Release Notes for DateLine 1.4.1

7th August 2011

Bugfixes:

Prevented iCal from launching at DateLine startup
Removed Desktop Icons window level as it is incompatible with changes to the windowing system in Lion

Release Notes for DateLine 1.4.0

5th August 2011

Bugfixes:

Fixed a crashing bug which could occur when double clicking a day to open in iCal under Lion
Improved Spaces support for Lion (and Snow Leopard). Please note that due to changes in Lion, Desktop Icons window level does not participate in Mission Control.

Release Notes for DateLine 1.3.2

28 July 2011

Bugfixes:

Fixed a problem with dragging the DateLine
Removed the File menu

Release Notes for DateLine 1.3.1

27 July 2011

Bugfixes:

Fixed a crash that could occur when switching themes

Release Notes for DateLine 1.3.0

26 July 2011

New features:

Ready for OS X 10.7 Lion
Dutch localization

Bugfixes:

Improved Spaces support for Lion (and Snow Leopard)
Corrected double-click iCal opening behaviour
Removed Randomise Colors button

Release Notes for DateLine 1.2.0

19 April 2011

Beginning with DateLine 1.2.0, we will be moving to the Mac App Store for licensing. Over the next few releases leading to DateLine 2.0, the non-App Store version of DateLine will only receive sporadic updates. To continue receiving regular updates into the future, and to help us complete DateLine 2.0, you may purchase DateLine on the Mac App Store. For more information on our move to the App Store, please see our forums.

New features:

Caliander support
Informative alerts warning about a SyncServices bug

Bugfixes:

DateLine context menu Help submenu now shows Reset Preferences
Tasks floating window "No tasks found" placeholder now disappears when it should
iCal calendar names are now refreshed correctly in the filter list

Release Notes for DateLine 1.0.0

2 March 2011

Important Note: DateLine 1.0.x is the final release that will support Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. DateLine 1.1.0 and above will require 10.6 Snow Leopard and an Intel Mac.

New features:

DateLine now shows a dot or an outline for days that have Tasks as well as Events
Events and Tasks can be indicated by a colored dot, which is now situated on top of the day mark dot
Added a global hotkey to bring DateLine to the front, defaulting to Cmd-Opt-Ctrl-Spacebar
Support for Caliander
New floating Events and Tasks windows can be on screen at all times and have a number of interesting properties:

Can be made trasparent to blend with your desktop background
Will float on mouse over to allow quick acces to your events and tasks for any day in DateLine
Can be collapsed to a simple window title bar for minimum visibility

Many other small improvements

Bugfixes:

Dates with due Tasks now show the Task in both the attached window and the DateLine, even when there are no Events for that date
DateLine now accepts first mouse correctly, fixing an annoying bug with selecting dates
Fixed a bug where DateLine would remain floating after mouse exit

Release Notes for DateLine 0.964

14 November 2010

Bugfixes:

Fixed a bug where Chinese days were being incorrectly displayed for users located in Taiwan and Singapore
Fixed a bug With month title sizing when different length day names were chosen

Release Notes for DateLine 0.962

11 October 2010

New features:

Added gradient support to the month background element
Added a UTI for .dlthemes, so DateLine now handles double clicks on theme files in the Finder, moving them to the appropriate folder

Bugfixes:

Fixed a bug with month background and text colour in vertical mode

Release Notes for DateLine 0.961

27 September 2010

New features:

Randomise now duplicates the current theme instead of replacing it

Bugfixes:

Restored the ability to delete themes

Release Notes for DateLine 0.960

7 September 2010

New features:

New mode for indicating Events with a Dot or Outline
New Month title text and element colours

Bugfixes:

Fixed a bug where the first day of the month would not show any events in some situations

Release Notes for DateLine 0.957

1 August 2010

Bugfixes:

Fixed a small bug where the Register button in Preferences was disabled

Release Notes for DateLine 0.956

1 August 2010

Bugfixes:

Fixed an issue where DateLine would give an error on startup requesting the user to download a new version
ISO 8601 week numbers now support all time zones

Release Notes for DateLine 0.954

20 July 2010

Bugfixes:

Improved positioning of calendar week numbering
Fixed a bug where themes were not being autosaved in some situations

Release Notes for DateLine 0.953

18 July 2010

New features:

DateLine now has a menu bar status icon, which can be toggled in General Preferences
New default theme: Minimalist
Added the choice of full or abbreviated month title
New Advanced feature: Tasks now appear on their due date, if they have one

Bugfixes:

Fixed a drawing bug for month width in vertical mode
Fixed a bug where Add New event to Calendar would create a new event on January 1, 2001 instead of the selected day

Release Notes for DateLine 0.952

4 June 2010

New features:

New Advanced preferences: Additional ranges of 21 and 69 days now supported
New minumum dimension: a minuimum of 300 pixels is now supported to suit the shorter ranges of days. No attempt is yet made to enforce a sensible width for larger ranges, consequently DateLine can appear severely squashed in some configurations. I will aim to improve this in future releases.

