It's been two and a half weeks since Daniel Jalkut of Red Sweater Software announced that the company had acquired MarsEdit, the popular weblog publishing software, from NewsGator Technologies, Inc. Today he announced the first update. MarsEdit 1.1.4 includes a number of minor fixes and adds support for "New Blogger" weblogs that use Gmail authentication.

This update is free for all registered MarsEdit 1.x users. MarsEdit is available for download for a free 30-day evaluation with licenses selling for USD$24.95.