stop parent, child was rejected' -> diagnostic
• state BT Near: don't warn about unknown BT major classes, just log and place them in uncategorized
• tapping a search result found in a state Variable Value condition would crash
• tapping a search result found in an action condition wasn't going to the action
• Wait: wasn't waiting for times <= 51ms
• Load Image: was crashing when the previously loaded image was still used somewhere (e.g. in scene)
• Scene Element Image: with image buffer: wasn't updating image when image buffer had changed
• action HTTP Post/Get: exception when Trust Any Cert checked without https URL being specified
• Cell Near/%CELLID: ignore bogus 0.0.21... combination for LTE
• Cell Near/%CELLID: was using new cell API in some conditions even without user selecting in prefs

Changes

• state Wifi Near: always toggle if context says toggle, irrespective of Android's Scan Always Available setting (workaround for suspected Android bug)

15/04/2014: v4.3u3

Bugfixes

• attempted fixes for dev console errors, notably caused by xposed

15/04/2014: v4.3u2

Bugfixes

• attempted fix for Verify Error some devices
• attempted fixes for dev console errors, notably caused by xposed

Bugfixes

• action: Load Image: was flipping horizontally whenever any EXIF tag present if EXIF param checked
• crashes and incorrect evaluation of multi-conditions
• event/state select: plugins were causing crash when using the filter text
• multi-conditions: corrected operator precedence order, may require re-arranging conditions, sorry!
• Received Text, KitKat: multi-part messages weren't getting sewn together
• Received Text, KitKat: was monitoring messages DB unnecessarily
• creating shortcut, selecting icon was crashing under some conditions
• app creation: Set Tasker Pref, foreground, wasn't sticking after disable
• app creation: event Received Text wasn't working on KitKat
• state Calendar Entry: wasn't allowing ! at start of parameter
• attempted fixes for dev console errors, notably caused by xposed
• state cell near: was in some cases using parts of new cell API when option deselected
• monitor was crashing when starting from certain causes without a config file

09/04/2014: v4.3u1

Bugfixes

• Search: search also suggested plugin names and descriptions
• action/event/state select: filter list includes installed plugins
• state Power Connected: Note 3: took out custom code for < API 19, complaints new code broke functioning states (AC&USB)
• location/scene edit: edit activity was crashing when combined with xposed, try to handle and warn
• action edit: crash during scrolling
• attempted bugfixes for console errors: please report crashes in forum: http://tasker.dinglisch.net/forum
• state edit: Variable Value: don't disallow conditions like %Arr(#) = 1
• Take Photo: some errors weren't stopping task
• action Anchor: some problems

06/04/2014: v4.3

Incompatibilities

• DRMd ringtones are no longer supported
• WebView element: DB API data stored in Android-determined path instead of Tasker/cache/webview-db

Added

• state Humidity (where supported by hardware, untested)
• action Say: parameter Use Network: improves speech synthesis with some engines (API 15+)
• action Alert / Beep
• action Alert / Morse
• action List Files: added Use Root parameter (requires rooted device to use)
• permission RECEIVE_SMS for new Android 4.4+ SMS support
• state Cell Near, %CELL... vars: support for JellyBean+ cell info API
• task edit: added 'paste below' multi-select option when last item of task selected (and clipboard not empty)
• time context: variable specification possibility (not in beginner mode)
• time edit: improved layout for some devices
• %%var: meaning: "the variable whose name is held in %var"
• action Read Binary: load binary data from a file into a variable in base 64 format
• action Write Binary: write base 64 data from a variable to a file in binary format
• state BT Near, relevant Monitor Prefs settings, and corresponding entries in action Set Tasker Pref
• settings actions: Dream Settings, NFC Settings, NFC Payment Settings, Android Beam Settings
• action Scan Card: specifying a directory will recursively scan it
• state Wifi Near: support for 'Scan always available' (Android wifi setting)
• action Phone / Set SMS App (change default, Android 4.4+)
• Prefs / Data / Share
• Prefs / Data / Description
• state Power: support for Note 3 values (why oh why did they make new ones...)
• scene edit: a-z element selector: long-click entry to show options for element (hide etc)
• Run Log: log monitor and exe service start/restart/stop
• action Set Tasker Pref: humidity sensor entry
• app creation: kid app launch data is available in %intent_data in the launch task
• HTTP Post/Get: parameter Ignore SSL Anchor Errors
• App Context: App button
• MTK Control to list of suggested action plugins
• action edit: action number in action bar
• state: Ethernet Connected
• action Load Image: parameter Max Width Or Height
• Services flag for app context
• action Set Timer (system timer) (KitKat+))
• action MIDI Play, userguide section on MIDI
• action edit: search menu option
• state Variable Value: multi conditions
• multiple If conditions in actions
• search: search names of installed plugins and show as features
• built-in local variable %priority, also to userguide
• Run Log: long-click option Filter On
• Run Log: help page in userguide
• action Load App: specific activity selection via long-click
• action Load App: -> Launch App
• action Search: added parameter for web search instead of local
• Profile Properties screen: help text for Restore Settings
• UI: plugin event category
• Prefs / Misc: Reduce Memory Usage option
• Prefs / Monitor / Use New Cell API

