Task Coach - Your friendly task manager

Release 1.1.1 - August 26, 2010

This is a bugfix release.

Bugs fixed:

• On Mac OS X, properly read task files when the font description cannot be parsed. This may happen when reading a task file that was last saved on a different platform. Unfortunately, font specifications are platform specific. (3047183)
• Prevent exception when reading old task files.
• Saving of templates didn't work, resulting in invalid template files that would in turn prevent Task Coach from starting properly. (3052090)
• On Windows, the tabs of the dialogs would flicker when moving the mouse over the tabs.
• Use dialogs for reminders. (3050445)

Release 1.1.0 - August 20, 2010

This release adds time to start, due and completion dates of tasks and adds support for mass editing of items. It also adds support for the upcoming version 3.0 for the iPhone/iPod/iPad.

Bugs fixed:

• Icons in edit dialogs would be lined up vertically on some versions of Windows XP. Fixed by using a notebook widget instead of the listbook widget. (2927384)
• The new edit dialogs better support tabbing through the dialogs. (2687959)
• On Mac OS X, the tabs in the editor and preferences dialogs were too small.
• Searching descriptions wasn't working in the effort viewer. (3031411)

Features added:

• The start, due and completion dates of tasks now also include a time. When reading old task files, Task Coach adds a default time to tasks: start dates get a time of "00:00", due dates and completion dates get a time of "23:59". (http://uservoice.com/a/nd3mH)
• Mass editing of items. When editing multiple items (tasks, notes, etc.), the edit dialog allows for selectively changing attributes of all edited items. (http://uservoice.com/a/ahxq8)
• Less intrusive notifications (reminders).
• The calendar orientation can be changed.
• Add an option to the calendar viewer to show all tasks but those which have no start nor due date (3008517)
• The headers in the calendar view are now always visible. (http://uservoice.com/a/irtQs)
• The calendar view can show an arbitrary number of periods (except months). (http://uservoice.com/a/5F5Ka)

Implementation changed:

• The task file format was changed to support start, due and completion date and time. The task file format version number is now 30.

Release 1.0.10 - August 15, 2010

This is a bugfix release.

Bugs fixed:

• When SyncML was on, the effort viewer would show effort for deleted tasks.
• When dragging panes and dropping them onto each other to create an automatic notebook, make sure dropped viewers are properly contained in the notebook.
• When renaming a viewer, apply the new name to the active viewer. (3042037)

Feature added:

• Allow automatic creation of a notebook of viewers on top of the initial task viewer. This makes the user interface functionally equivalent to the previously removed "tabbed" mode.

Release 1.0.9 - August 8, 2010

This is a bugfix release.

Bugs fixed:

• On Windows, Task Coach wouldn't start when the user interface was in "tabbed" mode. (3041123)
• On Windows, toolbar items that should trigger a popup menu (e.g. templates) wouldn't.
• On Windows, disabled toolbar buttons wouldn't be greyed out.

Feature removed:

• The "tabbed" user interface mode has been removed. Having two different user interfaces makes it harder to test changes that affect the user interface, as evidenced by a bug in the previous release.

Release 1.0.8 - August 6, 2010

This is a bugfix release.

Bugs fixed:

• Drop support for SyncML on Debian; too many architectures/versions to support.
• File attachments would not open on Lubuntu
• Task Coach would crash on start on Ubuntu 10.10
• Fix an exception that would prevent Task Coach from closing. (3031709, 3031711)
• Close task tree popup (in the effort dialog) when clicking the dropdown button twice. (3032835)
• On Windows, toolbar buttons in dialogs would stop working after a while. (3032834, 2560895)
• Refresh filter for tasks due today/tomorrow/etc. at midnight. (3035384)
• On Linux, when selecting an effort in the effort viewer with the mouse also give keyboard focus to the effort viewer. (3039519)

Release 1.0.7 - July 2, 2010

This is a bugfix release.

Bugs fixed:

• On some Linux platforms, when using KDE, Task Coach would not properly restore after being minimized to the system tray. (2988693, 3011539)
• Reduce flickering when tracking effort. (2819141, 2995374)
• Task Coach wasn't installing on Ubuntu 9.04. (3022926)
• The right-click column header menu still wasn't working in task, note and category viewers.

Release 1.0.6 - June 26, 2010

This is a bugfix release.

Bugs fixed:

• The right-click column header menu wasn't working in task, note and category viewers.
• On Jolicloud, don't crash when printing. (3018038)
• On Ubuntu 10.4, don't crash when clicking the font button in the appearance tab of edit dialogs. (2992006, 3021759)
• Don't display long descriptions in an inline text control, it's too buggy. (2992853, 2992850, 2992848)
• On Mac OS X, don't cut text in text controls when the user types <cmd><shift>X, only when she types <cmd>X. (2942288)
• Properly save the task file when the font name contains non-ascii characters. (3014110)
• Correctly export tasks and effort to vCalendar (.ics) when they contain non-ascii characters. (3016528)

Release 1.0.5 - June 8, 2010

This is a bugfix release.

Bugs fixed:

• Task Coach would fail to save the task file correctly, when it couldn't read temporary files for email attachments. (2369711)
• Don't crash when using a purple folder or led icon. (3009432)
• Don't allow exporting efforts to iCalendar when effort viewer is in aggregate mode, it would result in an empty .ics file. (2935616)
• SyncML synchronization did not work for tasks. (3012234)

Feature changed:

• Renamed the Edit->Paste into task menu item to Edit->Paste as subitem and made it work for categories and notes too.

Release 1.0.4 - May 30, 2010

This is a bugfix release.

Bugs fixed:

• When starting iconized on Mac OS X, the application window would close. (2992764)
• When exporting tasks with descriptions that contain newlines to iCalendar (.ics) format, produce a valid iCalendar file. (2975805)
• When reading a task file saved on another platform, be prepared for fonts with size zero; use the default font size instead. (2968199, 3002577)
• After deleting multiple efforts for one task in the effort viewer, the effort viewer would still show some of the removed efforts.
• When waking up from standby/sleep, only request user attention when there are reminders to display. (2992049)
• The synchronization with the iPhone would crash in some circumstances, when parent objects have been used on the iPhone and are deleted on the desktop. (3007248)
• When maximizing or minimizing priority, don't take the priority of deleted tasks into account. (3008495)
• When calculating overall percentage complete of a task, consider whether the task will be completed automatically when all of its subtasks are completed. (2992534)

Feature changed:

• Added some more possible snooze times. Use the preferences dialog to turn them on.

Distributions changed:

• We no longer build a Task Coach RPM for Fedora 8, 9, and 10. These releases of Fedora are unsupported by the Fedora project.
• The OpenSuse RPM is not "noarch" but "i386". (2997377)

Release 1.0.3 - April 25, 2010

This release fixes a few bugs, and improves a few features, such as making the calendar view sortable.

Bugs fixed:

• When showing effort records in aggregate mode (per day, per week, per month), always put the Total row on the first line of its period. (2895940)
• The download link for the Debian package wasn't pointing at any package. (2985649)
• Don't show deleted tasks in the task dropdown of the effort edit dialog. (2987202)
• Snarl notifications wouldn't work when the subject or description included non-ASCII characters. (2986071)
• When saving files, make sure the default extension is added to filenames if both the user and the native save dialog don't add it. (2987204)
• When listing notes and attachment in a popup window, show them sorted instead of in a seemingly random order. (2991230)
• Don't crash and corrupt the task file when the user assigns the green folder icon to a task, category or note. (2991511)
• Tasks wouldn't use the exact same font as the category they belong to. (2990350)
• The calendar view didn't handle the task's font. (2990875)

Features added:

• Use item titles in dialogs and in the undo/redo menu to make it clearer what items the user is/was working on. (http://uservoice.com/a/9zBuo)
• In the task, category, and note viewers, show long descriptions in a text control with scrollbars so the rows don't take up too much vertical space. (http://uservoice.com/a/h37jH)
• Tasks can now be sorted in the calendar viewer.
• Support for libnotify under Linux (for reminders).

Release 1.0.2 - April 10, 2010

This release fixes some bugs, and adds support for the Snarl notification system.

Bugs fixed:

• Exports and prints would show long descriptions abbreviated with "...", exactly as the long descriptions were displayed in the description column of task, category, and note tree viewers. To fix this, the task, category, and note tree viewers show descriptions fully (when the description column is visible). (2975805)
• In the calendar viewer, March 31st would not appear. (2979461)
• The 13th hour would not show up in thr daily calendar view. (2979452)
• The position of the main window wouldn't be saved so it couldn't be restored the next session. (2969292)
• On Ubuntu, when the user would scroll to the bottom of a tree viewer and collaps an item, the tree would not be redrawn correctly. (2947136)
• Setting a task to 100 percent complete didn't work. (2982561)
• When the user clicks on a URL embedded in a description and the URL fails to open, show an error dialog instead of throwing an exception.
• The website pointed Ubuntu 9.10 users to the wrong deb package. (2983202)
• On Ubuntu 10.04, Task Coach wouldn't be added to the Applications/Office menu. (2978098)
• After double clicking a task in the calendar viewer and changing its dates, if the change would make the task disappear from the current period, the task would not be properly drawn.

Feature added:

• Support for Snarl under Windows (for reminders).

Release 1.0.1 - March 26, 2010

This is a bugfix release.

Bugs fixed:

• Task Coach would try to use a non-existing icon when the SyncML feature was turned on. (2975952)
• Task Coach wouldn't install properly on Ubuntu 10.04. Added a deb for Ubuntu 10.04. (2975538)
• When setting the end working hour to 24, the calendar viewer would crash. (2975347)
• When trying to display tasks with notes, the calendar viewer would crash.
• Synchronization with the iPhone did not work. (2975920, 2976427)

Release 1.0.0 - March 22, 2010

To mark that Task Coach has been available for five years now, we call this release version 1.0. This release adds a calendar viewer for tasks, partial drag and drop support for Mail.app under Mac OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard, and configurable icons.

Bug fixed:

• The template pop-up menu in task viewers would not show up at the right position.

Features added:

• Calendar viewer for tasks. (http://uservoice.com/a/iQI4g)
• Drag and drop e-mail from Mail.app, on Max OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard. (http://uservoice.com/a/niJMS)
• The square map task viewer can also display tasks by priority. Note that tasks with negative priorities are not displayed. (http://uservoice.com/a/kxeoS)
• The icons of tasks, notes, and categories can be changed.

