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Beta 1.3.3-SNAPSHOT - April 10th 2010

Download VODesktop http://software.astrogrid.org/vodesktop/vodesktop-1.3.3-SNAPSHOT-app.jar

o Added support for SAMP messages to exchange sets of registry resources. 
  VOExplorer can now send and receive messages with mtype of 
  voresource.loadlist.[cone|siap|ssap|stap|tap|cea|cea-adql|vospace] 

Beta 1.3.2.beta4 - January 19 2010

Download VODesktop http://software.astrogrid.org/vodesktop/vodesktop-1.3.2.beta4-app.jar

Tagged in CVS as v1_3_2_beta4

Changes from 1.3.2.beta3

   New Features:
o VOExplorer: added a popup warning when a static list query contains ivo id 
  that do not exist in the registry.  

Beta 1.3.2.beta3 - January 13 2010

Download VODesktop http://software.astrogrid.org/vodesktop/vodesktop-1.3.2.beta3-app.jar

Tagged in CVS as v1_3_2_beta3

Changes from 1.3.2.beta2

 New Features
      VOExplorer: added 'description' field to xml representation of a resource list
     If set, displays as a tooltip in the voexplorer resource tree.

  Fixed bugs:
o Fixed irritating focus-grab by system tray popup messages on OSX  

 Changes:
    VOExplorer: updated examples lists, added a 'sandbox', moved 'recent changes' to top level

  Removed features:
    VOExplorer: removed 'build cea query' option when resource also has a TAP capability.

Beta 1.3.2.beta2 - January 5 2010

Download VODesktop http://software.astrogrid.org/vodesktop/vodesktop-1.3.2.beta2-app.jar

Tagged in CVS as v1_3_2_beta2

Changes from 1.3.2.beta1

  New Features:
o VOExplorer: added menu operation 'Edit > Remove Selected Resources from 
  this list' which allows user to remove items from a static list more 
  conveniently than using the 'edit' view. 

  Fixed bugs:
o VOExplorer: Enabled editing of URL for existing subscriptions 

  Changes:
o Astroscope: made 'services table' the default view for new users. 
o VOExplorer: Improved presentation of TAP services in smart list builder. 

  Removed features:
o Removed security certificate downloader - no longer needed. 
o Removed plastic hub from default startup. Can be re-enabled via 
  preferences.  

Beta 1.3.2.beta1 - December 15 2009

Download VODesktop http://software.astrogrid.org/vodesktop/vodesktop-1.3.2.beta1-app.jar

Tagged in CVS as v1_3_2_beta1

Changes from 1.3

 New Features:
o TAP client now included. 

  Fixed bugs:
o Worked around a bug that prevented voexplorer subscriptions to files in 
  FTP. Bug still applies to SFTP, vospace. 

  Changes:
o Updated presentation in voexplorer to recognize new standard IDS for VOSI 
  and TAP  

Release Candidate 1.2.3.rc1 - 24 April 2009

Download VODesktop http://software.astrogrid.org/vodesktop/vodesktop-1.2.3.rc1-app.jar

Tagged in CVS as v1_2_3_rc1

Changes from 1.2.3.beta4

  Changes:
o VOExplorer: Updated example resource lists. 
o Multi Cone: minor changes to UI labels. 
o Updated VOSpace plugin. 

  Removed features:
o FileExplorer: Removed links to 'examples'. Will re-appear once an examples 
  vospace is registered under ivo://org.astrogrid/examples  

Development Snapshot 1.2.3.beta4 - 17 April 2009

Download VODesktop http://software.astrogrid.org/vodesktop/vodesktop-1.2.3.beta4-app.jar

Changes from 1.2.3.beta3

  New Features:
o Added Multi-position Catalog search application. Can be launched from 
  VOExplorer by selecting a catalog service, or by selecting a votable of 
  positions in FileExplorer, or by sending a votable over SAMP. 

  Fixed bugs:
o Astroscope: disabled 'go to top' button when in services table view 
o Astroscope: position and offset now toggle correctly between sexagesimal 
  and decimal degrees in results table. 
o Astroscope: Object names are now recorded in search history. 
o Voexplorer: edits to static lists now 'stick' without hitting 'enter'. 
o FileExplorer: improved positioning of popup menu on drag-n-drop, and 
  removed 'twitchyness' from folders list 

  Changes:
o Voexplorer: Updated definitions of example resource lists to use new search 
  targets 'capability' and 'resourcetype'. 
o vospace: updated plugin, now handles remote-copy (through client), and 
  filenames containing spaces, and file permissions. 

