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          "type": "new",
          "text": "New support for shared address books in Microsoft 365 work or school accounts using Microsoft Graph"
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          "type": "new",
          "text": "New chooser for contact links that match more than one card"
        },
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          "type": "new",
          "text": "Added Rename Tag to the tag menu and fixed renamed tags briefly showing their old names"
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          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Improved autocomplete and keyboard navigation while editing contacts"
        },
        {
          "type": "fixed",
          "text": "Fixed saving and clearing formatted notes and getting stuck in Edit mode"
        },
        {
          "type": "fixed",
          "text": "Fixed custom field labels reverting after edits or when switching contacts"
        },
        {
          "type": "fixed",
          "text": "Fixed international phone formatting, including extensions and significant leading zeros"
        },
        {
          "type": "fixed",
          "text": "Fixed related names opening unrelated contacts and selected links being lost during CardDAV or Exchange sync"
        },
        {
          "type": "fixed",
          "text": "Fixed tag filter labels in Smart Filters"
        },
        {
          "type": "fixed",
          "text": "Fixed additional nicknames missing from printed addresses"
        },
        {
          "type": "fixed",
          "text": "Fixed Microsoft contact sync failures caused by phone number and postal address limits"
        },
        {
          "type": "fixed",
          "text": "Fixed Microsoft Graph sync overlooking contact edits and address book renames made during a sync"
        },
        {
          "type": "fixed",
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      "date": "2026-10-23",
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          "type": "improved",
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        },
        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Improved vCard import compatibility, including international text, contact dates, and large photos"
        },
        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Restored search highlighting when switching between contact cards"
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        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Restored autocomplete for names, job titles, and organizations"
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        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Improved field label sizing and removed overlapping animations when entering Edit mode"
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        {
          "type": "fixed",
          "text": "Fixed merging contacts that contain shared or private tags"
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        {
          "type": "fixed",
          "text": "Fixed renaming and deleting unused tags, including saving renames with Return"
        },
        {
          "type": "fixed",
          "text": "Fixed imported contacts missing from search results"
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        {
          "type": "fixed",
          "text": "Fixed hangs when opening menus that suggest contact field values"
        },
        {
          "type": "fixed",
          "text": "Fixed custom field edits in List View changing the wrong field"
        },
        {
          "type": "fixed",
          "text": "Fixed birthday display after editing and date calculations with alternative system calendars"
        },
        {
          "type": "fixed",
          "text": "Fixed floating contact cards closing when minimizing the main window"
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        {
          "type": "fixed",
          "text": "Fixed address books with identical names disappearing from the contact editor"
        },
        {
          "type": "fixed",
          "text": "Fixed rejected Microsoft contact changes blocking other contacts from syncing"
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        {
          "type": "fixed",
          "text": "Fixed CardDAV sync failures after local address book changes"
        },
        {
          "type": "fixed",
          "text": "Fixed Column View backgrounds not updating when switching between light and dark appearances"
        },
        {
          "type": "fixed",
          "text": "Fixed oversized Settings windows when no accounts are configured"
        },
        {
          "type": "fixed",
          "text": "Fixed crashes during startup and after deleting accounts"
        },
        {
          "type": "fixed",
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          "type": "new",
          "text": "Message and Email in the card's actions menu now list all of a contact's numbers and addresses so you can pick the one to use"
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        {
          "type": "new",
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        {
          "type": "new",
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          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Auto-linking heuristics improved"
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          "type": "improved",
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        },
        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Several improvements to the entire edit screen, including improved keyboard navigation. Keyboard focus is now preserved reliably during editing"
        },
        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Navigating between contacts with a lot of information or notes is now considerably faster"
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          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Escape while typing puts the previous value back and keeps you in the field, so you can carry on editing"
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          "type": "improved",
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          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Right-clicking a phone number, email address, web address, or date value opens the standard macOS menu again"
        },
        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Tabbing between fields now automatically scrolls the row into view if it's not visible"
        },
        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Improved contact list reload performance"
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        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Improved compatibility with SOGo CardDAV servers"
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        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Improved compatibility with Microsoft Graph servers"
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        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Improved vCard parsing to detect and handle non-standard date formats"
        },
        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Improved vCard parsing of malformed formatted-name fields in Group contacts"
        },
        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Improved Office 365 syncing to reliably include every contact group from the server"
