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Task Coach Changelog

What's new in Task Coach 1.4.6

Apr 30, 2019
  • Bug fixed:
  • Workaround for an underlying wxPython limitation we ran into. After some time Task Coach would exhibit various symptoms because of an exception in the event loop.

New in Task Coach 1.4.5 (Mar 24, 2019)

  • Bug fixed:
  • Fix an exception that would fill up the log on Linux
  • Feature added:
  • All Ubuntu versions since precise have now a PPA

New in Task Coach 1.4.4 (Dec 28, 2018)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • TaskCoach would not start on Fedora 23 using LXDE. This probably concerns other distributions as well.
  • Reminders would fire randomly or not at all.
  • Features added:
  • Per-task effort total time consolidation, patch provided by [email protected]
  • Add a viewer for task dependencies based on igraph (contributed by Matthias Tafelmeier). Not available on all platforms.
  • Dependency changed:
  • Task Coach now uses Mercurial for version control. This only affects you if you want to develop or use Task Coach source code.

New in Task Coach 1.4.3 (Jan 31, 2016)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Fix excessive CPU usage on Linux when smart filesystem monitoring is enabled.
  • Fix attachment opening on some Linux distros. (1613)
  • Features added:
  • Finnish translation fixed and enabled.
  • The shortcut to delete tasks is now Ctrl+DEL instead of just DEL.

New in Task Coach 1.4.2 (Feb 2, 2015)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Also avoid locking in an ownCloud folder.
  • Avoid a crash when files with badly encoded names are in the same directory as the task file.
  • Avoid data loss in some rare situations

New in Task Coach 1.4.1 (Sep 15, 2014)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Increase taskbar icon size on Linux to avoid dead places. (1536)
  • Display time spent in decimal format in task viewer if the option is set. (1534)
  • Fix todo.txt export when dates have a year < 1900 (1541)
  • Avoid locking in Dropbox folder on Windows. (1540)
  • Backup and save would fail if the path to the user's home contained a non-ASCII character (1547, 1546)
  • Fix stop effort tooltip. (1537)

New in Task Coach 1.4.0 (Aug 4, 2014)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Fix tool-tips on notes. (1525)
  • Fix sort order indication in viewer columns. (1527)
  • Don't crash at start-up if the locale is not supported. (1528)
  • Features added:
  • A task file can now be open by several instances of Task Coach, allowing several users to work on the same file. (http://taskcoach.uservoice.com/forums/26465-desktop-version-windows-linux-mac-of-task-coach/suggestions/288999-enable-multi-user-task-management)
  • Backups are now always enabled.

New in Task Coach 1.3.41 (Jun 23, 2014)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Fix a crash at startup on Linux when using some window managers that don't set the SESSION_MANAGER environment variable.
  • Bring back effort tooltips.
  • Fix positionning of baloon tips when moving the window from one display to another. (1522)
  • Fix for non-ASCII e-mail subjects without encoding specification (1523)
  • Feature added:
  • Bring back the option to disable tooltips.

New in Task Coach 1.3.40 (May 26, 2014)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Remove a debug trace in DnD code.
  • "Effort for one task" becomes "Effort for selected task(s)" (1474, 1520)
  • Fix an occasional "AlreadyCalledError" when iPhone sync is enabled.
  • Feature added:
  • Add an "add note to selected task" button in the task toolbar; patch from Manab Chetia

New in Task Coach 1.3.39 (May 19, 2014)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Some tabs would come up blank when the editor was in multi-notebook mode. (1512)
  • In hierarchical calendar, when hitting Ctrl-A or Shift-clicking a parent task, only select visible tasks.
  • Fix a number of SyncML-related bugs.
  • Fix the "cannot create a file that exists" problem when saving. (1517)
  • Fix an error introduced in 1.3.38 related to tips. (1518)
  • Hopefully fix a session-related bug on Windows (1516)
  • Features added:
  • SyncML: add support for Horde-based servers.
  • All sort criterion are now persisted between sessions.

New in Task Coach 1.3.38 (Apr 22, 2014)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Code signature would become invalid on OSX after the first run. (1506)
  • Task Coach wouldn't actually stop with older versions of Twisted (

New in Task Coach 1.3.37 (Mar 31, 2014)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Fix a crash at startup on Lucid. (1496)
  • Behave like regular OS X apps with regards to minimization and foreground behavior. (1500)
  • Fix idle time notification. (1503)
  • Features added:
  • Add an option to render efforts in decimal (patch from Tom Monaco). (https://taskcoach.uservoice.com/admin/forums/26465-desktop-version-windows-linux-mac-of-task-coach/suggestions/739042-allow-display-of-effort-in-decimal-dd-dd-as-wel)
  • Improved import/export of Todo.txt
  • Custom attributes for mailing tasks/categories/etc (https://taskcoach.uservoice.com/admin/forums/26465-desktop-version-windows-linux-mac-of-task-coach/suggestions/5342642-embeded-command-capability)
  • Dependency changed:
  • Task Coach now depends on Twisted.

New in Task Coach 1.3.36 (Feb 17, 2014)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Prerequisites modification would not work. (1480, 1486, 1495)
  • LC_TIME would not be honored if set independently (1483)
  • Disable translations that are not at least 90% complete.
  • Do something a little more intuitive when editing efforts in aggregated mode. (1485)
  • Fix a resource leak on Windows. (1488)
  • Fix a crash on Mint when synchronizing with an iPhone if the password is not set. (1487)
  • Show and bring minimized window to front on simple click in the dock (OS X) (1490)
  • Disable dock icon ticking on Mavericks. (1489)
  • Fix line ending problem when importing from CSV on Mac/Linux (1493)
  • Delete .txt files as well when overwriting a task file. (1274)

New in Task Coach 1.3.35 (Jan 6, 2014)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • The task editor would not open if the user's date format didn't include the year.
  • Unsetting an exclusive category or its parent would not work. (1475)
  • Remove file:// URL scheme from filenames dropped from Nautilus.
  • When exporting tasks to HTML or CSV, sort notes alphabetically. (1477)
  • Sending a task by e-mail would not work on XFCE 4.10.
  • Fix AttributeError problem (1479)

New in Task Coach 1.3.34 (Nov 25, 2013)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Silence the AttributeError problem in PyPubSub. (1456)
  • Fix some problems when saving the task file to a Dropbox folder.
  • Performance improvement when reading the task file.
  • Split date and time when exporting efforts to CSV. (1472)

New in Task Coach 1.3.33 (Oct 14, 2013)

  • Fix budget entry. (1458)
  • The search controls would not remember the previous search string on launch, but the view would be filtered anyway.
  • Fix date picker on locales that have non-ASCII month/day abbreviations. (1463)
  • Fix position of text in subject entry on Windows. (1464)
  • When automatic import and export to ToDo.txt is enabled, one could not delete tasks or change some task dates (1446)

New in Task Coach 1.3.32 (Aug 29, 2013)

  • Fix main toolbar shrinking when resizing a viewer. (1431)
  • Improve performance when tracking effort. (1442)
  • Prevent TypeError in date selection widget. (1445)
  • Fix initial tab when creating new items
  • Fix undo/redo in text controls on OS X. (1436)
  • Fix loss of description edits when closing/quitting while editors are still open. (1437)
  • Fix strange Escape behavior on multiple open editors on OS X. (1438)
  • Fix German translation. (1448)
  • "New note with selected categories" would create a new category. (1447)
  • Fix search issue when editing the toolbar. (1449)
  • Fix note creation in editor windows. (1451)
  • Fix opening preferences dialog when the end of work day is set to 24.

New in Task Coach 1.3.31 (Jul 30, 2013)

  • Fix crash at startup on Ubuntu 13 if python-apscheduler is installed. Use the "Suggests" mechanism instead of "Recommends" for the Debian package (python-kde4).
  • Handle short date formats with weekday
  • When adding a viewer, the main toolbar would shrink.
  • Fix an error when the user types a numeric value in the AM/PM field of the date/time picker.
  • Don't open floating viewers on the top-left corner of the screen
  • Add a hint that the task file needs to be saved in the main window title.

New in Task Coach 1.3.30 (Jul 8, 2013)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Working day start hour would be reset to 0 every time preferences are opened. (1418)
  • Fix the ICC warning with recent versions of libpng. (1422)
  • Fix path to log file. (1350)
  • Total duration of efforts is the sum of rounded durations, not the rounded sum of durations. (1426)
  • Feature added:
  • Display effort statistics in the status bar
  • Dependencies changed:
  • The minimal version of Python is back to 2.6.

New in Task Coach 1.3.29 (Apr 15, 2013)

  • Feature added:
  • Display a few days of previous and next month in the calendar popup.

New in Task Coach 1.3.28 (Mar 25, 2013)

  • Fix a console warning on Ubuntu 64 bits. (1393)
  • Fix task selection through keyboard in effort editor (MS Windows and GTK). (1400)
  • Fix editing of effort start in the effort dialog. (1399)
  • Fix timezone-related display bug that would prevent the task editor from opening on OS X. (1395)
  • Use presets for tasks created through mail DnD. (1403)
  • Fix loading of categories for notes belonging to a subtask, and other such imbrications. (1404)
  • Fix preferences opening when end of work day is set to 24. (1394)

New in Task Coach 1.3.27 (Mar 11, 2013)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Follow system preferences to format dates (instead of just times). (1386)
  • Fix date rendering on some versions of OSX. (1391)

New in Task Coach 1.3.26 (Mar 6, 2013)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Exporting efforts in CSV with the 'Period' column and date/time splitting would not work. (1387)
  • Task Coach would not launch on OS X 10.6 and later. (1388, 1390)

New in Task Coach 1.3.25 (Mar 5, 2013)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Fix fonts in calendar viewer. (1370)
  • Fix cutting attachments.
  • Fix focus on category viewer in task editor. (1382)
  • Fix keyboard navigation in the editor's tabs. (1216)
  • Make the effort stop menu a bit more contextual. (1381)
  • Fix effort stop button interaction with undo. (1381)
  • Fix flickering on Windows 7 when Aero is enabled. (1384)
  • Fix opening of the task editor and preferences on some locales. (1360)
  • Sorting by modification or creation date/time didn't work. (1380)
  • Fix checkbox focus hint on Windows (in the date picker). (1372)
  • Use system settings for date and time formatting on OSX.
  • Use system settings for date and time formatting on KDE4. (1386)
  • Save templates to program directory for Task Coach Portable.
  • Features added:
  • Getting the subject from Mail.app on drag and drop is now optional (takes too long).
  • Focus subject field when opening the task editor on Linux. This is configurable. (1263)

New in Task Coach 1.3.24 (Feb 18, 2013)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Clicking in the hour choice popup in the date/time picker would select the wrong value. (1377)
  • Task Coach now follows the XDG specification for configuration and data (template) files on Linux. (367)
  • Fix menu "Stop tracking multiple tasks" menu (1366)
  • Fix focus issue in date picker. (1368)
  • Fix discrepancy in due date time precision (1253)
  • Fix multiple effort notices when idle. (1365)
  • Fix font issue with calendar viewer. (1370)
  • Fix "NoneType object is not callable" problem. (1371)
  • Prevent reminder dialogs and editors from stealing focus. (956)
  • Add a visual hint that the checkbox has focus in the date picker. (1372)
  • Fix opening of editor dialog on some locales (1360, 1375)
  • Fix idle notifications. (1365)
  • Sort case insensitive in the toggle category menu. (1369)
  • Fix the N shortcut in datetime picker. (1378)
  • Features added:
  • The "notes" and "attachments" columns can now be exported to HTML and CSV.
  • Store the IMAP passwords in the user's keychain.
  • The default icon for completed tasks is now the green checkmark.

New in Task Coach 1.3.23 (Feb 7, 2013)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Some navigation shortcuts in the date/time picker would not work on Windows or Linux. (1340)
  • Typing would not do anything on Windows in the date/time picker if the calendar is shown. (1340)
  • The calendar popup from the date/time picker would not show all days. (1340)
  • Task Coach would fail to start when the user had selected an empty bitmap for one of the task statuses.
  • Non-ASCII characters would display wrong in the calendar popup on OS X.
  • Start/end of day choice in preferences now follow the user's format preferences. (1331)
  • Resizing the toolbar would truncate it. (1341)
  • Try to fetch Mail.app message subject. (1342, 1003)
  • Don't let the user pick columns that cannot be exported
  • When cancelling application shutdown, the window would close nonetheless. (1346)
  • The calendar popup in the date picker would not use the first week day setting. (1348)
  • Disable hide all filters when in tree mode and the only filter is "hide composite tasks". (1351)
  • The task editor would not open on Windows if the user's short date format used abbreviated or full month name. (1338)
  • Increase timer value for the date picker. (1354)
  • Backspace/delete removes the last digit in the date picker. (1354)
  • Fix Shift-S and Shift-E shortcuts in date picker on Linux. (1358)
  • Fix overlay in toolbar icons. (1356)
  • Use system default GUI font in date picker. (1361)
  • Add shortcuts for AM/PM in date picker. (1362)
  • Escape now dismisses calendar popup in date picker. (1362)
  • Fix crash when a task status icon has been set to "No icon". (1364)
  • Fix refreshing of spent time in effort viewer (1363)
  • Features added:
  • Add a modification date attribute to tasks, notes, attachments, and categories. (http://uservoice.com/a/-2HX-)
  • Hitting Ctrl+V (or Cmd+V on OS X) while the date or time picker has focus will try to interpret the clipboard's content. Ctrl+C stores the current value in the clipboard. (1352)
  • Dependency changed:
  • Task Coach now needs Python 2.7.

