New NewsMerge "Rolling Beta" Available (1.4.313)

Erftstadt, 2002-04-12.

Adiscon GmbH today announced immediate availability of the new so-called "Rolling Beta" of NewsMerge. The  "rolling beta" always provides a view at the latest features of NewsMerge. This version is continuously being posted as soon as new builds are available. Adiscon does not wait for major milestones before making the software available.

This mode has been chosen due to customer demand.  Adiscon is strongly committed to providing customer driven software. NewsMerge is a relatively new product and there are many very valuable feature suggestions. So we have decided to make new versions available for review and feedback as soon as they are available.

The most current version of the "Rolling Beta" can be downloaded from (please see readme.txt for details)

http://adiscon.org/download/NewsMergeRB.zip

It is updated as new product builds become available. Please note that the beta requires a previously installed NewsMerge 1.3 release. It does not come with a separate installer, just some new files to copy over the existing installation. The decision to not deliver an Installer is based on the fact that this enables us to quickly create download sets, without the need for setup development (which would slow down the process considerable). Also, it guarantees small download sizes (typically only a few hundred KB).

Here is a list which shortly describes what has changed in the current Rolling Beta and which bugs have been fixed.

• New features added. You can now import existing Email Addresses either from MS Outlook or from MS Outlook Express. Because this is experimental new  feature, we highly recommend any feedback about problems.

• Added Detail view into Mail check Window which catches all important messages. This is very helpful to view what is going on during the whole mail check process.

• Added Detail view into the Publish Issues Window which catches all important messages during publishing.

• Fixed a bug that occurred if automatically Mail check was enabled and the Option Window opened.

• NewsMerge Notification Icon can now be enabled or disabled during runtime. For those users you don't like to much notification icons in their taskbar ;-).

• Improved handling in the Issue Window, if a new Issue is added. See yourself.

• The database can now be compressed over the menu entry "Maintenance->Compress Database" during runtime.

• Added Detail View into the Eventlog Window. This makes it very helpful to see the whole event messages and to copy them into the Clipboard.

• The state of the "Ignore Error's" option in the Publishing Window i snow be saved. So you don't need to click it every time again and again.

• Fixed a bug when the Installer did not write necessary registry values for the database location.

• Minor bug fixes...  

The "Rolling Beta" is being discussed on our news server at

http://forum.adiscon.com

Feedback is also gladly accepted via our usual support email at support@adiscon.com.