Awaken 3 was released tonight. Click here for all of the details and download link on the updated Awaken page.

Thanks to everyone who have helped out in the beta process by testing and submitting bugs.

Tomorrow I’ll be evaluating features for the next version (3.1). We have lots more to come for Awaken as well as other new apps.

Tonight we also added some merchandise to the store page on the site. Click here to view what we have available.

Thanks again to everyone!

First off - thanks again to everyone for sending in amazing feedback and reporting bugs.

So - here’s what we’ve completed in beta 6:

• Previous song button on the fullscreen sleep timer bug fix.
• Crash after snooze fixed.
• Menubar crash fixed.
• Wake-from-sleep issues corrected.
• Playlist menu is reloaded without closing.
• About window - cosmetic fixes.

It would be great if everyone could upgrade to beta 6 and report any bugs that you find.

To download Awaken 3.0 Beta 6 - Click here.

It has only been 48 hours since beta 4 and now we have beta 5 ready. The purpose of the beta process is to eliminate all bugs before we officially say 3.0 is a final release. The response has been great and we thank everyone for reporting all bugs found - whether it be big or small. Special thanks today go to Thomas Hertz - who was one of the first to report the issue with the “wake from sleep” feature when FileVault is enabled. He was able to take a few moments out of his day to help test via iChat to be sure the bug fix for this resolves the issue.

So - here’s what we’ve completed in beta 5:

• As mentioned, beta 5 fixes a bug where the “wake from sleep” feature would crash if FileVault was enabled for your account.
• Memory management has been vastly improved and all bugs related to performance have been corrected
• The Awaken menubar app now obeys the standard/military time preference when displaying the next alarm date/time.
• Dylan posted a comment regarding the quality of the Apple Remote icon in the Awaken preferences. We have that icon redesigned in beta 5.

At this point - all reported bugs to date have been addressed. It would be great if everyone could upgrade to beta 5 and report any bugs that you find. In the meantime I will be refreshing the Awaken page on the website and updating the help information to get ready for the 3.0 final release.

To download Awaken 3.0 Beta 5 - Click here.

A major bug has been fixed where Awaken would crash on launch and in general use for some people. Thanks go to “Sam” who reported the problem in a comment to the previous blog post and took some time out of his day to work with me in testing the fix for this.

One known bug exists now where there is a problem with the “wake from sleep” option when you have FileVault enabled on your account. I am in the process of fixing this and you can expect a fix posted here by the end of tomorrow as Beta 5.

If you would like to download the beta we ask that you report any bugs to support@embraceware.com, with Awaken 3 in the subject line. If a crash occurs - a copy of the crash report would be ideal.

To download Awaken 3.0 Beta 4 - Click here.

When testing Awaken a great deal of time is used waiting for events to occur. In that time I redesigned the background image used for the Awaken disk image.