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

14 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

• 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:
Partially fixed a bug with positioning the DateLine close to the left edge in vertical mode, where the position would not be restored on relaunch - behaviour should now be significantly better in most circumstances

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.

Release Notes for DateLine 0.550

• Fixed a cosmetic issue with the line not meeting the last date at certain width settings.

Release Notes for DateLine 0.500

• Added Sparkle automatic updating support.
• Added support for pre-defined Window Levels.
• Added a contextual menu for Preferences and Quit.