  Removed features:
o Astroscope: Removed automatic name-resolution in the Object name field. 
  Instead, there's a button that the user must press to trigger a call to the 
  sesame name resolver.  

Development Snapshot 1.2.3.beta3 - 8 April 2009

Download VODesktop http://software.astrogrid.org/vodesktop/vodesktop-1.2.3.beta3-app.jar

Changes from 1.2.3.beta2

  New Features:
o FileExplorer: Added 'examples' directory - contains example queries and 
  scripts, appears in file explorer and file-load dialogues. 
o Samp / Plastic: Used internal webserver to provide access to files in 
  vospace and other odd locations - means that, eg. a votable from anywhere 
  can be sent to topcat. 

  Fixed bugs:
o UI: improved focus in dialogues. 
o File Explorer: Improved performance and reliability when working with 
  myspace or vospace. 

  Changes:
o Voexplorer: Updated metadata and querying options. 

  Removed features:
o UI: Removed VoMon information, replaced with more reliable info from Vosi 
  where available.  

Development Snapshot 1.2.3.beta2 - 20 Mar 2009

Download VODesktop http://software.astrogrid.org/vodesktop/vodesktop-1.2.3.beta2-app.jar

Changes from 1.2.3.beta1

  New Features:
o Set HTTP Agent to report AstroRuntime as the client. 
o Added SAMP messaging - Plastic messaging is still present too. 
o AR: Added simple XML access to registry resources. Used when exchanging 
  resources in SAMP messages. 
o VOExplorer: Added 'Publication' action to left pane and menu - opens a 
  webpage about associated bibcode. 
o AR: Added a File API that provides uniform access to different kinds of 
  file system - local disk, ftp, sftp, myspace, http, vospace 

  Fixed bugs:
o File Explorer: Fixed multiple-listeners bug Thanks to Dave Morris. 
o AR: Improved error reporting for faulty XQuery. 

  Changes:
o updated glazedlists library to latest version 
o VOExplorer: Updated 'Download Tables' and 'Send Tables via PLASTIC' to work 
  with new version of Vizier service.  

Development Snapshot 1.2.3.beta1 - 13 Feb 2009

Download VODesktop http://software.astrogrid.org/vodesktop/vodesktop-1.2.3.beta1-app.jar

Download updated commandline scripts http://software.astrogrid.org/vodesktop/acr-interface-1.2.3.beta1.tar.gz

Changes from 1.2.2:

  New Features:
o Commandline: Added 'browse' option to adql.py, siap.py. Implemented app.py 
  for executing remote applications (CEA). Improved search.py to accept 
  simple query language. 
o AR: Registry service can now be queried using the simple query language 
  used in VOExplorer smart lists. This is more usable than xquery. 

  Fixed bugs:
o VOExplorer: new installation now creates user-annotations.xml file Issue: 
  2883. 
o Astroscope: Fixed incorrect reporting of number-of-services Issue: 2884. 
o AR: Applications API more forgiving to user input - accepts IVORN of CEA 
  server in place of expected IVORN of CEA application, for cases where CEA 
  server only provides one application. This commonly occurs in DSA servers. 
o AR: util.tables component was unavailable in previous release. Added 
  integration tests to verify availability of all components. 
o Astroscope: work-around for quirks in NED service. Now only uses 'VERB' 
  parameter in query if registration says it is supported. Issue: 2856. 
o VoExplorer: 'any field' smartlist query now works correctly. Issue: 2870. 
o AR: Improved parsing of DAL (Cone, Siap, Ssap) responses, with more 
  detailed reporting of lack of metadata. 
o File Explorer: Improved drag-n-drop behaviour of file table. 
o File Explorer: Improved behaviour of popup menus in file table. 