Release 0.78.4 - March 6, 2010

This is a bugfix release.

Bugs fixed:

• In some cases, when typing dates in the editor, they would be reset to the current day. (2942425)
• Clear the drag image after dropping an item onto white space (on Linux). (2947127)
• Reminders that should have fired when the computer was asleep wouldn't until the next launch of Task Coach (Windows and Mac OS X only). (2888688)
• On Mac OS X, task viewers would not be refreshed at midnight if the computer was sleeping by this time.
• Having too many mail attachments on Windows would cause a "Too many open files" error.
• When closing a viewer, Task Coach would sometimes try to destroy an already deleted right-click menu, leading to an exception or an error message in the log file. (2948302)

Release 0.78.3 - January 31, 2010

This is a bugfix release.

Bugs fixed:

• Free up resources (user objects and memory) on Windows when closing dialogs. The memory leak was caused by popup menu's in dialogs not being deleted. (2938091, 2891350, 2560895, 2444185, 2214043)
• Close the inline subject edit control before showing or hiding columns in tree viewers, to prevent problems redrawing the tree items. (2940211)
• Prevent "zombie" viewers; viewers that are not visible but do still use processing power. (2932609)

Release 0.78.2 - January 23, 2010

This is a bugfix release.

Bug fixed:

• Faster redrawing of task/category/note trees.

Release 0.78.1 - January 17, 2010

This is a bugfix release.

Bugs fixed:

• Bring back the "Don't snooze" option in reminder dialogs.
• Synchronizing with the iPhone didn't work. (2925618)
• When an active task's foreground color is the default (black), don't mix that color with the foreground colors of the task's categories. (2930751)
• Let subtasks use their parent's category-based foreground color when they don't have their own foreground color. (2930751)
• When there are a lot of old backup files don't clean them up all at once, but instead a few on each save. (2929692, 2929475)

Release 0.78.0 - January 10, 2010

This release adds configurable fonts and foreground colors, enhances the reminder dialog, makes other small changes and fixes some bugs.

Bugs fixed:

• Make file locking work on Windows computers that have a hostname with non-ASCII characters in it. (2904864)
• Avoid deploying UxTheme.dll because it causes problems on 64-bits Windows systems. (2911280, 2897639, 2886396)
• Correctly refresh task square map and task time line viewers after stopping effort tracking, i.e. stop showing the clock icon on the previously tracked task.
• When maximizing and restoring panes (viewers), don't change the order. (2922952)
• Slightly faster redrawing of task viewers after sorting or filtering.
• In some circumstances, synchronization with an iPhone/iPod Touch device would crash the app. (2925618)

Features added:

• Tasks, categories, notes and attachment can have their own font. Tasks, notes and attachments that don't have their own font use the font of the categories they belong to. Effort records use the font of the task they belong to.
• In addition to the background color, the foreground (text) color of tasks, categories, notes and attachments can now also be changed. Tasks, notes and attachments that don't have their own foreground color use the foreground color of the categories they belong to. Effort records use the foreground color of the task they belong to.
• Added Ctrl+E keyboard shortcut to "New effort..." menu item.
• Reminder dialogs have an extra button to mark the task completed. (http://uservoice.com/a/5HVq3)
• The snooze times offered by the reminder dialog can be configured via the preferences dialog.

Features changed:

• Task Coach now limits the number of backups made of a task file. The number of backups retained increases logarithmically with the age of the oldest backup of the task file. When Task Coach needs to remove a backup it tries to keep the remaining backups spread evenly across time. (http://uservoice.com/a/5FrtF)
• Merged the four menu items for exporting tasks and effort to iCalendar and vCalendar formats into two menu items.

Release 0.77.0 - December 6, 2009

This release adds mutually exclusive categories and fixes some bugs.

Bugs fixed:

• Only the first reminder defined in a session would be fired. (2901254)
• Don't start in-line editing of subjects when an item is double clicked. Properly close the subject edit text control, e.g. when sort order is changed. (2896654, 2899913)
• Don't open effort viewer contex (right-click) menu twice on every right-click. (2902389)

Features added:

• Categories can have mutually exclusive subcategories. This makes it easier to e.g. create your own statuses or to keep track of which task was assigned to whom. (http://uservoice.com/a/tvOIS)
• F2 can be used to start in-line editing of the subject of a task, category or note. (http://uservoice.com/a/9pLUT)
• Added partial Mongolian translation.

Release 0.76.1 - November 13, 2009

This release adds Growl support on Mac OS X, and fixes some bugs.

Bugs fixed:

• The notes and attachment columns were not properly refreshed after removing the last note or attachment. (2894530)
• Reminders would randomly not work. (2888688)
• Recurrence frequency would be reset to zero when edited. (2895085)
• Instead of the whole description, show only the first few lines of descriptions in the description column of task, note, and category viewers.

Features added:

• On Mac OS X, you can optionally choose to use Growl for reminders. When enabled, this disables two other features: snooze/don't snooze and open task on reminder.
• Added back the possibility to hide active tasks so that people can have a task viewer that only displays completed tasks. (http://uservoice.com/a/NQCUV)

Release 0.76.0 - November 7, 2009

This release adds buttons on the toolbar of task viewers to hide completed and/or future tasks, makes subjects editable in-line, removes a couple of silly features, and fixes some bugs.

Bugs fixed:

• Iterating over viewers wasn't working in tabbed mode.
• When merging a task file with categories, don't break the links between tasks/notes and categories. (2882493)
• Tree viewers wouldn't properly refresh when an attribute of a task, category, or note was changed to be empty. (2806354)
• When tracking effort, effort viewers in aggregated mode (showing effort per day/week/month) were not being updated every second.
• Tabs in the tabbed window layout could not be closed.
• Don't complain when the system locale has a thousands separator that consists of more than one character. (2889931, 2888714)

Features added:

• Task viewers now have buttons on the toolbar to hide or show completed and/or inactive (future) tasks. (http://uservoice.com/a/EfkNL)
• Subjects of tasks, notes and categories can be edited in-line by clicking the subject of a selected item.

Features removed:

• Don't have a setting for the maximum number of recent files to show, simply use some reasonable maximum (9).
• It's no longer possible to hide active tasks, over budget tasks, and over due tasks. These filters were silly.

Release 0.75.0 - October 24, 2009

This release adds percentage complete tracking for tasks, a PortableApps version of Task Coach and some minor features and bug fixes.

Bugs fixed:

• Make opening (task) edit dialogs faster. (2884522)
• Use 'now' as default time in effort dialogs on Mac OS X instead of '0:00:00'. (2874824)

Features added:

• Tasks have a percentage complete property. (http://uservoice.com/a/Icogx)
• Double clicking the task bar icon will iconize the main window when it is visible and restore it when iconized (Mac OS X and Windows). (http://uservoice.com/a/dKfBt)
• When browsing for an attachment, start in the current attachment directory.
• Under Windows, prevent users from deleting temporary files and thus loosing all their e-mail attachments.

Distribution changed:

• Added a PortableApps version of Task Coach to the set of available distributions.

Release 0.74.4 - October 17, 2009

This is a bugfix release that fixes some user interface bugs, most notably that entering dates with the keyboard was not working on Mac OS X and Linux.

Bugs fixed:

• Typing in time controls (effort start and stop, reminder) didn't work on Mac OS X. (2798239)
• Prevent the locked file dialog and the new version notification dialog of blocking each other on Mac OS X.
• When using the context menu of a selected effort record to create a new effort record use the task of the selected effort record as task of the new effort record as well. (2873933)
• After expanding all items (Shift+Ctrl+E), keep items expanded even when sort order changes or tasks are completed. (2841854)
• The "Open all attachments" menu item was always disabled. (2874180)
• When sorting tasks and notes by their categories use the recursive subjects (e.g. 'Parent -> Child') of the categories to sort by. Previous versions would only use the 'Child' part. (2874153)
• Remove double slash ('//') from URL used in Windows installer. (2877126)
• On Linux and Mac OS X, changing dates by typing a new date (i.e. not using the dropdown menu) didn't work. (2874408, 2867623)

Release 0.74.3 - October 4, 2009

This is a bugfix release.

Bugs fixed:

• Exporting and printing, including displaying the print preview, is now much faster.
• Drag and drop wasn't working.
• Starting or stopping effort tracking for a selected task would cause the task to be unselected. (2869959)
• Don't show effort records twice in the effort viewer after deleting or dragging and dropping a task. (2869520, 2859882)
• Fix printing of non-task viewers. (2871365)
• Task Coach wouldn't start when using the tabbed main window mode on Mac OS X. (2867585)

Release 0.74.2 - September 25, 2009

This is a bugfix release that fixes several minor bugs and increases performance.

Bugs fixed:

• iPhone synchronization: when doing a full refresh from desktop, categories parents could be mismatched.
• A bug in the task filter would cause tasks to be shown that were supposed to be hidden. (2841854)
• The filter submenu would sometimes be in the wrong state (enabled or disabled).
• On Linux, locking two task files in the same folder, e.g. when merging, would make Task Coach think that its task file was locked by another instance of Task Coach. (2852216)
• Performance improvements. Task Coach still isn't super fast, but at least performance should be a bit better now. (2807678, 2683002)

Features added:

• Add an option to avoid uploading completed tasks to the iPhone/iPod Touch when synchronizing. For people who hide completed tasks, this can make the synchronization much quicker.
• Under MS Windows, the task template directory may now be a shortcut to another directory.
• In the attachment viewer, display a red icon for files attachments when the file does not exist. Also prevent the user from trying to open it.

Feature removed:

• Removed the Edit->Select->Invert selection menu item since it was very slow and not very useful.

Release 0.74.1 - August 22, 2009

This is a bugfix release.

Bugs fixed:

• Printing didn't work. (2840010)
• Prevent exception when locking a file on a machine with a hostname containing non-ascii characters. (2835047)
• Make the winPenPack portable app start in English by default.
• Drag and drop from Thunderbird would not work if the storage directory wasn't the default. (2840460)
• Expand parent item when adding a sub item.

Feature added:

• Drag and drop from Thunderbird now works with multiple accounts in the default profile.

Release 0.74.0 - August 16, 2009

This release adds better HTML export, a winPenPack version of Task Coach, and fixes some bugs. Task Coach now uses Uservoice.com for feature requests.