        },
        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Improvements to LAN sync performance and reliability"
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          "type": "fixed",
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        },
        {
          "type": "fixed",
          "text": "Fixed typed text sliding sideways out of its field, most often just after typing a space"
        },
        {
          "type": "fixed",
          "text": "Tag colors update in the card as soon as you change them"
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        {
          "type": "fixed",
          "text": "Ongoing stability and performance enhancements"
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      "year": "2026"
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          "text": "macOS 27 support"
        },
        {
          "type": "new",
          "text": "Message and Email in the card's actions menu now list all of a contact's numbers and addresses so you can pick the one to use"
        },
        {
          "type": "new",
          "text": "New two-step delete in the info panel: the minus buttons in edit mode now spin into a checkmark for confirmation, putting an end to accidental deletions"
        },
        {
          "type": "new",
          "text": "New Settings screen with built-in search, making it faster and easier to find the options you need"
        },
        {
          "type": "new",
          "text": "Added Russian localization"
        },
        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Auto-linking heuristics improved"
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        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Message and FaceTime are now available for every phone number, not just those labeled mobile or iPhone"
        },
        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Several improvements to the entire edit screen, including improved keyboard navigation. Keyboard focus is now preserved reliably during editing"
        },
        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Navigating between contacts with a lot of information or notes is now considerably faster"
        },
        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Escape while typing puts the previous value back and keeps you in the field, so you can carry on editing"
        },
        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "When editing a card, hovering a name field now tells you which part of the name it holds"
        },
        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Right-clicking a phone number, email address, web address, or date value opens the standard macOS menu again"
        },
        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Tabbing between fields now automatically scrolls the row into view if it's not visible"
        },
        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Improved contact list reload performance"
        },
        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Improved compatibility with SOGo CardDAV servers"
        },
        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Improved compatibility with Microsoft Graph servers"
        },
        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Improved vCard parsing to detect and handle non-standard date formats"
        },
        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Improved vCard parsing of malformed formatted-name fields in Group contacts"
        },
        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Improved Office 365 syncing to reliably include every contact group from the server"
        },
        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Improvements to LAN sync performance and reliability"
        },
        {
          "type": "fixed",
          "text": "Tab and Shift-Tab keep moving through the card reliably even when the card changes due to background sync"
        },
        {
          "type": "fixed",
          "text": "Fixed typed text sliding sideways out of its field, most often just after typing a space"
        },
        {
          "type": "fixed",
          "text": "Tag colors update in the card as soon as you change them"
        },
        {
          "type": "fixed",
          "text": "Ongoing stability and performance enhancements"
        }
      ],
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      "date": "2026-09-14",
      "originalReleaseDate": "2026-09-12",
      "downloadUrl": "https://www.busymac.com/download/bct-2026.3.2.dmg",
      "year": "2026"
    },
    {
      "version": "2026.3.1",
      "minOsVersion": "12.0+",
      "notes": [
        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Improved Mail Activity imports by detecting large imports and throttling them to help prevent Mail.app from slowing down"
        },
        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Improved detection of multiple BusyCal installations when fetching calendar events"
        },
        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Improved Dutch-style name parsing for Quick Entry"
        },
        {
          "type": "fixed",
          "text": "Fixed contact copy and address copy actions to use the same formatted names shown on contact cards"
        },
        {
          "type": "fixed",
          "text": "Fixed an issue where editing an automatically created sibling relationship could create duplicate reciprocal relationships"
        },
        {
          "type": "fixed",
          "text": "Fixed Quick Contact parsing for Dutch-style names"
        },
        {
          "type": "fixed",
          "text": "Ongoing stability and performance enhancements"
        }
      ],
      "date": "2026-08-07",
      "originalReleaseDate": "2026-07-31",
      "downloadUrl": "https://www.busymac.com/download/bct-2026.3.1.dmg",
      "year": "2026"
    },
    {
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      "minOsVersion": "12.0+",
      "notes": [
        {
          "type": "new",
          "text": "Improved handling of relationships in Outlook and Microsoft Graph accounts"
        },
        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "New setting to hide floating windows when switching between apps, under Settings > Views"
        },
        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Handling of malformed vCards"
        },
        {
          "type": "fixed",
          "text": "Ongoing stability and performance enhancements"
        }
      ],
      "date": "2026-04-25",
      "downloadUrl": "https://www.busymac.com/download/bct-2026.2.2.dmg",
      "year": "2026"
    },
    {
      "version": "2026.2.1",
      "minOsVersion": "12.0+",
      "notes": [
        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Street field entry and auto-fill / auto-complete related improvements"
        },
        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Improved date extraction from emails coming through Apple Mail integration"
        },
        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Improved sent email detection on contact timelines"
        },
        {
          "type": "fixed",
          "text": "Ongoing stability and performance enhancements"
        }
      ],
      "date": "2026-04-11",
      "downloadUrl": "https://www.busymac.com/download/bct-2026.2.1.dmg",
      "year": "2026"
    },
    {
