This file is for Users who want to know every single issue and fix that have been applied in all prior interim releases. It is always a good idea to read the latest release notes on the version you are now installing.

New Features in V-4.0 - Official Release

• Adds preferences to cater to Dropbox changing their security protocols. Allows user to invoke an automatic reset of AutoSync (Dropbox) prior to running AutoSync (so it can be done in one step).
• Pimlical/Desktop can now use the same IconArchive.dat file that Pimlical/Android uses if the IconArchive.dat file is found in the Pimlical folder. Also adds Recent Icons page, Icon Backup/Restore.
• Better handling of past-due Floating Events.
• Boolean type text searches with && and ||.
• Handles import and export of Tasks (using VTODO tags, etc.).
  
• Minor changes for better compatibility with Pimlical/Android.
• Adds preference ForceFloatsToBeUntimed which puts all timed floats at the top of the day view along with untimed floating events.
• Adds ToggleAlarm right-click command to toggle the alarm setting of an event.
• Adds FIND+ function so right-click on FIND button finds all items in the database (facilitating full calendar export).
• Handles import and export of tasks in iCalendar format (using BEGIN:VTODO etc.).
• Many more minor features and fixes - see Revision History below for details.

New Features in this Release (Available on Subscription Only):

• Removes the validity check in Debug Mode for uniqueID's when reading the calendar database as it isn't really necessary any more (now that there is a Menu|Special function which does the check), and its removal obviously speeds up the process of reading large, local calendars in Debug mode significantly. This now matches the change made in P/A, V-4.1.30.

New Features in this Release (Available on Subscription Only):

• Adds two, new popup commands: Set Meeting Status and Set Meeting Role which allow you to set the meeting status and/or role of every participant in the meeting of the selected event (except for the Chair/Organizer whose status and role always remains unchanged).

• When creating new floating events or reminders from the overnight advance of floating events, Pimlical now sets the modification date/time to the earlier of (a) 00:00:00 on todays' date, UTC, or (b) the last Sync Date/time. This avoids any possibility of the sync routines thinking that there's a genuine conflict if the preference LatestUpdateAlwaysPrevails is set to False. That way if the modification date/times are later than that of the last sync, it would be because of user interactions and not Pimlical auto-updating the date/time. Note that this could result in "bogus" modification date/times since they might well precede the actual creation of the event.
• Adds a new Popup Command: Event Attributes which creates a text file with all the event's relevant attributes (useful to send to Tech Support instead of screenshots of Edit Dialog, and much more informative).

New Features in this Release (Available on Subscription Only):

• The logic for removing deleted records on the Floating Advance has now been modified to use the latest of (a) the Modification Date, (b) the Appointment End Date, and (c) the Due Date (if a Floating event). Previously, only the Modification Date was used to compare to the cutoff date as specified in the preference: DaysToKeepDeletedRecords. Also, when a deleted record is removed, this is logged into the audit trail file along with the date (and whether (a), (b) or (c) above) used for that determination.

New Features in this Release (Available on Subscription Only):

• Fixes an obscure issue in syncing whereby a sync might fail with a Null Pointer Exception Error and the audit trail declares that there is an event whose start date/time follows the end/date time (this could only happen with an event where the start/end date/times are in different timezones).
• When using Menu | Special | Remove Deleted Records, Pimlical now logs the number of deleted records into the AuditTrail file (this is important for tracking down issues with unexpected re-appearance of deleted records) as well as explicitly recording and identifying the removal of each event.
• When using DirectSync or AutoSync (on P/D), P/D no longer sets the dirty flag on a floating event that was spawned from a repeat, floating event that had a repeat end date that was now in the past (which in turn had caused that repeat, floating event to have been deleted). Setting the dirty flag could cause the event in P/D to overwrite the corresponding event on the other platform since it would likely have a later, modification date (Pimlical still removes the now-invalid target field in the non-repeat instance, but no longer sets the dirty flag when it does that).

New Features in this Release (Available on Subscription Only):

• Adds support for a Remote Server which can be accessed via FTP or FTPS protocols. For example, you can attach a hard drive to your WiFi router (if it has a USB port) and then access it with AutoSync. There's a new preference: RemoteServerList which supports multiple Remote Servers (same as preference in P/A). For each server, there are six attributes specified, separated with a comma: {Name},{Protocol},{Host Address},{Path},{Username},{Password}. There can be any number of Server Attributes specified - by default, the first defined server will be used by default. The name is an arbitrary name that you assign so you can quickly recognize which server the remaining attributes are for. The second item in the list is the file transfer protocol which can be set either to FTP or FTPS (Secure). For example, the server attributes might be specified by something like RouterDrive,FTP,192.168.0.1,/sda1/,admin,MyPassword. 
  For the path, there should be a directory name unique to that storage device as Pimlical uses that to know that a path is on a Remote Server (if there is none, just use a single forward slash). The path should always end with a forward slash. The user name and password will be the same as what you use to log into the Remote Server, for example: admin,xyz or Trouter, NzY0414). Note that such drives (including NAS) can also be accessed directly from the desktop (for example, in Windows (Right-click This PC, select Add a Network Location and enter the appropriate information to access the drive). Most contemporary routers have a USB port which you can plug in an external USB drive or USB key, thereby providing a server on your local network. You can also use None as the first entry in the RemoteServerList preference to indicate that there is no Remote Server (while still keeping lists of other Servers available for subsequent use).
• Adds support to AutoSync to sync using a Remote Server in a manner similar to how Dropbox was used (but in the case of a local Remote Server, still providing an off-cloud sync solution, or on-cloud but to some other Web site that the user has access to). To use this feature, set the preference: AutoSyncFilePath to RemoteServer, and Pimlical will use the Remote Server defined by the first RemoteServerList Preference to store the Server Files (in a manner identical to how Dropbox currently handles files). Pimlical creates a folder PimlicalAutoSync in the root folder of the Remote Server (in the example above, it would be in /sda1/PimlicalAutoSync) to store the files. You can also follow RemoteServer with a comma and then the name of the Remote Server (first item in the list of six attributes for one of the servers). If there is no server specified, then the first server in the RemoteServerList preference will be used by default.
• Adds Preferences to AutoSyncOptions list so you can copy all your preference files (Default.txt, SystemPreferences.dat etc.) pre-fixed with the AutoSyncName preference to the server (dropbox or remote, etc.).

• Fixes an obscure issue in syncing whereby a sync might fail with a Null Pointer Exception Error and the audit trail declares that there is an event whose start date/time follows the end/date time (this could only happen with an event where the start/end date/times are in different timezones).
• When using Menu | Special | Remove Deleted Records, Pimlical now logs the number of deleted records into the AuditTrail file (this is important for tracking down issues with unexpected re-appearance of deleted records).
• When using DirectSync or AutoSync (on P/D), P/D no longer sets the dirty flag on a floating event that was spawned from a repeat, floating event that had a repeat end date that was now in the past (which in turn had caused that repeat, floating event to have been deleted). Setting the dirty flag could cause the event in P/D to overwrite the corresponding event on the other platform since it would likely have a later, modification date.

New Features in this Release (Available on Subscription Only):

• Adds a new Status type of Absent. This is similar to Canceled, except it means the event will/did take place, but it was not attended (useful for meetings where you aren't going to attend, but don't want to mark it as Canceled when the meeting was still being held). Events marked as Absent will also be struck-through (like Canceled items). And like Canceled items, any alarm set on the item will be removed. The associated icon is a stick figure of a person with a red, diagonal line through it. This status type is also included for the Advanced Find function and for Filters. Also adds a new popup command Toggle Absent to set/clear this Status type (alternating with Normal Status - remember to enable display in preferences: PopupListCommandsForEvent, if you want to use it).
• Adds new Menu Command: Import All Filters. This displays a File Dialog to select the Directory with the filters (defaults to the Pimlical folder which is where filters are normally saved) and imports all filters in that directory. Provides a convenient way to re-import all filters (after having exported them all).

• When opening a new Calendar with Menu | File | Open, the Priority and Other Tabs are now cleared as the links there are no longer valid for a different calendar.
• Tabbed panes in Local Contacts Edit Dialog now use the "upper-case treatment" to make it more obvious as to which tab is currently selected.
• Email field in contacts can now contain a vertical bar (as can phone numbers in prior version V-4.0.15) - to allow further identifying information, which is automatically stripped off when using the Email button to use the email address and launch the default email program.
• Email button in contacts now brings up email with cursor in blank subject line field (previously, the subject line would unexpectedly get filled in with the tag: &body).

New Features in this Release (Available on Subscription Only):

• Menu | Backup | Restore Calendar now uses the local calendar in the preference: CurrentLocalCalendar to select the backups (previously it was hardwired to use PimlicalLocalCalendar for the restoration). 
• Menu | Backup | Save/Restore Calendar options now display more appropriate filenames, and include the time, so multiple backups on the same day are sorted chronologically (previously, they were only sorted by day).
• Allows Menu | Backup | Restore Calendar to use the current category settings which, if the environment has not changed much will preserve category/calendar attributes such as colors and icons. However, if the enviornment has changed, it may not be feasible to do this (resulting in error messages, etc.) - in which case it is recommended that the user make use of Backup Everything and Restore Everything as that is always safer.
• When tapping on the W icon that links to a direct file location that is not valid on that platform, Pimlical now puts up a more informative warning message.
• Extends the change in V-4.1.01, which puts the selected Tab pane title in upper case, to the Advanced Find and Repeat dialogs as the tabs are difficult to see in Windows and sometimes impossible to distinguish in some Linux distros.

New Features in this Release (Available on Subscription Only):

• Changes the method of handling the role of "Chair" to be compatible with Pimlical/Android. In that case, everyone is now displayed in the list of Attendees, and if the role of an attendee is marked as "Chair" it is then singled out and displayed in what is now a non-editable field at the top of the dialog (previously, the "chair" was not in the list of Attendees). This now matches how P/A, V-4.1.21 handles meetings.
• Manages Menu | Help | Check for Program Update in a manner similar to how V-4.1.21 of P/A handles it, to avoid confusion about offering to download the currently installed release again.

New Features in this Release (Available on Subscription Only):

• A click on the Meeting icon or the Group icon in a main view now launches the Edit Dialog with the Advanced Pane and opens up the Meeting or Group Dialog.
• Adds New Preference: AlwaysDrawSystemIcons that allows the system icons (meeting, group, note, link, etc.) to be displayed in all views (previously these icons were never displayed in the month and month+ views).
• For Beta Testers, the check for program update no longer displays the options to download the current official release or latest preview unless it's later than what's currently installed (this was a not-too-useful feature that was confusing some users).

• In all places where Pimlical presents a File Navigation dialog, hidden files and folders are now included.
• The sample PimlicalExportTemplate.txt has finally been updated for the new handling of this feature (in particular, the <EOL> tags are now included, so you can see how they are used in formatting the output). The Template Export now also exports the Meeting fields, with each Meeting entry on a separate line with each field comma-delimited.
• Changes the values of the Attendee Status and Attendee Role Lists to match iCalendar 5545 standards,which then resolves the incompatibility in the way P/A and P/D were handling the Attended Status and Role fields. This change will also appear in P/A, V-4.1.14 or later. Note that users with existing meetings might need to edit them to conform now with the RFC 5545 standard.
• Fixes an issue in the default SystemPreferences.dat file where filters were unexpectedly claiming to have been modified when they had not.

New Features in this Release (Available on Subscription Only):

• Dialog resizing routines now use .setSize() rather than .setPreferredSize() for the Icon Dialog when OS is Linux, as for some bizarre reason under Linux that particular dialog needs to avoid the hack (devilspie2) for dialog sizes (see FAQ's for this issue).
• The selected tabbed pane in the Edit Dialog now has the title in all Upper Case to make it clearer what the selected tab is. Also there's a workaround for the java bug where the [Delete] button is not always consistently hidden in the Note/Advanced/Action Tags panes.

New Features in this Release (Available on Subscription Only):

• Includes some test code for Linux to see if using .setSize() rather than .setPreferredSize() for dialog sizes makes any difference in the Java library bug where dialog sizes are exhibiting calculation errors.
• Removes menu option to write local calendar with blanked-out text as that is no longer supported or useful.
• Protects against an odd type of corruption in repeat events that could cause Pimlical to crash.
• Resolves issue of using MTP connection in DirectSync with new location of Pimlical folder in Scoped Storage (was previously hard-wired to the old location of the Pimlical folder off the root).