New in Task Coach 1.3.22 (Jan 3, 2013)

  • The task editor would not open after some time on Windows and OS X

New in Task Coach 1.3.20 (Oct 22, 2012)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Fix an encoding problem on Windows non-European locales (1306)
  • On Linux, Ctrl-Z in a text control would always remove the whole contents of the text control instead of undoing the recent changes. (1267)
  • When adding a new item, always start the edit dialog with the description tab raised and focus on the item subject. (1263)
  • Editing templates would not work.
  • The effort dialog wouldn't function properly when the time format contained dots, like in Italian. (1307)
  • Moving efforts between tasks would sometimes trigger an exception, resulting in lost efforts. (1203)
  • When there are multiple reminders and speech is on, don't say all the reminders simultaneously, but one at a time. (1313)

New in Task Coach 1.3.19 (Oct 8, 2012)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Format times in the calendar view according to the user's preferences. (3563441)
  • Do not automatically give focus to the subject field in the task editor on Linux (it overwrites the X clipboard). (3539452)
  • After loading a task file, tasks would not become due soon on time. (3562925)
  • On OS X, the first entry in an editor page would not be automatically selected. (3562922)
  • On Linux, drag and drop of email messages from Evolution didn't work. (3562808)
  • With autosaving on, Task Coach would actually save too often. (3562836)
  • On Ubuntu, a file was missing causing Task Coach not to start. (3562695)
  • On Ubuntu, the native text control doesn't support undo and redo, added a home grown version. (3563376)
  • Don't silently adjust dates of parent and child tasks. See also the changed feature below. (3561465, 3564794)
  • Remember whether the "make this snooze time the default snooze time for future reminders" check box was checked in the reminder dialog. (3567139)
  • The task viewer would not refresh at midnight.
  • On Windows with some locale settings, Task Coach would crash trying to render dates. (1306)
  • Features added:
  • In addition to specifying a maximum number of recurrences, it is now also possible to specify an end date for recurrence. If both an end date and a maximum number of recurrences are specified, recurrence stops when the first of both conditions is met.
  • Put a link to our IndieGoGo campaign on the toolbar of the main window. The link will disappear when the campaign is over.
  • Features changed:
  • Task Coach no longer enforces that the dates of child tasks lie between the dates of its parent task. Previously, if the start date of a child task would be made earlier than the start date of its parent task, Task Coach would silently make the start of the parent task equal to the start date of the child task. The same for the due date: setting the due date of the parent task earlier than the due date of a child task would silently change the due date of the child tasks if their due date would otherwise become later than the due date of the parent task. When viewing tasks in the task tree viewer, collapsing a task with child tasks will show recursive dates when relevant. This means that the planned start date column will show the earliest start date of the task itself and all of its child tasks. If the earliest start date is the start date of one of the child tasks, the date will be shown between brackets. Likewise, the actual start date column will show the earliest actual start date of the task and all of its child tasks. The due date column and the completion date column will show the latest date of the parent and child tasks combined. When sorting on a date column, the recursive value is used for sorting. So when sorting ascending by due date a parent task without due date but with a child task due today will sort before a task that is due tomorrow. This change makes the date behavior consistent with priorities and other attributes.
  • New viewers will open floating so that is easier to put them in the position you want. Hopefully this will also make it more obvious for new users that viewers can be reordered any way they like since moving a floating viewer will show the docking guides.
  • Clicking outside an inplace editor now accepts the changes instead of discarding them.
  • On Windows, both left clicking and left double clicking the Task Coach icon in the notification area (often called the system tray) will raise or minimize the main window

New in Task Coach 1.3.18 (Aug 29, 2012)

  • Team change:
  • We're happy to announce that Aaron Wolf joined the Task Coach team. Aaron is already doing a great job scrutinizing the large number of feature requests we have open on http://taskcoach.uservoice.com. In addition, he is helping us testing Task Coach and ironing out as many bugs as we can, see the first results below. Furthermore, he is planning to develop an in-app tutorial for Task Coach so we're glad to have him on board.
  • Bugs fixed:
  • Get rid of the infamous "AttributeError: __onDead" error (3546400)
  • Do not automatically give focus to the subject field in the task editor on Linux (it overwrites the X clipboard). (3539452)
  • On Mac OS X, the window would shrink at each launch. Tested on 10.5, 10.7 and 10.8DP4.
  • Do not singularize user-set icons. (3539824)
  • Disable spell checking on Mountain Lion because it makes Task Coach crash. (3554534)
  • Fix opening URLs from the Help menu on KDE4. (3542487)
  • Fix the About dialog on Kubuntu. (3542487)
  • Reminders sometimes wouldn't fire. (3554603)
  • On Mac OS X, idle time notifications would not work. (3554603)
  • On Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) and earlier, the system would ask the user to allow Task coach use a port (firewall) or the keychain on every launch. (3556753)
  • On Mac OS X, the search options menu wouldn't work. (3558511)
  • When the language is set to English/US, use 12 hour clock in task and effort dialogs instead of 24 hour clock.
  • Don't reset the edit dialog layout for editing single items after editing multiple items at the same time. (3559292)
  • When changing the "Mark task completed when all children are completed?"-setting in the "Progress" tab of the task edit dialog, Task Coach would set the percentage complete slider in the "Progress" tab to the recursive percentage complete while the slider is meant to only display and change the percentage complete of the task itself. (3559740)
  • When a task with subtasks does not override the global setting for marking a task completed when all of its subtasks are completed, actually use that setting when displaying the percentage complete of the parent task in the task viewer. (3559740)
  • The settings for the viewers in the edit dialogs (such as the visible columns in the effort tab and the notes tab) wouldn't be consistently applied to each edit dialog. (3559057)
  • On Mac OS X, the button in the effort edit dialog for dropping down the tree of tasks didn't work. (3560296)
  • Make recurrence label in the task edit dialog clearer. (3560420)
  • Make the description of the "idle time notice" setting in the preferences clearer. (3555498)
  • Make the description of the "minutes between suggested times" setting in the preferences clearer. (3556765)
  • The combobox for selecting the snooze time in the reminder dialog was not read only. This suggested that one could type in custom snooze times while that is not supported (yet). (3560416)
  • The "Filter on all checked categories/Filter on any checked category" option was only available via the toolbar of the category viewer. Due to the width of the option, it could be difficult to access. The option is now also available as menu item in the View->Filter menu. (3554627)
  • When the budget left is negative, the budget left field in the task edit dialog would not show a minus sign. (3554616)
  • On Mac OS X, the tip of the day window would block the dialog for unlocking a locked task file. (3561499)
  • When saving selected tasks, not only include the categories the selected tasks belong to, but also the parent categories of the used categories, even though they may not have been used themselves. (3561159)
  • When creating a new item, set focus to the subject field so that the description tab is raised if needed. (3561515)
  • On Mac OS X, dropping of URLs without a protocol specification ('http:', 'https:', 'ftp:', etc.) would result in attachments that couldn't be opened. (3561889)
  • On Linux, dropping of URLs didn't work. (3561889)
  • The order of tabs in edit dialogs wouldn't be restored correctly after it had been changed by the user. (3562239)
  • Save size, position and maximization state of dialogs separately for single-item and multi-item dialogs. (3562239)
  • Features added:
  • Increase font size in the calendar view's header. (3558650)
  • In the calendar view, unplanned dates are now cropped to the current day.
  • Add support for Thunderbird IMAP accounts that use NTLM authentication (typically Exchange accounts).
  • When starting up, Task Coach checks for messages from the Task Coach developers. This allows us to reach all users for e.g. notifications on critical bugs or requests for support. Each message is displayed only once and the display of messages can be turned off completely. This feature will be used sparingly, of course.
  • Added almost complete Belarusian translation thanks to Korney San.
  • Allow for changing the font used in the description field of edit dialogs. The font can be changed in the editor tab of the preferences dialog. Patch supplied by Nicola Chiapolini.
  • Feature changed:
  • When a task has no due date, instead of displaying "Infinite" for the time left in the task viewer, Task Coach now displays blank space.

New in Task Coach 1.3.17 (Jul 3, 2012)

  • Use the user-specified time format on Windows. (3530080)
  • In the effort viewer, when calculating total effort for tasks in a certain period, one effort would be skipped. (3537707)
  • When tracking effort for one task, don't show "Stop tracking multiple tasks" as the menu label for the "Stop tracking" menu item in the action menu. (3536577)
  • On Windows, use a more recent Python27.dll to satisfy Secunia PSI. (3539139)
  • Loading a big task file is now much faster.
  • The calendar view would not react to changes to tasks. (3539402)

New in Task Coach 1.3.16 (Jun 18, 2012)

  • Fix a crash during iPhone synchronization if a category associated with a modified task has been deleted on the desktop.
  • The stop/resume effort tracking button on the toolbar wasn't working correctly. (3529025)
  • When tracking effort, the time spent in the effort viewer was not always updated.

New in Task Coach 1.3.15 (May 25, 2012)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • On Windows 7, when the language is English (US), render times in the task viewer using AM/PM.
  • On Mac OS X and Windows, don't crash when waking up from stand by. (3523648)
  • Resetting task filters at midnight was not working properly.
  • Faster opening of task files when there are many effort records.
  • Feature added:
  • Better word wrapping in calendar view.

New in Task Coach 1.3.14 (May 14, 2012)

  • Bug fixed:
  • Task Coach wouldn't start on Ubuntu 12.04. (3522305)
  • Feature added:
  • Added support for pipe as separator symbol when importing from CSV. (http://uservoice.com/a/arHeO)

New in Task Coach 1.3.13 (Apr 16, 2012)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Translations couldn't be changed. (3516306)
  • Exporting to CSV with dates and times to separate columns would fail if any of the tasks had a date before 1900. (3516964)
  • Disable the checkbox for separate date and time columns in the CSV export dialog when the user picks a viewer that doesn't contain tasks. (3515241)
  • Don't complain about a missing log handler in the log file on Windows. (3517705)

New in Task Coach 1.3.12 (Apr 9, 2012)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • X session management is now disabled by default. (3502180)
  • The percentage of tasks completed, active, etc. in the task statistics viewer (the pie chart) would be wrong when filtering categories.
  • The category drop down menu for filtering on any or all categories didn't have effect. (3514880)
  • Merging a file that would remove a subcategory linked to existing tasks or notes would not work. (3515503)
  • Drag and drop was broken. (3514209)
  • On Windows, when emailing items, new lines in the description would disappear. (3514288)
  • Properly shut down the internal scheduler before closing Task Coach to prevent an exception. (3514651)
  • Changing the task appearance in the preference dialog didn't work unless no tasks had been edited before changing the appearance. (3514174)
  • Marking a recurring task complete from a reminder could throw an exception. (3514174)
  • Feature added:
  • The calendar view can now be printed as is. (3503258)

New in Task Coach 1.3.11 (Apr 2, 2012)

  • Task Coach wouldn't start due to a missing module.

New in Task Coach 1.3.10 (Mar 31, 2012)

  • Bug fixed:
  • The statusbar counts of over due tasks, late tasks, etc. would include deleted tasks. (3501289)
  • Features added:
  • Allow for importing reminder date/time when importing from a CSV file.
  • Allow for setting the first day of the week (either Sunday or Monday) in the preferences

New in Task Coach 1.3.9 (Mar 9, 2012)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • The drop down menu for the option 'Schedule each next recurrence based on' in the dates tab of the task edit dialog wasn't being enabled when the user turned on the recurrence of a task. (3496505)
  • On Xubuntu, Task Coach would briefly show dialogs centered over the Task Coach main window before showing them on their destined location. (3496271)
  • When exporting to CSV with separate date and time columns, don't write 31/12/9999 for empty dates. (3495429)
  • On Linux, honor the LC_TIME setting. (3495925)
  • After reading a task file with a deleted task that had a subtask with prerequisites, Task Coach would refuse to save the file. (3496986)

New in Task Coach 1.3.8 (Feb 27, 2012)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Show a warning dialog when running XFCE4 to highlight the session management issues and tell the user about the option to disable it (3482752)
  • Display times with a 12 hour clock (AM/PM) when the language is set to English (US).
  • Don't change the selection when deleting or hiding items that are not selected. When adding a new item, select it. When adding a new sub item, also expand the parent item if necessary. (3484930)
  • When using the Norsk translation on Linux (both Nynorsk and Bokmal), Task Coach would crash when displaying a date picker control. This is a bug in the underlying wxWidgets toolkit. Worked around by using another locale for dates and times when the language is Norsk. (1820497)
  • On Mac OS X, the shortcut to email a task is now Shift-Cmd-M instead of Cmd-M (which is the system shortcut to minimize the active window). (3489341)
  • Don't escape characters on Mac OS X when emailing a task. (3489341)
  • Features added:
  • In task viewers, late tasks, due soon tasks, and over due tasks can be hidden. It was already possible to hide inactive tasks, active tasks, and completed tasks. This makes it possible to create a task viewer that only shows e.g. due soon tasks or late tasks, or any combination of task statuses.
  • Add an option to disable session management on GTK. The XFCE session manager causes Task Coach to hang randomly on start.
  • On Mac OS X and Linux (with espeak installed), reminders can be spoken. This can be turned on in the preferences dialog, on the task reminder tab.

