Publisher crashes once focusing on different program

[CRUGG]

Hello,

I am running the macOS Sonoma Beta with the latest stable Affinity Publisher 2 Release (re-downloaded & installed today)

Whenever I click on another window (thus causing Publisher to lose focus) the program crashes and I get macOS's native crash popup (I can share the output of that in private if needed)

This is explicitly about losing focus, because when I click on e.g. the desktop which does not take away the focus from the program, it stays open.

This makes Affinity Publisher essentially unusable because the risk of loosing data is too high.

Edited August 30, 2023 by CRUGG

[MikeTO]

12 minutes ago, CRUGG said:

I am running the macOS Sonoma Beta with the latest stable Affinity Publisher 2 Release (re-downloaded & installed today)

Whenever I click on another window (thus causing Publisher to lose focus) the program crashes and I get macOS's native crash popup (I can share the output of that in private if needed)

Hi and welcome to the forums. Serif has stated that Affinity is not yet compatible with the Sonoma beta.

 

[CRUGG]

Thanks for the reply, not sure why I didn't stumble across this post on my search earlier.

It seems that this issue is fixed on the Beta Builds of Affinity Publisher. It's however not very great to see such major issues, even on macOS Betas. The public betas are usually very stable and normally every normal software works there without any problems. The only kind of software I had break on macOS Public Betas is very hacky, lowlevel, superuser stuff. It is usually expected that regular consumer software runs on Public Betas of macOS.