New Features in this Release (Available on Subscription Only):

• On an initial launch, when the  Installation Dialog is displayed, if the checkbox to re-initialize Icons is checked, Pimlical now deletes any existing IconArchive.dat file (previously, if there was an old/corrupt IconArchive.dat file, it would get used in lieu of rebuilding a new IconArchive.dat file from UserIcons.dat.
• Fixes second problem with displaying associated category icons in Category Management dialog and also centres them for display.

New Features in this Release (Available on Subscription Only):

• Fixes installation issue that under some conditions, the ReferenceID inserted in the initial installation dialog does not get propagated to the preference: RegisteredUserName.
• Fixed an obscure issue that was potentially causing a slower startup of Pimlical.

New Features in this Release (Available on Subscription Only):

• Fixes a new issue in AutoSync whereby if the PimlicalApps or PimlicalAutoSync folders were not present in Dropbox, they were no longer being automatically created (for some reason, the code to do that got unexpectedly commented out - perhaps for testing and got forgotten).
• On dialing a number (or sending SMS) if there is no vertical rule (|) character present (added in V-4.0.30 to truncate phone number at that point), Pimlical now processes the phone number as it did previously (allowing: 0-9 + - {space} . # * ( )
• Fixes obscure issue of editing an instance or dragging and dropping an instance of a repeat series in a different timezone that had also been shifted to a different day (problem was that the repeat instance did not get the proper date/time/locale set to match that of the original repeat series).
• Fixes an issue of launching P/D when no WiFi is available. Under some conditions, Pimlical will not remember that a previous license check (when WiFi WAS available) was successful and erroneously display a status of NOT LICENSED.
• Fixes issue of not displaying an icon associated with a category in the Category Management Dialog (Icon was properly assigned, just not visible in the table).
• Restores (and improves on) prior behavior on moving icons by inserting icon at the designated position (last version just swapped positions of selected icon and position to move to). Also makes it clearer where the insertion point is (at top of the selection box with thicker line), sets the selection box to the newly moved icon, selects the icon to be dragged on initial Mouse-Down movement, and allows a move past the last position. Also clears Filter string prior to handling a new filter (so searches can be entered more quickly). Also ensures Icon collection rewritten prior to filtering (previously, changes made to the icon collection could be lost if a filter was invoked).
• The IconArchive.dat file written by P/D can now be safely copied to P/A and used in P/A (previously, the P/A to P/D copy of IconArchive worked ok, but in the reverse direction, the colors were inverted and weird). For best results, it is strongly recommended to (a) just import PNG files (jpg/gif etc. can be very easily converted), and (b) keep the filesize relatively small - user icons are typically set at 56x56 pixels - they will be resized if necessary, but the imported PNG file should probably keep the resolution below say 100x100 pixels.
• For users with subscriptions, the EXPORT button is no longer hidden. Although it probably will no longer be needed (since the issue of copying IconArchive.dat file back to P/A is fixed in this release), it might still be useful to some users working with old-style custom icon collections where it's desirable to be able to use those directly to create the IconArchive.dat file for P/A (and P/D).

New Features in this Release (Available on Subscription Only):

• A new preference: DownloadFolderFilePath can be optionally set to provide an alternate path to the Downloads folder. If this preference is empty (the default value), Pimlical defaults to the previously used location which uses the Java variable User.home + "Downloads" to locate the Downloads folder (in windows, this is typically: C:\Users\{Windows user Name}. This same preference is also now in forthcoming Pimlical/Android (V-4.0.31 or later). Pimlical also now displays the full download path while downloading and in the confirmation dialog after the file was downloaded.

• Changes legend in Menu | Help | About from Purchase Subscription to Purchase Another Subscription if the user currently has an active subscription.
• Fades main screen and provides a spinning "wait" cursor while Program Update file is downloading to make it clearer that something is happening. Also includes a check that the entire file downloaded properly (even if Java reported no exception issues, etc.) and also works around a bug in the Java compiler that could have let the download routine think that it had downloaded the file properly, when it had not.
• Fixes a relatively new issue: if an exception is made to a repeat series in a different timezone that results in the displayed instance being on a different day from the day it would be displayed on in its native timezone, the exception date was wrong (it was set to the date of the displayed instance, not the date of the exception in its native timezone). This used to work, but got broken by some code introduced to work around a bug in the Palm OS Desktop(!).
• Removes the menu item System Icon Management for the majority of users from the Special menu as it was never really intended for average users to access that functionality (and also fixes several new issues in V-4.x that caused it not to work properly anyway). (If you are an advanced user, contact Tech Support if you have some imperative need to be able to alter the built-in system icons).
• Fixes two new issues in DirectSync (only in the Path to P/A as Folder option) caused by shift to Scoped Storage in P/A: (1) if the file path was pre-filled with the old /Pimlical path, it could not be changed by clicking on the file navigation button, and (2) the test for the path used for MTP connections mistakenly identified the Scoped Storage Path as being the path used for the MTP option.

New Features in this Release (Available on Subscription Only):

• On download of  new program version, Pimlical now ensures that the Operating System "Downloads" folders exists, and if not, creates it (only an issue on Linux and MacOS systems as Windows always has a Downloads folder).
• On download of file from web (such as a new software release), Pimlical now generates an error file if an error occurs (previously, an error message was only written into the AuditTrail file if the preference MaintainAuditTrail was set to True).

New Features in this Release (Available on Subscription Only):

• Pimlical/Desktop can now use the same IconArchive.dat file that Pimlical/Android uses if the IconArchive.dat file is found in the Pimlical folder. However, if that file is not found, the file is automatically created from the old UserIcons.dat file. So going forwards, this switch is transparent to the user: the file format for IconArchive.dat is identical in P/A and P/D and the file can be freely copied between platforms. Remember that with P/A, you must use Menu | Exit to ensure that the icon cache is cleared prior to manually copying the IconArchive.dat file to the Pimlical Folder in Scoped Storage (if you cannot access the Pimlical Folder in Scoped Storage, do menu | Backup Everything first, then copy the IconArchive.dat file to the /Pimlical folder created on the backup, and then followup with menu | Restore Everything to get it copied back into the Pimlical folder in Scoped Storage.
• Adds a Recent Icons page that remembers the most recently selected icons (similar to the existing feature in Pimlical/Android).
• Adds Backup/Restore buttons to the Icon Dialog so that you can backup and restore the IconArchive.dat file. Also automatically backs up the IconArchive.dat file whenever the Icon collection is updated and the dialog exited (provided that a time period equal to the preference: MaximumBackupFrequency has passed).

• Switches from using HTTPS:// access to HTTP:// access for old versions of Java (in particular, Java 7) as otherwise accessing website caused a TLS error.
• If the user does not have an active subscription, the Icon Dialog operates basically in a manner similar to V-3.7.43, except that the feature to add icons from a grid of icons is now invoked with a separate button: Add Multiple. The prior Export button is displayed to export icons to the IconArchive.dat file.
• When dialing a phone number, all characters in the phone number field are now used, but a vertical rule (|) can be used to strip out all remaining characters in the field (so 830-456-3145 | x-245 would result in the vertical bar and the x-245 being stripped out (previously, only selected characters would be permitted, but that was a bit too restrictive).
• Fixes a contention issue in AutoSync when performing an automatic reset before sync (error could be generated when syncing a second or subsequent time under some conditions).
• Restores ability to store User Data in other than the default path by tapping the Change Folder button in the initial installation dialog -- a new issue that probably arose many years ago causes an Exception Error that was just reported(!).
• Changes the extension of the Audit Trail file from .TXT to .LOG (for consistency with PImlical/Android).
• Makes several cosmetic changes and bug fixes in the Icon Management dialog (better selection box, icon display, automatic file resizing, etc.).
• Adds new Help file in Menu | Help: Using Icons in V-4.0 that documents the new features in the Icon Dialog.

New Features in this Release (Available on Subscription Only):

• Optimizes and speeds up license checking with same algorithm that P/A is now using.
• Check for Program Update now downloads the designated JAR Installation file from Pimlico Software website and saves it in the Downloads folder, ready for installing.

New Features in this Release (Available on Subscription Only):

• Fixes issue of an Exception Error being generated when DirectSync was updating the Preference file with the possibly changed setting of the Preference: DisplaySyncLog.
• May have fixed an odd problem in handling the user name on initial installation of a new version.
• Fixes new issue in V-4.0.x on import of iCalendar file that if  END:VEVENT is followed on the next line with BEGIN:VEVENT, the event gets skipped (possibly only importing every other event). If there is a blank line between events, the problem is not seen.

New Features in this Release (Available on Subscription Only):

• Fixes issue of a licensed ReferenceID showing as not registered in status bar at bottom of screen, and also in the user information legend inserted when Email Tech Support button was tapped (now shows as Licensed User or Unlicensed User) .
• Allows the ReferenceID to be changed by changing the value of the Preference RegisteredUserName. This will also trigger an immediate look up on the new name to see if it is licensed/subscribed or not.
• P/A can now read the imagePath for an event set in Pimlical/Android and 'fix' it in such a way that images can be displayed on both platforms. Old image paths up to and containing the /Pimlical folder are stripped and the remaining path appended to the main user path. Note that to have this work properly, the images should either be in the Pimlical folder, or (better) in a separate sub-folder of the Pimlical folder (say Pimlical/PimlicalImages). And of course you would have to manually ensure that those two folders in P/A and P/D were kept in sync (future releases might add the capability to keep those folders in sync with each other on DirectSync or AutoSync).

New Features in this Release (Available on Subscription Only):

• Fixed several issues relating to a totally clean install with no prior Pimlical folder - Trial Period test was failing, Subscription items were not available during trial period, error files were being generated.
• Corrects issue of invoking license lookups too frequently.

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Fixes a new issue also from V-4.0.07 whereby the Match Text feature in Advanced Find was being ignored when filtering for the FIND function.

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Fixes a new issue from V-4.0.07 whereby the new preference values were triggering a false error on valid subscriptions because the licensing information had not yet been read. Also, now resets any preferences requiring a subscription back to their default value if there is no subscription.

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Adds ability to perform boolean searches in both Simple and Advanced Find, as well as in Tasks, Contacts and Memos (AND and OR, using && and |||). Note that this can not be combined with a word search (i.e. Boolean searches are only performed on simple text strings) (Subscription Only)

• When handling a new purchase, Pimlical will now use the latest expiration date of all the cumulative purchases (so if there was a prior order with an earlier expiration date, it will always use the order with the latest expiration date).
• Includes a "re-shuffling" of the Edit Dialog to see if a slight change in the internal layout rules fixes an issue in the Linux Oracle libraries. If you don't see all the buttons and controls in the edit dialog, be sure to re-size the dialog (to make it bigger, etc.).

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Caters to a minor change in the Licensing/Subscription feature by distinguishing between old orders and new orders using a subscription purchase.

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Handles the import and export of Tasks (ToDo's) - by implementing BEGIN:VTODO and END:VTODO tags (which parallel BEGIN:VEVENT and END:VEVENT) as well as the optional DUE tag (Subscription Only)

• Switches the Licensing of the software from using the Registration Name and a code that was emailed to the user, to match the licensing approach in P/A - namely it is now licensed based on the email address used to purchase the software, so there is no longer any need to enter a registration code. All existing registration names though have been grand-fathered into the master license file for P/D (meaning there is no need to change the existing registration name). Future orders of Pimlical/Desktop will use the purchasing Email as the ReferenceID.
• Implements Subscription Management (but licensing database has not yet been updated for any subscriptions).
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New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Fixes odd Java bug in the Meeting dialog when using Keyboard Shortcut for the Delete button to delete a meeting attendee. Also now just highlights cell in table (rather than row) and automatically deletes the (name) or (none) placeholders.
• For consistency with P/A, now displays ReferenceID, License & Subscription in the About dialog.

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Includes logic to manage license subscriptions and expiration.

