Version 8.0beta Feb 05 2017)

   This release contains many bug fixes. The program should run stable
   now.

   Fixes are among others
     * Crash in configuration dialog/style manager
     * Crash after closing birth data dialog
     * Fixes in Shadbala

   Several documentation pages of this web site are updated to release 8
   level, especially pages around installation and other technical topics.

Version 8.0alpha1 Dec 26 2016)

   Version 8 is a major release after more than four years. It contains
   several new features and changes.

  Vedic Astrology

     * Shadbala view added
     * Dasa tree view: signification of Mahadasas and Antardasas can be
       displayed according to the scriptures, currently Parasara and Phala
       Deepika
     * Solar chart: Vimsottari Dasa and Muntha added, Vedic mode.
     * Vedic partner astrology: Rajju Koota added.

  General Astrology

     * Additional planetary attributes can be displayed: element, quality,
       Antiscia, 90 and 45 deg circle (western), basic signification
       (vedic)

  Uranian Astrology

     * Tables for sums, differences, midpoints of Antiscia and reflection
       points of pairs added.
     * Events of these types can be viewed in UranianView, Transit and
       PartnerView.
     * New modes in transit view: shifted Meridian, shifted gravitation
       point, reverse Solar arc

  User Interface

     * Vedic chart: aspects (Rasi and Graha drishti) can be displayed on
       (shift+, ctrl+) mouse over
     * Western chart: magnify aspects and corresponding planets on mouse
       over
     * New styles for vedic and western charts (yet to be completed)
     * New font, nicer astrological glyphs
     * Graphical Dasa: highlight of Dasas on mouse over. Simplified acess
       for zoom (Ctrl+mouse wheel) and Antardasa mode (Shift+mouse wheel)

  Calculation

     * Support for transformation of Julian to Gregorian dates on birth
       data input. Input year BC added.
     * Location database updated, includes now 164K cities.

  Technical

     * XML based configuration migrated to JSON. Old custom XML Yoga
       definition files can be converted in Yoga Editor.
     * Linux: Debian package is now for Ubuntu 16.04 64 bit.
     * Swiss Ephemeris can be used (as shared library) from the installed
       system if provided. Applies to Debian Linux and derivates.
     *

Version 7.0.2
- 
- Changes
- 
- Translations updated: Hungarian, French, Polish.
- 
- Bug Fixes are
- 
- Crash on style change in main window list control (GTK/Linux and OS X)
- Configuration of recent file list size did not work properly
- Transit View: no storage of attributes (year length, planet order and orbis) on close
- Western chart: styles of aspects not okay when color was disabled
- Several bug fixes in PDF printout

-- Sun, 09 Sep 2012 

Version 7.0.1

- This is a bug fix release. The following bugs of version 7.0 are fixed
- 
- Crash of some Ephemeris View tabs for year before 1970
- Ephemeris: ingress event were missing if more than one event per day occurs (e.g. Moon's Nakshatra change). This bug affects all previous versions including 6.x
- Atlas: SQL error on delete entry
- Planet colors for symbols did not work in graphical Vedic chart and SBC
- Hora view: time zone switch did not work for sunrise and sunset (bottom)
- Transit and Hora view: enter/tab after input in date and time spin fields did not work (Windows only)
- MS Visual Studio project did not compile

-- Sat, 14 Jul 2012

Version 7.0

- This is the first public release for version 7
-
- What's New
-
- New location database based upon http://www.geonames.org. Large number of worldwide locations (120K), 350K alias names.
- Several new chart graphics, e.g. colored chart backgrounds, rectangular and elliptic charts in western astrology.
- TransitView: transits in western mode can be shown inside or outside the radix chart. Time zone can be configured. Several bugs fixed.
- Support for dynamic daylight saving change: Ephemeris, Transit View, Eclipse and Hora View.
- New Dasa representation in compact tabular view
-
- General Changes
-
- All platforms integrated in a single release, i.e. MacOS version part of next stable release.
- New binary package platforms for Linux: supported are now current 32 bit versions of Mint LTS (Maya), Ubuntu LTS (Precise), and Redhat/CentOS 6
- Input errors are displayed in user input dialogs
- Configuration panel for new atlas aka location database
- Font configuration: PDF fonts can be selected separately
- New configation for planet, sign and house colors
- Tamil translation (partly)
- Various bugs fixed of version 6

-- Thu, 28 Jun 2012

Version 6.1dev2

- Bugfix: Sarvatobhadra: wrong display of planets (Abhijit/Sravana only)
- Bugfix: EclipseView: list grows on each update (obsolet items)

-- Sat, 26 Jun 2011

Version 6.1dev1

- application compiles and runs on MacOS Snow Leopard
- wxpdfdoc upgraded to version 0.9 (support for MacOS ttf fonts)
- event handling in YogaEditor changed: handling of list deselect removed
- several menu IDs use wxID (MacOS system menu): about, quit and configuration
- configuration item for toolbar renamed (IDs incompatible)
- new script creatre_mac_release.sh builds appliation directory and dmg package
- MacOS specific path handling in ApplicationWindow.cpp (inside application directory)
- MacOS specific launching of "preview" for PDF printouts added
- MacOS folder added in root directory 
- installation documentation updated

-- Sun, 12 Jun 2011 

Version 6.0.4

- French translation added
- Russian translation updated
- RPM spec changed for rpm based Linux distros
- library dependencies changed in Makefile.am of jyotish folder (Linux/Unix)