New in Task Coach 1.3.7 (Feb 4, 2012)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Paste as subitem didn't work for efforts. (3479734)
  • Hiding inactive tasks would also hide some active tasks. (3479952)
  • Setting the task font back to the default font in the preferences dialog wouldn't work.
  • Put a little bit of white space to the right of the priority column in the task viewer to separate the numbers from the scroll bar. (3479686)
  • Disable the Anonymize menu item if there is no task file. (3482373)
  • After removing an actual start date of a task with effort and saving and opening the task file, the task would still have an actual start date (based on the earliest effort). (3478684, 3479444)
  • Marking an inactive task active wouldn't properly update the task icon from grey to blue. (3479444)
  • Exporting to iCalendar wouldn't work if the subject or description had non-ASCII characters. (3483124)
  • Feature removed:
  • The more complex filtering options for hiding tasks have been removed. The complexity was causing bugs.

New in Task Coach 1.3.6 (Jan 25, 2012)

  • The link on the website for downloading sources pointed to the iOS downloads.
  • Task Coach couldn't deal with circular dependencies between tasks. (3477762, 3477637)
  • The default actual start date and time couldn't be set in the preferences. (3478747)

New in Task Coach 1.3.5 (Jan 23, 2012)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • After a reminder of a recurring task had been dismissed, Task Coach would not create a new reminder when recurring the task. (3469217)
  • When the user is not using a translation, still set the locale so that the proper formatting for dates and numbers is used. (3091934)
  • Sorting case sensitive didn't work.
  • Categories of notes belonging to tasks and categories weren't saved. (3474487)
  • On OpenSuse, Task Coach would crash when changing the width of columns.
  • Features added:
  • Note categories are now synced as well (SyncML)
  • Add "actual start date" attribute to tasks.
  • Add toolbar buttons and menu items for marking tasks inactive, active and completed.
  • When exporting to iCal, include percentage complete of a task in the exported data.
  • Feature changed:
  • Rename "start date" to "planned start date" to enable adding a separate "actual start date" attribute to tasks.
  • Website change:
  • Redesigned website using Twitter Bootstrap. (index.html)

New in Task Coach 1.3.4 (Dec 27, 2011)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Changing the color and font of tasks in the preferences dialog didn't work.
  • In Spanish, showing reminders wouldn't work. (3459524)
  • Fix a small translation error in the French translation. (3459028)
  • Changes on a newly created template in the template editor were discarded.
  • Help text referred to "Add template", but the menu item is called "Import template". (3462367)
  • On Mac OS X, associate .tsk files with Task Coach and let the Finder use the Task Coach icon for .tsk files. (3462366)
  • On Linux without libXss installed (seen on Fedora 16), Task Coach would fail to start. Fixed by adding libXss as an explicit dependency to the RPM-package. (3463044)
  • A lock created under Mac OS X Lion on a network share could not be broken on another OS.
  • Trying to save to a disconnected network share/USB drive would fail on Windows. (3462383)
  • Feature added:
  • Provide for an option to always round effort up to the next increment in the effort viewer. (http://uservoice.com/a/5Hbrf)

New in Task Coach 1.3.3 (Dec 14, 2011)

  • On Linux, after every edit of a task, the undo history would contain a "recurrence edited" action even though the recurrence was not changed. (3453625)
  • On Ubuntu, the date controls in the effort edit dialog would be invisible. (3452446)
  • On Windows, when the user tries to save the task file in a folder where she doesn't have permission, Task Coach would not give a proper warning.
  • When editing multiple items at once, show all descriptions in the description field for easier editing and/or copying. (3446417)

New in Task Coach 1.3.2 (Dec 6, 2011)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • When a subject contained an ampersand (&), the ampersand would not be shown in menu's where the subject is used.
  • When creating new subtasks, they would always be inactive. (3446309)
  • Closing task dialogs was very slow with a large task file.
  • Setting a budget to zero would make it impossible to save the task file. (3449423)
  • When the subject is too long to be displayed in the editor, display its start instead of its end. (3433481)
  • Feature added:
  • Rounding of effort in effort viewers. (http://uservoice.com/a/6IzRQ)

New in Task Coach 1.3.1 (Nov 28, 2011)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Don't turn off the start date on new tasks when the user has indicated in the preferences that she wants a default start date. (3440634)
  • The "Start tracking from last effort" button in the effort dialog didn't work. (3440794)
  • "View->Tree options->Collapse all items" did only collapse top level items. (3441180)
  • The language choice control in the preferences dialog would always show "Let the system determine the language", no matter what language the user had picked before. (3441456)
  • Allow for flat pie charts, because reading data from flat pie charts is easier than from 3D pie charts. (3441469)
  • On Windows, the Edit menu could become very wide if the user would edit a long subject. ( 3441474)
  • When the user edits the reminder date and time and it is in the past, don't fire the reminder immediately, but wait a minute to give the user a change to finish changing the reminder date and time into a future date and time. (3441442)
  • Make sure the edit dialogs are by default big enough to show all controls. (3441783)
  • On Linux without libXss installed (seen on Ubuntu 11.10), Task Coach would fail to start. Fixed by adding libXss as an explicit dependency to the Debian (.deb) package.
  • Features added:
  • The effort dialog now has a button to set the stop date and time of the effort to the current date and time.
  • Allow for changing the angle of the pie charts via a slider in the toolbar of the task statistics viewer.
  • Allow for 6 minutes between effort start and stop times, in addition to 5, 10, 15, etc. See the features tab in the preferences dialog. (http://uservoice.com/a/3nnfc)
  • Dependencies can now be set using drag and drop.

New in Task Coach 1.3.0 (Nov 21, 2011)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • It was and is possible to open multiple edit dialogs for the same item. With earlier releases of Task Coach, the last edit dialog closed would overwrite changes made with edit dialogs that were closed earlier. With the new edit dialog functionality introduced in this release, changes are propagated immediately to all open dialogs. This will prevent overwriting changes made in other dialogs. (1152561)
  • Don't close the edit dialog when dragging and dropping an item. (3424138)
  • When editing start or due date inline, Task Coach would ignore the preference for keeping the time between the two dates constant. ()
  • Prevent an exception when opening the View menu when the task statistics viewer is selected.
  • The Ctrl-F shortcut didn't work in most viewers. (3438256)
  • The export to HTML and CSV dialog didn't work on Windows XP. (3440438)
  • On Windows, use wider date and time controls when the user is running the display with a higher DPI-setting. (3439774)
  • Features added:
  • Item edit dialogs make changes immediately, thus no need for OK and Cancel buttons anymore. (http://uservoice.com/a/oNbcq)
  • If there is no user input for some (configurable) time, Task coach now asks what to do with tracked efforts when the user comes back. (http://uservoice.com/a/4656L)

New in Task Coach 1.2.31 (Nov 14, 2011)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Immediately update the number of tasks completed in the status bar of the task viewer when the user marks a task completed. (3185805)
  • When adding new tasks, Task Coach would first show them briefly as inactive before showing them as active. (3085362)
  • Only "preset" dates on new tasks.
  • When changing a date/time inline, hitting enter in the date part of the control would close the inline control, but not change the date. (3428503)
  • The inline edit controls for dates/times didn't use the preferences for start and end of working day. (3431160)
  • Using drag and drop to change dates in the calendar view would produce erroneous results in some configurations. (3428525)
  • In some configurations, some hours would not be drawn in the calendar view in vertical mode. (3428524)
  • Features added:
  • When exporting to CSV, dates and times can optionally be put in separate columns.
  • When exporting to CSV and HTML, the columns to be exported can be changed in the export dialog.
  • Simple task statistics viewer added that shows a pie chart of the distribution of task states.

New in Task Coach 1.2.30 (Oct 23, 2011)

  • If auto importing of Todo.txt files was turned on, but there was no Todo.txt file available for importing, saving would fail. (3410648)
  • When the priority field gets focus, select all priority digits so the user can simply type a new number to overwrite the previous one. (3411384)
  • When showing effort in detail mode, Task Coach would only consider the start of a period to decide whether to hide the period as a repeated period. Now it considers both the start and the end date and time.
  • When editing multiple tasks at the same time, changing the priority would not automatically check the priority checkbox. (3414423)
  • Don't reorder the contents of the task file randomly when saving the task file. This makes it possible to easily see the differences between versions of a task file using diff. (3412300)

New in Task Coach 1.2.29 (Oct 4, 2011)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • If auto importing of Todo.txt files was turned on, but there was no Todo.txt file available for importing, saving would fail. (3410648)
  • When the priority field gets focus, select all priority digits so the user can simply type a new number to overwrite the previous one. (3411384)
  • When showing effort in detail mode, Task Coach would only consider the start of a period to decide whether to hide the period as a repeated period. Now it considers both the start and the end date and time.
  • When editing multiple tasks at the same time, changing the priority would not automatically check the priority checkbox. (3414423)
  • Don't reorder the contents of the task file randomly when saving the task file. This makes it possible to easily see the differences between versions of a task file using diff. (3412300)

New in Task Coach 1.2.28 (Sep 19, 2011)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Task Coach would not work correctly with dates before 1900.
  • When recovering from an error in the TaskCoach.ini file, get the default settings from the right section. (3404024)
  • When opening a URL fails, show an error message dialog.
  • Task Coach would crash when editing a task/category/etc on some versions of wxPython.
  • Adding a subtask without a due date would reset its parent's due date. (3405053)
  • Using the Delete key when editing the priority inline would delete the task on Windows. (3400086)
  • On Windows, SyncML couldn't be turned on. (3406653)
  • When adding a new (recurring) subtask to a parent task, push back the start date of the parent if necessary. (3409716)
  • On Mac OS X Tiger, whenever trying to give focus to the search control focus would return to the viewer immediately, making searching impossible. (3410268)
  • Features added:
  • The SyncML password is now stored encrypted in the system keychain, if available.
  • Add task subject to the reminder dialog window title so that it's easier to find a particular reminder when cycling through windows with Alt-Tab. (http://uservoice.com/a/au6wa)
  • Allow for dragging and dropping multiple items (tasks, notes, etc.) at once. Patch provided by Kirill Müller. (http://uservoice.com/a/hledQ)

New in Task Coach 1.2.27 (Aug 28, 2011)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • When importing a CVS file, Task Coach would not always guess the day/month order correctly. It is now possible to specify whether days or months come first in date columns.
  • Unchecking an already checked mutually exclusive subcategory would uncheck it, but not change the filtering. (3377145)
  • The calendar configuration dialog wouldn't open. (3395689)
  • Saving could fail after a reminder was first snoozed and then later the reminder dialog was closed without snoozing. (3397920)
  • Using the Delete key when editing the priority inline would delete the task.
  • Using the Enter key when editing the priority inline would not accept the changes on Mac OS X.
  • Fix issues in Italian translation. (3398600)

New in Task Coach 1.2.26 (Aug 22, 2011)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Checking an already checked mutually exclusive subcategory now unchecks it. (3377145)
  • Task Coach would not start on PPC Macs. (3388666)
  • Saving a task as template would not work if the subject or description contains non-ascii characters
  • Fix case insensitive searching with non-ascii languages.3395268
  • The recent searches menu in the search control wasn't working properly on Mac OS X.
  • Features added:
  • Importing and exporting of Todo.txt format task files. Todo.txt is an open source todo list manager that works with plain text files. Todo.txt Touch is a version of Todo.txt for the Android platform, that syncs with Dropbox. By exporting your tasks to a todo.txt file in your Dropbox folder, you can then edit them on your Android device with Todo.txt Touch. See the help contents for more information. (http://uservoice.com/a/6Z54H, http://uservoice.com/a/ceNES)
  • Automatic importing and/or exporting on every save. This can be turned on in the preferences dialog. Currently only possible for the Todo.txt format.
  • When turning on the stop date and time in the effort edit dialog, set the date and time to the current date and time. (http://uservoice.com/a/iFkds)
  • When editing templates, one can now also edit subtasks.
  • Remember the last visited path when choosing a file attachment. (http://uservoice.com/a/jz5dE)
  • Support times in addition to dates when importing from CSV.
  • Feature changed:
  • The maximum of the number of hours that tasks are considered "due soon" is now a big number instead of a mere 90. (http://uservoice.com/a/dVIBF)

New in Task Coach 1.2.25 (Aug 9, 2011)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • The anonymize function wouldn't give a notification after saving the file.
  • Refresh subtask appearance when moving it to a different parent task.
  • Indentation of categories with and without subcategories in the category viewer was slightly different. (3345002)
  • Windows would appear on the wrong monitor on Windows 7. (3370403)
  • On Windows 7, the task view would flicker every second. (3354402)
  • On Mac OS X, Task Coach would hang when both the splash screen and the "file locked" dialog are displayed. (3383050)
  • Startup even when reading one of the templates fails. (3386296)
  • Task Coach would sometimes crash on startup on Linux.
  • Features added:
  • Users can choose default (relative) dates and times for tasks in the preference dialog. This allows for e.g. automatically setting a reminder the next day. (http://uservoice.com/a/g9xpy)
  • Faster saving.
  • Preset common SyncML servers (MemoToo)
  • The user can choose to use the selected snooze time in the reminder dialog as default snooze time for future reminders.
  • Support drag and drop of email messages from local folders in Thunderbird.
  • Support drag and drop of email messages from Claws Mail. Patch provided by Tobias Gradl.

