Vienna 3.8.0 Beta 2

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• Change minimum macOS requirement to 10.12 (Sierra)
• Speed up database handling (the updated database remains fully compatible with all 3.x.x versions of Vienna)
• When hovering over a link with new browser, display its address on a floating bar
• Add a hidden preference for always displaying the full date, not using relative dates like Today or Yesterday. This is enabled with the Terminal command: defaults write uk.co.opencommunity.vienna2 DoesRelativeDateFormatting -bool NO and can be reversed with defaults delete uk.co.opencommunity.vienna2 DoesRelativeDateFormatting
• Remove support for web plug-ins
• Respect new browser's preference setting regarding JavaScript (might require application restart)
• Fix download manager (old browser only at the time) and replace NSURLDownload with NSURLSessionDownloadTask
• Update AppleScript architecture (use definition files instead of suite/terminology files)
• Improve handling of URLs containing semicolon character in the path component
• Update Sparkle to version 2.0 beta 3 and add an EdDSA key
• Fix some application locks caused by new browser
• Fix some leaks with new browser
• Use Sourceforge for downloading binaries updates
• Replace older logging tools with os_log
• Silence many warnings
• Fix Github test action

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This discussion was created from the release Vienna 3.8.0 Beta 2.