Bugs fixed:

• Avoid nested syncml tags in the XML task file (2832062, 2813816)
• Some macro's (e.g. "Task Coach") in the help text were not properly expanded. (2833904, 2833903)
• Translate tip window and search controls on Windows. (2825463)

Features added:

• When exporting data to an HTML file, Task Coach writes a simple CSS stylesheet alongside it. The CSS stylesheet can be edited by the user using a text editor; Task Coach won't overwrite it.
• Tasks that are due soon are colored orange. How many days left is to be considered 'soon' can now be set via the preferences dialog, in the task behavior tab. (1312000)

Distribution changed:

• Added a winPackPen (http://www.winpackpen.com) portable package to the set of available distributions.

Website change:

• We're now using http://taskcoach.uservoice.com for feature requests. The big advantage of Uservoice over the Sourceforge feature request tracker is that Uservoice allows for voting. Because we have over 250 open feature requests on Sourceforge, it is not possible for us to move all feature requests ourselves. People that submitted a feature request on Sourceforge will receive a notification and a request to help us move their request(s) to Uservoice. (index.html)

Release 0.73.4 - August 6, 2009

This is a bugfix release.

Bugs fixed:

• Prevent text in right-aligned columns, like dates in the task viewer, to be partially cut off. (2806466)
• Don't crash when a template task has an empty subject. (2831233)
• Always show the correct 'mark task (un)completed' bitmap in the task context menu. (2830125)
• The GUI would always display English, instead of the language set via the preference dialog or specified on the command line. (2831534)

Release 0.73.3 - August 2, 2009

This release fixes some bugs, and adds support for synchronizing with the next version of the iPhone app (1.1).

Bugs fixed:

• Opening the task menu in the main menu bar while a category viewer was active would result in exceptions. (2818254)
• The time control in the effort editor was too narrow (2790805)
• Link to http://www.cygwin.com on the website had a typo. (2819702)
• The context menu key didn't work. (2807326)
• With SyncML enabled, tasks deleted on the desktop would still show up on the iPhone/iPod Touch.
• Translate tip window controls, search controls, and viewer titles. (2825463, 2825222)
• Prevent exception when opening a new viewer. (2825222)
• Don't fail silently when something goes wrong while opening an attachment. (2826178)

Features added:

• Specify which language to use on the command line. Type "taskcoach[.py|.exe] --help" on the command line for more information.
• Load a .po file (a file containing translations) with a command line option. Type "taskcoach[.py|.exe] --help" on the command line for more information. This option allows translators to check their work more easily. (1599933)
• Synchronizing with the next version for the iPhone (1.1) is now supported (one can edit a task's categories from the device).

Release 0.73.2 - July 8, 2009

This release fixes some bugs, and adds synchronization with the iPhone version now available on the AppStore.

Bugs fixed:

• Export of selected effort to a CSV-file would result in an empty file. (2810978)
• Fix a crash when creating/editing tasks for non-english locales. (2817287, 2817335, 2812005)

Feature added:

• Two-way synchronization with Task Coach for the iPhone. (2042153, 2722216)

Release 0.73.1 - June 24, 2009

This is a bugfix release.

Bugs fixed:

• Dates and amounts were not localized. (2806189, 1625111, 1790055)
• Use folder icons for tasks with subtasks in the task viewer. (2806191)
• Export of selected effort to a CSV-file would result in an empty file. (2806383, 2807003, 2810978)

Release 0.73.0 - June 12, 2009

This release adds a timeline viewer, the ability to search item descriptions, total-per-period information in the effort viewer, and easier category manipulation.

Features added:

• Added a timeline viewer that shows tasks and efforts on a horizontal time scale. (2533644, 1230080)
• When an effort viewer is displaying effort per day, week, or month, a total line is shown for each period. (1962219)
• The search control in the toolbar of viewers now includes an option to search descriptions too. (1816660, 2020347, 2157010, 2510045)
• Add or remove tasks and notes from categories using the task and note menus in the menubar or the right-click popup menu for tasks and notes. (1931323, 2011031, 1918685)
• Added largely incomplete Bosnian and Basque translations. Please help make these translations complete. See http://www.taskcoach.org/i18n.html.

Release 0.72.10 - June 9, 2009

This is a bugfix release.

Bugs fixed:

• When opening a task edit dialog, the priority field would not show the priority until the up or down button was clicked (Mac OS X only).
• When opening a locked file, Task Coach would hang (Mac OS X only).
• Require wxPython 2.8.9.1 instead of 2.8.9.2 in the Debian package file (.deb) because Ubuntu 9.04 is still shipping 2.8.9.1 (Ubuntu only). (2798457)
• Fix drag and drop from Outlook (Windows only). (2803013)
• When logging off or shutting down the computer save unsaved changes (Linux only).
• When using SyncML the task file could get corrupted.

Release 0.72.9 - May 28, 2009

This is a bugfix release.

Bugs fixed:

• Don't throw an exception when exporting an active effort record to iCal format.
• Refuse to open task files that have a different format because they are created by a newer version of Task Coach than the one the user is using.
• Updating menu items would trigger exceptions after closing a (task) viewer.
• After merging, Task Coach would display the wrong filename in the window title.
• Smaller task edit dialog to cater for lower resolution screens. (2214687)
• Dragging email from a Thunderbird client that uses Gmail as IMAP server didn't work.
• When the SyncML feature is turned on, Task Coach would show deleted tasks in the drop down menu of the start effort tracking button on the toolbar and it would show effort for deleted tasks in the effort viewer. (2679544, 2214043)

Features added:

• All export options can now also export selected items only.
• Put line breaks in the XML so that task files are easier to examine in a text editor. (1277365)

Release 0.72.8 - May 17, 2009

This is a bugfix release.

Bugs fixed:

• Drag and drop from Thunderbird would not work on Debian-derived distributions. (2790274)
• Work around a bug in wxPython 2.8.9.2 on Mac OS X that prevented dialogs to be opened for items that have a color set. (2789977)
• Draw check boxes instead of black squares in the category viewer on Windows XP and Vista with the classic theme.
• The background of check boxes were corrupted under Linux.
• Double clicking an item in a specific column wouldn't select the appropriate tab in the dialog. (2791100)
• Reduce flickering when tracking effort for a task.
• Opening a task file with e-mail attachments not specifying their encoding on a different system than the one the task file was created could fail.
• Couldn't add effort to a freshly created task.

Feature added:

• Use the settings for effort dialog start and stop times for the reminder drop down as well. (2792160)

Dependency changed:

• Task Coach now at least needs wxPython 2.8.9.2-unicode. Since the Windows installer and the Mac OS X dmg package have wxPython included, this only affects users of the RPM, Debian, and source distributions.

Release 0.72.7 - May 10, 2009

This is a bugfix release.

Bugs fixed:

• Support locking of task files on USB sticks/drives that have a different file system than the host system has. (2776249)
• Task Coach would sometimes crash when dragging a task onto another task on Windows. Fixed by using a different widget for tree-list controls. (2573263, 1995248, 2247808, 1963262)

Feature added:

• The category viewer can show additional columns (description, attachment, ...) besides just the subject of categories. This is a side effect of the fix for the drag and drop issues.

Website changes:

• Follow Task Coach on twitter: http://twitter.com/taskcoach. The latest tweets are also listed on http://www.taskcoach.org. (index.html)
• Added Google Ads to generate additional revenue to cover the cost of hardware and commercial operating systems. (index.html)

Release 0.72.6 - April 18, 2009

This is a bugfix release.

Bugs fixed:

• Task Coach couldn't be installed using EasyInstall.
• Task Coach couldn't be installed on Linux systems that have 2.6 as their default Python version. Task Coach currently needs Python 2.5. Fixed by forcing an install for Python 2.5 on all Linux systems when installing from a RPM or Debian package. (2724839)
• The lockfile package used for file locking had a bug when used with Python 2.6. Fixed by upgrading the lockfile package to version 0.8. (2761466)
• Task Coach would sometimes crash when dragging a task onto another task on Windows. (2573263, 1995248)

Release 0.72.5 - April 5, 2009

This is a bugfix release.

Bug fixed:

• Include the lockfile package in the distributions.

Release 0.72.4 - April 5, 2009

This is a bugfix release.

Bugs fixed:

• When exporting effort to iCalendar format, use 'floating times' rather than UTC. (2722224)
• Lock a task file while the user is working on it. Note that locks are only honored by Task Coach itself; locked files can still be removed using a file explorer. (2318647, 2236420)
• Fail silently if checking for the availability of a new Task Coach version doesn't work for some reason. (2669995)
• Don't open the category edit dialog when the user double clicks a category check box. (2685754)
• In the budget page of the task edit dialog, make sure that selected values can be overwritten. (2654254)
• Make the Debian package work with python versions >= 2.5 (but smaller than python 3.0). (2724839)

Release 0.72.3 - March 13, 2009

This is a bugfix release.

Bugs fixed:

• Don't turn on the color selection in the task edit dialog when the task color is based on the category it belongs to.
• Make it easier to edit budget values in the task edit dialog. (2654254)
• Fix regression caused by the saving of print margins added in release 0.72.2. (2632431)

Release 0.72.2 - March 11, 2009

This is a bugfix release.

Bugs fixed:

• Support drag and drop from Thunderbird Portable under Windows (2665317)
• Correctly read task files with version <= 13 (Task Coach release 0.57 and earlier) that contain categories.
• When a subtask belongs to a category with color, use that color to color the subtask, rather than the color of the parent task.
• Save print margins in the TaskCoach.ini file. (2632431)

Release 0.72.1 - February 14, 2009

This is a bugfix release.

Bugs fixed:

• Drag and drop from Thunderbird wouldn't work with GMail IMAP accounts. (2549194)
• Exception when synchronizing with the new version of ScheduleWorld. (2553046)
• On MacOS, the window height would increase by 29 pixels each time Task Coach was launched.
• Exporting a selection of effort records resulted in an empty HTML file.
• Opening a task from a reminder dialog didn't work. (2580772)
• Include effort for subtasks in the effort viewer for one task.
• Correctly display error message when the user enters an invalid regular expression in a search control.
• Update the task square map viewer when the task status changes (e.g. when a task is completed).
• When SyncML is enabled and the last subtask of a task is deleted, correctly update the icon in the task viewer.