-- Fri, 03 Jun 2011

Version 6.0.3

- Spanish tranlation added
- Solar view: update of text field did not work on year change
- Build dependencies added to debian/control
- debian/files removed

-- Sat, 22 Jan 2011

Version 6.0.2

- Bugfix: application crash in Ephemeris view/ingress events
- Bugfix: wrong calculation of Ayanamsa when custom Ayanamsa period (e.g. 25778 years) is used
- Bugfix: color configuration for Moon didn't work (configuration/view/object colors)
- Hungarian translation updated
- Automake: libfontconfig test prevents build errors

-- Mon, 17 Jan 2011

Version 6.0.1

- Bugfix: reset of group and source filter in Yoga View
- Bugfix: Now button in Eohemeris View 
- Bugfix: dead menu entry in Vedic context menu removed

-- Fri, 26 Nov 2010 

Version 6.0

- Bugfix: planets in Vedic default printout auf Vedic comprehensive printout had western length in summary
- Romanian tranlation added

-- Sat, 16 Oct 2010

Version 6.0rc2

- Printout: wrong total number of pages removed (footer in mulitpage output)
- Printout: KP and KP comprehensive styles added
- Printout: Rahu/Ketu added/bugfix of rc1 forgotten
- Printout: file chooser did not work
- MulitpleView: no refresh in graphical charts on birth data change

-- Wed, 28 Jul 2010

Version 6.0rc1

- Polish translation updated.
- Crash on PDF creation for non ISO-8859-1 languages (Hungarian etc.)
- Rahu and Ketu missing in printout (tabular planet list)
- PDF: wrong placeholder for number of pages removed (multipage output)
- several new locations added to location database

-- Sun, 25 Jul 2010 

Version 6.0dev4

- Bugfix: crashes in charts (uninitialized variables due to bad call stack in Horoscope classes)
- Bugfix: crash in graphical Ephemeris
- Return values on ephem calculation and warning if planets are zero (planetoids etc)
- Calculator::calcPositionSpeed doesnt subtract Ayanamsa now if length is zero
- Linux/UNIX menu entry now in Education; Miscellaneous instead of Accessories

-- Fri, 09 Jul 2010 

Version 6.0dev3

- Bugfix: bad display of mixed planets/Arudhas in PDF output
- New version number prevents problems in rpm and deb versioning
- libfontconfig added to linker command in gui/Makefile.am
- support for rpm package build added

-- Sun, 20 Jun 2010

Version 6.0-dev-2

-  PartnerView now working
-  Wrong context menus in PartnerView fixed
-  Inheritance in TextWidget changed again: added virtual write method
-  German translation reviewed
-  Wrong Yoni for Magha Nakshatra (Dog instead of Rat)
-  Text export in Ephemeris view works now
-  New feature: CSV export
-  Default export format (text and graphic) in ConfigurationDialog/GeneralPanel
-  maitreya_textclient added to release

-- Sun, 25 Apr 2010

Version 6.0-dev-1e

- Removed bug: configuration of Dasa colors was not working
- Added missing files for Dasa display in release (3 png files in pics dir)
- wxpdf version upgraded
- MaitreyaSymbols6.xml and .z removed from release (font now directly loaded from True Type font file)
- bug fixed: text export for extension "txt" not working
- TextWidgets changed: subclasses instead of writing in view classes (big change)
- BUG; PartnerView not working (not finished yet)

-- Tue, 20 Apr 2010 

Version 6.0-dev-1

- Jaimini Dasas removed
- current day marked in Ephemeris (Lunar and ingress)

-- Sun, 11 Apr 2010

Version 6.0.pre.144

- Major technical changes: FONT must be reinstalled
- -----------------------------------------------
- New font, type latin1 now set
- New symbols in font for Uranus, Pluto and Capricorn
- display option for those symbols in config dialog
- Config reference added in Writer class and subclasses
- Life cycle of class Lang changed, no singleton anymore
- Parameter cut in several methods (config params deleted)
- new generation of wxpdf stuff in font subdirectory
- 
- 
- Other changes
- -----------------------------------------------
- Distmaker changes
- 

-- Thu, 25 Mar 2010

Version 6.0.pre.138

- bugfix: wrong positions in graphic display (transit, Solar, Lunar and constan arc)
- bugfix: some key events in ChildWindow not handled improved for signs with many objects
- bugfix: paint in DragChart improved for signs with many objects
- bugfix: crash in Textview fixed
- Header in TextView/TextHelper can be switched off
- Display of planets improved in SBC
- bugfix: wrong evaluation of movable, fixed and dual Rasis in MdlInterpreter
- bugfix: LocationEditDialog did not save on OK
- LocationDialog changed: double click leaves if called from other dialog. Buttons ok and cancel renamed

-- Sun, 21 Mar 2010

Version pre.134

- bugfix: length of February in Ephemeris.cpp
- catalogue name for po file now maitreya6
- debian example files *.ex removed
- bugfix: missing aspects in western graphic printout (pdf)
- bugfix: xml configs had double entries on runtime change
- bugfix: command handling in MultipleView (no handling for some commands)

-- Thu, 18 Mar 2010

Version pre130

- Initial release for sf.net svn repository

-- Sat, 28 Feb 2010 