Bugfixes:

Improvements to German localization
Fixed a rendering bug on large DateLine dimensions which caused the last element to be clipped
Improved the behaviour of the Apply Themes item in the contextual menu, now has identical behaviour to using the Preferences window to apply themes
Numerous other small enhancements

Release Notes for DateLine 0.951

30 May 2010

New features:

New Advanced preference: Range of 15 days now supported

Bugfixes:

Improvements to Japanese and German localizations

Release Notes for DateLine 0.950

17 May 2010

New features:

Tasks (To Do) support in Advanced preferences. Tasks are displayed on Today's events popup
BusyCal day selection support, thanks to BusyMac. Requires BusyCal 1.3b2 or higher.
German localization, thanks to Norbert Lindenthal

Bugfixes:

Fix for window floating behaviour when DateLine is frontmost, which was broken in 0.932
ISO 8601 compliance fixed thanks to Nagib Tharani

Release Notes for DateLine 0.932

3 May 2010

Bugfixes:

Context menu > About DateLine... fixed
DateLine no longer remains in front of other windows after being clicked on when set to Desktop Icons level

Release Notes for DateLine 0.931

10 April 2010

Bugfixes:

Fixed a rare bug where DateLine would not show rounded rects for the date elements
Fixed a bug where clicking on the DateLine would cause it to float above all other windows in the unregistered version

Release Notes for DateLine 0.930

7 April 2010

New features:

New Appearance preferences: Gradient styles for Element and Today Element
New Advanced preference: Add Event To iCal contextual menu item
New Advanced preference: Float DateLine window on mouseover

Bugfixes:

More refinements to Floating Window level behaviour on mouse over

Release Notes for DateLine 0.923

24 March 2010

Bugfixes:

Events fetching now handles daylight savings transitions
Events pop-over now displays the date respecting locale
More refinements to Floating Window level behaviour on mouse over

Release Notes for DateLine 0.922

22 March 2010

Bugfixes:

Fixed a bug where the unregistered version would jump to Floating Window level on mouse over and never return to the correct level until quit

Release Notes for DateLine 0.921

21 March 2010

New features:

Partial rewrite of DateLineEventsHelper for better iCal event handling
DateLine now becomes the frontmost window on mouse over when "Show events on mouse over" is active

Bugfixes:

Fixed a bug where multi-day events were not displaying on subsequent days
Fixed a bug where double-clicking on a day was not opening iCal

Release Notes for DateLine 0.920

19 March 2010

New features:

Events fetching now 30 times faster
New Appearance preference: Lock the DateLine position using the Lock button
New Appearance preference: Randomise the DateLine colours using the Random button
New Advanced preference: Mouse over a day to show the Events window
New Advanced preference: Select the position of Today in the DateLine

Bugfixes:

Fixed a bug where DateLine was not showing its name in Activity Monitor
Fixed a bug where DateLine would autosize to the default position when another application (often QuickLook or QuickTime Player) enetered full screen mode while the Dock was visible at the bottom of the screen
Removed "Autosize to new Screens" preference option which was the cause of the bug mentioned above

Release Notes for DateLine 0.910

8 March 2010

Bugfixes:

Corrected a few errors in the Japanese localization
Fixed a bug where old iCal calenders were not being removed from the Filter list
Now complies with ISO 8601 for week numbering

Release Notes for DateLine 0.900

4 March 2010

New features:

New Theme Manager to save and load collections of Appearance and Advanced preferences, including positions, in named Themes.
New preference items to set Today background and text colour.
New Japanese localization (thanks to Hayashi Ayumi).
New localization architecture which will make it easier to add and maintain up-to-date localizations.

Bugfixes:

Fixed a potentially crashing bug which could occasionally occur when preferences were changed too quickly whilst polling iCal for events
Fixed a number of memory leaks, and also implemented iCal events fetching as a separate task. DateLine 0.90 has a much friendlier memory profile :) (Thanks Mark!)