Features added:

• When the single task, whose effort records are shown in a single task effort viewer, is removed, the effort viewer resets to show all effort records of all tasks.
• Tool tips for task square map viewer.

Release 0.72.0 - January 30, 2009

This release adds a square map task viewer and a single-task effort viewer. This release also fixes a few bugs and adds a few smaller feature enhancements.

Bugs fixed:

• Don't crash when adding a task. (2467347)
• Update the total fixed fee column in the task viewer when adding a subtask with a fixed fee.
• Mark task file dirty when the user edits a task color.
• Update the hourly fee column in the task viewer when the the user edits the hourly fee of a task.
• Make it possible to add an effort record to a new task.
• When opening all attachments of an item, give an error message for each attachment that cannot be opened.

Features added:

• One can now export only the current selection as HTML.
• When using yearly recurrence of tasks, allow for keeping the recurring date on the same weekday (e.g. to recur on the first Monday of the year). (2164568)
• Added a square map viewer for tasks that displays tasks in the form of a set of nested squares. The relative size of the squares is determined by either budget, budget left, time spent, fixed fee or revenue.
• One can now open an effort viewer for a specific task.
• Added (incomplete) Hindi and German (Low) translations.

Release 0.71.5 - December 24, 2008

This release adds one usability enhancement and a few bug fixes.

Bugs fixed:

• Don't wake up every second just to keep track of reminders and midnight.
• Hide main window after showing reminder dialog when it was hidden before. (2372909)
• When marking a recurring task completed, recur its reminder too, if any. (2376415)
• Refresh task status at midnight. (2095205)
• Fix tab traversal in the effort editor on Linux. (1965751)

Feature added:

• When double clicking an item in a viewer, open the editor on the right page, depending on the column clicked. For example, when clicking on the due date column in a task viewer, Task Coach will open the task editor with the dates page raised. Patch provided by Carl Zmola.

Release 0.71.4 - December 6, 2008

This is a bugfix release.

Bugs fixed:

• Opening an old .tsk file with missing e-mail attachments would crash Task Coach.
• Don't throw exception when showing an (error) message while synchronizing. (2356799)
• When merging from the same file multiple times, update the existing items instead of duplicating them. (2062616)
• Don't set negative priorities to zero in the task editor (Linux only). (2324869)
• Save the column width of the first column when automatic resizing of columns is off. (2255690)
• Actually delete tasks and notes when SyncML is disabled. (2319921)
• Do not create subitems in two steps, this is counter intuitive.
• Properly iterate over the open viewers with Ctrl-PgDn and Ctrl-PgUp. (1973357)
• Update the task viewer when a note is deleted from a task. (2277217)
• Update the tray icon tool tip when deleting an overdue task. (2321351)
• Wrap long lines in description tool tip windows. (2318094)

Feature added:

• Add a "Purge deleted items" entry in the File menu for people who have been using Task Coach with SyncML disabled.

Release 0.71.3 - November 10, 2008

This is a bugfix release.

Bugs fixed:

• Spell checking in editor didn't work under Mac OS X. (2214676)
• Dropping a mail with several recipients from Outlook would result in a "No subject" subject. (2220224)
• A ghost window would appear on the secondary display under Mac OS X if it's placed on the right. (2206656)
• The note total would include deleted notes. (2209640)
• Don't hang when exiting the application. (2185910, 2209679)
• Don't show all effort in the effort tab of a task editor, but only effort for the task being edited. (2207166)
• Fix for a backwards incompatible change in python 2.6. (2212857)
• Update task details at midnight, even when Task Coach is not active at precisely midnight. (2095205, 2061826)
• Allow for empty task subjects. (2214812)
• Make the drop down button for picking dates look disabled when it is disabled. (2214706)

Release 0.71.2 - October 24, 2008

This is a bugfix release.

Bugs fixed:

• The reminder dialog didn't work. (2168756)
• One couldn't add an URI attachment "by hand". (2167705)
• The combobox with tasks in the effort editor wouldn't always be properly filled, making it impossible to edit the effort record. (2167798, 2173127)
• Warn the user when the task file cannot be saved. (2121470)
• Warn the user when the TaskCoach.ini file cannot be loaded. (2101765)
• When saving selected tasks, also include any categories the selected tasks are in.
• The right-click menu item 'Start tracking effort' wouldn't work for recurring tasks. (2165652)

Features added:

• The SyncML password dialog now has a more specific title. (2176781)
• The system tray popup menu now has a 'New note' menu item. (2182735)

Release 0.71.1 - October 13, 2008

This is a bugfix release.

Bugs fixed:

• Older task files containing e-mail attachments could not be opened.
• Newly created templates would not appear in the Task menu, only in the toolbar template button.
• Installing from source wouldn't work on platforms where pysyncml is not supported. (2164313)
• The installers for Mac OS X and Windows for release 0.71.0 were missing some files, causing Task Coach not to be able to save. (2162181)

Release 0.71.0 - October 12, 2008

This release adds task and note synchronization, task templates, more task recurrence options, more translations and a whole bunch of smaller enhancements.

Bugs fixed:

• Undo would not work well when creating notes in a category or task.
• An IndexError would be raised when undoing then editing.
• Ctrl-PgDn and Ctrl-PgUp would sometimes need to be pressed multiple times before the next or previous viewer would be activated.

Features added:

• E-mail attachments are now stored directly in the task file.
• Tasks and notes can now be synchronized with a Funambol server (http://www.funambol.com/). (2006123, 1892874)
• Tasks can now be saved and reused as templates. (1851847, 1549002, 1484368, 1601869)
• Attachments are now regular domain objects; they may have notes.
• The task and note editors now use an actual category viewer. It is possible to create and edit categories from these editors.
• The description tooltip now works for efforts and categories. It also contains a summary of notes and attachments belonging to the hovered object. (1642608, 1917999)
• More task recurrence options. Tasks can now also recur yearly, in addition to daily, weekly, and monthly. Tasks can also recur with a multiple period frequency, e.g. every other week or every three months. Monthly recurring tasks can be set to recur on the same week day (e.g. first Monday of the month). (1963803, 1917090, 1913656, 2076511)
• The times used in the drop down menus of the start and stop entries of the effort dialog can now be changed via the preferences dialog. Patch supplied by Rob McMullen.
• The effort tracking feature can be turned off via the preferences dialog.
• The system tray icon shows the task being tracked in its tool tip. Patch provided by João Alexandre de Toledo.
• Categories and notes can have attachments.
• Tasks and categories can contain notes. (1954879, 2140239, 1525434)
• The four different effort viewers are integrated in one viewer that can switch between different effort aggregation modes, i.e. details, per day, per week and per month, via the toolbar.
• The two different task viewers are integrated in one viewer that can switch between list and tree mode, via the toolbar.
• Category filtering is done either by showing tasks and notes that match any category or that match all categories. This filtering mode can be switched via the toolbar of the category viewer. (2024510)
• The effort background is now colored with the same color as the task it belongs to.
• The effort viewer can show the (overall) categories of the task of each effort in an (overall) categories column. Patch provided by Thomas Sonne Olesen. (1911052, 1791670)
• When the effort viewer is in weekly mode, it can show effort per weekday. Patch provided by Thomas Sonne Olesen.
• The automatic resizing of columns can be turned off on a viewer by viewer basis, using the 'Automatic column resizing' checkable menu item in the View->Columns menu and/or in the column header right-click menu. (2047851, 1466164)
• The expansion state of tasks, categories and notes is saved in the task file. (2045453, 1790057)
• Added Catalan translation thanks to Ferran Roig, Jordi Mallach, Josep-Miquel Ivars, and devaleitzer.
• Added an (incomplete) Arabic translation thanks to Moayyed. Please help finish it. See http://www.taskcoach.org/i18n.html.
• Added largely incomplete Esperanto, Estonian, Indonesian, Marathi, Lithuanian, Norwegion Nynorsk, Slovenian, Telugu, and Vietnamese translations. Please help finish them. See http://www.taskcoach.org/i18n.html.

Implementation changed:

• The task file format (version 20) was changed. Task nodes may have a recurrence node that contains the recurrence state of the task. Categories and notes can contain attachments. Tasks and categories can now contain notes.

Release 0.70.4 - September 28, 2008

Bug fix release.

Bugs fixed:

• Allow Task Coach to be installed on Ubuntu 7.10. (2117477)
• Task Coach wasn't notifying users of new versions.
• When merging, merge notes too.
• When the notes feature is turned off, hide the 'Create new note' menu item in the category pop up menu.
• Fixed a translation bug. (2087395)
• Hide/show the main window with one click on the task bar icon instead of a double click (Linux only).
• The Task Coach main window would get a very small size if it was started minimized and had not been restored in the previous session. (2052910)

Release 0.70.3 - August 17, 2008

Bug fix release.

Bugs fixed:

• wxPython 2.8.8.1 generates images in a new, backwards incompatible way, even when told not to do that. This bug affects users that have an older version of wxPython installed and use one of the Linux packages. Fixed by adding the relevant pieces from wxPython 2.8.8.1 to the Task Coach sources. (2046084)
• Opening a new task viewer didn't work. (2053008)
• Closing effort viewers causes exceptions. (2053008)

Release 0.70.2 - August 6, 2008

This release fixes some bugs and brings back the Fedora RPM.

Bugs fixed:

• Using the "Save selection" feature together with mail attachments could result in data loss.
• Under KDE, the maximized state of the main window would not be restored.
• One couldn't e-mail tasks with non-ASCII characters in their description. (2025676)
• Dragging an email message from Thunderbird and dropping it on Task Coach could give a "UnicodeDecodeError" on Fedora. (1953166)
• When an invalid regular expression was entered in a search control, no items were displayed. Additionally, if it was saved in TaskCoach.ini, TaskCoach would crash on launch later.
• Mention of non-existing files in taskcoach.spec prevented the Fedora RPM from being built.
• The category viewer would sometimes skip keyboard navigation or need an extra mouse-click to get focus. (2020816, 2020812)
• On Mac OS X, the keyboard shortcut for 'help' was interfering with the shortcut for 'hide window'. (2006455)

Features added:

• Notes can be e-mailed.
• Display a tool tip to warn user when a search string is an invalid regular expression. In this case, default to substring search.
• Optionally put Task Coach in the user's startup menu so that Task Coach is started automatically when the user logs on (Windows only). (2017400, 1913650)
• Made (right-click) context menu's more consistent.

