Hey everyone! Just got the heads up about this thread from @LaPan as I was out of the office for several hours when this started popping up.
I loaded up RapidWeaver v8.9 here on my Catalina based machine and did some testing. I started a new project and loaded an existing project and had no troubles whatsoever in previewing the page(s), as well as viewing them in the RW simulator windows.
So I switched to a laptop running Big Sur and did the same – updated to RapidWeaver v8.9, then started a new project as well as loaded an existing project. Things continued to work as expected on this machine as well in both preview and simulator views.
To help @dan and @tpbradley out in testing the problem it would probably be good to supply some project files that are failing to work properly within RapidWeaver 8.9. If a few people can share a download link to their project file that is causing this unexpected behavior it would help. Create a ZIP file containing your project file and then use WeTransfer to create a download link for that ZIP file. You can then share that link here in this thread.
Addendum – to be clear I tested this with both HTML and PHP based pages, and loaded a bit of PHP on the page, too.
Oh no, sorry to hear some of you are having issues previewing on 8.9
There must be some edge case we missed that’s causing this Hopefully we can work out what it is and get a fix out shortly. In the meantime you can rollback to the previous version, 8.8.3 from the release notes page.
As @Elixir said - Please let us know what system you’re running on, ie. macOS version + hardware, and a test project that exhibits the behaviour would also be good.
Please see this post, above where @dan, the Realmac Software owner, gives you a way to revert to a previous version of RapidWeaver, as well as requests a copy of your project file so that he can work on getting the problem fixed:
Yep, broken for me. Updated then no preview or preview in browser. Dragged App to the Trash, dragged App from a Time Machine backup yesterday back to Apps - All working again. (10.14.6).
Good News! RapidWeaver 8.9.1 is now available (direct version), this should fix the issue for those of you that are having issues previewing in RapidWeaver. Mac App Store and Setapp version will be available as soon as they are approved.
Check for update or grab the version directly from our release notes page:
This means RapidWeaver works on everything from Mac OS 10.12 right though to macOS Monterey. It’s also a universal app for Intel and Apple M1. Pretty cool, hey?!
Very odd, are you running the Public Beta of Monterey?
We’ve looked at the crash report and it appears Stacks is causing the crash (I think)… Please remember Monterey is a beta so things are likely to be funky… As far as I know Stacks is working fine on Monterey… so I’m not sure what’s going on…
Anyone else having issues with 8.9.1 on Monterey?
Oh and does Preview work if you start a new project in 8.9.1?