Automator/Services

• New RTF support for most Text actions

• Improved "parsing" of text content for Services

• A number of new actions:

  • Text To ePub

  • Website PopUp

  • Create Banner

  • Get Web Content (Webarchive type)

  • Save Images from Web Content

  • Encode to MPEG Audio

  • Encode Media

  • Add Annotations to Media

• "Convert to …" functionality between Automator document types (File Menu)

• The Plugin Installer to install Actions, Services, and other types of workflows

• Action Developers:

  • Updated action APIs with better error handling

  • Formatters in TokenFields

  • AMCustomInputType for custom service types

  • Webarchive and Rich Text types available

• New Services:

  • Encode Selected Movie Files (Finder)

  • Encode Selected Audio Files (Finder)

AppleScript

• Support for creating and editing ASOC (AppleScript-Objective C) applets in AppleScript Editor

• You can call C functions from ASOC

• Xcode 4's unified Editor now has support for AppleScript

• AppleScript Editor can be used as an External Editor

Terminal

Support for appearance:

• Editable ANSI colors in Preferences 

• Support for 256 colors

• Default TERM value is now xterm-256color

• BCE (background color erase)

• Background images, including randomized images from folders

• Privacy Glass

• Scrollbars now hidden

• Full screen Terminal

• Better alternate screen support

Status Information in tabs and minimized windows:

• Show live content

• Unread text indicator

• Bell count indicator

• Busy indicator (also in tabs closed box), current process

• Tab title