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27th November, 2009

2.6.2 is released, this fixes a number of small bugs and adds some new features:

Language switcher tool on status bar
Complete French, Spanish and Lithuanian translations
Startup screen with current diary notes
OS integrated calls (no need for internal list of file types any more)
CTRL+S to save active tab
Age groups
Improvements to XML handling (ASM can cope with formatting in wordkeys)
Preliminary Thai language support

4th November, 2009

Hopefully the last patch for 2.6.1 (2.6.1.3) is released. This fixes a bug when creating movement documents without a donation.

2nd November, 2009

A second emergency patch/fix 2.6.1.2 release is available. This fixes a rare thread deadlock bug in the UI toolkit that can cause ASM to hang on search screens.

29th October, 2009

An emergency patch/fix 2.6.1.1 is released. A recently discovered bug in the Windows Java Runtime causes it to default to Latin1/ASCII encoding when reading/writing files (the default is UTF8 on other platforms). This meant that you could not use reports with a non-English language on Windows. In addition, some improvements have been made to the UI and layout.

28th October, 2009

ASM 2.6.1 is released. This is largely a bug fix release for 2.6.0 (and a lot of bugs were fixed). Included are the following new features:

Ability to change font size in the internal report viewer
Better layout for owner/homechecker tab
Ability to view and print graphs inside ASM
Option to break down monthly figures by species instead of type
Preliminary support for German
In/Out report shows current animal location as well as at report date

16th October, 2009

ASM 2.6.0 is finally released, this release adds many new features, including:

New, faster UI for Windows and Linux
RescueGroups.org/PetAdoptionPortal.org publisher
Ability to disable retailer functionality
Wordkeys to count backwards through vaccinations
Breed to species mappings
Improvements to monthly figures report, with configuration simplified
New centralised report repository for installing custom reports
Coat type field
Custom movement types
Custom reports can now generate custom graphs
Additional field lookups with custom data
Much improved Spanish and Lithuanian translations
A huge number of bugs fixed and things tidied up

Also, Ruta sent me this link to a story about her shelter - great stuff!

6th October, 2009

ASM is now using Launchpad to handle support, bug tracking and translations. Get involved!

Support for publishing to RescueGroups.org has been added for the forthcoming 2.6.0 release.

7th September, 2009

2.5.2 is released. This release contains many improvements to the manual and documentation, along with a new fulltext animal search screen, support for the South African locale en_ZA and many bug fixes.

20th August, 2009

You can now buy professionally printed and bound manuals from the ASM Shop.

4th August, 2009

2.5.1 is released. This release mainly contains bug fixes, but also adds PostgreSQL SSL support.

29th July, 2009

Fixed a bug in the paths to the Debian repository. Ubuntu and Debian repositories are now working correctly again.

20th July, 2009

ASM 2.5.0 is released. This release adds a number of performance improvements for slower internet links and sheltermanager.com users. In addition, Lithuanian is now a supported language (thanks to Ruta Kudelyte) and a second breed field has finally been added to allow for recording of crossbreeds. Some issues with PetFinder were also fixed.

27th May, 2009

ASM 2.4.1 is released. This release is mainly bug fixes for the previous release and fixes some problems encoutered by volunteers during translating. In addition, image support for Abiword was added.

25th May, 2009

A new translation guide is available. This contains a lot more information than the old one and should be a lot clearer. Thanks as well to Rimas Kudelis for the Java property file encoder for unicode chars.

14th May, 2009

ASM 2.4.0 is released. This adds Abiword support with templates, a new additional fields configuration section that allows shelters to add their own fields to the animal and owner screens (and use them in documents), better video capture support including IP webcams and integration with command line tools. Most of all, a lot of niggling little bugs have been fixed and the UI cleaned up in a few places (particularly around media).

This is the first ASM of the 2.4 series. I'm modifying the version numbering from now - anything with the same major/minor version will be database compatible, so you know that 2.4.0, 2.4.1, 2.4.2, etc. will work on the same database without the need for the database structure to change. Each time database changes need to be made, the minor version number will increment in future.

15th April, 2009

ASM 2.3.8 is released. This adds Word 2007 templates and a new animal print button. In the main though, this release contains lots of bugfixes. If you are a Debian or Ubuntu user, you can now add our Debian repository to your sources list and then install the "sheltermanager" package to track the latest ASM:

deb http://sheltermanager.sourceforge.net/deb/binary/ ./

10th March, 2009

ASM 2.3.7 is released. This adds some fixes to the vaccination book, a new $VAR$ tag for custom reports, an error log to assist with debugging, better layouts for the animal and owner screens and some cosmetic fixes for GTK2 with Swing.

24th February, 2009

ASM 2.3.6 is released. This adds a new easy networking setup for people with local databases. You can now run the "Local Database Server" shortcut from your Programs menu (or run_hsqlserver.sh for Unix/Mac) to share your data over the network. A new scan button on the database locator tool allows clients to find you easily and connect.

Applet mode has been vastly improved to integrate better to the browser with some UI tweaks just for it. Of course, a few bugs have been fixed too.

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