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Fixes issue with preference: AlwaysResetBeforeAutoSync that was not being properly handled when set to False (default is True). When set to False, Pimlical was not re-submitting the saved login credentials. For some period of time (to be determined), Dropbox does in fact allow the saved login credentials to be reused (thus avoiding need to sign back into Dropbox).

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Preference: DefaultNumberOfBackups has been changed to 9 (prior value was 5). These take up so little room, and I have seen several cases, where users would have been better off having as many backups as possible!
• The error message about "Mismatched Versions" when syncing versions that differ by Major or Minor versions has been substantially toned down now to just Information, as in fact this issue has yet to arise, and with the latest database design, it's most unlikely to ever be an issue.
• The rule for handling a past-due floating event with a display date in the future has now been modified to be consistent with the new way that Pimlical/Android handles them. This has been refined to handle all six possible cases:
     Case 1: Has due date in the past, start date in past - DISPLAYS TODAY (repeat status ignored)
     Case 2: Has due date in future, start date in the past - DISPLAYS TODAY OR if a repeat, on Next Repeat Instance after today
     Case 3: Has due date in the past, start date in future - DISPLAYS on START Date (repeat status ignored)
     Case 4: Has due date in future, start date in future - DISPLAYS on START Date (even if due date is earlier)
     Case 5: Has no due date and start date in past - DISPLAYS TODAY OR if a repeat, on Next Repeat Instance after today
     Case 6: Has no due date and start date in future - DISPLAYS on Start Date
  Some of the behaviors are the same, but the program separates out these six cases in case they need to be modified in the future.

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Adds new preference: ForceFloatsToBeUntimed which parallels ForceTasksToBeUntimed in terms of sorting timed floating events as if they were untimed (so they would sort to the top of the view). This does not affect the generation of alarms on the timed float (Subscription Only).

• Adds a NEW entry to the default Worldtimezones.txt file of: -06:00 America/Mexico[MST] as Mexico no longer uses Daylight Savings (as of October, 2022).
• Changed ALL references to the Tahoma font to Arial (at some point, a bunch of UI widgets had the font changed from Arial to Tahoma which was a problem for users who did not have the Tahoma font installed).
• Fixes issue of not displaying a past-due, repeat floating event, that has a display date in the future.
• Creation and Modification Date/Time on advance reminders are now set to 00:00:00 on today's date (that way, they show the correct date on which they were created, but by using 00:00:00 as the time, there won't be any conflict when the reminders are created independently on other platforms - and which may be independently changed on those other platforms).
• Fixed an issue in AutoSync that was resulting in a failure when a sync was repeated, and the preference AlwaysResetBeforeAutoSync was set to True.
• Changed the default setting of preference: AlwaysResetBeforeAutoSync from False to True (because that's the most likely setting users will want with this new preference).
  

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Fixes issue of not being able to access the RGB color values of custom foreground and background colors in the Font and Color Selection dialog, as previously, only the default values for the foreground and background colors were displayed (not the custom colors set on the event itself).

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Adds what should be an unnecessary delay at the end of DirectSync, to try and address the issue of  P/A hanging at the end of DirectSync because of some failure in the network drivers to flush their output buffer properly.

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New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Adds new popup command ToggleAlarm. If the selected event(s) has no alarm, the appropriate alarm preset (ApptAlarmPreset or FloatAlarmPreset) is applied to the event(s). Otherwise, all Alarms are cleared from the event(s) (Subscription Only).
• Adds new preference Option: AlwaysResetBeforeAutoSync - which, if set to True (default is False), will automatically reset the AutoSync connection before invoking AutoSync (since Dropbox now demands that the user login). If you set this preference and press CTRL/A - you can invoke AutoSync with a single keypress (of course, you still have to log into dropbox, but this is certainly more convenient) (Subscription Only).
• Adds new preference Option: AutoSyncDelayAfterReset - which specifies the number of seconds Pimlical should wait after performing the Automatic Reset (i.e. AlwaysresetBeforeAutoSync is true). The default value is 5, but some slower devices may need more time to avoid an error message appearing (some internal timing problem in the CloudRail libraries).
  

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New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Changes FIND button legend to FIND+ in Advanced Find, indicating that a RIGHT-CLICK on that button does something different. In this case, it will always (a) find ALL records in the calendar database, and (b) avoid sorting them. For users with very large databases that they want to export, this will speed up the process of displaying all the records (Subscription only).
  

• Fixed typo in the log file that handles vCard import (PimlicalVcardImport.log) where the header erroneously refers to 'syncing' rather than importing.
• On vCard import, now properly displays the log file at the end of the import and also distinguishes between new contacts imported and existing contacts updated (if the Unique Of an imported contact matches an existing contact, it is overwritten with the updated information).
• When changing an item from a task to an event or vice-versa, the databaseID field is now updated in parallel. This would be important for any user still syncing with an old Palm OS handheld, and could cause unexpected issues on syncing (if for example, tasks were excluded from syncing).
• On reading the calendar database, the field validation routines now check for an end date that precedes the start date (after adjusting for timezones, etc.)  and if so, sets the end date to the start date (Pimlical will never create a corrupt event like this, but some other calendar apps might do it).
• Updated Worldtimezones.txt file so that Timezones with DST rules always precede those without (in some rare cases, when handling google calendars, or calendars imported from other calendar Apps it can cause an issue if this is not consistent).
• Fixed obscure hang in Pimlical when creating a repeat occurrence on the last Thursday of a month (code from P/A was missing in P/D).
• Fixed window titles for local contacts and local memos (which was also missing a title), so that it properly shows if the list is filtered (i.e. not all items being displayed).
  

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Fixes some old backwards compatibility issues involving the demarcation of category strings - many years ago, such strings were switched to using a vertical bar (|) rather than a comma, and the code was supposed to handle both cases for backwards compatibility, but there were a few cases where it remained hard-wired at a vertical bar rather than supporting BOTH. This could potentially cause concatenation of category names.

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Adds a special Action Tag: AdvancedRepeatOnlyInSameMonth. If set, when handling an advanced repeat, if the first occurrence of the day of the week is in the following month, the instance will be discarded (normally it would just display on the first instance of that day of the week in the following month. For example, to have an event repeat ONLY on the fifth Monday of the month and skip months that have no fifth Monday, set a repeat on the 29th of the month, select Monday as the day to repeat on/after, and check this tag and the event will only appear on those months that have a fifth Monday. Remember, that advanced repeats may not display properly in other calendar apps that do not support these advanced type of repeats (Subscription Only)..

• Fixes issue of ShortDescription field not properly exploding designated Action Tag.
• Ensures that after templates are deleted, that the SystemPreferences.dat file is written immediately (in case Pimlical prematurely exits before it gets updated).
• Fixes obscure issue on advanced repeat that if the first matching day of the week on or after the day of the month or year is in the FOLLOWING month, it was not displaying the instance on the expected day.
• Now recognizes Pimlical's Custom vCard tags for birthday/anniversary alarmSet and AlarmAdvance fields (it was generating them for vCard output, but was not recognizing them when reading a vCard field). This change means that those fields are now properly preserved over an export and re-import of a vCard file.
• Fixes an issue with the generation of irregular repeat instances if a repeat instance preceded the date of the original, irregular repeat parent of the series (was causing parent event to be duplicated).
  

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• The special Action Tags <<date>> and <<time>> as well as any Call-Action Tags are now exploded in the ShortDescription field (as well as the description and note fields).
• When checking off a repeat task (and under some conditions, a repeat float- when it was the first instance being checked off) the rescheduled repeat item was being reset to home Time zone in some cases. It now properly preserves the timezone of the original repeat series. Also, the crossed-off item was also losing the timezone under some conditions (P/A had a correction for that which never filtered down to P/D).
  

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Adds a new menu item in the VIEW menu: Today's Previous Alarms (Ctrl/Shift/A). This option lists all the alarms from 00:00 to the present time. This provides a quick way of checking all the previously set alarms for today (especially if Pimlical has not been running) (Subscription only).

• Fixes issue in local contacts Edit dialog that selecting text in the NOTE field and then right-clicking and selecting COPY was not copying the highlighted text to the clipboard (althoughCTRL/C still worked ok in Windows, etc.).
  

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• The preference DefaultContactsCategory now presets the category when importing contacts from a vCard file using the Import button (previously, imported contacts were always placed in the UNFILED category).
• Adds a new preference setting: ActivityDelayForBackgroundTasks with default value of 5 (seconds). This specifieds the Delay in seconds to invoke background tasks (such as AutoSync, AutoRefresh, AutoSave) after last activity (keypress or mouse click)e invoked by user (helps to avoid a background task getting invoked immediately after an edit change is made, for example). Don't set this too high as otherwise, OS may suspend Pimlical before it ever gets a chance to run a background task. Previously, this value was hard-wired at 3 seconds.

• Avoids inadvertently moving an item because the mouse was just jostled a small amount (especially in UP direction). This version ignores the move unless the mouse is moved at least one quarter the height or width of the current time slot.
• If the preference ApplyAlarmPresetToAppts is set to False and the Create button in the quick Entry dialog is tapped when the Alarm checkbox has been checked, Pimlical now applies any preset in the preference: apptAlarmPreset to the alarm (previously, the alarm was set, but the preset was not applied).
• In iCalendar Export, Pimlical was inadvertently including the Pimlical Calendar version instead of the iCalendar Version - a user reported that one calendar app refused to import possibly because of the version issue. Pimlical now includes the static VERSION:2.0 tag in the header.
  

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• In the local contacts dialog the keyboard accelerators P, A, C and E were all duplicated - this has now been sorted out so each button has a unique accelerator. Also fixed Alt/O for the Done button which was not operating the button.
• Under some conditions, versions since V-3.7.39 could generate unexpected error messages during Google Sync, indicating the google calendar could not be read properly.
  

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• When building the list of groups dynamically, P/D now scans the entire template list in case there is a group there that is not present in the Calendar database (P/A has always done this, but P/D had never been updated for this issue).
• The dialog USER DEFINED GROUPS has had its Remove button renamed to Unselect to more accurately reflect what the button does: namely remove the highlight from the selected group(s) - this avoids confusion in thinking that the Remove button might somehow "remove" the group itself.
• When importing templates, if there is a duplicate ID (i.e. the template to import has a uniqueID that already matches that of an existing template, a dialog appears identifying the two templates). The template will not be imported under these circumstances until the uniqueID is changed of the existing template (which can be accomplished by inserting the template as an event, deleting the template and then saving the event as a template).
  

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• When editing an item in the Display Results Dialog, Pimlical now refreshes the dialog to show the editing changes that were just made. Previously, some editing changes could result in a different record being pulled up if the Edit button were hit for a second time.
• When importing items from an iCalendar file, if a category name has a case-insensitive match to an existing category name, then the category name is changed to perfectly match the original cases of each letter in the stored category (avoids introducing events with different upper/lower case designations on the letters in the category name).
• When syncing with Google calendar, Pimlical now reports the start date/time as well as the description of the entry immediately prior to an entry that was causing a fault (see log file).
• When syncing with Google calendar, and google reports a fatal fault in updating/writing/deleting/inserting into the Google calendar (usually because of a problem in the Google calendar), the error now creates an error file and an entry in the log, but does not abort the sync.
• When creating a new filter by copying an existing filter, If the copied filter used a date type of RelativeByDay or RelativeByMonth, the start/end dates for the new filter are instantly updated to the current date which avoids a potential refresh of the screen for the date that was last set in the copied filter.
• A new icon had to be prepared for Pimlical/Desktop because Google decided the icon that has been used for the last 12 years was insufficiently descriptive when signing on to Google Calendars (!), and Google refused to allow Pimlical/Desktop to access google calendar until it was changed.
  

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• If you set the preference HideItemsInDifferentMonth to True (default is false), then it will use 5 rows (rather than six) for those months that fit in five rows, and even 4 rows for the unusual case of a non-leap year February where the first day of the month matches the first day of the week (such as February, 2015 with Sunday as the start of the week).
  
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• This release was compiled with an older version of the wrapper that is still compatible with Java 7. V-3.7.39 was compiled with a new version of the wrapper that apparently no longer supports Java 7, and if you attempted to run that version under Java 7 you would just get an error message that it was unable to find the Main Class....
  

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Removes the batch operation functionality optimization that Google no longer supports and which was causing various error messages when trying to connect to Google calendar.
  

