## Release Notes

### What is new ?

- Compatibilty Changes

- The NC has been published under the terms of the GPLv3+
- at least Java 6 is required, Java 7 or later is recommended
- For the online help an external browser is required

- Core Functionalty

- 5200+ Units (more than 1900 are new)
- 93 Categories (10 are new)

- New Categories

- Fuel Efficiency (l/100 km, mpg, etc.)
- Time in Words (colloquial, official, military and by audio)
- Fractions (including periodic determination)
- Geographic Coordinates (Latitude/Longitue, UTM, etc.)
- Date and Timeformats (Unix time, ISO 8601, etc.)
- Calendar Systems (Gregorian Calendar, Maya, etc.)
- Slope (in % and Angle in °)
- Prüfsummen (powered by Jacksum) mit 61 Algorithmen und 10 verschiedenen Ausgabeformen
- Catalytic Activity (katal, mol/s, etc.)
- Concentration of Substance (mol/l, mol/m³, etc.)

- New Modules

- Time Differences

- Exact calculation of time differences, even location dependent timestamps
- Calculation of interest rates, seven common international methods are supported
- Time zones including information of the time delta and the distance in km

- Random Numbers

- You can throw up to 512 virtual dices, each dice colored if you like, including the option to save the results
- Flexible, generic random generator with sort function and optional avoidance of duplicate numbers

- Updated Modules

- Holidays

- The NC uses the holiday definitions of the sub-project called xml-holidays 1.0, it supports more than 800 holidays from 31 countries for historic, current and future years
- In addition to flexible holidays like Easter or Advent calculation, really complex dates like the Oktoberfest, Equinox or Solstice are supported as well
- In addition to the formats dtcm, Outlook and vCalendar there is also support for the formats called iCalendar (RFC 2445) and XML-iCalendar (xcal) for the export to different programs like Mozilla Sunbird oder Lightning

- Exchange Rates

- Direct download of exchange rates
- The parser has been improved and is now state of the art
- The Regular Expression Library has been replaced by the Java Standard Regex API
- Updated all existing exchange rate filters
- 15 new exchange rate filters
- New currency symbols (AON, AYM, CHW, CSD, COU, RON, RSD, SRD, MGA, MZN, TRY, VEF, ZWL)
- Updated descriptions of all exchange rate filters with important hints for Internet Explorer users
- Reformatted all filters for better readibility with the Windows Look and Feel

- Spoken Numbers

- From now on, input can be interpreted as digits or as a number
- Syllables for audio output of numerals are available not only for English and German but also for French (France, Switzerland and Belgium), Spanish, Italian, Finnish, Schwedish, Dutch, Hungarian, Turkish, Polish, Romanian, Hindi, Tamil, Esperanto, Russian, Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil)
- Support for French extended from 1 digit to 96 digits
- French is distiguished between French in France, Switzerland and Belgium
- Support for Italian extended from 1 digit to 3 digits
- Support for Dutch up to 9 digits (new)
- Support for Hungarian extended from 1 digit to 24 digits
- Support for Hindi extended from 1 digit to 2 digits (not only Transliteration but also written in Devanagari)
- Support for Tongan up to 100 digits (new)
- Support for phone dial sounds (new)
- Phonetic Alphabets also for both Austria and Switzerland

- Graphical User Interface

- functional improvements

- Kategoriegruppen lassen sich nun bequem von der Hauptoberfläche auswählen
- Neue Kategoriegruppenfilter
- Die Konfiguration der gesamten Oberfläche ist nun übersichtlich in einem Dialog zusammengefasst
- Einheiten lassen sich nun auch über einen Dialog bearbeiten
- Bookmarks/Favorites is non-modal now for more flexibility
- Navigation menu contains all navigation related items now
- Verbesserungen bei der Bedienung des Wechselkursupdates
- Alphabetische Sortierung der Ausgabe bei der Auswahl von Hilfe/Support

- visual improvements

- Support for country specific decimal point separators
- Distinction between decimal precision and significant numbers
- Popup of combo boxes get more space if necessary
- A finer font is used by default for both the Swing LnF and the Ocean LnF
- A new splash screen immediately after the start
- "live resize" has been enabled
- Removed country flags in the language selection menu for being politically correct
- Standard Look and Feel menu has been sorted alphabetically
- Support for the Squareness Look and Feel Theme Package
- Swing-layout (LGPL) has been used, https://swing-layout.dev.java.net/
- User interface also in turkish

- Source Code

- Internal Improvements

- group-files can contain comments

- build.xml has been updated, at least NetBeans 6 is recommended

- Many deprecated Java methods have been replaced

- New Libraries

- NimrodLnF 1.2, patched by jonelo
- Dice, patched by jonelo
- Jcoord 1.1-b, patched by jonelo
- Jacksum 1.7.0
- hvjavacal.jar 0.13

- Updated Libraries

- JCalendar, version 1.4
- Squareness LnF, version 2.3.0
- Kunststoff LnF, 2.0.3, patched by jonelo
- Metouia LnF 0.91, patched by jonelo

- Replaced Libraries

- Ostermiller Browser (replaced by Java Standard API)
- Regular Expression Library (replaced by Java Standard API)
- JavaHelp (replaced by native Browser)
- Java Look and feel Graphics Repository (replaced by free icons)

- Help

- The Program Help has been updated
- The "Java Help"-System has been replaced by the standard browser

- Installers

- Native installers are available (.exe, .bin, .deb, .rpm) in order to install the software correctly into your operating system
- A mobile solution is available in order to run the software 100 % from a mobile device without any traces on the host operating system

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### What was new ?

- see also Release Notes (historic)