New in Task Coach 1.2.24 (Jul 17, 2011)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Synchronizing with an iDevice could change the whole UI font.
  • Drag and drop from Thunderbird would not work in some circumstances.
  • When recurring tasks with a snoozed reminder, use the original reminder date and time is basis for the next reminder, instead of the snoozed reminder. (2942198)
  • In-place editing of reminders didn't work. (3361971)
  • Completed tasks with a start date would not show up in the calendar.
  • Features changed:
  • New "Anonymize" item in the Help menu. This saves an anonymized copy of all data from a task file in order to safely attach it to a bug report.
  • Recurring tasks can recur based on the original start and due date (as was the only option until now) or based on the last completion date. (http://uservoice.com/a/d3n3g)

New in Task Coach 1.2.23 (Jul 8, 2011)

  • Task Coach would fail on parsing old templates, causing it not to start properly.

New in Task Coach 1.2.22 (Jul 4, 2011)

  • Bug fixed:
  • Properly open task files with email attachments that have a non-ascii subject. (3333730)
  • Feature changed:
  • You can set a default snooze time in the preferences that is used in the reminder dialog as the default suggestion for the snooze time. If you use Growl or Snarl, the default snooze time is added to the reminder after the reminder fires.

New in Task Coach 1.2.21 (Jun 27, 2011)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Prevent exception messages in log file (Windows) or on command line (Linux). (3315358, 3316220, 3324330)
  • Properly decode non-ascii email subject headers. (3311272)
  • Creating a template from a task would not work any more. (3317048)
  • Unplugging a monitor while Task Coach was running would cause the dialogs to always open in the top left corner on Windows.
  • Feature added:
  • Start, due, completion, and reminder date and time of tasks can be edited in-place when the relevant column is visible.

New in Task Coach 1.2.20 (Jun 11, 2011)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Task Coach tried to use Python 2.5 on Ubuntu. (3309089, 3309317)
  • The total number of effort records displayed in the status bar of an effort viewer would be incorrect when the effort viewer was showing aggregated effort (per day, per week or per month).
  • When hiding completed tasks and showing tasks belonging to a specific category (say C), Task Coach would show a task even though it didn't belong to that category if that task had completed subtasks belonging to category C. (3309006)
  • Floating and then closing the task viewer didn't work. (3313199)
  • Features added:
  • Descriptions of tasks, notes and categories can be edited in-place when the description column is visible. Priority of tasks can be edited in-place when the priority column is visible. Budget of tasks can be edited in-place when the budget column is visible.
  • Basic editing (dates, subject) of task templates.
  • Session management on Linux is back. (2929786)

New in Task Coach 1.2.19 (May 30, 2011)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Editing multiple items would hang Task Coach. (3305844)
  • Changing the task of an effort record would make it invisible. (3304940)
  • The keyboard shortcut for adding effort (Ctrl-E) wouldn't work in edit dialogs. (3306827)
  • Closing Task Coach with a square task viewer open caused exceptions in the log file. (3307836)
  • Drag and drop email from Thunderbird, PortableApps edition, didn't work. (3058781)
  • On Mac OS X, the main window would grow 11 pixels in height at each launch.
  • On Mac OS X, the editor dialogs would shrink a little each time they were opened.
  • Features added:
  • The default foreground color, background color, font and icon of active, inactive, completed, over due and due soon tasks can be changed in the preferences. (http://uservoice.com/a/nLMgZ)
  • The way start and due dates are tied together when changing one of them is now configurable.
  • Add percentage complete to CSV import fields.
  • Distribution changed:
  • Removed support for Fedora 13.

New in Task Coach 1.2.18 (May 22, 2011)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Make sure long menu texts don't overlap the keyboard shortcut.
  • CSV import would crash on Mac OS X if the number of fields wasn't constant. (3295368)
  • When starting or stopping an effort, the task's icon in the calendar viewer would not change.
  • Session management wouldn't work on XFCE.
  • Start up even if the TaskCoach.ini file contains garbage. (3299850, 3300722)
  • Don't crash if there is no session manager on Linux (3300643)
  • Give the import dialog a proper window title bar.
  • Going back and then forward in the CSV import wizard didn't work.
  • Task Coach wouldn't keep the inline subject edit control open in the task viewer when tracking effort. (3301562)
  • Features added:
  • Open tracked tasks without looking them up using the Actions->Edit tracked task menu item (Shift-Alt-T). (http://uservoice.com/a/itBB5)
  • Effort tracking can be started for inactive/future tasks. Doing so sets the start date and time of the task to the current date and time. (http://uservoice.com/a/oyhL7)
  • Show name of the current task file in the system tray tooltip window. (http://uservoice.com/a/959Qc)
  • Tabs in the edit dialogs can be dragged and dropped to create any layout the user may want.
  • CSV files may also have colons or semicolons as separators.
  • It is possible to select which rows to import from a CSV file.
  • The CSV import wizard tries to match column headers from the CSV file to task attributes.
  • The CSV import will reuse existing categories if the names match.
  • Feature removed:
  • Session management for X is temporarily removed, until we can fix the occasional crashes associated with it.

New in Task Coach 1.2.17 (May 5, 2011)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Make sure one of the viewers is selected in the export to iCalendar dialog.
  • Properly update the icon of a task with subtasks when adding it to a category with an icon. (3295077)
  • The calendar view would cause spurious errors on Windows. (3294878)
  • Use the actual system font on Mac OS X and Windows in the tree and list viewers. (3295070)
  • Dutch translation used Ctrl-H as shortcut for both help and increase priority. Increase priority is now Ctrl-I. Maximize priority is Shift-Ctrl-I, for consistency. (3296141)
  • The Ctrl-Enter keyboard shortcut for marking a task completed wasn't working in the French translation. (3293786)
  • When quitting Task Coach in minimized mode, make sure the main window is minimized the next session and not completely hidden. (3296144)
  • Packages of the previous release did not install correctly on some Linux distributions due to a non standard version number in the package (RPM or Deb). (3294852, 3297345)
  • For tasks with a non-default icon, still show the clock icon when tracking effort. (3085094)
  • The width of the period column in the effort viewer would not be reused across sessions. (3296303)
  • Fix session management on some Linux distributions. Also automatically restart Task Coach when reopening the session. (3296733)
  • Category mappings in CSV import would not work
  • On Windows, rearranging the order of the templates would have no effect. (3297913)
  • Feature added:
  • When importing a CSV file, let the user decide if quote characters are escaped by doubling them or escaping them with another character. (3295368)

New in Task Coach 1.2.16 (Apr 29, 2011)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Installing as a non-admin user on Mac OS X wouldn't work. (3288682)
  • Don't crash when the SESSSION_MANAGER environment variable is not set (Linux). (3288682)
  • Update the task viewer every minute when the time left column is shown.
  • Task Coach would crash after 1 minute on XFCE. (3292509)
  • When multiple effort viewers are open, correctly remember how effort is grouped in each effort viewer across sessions. (3294304)
  • Features added:
  • Added a "Check for update" menu item to the help menu. (http://uservoice.com/a/dwNJ0)
  • Allow for exporting to HTML with CSS style information included in the HTML file. (http://uservoice.com/a/i1LqL)

New in Task Coach 1.2.15 (Apr 25, 2011)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • When deleting items, correctly move the selection. (3056999)
  • Saving would fail when the task file contains deleted tasks with prerequisite tasks. (3290163, 3290300)
  • Try to guess the correct encoding when dragging and dropping email messages from Outlook. (3288820)
  • Features added:
  • Added a "Help improve translations" menu item to the help menu. (http://uservoice.com/a/468yX)
  • Remember size and position of edit dialogs. (http://uservoice.com/a/70ZTj)
  • Start effort tracking from the reminder dialog. (http://uservoice.com/a/f4UUt)

New in Task Coach 1.2.14 (Apr 17, 2011)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • None of the translations were working. (3283447)
  • Delete key was not working properly in the search box. (3286497)
  • Features added:
  • More extensive help menu.
  • Import from CSV now includes budget, fixed fee and hourly fee fields.
  • Task Coach now supports a limited form of session management under Windows and Linux; pending changes are automatically saved when the user logs out.

New in Task Coach 1.2.13 (Apr 14, 2011)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • The notes section was missing from the help contents. (3241219)
  • Mark subtasks of tasks that have uncompleted prerequisites as inactive (grey). (3237286)
  • In the setup script, don't assume Mac OS X when the operating system isn't Linux or Windows. There's also the possibility the user is using BSD. (3236769)
  • Don't force users to accept the license since the license doesn't actually require users to accept it (Windows). (3247643)
  • Upon startup, effort viewers would always show the column header popup menu for detail mode, even when the effort viewer would be in aggregate mode (i.e. effort aggregated per day, per week or per month).
  • Ask the user for confirmation before overwriting existing files. (2794041)
  • When adding an item, automatically select it. When removing an item with a parent, automatically select it. Make sure keyboard navigation (up and down) correctly moves the selection after marking a task completed. (3056999)
  • Features added:
  • Allow for filtering by category via the View->Filter menu. This also adds a menu item for showing all items regardless of category, with Ctrl-R (R for Reset) as keyboard shortcut.
  • When possible, try to keep the task duration when changing its start date.
  • Tasks in the calendar view can now be dragged and dropped and resized to change their dates.
  • Feature changed:
  • For consistency with the menu item for resetting category filters, the keyboard shortcut for resetting all filters is now Shift-Ctrl-R (R for Reset).

New in Task Coach 1.2.12 (Mar 21, 2011)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Bring back the 'Stop tracking effort' menu item in the context menu of task and effort viewers and make menu's more consistent. (3206702)
  • Added keyboard shortcuts for adding categories and notes.
  • The Delete key wasn't working in text controls. (3206464, 3213964)
  • The Enter key wasn't working in text controls on Mac OS X. (3223714)
  • The Enter key would stop working after opening and closing a new viewer. (3206366)
  • Make Ctrl-Z (undo), Ctrl-Y (redo), Enter (edit) and Delete work in edit dialogs.
  • Fixed a performance issue with the calendar viewer when tracking efforts.
  • Don't clear the clipboard after pasting an item, so that an item can be pasted multiple times. (3198880 )
  • Don't try to add deleted prerequisite tasks when loading the task file. (3219001)
  • Feature added:
  • Provide more options for filtering completed, due and inactive tasks. (http://uservoice.com/a/eBFSz)

New in Task Coach 1.2.11 (Mar 11, 2011)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Sometimes the total effort per period displayed in the effort viewer would be wrong. (3146576)
  • On Windows, the icons of the undo and redo menu items would disappear after their first use.
  • Correctly remember the main window position when closing Task Coach while the main window is minimized. (3199529)
  • Features added:
  • Import tasks from CSV file.
  • In addition to hiding all completed tasks, it is now also possible to hide completed tasks but keep recently completed tasks visible for a limited amount of time. This can be done by hiding tasks that were completed before today, before yesterday, before the current week or before the current month, using the View->Filter menu. (http://uservoice.com/a/lZ8ss)
  • In addition to hiding all future tasks, it is now also possible to hide future tasks but still show future tasks that will become active in a short while. This can be done by hiding future tasks that start today, tomorrow, next week or next month, using the View->Filter menu.
  • Features changed:
  • Keyboard shortcut improvements: On Windows and Linux, the keyboard shortcut for adding a task is now simply Insert. A new subtask can be added with Shift-Insert. On Mac OS X, the Insert shortcut doesn't work for some reason so there a new task can be added with Cmd-N and a new subtask with Shift-Cmd-N. The Delete keyboard shortcut works for all viewers. Notes can be added to tasks and categories with the Ctrl-B keyboard shortcut. Tasks and notes can be mailed with the Ctrl-M keyboard shortcut. Attachments can be added with the Shift-Ctrl-A keyboard shortcut and all attachments of an item can be opened with the Shift-Ctrl-O keyboard shortcut.
  • Rearranged the menu's: Instead of a Task, Category, Effort and Note menu, there are now a New menu for creating new items and an Actions menu for applying actions such as marking a task completed, mailing an item and starting and stopping effort tracking. The Edit and Delete menu items are now placed in the Edit menu.
  • Distribution changed:
  • Task Coach was added to the Ports collection of FreeBSD thanks to Kevin Lo. See the download section of the Task Coach website.