      "version": "2026.1.3",
      "minOsVersion": "12.0+",
      "notes": [
        {
          "type": "new",
          "text": "New `None` and `Extra Large` photo size option for the Info Panel"
        },
        {
          "type": "new",
          "text": "New option to save edited phone numbers using your selected display format"
        },
        {
          "type": "new",
          "text": "New batch edit option under the Edit Menu > Show Dates in Calendar to goggle the option on and off for all contacts in the current batch"
        },
        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Improvements to street-field auto-fill"
        },
        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Improvements to natural language processing"
        },
        {
          "type": "fixed",
          "text": "Compatibility with some CardDAV servers when auto-detecting supported features"
        },
        {
          "type": "fixed",
          "text": "Fixed a bug where adding additional custom labels for phone numbers would not work from settings"
        },
        {
          "type": "fixed",
          "text": "Fixed a bug where revision dates from incoming contacts would be dropped if the card itself did not appear to have changed"
        },
        {
          "type": "fixed",
          "text": "Fixed a bug where certain auto substitution options would not stick when set for the Notes field"
        },
        {
          "type": "fixed",
          "text": "Fixed a bug where clicking on a row in List View would at times result in opening clickable content from the Info Panel underneath"
        },
        {
          "type": "fixed",
          "text": "Ongoing stability and performance enhancements"
        }
      ],
      "date": "2026-03-28",
      "downloadUrl": "https://www.busymac.com/download/bct-2026.1.3.dmg",
      "year": "2026"
    },
    {
      "version": "2026.1.2",
      "minOsVersion": "12.0+",
      "notes": [
        {
          "type": "new",
          "text": "Major performance and Quality of Life improvements in different areas of the app"
        },
        {
          "type": "new",
          "text": "New setting to Group Upcoming Events for showing upcoming birthdays and anniversaries at the top of your contacts list"
        },
        {
          "type": "new",
          "text": "New card layout style where the profile photo is now stacked with the contact name. Configurable in Settings > Info Panel"
        },
        {
          "type": "new",
          "text": "New quick-jump index bar for Card View lets you fast-scroll through your contacts"
        },
        {
          "type": "new",
          "text": "New copy details button added to the Info Panel toolbar"
        },
        {
          "type": "new",
          "text": "New Pin toggle button added to the Info Panel toolbar"
        },
        {
          "type": "new",
          "text": "New and improved auto-completion suggestions when editing contact details"
        },
        {
          "type": "new",
          "text": "New and improved time zone suggestions when editing contact details"
        },
        {
          "type": "new",
          "text": "Auto-completions are now significantly faster and no longer interrupt typing"
        },
        {
          "type": "new",
          "text": "Insert Date & Time edit menu options now offer a range of date and time formats. Date & Time can also be inserted at cursor position instead of always at the top of the notes field."
        },
        {
          "type": "new",
          "text": "New Insert Date & Time shortcut button when editing contact details"
        },
        {
          "type": "new",
          "text": "Clicking on the profile photo in the Info View now cycles through the three photo sizes instead of zooming two sizes: Small, Medium and Large"
        },
        {
          "type": "new",
          "text": "Related contacts in the Info View now display profile photos alongside their names"
        },
        {
          "type": "new",
          "text": "Drag & drop Tags from the tag panel to the Info Panel to add them to the contact"
        },
        {
          "type": "new",
          "text": "Info Panel Settings now display a list of all available contact fields to toggle on or off"
        },
        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Improvements to the contact card view and editing experience"
        },
        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Floating contact windows now remain visible when switching between apps"
        },
        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Improved support for importing vCard 2.1 format files"
        },
        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Improved Tag sorting in the Card View"
        },
        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Jamaica address format is now supported"
        },
        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Improved detection of very light tag colors to ensure better text contrast and readability"
        },
        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Improved handling of iCloud sync errors where profile photos may download partially"
        },
        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Improved compatibility of Relationship exports when converting vCards to CSV in third-party tools"
        },
        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Improvements to Apple Mail Plugin"
        },
        {
          "type": "fixed",
          "text": "Ongoing stability and performance enhancements"
        }
      ],
      "date": "2026-03-03",
      "downloadUrl": "https://www.busymac.com/download/bct-2026.1.2.dmg",
      "year": "2026"
    },
    {
      "version": "2026.1.1",
      "minOsVersion": "12.0+",
      "notes": [
        {
          "type": "new",
          "text": "Mail Integration: BusyContacts now captures emails from Apple Mail (macOS 12+) for your contacts, displaying them in the Activity List. [Learn More](https://www.busymac.com/docs/busycontacts/47350-activity-list#adding-mail)"
        },
        {
          "type": "new",
          "text": "Printing Mailing Labels now supports selecting layout orientation when using a custom page size"
        },
        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Printing labels are now correctly centered vertically"
        },
        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Improved timeline loading reliability when switching between contacts quickly"
        },
        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Timeline entries now display relative dates on hover"
        },
        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Calendar entries now populate immediately and reliably after clicking 'Show Calendar Events'"
        },
        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "Improved matching of contacts from BusyCal when identifiers have diverged across devices"
        },
        {
          "type": "improved",
          "text": "General optimizations around contact loading, linked contact detection and more"
        },
        {
          "type": "fixed",
          "text": "Ongoing stability and performance enhancements"
        }
      ],
      "date": "2026-01-11",
      "downloadUrl": "https://www.busymac.com/download/bct-2026.1.1.dmg",
      "year": "2026"
    }
  ],
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}