Big Sur

Xway
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I am finding that X-way crashes consistently on launch in Big Sur 11.0.1 with a Problem Report starting as below. I gather from previous comments that it should be running normally. Is it just me? This is an iMac 18,3 with 40Gb memory.
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Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION (SIGILL)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000001, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Termination Signal: Illegal instruction: 4
Termination Reason: Namespace SIGNAL, Code 0x4
Terminating Process: exc handler [530]

Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 com.softpress.Xway 0x00000001060037af 0x105e9e000 + 1464239
1 com.softpress.Xway 0x0000000106003855 0x105e9e000 + 1464405
2 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff22d0003b loadItemEntryLazyInfoIfNecessary + 152
3 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff2330241c -[NSOutlineView _updateSourceListIndentation] + 215
4 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff22cf13ed -[NSOutlineView _uncachedNumberOfRows] + 339
5 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff22d018d1 -[NSTableView _verifySelectionIsOK] + 168
6 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff22cfdcda -[NSTableView _tileAndRedisplayAll] + 316
7 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff22d943c3 -[NSOutlineView reloadData] + 521
8 com.softpress.Xway 0x0000000106124331 0x105e9e000 + 2646833
9 com.softpress.Xway 0x00000001061254a8 0x105e9e000 + 2651304
10 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff22e43a0e -[NSDocumentController openUntitledDocumentAndDisplay:error:] + 414
11 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff22eac26d -[NSDocumentController(NSInternal) _openUntitled] + 102
12 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff22e43088 -[NSApplication _doOpenUntitled] + 424
13 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff22dd90eb __58-[NSApplication(NSAppleEventHandling) _handleAEOpenEvent:]_block_invoke + 232
14 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff22dd8da1 __90-[NSDocumentController(NSInternal) _autoreopenDocumentsFromRecords:withCompletionHandler:]_block_invoke + 52
15 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff22dd8bc3 -[NSDocumentController(NSInternal) _autoreopenDocumentsFromRecords:withCompletionHandler:] + 315
16 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff22dd8a60 __97-[NSDocumentController(NSInternal) _autoreopenDocumentsIgnoringExpendable:withCompletionHandler:]_block_invoke_3 + 95
17 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff22dd864a -[NSDocumentController(NSInternal) _autoreopenDocumentsIgnoringExpendable:withCompletionHandler:] + 590
18 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff22c5e238 -[NSApplication _reopenWindowsAsNecessaryIncludingRestorableState:completionHandler:] + 249
19 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff22c5e02d -[NSApplication(NSAppleEventHandling) _handleAEOpenEvent:] + 528
20 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff22c5dc90 -[NSApplication(NSAppleEventHandling) _handleCoreEvent:withReplyEvent:] + 665

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Hi John,

Thanks for this report.

We haven’t had time to test Xway within Big Sur, and we don’t recommend upgrading immediately, but we will fix any problems when we release a new version in the coming weeks.

The log shows that the problems are happening when the Site panel is first displayed after automatically reopening an existing document. You might be able to work around this by disabling the automatic reopening of existing documents: e.g. try turning on “Close windows when quitting an app” in General preferences.

Jeremy

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Thanks for the suggestion, Jeremy. The report came from a clean install on a new Big Sur volume where no document had ever been opened because Xway was never able to start. I always have “Close windows when quitting” enabled. No problem as I have a Catalina volume.

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Hi John,

We’ve reproduced the problem here, and we will fix it soon!

Jeremy

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We’ve just released a minor update to Xway (b2.3), which runs on macOS 11 Big Sur.

You can download the update from our website (click on “Download the Xway beta now” on the Xway page).

Jeremy

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Well done. That is excellent!
John