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All editions: 2.0.3

• Attention: The public beta has ended, this is a non-beta 2.x release. Please use your license code to unlock this software or request a 30 day trial license to continue evaluating it. For a quick overview of changes since version 1.x please visit the DEVONthink product page.
   
• NEW: Bookmarks of upcoming DEVONagent 2.5 can be imported.
• NEW: Preference Editing > General > Data detectors (supported only by Mac OS X 10.6 and text/PDF views).
• NEW: DEVONthink Pro Office remembers the last visible and selected range of text documents, the current page of PDF/PostScript documents, and the current time of Quick Look/QuickTime views (only if auto play is disabled).
• NEW: Smart groups (and the advanced search of DEVONthink) support now compound predicates (also known as 'branches') and can use multiple labels ('Any of the following are true').
• NEW: Data > Merge is now able to merge multiple selected, not indexed groups/tags.
• NEW: Merging documents via Data > Merge merges also the tags of the documents.
• NEW: Preference option Editing > General > Smart copy/paste.
• NEW: Welcome Assistent displays a random tip or blog article.
• NEW: Save Search command added to contextual menu of right pane of Tags view.
• NEW: Commands Data > New From Template > Open Templates Folder and Update Templates Menu to facilitate development of (smart) templates
• NEW: '.haml' and '.sass' added to list of known plain text extensions.
   
• Improved: Double-clicking smart groups opens the Smart Group Editor.
• Improved: Searching in multiple selected tags of Tags view via toolbar returns now the intersection of the selected tags.
• Improved: Scrolling of icon views during drag-and-drop.
• Improved: Selection handling after deleting/classifying items.
• Improved: Sorting by creation/modification/addition dates.
• Improved: Long names in Search In popup menu are truncated.
• Improved: Groups created in a local inbox are no longer excluded from classification by default.
• Improved: Search index by unifying characters with a different width and common ligatures.
• Improved: Locking and unlocking of databases, e.g. in case of damaged .lock files.
• Improved: Handling of files without an extension but with a valid HFS type while exporting/rebuilding.
• Improved: Shortcut of Tools > Show Properties changed to Command-Option-Shift-P
• Improved: Revised user agent while browsing (compatible to Safari 4.0.5).
• Improved: Exporting (also while rebuilding) logs missing files as 'Missing' instead of 'Failed'.
• Improved: More extensive error logging in case of incompatibilities.
• Improved: Overall performance.
• Improved: Overall reliability and stability.
   
• Fixed: Edit > Find > Find Previous/Next was case sensitive in some cases.
• Fixed: Changing the selection of a rich text while the color panel was visible could change the text color of the selection under certain circumstances.
• Fixed: Command-clicking x-devonthink-item:// URLs in web views did not open a new tab.
• Fixed: Calculation of size of file packages (e.g. '.rtfd' files) larger than 4 GB was incorrect.
• Fixed: Rare issues of pure 'not' queries (e.g. '-word').
• Fixed: Different number of items assigned to a tag in various places of the user interface.
• Fixed: Width of Location columns was limited.
• Fixed: Rare formatting glitches of date cells
• Fixed: Right pane of Tags view was not always updated after entering new (!) tags e.g. via the Tags bar.
• Fixed: Saving edited TaskPaper files no longer changes their extension to '.txt'.
• Fixed: See Also/Classify drawer of document windows was not always updated after switching to another document.
• Fixed: Rare issues of lookup cache and Spotlight metadata cache.
• Fixed: Clicking on the Move button of the Classify drawer right after entering tags in the Tags bar did not save them.
• Fixed: Some smart groups returned too many results.
• Fixed: Localization glitches.
• Fixed: Minor bugs and glitches.
   

DEVONthink Pro Office 2.0.3

Fixed: Memory leaks. (OCR)
 

DEVONthink Pro (and up) 2.0.3

• NEW: PDF service Save PDF in DEVONthink Pro Office can be used within the application.
• NEW: Dragging multiple selected email messages from Apple Mail to DEVONthink Pro Office.
• NEW: Folder Action Scripts can now be easily installed via Help > Install Add-ons.
• NEW: New folder action DEVONthink — Import & Delete.
• NEW: Imported/Indexed .csv sheets support Cover Flow and can be thumbnailed.
   
• Improved: Moving/duplicating between databases retains only ordinary tags and replicants.
• Improved: Download To options of Download Manager are now also selectable while the current queue is active but empty.
• Improved: Scripts > Import > Del.icio.us supports multiple tags and uses a larger icon.
• Improved: Scripts > Data > Find & Remove Similar Contents displays URL (if available).
• Improved: Conversion of sheets to HTML and rich text.
• Improved: Search windows display only rows of found sheets containing occurrences.
• Improved: Main windows showing global smart groups are now also restored on startup.
• Improved: Tooltips of download manager display full title and URL.
• Improved: Selected rows of sheets are deselected after deleting/cutting.
• Improved: Faster opening of found PDF/PostScript files.
• Improved: Import of text files to sheets faster and more reliable.
• Improved: Feeds are more effectively processed internally.
• Improved: AppleScript support.
   
• Fixed: Scripts for Microsoft Entourage.
• Fixed: Template scripts did not work if the current destination was a feed.
• Fixed: Location column of global smart groups did not display global locations.
• Fixed: Displayed number of items in Tags group wasn't always correct after emptying the trash.
• Fixed: File > Import > Addressbook did not import notes to sheets.
• Fixed: Issue after deleting exactly one row containing a focused cell from sheets.
• Fixed: Orphans with missing files left after moving items between databases.
• Fixed: Moving/duplicating not accessible files to another database reset their internal size to 0.
• Fixed: Rare issue of feeds parser.
• Fixed: Number of results of some global smart groups was not immediately shown.
• Fixed: Visual glitches of sheet creating a new bookmark or feed.
• Fixed: Visual glitches with toggling between text views and preview of HTML pages and feeds.
• Fixed: Some rare issues with sheets and feeds.
• Fixed: Bugs in AppleScript support.
   
• Removed: Unnecessary console output.
   

DEVONthink Personal (and up) 2.0.3

• NEW: Data > Thumbnail > Create supports bookmarks if enabled in Preferences.
• NEW: Support for the upcoming DEVONagent 2.5 (e.g. dragging archived results).
• NEW: Advanced search options in Search windows similar to the ones of smart groups.
• NEW: View > Text Alternative toggles between text view and preview.
• NEW: Preference option Media > Create Thumbnails > Bookmarks.
   
• Improved: Spelling and Context buttons of Search window replaced with Similar Words.
• Improved: Handling of PDF markup annotations.
• Improved: Support for links dropped from Firefox (workaround).
• Improved: Indexing uses always the localized filename if the preference option Import > Titles is set to Localized display names.
• Improved: Cache files are skipped while importing or indexing/synchronizing.
• Improved: Conversion of HTML pages, web archives and feeds to plain text retains alternate text and titles of images.
• Improved: Faster and more reliable processing of QuickTime files.
   
• Fixed: Position of divider of See Also/Classify drawer was sometimes reset.
• Fixed: Quality bar above See Also/Classify results did not work in Search windows.
• Fixed: Dragging a deselected item from inactive columns of column views did not always work.
• Fixed: Results of Similar Words drawer of Search windows were not always complete.
• Fixed: Performance problems of ImageKit on Mac OS X 10.6.3 (workaround).

 

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