October 11th, 2005

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Oct 05

Stable and Development PN 2

Testers on the mailing list have had access to essentially “daily” builds of PN 2 for a little while now. Recently I have had loads of bug reports for problems that really should have been fixed in PN 2 in maintenance releases rather than waiting for a whole bunch of features to be completed first.

Stable PN 2 releases will have even numbered revision numbers (e.g. 0.6, 0.8.27) and pn-devel builds will have odd revision numbers (so we’re now working on 0.7). The idea is that I’ll be able to release potentially less stable versions of PN 2 for mass testing without upsetting those who need a stable build for day-to-day use (and recommending to friends etc).

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Oct 05

Ella Released – PN 2.0.6

A new release of Programmers Notepad, PN 2.0.6-ella, has been uploaded to Sourceforge for immediate download! This version adds lots of new features and schemes, and fixes lots of bugs. It marks the start of a new stable/development plan for PN 2 development. This is now the stable PN2 release and unstable releases will be more common. PN 2 is the recommended version of PN for all users.

Thank-you!

Thanks to all the testers and developers that helped with this release, and a special thanks to those who have made donations that are helping to pay for hosting and other essentials.

Why Ella?

Ella Fitzgerald was a fantastic jazz singer, selling over 40 million albums in her lifetime. PN 2 releases are all named after jazz greats, and Ella is certainly welcome in this crowd! One of my favorite Ella tracks is a recording of her performing Mack the Knife live in berlin, such a great song and a great performance.

Download: the installer, or Read: the release notes

The md5sum for this release is 2504c3dd31c9a9daf4cbdcf17090b24f – check your pn206.exe (what is an md5sum?)

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Oct 05

Odd Bugs

I just had a bug report that paste wasn’t working when using PN through VNC. It turns out, that if you have Caps Lock on and press Ctrl+V then VNC actually sends Ctrl+Shift+V. It turns out that notepad.exe supports both shortcuts! The next release now supports Ctrl+Shift+V for paste! I’ll probably add the copy and cut shortcuts as well, but won’t do this for other shortcuts.