Feature removed:

• Don't supply the dummy recipient 'Please enter recipient' to the email program when mailing a task. This only forces the user to perform an extra action to remove that dummy text, while most if not all email programs will warn the user when she forgets to enter a recipient. (2026833)

Release 0.70.1 - June 28, 2008

This release optionally brings back the tabbed user interface that was removed in the previous release and fixes a few bugs.

Bugs fixed:

• The search control in the toolbar did not maintain state correctly for different viewers. Task Coach viewers now each have their own toolbar with search control. (1977196)
• Marking tasks completed or changing their priority would change the selection. (1888598, 1926362)
• On Max OS X, put preferences menu item in the TaskCoach menu instead of the Edit menu to conform with Mac OS X standards. (1965861)
• Focus issues: On Mac OS X, text couldn't be edited while the timer was running. On Windows, notifications from other programs overlapping with the main window would take away focus from dialogs. (1995469, 2000152)
• Prevent crash under Windows XP when dropping e-mail from Thunderbird if the APPDATA environment variable is not defined. (1960827)
• ImportError: No module named thirdparty.ElementTree. This exception would happen when using a source distribution of Task Coach or a package (rpm, deb) for Linux *and* when the default version of Python on the system is Python 2.4. Task Coach tried to import a module from the wrong package. (1964069)
• On Linux, when using a dark theme, use appropriate background colors for the category viewer and the text color buttons in the preferences dialog. (1988160)
• Remember whether the main window was maximized and if so, maximize the main window when starting the next time. (1969266)
• Correctly sort tasks on startup when sort column is 'Overall categories'. (1962003)
• Correctly redraw toolbar when it is 'damaged' by other windows (1977208)
• Correctly sort effort for subtasks in effort per day, per week, and per month effort viewers. (1989553)
• Better navigation with tab key in dialogs.
• Keep newlines in descriptions when printing or exporting to HTML.

Feature added:

• Task Coach can now use either the old tabbed user interface (whose layout still cannot be saved, by the way) or the 'managed frame' interface introduced in release 0.70.0. This can be changed in the Preferences dialog. (1964213)

Release 0.70.0 - May 12, 2008

Small feature enhancements, more translations and several bug fixes. Task Coach is now distributed under the GPLv3+.

Bugs fixed:

• Allow for editing seconds in effort editor. (1925748)
• The combobox in the effort detail editor always picked the first task when multiple tasks had the same subject, effectively prohibiting the user to move an effort record to another task with the same subject. (1918033)
• Reset invalid input in the priority field of the task editor to 0 instead of to the minimum priority (a large negative value). (1949222)
• "View->Filter->Reset all filters" now also unchecks all categories.
• Task Coach now is packaged as a proper Debian package, thanks to Stani Michiels. The Debian package installs a menu item for Task Coach in the Applications/Office menu. (1792706, 1792711, 1896796)

Features added:

• Paths to file attachments may be relative.
• Monthly recurrence of tasks. (1933222, 1957687)
• Added and reorganized keyboard short cuts. (1857101)
• Start tracking effort for any active task using the system tray icon right-click menu. (1934738, 1739666)
• Added a largely complete Ukranian translation thanks to Vitovt and incomplete Finnish, Greek, Persian and Thai translations.

Feature changed:

• Slightly higher preference window so all icons fit and no scrolling is needed. (1918678)

Dependencies changed:

• Task Coach now uses Subversion for version control. See http://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=130831. This only affects you if you want to develop or use Task Coach source code.
• Task Coach is now distributed under the GNU General Public License version 3 or (at your option) any later version. This only affects you if you want to distribute changed versions of Task Coach or want to include source code from Task Coach in other software.

Release 0.69.2 - March 28, 2008

Bug fix release.

Bugs fixed:

• Tasks created via the context menu of the category view now automatically belong to the selected category. (1592103)
• Update task status and colors at midnight. (1183043)
• Exception when starting Task Coach ("AttributeError: 'CategoryList' object has no attribute 'EventTypePrefix'"). (1901385)
• Exception when reopening a closed viewer (with the message "ConfigParser.NoSectionError: No section: 'effortperdayviewer1'" in the log file). (1894488)
• Exception when resetting all filters in the task tree viewer (with the message "No option 'hidecompositetasks' in section: 'tasktreelistview'" in the log file). (1903679)
• Don't take the priority of completed subtasks into account when calculating the overall priority of a task. (1905774)
• It was not clear that backup files can be opened in Task Coach. Backup files now have the extension '.tsk.bak'. The file open dialog has '*.tsk.bak' as selectable file type to make it easier to open backup files. (1911538)
• Exception when opening the task menu while the toolbar is hidden.

Features added:

• Task Coach now suggests a reminder date, based on the due date or start date of a task.
• Added a complete Norwegion Bokmal translation thanks to Amund Amundsen and incomplete Galician, Korean and Romanian translations.

Release 0.69.1 - February 14, 2008

Bug fix release.

Bugs fixed:

• Exception when closing a task editor dialog. This causes updates of task states not to be displayed properly. The bug itself does not cause data loss, but it might trick users into saving an empty task file over their existing data. (1893634)
• On Mac OS X, users couldn't enter 'P' and 'M' in text boxes, because these were mapped to menu items. Reorganized keyboard shortcuts to fix this. (1890566)
• The arrow ('→') and infinity symbol ('∞') are not visible on all computers, so Task Coach is back to using '->' and 'Infinite' again.

Release 0.69.0 - February 9, 2008

This release makes it possible to repeat tasks on either a daily or a weekly basis and to add notes to categories. It also contains a number of other changes and bug fixes.

Bugs fixed:

• The reminder dialog didn't close when opening the task from the reminder dialog. If the user had entered a snooze option in the reminder dialog, that snooze option would be overwritten when closing the task editor. (1862286)
• Don't allow filtering by both a parent and a child category at the same time.
• Sorting by total categories in the task viewers didn't sort correctly.
• Save didn't work for task files without a file name and without tasks, but with categories or notes.
• Adding a task to a category or removing it from a category was not undoable.

Features added:

• Tasks can recur on a daily or weekly basis. This feature is not complete yet. Most obviously, recurring on a monthly basis is missing. Also, recurring tasks with recurring subtasks do not behave entirely correctly yet. (1623364, 1464793, 1264210)
• Notes can be assigned to categories.
• Added Bulgarian translation, thanks to Rumen Belev.
• Added Danish translation, thanks to different translators.
• Added a number of rather incomplete translations (Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, and Turkish). See http://www.taskcoach.org/i18n.html for how you can help improve these translations.
• When filtering by one or more categories, new tasks and notes are automatically added to those categories. Of course, you can still change the categories in the category tab of the edit dialog before pressing the OK button.
• Whether descriptions of tasks, effort records, categories and notes are shown in a popup tooltip window is now a setting. (1857098)
• Added menu items for increasing, decreasing, maximizing, and minimizing task priority. (1768210, 1570616)
• Clicking a column header in a task viewer now iterates through the following sort orders: 'ascending, after sorting by task status first', 'descending, after sorting by task status first', 'ascending, without sorting by task status first', 'descending, without sorting by task status first'.

Features changed:

• Previously, unset dates were displayed as 'None' in date columns. To be consistent with how other attributes are displayed in columns, Task Coach now simply displays nothing for unset dates in date columns.
• Task Coach now uses the infinity symbol ('∞') to display the number of days left for tasks without a due date, instead of the word 'Infinite'.
• Task Coach now uses a real arrow symbol ('→') instead of '->' for separating parent and child subjects in the different viewers.

Feature removed:

• Task Coach no longer keeps track of the 'last modification time' of tasks.

Release 0.68.0 - December 26, 2007

This release makes it possible to open a task from its reminder dialog, adds a command line option to facilitate the PortableApps.com Task Coach distribution, makes starting and stopping effort tracking quicker and fixes a number of bugs.

Bugs fixed:

• Start and stop tracking effort is faster for tasks that have a large number of associated effort records.
• Task Coach now gives an error message if the file that it tries to open doesn't exist. (1857093)
• When selecting all text in a text control with '<cmd>a', indeed select all text and not all tasks (Max OSX only). (1857091)
• Attempt to prevent crashes on Fedora 8 that sometimes happen when adding top level tasks. (1840111)

Features added:

• It is possible to open a task from its reminder dialog.
• Task Coach has a --ini command line option that can be used to specify where the ini file is located.

Release 0.67.0 - December 16, 2007

This release make it possible to color tasks via their categories, adds a translation in Hebrew, and makes it easier to mark tasks as not completed.

Bug fixed:

• Don't move selection to the first line of the task tree viewer when deleting a subtask. (1849171)

Features added:

• Added Hebrew translation thanks to Ziv Barcesat.
• You can assign a color to a category. Tasks are colored according to the color of the categories they belong to. (1466159, 1784932)
• The 'mark task completed' button and menu items can now also be used to mark tasks as not completed. (1449714)

Dependency changed:

• Task Coach now needs at least wxPython 2.8.6.0-unicode. Since the Windows installer and the Mac OSX dmg package have wxPython included, this only affects users of the RPM, Debian, and source distributions.

Release 0.66.3 - December 11, 2007

Bug fix release to address crashes.

Bug fixed:

• Work around a bug in the TreeListCtrl widget that caused crashes. The TreeListCtrl widget is used by Task Coach for the task tree view. (1846906, 1840111, 1832490, 1829622, 1821858, 1820497)

Release 0.66.2 - November 9, 2007

Bug fix release to address crashes.

Bug fixed:

• Don't crash when refreshing a tree view. (1828846)

Release 0.66.1 - November 7, 2007

This release fixes a number of minor bugs.

Bugs fixed:

• When changing the sort order in a tree viewer, keep collapsed items collapsed and expanded items expanded. (1791638)
• Sort categories alphabetically in task editor. (1824180)
• Double clicking a task in the tree view did not open the task edit dialog.
• When filtering on a specific category, a newly added task belonging to that category was not shown in the task viewers.

Release 0.66.0 - October 31, 2007

Small feature enhancements and a translation in Traditional Chinese.

Bug fixed:

• Make categories and category viewer more robust. (1821776)

Features added:

• Added Traditional Chinese translation thanks to Joey Weng.
• Added an 'overall categories' column that recursively shows the categories a task belongs to, i.e. its own categories and the categories of its parent task(s). (1790054)
• Column widths are saved between sessions. (1799998)
• Ctrl-PageUp and Ctrl-PageDown can be used to cycle through open viewers. (1818428)

Release 0.65.3 - October 20, 2007

This bugfix release fixes one critical bug that affects users on the Windows platform and several minor bugs that affect users on all platforms.