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Fixes the problem in managing local contacts of not implementing the ContactPhoneLabelOrder preference setting.
• Fixes problem in iCalendar import if instead of the normal Olson database definition for a timezone tag, there's just a raw GMT offset (such as TZID="GMT-05:00":2020..... instead of the normal TZID="America/New_York:2020.....).
  

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Adds a new preference: PopupListCommandsForEditNote which controls the display and order of the popup commands when you right click in the Note pane of the Edit dialog.
• Fixes a problem in handling StringsList preference types (like popup commands or other lists that have multiple selections) whereby the list was always reset to its default value when recalled. Also, fixes a problem caused by a user error when all items in a StringsList preference are unselected.
  

• Fixes a problem in DirectSync when syncing Contacts database on a 32-bit version of Windows using the MTP type connection (Contacts database was being copied with the wrong name back to Android device).
  

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Adds two new preferences: DefaultPreferredPhoneLabel and DefaultPreferredAddressLabel. If the contact does not have a custom preferred label, then these preferences can supply a default value for the phone and/or address labels. These labels would also be used in the label for the first entry in the phone and address fields.
  

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Sets a limitation of 1,000,000 bytes for importing a memo into the memos section of P/D (this is consistent with the new size limitation in P/A, that was previously capped at 100,000 bytes). This ensures that memos can be properly synced back and forth, and also manually copied back and forth as well.
• Fixes a problem on restoring from a backup database whereby under some circumstances, the prior Updates "dribble" file might not have been deleted properly (an issue in the calendar, contacts and memos databases).
• Ensured that the checkbox for archiving individual items in the delete dialogs is only displayed when the preference SynchronizeWithPalmOS is set to True (as this feature only existed for compatibility with the old Palm MDB databases).
  

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• The Email Tech Support button in menu | About now also places the information on the windows clipboard so it can be pasted into other applications (useful if no primary email account configured on the desktop).
• Fixes an obscure issue with exceptions to a repeat event in an Google calendar (local calendar is not affected) when the exception date is in a different DST setting from the parent (or vice-versa). This fix was also applied in P/A, V-3.7.67.

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Now ensures that the TIME relationship of master and subordinate templates is preserved on insertion (previously, only the Date relationship was preserved). Also corrects the operation of the FixedTime Action Tag on subordinate templates to only fix the time and not the date (previously the date was fixed as well on insertion).

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Fixes an issue of accessing custom label #9 in the Contacts Edit Dialog in a Call/Action Template (it was inadvertently pointing to custom label 8 which was what got changed).
• Fixes an obscure exception error on exploding a Call/Action template which is calling multiple contact fields which could cause Pimlical to look like it was freezing....
• Fixes an issue in the memos display: if an item was marked as private and private records are being masked, a click on the Private checkbox was permitted to uncheck the box. A password is now required.
• Fixes an issue on some Mac's whereby the high resolution mode was not enabled for Pimlical's display (this was slip-streamed into a subsequent upload of V-3.7.32, so download again if you see this issue).

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Avoids shuffling the custom contacts fields. Previously, they were collapsed to avoid empty custom fields, but this seems like a bad strategy as the way that custom labels are used implies they should be fixed. V-3.7.49 of P/A was updated with this same fix.
• Fixes an issue of accessing all Contacts Fields via the ~~FIELD_ tag. Note that "FIELD_" must be in upper case and the contact field must be accessed using the PRECISE tag defined in the documentation (See P/A online manual under Advanced/Power Users section, Contacts Database Structures): For example: ~~FIELD_Custom_9.

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Fixes a potential compatibility issue with old filters being edited with more recent version of program (related to the Sort order issue that P/A was updated with).

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Fixes new issue in V-3.7.26 with the addition of the preference, DisplaySyncLog which was resulting in the normal summary at the conclusion of Sync not being displayed (the Summary is always displayed - the preference is supposed to only manage the log file itself).
• Now allows more space for the Timezone Specification in iCalendar Import (a user provided a file with some 200 years of historic timezone information and that caused a fault). Also improves identification of WHERE in the timezone specification an error occurred.

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Adds vertical scroll bar to the popup category selection lists in the Contacts and Memos screens (to cater to a really LARGE number of categories).

• Since Menu | Special | Import Filter provides a full file navigation dialog, Pimlical now allows filters to reside in folders other than the main Pimlical folder (previously, it was hard-wired to always look in the Pimlical folder)..
• Updated the Worldtimezones_All.txt file to remove the DST rule H from -3:00 America/Montevideo as Uruguay no longer has Daylight Savings in 2018 and going forwards (Note: Brazil and some other SA countries are constantly fiddling with DST rules, so you may need to edit the rules in the Worldtimezones.txt file to ensure times are properly recorded in P/D).
• Changes refresh logic on Alarm panel to try and avoid use of setVisible() function which on Linux/Ubuntu can cause Linux to switch focus back to Pimlical when alarm panel is updated.
• Adds the preference, DisplaySyncLog which was missing from the Default Preference file - the default value is set to False.
• Changes the internal logic in DirectSync's display of the RedX and Green checkmark icons to try and sidestep issue in Linux distro's whereby the OS focus was switched back to Pimlical even though some other App had the focus and was running at the time (not an issue on Windows10 - advise Tech Support if you see an issue in this regard vis-a-vis some other Operating System).
• Fixes an obscure issue in the Address.mdb database (preference: SynchronizeWithPalmOS set to True) whereby if there are several unsynced records and one or more of them was deleted prior to the sync, a 3-SQL... a spurious error message was generated (benign fault).
• When duplicating an advance Reminder (floating event with a target event) - Pimlical now REMOVES the link to the Target event as only one floating reminder is supported at any given time for a target event.
• Now properly displays Pimlical Advanced Calendar in the Windows Task List (previously just displayed a generic: This is the main program).
• Now always generates a TRIGGER tag in iCalendar export for alarms set at event time (previously, the TRIGGER tag was suppressed, but some iCalendar import routines insist on it being present even for alarms set at the EVENT time (and indeed it appears that the iCalendar standard requires it always to be present regardless). Pimlical/Android has always generated the TRIGGER tag, so it is now consistent with P/A.
• Fixes problem of changing the status of a Floating Event in the Edit Dialog when the preference LogCompletion has been set to True (default is False) and a Daily Journal has not yet been created on that day (under some circumstances, the original event remains with a duplicate ID).

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Adds Boolean AND/OR conditions to all text fields in the Match Text tab of Advanced Find (and filters) using && for AND and || for OR. So searching for "cookies && cream" would find all events that had BOTH "cookies" and "cream" present in the text field. Searching for "cookies || cream" would find events that had EITHER "cookies" or "cream" present. Expressions are evaluated from left to right, so searching for "cookies && cream || banana" would be equivalent to "cookies && (cream || banana) - i.e. the event must have "cookies" OR either "cream" or "banana", while "banana || cookies && cream" would find events with "banana" OR both "cookies" and "cream". Putting "cookies || cream" into the Don't Find field would filter out all events that had EITHER "cookies" or "cream" in the text field.

• Fixes an issue with contact linking: if the contact only had a company name (no first name/last name), then when the link was invoked, all contacts would be listed in addition to having the linked contact with a checkmark to show it was the one selected (only that linked contact should display in that specific case).
• Ignores the COMMENT tag when importing iCalendar files (previously, generated an error message as an unidentified tag).
• Normally, any match on any category in the Contacts or Memo databases is sufficient to match a category-matching filter. With this version, if MultipleCategorySelection is set to FALSE, then to match, it must match an item on the specified category(s) and ONLY on that category(s) (i.e. the item must be assigned to precisely the same categories in the filter list, for it to be included). Note that normally, if that preference is set to False, the user will only have items assigned to one category ANYWAY, so this change will have no affect, but for users making use of multiple category selection, this provides a temporary way to change the preference and then selectively filter the database for items that are ONLY in those designated category(s). 

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Fixes an obscure issue with a past-due, repeat, floating event that is displaying on a day that is not an instance of the repeat series (exception date was being made for a date not in the series, so modified instance AND an instance of the repeat series could be seen at the same time). The new rule is that if you invoke a command (such as complete, cancel, etc.) on an instance of a repeat series that is past due, it is treated as if you were issuing the command on the FIRST instance of the series (i.e. the repeat, floating event has its start date rescheduled to the next occurrence, rather than making an exception).

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Fixes issue of not treating contact category names as case-insensitive when selectively syncing categories with AutoSync or DirectSync.
• AutoSync and DirectSync now explicitly list new contacts or memos being synced from desktop to Server.

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Fixes issue of duplicating contact or memo category names in selection lists when multiple category selection has been selected and items are assigned to two or more categories.
• Fixes issue of exiting contacts and then relaunching contacts (while Pimlical is still running) and having the selection of the first four checkboxes not match the prior selection still in effect. Those first four checkboxes should be preserved while Pimlical is running, and reset on a clean launch. The last two checkboxes are set by a preference when contacts are invoked (regardless of whether contacts had been launched in a prior session while Pimlical was still running).

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Fixes sort issue in the contacts link dialog which was hard-wired to the sorting criteria available in the old Palm-Compatible contacts database (which did not have the option for sort direction). Previously, the radio button to sort by Last Name did not properly sort by last name.
• Fixes problem in Memos of tapping NEW button when the display is filtered by Favorites or Recent (the display was not cleared prior to creating the memo which could result in the selected memo being overwritten).
• If you edit a contact and then cancel out of the edit dialog, the LastAccessDate field is now updated (previously, it was not updated).
• When syncing (DirectSync/AutoSync) categories, if the preference ShowSyncChangesOnly is set to False, and the category is being skipped, that is now logged into the Sync log.
• Fixes DirectSync/AutoSync issue with not syncing a contact or memo when the contact/memo is assigned to multiple categories AND the preference ContactCategoriesToSync or MemoCategoriesToSync has an explicit list of categories to sync.

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Now properly handles the import of [DTSTART] and [DTEND] tags in iCalendar files when the date/times are set in UTC by using an explicit 'Z' suffix on the date/time specification (previously, it could import using the wrong timezone information).

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Now properly handles the designation of UTC with a trailing 'Z' on the time specification (previously, VALUE=DATE/TIME tags were not handled properly while VALUE=DATE tags were.
• Enhances Sync Log by applying the preference: ShowSyncChangesOnly to Contacts and Memos (previously, it only applied to Contacts and Tasks). Also now uses the company name for the log if the name fields are all blank). Also now logs if a contact was not synced because it was in a category that was not being synced.

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• No longer generates error message on presence of GEO: tag in iCalendar files being imported (Tag information is now stored in the Note Field).

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Updates the GoogleSync routine to use GoogleSync.log as the filename (so consistent with the other sync log filenames - previously it was GoogleSyncLog.txt). Also cleaned up all the formatting of the log in Debug Mode so the log file now shows a really accurate trace of the entire process of syncing with Google Calendar.

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Updates an obscure case of exception handling for Google Calendar in P/D to match the existing code in P/A (might be responsible for a failure in some circumstances for an exception to a repeat series getting skipped).

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Fixes a problem with post-start time alarms set on repeating events (alarm time was getting set to start time of event due to side-effect of a recent change that fixed an issue with post-start time alarms of more than one day).
• Fixes issue of Rename/Delete popup on category selection dialog not being positioned properly with respect to Category selection dialog position.
• Makes category handling in local contacts match how it's handled in the Calendar and now in P/A (namely, category names are case-insensitive and must be unique, but the capitlization is preserved).

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Removes some diagnostic code that prevented Pimlical from exiting normally when the [X] button was clicked in the main view.

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• When syncing and the preference DoNotSyncEventsPriorToDate is set, skipped events are only logged to the PimlicalLocalSync.log file if DebugMode is set to True.
• When handing multiple hyperlinks in a text field, a space is no longer used as a delimiter - use a vertical bar (|) instead (or use an end of line). Pimlical will also now automatically substitute %20 for a space in the URL string to create a valid URL.
• Now always performs a backup of the local database files prior to DirectSync, AutoSync (previously, this was done after a successful sync).
• Fixes issue with Tasks when preference LockDueStartDateOnTasks is set to True: when the Due date was changed, the start date was being adjusted in the wrong direction.
• Includes more checks to prevent potential conflicts when editing/modifying items and AutoSync is being invoked via the timer (and can therefore interrupt at any time).
• Now uses the font setting in the preference DialogFont to set the fontsize for the preferences table (previously, the fontsize was taken from a Windows/Java default setting).
• Includes updated CloudRail library (may improve performance of AutoSync with Dropbox).