New in Task Coach 1.2.9 (Feb 7, 2011)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Improve keyboard navigation between viewers.
  • Accept dropped mail messages from Outlook with non-ascii characters. (3172736)
  • Open editor on the same display as the main window on multi-monitor setups. (3166563)
  • The shortcut for "Decrease priority" (Ctrl-D) wasn't working in the Spanish translation. (3165234)
  • Prevent the tooltip overlapping popup menus on Linux. (2989198)
  • Dropping IMAP e-mails from Thunderbird would not work on some configurations.
  • Features added:
  • Hitting Ctrl-F when a viewer has keyboard focus moves keyboard focus to the toolbar search control. Hitting Escape when the toolbar search control has keyboard focus moves the focus back to the viewer. Hitting Ctrl-Down when the toolbar search control has keyboard focus pops up the search control menu. (http://uservoice.com/a/6fW73)
  • Added overview of keyboard shortcuts to help information.
  • The calendar viewer configuration has been moved to its own dialog. Add more configurable attributes: highlight color, show now, font size.
  • Effort viewers can be sorted ascending and descending.
  • Edit, preferences and help dialogs have maximize and minimize buttons. (http://uservoice.com/a/mymqf)

New in Task Coach 1.2.8 (Jan 24, 2011)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Task Coach wouldn't open task files when a task viewer was sorted by reminder date/time. (3153541)
  • Correctly fix drag-and-drop from Thunderbird. (2916405, 3058781)
  • Correctly keep track of selected items when using shift-click to select a range of items so that the right items are exported when the user exports a selection. (3154036)
  • Task Coach would crash at launch if TaskCoach.ini could not be loaded.
  • When marking the only subtask of a task uncompleted, the subtask would stay green. (3151018)
  • On Windows 7 and Vista, the application icon wouldn't show up correctly. (3158445)
  • Correctly use mail message subject when dropping a mail message from Outlook. (2806617)
  • Features added:
  • The effort edit dialog now has a "Edit task" button next to the task selection drop down to quickly open the effort's task.
  • The effort viewer now has "Start tracking effort" and "Stop tracking effort" buttons on the toolbar. The "Start tracking effort" starts tracking effort for the task(s) of the selected effort(s). This enables you to quickly resume tracking the most recent task by selecting the topmost effort record and hit the "Start tracking effort" button. The "Stop tracking effort" button simply does what it says and was added for consistencies sake. (http://uservoice.com/a/fHSAX)

New in Task Coach 1.2.7 (Jan 9, 2011)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Performance improvements: faster closing of task dialogs, faster item selection, no redraw of task viewers every minute.
  • When removing all efforts, correctly update the effort viewer. (3125553)
  • When editing a task that already has prerequisite tasks, don't reset the prerequisites. (3137055)
  • Huge performance fix in the calendar viewer.
  • When double clicking a column header border don't set the column width to zero.
  • Process drag-and-drops from Thunderbird. (2916405, 3058781)
  • When canceling the save dialog, the task file would be saved with an empty filename. (3152160)
  • Features added:
  • Always highlight the current day in the calendar view.
  • Show current time in calendar view.

New in Task Coach 1.2.6 (Dec 6, 2010)

  • Avoid the "Pas de sujet" bug when dropping a mail from Outlook on a French Windows OS.
  • Don't crash when the note viewer is open. (3122115)
  • Don't crash when the square task viewer is open.
  • When double clicking the latest effort, don't open the previous one, but the one double clicked. (3121403)
  • When searching in the effort viewer with "Include subitems" turned on, actually include effort for subtasks in the search results. (3124833)
  • Some more performance improvements.

New in Task Coach 1.2.5 (Nov 29, 2010)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Fixed another memory leak in the calendar view. (3108959)
  • Some performance improvements. (3117375)
  • Don't throw exception when Snarl is not available. (3119740)

New in Task Coach 1.2.4 (Nov 22, 2010)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • On Windows, make the installer check for running instances of Task Coach before installing a new version. The installer is able to detect running instances of Task Coach release 1.2.4 or newer. (3109658)
  • Mass editing of items wouldn't work after selecting items with Ctrl-A (select all). (3108176)
  • Bring back total time spent and total revenue columns in the effort viewer. (3112807)
  • Fixed a memory leak in the calendar viewer. (3108959)

New in Task Coach 1.2.3 (Nov 15, 2010)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Show clock icon for tracked tasks in the task viewer. (3106158)
  • File => Save task as template didn't work any more.
  • Hide parent task when all of its subtasks are hidden by filtered categories and the parent task itself doesn't belong to the filtered categories.
  • Don't throw exception when end of working day is 24. (3105496)
  • When recurring a task, make sure its start date stays before its due date. Patch provided by Svetoslav Trochev.
  • The edit templates dialog was unresponsive under MS Windows. (3106221)
  • When setting the column width to the minimum in horizontal monthly view, switching to weekly view would hang Task Coach and prevent it from launching again. (3091151)
  • Feature added:
  • Updated translations and added partial Occitan and Papiamento translations.

New in Task Coach 1.2.2 (Nov 7, 2010)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Type indicator of attachments in the attachment tab of edit dialogs was missing. (3087177)
  • After editing the subject of a composite task in the task list viewer (e.g. changing 'Project A' into 'Project B'), also update the subjects of the subtasks (e.g. 'Project A -> Task 1' should update to 'Project B -> Task 1').
  • When editing a subject of a subtask in the task list viewer inline, don't include the subjects of its ancestors in the text control.
  • When filtering on categories, don't show tasks whose subtasks (that belong to the filtered categories) are all hidden by another filter.
  • When double clicking in the calendar viewer (when it is in vertical month mode) to create a new task, set the due date of the new task to the end of the day. This makes sure the new task is visible in the calendar after closing the task edit dialog. (3103011)
  • Include end of work day as option when selecting a time in the effort edit dialog. (http://uservoice.com/a/380R8)
  • Remember column widths in the category viewer across sessions.
  • Features added:
  • Don't ask for a name when creating a new template. There is now a template edit dialog; one can only delete templates though. (http://uservoice.com/a/4Ntz6)
  • Allow the user to change the ordering of templates
  • Distribution changed:
  • Added support for Fedora 14. (3101814)

New in Task Coach 1.2.1 (Oct 18, 2010)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Don't refuse to open a task file when it is sorted on a "total" column. (3085056)
  • Don't expand tasks in the prerequisite tab when opening a task dialog, it's really slow. (3085358)
  • Always display the month name in the horizontal monthly calendar view. (3062505)
  • Allow the user to resize columns in horizontal calendar view (3062505)
  • Reset percentage complete when recurring a task.
  • When using relative paths for attachments, attachments couldn't be opened from the attachments tab in the edit dialog. (3087177)

New in Task Coach 1.2.0 (Oct 11, 2010)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • An exception would be thrown if search strings contained a percentage symbol.
  • When printing, correctly align columns.
  • Show sort indicator in attachment viewers.
  • Task Coach would always change budget, hourly fee, and fixed fee to zero when mass editing tasks. (3081666)
  • Better contrast in the calendar view (3072138)
  • Tasks started at 00:00 would be displayed twice in the monthly vertical calendar view (3062501)
  • Feature added:
  • Tasks can have one or more prerequisite tasks. As long as a task has one or more prerequisite tasks that are not completed, the dependent task is inactive. The task tree viewer has two extra columns, one for showing prerequisite tasks and one for showing dependent tasks. Prerequisite tasks can be selected in the Prerequisites tab of the task edit dialog. Dependent tasks cannot be selected explicitly but are simply derived from the prerequisite tasks. For example, if task B can be started only after task A has been completed, task A is called a prerequisite for task B and task B is called a dependency of task A.
  • Features changed:
  • To simplify the application and reduce the number of columns all "total" and "overall" columns have been removed. For composite items that have children, the tree viewers show the "total" or "overall" value when the item is collapsed and the individual value when the item is not collapsed. An example may help: suppose task A has a budget of 20 hours and subtask A1 has a budget of 10 hours. In the task viewer in tree mode, the budget column shows 20 hours for task A when it is expanded and 30 hours when it is collapsed. For task A1 the budget shown is always 10 hour. In list mode, the task viewer shows the individual values, so a budget of 20 hours for task A and 10 hours for task A1.
  • The order of tabs in tabbed dialogs can be changed. Task Coach now remembers the order of the tabs in the item edit dialogs and the preferences dialog. (http://uservoice.com/a/oa7jx)
  • When printing, show the sorted column by underlining the column header.
  • Reorganized some menu items differently and added mnemonics to all menu items.
  • Implementation changed:
  • The task file format was changed to support task dependencies. The task file format version number is now 31.

New in Task Coach 1.1.4 (Sep 30, 2010)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Task Coach would not properly use the system's locale to select the language if the language was set to 'Let the system determine the language', resulting in the wrong language being used. (3064566)
  • Don't switch top/bottom and left/right margins in the print preview.
  • Refresh task viewer filters every minute so that when the task viewer is hiding inactive tasks, inactive tasks that become active also become visible. (3072013)
  • Displaying revenue in effort viewers was slow. The effort viewer has a revenue column that shows the revenue earned per effort record. Until now, this would be the task fee per hour times the duration of the effort record plus the part of the fixed fee of the task earned with this effort record. So if a task had a fixed fee of 1000,- and you had spent 10 hours on the task, an effort record of one hour would have a revenue of 100,-. However, calculating all this would get slow for larger amounts of effort records, so the effort revenue now only shows the variable part, i.e. fee per hour times effort duration. (3056540)
  • In the situation where Task Coach was started minimized in the system tray and with the setting "Hide window when minimizing" turned on, the main window would not be hidden when minimizing it. (3077271)
  • Features added:
  • Allow hiding composite tasks in calendar view. (http://uservoice.com/a/aul3S)
  • In the tree/list task viewer, allow additional selection with Cmd-click on Mac OS X.

New in Task Coach 1.1.3 (Sep 11, 2010)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • When closing a edit dialog, don't delete the category, note, and attachment viewers in the dialog before the data has been processed. (3059143)
  • The PortableApps platform would override the language selected by the user in Task Coach. (2965342, 3059429)
  • When retrieving the latest available Task Coach version number from the Task Coach website doesn't work, simply ignore that.
  • Don't crash when searching efforts with "Include subitems" turned on.
  • Feature added:
  • When selecting the language in the preferences dialog, you can select 'Let the system determine the language'. If you're using the PortableApps version of Task Coach and the PortableApps platform, the PortableApps platform language will be used. Otherwise, Task Coach will let your system's locale determine the language.

New in Task Coach 1.1.2 (Sep 3, 2010)

  • Task Coach wouldn't run on Ubuntu 9.04. This is because Task Coach tried to use a feature from wxPython 2.8.9.2 while Ubuntu 9.04 ships with wxPython 2.8.9.1. (3054431)
  • Only close edit dialogs when the edited item is really deleted, not when the item is hidden by a filter. (3042880)
  • Refresh filtered task viewers at midnight to properly show tasks that become active. (3035384)
  • The checkbox for mutual exclusive subcategories in the category editor would be unchecked even if a category had exclusive subcategories.

New in Task Coach 1.1.1 (Aug 27, 2010)

  • On Mac OS X, properly read task files when the font description cannot be parsed. This may happen when reading a task file that was last saved on a different platform. Unfortunately, font specifications are platform specific. (3047183)
  • Prevent exception when reading old task files.
  • Saving of templates didn't work, resulting in invalid template files that would in turn prevent Task Coach from starting properly. (3052090)
  • On Windows, the tabs of the dialogs would flicker when moving the mouse over the tabs.
  • Use dialogs for reminders. (3050445)

New in Task Coach 1.0.10 (Aug 16, 2010)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • When SyncML was on, the effort viewer would show effort for deleted tasks.
  • When dragging panes and dropping them onto each other to create an automatic notebook, make sure dropped viewers are properly contained in the notebook.
  • When renaming a viewer, apply the new name to the active viewer. (3042037)
  • Feature added:
  • Allow automatic creation of a notebook of viewers on top of the initial task viewer. This makes the user interface functionally equivalent to the previously removed "tabbed" mode.