  Changes:
o AR: Updated to work with changed response schema from CDS's Sesame name 
  resolver. 
o AR: Improved formatting of in-program API documentation (as seen from 
  component system.apihelp, and via browser interface)  

Development Snapshot 1.2.1 - 24 Oct 2008

Contains experiemental support for TAP services in TaskRunner Download: http://software.astrogrid.org/vodesktop/vodesktop-1.2.1-app.jar

Release Candidate 2008.2.rc1 - 7 August 2008

Download: http://software.astrogrid.org/vodesktop/vodesktop-2008.2.rc1-app.jar

tagged in CVS as release_2008_2_rc1 version on bugzilla 2008.2.rc1

The consolidated changes since the 2008.1 release include:

  New Features:
o astroscope: added position and offset columns to results table. 
o astroscope: when a large query is encountered, user is warned and display 
  flips to services table 
o astroscope: added transient warning when search radius is greater than 1.0 
o UI: Remember user's preferred views for nex ttime 
o voexplorer: added mode to protect registry from overlarge novice queries. 
o voexplorer: added indication when tabular metadata view contains data 
o Astroscope: pre fill search form with testquery parameters, if available. 

  Fixed bugs:
o astroscope: improved parsing of non-standard ssap services Issue: 2767. 
o astroscope: resource table and coverage metadata now shown in services 
  table details, added 'Results' filterwheel to services table. 
o Task Runner: File selection dialogue navigates to vospace where necessary 
  Issue: 2805. 
o Plastic: connect to external hub if already running. Issue: 2692. 
o AR: Changed default address for AR and plastic connections to 'localhost' 
  Issue: 2785, 2151, 1799. 
o AR: xmlrpc is now tolerant of a wider character set in data returned from 
  registry. Issue: 2790. 
o astroscope: recognizes fits files as spectra, so they can be sent via 
  plastic 
o voexplorer: service test query no longer reports a failure as a ui error 
  Issue: 2763. 
o sesame service endpoint can now be altered. Issue: 2494. 
o File Explorer: 'new folder' dialogue now displays correctly. Issue: 2778. 
o Voexplorer: Improved presentation of validation level. 
o AR: now accepts CEA tool structures with repeated parameters. Issue: 2253. 
o Astroscope: Updated registry querying to process as a stream - improves 
  performance 
o Plastic: errors when sending plastic messages are now displayed in 
  click-to-dismiss dialogues. Issue: 2718. 
o Voexplorer: slightly improved presentation of STC coverage - still no STC 
  renderer through 
o Voexplorer: added waveband column to voexplorer / astroscope resource table 
o VoExplorer, Astroscope , AR: Altered to work with new CDS resource format. 
o QB: Cures loss of focus after certain edits in QB Issue: 2756. 
o QB: Tool tips for columns and tables in menus and tree view Issue: 2757. 
o QB: ROUND and TRUNCATE fixed. Issue: 2733. 
o QB: Fixed cardinalities for Maths and Trig functions. Issue: 2735. 
o QB: Explicit joins are now carried out more tastefully. The join condition 
  is checked for tables. If required, tables are included automatically. 
  Issue: 2736. 
o Astroscope: Fixed obscure race-condition. Issue: 2724. 

  Changes:
o VOExplorer : Altered registry resource caching scheme -faster and better 
  cache usage. 
o Checked all dependent libraries for updates. 
o updated build and source to work with Java 1.5 (and start to take advantage 
  of it) 

  Removed features:
o Removed separate builds for asr, hub, etc.  

Previous

Release 2008.1 - 31 March 2008

Download: http://software.astrogrid.org/vodesktop/vodesktop-2008.1-app.jar

tagged in CVS as release_2008_1 version on bugzilla 2008.1

  Fixed bugs:
o force update of vospace filesizes. Issue: 2679.  

Release Candidate 2008.1.rc2 - 31 March 2008

Download: http://software.astrogrid.org/vodesktop/vodesktop-2008.1.rc2-app.jar

tagged in CVS as release_2008_1_rc2 version on bugzilla 2008.1.rc2

 Fixed bugs:
o Improved SSAP handling in astroscope Issue: 2689. 
o Fixed race condition at startup of fetching helpmap (as seen by Dave). 
o fixed code error in content-type filter. Issue: 2681. 
o Increased defensive coding in resource parser. This will fix problems seen 
  when doing reg query through AR  

Release Candidate 2008.1.rc1 - 28 March 2008

Download: http://software.astrogrid.org/vodesktop/vodesktop-2008.1.rc1-app.jar

tagged in CVS as release_2008_1_rc1 version on bugzilla 2008.1.rc1

 New Features:
o Added button to fire an availability query from voexplorer 
o Added tooltip of login information - including DN - to login indicator. 
o Improved display of security info in voexplorer, and force login when 
  trying to execute a secured service in taskrunner. 