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Adds new Preference: ShowSyncChangesOnly. This sets/clears the checkbox in the DirectSync dialog and also controls whether items were logged or not in AutoSync (which previously could not be controlled by ther user). Default value is True to only show the changes.

• When handling a Duration value in preferences, the non-relevant fields in the Advance Time Picker dialog are now suppressed (such as Before/After and the Exclusion days of the week) to avoid confusion.
• When using DirectSync just to sync contacts and/or memos, Pimlical was still trying to read the local Calendar which normally would go unnoticed, except if there was no local calendar in use, you could under some conditions get the warning message about mis-matched versions.
• The Repeat Exception dialog now allows the buttons to be invoked from the keyboard (E for Entire Series, I for This Instance only, and F for This and Future occurrences). Also, the ENTER key can now be used to invoke the Entire Series (if preference AlwaysSelectAllOccurrences is set to True) or This Instance Only (if AlwaysSelectAllOccurrences is False).
• Fixes spurious error message about an array size discrepancy in the Local Contacts database.

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Fixes issue on iCalendar import where the event was always also being assigned to the UNFILED category.
• Fixes issue on iCalendar import where it was complaining about a VTIMEZONE block not having a DAYLIGHT section (when in fact there was no DST in that locale).

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Fixes new issue in Local Contacts Edit Dialog where a click on a label would no longer pop up a list of all available labels.

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Generates full stack trace now for some error conditions in contacts and memos when the databases were corrupt or the cache array was invalid.
• Changes the way AutoSyncFrequency is handled on startup and in Preferences: first, launching Pimlical no longer resets the AutoSyncFrequency interval; second, you now have to actually change the value of AutoSyncFrequency in order to have it reschedule starting within a minute or so of the change (previously, changing or just looking at the AutoSyncFrequency preference did not re-initialize the internal setting).
• Fixes issue of potentially generating a TZID tag for the DTSTART and DTEND fields in the VTIMEZONE specification in iCalendar Export.
• When AutoSync is deferred because of activity in Pimlical (i.e. server has lock file from another device syncing), Pimlical now also beeps as well as place the deferred message on the bottom right status line (to draw attention to the message).

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Includes improved error messages in Contacts and Memos Apps.

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Works around CloudRail issue of not properly finding lock files in AutoSync, thereby allowing conflicts to potentially occur.
• Works around CloudRail issue of crashing with an Exception Error when AutoSync was invoked automatically from the AutoSyncFrequency preference.
• Fixes a potential problem where AutoSync icon could be left displayed after AutoSync had terminated due to some error condition.

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• On vCard import, now ensures that the ModificationDate field is set to the current date/time if the vCard does not specify that field. Also now avoids setting the ModificationDate/LastAccessDate fields to the current Date/Time on vCard import.

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Adds new sort criteria to Advanced Find: Modification Date (Find Only). This allows items to be sorted by their modification date. For example, you could set up a filter called Recent which has this as the first criteria sorting in descending order: that would then list the very most recent edit/updates first, followed by all remaining items in reverse chronological order of when they were updated (handy to find where that last item was you changed, when you can't remember exactly where it was or what the text was).

• The two preferences, ContactCategoriesToSync and MemoCategoriesToSync are now properly managed with selection lists (previously, these preferences could not be accessed without error).
• The Set Default button now handles the default settings for StringList and StringsList type preferences (previously, this button did not set the actual default setting). For example, preferences like DefaultApptStatus, or AutoSyncOptions

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• The Purge routine in P/D has been completely revamped to work the same way as the Purge routine in P/A and considerably simplified as a result. Previously, there was considerable confusion as to exactly what happened with purging (vis-a-vis creation of a separate history database, vs. keeping records in the same database with a special status). Purged records are now always marked as deleted in the main database, and automatically merged into the default archive database (PimlicalArchiveCalendar.dat). 
• The Delete button in the Display Results dialog will also put deleted records into the default archive database if the preference: PutDeletedRecordsInHistoryDB is set to True (the default for that preference is false).

• Fixes some default settings for the SET DEFAULT button to match the default Preference file provided on installation.
• Fixes an obscure issue with V-3.6.03 fix for generating times for BEGIN:VTIMEZONE block on ICS Export function (wrong Olson Timezone designation/locale could get generated).
• Fixes problem of not auto-scaling user icons in the Tasks View (the new, larger icons were way too big for the Tasks View Display).

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Ensures the Set Default button in preferences sets the new, correct, default value for the preference: AutoSyncPath.
• Made some further improvements in the auto-layout of the Edit Dialog vis-a-vis horizontal/vertical resizing.
• When AutoSyncFilePath is changed, Pimlical now automatically resets AutoSync Authentication (so a new login is performed to the new cloud server).
• When HomeTimeZone, CreateTimeZone or CurrentTimeZone preferences are changed, Pimlical now automatically re-initializes the timezone and DST rule tables.
• Now temporarily includes messages to advise the user that only Dropbox is supported as an AutoSync option.

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• AutoSync is now operational again, this time using CloudRail. At this point, it has only been tested using CloudRail to drive Dropbox, but CloudRail is supposed to seamlessly drive OneDrive, Box, Google Drive and Egnyte as well. Make sure the preference AutoSyncPath is set to the correct, default value of: CloudRail/Dropbox/PimlicalAutoSync/

• Restores the ability to resize the Edit dialog so that it can be resized when necessary (such as when a really LARGE font was used on an item that takes up more vertical space). Also restores proper horizontal sizing (the Action Tag dialog's scroll bar was at a fixed position requiring a VERY wide dialog in prior versions).

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• When generating the BEGIN:VTIMEZONE block in an iCalendar export file, Pimlical now properly includes the time field for the starting date/time of when the timzone took effect (usually defaulted to start of Unix Epoch: 1Jan1970 at 00:00:00).

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Fixes issue of using Change button in Advanced Find to change the categories of items assigned to a Google Calendar, but only when the preference AssignPimlicalCategoryToGC is True (default is false) and when moving to just a local calendar category (Previously, could result in items not being properly moved and assigned a null uniqueID).
• When syncing with Google Calendar, now writes any custom Pimlical tags at the START of the Note field to be compatible with Pimlical/Android, and which also avoids under some circumstances creating  superfluous new line codes at the end of the note field.

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• A new Action Tag has been added (MasterTemplate) which can be used on a template to indicate it's a "master' meaning it will always be shown in the template list when the ShowAll button is set to only show one member of each template group. Also, the Show All button now ONLY hides items in sub-groups (previously if groups were not used at all and Show All toggled the display, it was puzzingly only displaying one template at a time).

• Ensures that DTSTART tag is generated in timezone specification in iCalendar output file for timezones that have no DST rule (previously, that tag was not generated). Since Pimlical does not maintain historical information for changes in Timezones (only for DST rules), a dummy date of 1-jan-1970 is used for the DTSTART tag. Some iCalendar import routines insist on seeing this DTSTART tag.
• The Special menu item: Restore Original Preference settings now also restores the System Preferences (previously, it only restored the User preferences) and the program now also exits and without writing the calendar (in case preferences are corrupt, it's safer to do that).
• Includes path to Alarm File in error messages concerning alarm system (to help diagnose issues where Java is complaining that it can't play an audio file).
• Significantly improves reliability of network transfers in DirectSync by utilizing a much smaller buffer size.

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Fix for an obscure issue with repeat specifications.

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Local Contacts Dialog  and Contacts Edit Dialogs now have titles (for Contacts: identifies App and also if the list is filtered, and for ContactsEdit the name (or company name) of the contact being edited).

• FIxes two anomalies in the Local Contacts Display when using filters and categories. First, there was an issue if All categories were selected after having deselected one or more categories. Second if a filter was invoked when not all categories were selected, the filter was being ignored.
• Avoids complaining about alarms set in the past if (a) it was a template being edited, or (b) there is at least ONE alarm set in the future.
• Fixes a new issue with setting a repeat date on the 31st of the month (this issue first appeared in V-3.5.01).
• Fixes a relatively new issue where the list of upcoming alarms might omit some items not being displayed in the current view.

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Fixes a new issue in V-3.5.25 whereby category selection was not working properly in Menu | Options | Category Management.
• Changes the default Port number for network sync (PortNumberForNetworkSync) to 8139 as 8000 was an issue on some user devices due to it having been used by some spammers (which then resulted in that port number being blocked).

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Adds preference from P/A, IgnoreAlarmsOnHiddenItems which can be set to TRUE to ignore the alarms on items that are hidden due to a preference or filter setting (Note that this preference in P/A previously only ignored alarms on items hidden because of the category they were in).
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• Fixes some issues in the method of handling timezones in the header of the exported ICS file for better compatibility with other third party apps (in particular, ALL timezones used in the exported file are now included in the timezone header information, and timezones that have no Daylight Savings Rule are now also exported).
• Includes fix (already in P/A) that if a timezone is added with no DST rule, it will properly pick up the first locale that has no DST rule and a matching offset (previously, it would add it as a new entry).
• Fixes an obscure issue where if a filter is set to either Higher or Lower for priority and the item has no priority at all, it might be displayed (if no priority, it should never be displayed if filtering by priority).
• Fixes several issues in AutoSync (file paths were not correct, wrong status was returned, Null Pointer Exception on overwriting empty contacts database, etc. - but ONLY when using a Network/File Path (instead of Dropbox) to sync desktops (network/file path is not supported by Android yet). Note that using AutoSync with a network path is still a preview feature at this point.
• Fixes messages in AutoSync to identify the target as "Server" rather than "Android Device" (AutoSync uses much of same code as DirectSync, so the prior messages were confusing when using AutoSync).
• Fixes a NullPointerException error in AutoSync when overwriting a completely empty tasks database.

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Addresses an obscure error in an iCalendar Export file created by third-party App Timecase which failed to set up the Timezone header properly and which Pimlical (a) did not properly flag as an error and (b) then caused the event to not be imported as a HomeTimeZone event when the designated locale matched the HomeTimeZone locale.
• Fixes problem of the iCalendar Export File not generating the Timezone Header Information for every timezone used in the file (previously, it only output the home time zone).
  
• Fixes an obscure error in the Menu | Special | Import Date List routine whereby an extraneous, trailing space in the Repeat: specification would cause an exception error.
• Fixes a very obscure issue in preferences - if you manually enter a ridiculous value into a preference like DayStartMinute (that in Pimlical is set by a clock to prevent invalid values), you can not fix the preference in Pimlical because you get a NullPointerException when Pimlical tries to process the invalid time.
• Fixes the Days-till-due-date/Days-past-due values so that only past-due Floats with normal status use today's date as the reference. Otherwise, Floats now continue to display the number of days from the start date to the due date (so in looking at completed floats in the past, it continues to show how many days in advance (or late) the item was completed relative to its due date). Previously, completed floats in the past would still use today's date and show the completed float with a very large negative value.
• Fixes the name of Pimlical in Windows Task Manager (now says Pimlical Advanced Calendar instead of This is the main program etc.
• Fixes problem of not always selecting the correct contact in the LINKS dialog for the CALL button (could select wrong contact or cause a NullPointerException error).
• If the Import Date List feature encounters a category tag with no category specified, an error message is now generated (previously, this would cause a NullPointerException error).
• If records are found with Invalid DatabaseID's (Menu | Special | Display Record Counts shows records in the Other category), those records are now updated with the Local Calendar DatabaseID, and the record is identified in the regular Audit Trail (Pimlical_{OS}_AuditTrail.txt).
  

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• The upcoming alarms list which shows future occurrences of alarms on floating events (presuming they are not completed/canceled) now caters to the FloatDays Action Tag (previously, the upcoming alarms list would show such an event as having an alarm on a day that would in fact actually be skipped by the time that float caught up to that date). Note that there are other vanishingly small end-conditions that are not really feasible to manage for this list (example: you have a repeat filter which changes category selections or invokes a custom preference file, and the category that an item is in is now affected by the preference NoAlarmsOnTheseCategories or by the preference: IgnoreAlarmsOnHiddenItems (!).