New in Task Coach 1.0.9 (Aug 9, 2010)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • On Windows, Task Coach wouldn't start when the user interface was in "tabbed" mode. (3041123)
  • On Windows, toolbar items that should trigger a popup menu (e.g. templates) wouldn't.
  • On Windows, disabled toolbar buttons wouldn't be greyed out.
  • Feature removed:
  • The "tabbed" user interface mode has been removed. Having two different user interfaces makes it harder to test changes that affect the user interface, as evidenced by a bug in the previous release.

New in Task Coach 1.0.8 (Aug 7, 2010)

  • Drop support for SyncML on Debian; too many architectures/versions to support.
  • File attachments would not open on Lubuntu
  • Task Coach would crash on start on Ubuntu 10.10
  • Fix an exception that would prevent Task Coach from closing. (3031709, 3031711)
  • Close task tree popup (in the effort dialog) when clicking the dropdown button twice. (3032835)
  • On Windows, toolbar buttons in dialogs would stop working after a while. (3032834, 2560895)
  • Refresh filter for tasks due today/tomorrow/etc. at midnight. (3035384)
  • On Linux, when selecting an effort in the effort viewer with the mouse also give keyboard focus to the effort viewer.

New in Task Coach 1.0.7 (Jul 3, 2010)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • On some Linux platforms, when using KDE, Task Coach would not properly restore after being minimized to the system tray. (2988693, 3011539)
  • Reduce flickering when tracking effort. (2819141, 2995374)
  • Task Coach wasn't installing on Ubuntu 9.04. (3022926)
  • The right-click column header menu still wasn't working in task, note and category viewers.

New in Task Coach 1.0.6 (Jun 28, 2010)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • The right-click column header menu wasn't working in task, note and category
  • viewers.
  • On Jolicloud, don't crash when printing. (SF#3018038)
  • On Ubuntu 10.4, don't crash when clicking the font button in the appearance
  • tab of edit dialogs. (SF#3021759)
  • Don't display long descriptions in an inline text control, it's too buggy.
  • (SF#2992853, SF#2992850, SF#2992848)
  • On Mac OS X, don't cut text in text controls when the user types
  • X, only when she types X. (SF#2942288)
  • Properly save the task file when the font name contains non-ascii
  • characters. (SF#3014110)
  • Correctly export tasks and effort to vCalendar (.ics) when they contain non-
  • ascii characters. (SF#3016528)

New in Task Coach 1.0.5 (Jun 9, 2010)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Task Coach would fail to save the task file correctly, when it couldn't
  • read temporary files for email attachments. (SF#2369711)
  • Don't crash when using a purple folder or led icon. (SF#3009432)
  • Don't allow exporting efforts to iCalendar when effort viewer is in
  • aggregate mode, it would result in an empty .ics file. (SF#2935616)
  • SyncML synchronization did not work for tasks. (SF#3012234)
  • Feature changed:
  • Renamed the Edit->Paste into task menu item to Edit->Paste as subitem and
  • made it work for categories and notes too.

New in Task Coach 1.0.4 (May 30, 2010)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • When starting iconized on Mac OS X, the application window would close. (2992764)
  • When exporting tasks with descriptions that contain newlines to iCalendar (.ics) format, produce a valid iCalendar file. (2975805)
  • When reading a task file saved on another platform, be prepared for fonts with size zero; use the default font size instead. (2968199, 3002577)
  • After deleting multiple efforts for one task in the effort viewer, the effort viewer would still show some of the removed efforts.
  • When waking up from standby/sleep, only request user attention when there are reminders to display. (2992049)
  • The synchronization with the iPhone would crash in some circumstances, when parent objects have been used on the iPhone and are deleted on the desktop. (3007248)
  • When maximizing or minimizing priority, don't take the priority of deleted tasks into account. (3008495)
  • When calculating overall percentage complete of a task, consider whether the task will be completed automatically when all of its subtasks are completed. (2992534)
  • Feature changed:
  • Added some more possible snooze times. Use the preferences dialog to turn them on.
  • Distributions changed:
  • We no longer build a Task Coach RPM for Fedora 8, 9, and 10. These releases of Fedora are unsupported by the Fedora project.
  • The OpenSuse RPM is not "noarch" but "i386". (2997377)

New in Task Coach 1.0.3 (Apr 26, 2010)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • When showing effort records in aggregate mode (per day, per week, per month), always put the Total row on the first line of its period. (2895940)
  • The download link for the Debian package wasn't pointing at any package. (2985649)
  • Don't show deleted tasks in the task dropdown of the effort edit dialog. (2987202)
  • Snarl notifications wouldn't work when the subject or description included non-ASCII characters. (2986071)
  • When saving files, make sure the default extension is added to filenames if both the user and the native save dialog don't add it. (2978204)
  • When listing notes and attachment in a popup window, show them sorted instead of in a seemingly random order. (2991230)
  • Don't crash and corrupt the task file when the user assigns the green folder icon to a task, category or note. (2991511)
  • Tasks wouldn't use the exact same font as the category they belong to. (2990350)
  • The calendar view didn't handle the task's font. (2990875)
  • Features added:
  • Use item titles in dialogs and in the undo/redo menu to make it clearer what items the user is/was working on. (http://uservoice.com/a/9zBuo)
  • In the task, category, and note viewers, show long descriptions in a text control with scrollbars so the rows don't take up too much vertical space. (http://uservoice.com/a/h37jH)
  • Tasks can now be sorted in the calendar viewer.
  • Support for libnotify under Linux (for reminders).

New in Task Coach 1.0.2 (Apr 12, 2010)

  • Exports and prints would show long descriptions abbreviated with "...", exactly as the long descriptions were displayed in the description column of task, category, and note tree viewers. To fix this, the task, category, and note tree viewers show descriptions fully (when the description column is visible). (2975805)
  • In the calendar viewer, March 31st would not appear. (2979461)
  • The 13th hour would not show up in thr daily calendar view. (2979452)
  • The position of the main window wouldn't be saved so it couldn't be restored the next session. (2969292)
  • On Ubuntu, when the user would scroll to the bottom of a tree viewer and collaps an item, the tree would not be redrawn correctly. (2947136)
  • Setting a task to 100 percent complete didn't work. (2982561)
  • When the user clicks on a URL embedded in a description and the URL fails to open, show an error dialog instead of throwing an exception.
  • The website pointed Ubuntu 9.10 users to the wrong deb package. (2983202)
  • On Ubuntu 10.04, Task Coach wouldn't be added to the Applications/Office menu. (2978098)
  • After double clicking a task in the calendar viewer and changing its dates, if the change would make the task disappear from the current period, the task would not be properly drawn.

New in Task Coach 1.0.1 (Mar 27, 2010)

  • Task Coach would try to use a non-existing icon when the SyncML feature was turned on. (2975952)
  • Task Coach wouldn't install properly on Ubuntu 10.04. Added a deb for Ubuntu 10.04. (2975538)
  • When setting the end working hour to 24, the calendar viewer would crash. (2975347)
  • When trying to display tasks with notes, the calendar viewer would crash.
  • Synchronization with the iPhone did not work. (2975920, 2976427)

New in Task Coach 1.0.0 (Mar 23, 2010)

  • Bug fixed:
  • The template pop-up menu in task viewers would not show up at the right position.
  • Features added:
  • Calendar viewer for tasks. (http://uservoice.com/a/iQI4g)
  • Drag and drop e-mail from Mail.app, on Max OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard. (http://uservoice.com/a/niJMS)
  • The square map task viewer can also display tasks by priority. Note that tasks with negative priorities are not displayed. (http://uservoice.com/a/kxeoS)
  • The icons of tasks, notes, and categories can be changed.

New in Task Coach 0.78.4 (Mar 10, 2010)

  • In some cases, when typing dates in the editor, they would be reset to the current day. (2942425)
  • Clear the drag image after dropping an item onto white space (on Linux). (2947127)
  • Reminders that should have fired when the computer was asleep wouldn't until the next launch of Task Coach (Windows and Mac OS X only). (2888688)
  • On Mac OS X, task viewers would not be refreshed at midnight if the computer was sleeping by this time.
  • Having too many mail attachments on Windows would cause a "Too many open files" error.
  • When closing a viewer, Task Coach would sometimes try to destroy an already deleted right-click menu, leading to an exception or an error message in the log file.

New in Task Coach 0.78.4 (Mar 10, 2010)

  • In some cases, when typing dates in the editor, they would be reset to the current day. (2942425)
  • Clear the drag image after dropping an item onto white space (on Linux). (2947127)
  • Reminders that should have fired when the computer was asleep wouldn't until the next launch of Task Coach (Windows and Mac OS X only). (2888688)
  • On Mac OS X, task viewers would not be refreshed at midnight if the computer was sleeping by this time.
  • Having too many mail attachments on Windows would cause a "Too many open files" error.
  • When closing a viewer, Task Coach would sometimes try to destroy an already deleted right-click menu, leading to an exception or an error message in the log file.

New in Task Coach 0.78.3 (Feb 1, 2010)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Free up resources (user objects and memory) on Windows when closing dialogs. The memory leak was caused by popup menu's in dialogs not being deleted. (2938091, 2891350, 2560895, 2444185, 2214043)
  • Close the inline subject edit control before showing or hiding columns in tree viewers, to prevent problems redrawing the tree items. (2940211)
  • Prevent "zombie" viewers; viewers that are not visible but do still use processing power. (2932609)

New in Task Coach 0.78.2 (Jan 25, 2010)

  • Bug fixed:
  • Faster redrawing of task/category/note trees.

New in Task Coach 0.78.1 (Jan 18, 2010)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Bring back the "Don't snooze" option in reminder dialogs.
  • Synchronizing with the iPhone didn't work. (2925618)
  • When an active task's foreground color is the default (black), don't mix that color with the foreground colors of the task's categories. (2930751)
  • Let subtasks use their parent's category-based foreground color when they don't have their own foreground color. (2930751)
  • When there are a lot of old backup files don't clean them up all at once, but instead a few on each save. (2929692, 2929475)

New in Task Coach 0.78.0 (Jan 11, 2010)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Make file locking work on Windows computers that have a hostname with non-ASCII characters in it. (2904864)
  • Avoid deploying UxTheme.dll because it causes problems on 64-bits Windows systems. (2911280, 2897639)
  • Correctly refresh task square map and task time line viewers after stopping effort tracking, i.e. stop showing the clock icon on the previously tracked task.
  • When maximizing and restoring panes (viewers), don't change the order. (2922952)
  • Slightly faster redrawing of task viewers after sorting or filtering.
  • In some circumstances, synchronization with an iPhone/iPod Touch device would crash the app. (2925618)
  • Features added:
  • Tasks, categories, notes and attachment can have their own font. Tasks, notes and attachments that don't have their own font use the font of the categories they belong to. Effort records use the font of the task they belong to.
  • In addition to the background color, the foreground (text) color of tasks, categories, notes and attachments can now also be changed. Tasks, notes and attachments that don't have their own foreground color use the foreground color of the categories they belong to. Effort records use the foreground color of the task they belong to.
  • Added Ctrl+E keyboard shortcut to "New effort..." menu item.
  • Reminder dialogs have an extra button to mark the task completed. (http://uservoice.com/a/5HVq3)
  • The snooze times offered by the reminder dialog can be configured via the preferences dialog.
  • Features changed:
  • Task Coach now limits the number of backups made of a task file. The number of backups retained increases logarithmically with the age of the oldest backup of the task file. When Task Coach needs to remove a backup it tries to keep the remaining backups spread evenly across time. (http://uservoice.com/a/5FrtF)
  • Merged the four menu items for exporting tasks and effort to iCalendar and vCalendar formats into two menu items.

New in Task Coach 0.77.0 (Dec 7, 2009)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Only the first reminder defined in a session would be fired. (2901254)
  • Don't start in-line editing of subjects when an item is double clicked. Properly close the subject edit text control, e.g. when sort order is changed. (2896654, 2899913)
  • Don't open effort viewer contex (right-click) menu twice on every right-click. (2902389)
  • Features added:
  • Categories can have mutually exclusive subcategories. This makes it easier to e.g. create your own statuses or to keep track of which task was assigned to whom. (http://uservoice.com/a/tvOIS)
  • F2 can be used to start in-line editing of the subject of a task, category or note. (http://uservoice.com/a/9pLUT)
  • Added partial Mongolian translation.

