Release Notes of all released versions of NeoFinder


As you can see, for more than 27 years, we have been constantly updating and improving NeoFinder and its predecessor CDFinder!



NeoFinder 8.5.2 (12/12/2023)


Catalog KYNO film metadata – Improved RAW cataloging – Expanded integrated video player – Bug fixes
And a lot more!

New features and enhancements in NeoFinder 8.5.2

NeoFinder 8.5.2 is a free update for all customers with a NeoFinder 8.x license.

NeoFinder 8.x is a paid upgrade for all other NeoFinder 6.x, NeoFinder 7.x, and CDFinder customers.




Previous Versions of NeoFinder and CDFinder





NeoFinder 8.5.1 (10/2/2023)


Certified for macOS 14 "Sonoma"

We highly recommend using this version.

NeoFinder READER Mode – AutoUpdater – LTFS Importer – More Movie Converter – Places Galore – Speed Improvements – Bug fixes
And a lot more!

New features and enhancements in NeoFinder 8.5.1


NeoFinder 8.5 (9/12/2023)


New features and enhancements in NeoFinder 8.5


NeoFinder 8.4.1 (5/16/2023)


NeoFinder 8.4.1 is a bugfix release that contains two fixes for the Smart Folders, and one fix when searching hierarchical keywords.
We highly recommend using this version.


New features and enhancements in NeoFinder 8.4


NeoFinder 8.3 (2/6/2023)



New features and enhancements


NeoFinder 8.2 (11/2/2022)



New features and enhancements

NeoFinder 8.1.2 (8/1/2022)



Features and enhancements


NeoFinder 8.1.1 (April 13, 2022)



New features and enhancements


NeoFinder 8.1 Ultra (March 11, 2022)



New features and enhancements


NeoFinder 8.0 (November 23, 2021)



New features and enhancements


NeoFinder 7.8.1 (July 14, 2021)


New features and enhancements:





NeoFinder 7.8 (April 7, 2021)


New features and enhancements:





NeoFinder 7.7 (December 2, 2020)

New features and enhancements:



NeoFinder 7.6.1 (October 7, 2020)

New features and enhancements:


NeoFinder 7.6 (7/6/2020)



New features and enhancements:



NeoFinder 7.5.2 (May 4, 2020)

New features and enhancements:




NeoFinder 7.5.1 (February 26, 2020)

New features and enhancements:



NeoFinder 7.5 (November 6, 2019)

New features and enhancements:
• Catalog, display, edit, create and export custom metadata or annotation fields for photos and videos
• The iView Importer can read these custom annotations as well
Find Faces will find all thumbnails in a catalog containing a face , and display a green rectangle in the Inspector as well (can be turned off in the Inspector Settings)
AutoUpdater has been massively expanded. It can run schedules on specific weekdays, or when a volume is mounted, or when NeoFinder is launched
NeoFinder 7.5 is certified to run in macOS 10.15 . We still very highly recommend to wait with the update to macOS 10.15 at least until 10.15.5 is released next year
• NeoFinder is "notarized", which Apple promises is supposed increase the security. Or so
• Icon View can display up to 3 lines of metadata or annotations, and you can chose what you want to see
• Photo Contact Sheet also uses up to 3 freely selectable metadata lines
• NeoFinder can use Aliases in the Database Folder pointing to other folders (Business License only)
• Edit EXIF dates in photos, to adjust time offsets, and more
• Play a selected video in Gallery View by pressing the Space key, directly inside the NeoFinder window!
• Navigate to the next or previous item in the Inspector with a menu or keyboard command for much faster metadata editing
• Inspector: Select which sections should be displayed
• Sort the Icon View by Duration
• The Display Filter remembers your settings for the first menu. Keep that in mind if you wonder why NeoFinder may not show all expected items...
• Find Editor can search for file kind "Email"
• Find Editor can search for "codec is NOT"
• "Export Photos as..." is a separate menu command in the Item menu, with Shift-Command-E as a hotkey
• Photo Export can apply XMP Metadata Presets to the exported file
• Copy->Path will copy the full macOS style path of a file if it is online
• Catalog the text content of ".md" (markdown) files
• Visual improvements in the main window. The slider is now placed at the right edge underneath the content, and the text with the number of items always in the center as well
• NeoFinder can catalog the boot volume in macOS 10.15 properly
• Photo Export handles rotated photos better
• Cataloging: Phase One EIP files is much faster, and supports all file variations
• Export Photos can export to PDF and HEIC format
• Added more items to the Info.plist to describe the use of the new Folder Cages introduced by Apple in 10.15
• Copy and Paste of a GPS Geotag will use the view direction, too
• Compiled using the "hardened runtime", which should make things safer, Apple claims
• Improved cataloging of certain Person metadata inside of NEF files
• Improved behaviour changing the ratings or labels when multiple items were selected for QuickLook
• New progress window when pasting metadata into more than 10 items
• Massive speed improvements when Updating catalogs with items whose thumbnails were generated by QuickLook
• Improved Spotlight search for Paths
• Improved behaviour when searching for video codecs in the Find Editor
• Improved handling of selecting multiple items in the Icon View
• Fixes a problem with the incorrect menu commands for Person tokens in the Inspector for offline items
• Many small fixes and improvements