Bugfixes

• actions Display Brightness, Auto-Brightness: was creating black flash in some situations on Android 4.4.2
• Compose MMS/SMS: weren't working at all on KitKat
• action Element Web Control: Load URL: sets mode/source to direct/url so later reloads will reload the *new* url
• auto-backups: on restore were not restoring enabled/disabled state
• auto-backups: were not encrypting passcodes
• action JavaScript: including libraries was blocking Tasker builtin function definitions
• action Array Process: Remove Duplicates was buggy sometimes dependent on array content
• action Scan Card: wasn't stopping action on failure
• action Scan Card: wasn't working at all on KitKat, now just detects *new* files
• UI variables tab: changes result in reevalution of execution queue e.g. for Wait Until
• removed spurious warnings from action with icon parameters
• wait/for at start of task with simultaneous previously existing wait was causing errors
• Perform Task: when child rejected (queue full, duplicate etc), stop parent task with error
• app creation: actions in kid-generated notifications weren't responding
• action Set Tasker Pref: was showing bad parameter values in task edit/main screen/export descr
• Play Ringtone: playback wasn't being stopped via Stop action
• attempted to improve popup edit text behaviour
• action Send Intent: wasn't stopping task on error (e.g. permission failure)
• exclude nested brackets when matching arrays
• another attempt at the jump-to-top-after-long-click in task edit
• task selection on main screen: was jumping back to marked task when slow scrolling (Android bug)
• Run Shell: root shell timeout wasn't effective
• Variable Clear: no var specified was crashing in some circumstances
• Note3: removed fix for different values SDK >= 19 (Samsung apparently changed back to standard Android pattern)
• click on AB item in scene, %scene_name wasn't being populated in resulting task, other params were wrong, changed to %item_label and %item_index
• intermediate settings reapply: use high-priority system macro to prevent collisions and blocking
• Menu / Exit, Save And Exit: wasn't reloading monitor unless prefs had also been modified
• variable references (%%) was allowing modification of builtin variables
• JS: alert() wasn't showing title correctly in some cases
• action Say/SayToFile: wasn't leaving enough time to initialize for Google's new (large) voices, up to 20s
• action Set Light: wasn't resetting value when light type changed
• Perform Task with equal or lower priority: occasionally parent next task would execute before child first
• Say, Say To File, some Plugins: queue was not being reprocessed if Wait was simultaneously ongoing
• temp files on SD from some operations weren't being deleted
• Run Log: occasional crashes upon leaving while file is changing
• UI lock wasn't bringing up keyboard automatically
• changing array index wasn't triggering array change in some situations
• app creation: icons used in notify actions could cause crashes in some circumstances
• action plugin: Never timeout was stopping after an hour
• plugin lists weren't alphabetic
• Run An Action: action edit was finishing if file selection dialog was used
• state plugins: requery when the plugin package is updated
• state Calendar Entry: UI wasn't allowing variables in Calendar parameter (despite showing selector...)
• action Run Shell: if a Wait was running in another task, actions after Run Shell would not be executed till wait finished
• JS: wasn't checking that variable names were local before trying to make them 'transparent'
• app select: wasn't showing any feedback for touches
• JS in webview: alert etc was crashing after hiding scene then showing it again
• JS in webview in overlay: give warning for alert/confirm/prompt instead of crashing
• widget labels weren't set to be a single line
• app creation: don't accept purely numeric tuples (e.g. x.03.y)
• main screen, beginner mode, + button wasn't centered
• BT Connected: Name/Address selector appends with / instead of replacing
• upgrading some old photo actions to the unified version was failing
• JS: shell function: was losing newlines in output
• app creation: JS: prompt/alert/confirm was crashing
• actions EndIf/EndFor: don't show If condition in action edit screen
• actions Variable Search Replace/Section/Convert: show builtin vars in 'Variable' selector
• actions Variable Search Replace/Section/Convert: allow use of builtin var when Replace/Store In parameter not selected
• Time context: beginner mode variable swap buttons were showing but not clickable
• Time context: long variable names were masking variable select button
• Say: moved audio focus grab to post TTS init, losing focus during init caused users to think action was failing completely
• JS: local function wasn't working
• JS: local/setLocal: weren't validating varName correctly, didn't support array refs
• action HTTP Get/Post: Tasker was hanging when attempting to stop them (e.g. with Stop button in action edit)
• only first-level task references to monitor vars were being picked up (expanded to 2nd level)
• processing vars from plugin action: was accepting some syntactically bad variable names
• Say/Say To File: speech finish detected immediately instead of wait loop
• HTTP Post/Get: response codes 400-599: store returned error document in %HTTPD
• scene scaling improvements, especially for super-high-density devices
• action System Lock: catch exceptions from Android call and stop task when they occur
• builtin scenes: header/footer elements can be removed
• builtin scenes: header visibility wasn't being respected when title existed and was visible
• scenes tab: fixed oversized 'x' on high density screens
• state USB Connected: added delay before checking USB devices after disconnect
• app creation: %CNAME, %CONAME, %SMSRN: app wasn't getting permission needed to read name from number
• action plugins: returning result very quickly could result in it not being processed