Release Notes for DateLine 0.872

14 January 2010

New features:

Bugfixes:

Fixed the First Day Of Week indicators in Vertical orientation, which showed the incorrect (subsequent) day prior to 0.872
Added Code Signatures to protect against systematic piracy
Updated DateLine excluded keys for window size and location preferences sync for Mobile Me, thanks kopischke
Restored Autosize for new displays functionality, which was broken in 0.870

Release Notes for DateLine 0.870

3rd December 2009

New features:

Added Outline Width preference for iCal events

Bugfixes:

DateLine now handles its own window frame saving and restoration, making it much more predictable where the DateLine will appear after relaunch
Fixed a bug where other apps (particularly Dock.app) could cause DateLine to autosize (jump to the default size and position)
Fixed a bug in 0.86 where iCal events were not being refetched after toggling the Show events from calendars: Advanced Preference

Release Notes for DateLine 0.861

28 November 2009

Bugfixes:

Fixed an issue where the DateLine was not redrawing itself after the date changed, resulting in it being "stuck" on the same day it was launched until relaunch

Release Notes for DateLine 0.860

26 November 2009

New features:

Italian Localization (Thanks to Vincenzo Boiano of VinBoiSoft)
Now draws the month label at both ends of the DateLine for Today In Centre of DateLine mode
Excluded DateLine from window size and location preferences sync for Mobile Me

Bugfixes:

Release Notes for DateLine 0.850

20 November 2009

New features:

Added First Day of Week to General preferences
Added live iCal event change synchronisation
One, two, three or full day labels are now selectable, depending on orientation

Bugfixes:

Removed Desktop window level, as it did not work correctly in Snow Leopard. Please use Desktop Icons level instead.
Fixed some incompletely localized text in the Portuguese and French versions
Improved horizontal calendar label positioning code

Release Notes for DateLine 0.840

13 November 2009

New features:

Portuguese (Brazilian) localization (Thanks to Paulo Neto)
Allows numbering of calendar weeks
Enables a range of dates to be displayed when "Today in centre of DateLine" is checked: 31, 43 or 57 days
Now draws the month title below the DateLine when in the top half of the screen in the horizontal orientation. Also added equivalent behaviour in the vertical orientation for the right half of the screen.

Bugfixes:

Double clicking on an event in the iCal events window now correctly opens iCal (this was broken in 0.830... sorry folks!)

Release Notes for DateLine 0.830

9 November 2009

New features:

Filtering of iCal calendars
Receives live notifications from iCal about events added or deleted
Circle Day Mark style
Calendar Store updates are now performed on a background thread to prevent interface locking

Bugfixes:

French localization of context menu
French localization of Preferences icons
Choosing a Today Mark Shape in the French localization now works

Release Notes for DateLine 0.820

New features:

Completely new French localization (Thanks to Jean-Marie Calvat)

Bugfixes:

Open at Login functionality fixed

Release Notes for DateLine 0.810

New features:

DateLine now respects iCal's setting for first day of week

Bugfixes:

Fixed a bug where DateLine would not respect the width setting between launches

Release Notes for DateLine 0.800

New features:

Preference to draw shadow or not
Register to unlock the new Advanced preferences:

Orientation: Horizontal or vertical
Today centric dateline
Position lock
Autosize to new screens
iCal events in a pop up window

Bugfixes:

Fixed many bugs in the French localisation
Application architecture bug fixes and improvements

Release Notes for DateLine 0.720

Bugfixes:

Fixed a bug where the French localisation had display anomalies
Reinstated Check For Updates menu item

Release Notes for DateLine 0.710

Bugfixes:

Fixed a bug where days would get duplicated when rolling over to the next day
Updated French localisation for preferences

Release Notes for DateLine 0.700

Total Rewrite of drawing and date generation code
Bugfixes:

Fixed a severe memory leak

New Features:

Added preference for week dividers
Added preference for day mark colour and transparency

Release Notes for DateLine 0.647

Bugfixes:

Repaired an issue where both the Desktop and Floating Windows level in Preferences would not be correctly restored at next launch.

New Features:

Chinese localisation of weekdays thanks to Lilo.

Important

Users of DateLine 0.63 may see a problem with automatic updates. If you experience an error stating that the update was not properly signed, please download 0.645 manually from this link.

Release Notes for DateLine 0.645

Bugfixes:

Repaired an issue where selecting Preferences in the contextual menu would display an old preferences window.

More Sparkle testing.

Release Notes for DateLine 0.640

Added more preferences:

iCal view selection: choose whether iCal opens in Day, Week or Month view.

Grouped preferences to reduce clutter.
Began using ScriptingBridge for iCal interaction.
Minor cosmetic tweaks.

Release Notes for DateLine 0.630

Added French localisation. Thanks to didirudy@gmail.com.
Added more preferences:

Font selection
Today mark shape choice: Square or Diamond
Open in: iCal or Daylite
One or two letters for the weekday abbreviation

Added support for donation licensing via the MachineCodex Store. If you like DateLine and want to support further development, please donate!
I finally fixed (or rather worked around) the eastern hemisphere time zone bug. Australians, New Zealanders, and in fact anyone living east of Greenwich should now go to the correct day in iCal.
Updated to the latest Sparkle implementation. Removed preference to check for updates at launch. Checking is now done once each day.