Bugs fixed:

• Don't leak GDI objects on Windows. (1813632, 1811058, 1810297, 1806004, 1803085)
• Don't notify of new version when the user has just installed that version.
• Mail disappears from Outlook when dropped in TaskCoach. Try to use Outlook to open mail attachment when it's the "default" mailer. (1812399)
• Mail task doesn't work. (1810356)
• Categories not sorted correctly. (1810469)

Release 0.65.2 - October 8, 2007

This release is aimed at better performance.

Bugs fixed:

• Slow performance. (1806001, 1794007)
• Don't require administrator privileges for installation on Windows XP/Vista.

Release 0.65.1 - September 23, 2007

This release fixes one critical bug and two minor bugs.

Bugs fixed:

• Tooltip windows steals keyboard focus on some platforms. (1791627)
• Taskbar icon is not transparent on Linux. (1648082)
• Saving a task file after adding attachments via the 'add attachment' menu or context menu fails. (1796829)

Release 0.65.0 - September 9, 2007

This release adds the ability to record notes, improves the flexibility of the different views, and fixes several bugs.

Bugs fixed:

• Made subject column resizable. (1702270, 1766664)
• Enable export of data containing non-ASCII characters to CSV. (1753422)
• Don't activate another viewer when another application is minimized (Windows only). (1765103)
• Outlook 2003 email messages added as attachment couldn't be opened from Task Coach. (1748738)
• German translation had wrong menu accelerators. (1772019)
• Apply undo/redo/cut/copy/paste actions to text if a text control is visible and has focus (Mac OSX only) (1768315)
• Added a copy of the ElementTree package to the Task Coach source code, so the source code distribution of Task Coach works with Python 2.4, without needing to install ElementTree. (1783575)

Features added:

• Notes. Notes have a subject and an optional description. Notes can be hierarchical, i.e. notes may contain subnotes. Notes can be sorted and searched (filtered), printed, and exported. This feature can be turned on or off via the preferences dialog.
• Categories can be searched (filtered) using the search control on the toolbar.
• Category sorting can be changed: ascending or descending, case sensitive or case insensitive.
• Categories can have a description.
• Each viewer/tab has its own settings for sort order and visible columns. Viewers can be renamed. This makes it possible to e.g. create a 'Todo today'.
• The search control on the toolbar can (optionally) include subitems in the search result. This makes it easy to show one task and its subtasks in a task viewer or show effort for one task and its subtasks in an effort viewer.
• Added a setting to start Task Coach iconized either always, never, or only when Task Coach was iconized when last quitted. (1749886)
• Added a setting to turn off spell checking (Mac OSX only) (1768330)
• Added (incomplete) translations in Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Latvian and Polish. See http://www.taskcoach.org/i18n.html for more information about translations and on how you can help.

Release 0.64.2 - June 30, 2007

This release fixes sorting of tasks by priority and makes sure that Task Coach does not block OS shutdown.

Bugs fixed:

• Don't take child task priority into account when sorting by priority in the task tree view. (1732968)
• Don't block OS shutdown on Windows. (1735532, 1484652, 1489870)

Release 0.64.1 - June 10, 2007

Bugs fixed:

• Task Coach would complain about an error when closing the application. This was due to a missing package in the Windows executable distribution. (1727237)
• On Linux, Task Coach was not very helpful when the taskcoachlib package is installed for a different python version than the one the user is starting Task Coach with. (1728485)

Release 0.64.0 - May 28, 2007

Bugs fixed:

• Ubuntu users had to manually install the wxaddons package. This package is now included in the Task Coach distribution.
• Don't hide the main window when it's iconized by default because on Linux with some window managers the main window receives minimize events in other situations as well, most notably when changing virtual desktops. So, to reduce the chances of confusing new users this option is off by default. (1721166)

Features added:

• Added Breton translation thanks to Ronan Le Déroff
• Show a tooltip with a task's description when the mouse is hovering over a task. Patch provided by Jérôme Laheurte. (1642608, 1619521, 1578623)
• Allow for dragging emails from Thunderbird and Outlook to the attachment pane of tasks to create email attachments. Opening an attached email will open it in the user's default mail program. Patch provided by Jérôme Laheurte.

Release 0.63.2 - April 20, 2007

Bug fixed:

• Task tree view does not refresh tasks after task editing. (1701368)

Release 0.63.1 - April 16, 2007

Bugs fixed:

• Dropping a file on a task in the tree viewer didn't work.
• Showing the description column in the composite effort viewers (effort per day, per week, per month) caused exceptions.
• The task tree viewer was trying to update tasks that weren't shown, resulting in exceptions. (1697568, 1697574)

Release 0.63.0 - April 9, 2007

Bugs fixed:

• Cancelling printing would give a 'Task Coach Error'
• Make sure the main window is on a visible display when starting. This is for laptop users that sometimes extend their desktop to a second display. (1667120)
• Sort categories alphabetically in the categories viewer. (1694532)
• Filtering a category no longer automatically checks all subcategories. However, tasks belonging to a subcategory are still filtered (since they belong to the filtered category via the subcategory).

Features added:

• Export to HTML and printing of tasks colors tasks appropriately.
• Added description columns to the task and effort viewers. Like other columns, the description column is printed and exported if visible.
• Added reminder column to the task viewers.

Release 0.62.0 - April 1, 2007

Bugs fixed:

• When saving timestamps in a task file, e.g. for effort start and stop times, microseconds are no longer saved as part of the timestamp. The microseconds caused problems when importing Task Coach data in Excel. (1660670)
• When exporting tasks to HTML or CSV format from the task tree viewer, child tasks hidden by a filter would still be exported. (1659307)

Features added:

• Added Slovak translation thanks to Viliam Búr
• Printing a selection is enabled (except on Mac OSX).
• The notebook that contains the different views allows for dragging and dropping of tabs, enabling you to create almost any layout you like. Unfortunately, this widget does not yet provide functionality to store the layout in the TaskCoach.ini file.
• Whether the clock icon in the task bar blinks or not is now a setting (see Edit -> Preferences -> Window behavior.
• The toolbar buttons for 'new item', 'new sub item', 'edit item' and 'delete item' now work for tasks, effort records and categories, depending on what view is active.
• Added a category column for task viewers. (1629283)
• Added an attachment column that shows whether a task has one or more attachments.
• Added an 'Open all attachments' menu item for tasks
• Added snooze option to reminders.

Feature changed:

• Removed filter sidebar. Filter options previously available on the sidebar are now available via the search filter on the toolbar, the category tab and the view menu.

Dependency changed:

• Task Coach now requires wxPython 2.8.3-unicode or newer (this is only relevant if you use the source distribution).

Release 0.61.6 - January 27, 2007

Bugs fixed:

• Crash on trying to use down-arrow to move to sub-task. (1640806)
• When deleting a task that has subtasks that belong to categories, the task file gets 'corrupted', giving errors when loading it. (1638419, 1589993)

Release 0.61.5 - January 10, 2007

Bug fixed:

• Opening a Task Coach file with many effort records is slow. Opening an edit dialog for a task with many effort records is slow too. (1630102)

Release 0.61.4 - December 30, 2006

Bugs fixed:

• Make Task Coach work with Python 2.5.
• Cancel reminders when marking a task completed. (1606990)
• Unchecking a reminder would cause an exception. (1606990)
• Column resizing is now less jumpy. (1606319)
• MSVCP71.DLL was missing from the Windows distribution. (1602364)
• Marking a task completed while completed tasks are hidden wouldn't immediately hide the completed task. (1572920)
• The category filter was not applied correctly on launch; showing categories as filtered but not hiding the associated tasks. (1603846)
• Turning on filtering for a category didn't mark the task file as changed. (1603846)

Feature added:

• Added RPM and Debian distributions.

Release 0.61.3 - November 19, 2006

Bugs fixed:

• If saving the TaskCoach.ini file would fail, displaying the error message would fail (too) because the i18n translator had not been imported at that point. (1598568)
• Mac OSX distribution did not start. Upgraded py2app. (1594190)
• Dragging and dropping a task in the task tree view would sometimes drag the wrong task.
• Give category dialog focus and select default category title to make it easier to quickly enter categories using the keyboard.
• The gdiplus.dll was missing from the Windows distribution. (1596843)

Release 0.61.2 - November 11, 2006

Bugs fixed:

• Some Linux distributions do not have the BROWSER environment variable set, causing errors. Be prepared. (1567244)
• Saving failed with a UnicodeError if a category description would contain non-ASCII characters. (1589991)
• Deleting a task would not delete the task from the categories it belonged to, resulting in errors upon next loading of the task file. (1589993)

Release 0.61.1 - November 3, 2006

Bug fixed:

• Source distribution was missing some files.

Release 0.61.0 - November 2, 2006

Bugs fixed:

• Displaying a previously hidden toolbar would result in an incorrectly drawn window. (1551885)
• Exported HTML didn't contain an explicit charset. (1561490)
• Negative effort preventation was not working correctly. (1575458)

Features added:

• Hierarchical categories.
• Export in Comma Separated Values (CSV) format. As with export to HTML, the current view is exported. (1534862)
• Task Coach can be run from a removable medium, such as a USB stick. On Windows, use the installer to install Task Coach to the medium. Then, start Task Coach and turn the setting 'Save settings to same directory as program' on. This setting can be found in Edit -> Preferences -> File). This makes sure the TaskCoach.ini file is saved on the removable medium, in the same directory as the main program. (1464435)

Release 0.60 - August 30, 2006

Bugs fixed:

• Closing a task file did not reset the 'lastfile' setting. (1548126)
• Selecting Japanese translation would cause error upon next restart. (1545593)
• Task Coach wouldn't quit when the setting 'Minimize window when closing' was set. (1545936)
• Deleting an effort record would throw an exception. (1548117)

Website change:

• Added MD5 digests to download page. (download.html)

Release 0.59 - August 23, 2006

Bugs fixed:

• Improved efficiency while tracking effort for tasks. (1429545)
• The column width of the list with filenames in the attachment page of the task editor is now adaptable, so that long filenames can be made visible entirely. (1503006)
• Translation errors in tips. (1525410, 1525423)
• When having multiple tasks with the same subject, new effort records would always be created for the first of these tasks instead of the selected task. (1513403, 1524037)
• Opening a file with a non-ascii filename specified on the command line did not work. (1532528)

Features added:

• Japanese translation thanks to Yutaka Usui.
• Filter sidebar.
• Printing. Selecting 'File' -> 'Print' will print the currently active view. This means only the visible columns will be printed and only the filtered tasks will be printed, in the current sort order. (1481881, 1472662, 1307275, 1205819)
• Export to HTML. Selecting 'File' -> 'Export' -> 'Export to HTML' will export the currently active view to HTML. This means only the visible columns will be exported and only the filtered tasks will be printed, in the current sort order. (1375773, 1205819)
• Columns with numbers or dates are right-aligned.