Changes

• removed None operator in conditions, default to Matches
• Say/SayToFile: use new API call to detect max TTS input length, warn when exceeded
• action Load Image: add parameter to respect Exif orientation tag
• Run Log: speeded up initialization
• Light Level: increased responsiveness
• slight efficiency improvement with general state handling
• Perform Task: allow priority to exceed 10 when using variable specification (useful for %priority + 1)
• Run Log: when going to edit entry, use name to retrieve entity if ID doesn't exist (where possible)
• profile list: show export option for unnamed profiles, demand name if clicked
• action edit: Label parameter vis controlled with checkbox
• action edit: rearranged bottom fixed params
• Run Log: long-click for options instead of single click to go to item
• don't allow Beginner Mode (or show option for it) if have projects in data
• Run Log: record and restore current position until exiting Tasker
• Run Log: returning from task edit launched via Run Log returns to Run Log, not main screen
• Run Log: only allow most-recent-top direction, faster and works better with restoring position
• JavaScript libs: assume file:// if lib specification starts with /
• Search Tasker: returning from task/scene edit launched via Search Tasker returns to search screen, not main screen
• profile list: removed italics from profile name
• Say / Say To File: speech engine shutdown controlled by Reduce Resouce Usage pref
• Phone / Radio: again available, probably for most devices
• use SMS broadcast for Received Text event instead of messaging DB
• actions Variable Add/Subtract: variable can hold a long (twice integer range) value, result can also be a long
• action Compose SMS: restrict to specify recipients or message, not both, on KitKat+
• action Compose MMS: removed Number parameter on KitKat+ (doesn't support recipient + attachment)
• action Send SMS: don't show Messaging App parameter in 4.4+ (not supported)
• scene element text: allow text selection when no event tasks are defined
• action JavaScript(let): (post JellyBean) code has access to file urls (as was the case prior to JB)
• scene element webview: (post JellyBean) all JS on page has access to file urls (as was the case prior to JB)
• don't write human-readable data to SD on backup, just causes confusion
• auto-backup data must be regenerated, takes a lot longer when Allow Phone Access is checked
• WebView/JS: enable debugging when Tasker system log debugging enabled (KitKat)
• task edit: pressing Play Buttin in multi-select mode only executes the selected actions
• action Scan Card: on KitKat+ whole card scans wait for scan to complete before continuing task
• state Wifi Near: shorter scan time and power usage when APs present relevant to all required states
• action Display Brightness: removed 'Immediate Effect' parameter for KitKat+ (not needed, can cause a black flash)
• list item action selection: only set item icon and label if they're not already set

Developers

• support for event plugins (see Tasker Event Plugin Extension at http://tasker.dinglisch.net/plugins.html)
• support String [] in values of TaskerPlugin.addVariableBundle()
• replacement of vars in String [] values before passing to FireReceiver (when key specified)
• TaskerPlugin.variableNameValid()
• support for ArrayList in plugin data bundles and TaskerPlugin.addVariableBundle()
• TaskerPlugin: constants for requested timeouts NONE, MAX and NEVER