  Fixed bugs:
o added to, and made uniform, UI help tags. 
o Freshened all example resource lists. Made the examples location a 
  preference Issue: 2640. 
o VOExplorer left-right resizing now works properly. Issue: 2609. 
o Improved synchroniation to prevent concurrent modification exceptions in 
  helio/astroscope. Issue: 2665. 
o Added preference to enable chunking of transfers to filestore. Issue: 2675. 
o Altered initial capacity settings of HtmlBuilder and reviewed instances of 
  StrBuilder Issue: 2640. 
o Minor fix to style sheets to correct Group By error in ADQL. Issue: 2673. 
o Another minor fix to the sizing of Query Builder. Renamed the comment tab 
  in QB to Comment rather than Information plus icon change. Slightly more 
  tasteful failure if tabular metadata not found. Improved comment 
  processing. (added C and C++ style) Issue: 2649. 

  Changes:
o Updated to latest browser-control library Issue: 2677.  

2008.1.beta4 - 17 March 2008

Bugfix release

Download: http://software.astrogrid.org/vodesktop/vodesktop-2008.1.beta4-app.jar

tagged in CVS as release_2008_1_beta4 version on bugzilla 2008.1.beta4

  Fixed bugs:

o Tables should not be case sensitive in ADQL. Issue: 2639. 
o Execute button enabled and populated within TaskRunner. Some failsafe 
  checking when trying to retrieve tabular metadata. Some ivorns within 
  registry inconsistent on case when used as a foreign key. Issue: 2632. 
o Renable astroscope search button when resolve fails. Issue: 2624. 
o Resource list popup menu on OS X no longer deselects selected resource. 
  Issue: 2610. 
o File dialogue remembers position last browsed to. Issue: 2422. 
o File dialogue can now display in list view. Issue: 2439. 
o Improved progress display of self tests. Issue: 2629. 
o test for running on low memory. Issue: 2613. 
o Changed text colour in smart list progress bar for readability. Issue: 
  2532. 
o Finally fixed problems with initial expansion state of resource list tree. 
  Issue: 2430.  

2008.1.beta3 - 10 March 2008

The main developments with this release are bug fixes, improvements of presentation, and completion of the upgrade to Registry 1.0, VoSpace and Community.

Download: http://software.astrogrid.org/vodesktop/vodesktop-2008.1.beta3-app.jar

tagged in CVS as release_2008_1_beta3 version on bugzilla 2008.1.beta3

  New Features:
o New network preferences configuration panel enables configuration of HTTP 
  proxy and other network system preferences. Issue: 2559. 

  Fixed bugs:
o Resizing query builder. Issue: 2362. 
o Fix VOSpace problems via AR (now use filemanager-client-2008.0b2). Issue: 
  2578. 
o Work around bug which caused preference saving to fail at java 1.6. Issue: 
  2595. 
o Multiple capabilities (even of the same kind) per resource now supported in 
  AstroScope. Issue: 2562. 
o In-context menu reintroduced into Query Builder Issue: 2418. 
o Make sure resources tree is expanded when first viewed. Issue: 2430. 
o "concrete" myspace ivorns used to call cea server Issue: 2547. 
o Final aspects of ADQL folded into Query Builder Issue: 2546. 
o Retrieval of metadata for Query Builder now at Registry v1.0 Issue: 2560.  
o URLs now visible in voexplorer resource display Issue: 2520. 
o TabularMetadataViewer. Fixed NPE when column value null. Fixed incorrect 
  inclusion of columns after a sort. Issue: 2419. 
o Improved :8080 selftest. Issue: 2466. 
o Fixed filename-related bug on windows. Issue: 2465. 

