November 10th, 2011· Worked around an Apple bug that was introduced by the Lion update from 10.7.1 to 10.7.2.
September 22nd, 2011· Fixed the problem where tickers could be matched with the wrong security names when downloading YahooCurrent with the ticker ^DJI (Dow Jones Industrial Average). It was caused by Yahoo no longer being licensed to provide ^DJI quotes for download of the current day's data, so they simply left the data out, which led StockXloader to mix up the names so that tickers could be matched with the wrong security name. The workaround for 3.4.6 was to change the setting in the Universal Text Importer in ProTA so as to uncheck "Replace Existing Security Names". Since the issue is fixed (or circumvented) in 3.4.7, you can now re-enable "Replace Existing Security Names" if you like, without the risk of names being mapped to the wrong tickers.
· In the Welcome window, the two fields containing the license key and the name of the licensee (your name) are now selectable. This means that you can now copy the information and paste it elsewhere. That will be useful when you purchase an upgrade license to the next major version of StockXloader, since it is extremely important to use the correct combination of license key and name.
· A few fixes of minor things, including a couple of textual changes in messages, and the download menu item being disabled the same way as the download button when you download or are backing the Last Date (it prevents potential problems).
February 22nd, 2010· Changed behavior: When downloading YahooCurrent, it will now NOT set the Last Date for YahooHistorical! This change is done so as to minimize the risk of missing data. It is therefore recommended to set ProTA so that new data overwrites data for existing dates.
· The feature Translate Yahoo tickers is now set to Off by default. If you have had it On, however, it will remain On. In addition, its function is now slightly changed, see the release notes.
· New feature: A new shortcut (cmd-9) in the Tools menu for opening Yahoo Ticker Symbol Lookup.
· Made text messages in the Message Log substantially clearer and more "streamlined", taking away unnecessary things while providing specific info for specific cases, making them easier to understand and they occupy less space.
· Fixed a problem with the date steppers in Snow Leopard (they often stepped 2 units on each click).
· Fixed minor GUI bugs in the table. (Certain clickings could cause error messages.)
· Much more extensive procedures in troubleshooting (see the Help menu).
· Fixed the bug where the Yahoo FAQ would not open from the Tools menu.
April 4th, 2008· Fixes a problem in Tiger that prevented downloads if this was the first time StockXloader was used. (The problem was caused by a change in 3.4.4, which worked flawlessly on Leopard, but an old bug in the Tiger OS caused problems there.)
· New feature: A new menu item and shortcut in the Tools menu that does the same as clicking the Download button.
March 20th, 2008· Fixes a performance problem that could result in timeout. (In 3.4.3, a command that Apple deems deprecated was replaced by a new one, but the new command caused problems. It is now fixed by using yet another method, which is very fast.)
March 10th, 2008· Adapts to a small change at Yahoo which caused an extra linefeed on import (for current day quotes).
January 7th, 2008· Now parses the ticker lists much more strictly, which avoids errors as a result of a bad ticker list. Lines that do not comply with the syntax rules are now simply ignored.
· Takes stronger measures against some system errors related to memory issues. This should finally kill the infamous (but rare) '-116' error. If a persistent problem is still detected, it restarts the downloads after a period of rest.
· Fixed a bug where the system would download the historical data twice.
· Somewhat faster.
· The deletion of old files in 'Temporary quote files' is no longer limited to 1370 items.
December 5th, 2007· Fixed a Unicode issue on Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4), where the first few lines in the file to import to ProTA was written as UTF16, which ProTA didn't like, whereas Leopard wrote them normally as it should, namely as single-byte "standard characters".
· Updated the User Guide.
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