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The most-popular stand-alone blogging client — no you don’t have to do everything in a browser window — on the fairer platform has gained some important new functionality in recent releases, like support for more memory and beefier image management. Step inside for the full update.

Red Sweater has released Mars Edit 3.1 (change log), which comes to market bearing a fairly lengthy list of notable new features:

• 64-bit Compatible
• New per-blog setting to constrain image media to pre-set size
• Support for Lightroom 3 media libraries
• Added new “Paste HTML Source” command for e.g. embedding YouTube easily in rich mode
• Enabled plugins for rich editor so you can e.g. see embedded movies
• “Send To Weblog” command now works when preview window is front-most
• Optional support for Google Data API 2.0 with Blogger
• And, a bunch o’ bug fixes

With v3.0, Red Sweater introduced a rich text editor and support for iPhoto, Aperture and Lightroom image libraries.

[u] Red Sweater has now released Mars Edit 3.1.1, which fixes a bug in 3.1 that caused default image constraints to be 0px by 0px for new blogs.

Get a free 30-day trial of Mars Edit 3.1.1 here (6MB).