New in Task Coach 0.76.1 (Nov 14, 2009)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • The notes and attachment columns were not properly refreshed after removing the last note or attachment. (2894530)
  • Reminders would randomly not work. (2888688)
  • Recurrence frequency would be reset to zero when edited. (2895085)
  • Instead of the whole description, show only the first few lines of descriptions in the description column of task, note, and category viewers.
  • Features added:
  • On Mac OS X, you can optionally choose to use Growl for reminders. When enabled, this disables two other features: snooze/don't snooze and open task on reminder.
  • Added back the possibility to hide active tasks so that people can have a task viewer that only displays completed tasks. (http://uservoice.com/a/NQCUV)

New in Task Coach 0.76.0 (Nov 8, 2009)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Iterating over viewers wasn't working in tabbed mode.
  • When merging a task file with categories, don't break the links between tasks/notes and categories. (2882493)
  • Tree viewers wouldn't properly refresh when an attribute of a task, category, or note was changed to be empty. (2806354)
  • When tracking effort, effort viewers in aggregated mode (showing effort per day/week/month) were not being updated every second.
  • Tabs in the tabbed window layout could not be closed.
  • Don't complain when the system locale has a thousands separator that consists of more than one character. (2889931, 2888714)
  • Features added:
  • Task viewers now have buttons on the toolbar to hide or show completed and/or inactive (future) tasks. (http://uservoice.com/a/EfkNL)
  • Subjects of tasks, notes and categories can be edited in-line by clicking the subject of a selected item.
  • Features removed:
  • Don't have a setting for the maximum number of recent files to show, simply use some reasonable maximum (9).
  • It's no longer possible to hide active tasks, over budget tasks, and over due tasks. These filters were silly.

New in Task Coach 0.75.0 (Oct 25, 2009)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Make opening (task) edit dialogs faster. (2884522)
  • Use 'now' as default time in effort dialogs on Mac OS X instead of '0:00:00'. (2874824)
  • Features added:
  • Tasks have a percentage complete property. (http://uservoice.com/a/Icogx)
  • Double clicking the task bar icon will iconize the main window when it is visible and restore it when iconized (Mac OS X and Windows). (http://uservoice.com/a/dKfBt)
  • When browsing for an attachment, start in the current attachment directory.
  • Under Windows, prevent users from deleting temporary files and thus loosing all their e-mail attachments.
  • Distribution changed:
  • Added a PortableApps version of Task Coach to the set of available distributions.

New in Task Coach 0.74.4 (Oct 19, 2009)

  • This is a bugfix release that fixes some user interface bugs, most notably that entering dates with the keyboard was not working on Mac OS X and Linux.
  • Bugs fixed:
  • Typing in time controls (effort start and stop, reminder) didn't work on Mac OS X. (2798239)
  • Prevent the locked file dialog and the new version notification dialog of blocking each other on Mac OS X.
  • When using the context menu of a selected effort record to create a new effort record use the task of the selected effort record as task of the new effort record as well. (2873933)
  • After expanding all items (Shift+Ctrl+E), keep items expanded even when sort order changes or tasks are completed. (2841854)
  • The "Open all attachments" menu item was always disabled. (2874180)
  • When sorting tasks and notes by their categories use the recursive subjects (e.g. 'Parent -> Child') of the categories to sort by. Previous versions would only use the 'Child' part. (2874153)
  • Remove double slash ('//') from URL used in Windows installer. (2877126)
  • On Linux and Mac OS X, changing dates by typing a new date (i.e. not using the dropdown menu) didn't work. (2874408, 2867623)

New in Task Coach 0.74.3 (Oct 5, 2009)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Exporting and printing, including displaying the print preview, is now much faster.
  • Drag and drop wasn't working.
  • Starting or stopping effort tracking for a selected task would cause the task to be unselected. (2869959)
  • Don't show effort records twice in the effort viewer after deleting or dragging and dropping a task. (2869520, 2859882)
  • Fix printing of non-task viewers. (2871365)
  • Task Coach wouldn't start when using the tabbed main window mode on Mac OS X. (2867585)

New in Task Coach 0.74.2 (Sep 26, 2009)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • iPhone synchronization: when doing a full refresh from desktop, categories parents could be mismatched.
  • A bug in the task filter would cause tasks to be shown that were supposed to be hidden. (2841854)
  • The filter submenu would sometimes be in the wrong state (enabled or disabled).
  • On Linux, locking two task files in the same folder, e.g. when merging, would make Task Coach think that its task file was locked by another instance of Task Coach. (2852216)
  • Performance improvements. Task Coach still isn't super fast, but at least performance should be a bit better now. (2807678, 2683002)
  • Features added:
  • Add an option to avoid uploading completed tasks to the iPhone/iPod Touch when synchronizing. For people who hide completed tasks, this can make the synchronization much quicker.
  • Under MS Windows, the task template directory may now be a shortcut to another directory.
  • In the attachment viewer, display a red icon for files attachments when the file does not exist. Also prevent the user from trying to open it.
  • Feature removed:
  • Removed the Edit->Select->Invert selection menu item since it was very slow and not very useful.

New in Task Coach 0.74.0 (Aug 17, 2009)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Avoid nested syncml tags in the XML task file (2832062, 2813816)
  • Some macro's (e.g. "Task Coach") in the help text were not properly expanded. (2833904, 2833903)
  • Features added:
  • When exporting data to an HTML file, Task Coach writes a simple CSS stylesheet alongside it. The CSS stylesheet can be edited by the user using a text editor; Task Coach won't overwrite it.
  • Tasks that are due soon are colored orange. How many days left is to be considered 'soon' can now be set via the preferences dialog, in task behavior tab. (1312000)
  • Distribution changed:
  • Added a winPackPen (http://www.winpackpen.com) portable package to the set of available distributions.
  • Website change:
  • We're now using http://taskcoach.uservoice.com for feature requests. The big advantage of Uservoice over the Sourceforge feature request tracker is that Uservoice allows for voting. Because we have over 250 open feature requests on Sourceforge, it is not possible for us to move all feature requests ourselves. People that submitted a feature request on Sourceforge will receive a notification and a request to help us move their request(s) to Uservoice. (index.html)

New in Task Coach 0.73.2 (Jul 9, 2009)

  • Fixes some bugs, and adds synchronization with the iPhone version now available on the AppStore.
  • Bugs fixed:
  • Export of selected effort to a CSV-file would result in an empty file. (SF#2810978)
  • Fix a crash when creating/editing tasks for non-english locales. (SF#2817287, SF#2817335, SF#2812005)
  • Feature added:
  • Two-way synchronization with Task Coach for the iPhone. (SF#2042153, SF#2722216)

New in Task Coach 0.73.1 (Jun 25, 2009)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Dates and amounts were not localized.
  • Use folder icons for tasks with subtasks in the task viewer.
  • Export of selected effort to a CSV-file would result in an empty file.

New in Task Coach 0.73.0 (Jun 13, 2009)

  • Added a timeline viewer that shows tasks and efforts on a horizontal time scale. (SF#2533644, SF#1230080)
  • When an effort viewer is displaying effort per day, week, or month, a total line is shown for each period. (SF#1962219)
  • The search control in the toolbar of viewers now includes an option to search descriptions too. (SF#1816660, SF#2020347, SF#2157010, SF#2510045)
  • Add or remove tasks and notes from categories using the task and note menus in the menubar or the right-click popup menu for tasks and notes. (SF#1931323, SF#2011031, SF#1918685)
  • Added largely incomplete Bosnian and Basque translations.

New in Task Coach 0.72.10 (Jun 9, 2009)

  • When opening a task edit dialog, the priority field would not show the priority until the up or down button was clicked (Mac OS X only).
  • When opening a locked file, Task Coach would hang (Mac OS X only).
  • Require wxPython 2.8.9.1 instead of 2.8.9.2 in the Debian package file (.deb) because Ubuntu 9.04 is still shipping 2.8.9.1 (Ubuntu only).
  • Fix drag and drop from Outlook (Windows only).
  • When logging off or shutting down the computer save unsaved changes (Linux only).
  • When using SyncML the task file could get corrupted.

New in Task Coach 0.72.9 (May 29, 2009)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Don't throw an exception when exporting an active effort record to iCal format.
  • Refuse to open task files that have a different format because they are created by a newer version of Task Coach than the one the user is using.
  • Updating menu items would trigger exceptions after closing a (task) viewer.
  • After merging, Task Coach would display the wrong filename in the window title.
  • Smaller task edit dialog to cater for lower resolution screens.
  • Dragging email from a Thunderbird client that uses Gmail as IMAP server didn't work.
  • When the SyncML feature is turned on, Task Coach would show deleted tasks in the drop down menu of the start effort tracking button on the toolbar and it would show effort for deleted tasks in the effort viewer.
  • Features added:
  • All export options can now also export selected items only.
  • Put line breaks in the XML so that task files are easier to examine in a text editor.

New in Task Coach 0.72.8 (May 18, 2009)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Drag and drop from Thunderbird would not work on Debian-derived distributions. (SF#2790274)
  • Work around a bug in wxPython 2.8.9.2 on Mac OS X that prevented dialogs to be opened for items that have a color set. (SF#2789977)
  • Draw check boxes instead of black squares in the category viewer on Windows XP and Vista with the classic theme.
  • The background of check boxes were corrupted under Linux.
  • Double clicking an item in a specific column wouldn't select the appropriate tab in the dialog. (SF#2791100)
  • Reduce flickering when tracking effort for a task.
  • Opening a task file with e-mail attachments not specifying their encoding on a different system than the one the task file was created could fail.
  • Couldn't add effort to a freshly created task.
  • Feature added:
  • Use the settings for effort dialog start and stop times for the reminder drop down as well. (SF#2792160)
  • Dependency changed:
  • Task Coach now at least needs wxPython 2.8.9.2-unicode. Since the Windows installer and the Mac OS X dmg package have wxPython included, this only affects users of the RPM, Debian, and source distributions.

New in Task Coach 0.72.7 (May 10, 2009)

  • Support locking of task files on USB sticks/drives that have a different file system than the host system has. (SF#2776249)
  • Task Coach would sometimes crash when dragging a task onto another task on Windows. Fixed by using a different widget for tree-list controls. (SF#2573263, SF#1995248, SF#2247808)
  • Feature added:
  • The category viewer can show additional columns (description, attachment, ...) besides just the subject of categories. This is a side effect of the fix for the drag and drop issues. Website changes:
  • Follow Task Coach on twitter: http://twitter.com/taskcoach. The latest tweets are also listed on http://www.taskcoach.org. (index.html)
  • Added Google Ads to generate additional revenue to cover the cost of hardware and commercial operating systems. (index.html)

New in Task Coach 0.72.5 (Apr 7, 2009)

  • Include the lockfile package in the distributions.

New in Task Coach 0.72.3 (Mar 15, 2009)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Don't turn on the color selection in the task edit dialog when the task color is based on the category it belongs to.
  • Make it easier to edit budget values in the task edit dialog.
  • Fix regression caused by the of saving print margins added in release 0.72.2.

New in Task Coach 0.72.2 (Mar 12, 2009)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Support drag and drop from Thunderbird Portable under Windows.
  • Correctly read task files with version

New in Task Coach 0.72.1 (Feb 15, 2009)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Drag and drop from Thunderbird wouldn't work with GMail IMAP accounts.
  • Exception when synchronizing with the new version of ScheduleWorld.
  • On MacOS, the window height would increase by 29 pixels each time Task Coach is launched.
  • Exporting a selection of effort records resulted in an empty HTML file.
  • Opening a task from a reminder dialog didn't work.
  • Include effort for subtasks in the effort viewer for one task.
  • Correctly display error message when the user enters an invalid regular expression in a search control.
  • Update the task square map viewer when the task status changes (e.g. when a task is completed).
  • When SyncML is enabled and the last subtask of a task is deleted, correctly update the icon in the task viewer. Features added:
  • When the single task, whose effort records are shown in a single task effort viewer, is removed, the effort viewer resets to show all effort records of all tasks.
  • Tool tips for task square map viewer.

New in Task Coach 0.72.0 (Jan 30, 2009)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Don't crash when adding a task.
  • Update the total fixed fee column in the task viewer when adding a subtask with a fixed fee.
  • Mark task file dirty when the user edits a task color.
  • Update the hourly fee column in the task viewer when the the user edits the hourly fee of a task.
  • Make it possible to add an effort record to a new task.
  • When opening all attachments of an item, give an error message for each attachment that cannot be opened.
  • Features added:
  • One can now export only the current selection as HTML.
  • When using yearly recurrence of tasks, allow for keeping the recurring date on the same weekday (e.g. to recur on the first Monday of the year).
  • Added a square map viewer for tasks that displays tasks in the form of a set of nested squares. The relative size of the squares is determined by either budget, budget left, time spent, fixed fee or revenue.
  • One can now open an effort viewer for a specific task.
  • Added (incomplete) Hindi and German (Low) translations.

New in Task Coach 0.71.5 (Dec 25, 2008)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Don't wake up every second just to keep track of reminders and midnight.
  • Hide main window after showing reminder dialog when it was hidden before.
  • When marking a recurring task completed, recur its reminder too, if any.
  • Refresh task status at midnight.
  • Fix tab traversal in the effort editor on Linux.
  • Feature added:
  • When double clicking an item in a viewer, open the editor on the right page, depending on the column clicked. For example, when clicking on the due date column in a task viewer, Task Coach will open the task editor with the dates page raised. Patch provided by Carl Zmola.