  Changes:
o Upgraded registry client and parser to registry v1.0  

2007.4.beta1 - 12 December 2007

http://software.astrogrid.org/voexplorer/voexplorer-2007.4.beta1-app.jar

tagged in CVS as release_2007_4_beta1

 New Features:
o Astroscope: Added icons to service types, and nodes that have result files 
  associated - assists navigation, and makes it clear where results are 
  present in the tree. 
o Astroscope: completed results table view. 
o Helioscope: Implemented as a subset of Astroscope resources 

  Fixed bugs:
o Astroscope: made popup query failure messages configurable. Issue: 2348. 
o TaskRunner: fixed missing class error when executing an ADQL query. Thanks 
  to kevin. 
o Astroscope: Corrected parsing of siap and ssap service responses. Issue: 
  1729. 

  Changes:
o Astroscope: Hide service-type balloons for those service-types that are not 
  being queried. 

  Removed features:
o Astroscope: removed Vizier search protocol, as the search url format used 
  (e.g. 
  http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/votable/-dtd/-A?RA=10.674458&DEC=40.865889&SR=0.01 
  ) has stopped working. A replacement is not documented on the CDS site.  

2007.4.alpha8 - 27 November 2007

http://software.astrogrid.org/voexplorer/voexplorer-2007.4.alpha8-app.jar

tagged in CVS as release_2007_4_alpha8

  New Features:
o AR: added configuration preferences to assist running in low-bandwidth 
  environments 

  Fixed bugs:
o System tray: added additional armour to fallback if system tray fails after 
  initialization. Issue: 2427. 
o Self tests: added a 'help' button Issue: 2415. 
o VOExplorer: Fixed word-wrapping in annotation boxes Issue: 2417. 
o Task Runner: enabled refresh operation Issue: 2420. 
o Self tests: made tests less twitchy, improved ui, and made less intrusive. 
  Issue: 2414. 
o Task Runner: Improved formatting and accessability of error messages and 
  transcripts. Issue: 2409. 
o fixed misconfigured registry endpoint Issue: 2411. 

  Changes:
o UI: improved interface to background processes - progress reporting, 
  viewing, retry. 
o VOExplorer: improved formatted of resource contents 
o UI: reviewed modal dialogues, replaced with non-modal where sensible 
o improved usability of astroscope position-resolving input field.  

2007.4.alpha7 - 13 November 2007

http://software.astrogrid.org/voexplorer/voexplorer-2007.4.alpha7-app.jar

tagged in CVS as elease_2007_4_alpha7

 New Features:
o Changed VOExplorer resource lists component from a JList to a JTree. 
  Associated changes include providing subscribed lists/folders and folder 
  import/export. 
o Added self-tests on startup to detect and warn about common problems (no 
  network, core services unavailable, etc) 

  Fixed bugs:
o Added upload and download buttons to fileexplorer Issue: 2317. 
o repaint of status balls in login dialogue Issue: 2389. 
o Made any plastic operation selectable, regardless of whether type 
  information matches. Issue: 2377. 
o Astroscope / AR: improved detection of DAL error responses. Issue: 1837. 
o AR: made STAP service accessible from XMLRPC Issue: 2189. 
o Fixed vizier search with +ve declination Issue: 2372. 
o Implemented missing registry method. Issue: 2148. 
o AR: util.tables now accepts CSV as input. Issue: 2116. 

  Changes:
o Filled out the application menubars, guided by Apple usability docs. Added 
  cut / copy / paste support. Some work still to do on astroscope menus. 
o Extended drag-n-drop integration with host OS (drag files between 
  fileExplorer and local text editor / file manager). Works on OSX, partly on 
  Ubuntu, not yet on Windows 
o Updated AR dialogues: login, toolEditor, fileChooser and resourceChooser to 
  use latest UI  

2007.4.alpha6 - 8 October 2007

http://software.astrogrid.org/voexplorer/voexplorer-2007.4.alpha6-app.jar

tagged in CVS as release_2007_4_alpha6

  New Features:
o Taskrunner: passes a menu to QB to be used as a context-menu 
o Xmlrpc AR interface: serialized beans now provide type information 
o Activities: when an activity is triggered on a large selection (over 30 
  items), user is prompted to confirm. 
o File dialogue: added separate input field to specify filename. 
o Taskrunner: records parameter set used in each invocation, and offers 
  ability to reload this parameterset back into the editor. 
o Voexplorer: Added 'select all' and 'invert selection' menu operations. 