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Now also allows the use of the Delete key to delete the currently selected task in the Tasks View.
• Includes note in Registration dialog about uninstalling and reinstalling Pimlical to change the User Name (as this is a frequent question).
• Fixes an obscure issue with the use of groups and sub-templates when only non-group and primary templates were being displayed whereby a null pointer exception could be generated under some conditions and prevent the use of templates...

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Fixes an of using the arrow (cursor) keys to move the highlight bar up and down in the Tasks Dialog. Under some conditions, pressing the Edit/Note/Delete buttons would reference the wrong task. Also fixes the issue of the arrow keys not working after canceling out of the Edit dialog from the Tasks dialog.

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Fixes an issue with using the advanced repeat (Monthly by Date with a day of the week) to avoid advancing the date into the following month.

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Fixes an issue in AutoSync whereby under some conditions it skips the sync because it thinks that nothing has changed (when it has).
• Now auto-refreshes the screen at the conclusion of AutoSync and avoids prematurely removing the AutoSync icon from the screen.

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• This corrects a 'show-stopper' problem for users still using the old Palm MDB databases on Java 7 - the code that normally writes out the calendar database was inadvertently left commented out in the V-3.5.15 release (!), so no items were stored in the database (only just reported now - as there are few users left on that combination apparently).
• Fixes an issue with the Birthday and Anniversary Action Tags, where a space could be inadvertently entered by the user and that space was causing the Android Java library to crash in P/A (Interestingly the Oracle Java library in P/D has no problem with that same code - but in case a future Java implementation used by P/D has the same problem as the Android version, this seems worth changing).
• Newly Created memos which are linked now use both the title as well as the uniqueID, so that links in events synced from Pimlical/Android V-3.5.14 or later are now also properly displayed in P/D (this change is backwards compatible, so existing memo links are still ok). Existing links to newly created memos are not retroactively updated - but if you go back and re-link the event to the same memo, it will now display the title in the memo selection list.
• Fixes an issue in AutoSync whereby under some conditions it gets invoked on every launch of Pimlical.

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Fixes issue of being unable to edit the repeat parent of an irregular repeat series (was causing a NullPointerException error).

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Includes a new preference: PortNumberForNetworkSync. A few users have run into cases where some other app is using Port 8000 for network access, or where an AntiVirus program found a virus trying to use port 8000, and then completely blocked that port from all applications. If you see an unexpected: IOException: Address already in use: JVM_Bind (this might, but not necessarily, be this problem). If you do change this preference, make sure you also change it in ALL devices that you are DirectSyncing to. Pick a number in the range 1024-49151 (probably try something nearby like 8399 etc.).

• Fixes issue in DirectSync no longer displaying the results of syncing the Memos and Contacts databases.
• Pimlical now fetches the DirectSync and AutoSync documentation directly from the Pimlico Website (previously, it was embedded in the program itself - with this change, the documentation can be updated dynamically at any time).

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Adds new preference: TimeOfDayForAutoSync which if set to a value other than midnight (00:00) specifies a time of day at which an AutoSync is guaranteed to have taken place today (regardless of the AutoSyncFrequency setting). So if you set the AutoSyncFrequency to 1d, you can ensure, for example, that Pimlical AutoSyncs no later than 9am today by setting this preference to 9am.

• When AutoSync is invoked manually, Pimlical now skips the tests to see if the databases have changed - this addresses the issue of (a) immediately invoking AutoSync after making a change and having it missed, and (b) dealing with an unusually slow update on the dropbox servers.
• Fixes an issue in Local Memos and Contacts whereby the routine that detects and fixes duplicate ID's was not properly writing out the database with the corrected ID's.
• Updates the installer to include an information pane for a Windows Installation reminding Users to exit Pimlical/Desktop if it's running, and also to cover upgrading from a really old version of P/D, etc.
• If AutoSync is invoked manually, but no databases are selected in the preference: AutoSyncAction, Pimlical now complains about the configuration problem.

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Fixes the default value for the ContactSort preference built-into the program - under some conditions when the preferences were being reset or re-initialized, the invalid value there could result in a spurious error file or dialog stating ERROR: Configuration Problem, Invalid setting for preference: CompanyNameOrder - that error message has now also been updated to reference the correct preference (ContactSort).
  

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Fixes an issue with AutoSync erroneously skipping the sync stating that nothing has changed, when in fact something has changed in the local database (this can happen in the prior releases if the database is saved or Auto-saved after those changes were made).

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Removes the restriction (that had already been removed in P/A), that if you tell AutoSync to Synchronize the contacts and/or memos databases and those databases were never created, then it automatically treats the Synchronize option the same as an overwrite from Server to Desktop and creates those databases. This eliminates the need to set the AutoSyncAction preference to overwrite if those databases don't exist.
• Changes default setting of DaysToKeepDeletedRecords preference from 7 days to 30 days as it is more likely that some users may not be regularly AutoSyncing some of their devices.

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Sidesteps a Java drawing bug in the Day/MultiDay views (vertical bars redrawn wrong, etc.) when AutoSync is running (Java miscomputes the screen size and part of the screen is temporarily mis-drawn).  The fix is not 100% perfect, but with this fix most users will likely not even notice the minor mis-draw that remains.

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Adds a new tag, <Short:xxxxxx> for the Import Date List command (Menu | Special) which allows you to specify the text to use for the Short Description field in a calendar record.

• Now avoids generating a spurious error file complaining about being unable to delete its own lock file when in fact there was no lock file to delete.

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Pimlical/Desktop now supports purging old records into a separate history database when handling the new DAT format (no one had reported this issue after the database conversion took place). With this release, if you check the box to put the records in the history database, the records are placed/appended into PimlicalArchiveCalendar.dat (as they are in Pimlical/Android).

• The preference for handling the default sort for the Contacts database has been changed from CompanyNameOrder to ContactSort. This now matches the preference in P/A, and allows the preference to be set with a list option. Also, the local contacts database now properly obeys the 'Tempoary' and 'Permanent" sort criteria to match Memos and also how contacts are handled in P/A. Note that changing the order in the Contacts dialog now only changes it on a temporary basis. To set the permanent, default sort order, go into Preferences and set the value for the preference: ContactSort.
• Avoids NullPointerException error if you inadvertently attempt to Synchronize contacts when in fact the contacts database does not exist.
• Fixes issue of not displaying the summary dialog at the end of DirectSync if contacts and/or memos were also synced with the calendar.
• Fixes problem on iCalendar Export whereby under some circumstances, the date/time set in the tags: CREATED/DTSTAMP/LAST-MODIFIED had two 'Z's at the end of the UTC Date/Time Specification instead of one (i.e. a date/time was being exported as CREATED:20160723T063803ZZ instead of CREATED:20160723T063803Z). This was though an apparently a benign error as it did not affect the import of the file into any calendar application.
• Implements AutoSyncAction preference as in Pimlical/Android to control how AutoSync Operates. The default value is Synchronize, but it can also be set to Pimlical Overwrites Server or Server Overwrites Pimlical.
• Two new preferences, ContactCategoriesToSync and MemoCategoriesToSync have been added which parallel the function of the current preferences, ApptCategoriesToSync and TaskCategoriesToSync. Only those categories included in that preference will be synced. If the preference is blank, that is treated as if all categories are selected for syncing (To avoid syncing a database, use the AutoSyncOptions Preference).
• Popup Command Display Details now also manages tab stops embedded in text fields.
• When tapping the repeat specification in the Edit Dialog, the number of Future Occurrences is no longer displayed if the event has no explicit repeat end date (because there would be an infinite number of repeat occurrences). Previously, it reported the number of future occurrences prior to, or including, the last date in Pimlical's calendar (December 31, 2099).

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Adds AutoSync. AutoSync can sync any number of desktops/devices running Pimlical Calendar either on demand or automatically at intervals using a cloud-based server such as Dropbox (in this initial release, only network-accessible devices and DropBox are supported). Note that DirectSync is still fully supported as another sync option. Make sure that the preference LatestUpdateAlwaysPrevails is set to True on all Platforms (older versions of Pimlical/Desktop defaulted to False, and that could cause floating events to be duplicated - since they would have been effectively modified separately on both platforms).
• The repeat legend in the Edit Dialog now displays the number of repeat occurrences prior to today and the number of repeat occurrences after today. These counts include exception instances to the repeat series and in the case of irregular repeat series (if the event was the parent of an irregular repeat series) all the child events of that irregular repeat series).
• Adds new item to the Special menu to reset the screen size/position tables. If changing monitors or screen configuration, use this option to forget the old screen/size configurations.

• Fixes an obscure issue on importing contacts from old Palm MDB Address database whereby the phone/email/address fields, while importing correctly, might not show up initially in the Contacts display list.
• Fixes incorrect title on dialog that displays list of duplicate id's when using menu | Validate Unique ID's in DB... Also updates that function to fix blank unique ID's and invalid database ID's.
• When specifying a duration value in preferences for a value that must be positive, Pimlical now automatically fixes the value regardless of whether the Before radio button was inadvertently selected.
• Fixes an issue in DirectSync related to the automatic importing of birthdays/anniversaries - namely after Direct/AutoSync, under some conditions, the birthdays/anniversaries imported from the contacts database would get lost and have to be re-imported.
• Fixes an issue of custom font names not always being reliably synced via Direct/AutoSync, due to an incompatibility in the way that font names were being handled under Windows Versus Android.
• If the preference CheckForNewSoftwareRelease is set to a value other than 0 (i.e. perform the check every X days), it will now skip the check if there is no network connection (previously it would display an error message if no network was available for performing the check).
• Fixes an installation problem on Windows XP and earlier windows-based systems using a language other than English (initial install dialog was not displaying in those circumstances).
• Fixes problem in memos that if you are filtering the display (say to only show recent items, deleted items or favorites, etc.) that if you exit the memos display and return to it while Pimlical is still running, the checkboxes do not reflect the current status of the filter (i.e. deleted records might display even though the Show Deleted checkbox was not checked).
• Fixes problem of losing the Only Show Next Occurrence attribute for repeat tasks when syncing tasks through a google calendar (this is not something that many users would be doing, which is why it had been overlooked for several years).
• Fixes a problem when syncing to a read-only calendar whereby certain exceptions to repeat series can cause repeated queries on every sync about deleting items in Pimlical that are no longer in Google Calendar.
• Includes updated DST rules for Israel (also corrects for the most latest information) that should be valid through about 2025. The online documentation for P/A now includes detailed information about the format of the Worldtimezones.txt file and explains how/why Israel (an unusual case) is setup the way it is.
• Provides more flexibility in handling timezones in iCalendar import (in particular, allowing custom tags inside the timezone definitions, and also ignoring redundant VALUE=DATE-TIME tags inside DTSTART/DTEND statements).
• If an attempt is made in the Edit Dialog to set the start date of a normal, floating event or task to a past date, a dialog now appears informing the user of the problem (you can not set a start date in the past on an active, floating event or task), and also suggests a workaround if the user want so take advantage of the right-click offset feature (see tip when hovering mouse cursor over button).

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Fixes a problem in DirectSync when trying to do a sync overwrite from deskto to device and the device has either a completely empty memo database, or no memo database at all.
• Fixes an issue in reading Google Calendars (possibly on with Mac Java libraries) whereby corrupt entries (with invalid dates) could sneak into the Pimlical database and cause problems.

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Fixes a problem in Menu | Special | Validate Unique IDs in DB, when there is no contacts or no memos databases (previously, Pimlical might try and read the old Address/Memopad databases and then generate an unexpected SQL database error).

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Adds a Pencil icon to the Edit dialog underneath the Description label. If you tap that icon, Pimlical opens up a large edit window with the description field displayed (similar to tapping one of the Edit buttons for custom fields in the Advanced Pane).

