We wanted to give our Mac users a heads-up that going forward Jing will still work on Mac OS 10.4, but it won't be getting any more updates. Future updates to Jing (and Jing Pro) will only support 10.5 and higher.

To be clear, we're not just going to leave 10.4 users hung out to dry. When the next update comes out in the next few months, the current version of Jing is going to hang around for 10.4 users--but you won't get any new features going forward.

There's a number of reasons for this decision--here's a few of them:

• From a user's point of view, we're going to be able to leverage some cool things with Apple's Core Animation and Core Image technology. Basically, Jing's going to take better advantage of the graphics card. (Your actual Jing captures will look the same but Jing itself should perform and look better in the future.)
• This technology would also facilitate improving the History should we decide to do that someday.
• A final benefit I'll mention is that by dropping support for 10.4 and being able to tap into some of what 10.5 and higher gives us, developing Jing will go faster.

We hope this will be of minimal impact. We wanted to give you some warning, but let us know your thoughts--and if you know any OS 10.4 users, maybe you can pass this information on? Thanks!