ARBIL 2.5.x RELEASE NOTES
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$Date: 2013-09-26 15:51:47 +0200 (do, 26 sep 2013) $ 
$Revision: 38483 $ (this means that the descriptions below apply to Arbil 2.5.x 
with x >= revision)

Contacts:
- Peter Withers (peter.withers@mpi.nl)
- Twan Goosen (twan.goosen@mpi.nl)
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Below is an overview of changes in Arbil since the previous minor version (Arbil
2.4). Where applicable, related ticket numbers from TRAC are included at the end
of the description.

** ADDITIONS **

The following functionality has been added to Arbil:

- FAVOURITES: Favourites can be now be imported and exported. (#19)

- TYPE CHECKING: Typechecking can be forced on a resource manually through a
menu option. (#2826)

- TABLE: Nodes and fields can be deleted from the table view. (#1276)

- MENU BAR: A view menu has been added to the menu bar with menu options
to change the font size throughout the application. (#1981)

- TREE STRUCTURE VIEW: It is possible to switch to a verbatim representation
of the document structure in the tree for CMDI documents through an item
in the 'Options' menu. (#1153)

- REMOTE CORPUS TREE: A context menu option to add any selected remote node
to the root of the 'Remote Corpus' tree is now available. (#1692)

- DELETION: Nodes and fields can be deleted from the table (horizontal
view where there is a node per row) through the context menu of the row itself
or the column header respectively. (#1276) 

** CHANGES **

These parts of the Arbil functionality have changed:

- FAVOURITES: Favourites are now grouped by type. (#21)

- CMDI PROFILES: Profiles are no longer downloaded automatically along with the
profiles list. They get downloaded as soon as they are selected, or
alternatively all profiles can be downloaded through a new 'Download all
profiles' button in the profiles panel of the templates dialog. (#1412)

- CMDI PROFILES: The name of manually added profiles now gets retrieved from
the profile schema, so that their full name gets displayed instead of a name
derrived from the schema location. (#1470)

- STORAGE DIRECTORY: When multiple storage directories are detected, the user is
notified through a warning dialog. (#1246)

- EDITING: Typing in a field will replace the existing content by default. The
user can append to the existing content by using the mouse or one of the 
keyboard shortcuts F2 or CTRL-U. (#1245)

- LANGUAGE SELECTION: Selection of all languages from the IMDI language
vocabulary will be updated as new languages get added. (#2317)

- SEARCH RESULTS: Columns matching a search term get highlighted in the
search result table. If a single node is returned as a search result, it is 
shown as a single row instead of a vertical table. (#1170, #1273)

- IMPORT/EXPORT: When importing or exporting metadata will hit an existing
copy of a file, a dialogue is now shown asking the user whether to overwrite
or not. (#1272, #1403)

- NODE LOADING: Nodes only loaded for tree display purposes do not get fully
processed. This increases performance, especially with large collections of
CMDI files. (#1755, #1797)

- LOGGING: Logging has been made more configurable (as explained in the help
section on this topic) and output can be monitored on different levels of detail
in the new 'log console' available through the 'Help' menu when running the 
installed version of the application. (#2793)

** FIXES **

Among other, mostly minor, bugfixes, the following issues have been resolved:

- FIELD DESCRIPTIONS: Missing field descriptions have been added for a large
number of IMDI fields. (#657)

- XML RESOURCES: Arbil will no longer attempt to open CMDI resources that are
XML files themselves 

** KNOWN ISSUES **

Among others, the following issues have been described and will be addressed in
future version of Arbil:

- IMPORT RESOURCES: Resources that are protected and require authentication can
currently not be imported into the local corpus since the authentication
mechanism is broken. (#679)

- SHOW IMDI FORMATTED: When showing an IMDI metadata file 'IMDI formatted', the
formatting does not look as expected. (#899)

- PERFORMANCE: After importing (certain) corpus nodes, CPU load gets and stays
high. (#929)

- SEARCH IN TABLE: The layout of the input boxes for search/replcae within a
table sometimes break on Windows and Linux. (#1577)

- REMOTE SEARCH: The search interface for remote search is not very intuitive.
At the moment remote search requires two steps: remote searching and local
filtering. (#651)

- FILE HANDLING: There are some issues with file handling that occur on Windows
7. These can cause opening in external file and moving the local corpus
directory to fail. (#1372 and #1553)