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Change Log For CrossOver Mac

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8.0.0 CrossOver Mac - June 16, 2009

  • New application support:
    • Quicken 2009
    • Internet Explorer 7
    • Photoshop CS2
  • Application fixes:
    • MS Office 2003:
      • Non-English language service packs should now apply
      • Word 2003: 'Insert Field' should now work properly
      • Word 2003: Table calculations fixed
      • Word 2003: Insert... Picture... From File improved
      • Outlook 2003: NTLM proxy authentication fixed
      • Excel 2003: Insert Picture improved
      • Outlook 2003: Problem with dropping into 'disconnected' mode is resolved
    • MS Office 2007:
      • Service Packs 1 and 2 now apply.
      • Enterprise, Pro, and Corporate editions should now install
      • Word 2007: Fixed misbehavior when using the 'insert image' function
      • Several other Office service packs and add-ons should work better.
    • QuickTime 7:
      • Intermittent hanging bugs should be fixed
      • Several other general fixes
    • Outlook 2000: e-mail attachments should now work
    • Acrobat 5 and 7: "Save As" dialog no longer causes crashes
    • FrameMaker: Handling of PPD files improved on systems without CUPS.
    • Word XP: "Combine Documents" fixed
    • Equation Editor should install and run
  • Other crossover improvements:
    • A 'symbol' font has been added. This should improve Equation Editor behavior.
    • A couple of improvements were made to dual-monitor support on the Mac
    • Fixed problem with resizing windows on dual-head linux systems
    • KDE systray on SUSE 10.1 fixed
    • KDE Printer improved
    • Fixed a problem with demo registration and gksu version 2.0.2.
    • Improved copy and paste
    • Added better 64-bit support in the RPM package
    • Updated many components to fix behavior on the upcoming Snow Leopard release of OSX.
7.1.2 CrossOver Mac - May 19, 2009
  • Fixed an incompatibility with the quartz-wm packaged in XQuartz 2.3.3.2.
7.1.0 CrossOver Mac - October 22, 2008
  • Outlook fixes:
    • Restored use of the Rules and Alerts dialog
    • Improved connectivity with Exchange servers
    • Fixed installation of several custom versions of Outlook
    • Improved copy and paste behavior
    • Fixed 'reply all' behavior
    • Improved printing
    • Partial support for signed emails
    • Fixed some address autocompleteion in Outlook 2007
    • Fixed ability to create new contacts, appointments & tasks
    • 2003 & 2007 now exit cleanly on the Mac
    • Can now open recurring Calendar Items
  • Application installation changes:
    • Many more versions of Office 2007 (including Enterprise editions) now install properly.
    • Office 2003 Service Pack 3 now installs.
    • Office 2003 one-shot updates now apply.
    • Several more versions of Office 2003 now install.
    • MS Office language packs now install
    • Visio 2003 sp3 now installs.
  • Other fixes:
    • Office 97 now works better.
    • PowerPoint 2003 slide preview improved.
    • Bidirectional text behavior is improved.
    • Access 2002 reporting is improved.
    • Improved Java behavior.
    • Use the native FreeType library on Leopard systems.
    • On Linux, add the ability to generate Debian bottle packages.
    • Fixed a CrossOver installation error specific to Estonian locales.
    • Fixed: Word 2003: Can't open Word doc, Out of Memory
    • Pull-down menus now appear more than once (WordArt)
    • Can now open Project 2007 files with Project 2003 (with the add-on installed)
    • Rotating text boxes now works in the proper direction
7.0.2 CrossOver Mac - July 7, 2008
  • Bug fixes:
    • Fixed a bug in 7.0 which prevented printing in upgraded installs.
    • Fixed running of Office 2000 and Office XP on some 64-bit machines.
    • Fixed a saving failure in some Word 2003 and Excel 2003 documents.
    • Re-enabled use of the 'default bottle' on the Mac.
7.0.0 CrossOver Mac - June 17, 2008
  • New application support:
    • Office 2007 (Including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and limited Outlook)
    • Photoshop CS and CS2
  • Bug fixes:
    • Greatly improved online banking integration in Quicken 2007 and 2008
    • Fixed service pack support for several versions of Office
    • Improved IE support in win2000 and winxp bottles (though win98 is still better)
    • Improved support for modern Linux distributions (especially Ubuntu)
    • This build also includes countless wine fixes. Many small bugs should be fixed, and unsupported application behavior should be greatly improved.
6.2.1 CrossOver Mac - December 7, 2007
  • Changes to improve compatibility with OSX 10.5 (Leopard):
    • Repaired Input-Method behavior.
    • Fixed a crash with certain non-US keyboards.
    • Fixed a small GUI error which appeared when creating new bottles for supported apps.
    • Fixed a potential hang-on-exit problem.
    • Made the preference setting "Enable keyboard modifiers for mouse buttons" take effect
    • Fixed transparent and incorrectly colored cursors.
  • Application fixes:
    • Extended the Team Fortress 2 font fix to Half-Life 2: Episode 2 and Portal.
