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At WWDC 2023, Apple announced macOS 14 Sonoma to be released this fall.

Preliminary testing has shown that HoudahSpot, HoudahGeo, Tembo, and Photos Workbench work quite well on beta releases of macOS 14 Sonoma. We plan to release updates to fine-tune these applications for the new system.

Photos Workbench

Photos Workbench works closely with the Apple Photos application and your photos library. As a precaution, Photos Workbench 1.1 refuses to run on macOS 14 Sonoma. We will thoroughly test Photos Workbench as macOS 14 nears release and provide an update.

HoudahGeo

HoudahGeo still needs you to install Rosetta on M1 and M2 Macs. Work on an Apple Silicon version of HoudahGeo has started. We cannot yet commit to a timeline when this will become available.

HoudahSpot and Tembo

HoudahSpot and Tembo rely on an Apple Mail application plug-in to search mail messages. Mail on macOS 14 no longer supports plug-ins. HoudahSpot and Tembo will lose their ability to find Apple Mail message files.

Two technologies power the local search capabilities of the Spotlight window. Traditional Spotlight maintains an index of files. HoudahSpot and Tembo also rely on the Spotlight index. The newer Core Spotlight can index pieces of information regardless of how these are stored. The Notes application, for example, does not save notes to individual files. Notes are stored in a single file one can think of as a notebook. A file search can thus only find the notebook, not the individual notes. Yet Core Spotlight can index individual notes and allow the Spotlight window to find these.

On recent versions of macOS, the Mail application uses Core Spotlight rather than Spotlight to make mail messages searchable. Even though mail messages are saved as individual files, these can no longer be found using traditional Spotlight.

Unfortunately, Apple has not made Core Spotlight fully available to third-party developers. Third-party applications can add to the Core Spotlight index and thus make data items available through the Spotlight window. These applications may also search for data they added. However, third-party applications cannot search data added by other applications. That privilege is reserved for Apple’s Spotlight window. Only the Mail application and the Spotlight window are allowed to search mail messages.

As Mail application plug-ins are discontinued, HoudahSpot and Tembo are once again locked out from Mail searches.

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