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By the way: You may want to read this.

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All open tickets have been migrated to Trac. Unfortunately there was no automatic way to migrate them and so I decided not to migrate the already closed tickets. This means that the bug/ticket numbering has changed and therefor all references have been erased from the changelog (to avoid confusion). I hope that the whole bunch of feautures that Trac provides in comparison with Flyspray compensate for the loss of the closed tickets. (In my opinion they do )

With the new BTS up and running we now can focus on the next major release: Fred 2.0. Planning for this release has already been going on for some time and it will take certainly a lot of time to implement the new features we’ve planned. But we think it’s worth it. Among several ideas the most prominent are:

• Server Synchronization: Projects can now be synchronized with a Fred Server automatically. Essentially this works like IMAP or Microsoft Exchange. This way you can work on two or more computers without the need of merging the work files or keeping it on a USB stick (which can be lost and still doesn’t solve the problem of merging if you’re using hibernation on at least one of your machines).
• Along with the Server Synchronization there will be a complete overhaul of the Fred Server. When everything is complete you will be able to download it as a package that will work (almost) out-of-the-box. No need to download additional softare (at least we hope so - licencing problems may partially prevent that).
• Auto Updater: Fred 2.0 will contain an auto updater that will keep your Fred installation up-to-date.
• A new QuickBar: Fred 2.0 will present to you a new QuickBar which will allow you to edit your efforts while you record them and greatly improve the usage of the “QuickSplit” function. The latter will allow you to record multiple efforts simultaneously.

We hope (and think) you’ll like these new features.

“A currently recorded effort is now saved when the user logs out without previously exiting Fred.”

We’ll look into it (see ticket #40).

You can download the new version here at SourceForge. For more information see the Download page.

As usual: Though this release is considered stable there may be still bugs/problems present. If you find one, feel free to report it back to our Bug Tracking System.

Changelog for this version

• Major new features:
  • The projects and tasks are now sorted by their name in the project tree and all comboboxes (issue #88, r679). They’re also sorted in the “Subscribe Task” dialog.
  • Added a feature to change the task and the category of a selection of efforts (issue #94, r679, r680).
  • The Quickbar display code was rewritten. It now displays correctly on every screen border on the latest Gnome Desktop (tested on Ubuntu 8.10) and on Mac OS X. Also the position of the quickbar has changed slightly. It’s now positioned at the borders of the available desktop area (i.e. without task bar or similar things) instead at the borders of the screen.
  • A new button has been added to the Quickbar to bring the main window to the front.
  • A new launching system has been added. This way running Fred directly from the commandline via the “java” command is a lot easier. Simply run “java -jar lib/launcher.jar” or the plattform-specific launcher (available on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X). This change includes that there is now only one launch script for Linux (instead of two as in previous versions).
  • Fred files can now be specified via the command line. Simply pass the Fred work file a first parameter to Fred (issue #96).
  • New translation: French
• Minor new features:
  • The Quickbar now only becomes visible when the cursor is actually on the primary screen.
  • A currently recorded effort is now saved when the user logs out without previously exiting Fred.
  • Added a menu item to report problems with Fred (in the Help menu).
  • The “Reallocate Time” dialog now doesn’t require the main window to be restored, if it was minimized.
• Bugfixes:
  • The linux launch script can now be called from anywhere (i.e. the user doesn’t need to be in Fred’s directory).
  • The change of Fred’s language now works completely (i.e. no labels remain in the previous language after a language change). A restart of Fred is required for this to work but this is automatically handled by Fred.
  • The splash screen’s texts should now display correctly on any platform.
  • All file dialog (Open Work File, Save Work File, …) didn’t work on Ubuntu 8.10. This is now fixed.
  • The buttons of the quickbar should now respond correctly to any click on them. (Sometimes they didn’t respond for some reason, especially when working on a tablet pc.)
• Other changes:
  • The default locale is now English, if it can’t be determined (was German before).
  • The TrayIcon support for Linux has been disabled due to too many problems. It may come back later if the problems have been resolved.
  • Changed Fred’s year number to 2009.
  • Fred’s configuration files (UserMode.xml, Recent.xml, Settings.xml) are now stored as Java XML properties. This previously used, proprietary file format was discarded.
  • Quite a lot code changes and code cleanup.