Release 0.58 - May 14, 2006

Bugs fixed:

• On Mac OSX, Task Coach would seg fault upon exiting.
• Right-clicking a task in the task tree view would, correctly, pop up the context menu, but would not select the underlying task. (1440416)
• The memory leak in the TreeListCtrl was fixed in wxPython 2.6.3.2. The installer for Windows and the disk image for Mac OSX use wxPython 2.6.3.2, thus fixing the memory leak in Task Coach. If you use the source distribution of Task Coach you will have to install wxPython 2.6.3.2 yourself to get the fix. (1309858)
• Filtering on task categories was improved.
• Hitting Delete when editing the text in the find dialog would delete any selected tasks. Unfortunately, to fix this bug some accelerators had to be changed: the accelerator for "Delete task" is now Ctrl-Delete, for "New task" it is now Ctrl-Insert, and for "New subtask" it is now Shift-Ctrl-Insert. (1463316)
• Don't close the current file when user cancels opening another file. (1475473)

Features added:

• Added toolbar button for 'new subtask'.
• Task Coach searches incrementally as you type a query in the find bar.
• When dragging a task in the tree view, hover over a tree button (a boxed plus-sign or a triangle, depending on your platform) to expand the sub tree.
• To promote a sub task to a top-level task in the tree view, drag it and drop it anywhere as long as it is not on another task.
• When filtering tasks by multiple categories, you may either choose to view tasks that belong to at least one of the selected categories, or view tasks that belong to all selected categories.

Release 0.57 - March 16, 2006

Bugs fixed:

• When adding a new effort to a task, take into account that the user may have changed the task that the effort belongs to in the effort editor dialog (using the dropdown combobox). Because Task Coach didn't do that, the effort would be added twice if the user changed the task of the new effort record. (1443906)
• A file that was saved with an active effort couldn't be loaded again. Task Coach would complain that the file was invalid. (1433611)
• Added different sizes of the Task Coach icon. This prevents scaling up the 16x16 version to 32x32 on Windows or to even 128x128 on the Mac. (1406651, 1434044)

Feature added:

• Task Coach is now also available as disk image (.dmg) for Mac OSX (tested on OSX 10.4).

Release 0.56 - February 14, 2006

Features added:

• Tasks can have attachments. Attachments can be added, removed and opened. Opening of attachments is done by starting the default application for the attachment file type. Attachments can also be dragged from a file browser and dropped onto a task in one of the task viewers or on the task attachment pane in the task editor dialog. (1250241, 1339113)
• Whether a task is marked completed when all its child tasks are completed is now a setting that can be changed application-wide via the preferences dialog. The application-wide setting can be overruled on a task-by-task basis via the task editor dialog. (1393803)
• Task Coach shows a 'tips' dialog at startup. Hopefully it is helpful for new users. Experienced users can turn it off.

Features changed:

• More visual feedback when dragging tasks in the tree view.
• Task editor layout changed. Priority is now part of the task description. Budget and revenue have been merged into one pane. (1312284)

Implementation changed:

• Default values for task and effort attributes are no longer saved in the Task Coach file, resulting in an estimated 33% reduction of file size.

Release 0.55 - January 13, 2006

Bug fixed:

• Sorting by total budget was broken. (1399116)

Feature added:

• Simple reminders. (1372932)

Dependency changed:

• Task Coach now requires wxPython 2.6.1.0-unicode or newer (this is only relevant if you use the source distribution).

Release 0.54 - January 6, 2006

Bugs fixed:

• The accelerators INSERT and Ctrl+INSERT were mapped to 'c' and 'Command-Copy' on the Mac, which caused Task Coach to create a new task whenever the user typed a 'c'. Fixed by changing the accelerators for new task and new subtask to Ctrl+N and Shift+Ctrl+N (on the Mac only). (1311413)
• It was possible to enter control characters -- by copy-and-pasting -- resulting in invalid XML in the Task Coach file. (1288689)
• One python file was missing in the source distribution of release 0.53. Added a test to check that all python files in the source are actually added to the source distributions, so hopefully this will never happen again. (1389224)

Feature added:

• Effort can be exported as iCalendar (ICS) file and imported into e.g. Mozilla Sunbird. Each effort record is exported as a "VEVENT". This is an experimental feature. Patch provided by Gissehel.

Release 0.53 - December 19, 2005

Bugs fixed:

• On some platforms, Python and wxPython seem to disagree on what the maximum integer is. The maximum integer is used to set the maximum and minimum allowed priority values. Fixed by allowing priority values between the rather arbitrary minimum and maximum values of -1000000000 and 1000000000.
• Fixed exception: "wx._core.PyAssertionError: C++ assertion "ucf.GotUpdate()" failed in ..\..\src\msw extctrl.cpp(813): EM_STREAMIN didn't send EN_UPDATE?". This seems to be a bug in wxPython 2.6.0 and 2.6.1. Patch provided by Franz Steinhaeusler. (1344023)

Features added:

• Columns in the effort view are hideable too, just like columns in the task views. See 'View' -> 'Effort columns', or right-click a column header in the effort view.
• Added possibility to mail tasks via your default mailer, see 'Task' -> 'Mail task' or right-click a task in one of the task views.
• Added option to minimize the window when you attempt to close the application via the close button on the window title bar or the system menu. See 'Edit' -> 'Preferences' -> 'Window behavior'.

Release 0.52 - November 29, 2005

Bugs fixed:

• For completed tasks, the number of days left for a task is now the number of days between the completion date and the due date. This prevents that the number of days left of completed tasks keeps decreasing, i.e. becoming more negative. For uncompleted tasks, the number of days left is still the number of days between today and the due date, of course. Patch provided by Maciej Malycha.
• Put taskocachlib package first on the Python search path to prevent name conflict with the config module on Gentoo Linux. (1353636)
• Mention blue icon in the help on task colors. (1355985)
• Don't allow empty categories. (1333896)

Features added:

• Tasks can be dragged and dropped. (1262863)
• Tasks can have an hourly fee and/or a fixed fee. Revenue is calculated based on effort spent. (1361790)
• First tiny steps towards a user manual, see 'Help' -> 'Help contents'.
• Whether the main window hides itself when iconized is now adjustable behavior. See 'Edit' -> 'Preferences'.

Feature changed:

• Backups are created just before saving, instead of when loading a .tsk file. Patch provided by Maciej Malycha.

Feature removed:

• Files in the old comma-separated format can no longer be read by Task Coach.

Release 0.51 - October 30, 2005

Bugs fixed:

• Hitting enter in the find dialog didn't work on Linux.
• Old TaskCoach.ini files with a language setting of 'en' instead of 'en_US' or 'en_GB' would cause an exception. Patch provided by Nirendra Maharaj.

Features added:

• Escape closes pop-up windows. Patch provided by Markus Meyer. (1241547)
• The task of an effort record can be changed.
• Effort records can be cut, copied, and pasted.

Release 0.50 - October 2, 2005

Bug fixed:

• Exception was thrown when opening a task with logged effort.

Release 0.49 - October 2, 2005

Bug fixed:

• Previous release did not work on Linux/Mac OSX because of a platform inconsistency between Windows and Linux (GetCountPerPage method is missing on Linux, added manually). (1305457)

Feature added:

• Task colors can be adjusted via 'Edit' -> 'Preferences'. (1205579)

Release 0.48 - September 24, 2005

Bugs fixed:

• Filtering tasks by status ('View' -> 'Tasks that are' -> '...') would cause an exception.
• Sorting by days left would cause an exception. (1295122)

Release 0.47 - September 18, 2005

Bugs fixed:

• 'View'->'All tasks' now also resets any search criterium entered by the user in the search bar.
• When opening a task with a (long) description, the cursor will be positioned on the first line of the text, instead of on the last line. (1265845)
• When viewing tasks due before a certain date in the tree view, tasks with subtasks due before that date will be visible. (1275708)

Features added:

• Added Hungarian translation thanks to Majsa Norbert.
• The task tree view now also shows columns with task details, similar to the task list view. (1194642)
• Sorting on task subject can now also be case insensitive. See the menu item 'View' -> 'Sort' -> 'Sort case sensitive'. (1228873)
• Recent files are remembered and can be opened from the File menu. The maximum number of recent files shown can be set in the Preferences dialog. Set the maximum to zero to disable this feature. (1191707)
• The last modification time of tasks can be viewed.

Release 0.46 - August 12, 2005

Bugs fixed:

• In the effort views, the status bar would show information about tasks, not about effort.
• Entering a negative effort duration while using a non-english language would crash Task Coach. (1250177)
• Having a two letter language string (e.g. 'en') in the TaskCoach.ini file would cause an error in the preferences dialog. (1247506)

Features added:

• Double-clicking the system tray icon when Task Coach is not minimized will raise the Task Coach window. (1242520)
• Added Spanish translation thanks to Juan José.

Feature changed:

• Keyboard shortcut for deleting a task is now 'Delete' instead of 'Ctrl-D' and 'Ctrl-Enter' marks the selected task(s) completed. (1241549)

Implementations changed:

• Task ids are now persistent, i.e. they are saved to and loaded from the Task Coach (XML) file. This will make it easier, in the future, to keep tasks synchronized with external sources, e.g. Outlook.
• Task Coach now keeps track of the last modification time of tasks. These times are saved to and loaded from the Task Coach (XML) file. This change is also in preparation of synchronization functionality.

