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The Chandler Project is pleased to announce the 0.7.5 release of Chandler Desktop!

The Chandler Project is an open source, standards-based information manager designed for personal use and small group collaboration.

The 0.7.5 release of Chandler Desktop simplifies the Chandler UI by changing elements confusing to new users. In particular, multiple toolbar buttons were removed, “tasks” were replaced with “starred items”, the “triage” button was renamed to “clean up”, and the items created when first starting have been made more useful. The sidebar list of collections can now be reordered by dragging them in-place. A variety of build/packaging and platform-specific bugs have also been fixed.

Additionally, Chandler Desktop has updated its sharing protocol to match that of Chandler Server (Cosmo) 0.13. Previously, a user could republish items that had been shared to them read-only to obtain read-write permission to those items. See here and here for more information. People using versions of Chandler Desktop prior to 0.7.5 will not be able to republish items to recent versions of Chandler Server including Chandler Hub.

A list of known issues in this release is at the bottom of this announcement.

Chandler Desktop 0.7.5 is available for download for Windows, Mac, and Linux at:

http://chandlerproject.org/download

Additional information is available from the Chandler Project homepage.

The bugs fixed in this release include:

• #5058 Add the ability to reorder collections in the sidebar
• #7024 Improvements to divider in the sidebar
• #10785 Tab key press doesn’t end lozenge edit on Ubuntu
• #10997 Bad dependency on tools/ dir
• #11013 Plug read-only security hole
• #11238 Reminder popup prevents to use Chandler
• #11239 Using delete via context menu deletes wrong user item – no indication to user
• #11290 Rename Triage button
• #11429 Re-organize the File menu
• #11676 Added a new collection on the hub & Chandler desktop hung
• #11678 make the links in the ‘Tip of the day’ clickable
• #11684 Add “Show Tips” to the Help menu
• #11689 Chandler crashed on linux with X window System error
• #11705 Need to be able to tell if a reflist attribute has been deleted or not
• #11712 Full Name not showing up for sender in email I receive in Apple Mail
• #11729 Generate items from dialog
• #11770 Strip down UI
• #11771 Change task stamp to star stamp
• #11772 Fill-in OOTB items
• #11783 Traceback when making ‘Future’ edit on recurring series
• #11814 Change hint text in quick entry bar to: Create a new note
• #11819 Leopard Desktop releases show “Python” not “Chandler” for name
• #11823 Couldn’t migrate 0.7.3 to 0.7.4 on MacOSX
• #11830 SAST timezone missing
• #11831 German translation’s key-bindings (at least on Mac) are bad
• #11836 Change Copy URLs to Clipboard text to…
• #11838 Language Switch doesn’t work
• #11880 Disallow adding read-only items to other collections
• #11884 Better sharing error messaging
• #11887 Exception changing visible hours in multiweek (month) view
• #11900 Change View>>Triage to View>>Clean up
• #11903 Traceback after upgrading
• #11911 D-click to mark item as 2-triage statuses away
• #11914 Drags to read-only collections succeed
• #11919 Can’t cancel publishing a collection

There are five known issues with this release we’d like to highlight:

• #11878 Can’t put items you received via Email on the Server
• #11921 Read-write access should override read-only access
• #11946 Crash manipulating particular event in Chandler
• #11947 No highlight state in month view
• #11948 sidebar update oddity when creating a collection

This list of known issues includes an application crash that previously didn’t happen when editing an event in a collection that’s not currently selected. All these issues involved sophisticated sharing scenarios (multiple collections with some read-only and others read-write, and sharing items via email) or are UI oddities with simple workarounds.

Thanks for your interest in Chandler Desktop!

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