6.2.0 CrossOver Mac - October 2, 2007
  • Mac OS X specific changes:
    • Added a dock presence for running Applications. This provides some Mac-like interfaces for applications, including the activation of apps and quitting via the dock. There is rudimentary systray support, but this only provides notification services -- tray-based menus are still unavailable.
    • Fixed the chronic regeneration of application icons. These should be produced less frequently and at more appropriate times.
    • Fixed association upgrade behavior so that documents opened via their extensions should now be referred to the corresponding application rather than opened directly by CrossOver.
    • Dramatic improvements in performance on OSX Leopard
    • Improved 'Star Map' performance in EVE Online on some graphic setups.
    • Improved timezone support.
    • Fixed intermittent display update failures in several apps.
    • Added DirectSound support. This should fix the audio in EVE Online.
    • Added preliminary MIDI support (which may or may not work.)
    • Improved audio input -- support mismatched sample rates.
    • Fixed the icons for documents associated with Windows programs.
    • Improved support for Korean keyboard layouts.
    • Fixed a bug that prevented Wine programs from finding all available fonts.
  • New application support:
    • Added support for Team Fortress 2 via Steam
  • Application fixes:
    • Fixed Outlook encryption regressions.
    • Fixed printing from Delphi apps
    • More time-zone fixes for Outlook
    • Fixed 'advanced edit' of Outlook signatures
    • Fixed font rendering in several apps, including Quicken 2007
    • Dramatic improvement in Outlook 2003, particularly when it is installed without Internet Explorer. Many more features are now available.
    • Fixed support for Flash Player 9.
    • Many small bugfixes and improvements in stability.
    • Fixes for printing to printers without default fonts
    • Fixes to structure storage files to correct corruptions
    • Ejection of DVDs now works
    • Improvement in TreeView control behavior
    • Improved Mac IME integration allowing for Korean, Atok and Ebridge input
    • Comctr32.dll reports correct version
    • Many fixes to the behavior and location of the default IME input window
    • Saving files with IE now properly complete in multibyte locales.
6.1.0 CrossOver Mac - May 15, 2007
  • Mac OS X specific changes:
    • Added handling of mailto: links, both within and outside of CrossOver.
    • Added support for installing a set of Windows-specific truetype fonts.
    • Fixed a problem with Quartz-wm on new Tiger install disks. Previously this problem caused CrossOver to crash on some new Macs.
    • Added a feature that will check for available updates.
    • Improved support on Leopard.
    • Added Japanese localization.
    • Improved support for composed characters
    • Some cosmetic changes to the GUI. No major redesigns.
    • Improved the menu-syncing algorithm.
  • New application support:
    • EVE Online
    • QuickTime 7
    • Ichitaro 2006 and 2007 (Japanese locale only)
    • Ichitaro Viewer (Japanese locale only)
    • IBM HomePage Builder 10 and 11 (Japanese locale only)
  • Application fixes:
    • Fixed some font problems in FrameMaker 7.1
    • Added support for RPC over HTTP in Outlook 2003 when running in a Windows XP bottle. This allows use of HTTP mail in Outlook.
    • Improved authentication support in Outlook 2003.
    • Lots of widespread graphics improvements. Game rendering and performance should be much improved.
    • Improved the Equation Editor installation process.
    • The Half-Life 2 Intro now plays properly
    • Several IE fixes: Wikipedia.org and Microsoft.com now load properly. Improved IE launch times.
    • Improved Quicken window rendering.
    • Lots of doc revisions.
    • Fixed a problem with black icons in the Outlook shortcut bar.
    • Fixed autocompletion in Outlook
  • General CrossOver fixes and improvements:
    • Major update of DirectX support.
    • Added the ability to automatically download and install localized versions of some installers and service packs, including IE.
6.0.1 CrossOver Mac - March 9, 2007
  • Mac OS X specific changes:
    • Fixed a bug in the 'eject' button. Previously many multi-CD installs failed when performed in any non-default bottle.
      Now multi-CD installations should succeed in any bottle.
    • Fixed a problem with registering the Demo version in non-English locales.
    • A few minor improvements in rendering performance. More coming in the next release.
    • Fix color printing on some printers.
    • Fixed a catastrophic failure that arose on systems with certain PostScript Type 1 fonts installed.
  • Application fixes:
    • Fixed some Outlook 2003 crashes, in particular one related to right-clicks and one occurring on startup on some systems.
    • Fixed handling of emails containing quotes in Outlook 2003.
    • Fixed some copy/paste issues in Office 2003.
    • Fixed Lotus Notes hangs on certain emails.
    • Now all Internet Explorer installs will include DCOM98. This improves stability in many ways. In particular, it fixes a crash during printing.
    • Fixed an installation bug with Quicken 2006.
  • General CrossOver fixes and improvements:
    • Updated the timezone information to comply with the revised 2007 DST rules.
    • Fixed a few bugs in the 5.0 to 6.0 upgrade path.
    • Fixed an issue with running Office 2003, Photoshop and FrameMaker in managed bottles.
    • Updated the Portuguese translation.
    • Updated the French translation.
6.0 - January 9, 2007
  • Initial release of CrossOver Mac.