  Fixed bugs:
o Taskrunner: fixed access to results. Issue: 2349. 
o Fileexplorer: can now send fits files over plastic. Issue: 2354. 
o Taskrunner: more helpful handling of file:// indirect parameters Issue:  1894. 
o General: Improved error handling and reporting 
o Taskrunner: renamed and debugged the 'reveal file' action. - now does a 
  refresh if file is not present. 
o Voexplorer: fixed ui snag Issue: 2300. 

  Changes:
o Taskrunner: improved form layout and help display, based on review 
  suggestions 
o Voexplorer: Tidied up annotations xml format - all previous annotations 
  will be lost. Improved annotation store performance, and annotation ui. 

  Removed features:
o Activities: Removed scirpting again - very memory inefficient - need to 
  rethink and come up with a different approach.  

2007.4.alpha5 - 11 September 2007

http://software.astrogrid.org/voexplorer/voexplorer-2007.4.alpha5-app.jar

tagged in CVS as release_2007_4_alpha5

 New Features:
o Added ability to directly download / send to plastic vizier tables from 
  voexplorer 
o VoExplorer sends and accepts bibcode plastic messages - for paperscope 
  integration 
o Indicate 'handoff' with a transient popup notification when plastic message 
  is sent to another application 

  Fixed bugs:
o Improved layout of voexplorer window 
o Improved display of annotations in resource table and details pane. 
o Query Builder. Reinstated one-touch expansion for split pane. Corrected 
  inability to see diagnostics and history panes. Eliminated Adql/x 
  validation messages in favour of AdqlCompiler messages. Issue: 2277. 
o Fixed fileexplorer window size. 
o Altered tables to have white background in metal LAF 
o Fixed construction of UI code so it's always on eventDispatchThread. This 
  fixes some of the problems seen under Windows / Java 6 

  Changes:
o Implemented new list of resourcelists in voexplorer 
o Updated file chooser dialogue to use new FileExplorer UI 

  Removed features:
o Removed misleading 'test' button. Issue: 2301.  

2007.4.alpha4 - 23 August 2007

http://software.astrogrid.org/voexplorer/voexplorer-2007.4.alpha4-app.jar

tagged in CVS as release_2007_4_alpha4

  New Features:
o Added a 'rename' operation to tasks list. 
o Added a starter XQuery to the xquery editor box. 
o Added filterwheel options for ImageServiceType 

  Fixed bugs:
o in smart list query editor, form values persist when switching between 
  criteria. 
o Fixed colours of query size indicator Issue: 2274. 
o File explorer views now clean up on user logout - now possible to cleanly 
  switch between different user accounts. Issue: 2293. 
o Fixed selection shading for 'list' view. Issue: 2279. 
o Minor improvements to file explorer 
o Astroscope now launches again. Issue: 2285.  

2007.4.alpha3 - 13 August 2007

http://software.astrogrid.org/voexplorer/voexplorer-2007.4.alpha3-app.jar

tagged in CVS as release_2007_4_alpha3

 New Features:
o Provided option to configure which columns are displayed in VOExplorer 
  resource display table. 
o Implemented the basic operations in fileexplorer - copy, delete, rename, 
  move, newFolder 
o Added a column number column to table metadata viewer. 
o Added operation to task runner results view to reveal indirect results in 
  file explorer. 
o Result files in task runner can be dragged and dropped to file explorer to 
  save them to myspace or local disk. 

  Fixed bugs:
o Improved error trapping and reporting in taskrunner Issue: 2272. 
o Execute button now populates in query builder. Issue: 2273. 
o TaskRunner doesn't barf when encountering an unknown cea server Issue: 
  2270. 
o Improved efficiency and caching behaviour of myspace file view  

2007.4.alpha2 - 6 August 2007

http://software.astrogrid.org/voexplorer/voexplorer-2007.4.alpha2-app.jar

tagged in CVS as release_2007_4_alpha2

  New Features:
o Reimplemented taskrunner 'execute' button to present a choice of available 
  servers. 
o TaskRunner: Added tooltips showing message history for tasks 