Requires Mac OS X 10.8 or newer



NeoFinder 7.4.1 (July 22, 2019)

New features and enhancements:


NeoFinder 7.4 (May 6, 2019)

New features and enhancements:



NeoFinder 7.3.3 (March 19, 2019)

New features and enhancements:



NeoFinder 7.3.2 (December 5, 2018)

New features and enhancements:


New features and enhancements:



NeoFinder 7.3 (September 10, 2018)

New features and enhancements:



NeoFinder 7.2.1 (February 22, 2018)

New features and enhancements:



NeoFinder 7.2 (December 19, 2017)

New features and enhancements:




NeoFinder 7.1.3 (October 10, 2017)

New features and enhancements:



NeoFinder 7.1.2 (July 28, 2017)

New features and enhancements:



NeoFinder 7.1 (June 27, 2017)


(NeoFinder 7.1.1 fixes a small problem of NeoFinder 7.1 in Mac OS X 10.7, 10.8 and 10.9)


New features and enhancements:



NeoFinder 7.0.1 (January 24, 2017)


New features and enhancements:



NeoFinder 7 (December 7, 2016)


New features and enhancements:


NeoFinder 7 is a paid upgrade for NeoFinder 6.x and CDFinder customers More...
NeoFinder requires Mac OS X 10.7 or newer. If you use an older Mac OS X, we still have older NeoFinder and CDFinder versions for you.





NeoFinder 6.9.3 (September 26, 2016)


Improvements :


NeoFinder 6.9.2 (July 19, 2016)


Improvements :



NeoFinder 6.9.1 (July 19, 2016)


Improvements :


NeoFinder 6.9 (February 15, 2016)


Features and Improvements :


NeoFinder 6.8 (September 29, 2015)

Features and Improvements :



NeoFinder 6.7.1 (May 20, 2015)

Features and Improvements :



NeoFinder 6.7 (May 13, 2015)

Features and Improvements :


NeoFinder 6.6 (October 28, 2014)

Features and Improvements :


  
NeoFinder 6.5 (March 31, 2014)

New Features :

Improvements :


 
NeoFinder 6.4 (November 19, 2013)

New Features :

Improvements :



NeoFinder 6.2.1 (March 26, 2013)

New Features :

Improvements :


 
NeoFinder 6.2 (February 20, 2013)

New Features :

Fixes :


 
NeoFinder 6.0.1 (May 14, 2012)

New Features:

Fixes:


 
NeoFinder 6.0 (December 12, 2011)
   
CDFinder 5.7.3 (July 20, 2011)
CDFinder 5.7.2 (May 17, 2011)

CDFinder 5.7.1 (July 26, 2010)
CDFinder 5.7 (February 1, 2010)
CDFinder 5.6.1 (July 22, 2009)
CDFinder 5.6 (May 5, 2009)
CDFinder 5.5 (January 5, 2009)
CDFinder 5.1.1 (April 16, 2008)
CDFinder 5.1 (February 25, 2008)
CDFinder 5.0.2 (October 1, 2007)
CDFinder 5.0.1 (July 6, 2007)
CDFinder 5.0 (May 22, 2007)


4.7 (November 23, 2006)
4.6.3 (November 23, 2006)
4.6.2 (September 13, 2006)
4.6.1 (July 10, 2006)
4.6 (May 16, 2006)
4.5.1 (November 30, 2005)
4.5 (September 1, 2005)
4.3.2 (March 23, 2005)
4.3.1 (January 18, 2005)
4.3 (November 30, 2004)
4.2.2 (January 26, 2004)
4.2.1 (October 20, 2003)
4.2 (September 22, 2003)
4.1.2 (May 30, 2003)
4.1.1 (May 14, 2003)
4.1 (April 28, 2003)
4.0.3 (March 5, 2003)
4.0.2 (January 25, 2003)
4.0.1 (January 20, 2003)

3.6.4 (September 19, 2002)
3.6.3 (August 23, 2002)
3.6.2 (July 3, 2002)
3.6.1 (May 21, 2002)
3.6 (31. March 2002
3.5.1 (December 21, 2001)
3.5 (November 24, 2001)
3.1.2 (July 15, 2001)
3.1.1 (May 6, 2001)
3.1 (March 24, 2001)


CDFinderX Public Beta (February 11, 2001)

This was the first version running native in Mac OS X Public Beta. Regarding functionality, this was similar to 3.0.2

3.0.2 (January 19, 2001)
3.0.1 (January 5, 2001)
3.0 (December 18, 2000)

2.8.1 (July 7, 2000)
2.8 (May 21, 2000)
2.7.1 (February 13, 2000)
2.7 (October 31, 1999)
2.6.1 (May 31, 1999)
2.6 (December 22, 1998)
2.5 (November 18, 1998)
2.1.1 (July 24, 1998)
2.1 (March 12, 1998)
2.0a (December 30, 1997)
2.0 (December 16, 1997)

1.5.1 (September 27, 1997)
1.5 (August 30, 1997)
1.3 (May 7, 97)
1.2.2 (February 28, 1997)
1.2 (December 20, 1996)
1.1.1 (November 1, 1996)
1.1 (May 12, 1996)
First english version released.