New in Task Coach 0.71.4 (Dec 8, 2008)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Opening an old .tsk file with missing e-mail attachments would crash Task Coach.
  • Don't throw exception when showing an (error) message while synchronizing.
  • When merging from the same file multiple times, update the existing items instead of duplicating them. (2062616)Don't set negative priorities to zero in the task editor (Linux only).
  • Save the column width of the first column when automatic resizing of columns is off.
  • Actually delete tasks and notes when SyncML is disabled.
  • Do not create subitems in two steps, this is counter intuitive.
  • Properly iterate over the open viewers with Ctrl-PgDn and Ctrl-PgUp.
  • Update the task viewer when a note is deleted from a task.
  • Update the tray icon tool tip when deleting an overdue task.
  • Wrap long lines in description tool tip windows.
  • Feature added:
  • Add a "Purge deleted items" entry in the File menu for people who have been using Task Coach with SyncML disabled.

New in Task Coach 0.71.3 (Nov 11, 2008)

  • Spell checking in editor didn't work under MacOS
  • Dropping a mail with several recipients from Outlook would result in a "No subject" subject.
  • A ghost window would appear on the secondary display under MacOSX if it's placed on the right.
  • The note total would include deleted notes.
  • Don't hang when exiting the application.
  • Don't show all effort in the effort tab of a task editor, but only effort for the task being edited.
  • Fix for a backwards incompatible change in python 2.6.
  • Update task details at midnight, even when Task Coach is not active at precisely midnight.
  • Allow for empty task subjects.
  • Make the drop down button for picking dates look disabled when it is disabled.

New in Task Coach 0.71.2 (Oct 25, 2008)

  • The reminder dialog didn't work.
  • One couldn't add an URI attachment "by hand".
  • The combobox with tasks in the effort editor wouldn't always be properly filled, making it impossible to edit the effort record.
  • Warn the user when the task file cannot be saved.
  • Warn the user when the TaskCoach.ini file cannot be loaded.
  • When saving selected tasks, also include any categories the selected tasks are in.
  • The right-click menu item 'Start tracking effort' wouldn't work for recurring tasks.
  • The SyncML password dialog now has a more specific title.
  • The system tray popup menu now has a 'New note' menu item.

New in Task Coach 0.71.1 (Oct 14, 2008)

  • Older task files containing e-mail attachments could not be opened.
  • Newly created templates would not appear in the Task menu, only in the toolbar template button.
  • Installing from source wouldn't work on platforms where pysyncml is not supported.
  • The installers for Mac OS X and Windows for release 0.71.0 were missing some files, causing Task Coach not to be able to save. (SF#2162181)
  • Older task files containing e-mail attachments could not be opened.
  • Newly created templates would not appear in the Task menu, only in the toolbar template button.
  • Installing from source wouldn't work on platforms where pysyncml is not supported.
  • The installers for Mac OS X and Windows for release 0.71.0 were missing some files, causing Task Coach not to be able to save. (SF#2162181)

New in Task Coach 0.71.0 (Oct 13, 2008)

  • Undo would not work well when creating notes in a category or task.
  • An IndexError would be raised when undoing then editing.
  • Ctrl-PgDn and Ctrl-PgUp would sometimes need to be pressed multiple times before the next or previous viewer would be activated.
  • E-mail attachments are now stored directly in the task file.
  • Tasks and notes can now be synchronized with a Funambol server (http://www.funambol.com/). (2006123, 1892874)
  • Tasks can now be saved and reused as templates. (1851847, 1549002, 1484368)
  • Attachments are now regular domain objects; they may have notes.
  • The task and note editors now use an actual category viewer. It is possible to create and edit categories from these editors.
  • The description tooltip now works for efforts and categories. It also contains a summary of notes and attachments belonging to the hovered object. (1642608)
  • More task recurrence options. Tasks can now also recur yearly, in addition to daily, weekly, and monthly. Tasks can also recur with a multiple period frequency, e.g. every other week or every three months. Monthly recurring tasks can be set to recur on the same week day (e.g. first Monday of the month). (1963803, 2076511)
  • The times used in the drop down menus of the start and stop entries of the effort dialog can now be changed via the preferences dialog. Patch supplied by Rob McMullen.
  • The effort tracking feature can be turned off via the preferences dialog.
  • The system tray icon shows the task being tracked in its tool tip. Patch provided by João Alexandre de Toledo.
  • Categories and notes can have attachments.
  • Tasks and categories can contain notes. (1954879, 2140239)
  • The four different effort viewers are integrated in one viewer that can switch between different effort aggregation modes, i.e. details, per day, per week and per month, via the toolbar.
  • The two different task viewers are integrated in one viewer that can switch between list and tree mode, via the toolbar.
  • Category filtering is done either by showing tasks and notes that match any category or that match all categories. This filtering mode can be switched via the toolbar of the category viewer. (2024510)
  • The effort background is now colored with the same color as the task it belongs to.
  • The effort viewer can show the (overall) categories of the task of each effort in an (overall) categories column. Patch provided by Thomas Sonne Olesen. (1911052, 1791670)
  • When the effort viewer is in weekly mode, it can show effort per weekday. Patch provided by Thomas Sonne Olesen.
  • The automatic resizing of columns can be turned off on a viewer by viewer basis, using the 'Automatic column resizing' checkable menu item in the View->Columns menu and/or in the column header right-click menu. (2047851)
  • The expansion state of tasks, categories and notes is saved in the task file. (2045453)
  • Added Catalan translation thanks to Ferran Roig, Jordi Mallach, Josep-Miquel Ivars, and devaleitzer.
  • Added an (incomplete) Arabic translation thanks to Moayyed. Please help finish it. See http://www.taskcoach.org/i18n.html.
  • Added largely incomplete Esperanto, Estonian, Indonesian, Marathi, Lithuanian, Norwegion Nynorsk, Slovenian, Telugu, and Vietnamese translations. Please help finish them. See http://www.taskcoach.org/i18n.html.
  • The task file format (version 20) was changed. Task nodes may have a recurrence node that contains the recurrence state of the task. Categories and notes can contain attachments. Tasks and categories can now contain notes.

New in Task Coach 0.70.4 (Sep 29, 2008)

  • Allow Task Coach to be installed on Ubuntu 7.10.
  • Task Coach wasn't notifying users of new versions.
  • When merging, merge notes too.
  • When the notes feature is turned off, hide the 'Create new note' menu item in the category pop up menu.
  • Fixed a translation bug.
  • Hide/show the main window with one click on the task bar icon instead of a double click (Linux only).
  • The Task Coach main window would get a very small size if it was started minimized and had not been restored in the previous session.

New in Task Coach 0.70.3 (Aug 18, 2008)

  • Bug fix release
  • Bugs fixed:
  • wxPython 2.8.8.1 generates images in a new, backwards incompatible way, even when told not to do that. This bug affects users that have an older version of wxPython installed and use one of the Linux packages. Fixed by adding the relevant pieces from wxPython 2.8.8.1 to the Task Coach sources. (2046084)
  • Opening a new task viewer didn't work. (2053008)
  • Closing effort viewers causes exceptions. (2053008)

New in Task Coach 0.70.2 (Aug 8, 2008)

  • Using the "Save selection" feature together with mail attachments could result in data loss.
  • Under KDE, the maximized state of the main window would not be restored.
  • One couldn't e-mail tasks with non-ASCII characters in their description. (2025676)
  • Dragging an email message from Thunderbird and dropping it on Task Coach could give a "UnicodeDecodeError" on Fedora. (1953166)
  • When an invalid regular expression was entered in a search control, no items were displayed. Additionally, if it was saved in TaskCoach.ini, TaskCoach would crash on launch later.
  • Mention of non-existing files in taskcoach.spec prevented the Fedora RPM from being built.
  • The category viewer would sometimes skip keyboard navigation or need an extra mouse-click to get focus. (2020816, 2020812)
  • On Mac OS X, the keyboard shortcut for 'help' was interfering with the shortcut for 'hide window'. (2006455)
  • Notes can be e-mailed.
  • Display a tool tip to warn user when a search string is an invalid regular expression. In this case, default to substring search.
  • Optionally put Task Coach in the user's startup menu so that Task Coach is started automatically when the user logs on (Windows only). (2017400, 1913650)
  • Made (right-click) context menu's more consistent.
  • Don't supply the dummy recipient 'Please enter recipient' to the email program when mailing a task. This only forces the user to perform an extra action to remove that dummy text, while most if not all email programs will warn the user when she forgets to enter a recipient. (2026833)

New in Task Coach 0.70.1 (Jun 30, 2008)

  • The search control in the toolbar did not maintain state correctly for different viewers. Task Coach viewers now each have their own toolbar with search control. (1977196)
  • Marking tasks completed or changing their priority would change the selection. (1888598, 1926362)
  • On Max OS X, put preferences menu item in the TaskCoach menu instead of the Edit menu to conform with Mac OS X standards. (1965861)
  • Focus issues: On Mac OS X, text couldn't be edited while the timer was running. On Windows, notifications from other programs overlapping with the main window would take away focus from dialogs. (1995469, 2000152)
  • Prevent crash under Windows XP when dropping e-mail from Thunderbird if the APPDATA environment variable is not defined. (1960827)
  • ImportError: No module named thirdparty.ElementTree. This exception would happen when using a source distribution of Task Coach or a package (rpm, deb) for Linux *and* when the default version of Python on the system is Python 2.4. Task Coach tried to import a module from the wrong package. (1964069)
  • On Linux, when using a dark theme, use appropriate background colors for the category viewer and the text color buttons in the preferences dialog. (1988160)
  • Remember whether the main window was maximized and if so, maximize the main window when starting the next time. (1969266)
  • Correctly sort tasks on startup when sort column is 'Overall categories'. (1962003)
  • Correctly redraw toolbar when it is 'damaged' by other windows (1977208)
  • Correctly sort effort for subtasks in effort per day, per week, and per month effort viewers. (1989553)
  • Better navigation with tab key in dialogs.
  • Keep newlines in descriptions when printing or exporting to HTML.
  • Task Coach can now use either the old tabbed user interface (whose layout still cannot be saved, by the way) or the 'managed frame' interface introduced in release 0.70.0. This can be changed in the Preferences dialog. (1964213)

New in Task Coach 0.70.0 (May 13, 2008)

  • Allow for editing seconds in effort editor. (1925748)
  • The combobox in the effort detail editor always picked the first task when multiple tasks had the same subject, effectively prohibiting the user to move an effort record to another task with the same subject. (1918033)
  • Reset invalid input in the priority field of the task editor to 0 instead of to the minimum priority (a large negative value). (1949222)
  • "View->Filter->Reset all filters" now also unchecks all categories.
  • Task Coach now is packaged as a proper Debian package, thanks to Stani Michiels. The Debian package installs a menu item for Task Coach in the Applications/Office menu. (1792706, 1792711, 1896796)
  • Paths to file attachments may be relative.
  • Monthly and yearly recurrence of tasks. (1933222, 1957687)
  • Added and reorganized keyboard short cuts. (1857101)
  • Start tracking effort for any active task using the system tray icon right-click menu. (1934738, 1739666)
  • Added a largely complete Ukranian translation thanks to Vitovt and incomplete Finnish, Greek, Persian and Thai translations.
  • Slightly higher preference window so all icons fit and no scrolling is needed. (1918678)
  • Task Coach now uses Subversion for version control. See http://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=130831. This only affects you if you want to develop or use Task Coach source code.
  • Task Coach is now distributed under the GNU General Public License version 3 or (at your option) any later version. This only affects you if you want to distribute changed versions of Task Coach or want to include source code from Task Coach in other software.

New in Task Coach 0.69.2 (Mar 29, 2008)

  • Tasks created via the context menu of the category view now automatically belong to the selected category.
  • Update task status and colors at midnight.
  • Exception when starting Task Coach ("AttributeError: 'CategoryList' object has no attribute 'EventTypePrefix'").
  • Exception when reopening a closed viewer (with the message "ConfigParser.NoSectionError: No section: 'effortperdayviewer1'" in the log file).
  • Exception when resetting all filters in the task tree viewer (with the message "No option 'hidecompositetasks' in section: 'tasktreelistview'" in the log file).
  • Don't take the priority of completed subtasks into account when calculating the overall priority of a task.
  • It was not clear that backup files can be opened in Task Coach. Backup files now have the extension '.tsk.bak'. The file open dialog has '*.tsk.bak' as selectable file type to make it easier to open backup files.
  • Exception when opening the task menu while the toolbar is hidden.
  • Task Coach now suggests a reminder date, based on the due date or start date of a task.
  • Added a complete Norwegion Bokmal translation and incomplete Galician, Korean and Romanian translations.

New in Task Coach 0.69.1 (Feb 15, 2008)

  • Exception when closing a task editor dialog. This causes updates of task states not to be displayed properly. The bug itself does not cause data loss, but it might trick users into saving an empty task file over their existing data. (1893634)
  • On Mac OS X, users couldn't enter 'P' and 'M' in text boxes, because these were mapped to menu items. Reorganized keyboard shortcuts to fix this. (1890566)
  • The arrow ('!�') and infinity symbol ('"') are not visible on all computers, so Task Coach is back to using '->' and 'Infinite' again.