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These changelogs exist because Sourceforge broke their HTML encoding for the 'official' changelog pages, after 4 years of 'unofficial' support. It would be nice if a minimum of HTML had been supported, but instead I have to move all my changelogs to here, since they are much clearer in HTML form.


0.9.5 Release Notes and Changelog

Changes:

TOP issues

  • eBay's sudden change to require SSL login broke sniping and bidding badly. Emergency fix.
  • My eBay search wasn't loading watched/bidding items properly.

Other Fixes

  • Dutch/Power Auction handling has been overhauled. Dutch items (also known as Power Auctions) now show up as {price} x {quantity available}. The number of bids is no longer available from the front page, so I don't bother showing it. Finally multi-item auctions are immediately recognizable, and the quantity is knowable from a single line.
  • Fix color rendering code, eliminating the pervasive use of HTML in the table display. This should reduce memory consumption somewhat.
  • Made the various status icons properly background-transparent.
  • Even better thumbnail handling, they're loaded as a background process, so if thumbnails are slow it doesn't interfere with loading the actual items.
  • Recognizes prices for 'live' auctions (for tracking, not for bidding!)
  • Support Brushed Metal on or off on Mac OS X with the latest version of the Java runtime.
  • Attempting to display the various umlaut, etc., characters properly in JBidwatcher.
  • Searches have unique names when created, so they don't collapse and go away when saving without renaming them.
  • Auctions that have comments on them are now bolded, instead of underlined.
  • Alternate lines with a slightly darker line, giving a better 'reading' feel to the display.
    Disable by adding display.alternate=false in JBidWatch.cfg.
-- Morgan Schweers