For those of you who haven't caught the word, Rainmeter 1.1 is now available from the newly-revamped rainmeter.net.

While this was originally promised as a quick update to follow the 1.0 release back in August, the length of the delay is proportional to the growth of the feature list. Here's a partial list:

- A new utility called RainBrowser helps users manage their library of skins through a GUI interface. RainBrowser lets you preview skins, read detailed setup instructions, and even search by tag. Thanks to the addition of skin metadata, this is something other apps can take advantage of, as well.
- Taking a cue from HTML5, skins may now use local fonts. This means you can design and download skins with gorgeous fonts without having to fully install them in Windows.
- Instead of a lot of tedious and repetitive coding, new stylesheets let you customize appearance and settings for many skins at once.
- Enigma now supports Google Calendar, Yahoo! Weather, Winamp and Foobar right out of the box. New skins also let you monitor your WiFi signal, world clocks, and even the current moon phase (which has been requested surprisingly often).
- Rainmeter's improved interface lets you middle-click to cycle through a family of skins and launch useful addons from the context menu.
- Last time, many people were frustrated by having to add skins to their desktops one-by-one. With the new pre-made Preview Theme, you can make your desktop match the arrangement in the preview screenshot with one click.
- The instructions have been expanded into a full-sized PDF manual.

As always, I'll be updating the source files here on dA (gonna take care of that right after this post). I've made some new additions to the Special Features suite, including a Launchy skin and Visage, a tiny tray utility that lets you set the transparency of open windows using hotkeys.

For more details (especially for skin developers, who probably benefit the most from this update), see the preview post from last month.