  Fixed bugs:
o VOExplorer searches halt completely when pressing the 'stop search' button. 
o Fixed a problem with displaying contents of a voexplorer folder after 
  creating / editing that folder. 
o Usability enhancements to task runner: made full adql editor resizable, 
  remembered adql editor expansion state and parameter values when flipping 
  between tool interfaces Issue: 2260. 
o Clarified the function of the filter field by adding 'gray text' and a 
  'clear filter' button. Issue: 2255. 
o Task Runner now shows file results even when in myspace root directory 
o Removed the 'load from storage' button for simple types - boolean, 
  enumeration, integer and float-like types. Show a specialzed input for 
  radius parameters - detected when name=Radius or ucd=PHYS_SIZE_RADIUS. 
  Added ability to 'pin' parameter help by clicking on the parameter heading. 
  Made an effort to get parameter help to appear when mouse-overing input 
  dialogues. Issue: 2261. 
o Improved progress reporting of tasks - progress starts earlier, and shows 
  more, more often. Issue: 2257. 

  Changes:
o Improved presentation of vomon information in login dialogue 
o Altered persistence format for resource lists to more human-friendly xml.  

2007.4.alpha1 - 26 July 2007

http://software.astrogrid.org/voexplorer/voexplorer-2007.4.alpha1-app.jar

tagged in CVS as release_2007_4_alpha1

  New Features:
o Added the first few operations to file explorer. 
o Implemented Task Runner UI 
o Integrated ADQL Query Builder with Task runner, and enabled it to operate 
  on catalogues and cea applications. 
o Implemented minimalistic ui for when system tray is not available 

  Fixed bugs:
o Fixes related to entering positions and radii in AstroScope. Only 1-d 
  radius can now be entered; sexagesimal->decimal conversion bugs are 
  fixed; position and radius parsing is more lenient (e.g. permits embedded 
  spaces and leading + signs); and 'sexagesimal' display of radius is now in 
  decimal arcseconds rather than dd:mm:ss.ss. See bugs 1824, 1939, 2185. 
o Improved the way the PLASTIC hub deals with orphaned .plastic files - no 
  more annoying user messages. See bug 2248. 
o remote execution framework consults vomon to choose suitable server 
o Debugged AR ADQL parser 

  Changes:
o Merged tabular metadata viewers used in voexplorer and query builder 
o Reworked remote execution framework  

2007.3.alpha4 - 21 Jun 2007

http://software.astrogrid.org/voexplorer/voexplorer-2007.3.alpha4-app.jar

tagged in CVS as astro-runtime-2007_3_alpha4

  New Features:
o Added icons for types / capabilities of resources to voexplorer. 
o Added filtering of boring system services from voexplorer 
o Added Configuration.reset() to the public AR interface. Provided access to 
  this from HTML and UI preferences interfaces. 

  Fixed bugs:
o Debugged -configFile and -configURL options. Updated -list to generate a 
  configuration file that can be passed back to AR. Thanks to 
  dave@ast.cam.ac.uk. 
o Fixed error reported as 
  org.astrogrid.desktop.modules.system.HivemindFileSystemManager does not 
  contain a property named 'temporaryFileStore'. Thanks to 
  dave@ast.cam.ac.uk. 
o fixed system-properties-overriding-preferences bug. System properties now 
  take precedence. 
o Improved logging of startup process, and configured logging to a file. 
o Re-worked UI to remove use of popup modal dialogues where possible 
o Fixed behaviour of vomon on shutdown of cache. 
o Streamlined the startup process - parsing of CertificatesList, etc now more 
  on background threads. 
o Mended build process, added generation of javadoc, hivedoc, and 
  configuration key docs. 
o Javadoc improvments 
o First bug fixes for Query Builder after VOExplorer development. Requires 
  new version of AdqlStoX: astrogrid.adqlstox.version=2007.2sx Requires new 
  version of adql xmlbeans: astrogrid.adql_v1_0a2.version=1.2-b000xmlbeans 
  Issue: 2152. 

  Removed features:
o Removed confusing -D commandline option. Thanks to dave@ast.cam.ac.uk. 
o Removed scripting activities - performance was poor in the current 
  approach. Replace with a wizard-driven implementation.  

2007.3.alpha2 - 13 May 2007

http://software.astrogrid.org/voexplorer/voexplorer-2007.3.alpha2-app.jar

  New Features:
o Implemented script frameworks. 

  Fixed bugs:
o Various fixes and relabelling suggested by Andy. Reworked menus. 

  Changes:
o Merged astroscope and helioscope, integrated with action system. Added 
  support for space + time STAP queries. Implemented tabular result display 
  in astroscope