• Fixes a reported NullExceptionError on Mac OS version when reading Google calendar and there are items in the database with no modification date set (this might be just a historical problem, and might not necessarily be uniquely related to the Mac OS version).
• When a new contact is created in the Local Contacts database, Pimlical now sorts the new item into the correct position (previously, it was left at the end of the list until the list was next sorted/displayed).
• Fixes an issue with how the uniqueID's are created in P/D vis-a-vis syncing items to P/A - in particular, P/D was still generating old style uniqueID's - which under some circumstances (such as managing irregular repeat series) could result in the link between parent and child events getting broken because P/A was modifying the uniqueID's for compatibility.
• Adds ifCategory command to template drawing routines - this statement is true if an item is not solely in the Unfiled category (you can also use ~ifCategory to test for an item that is only in the Unfiled Category). Use this statement to only display the category for an item if it is not in the Unfiled category.

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Fixes an issue when switching to a different timezone table - in particular a table that no longer has definitions for entries in the current calendar database (or templates). This version ensures the calendar and templates are written first with the old table so that at least the timezone offeset is preserved (as well as the rule IF the rule is present in the newly imported table).
• Fixes issue with Irregular repeats whereby deleted instances of the irregular repeat series were still showing up in the Repeat Dialog as active instances.
• Fixes issue with Irregular repeats of not consistently retrieving all the pending field changes in the Edit dialog, prior to creating the irregular repeat instances.
• Fixes issue of the Edit dialog not consistently identifying an event as the parent of an irregular repeat series.

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Fixes an issue in DirectSync whereby under some circumstances, the new preference DoNotSyncItemsPriorToDate was not filtering out items prior to the cutoff date from the file returned to Pimlical/Android (so the archived items would mysteriously "reappear"
• Fixes an issue in the timezone handling whereby under some circumstances, Pimlical would treat a Daylight Savings Rule as being in the Southern Hemisphere rather than Northern Hemisphere (so the on/off of DST would get reversed with the result that the resulting display timezone could be off by one hour in the wrong direction).
• Fixes an issue in the use of the entire 450+ Olson Timezone database whereby the file was not being copied to the correct folder for installation.

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Uncaught Exception Error files now have the proper .error extension (prior versions were still using a .txt extension).
• DirectSync now specifically checks that the calendar database being read from P/A matches on the major and minor versions and will put up an error message if they differ.
• In the initial install dialog, the checkbox indicating that you are still using the old Palm MDB databases is now always displayed if you are using a version of Java prior to Java 8 (previously, that checkbox was only displayed if you also checked the box to reinitialize preferences, but that was not really intended). Note that you must check this box in order to have the preference SynchronizeWithPalmOS set to true (otherwise it will be set to False).
• Includes an obscure fix covering recurrence rules in iCalendar format that have been created by some calendar applications (and which could potentially cause a read fault on the calendar).
• Restores behavior of prior V_3.3.8 that pressing ESC key unselects any selected items in display.
• Ensures that any changes to category settings get written out when the OK button is tapped in the Category dialog (this was only an issue when running on Mac OS and user invoked the Quit PimlicalApp menu command from Finder (which bypassed the normal close sequence in Pimlical).

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Fixes issue with the ShadedDates preference. Pimlical/Desktop now manages this in the same was as Pimlical/Android. The ShadedDates preference now only handles the dates to be shaded - any color specification from past installs (if present) are ignored. To set the color to use for the Shaded Dates, use the preference: ShadedDatesColor in the [Colors] section of preferences.

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Adds new Query dialog when importing icons that allow more control over the icon import (if duplicate icon ID's are found, you can now either (a) assign a new, unique ID, or (b) skip that icon).  Also, some 100 new icons have been added to the icon collection (and yes, a future release does plan to organize the icons for more intuitive access - most users do not choose to re-organize the collections themselves, so obviously that would be helpful to those users).

• Fixes an issue with installing on older Windows XP systems whereby Pimlical's initial install dialog was not displaying and error messages like Wrong number of system icons or Preference object in cache is of wrong type etc. were occurring).

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Adds Backup button to the preference dialog to force the backup of all preferences (this will write out the backups regardless of the MaximumBackupFrequency Preference and when the last set of backups were taken).

• Fixes issue on Linux versions where the menu | Help | Reference Manual... command was failing because of case-sensitivity in Linux systems on the filename for the manual.
• Works around new bug in Java (perhaps windows version only?) whereby pass-word protected memos (with the password feature enabled) were being displayed even if the user canceled out of the password dialog.
• Fixes issue of the Backup/Restore of preferences still referencing the old PimlicalDBs.dat filename instead of the new SystemPreferences.dat filename and not properly creating backup copies of preferences.
• Fixes an issue whereby Pimlical was encountering a NullPointerException when writing out the new SystemPreference.dat file.
• Adds more robust error checking for corruption in date/times of events and fixes them.
• Clicking on the [X] at top right of the Installation Dialog now acts as if the OK button was hit - previously, a user doing this would end up bypassing the installation of new files (and could result in an error message about the wrong number of System Icons, or other installation-related problems).

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Fixes an issue with the new preference DoNotSyncEventsPriorToDate whereby an answer of Yes on an overwrite from Android to Desktop  (which should preserve items in the desktop database) was under some circumstances causing the items to be deleted anyway.

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Incorporates some fixes for installation defaults and some other issues raised in only very obscure configurations.

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• DoNotSyncEventsPriorToDate preference now queries user if they want to preserve items prior to the cutoff date when overwriting from Android device to desktop. A response of  Yes will preserve items in the desktop database prior to the cutoff date, while a response of No will result in a complete overwrite.

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Fixes an issue in new preference: DoNotSyncEventsPriorToDate, whereby items archived in P/A were apparently still causing the items to be removed from P/D, even though they ended prior to the preference's cutoff date.
• Now displays an appropriate error message if an invalid filter name is typed into the preference: StartupFilter (previously, no error message appeared and Pimlical just switched to using the Default filter).
• When exiting, the normally empty Runtime_Errors_Windows_XXXX.error file is now properly deleted. It is only preserved if an error condition was written into it (Note: this works under Windows, but may not work on Mac OS or some Linux distros).

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Implements new preference: DoNotSyncEventsPriorToDate (which was actually documented in P/A help file in description of menu | Archive function, but not implemented till this version). This sets a cutoff date for syncing items - any items in P/D that end prior to this cutoff date (i.e. a non-repeat item with an end date prior to the archive date, or a repeat item with an explicit end repeat date that ends before the archive date) will be ignored in both P/D and P/A. This makes it possible to keep old archive items in the current P/D calendar, while keeping older items in a separate archive calendar in P/A, where it is desirable on slower devices or devices with limited memory to keep the current calendar as small as possible.

• When syncing with Google Calendar (via Android Calendar), exceptions to repeat series are now treated in a manner identical to how Pimlical handles them - in particular, the exception is not considered to be part of the repeat series with respect to modifications made to the repeat series itself. So if you modify the repeat series, any exceptions will not be updated (there are arguments that can be made on both sides of how to handle this condition, but for Pimlical users, it's probably more important to handle exceptions through google calendar in a manner consistent with how Pimlical has always handled exceptions). This also fixes some issues in prior versions with unexpected duplications or omissions of instances of a repeat after exceptions have been made.
• Fixes a sync problem related to a repeat floating event that had been created from a non-repeat instance of a repeat floating event - in particular, there was an internal field that links the non-repeat instance to the original repeat float that was not being cleared out, and so the repeat float was getting confused with a repeat instance. The symptom (which may be easier to understand!) was that a floating event would mysteriously re-appear even after being deleted or marked as completed, after a sync.

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Fixes an upgrade issue involving System Preferences where under some conditions, Pimlical will not read the old PimlicalDBs.dat file with the result that system preferences get re-initialized (if you had this issue previously, delete SystemPreferences.* and relaunch Pimlical).
• Fixes issue of iCalendar import not managing entries where the end date appears before the start date, and where the start date appears after a repeat specification which included exception dates.
• Fixes issue of iCalendar import discarding events with duplicate ID's, when in fact with some calendar apps, those events were actually just created as reminders (with a custom tag for that calendar app). This version now re-assigns a new UniqueID to those events, as otherwise, if the reminders appear BEFORE the actual repeat series, the repeat series itself would have been discarded as a duplicate event. Also the skipped events were only mentioned in the summary message in Debug Mode - now they always are mentioned.

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Fixes issue of not properly recovering after the removal of null entries in the calendar database (prior versions ignored this issue, but 3.4.8 removes them - but not in the best way - this release leaves the null entries and puts a default message into the description field - that way the program also recovers properly.
• Fixes issue of program still using PimlicalDBs.dat file on new install (rather than new SystemPreference.dat file). 
• Fixes issue of losing the checkmark on monthly repeats of appointment types only in a filter.
• Fixes NullPointerError that can occur under some relatively rare conditions when writing SystemPreferences.dat file.
• Fixes an obscure read error on the local calendar (related to timezone setting).
• Fixes issue on Completely clean installation of not using default sizes for the resizable dialogs (Preferences, Display Results, etc.).
• Fixes issue on completely clean installation of getting spurious error message about the old Palm Databases.
• Fixes issue on completely clean installation of not properly checking for both SystemPreferences.dat as well as PimlicalDBs.dat when setting up the checkbox for re-initializing that file (should only be checked if both files are missing).

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Import All button in Menu | Options | Change Timezone now imports some 400+ Timezone definitions covering the entire world (this is the complete Olson Database of timezone definitions). The Timezone routines now permit any number of locales even if the definitions are functionally identical.
• In the Month view, clicking on a day in the main view now updates the selection day in the left navigation pane to show the selected day.

• When syncing items back and forth, Pimlical now avoids confusion over the Google/Android calendar prefixes used by Pimlical (A_ and G_) and ensures they are identical on each platform (previously, the G_ prefix could appear in P/A and that could cause an entry for the G_ category in category lists, etc.).
• In the Edit dialog, the repeat button now also indicates if the current repeat series has any exceptions present.
• Updates the message in the About dialog to specifically look for error files that have a .error extension (previously, error files had a .log or .txt extension, but that was causing confusion with other files that were not error files).
• In the Day+ view, when day is changed by tapping on a different day, the date navigation pane in the left panel is now also updated.
• Fixes new issue in recent interim release whereby a floating event with a due date in the future, but which was past-due, would appear in today's schedule rather than on the future, display Date.
• Fixes an obscure issue in DirectSync with floating events that should eliminate the issue that just a few users have seen with a rogue floating reminder that keeps on mysteriously re-appearing in P/A immediately after syncing with P/D.
• Fixes a problem of potentially writing preferences to a custom preference file no longer in use (problem was that name would be used IF the preference file existed, even though the filter was no longer marked as having a custom preference file).
• Speeds up launching and exiting of Pimlical by rewriting all the prior java-based routines to read and write the PimlicalDBs.dat database with optimized, custom routines (the PimlicalDBs.dat file can still be read, but it is now written and re-read as SystemPreferences.dat). This change was primarily made so that the SystemPreferences.dat file is compatible between the Desktop and Android versions. Filters are now written with a .FLT extension (when importing filters, the file open dialog will display filters in both the old format (*.FIL) as well as the new format (*.FLT). 

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Speeds up selection of repeat exception options by providing separate buttons in the Repeat Exception dialog along with graphics.