Release 0.45 - July 26, 2005

Bugs fixed:

• When tracking effort the task file would be marked as changed after every clock tick.
• Task priority can now be set to both positive and negative integers.
• Opening a help dialog before the splash screen disappeared would make Task Coach stop responding to input. Fixed by making the helpdialogs modeless (as they should be). (1241058)

Feature changed:

• Setting the start date of a subtask earlier than the start date of the parent task, or setting the due date of a subtask later than the due date of the parent task will adapt the parent start or due date as necessary. (1237634)

Release 0.44 - July 21, 2005

Feature added:

• Added Russian translation thanks to Valdimir Ilyash.

Release 0.43 - July 19, 2005

Bug fixed:

• Tree and list view were not updated correctly when changing sort key or sort order.

Release 0.42 - July 17, 2005

Bugs fixed:

• Double clicking a task with children in the tree view would open the edit dialog and expand or collapse the task as well. Fixed to not collapse or expand the task when double clicking it.
• Adding a subtask to a collapsed parent task now automatically expands the parent task.
• Changing the description of a task or effort record wouldn't mark the task file as changed.
• Time spent is now updated every second. (1173048)
• Don't try to make a backup when loading the file fails. Reported by Scott Schroeder.
• (Windows installer only) Association between .tsk files and Task Coach was broken.

Feature changed:

• The start date of a task can now be left unset, creating a task that is permanently inactive. This can be useful for activities that you would normally not want to plan, but have to keep a time record for, e.g. sickness.

Release 0.41 - June 20, 2005

Features added:

• URL's (including mailto) in task and effort descriptions are clickable. (1190310)
• Tasks can have a priority. Priorities are integer numbers: the higher the number, the higher the priority. Default priority is 0. Negative numbers are allowed (1194527, 1194567, 1210154)

Features changed:

• Default start date of new subtasks is today (used to be the start date of the parent task)
• When 'sort by status first' is on, active tasks always come before inactive tasks which in turn come before completed tasks, regardless of whether the sort order is ascending or descending.

Release 0.40 - June 16, 2005

Bug fixed:

• Budget left was rendered incorrectly when over budget. (1216951)

Feature added:

• Tasks can belong to zero or more categories. Tasks can be viewed/hidden by category. (1182172)

Release 0.39 - June 6, 2005

Bug fixed:

• When sorting by due date, composite tasks in the tree view are now sorted according to the most urgent subtask instead of the least urgent subtask.

Features added:

• Tasks can be sorted on all attributes (subject, start date, due date, budget, etc.) This includes options to sort ascending or descending and to first sort by status (active/inactive/completed).
• Sorting order can be changed by clicking on column headers.
• Added German translation, thanks to J. Martin.
• Minor view menu changes. (1189978)

Release 0.38 - May 22, 2005

Features added:

• Simplified Chinese user interface added, thanks to limodou.
• Autosave setting to automatically save after every change. (1188194)
• Backup setting to create a backup when opening a Task Coach file.
• Added preference dialog to edit preferences not related to the view settings.
• Now using gettext for i18n.

Release 0.37 - May 14, 2005

Bug fixed:

• Icons in tree view on Windows 2000. (1194654)

Features added:

• Columns in the task list view can be turned on/off by right-clicking on the column headers.
• Tasks can be sorted either by due date or alphabetically. (1177984)
• More options when editing an effort record.
• Used a new DatePickerCtrl. (1191909)

Release 0.36 - May 5, 2005

Bug fixed:

• Descriptions loose newlines after reload. (1194259)

Feature added:

• French user interface added, thanks to Jérôme Laheurte.

Release 0.35 - May 2, 2005

Bugs fixed:

• Toolbar icons had a black background instead of a transparent background on some Windows platforms. (1190230)
• Package i18n was missing. (1190967)

Features added:

• Internationalization support. Task Coach is available with Dutch and English user interface. (1164461)
• Added 'expand selected task' and 'collapse selected task' menu items to the view menu and the task context menu. (1189978)

Feature removed:

• 'Select' -> 'Completed tasks'. This can be done through the View menu too.

Release 0.34 - April 25, 2005

Bugs fixed:

• msvcr71.dll was not shipped with the Windows installer. (1189311)
• Budgets larger than 24 hours were not written correctly to the XML file.
• Mark completed stops effort tracking of parent task. (1186667)

Release 0.33 - April 24, 2005

Bug fixed:

• The .tsk fileformat is now XML, making Task Coach fully unicode-enabled.

Release 0.32 - April 18, 2005

Bugs fixed:

• Task Coach failure on startup due to trying to add a column from the task list view to the effort view.
• Budget couldn't be filled in in the executable Windows distribution "LookupError: unknown encoding: latin1".
• Loading files with the executable Windows distribution failed. (1185259)

Release 0.31 - April 17, 2005

Bugs fixed:

• A unittest.py bug that was fixed in Python 2.4 revealed a bug in test.py. (1181714)
• When searching for a task that is completed, while the 'show completed' switch is off, the search shows the path to the task (i.e. parent tasks), but not the matched task itself. (1182528)
• When searching for tasks in the tree view, composite tasks are expanded automatically to show the children that match the search string. (1182528)
• Columns were hidden by setting their width to 0, but that did not make them entirely invisible on some Linux platforms. (1152566)
• When editing a subtask, sometimes its branch would be collapsed. (1179266)

Features added:

• In the task list and effort list the task column is automatically resized to take up the available space.
• Added columns to the task list view for: budget, total budget, budget left, and total budget left.
• Reorganized view menu, added extra task filters, added menu item to reset filters (1181762, 1178882, 1178780)
• The subject is selected in the task editor so that replacing it is a bit easier. (1180887)

Dependency changed:

• Task Coach migrated to Python 2.4.1 and wxPython 2.5.5.1. Added check to give friendly message if wxPython version is below the required version number.

Release 0.30 - April 11, 2005

Bug fixed:

• More than one task due today would crash Task Coach. (1180641)

Release 0.29 - April 10, 2005

Bugs fixed:

• New effort in the context menu did not work in release 0.28. (1178562)
• When selecting 'View' -> 'Completed tasks' in the task tree, only completed root tasks were hidden. (1179372)

Features added:

• What tab is active is now a persistent setting. This includes the tabs and choices in the main window and the effort choices in the task editor. (1178779)
• Reordered 'View' -> 'Tasks due before end of' menu. (1178880)
• Added a separate 'Budget' tab in the task editor.
• Taskbar icon now indicates whether task effort tracking is on. (1178057)
• Effort is sorted from most recent to least recent. (1179332)
• Changed task/subtask separator in the task list view from '|' to ' -> '. (1179374)

Release 0.28 - April 6, 2005

Bugs fixed:

• Hitting return or double click to edit effort in the task editor now works. (1172164)
• Subtasks with the same name would only be visible once in the task tree view.

Feature added:

• You can hide composite tasks in the task list view so that only leaf tasks are visible. Menu item 'View' -> 'Tasks with subtasks'. Requested by Brian Crounse.

Release 0.27 - April 4, 2005

Feature added:

• Tasks can have a budget.

Release 0.26 - March 28, 2005

Bugs fixed:

• Marking a task completed did not stop effort tracking. (1159918)
• Reading lots of efforts was slow.

Features added:

• Save button is disabled when saving is not necessary, requested by Mike Vorozhbensky. (1164472)
• Effort records have a description field, requested by Kent. (1167147)

Release 0.25 - March 13, 2005

Bug fixed:

• The menu item 'Effort' -> 'New effort' did not work in release 0.24.

Features added:

• XML export now includes effort records.
• Effort per day, per week and per month view now also show total time spent (i.e. time including time spent on subtasks).

Release 0.24 - March 10, 2005

Bugs fixed:

• Saving a selection of tasks to a separate file would also save all effort records to that file (instead of just the effort records for the selected tasks), giving errors when loading that file.
• Deleting a task with effort records would not delete the effort records.

Feature added:

• The tracking status of tasks is saved. So if you start tracking a task, quit Task Coach, and restart Task Coach later, effort for that task is still being tracked. Requested by Bob Hossley.

Release 0.23 - February 20, 2005

Bug fixed:

• Fixed a couple of bugs in the unit tests, discovered by Stephen Boulet and Jérôme Laheurte on the Linux platform.

Release 0.22 - February 17, 2005

Bugs fixed:

• In the effort summary view, effort spent on a task in the same month or week but in different years would erroneously be added. E.g. effort in January 2004 and January 2006 would be added.
• The mechanism to prevent effort periods with a negative duration (i.e. a start time later than the stop time) in the effort editor was invoked on each key stroke which caused inconvenient behaviour. Fixed it by only invoking it when the user leaves the text or combo box.

Features added:

• Added possibility to start tracking effort for a task, with start time equal to the end time of the previous effort period. This is for example convenient if you stop working on a task and then spend some time deciding on what to do next. This is the 'Start tracking from last stop time' menu item in the 'Effort' menu.
• (Re)Added the unittests to the source distribution. See INSTALL.txt.
• Export to XML. Currently limited to tasks, effort is not exported yet.

Release 0.21 - February 9, 2005

Bugs fixed:

• Setting the start date/time in the effort editor would change the stop date/time while not strictly necessary to prevent negative durations.
• Refreshing the virtual ListCtrl failed under wxPython2.5-gtk2-unicode-2.5.3.1-fc2_py2.3 and wxPython-common-gtk2-unicode-2.5.3.1-fc2_py2.3. Reported by Stephen Boulet.
• After iconizing the main window for a second time, the icon in the task bar wouldn't be hidden anymore. Reported and fixed by Jérôme Laheurte.

Release 0.20 - February 6, 2005

Bugs fixed:

• Reading .tsk files version 2 failed.
• Completed child tasks were not hidden in the tree view when 'View->Completed tasks' was on.
• Hiding the find panel did not clear the search filter.
• When searching for tasks, not all matches were shown in the tree view.
• Displaying time spent and total time spent in the list view for more than a dozen tasks and efforts was slow. Used caching to speed it up.
• Tool tips on the toolbar included mnemonics and accelerator characters on Linux. Reported on python-2.3.4 and wxPython2.5-gtk2-unicode-2.5.3.1-fc2_py2.3 on Suse 9.2 by Stephen Boulet.

Features added:

• Effort can be viewed summarized per day, per week, and per month.
• Effort for a specific task can be viewed (and edited) in the task editor.
• Effort tracking can be stopped from the taskbar menu.
• Size and position of the main window are saved in the settings and restored on the next session. This also includes whether the main window is iconized or not.
• Splash screen can be turned off.