• The icons that identify past-due floats and tasks (circle and square respectively with an exclamation mark inside them) now respond to a direct click in the main view in the same way as a click on undated floats and tasks (i.e. it marks them as completed) - previously, a tap was bringing up the edit dialog. Also, a right-click on any of those icons brings up the Date picker to assign a new date to that float or task (this has always been true, but apparently may not have been documented).
• Sets button insets to zero in the Contacts dialog of just the Mac version because Mac buttons are always too big and this bring width of dialog down significantly to work better for lower resolution Mac screens.
• Fixes an obscure issue in Google Sync: if you have a read-only calendar that for some reason Pimlical would normally update (if it were read/write) and this is immediately followed by another calendar that is not read-only, then you can potentially get a (benign) Forbidden error message from Google. This could also result in some other obscure error messages, such as the complaint that items were being updated in more than one calendar (another thing that has been reported by a couple of users in the past year or two).
• Fixes problem of not providing the correct Olson Database definition for events in UTC (was picking up a comment in the Worldtimezones.txt file) which would result in a complaint from Google when creating/updating an event with times set in UTC.
• If the local calendar is completely corrupt and the cache file is also corrupt, Pimlical now renames PimlicalLocalCalendar.dat to PimlicalLocalCalendar.bad - that way at least Pimlical will start up with an empty calendar, and the user can restore the calendar from the Backup menu, or using DirectSync to restore from Pimlical/Android's calendar.
• The feature of restoring the locking of the due date to the start date was only partially re-enabled in prior versions when the preference LockDueStartDateOnTasks was set to true (the due date was locked to the start date). When set to true, this version now also locks the Start date to the due date. Note that this does not require the SAME setting for the due date and start date - it merely ensures that any change to the due date OR the start date preserves the same interval between the start date and the due date.
• In the weekly view, the down-arrow drawn at the end of the line to indicate there are more items to display on that day for which there is not enough room is now better positioned (previously, it was so close to the right end of the line that the down-arrow was scarcely visible).
• Fixes problem in Local Contacts view of not displaying an item when filtering a display for a text string and filtering by category when multiple categories were present (in either the selection list of categories, or the assigned categories of the item) and the multiple category lists did not perfectly match (for example, you had three selected categories for display and the item with the matching text string was in only two of those categories). Also corrects a problem of not displaying an item when filtering by text string and just displaying the Unfiled category and the item was in the unfiled category.
• On iCalendar import, Pimlical/Desktop now matches import in Pimlical/Android which avoids reading items with UniqueID's that already duplicate existing items in the database (this assumes the iCalendar file uses the UID tag).
• Avoids a spurious query about saving the preferences stating that a change had been made when in fact no preference had been changed.
• Fixes problem of not being able to change the custom label for custom field 9 in the Local Contacts dialog.
• Redesigns both the Local Contacts and Local Memos Dialogs so they fit on smaller screens (especially for Mac's with smaller screens as the java layouts tend to be a lot sparser than Windows/Linux).

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Fixes new in 3.4.05 issue of memos not getting synced properly into the desktop memos database (which in turn causes the memos to disappear from the Android memo database.
• Fixes issue of Google Sync running really slow - this was caused by the new, comprehensive logging of the sync which is supposed to only be done when the preference DebugMode is set to true, but in fact was always being done regardless. DebugMode should not normally be left set to True - it's usually only set when trying to track down some problem.
• Adds the three icons for irregular repeats, and an exception to a regular and an irregular repeat series (now matches Pimlical/Android).
• Legend in repeat dialog now includes a count of the number of irregular repeats that were generated from a repeat parent.
• Fixes problem of children of an irregular repeat parent sometimes being marked as an irregular repeat parent themselves (problem was more obvious with the new system icons).

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Fixes new problem of the installation dialog appearing every time Pimlical is launched (on Mac and Linux versions only).
• Shrinks the sizes of buttons in the contacts dialog so the screen fits on an 800x600 display (also looks better on Mac).
• Displays the last modified date/times adjusted to the current, local timezone rather than in UTC in the messages and Sync log.
• Fixes an issue in reading google calendars with the preference UseGoogleExtendedProperties set to true, and having extended properties inserted by some other calendar application with a private designation, when there was no shared property present - this resulted in a NullPointerException error, and the event in question was not read).
• Fixes an issue in DirectSync of handling memo conflicts - the conflicting memos are now properly written to both platforms if the preference LatestUpdateAlwaysPrevails is set to false.
• Fixes an obscure problem with the Only Show Next Repeat feature when the repeat event in question is in a different timezone that would cause the event to shift into a different day (in such cases, the event might have previously shown on the Next or prior instance rather than the current instance).
• Switching the DebugMode preference is now immediately recognized (previously, it might not be acted on right away by Pimlical).
• Ensures that all the logging information previously only recorded internally is now put in the GoogleSyncLog.txt file if the preference DebugMode is set to true.
• When syncing with Google Calendar, if the event was deleted in Pimlical after the last modification to the event in Google, then the event is deleted from Google (previously, if the event had been modified in Google calendar after the calendar was last synced, the Google event would replace the deleted Pimlical event).
• Pimlical now generates comprehensive log of the sync with Google Calendar (if DebugMode is set to true) to help diagnose any syncing issues.
• Fixes an obscure issue with exceptions made in Google calendar and synced to Pimlical - previously, the exception would generate a duplicate ID in Pimlical and could subsequently result in the exception getting unexpectedly deleted. Pimlical now forces Google Calendar to manage exceptions in a manner that is compatible with Pimlical to avoid that issue.
• Includes a warning note in the Review Exception Dates dialog (where you can remove exceptions to repeat events) when a google calendar is being handled as due to a limitation in Google calendar, it is not possible to remove exceptions that were created in Google calendar in this dialog (you have to undo exceptions made in Google calendar in Google Calendar).
• On a past-due floating event or task, the number of days shown as past due (in brackets) now properly reflects past-due from todays' date (previously, it was showing the number of days from the display date).
• Fixes an issue with the 3rd/4th5th alarms not being properly recognized in the up-coming alarms list and not consistently triggering alarms.
• Fixes an issue with a past-due repeat task with a display date in the future - such events now will appear in today's schedule and also cause any alarms associated with them to go off on today.

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Adds new preference (although this was in P/A previously): DefaultBackgroundColor - this defaults to White (which preserves prior behavior) but can now be used to change the default background color in all views).
• Scan for duplicate ID's in Menu | Special now scans the new contacts and memos databases for duplicate ID's (and assigns new ID's to duplicated items).
• RGB Slider dialog now allows you to tap the button displaying the numeric values and enter the values directly from the keyboard (much faster than fiddling with a mouse when you know what values you want to use).
• Installer now supports installing under a standard Windows Account. Previously, attempting to install under a standard account ran into problems because the Install Dialog never appeared and as a result, files were not updated, and a clean install would fail. Of course, the installer still has to require you log in as an administrative user (because standard users have no access to C:\Program Files....).

• Cleans up the resolution of conflicts in the Calendar database (when each matching item was independently modified after the last sync) to match how memos and contacts are handled. First, the old preference SyncCalendarPrevails is now ignored in favor of using the preference: LatestUpdateAlwaysPrevails. If set to True, then the conflict is automatically resolved in favor of the item that was most recently updated. If false, both items appear in both databases and a notation is made on the sync log of the conflict. Also includes much better logging of the synchronization process to help diagnose issues.
• Fixes an issue in DirectSync, whereby the date/times of the last sync for the calendar, memos and contacts databases was inadvertently being adjusted to the current time zone - that date/time stamp (like the creation and modification date/time stamps) should always be recorded in UTC. This could have caused some obscure issues previously with memo or contact items not being recognized as conflicts (if the user's current timezone was East of GMT) or some items being spuriously identified as conflicts (if the user's current timezone was West of GMT). I.e. if the modification was made within X seconds of the last sync, and the user's current timezone was more than X seconds distant from UTC, there would have been a potential issue.
• Adds support for nickname in local contacts (present on Pimlical/Android - inadvertently omitted on Pimlical/Desktop in prior versions).
• Fixes problem in new memos and contacts databases of creating a new item and then updating it before the database was ever written (such as by hitting the DONE button in memos) - problem caused was that (a) the updated information would be lost and (b) a spurious error message would be generated.
• Fixes problem of launching custom run-time commands from custom alarms (i.e. using the Exec button) - problem was that the newly-introduced {Desktop}-{/Desktop} tags which are used to separate out platform-specific custom alarm/command strings was not being stripped out of the command prior to submission to the operating system. This feature (which has always been in P/D) allows you to launch ANY application or data file (which in turn should launch the associated application) by checking the Exec checkbox and selecting a file (you can also right-click the field to edit it manually - this would allow you to enter a web-browser address etc. to open a web page when the alarm went off, etc.). Also avoids trying to execute the command string as an alarm file if the Exec checkbox has JUST been checked.
• Fixes problem of the left pane in main views getting clipped when a new alarm appears with a longer description - this was a java bug, but it's now side-stepped by automatically truncating the text to fit the existing size of the label, thereby avoiding the layout change (what should have happened in the prior version is that the split-pane would be resized and redrawn to accomodate the longer text, but truncating seems like it's obviously better).
• Fixes problem of trying to access the new contacts database even if the preference SynchronizeWithPalmOS is set to true (provide that is set to true and java 7 is installed, Pimlical will use the old Palm Address.mdb database).
• Updated preference note to indicate that the preference EditDialogQuickReturn also applies to using poup commands on the event selection list (i.e. if you delete an item using a popup command, the program returns to the main view rather than just updating and re-displaying the event selection list).
• Fixed the default call template (setup for Skype) so it now works with the latest release of Skype (Skype requires country code, so this default command string provides +1 for USA numbers). This command string though would normally have to be customized by the user for their particular use).
• Fixed cosmetic issue with the pinned dates list (the dropdown box was not always auto-sizing itself properly to display the dates, and it was not being hidden on startup if there were no pinned dates).
• If the preference or calendar file rename fails (Anti-virus software or perhaps windows indexing?) steps in and locks the file that Pimlical is renaming, thereby causing the rename operation to unexpectedly fail (!!) - Pimlical now attempts to rename the file again in one second (at which point the intefering task should have hopefully finished interfering!).

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Fixes a cosmetic display issue in Day/Day+ views that if some large, custom fonts are displayed for events, the scroll bar appears and in just a few cases the last end-of-line icon can be hidden underneath the scroll bar.
• When installing Pimlical/Desktop to support really old, legacy Palm devices (that you have to use PalmHotsyncSetup.exe for so you can switch the file extensions to .DB from .MDB), Pimlical now checks to see if the old legacy .DB databases are present and if they are, avoids copying in the empty MDB databases into those folders).

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Fixes problem of displaying record count when the memo database is completely empty.
• Fixes problem of not applying permanent sort to memos when memos are first displayed (although the drop-down list was properly updated to reflect it).
• Names of Audit trail file now appears as Pimlical_Windows_AuditTrail.txt (or Pimlical_Linux... etc. - Making filenames in a consistent format across platforms).
• Error files now all use a .error extension so they are immediately distinguishable from other files (previously, it was .txt then .log but those are also both used for other purposes). Also the error filenames now include the platform name.

New Features in this Release: (Available on Subscription Only):

• Includes new Memo handling with significantly more functionality, and replaces existing memo folder with separate text files with a single DAT file which results in significantly faster performance when handling large memo databases (and also greatly speeds up syncing). Pimlical will prompt to convert the existing database when accessing memos for the first time with this new version. Adds filtering/sorting functionality similar to the contacts view with favorites/recent view, etc. Note: you must match this version of Pimlical/Desktop with Pimlical/Android 3.4.x if you use DirectSync and ensure that memos have been migrated to this new database format on both platforms prior to the first sync.
• Adds menu items to Backup Menu to restore the contacts and memos databases from prior backup copies. 
• Adds new preference: LockDueStartDateOnTasks which defaults to true and restores the prior behavior on tasks where the start and due dates were locked together and could not be separated - if set to false, this restores the behavior of V-3.3.05 where the start/due dates could be set to different dates.
• Enhances the Repeat Yearly/Monthly by Date rules to handle advanced repeats like the Black Friday case - you can set the repeat to occur on the first specified day of the week after the designated repeat occurrence. Example, Black Friday is the Friday after Thanksgiving - since the earliest that Thanksgiving occurs is the 22nd of November, you can set the repeat to repeat on the first Friday on or after the 23rd of November. Cyber Monday would be the first Monday on or after the 26th of November. Note that not all calendar applications support this type of repeat (for example, Google calendar can display an event like this, but won't allow the user to edit it).This feature is now also supported in iCalendar import/export. If you pick two or more days of the week to repeat on, Pimlical will pick the earliest, selected day of the week  (it does not repeat on each of the selected days). See the online Manual for Pimlical/Android for more information and a useful table to make it easier to determine what day to pick to follow a repeat set with a ByDay type rule.

• Fixes problem of the automatic backups of the local contacts database not being created properly. 
• Adds the past-due task and float icons that Pimlical/Android was already displaying for floating events or tasks where the due date is today or on a prior day (i.e. indicating this is something you definitely want to address today).
• Fixes a recent issue whereby the links dialog was not displaying contacts from the new contacts database.
• When removing deleted records from the database, Pimlical now explicitly indicates how many records were removed from the contacts and memos databases (previously that information was only provided for the calendar and tasks databases).