Over the past week and a half, I have made releases for all of my projects. Most of them were pretty minor, and just amounted to updating the translations (and fixing an issue where the Qt-supplied translations were not being properly loaded). Packagers will now need to depend on lrelease, because I no longer include the precompiled binary .qm files.

The projects with actual feature releases were CuteMaze, Hexalate, Tanglet, and Tetzle. For the most part, the features added will not be obvious unless you have a 4K monitor, because the biggest thing I added was support for high-DPI displays. I did also finish moving my projects to be Qt 5 only, and to use C++11.

As usual, report any issues you have. Enjoy!

And another project rises from the ashes like a phoenix: I have finally made a new feature release of Kapow, version 1.5.0! There are not a whole lot of user-visible changes, but some very important code cleanup happened. The most noticeable changes are that you can now start, stop, or cancel sessions by right-clicking on the sidebar. It also prevents you from removing a project that has a timer running in a subproject. Enjoy!

Kapow

I have released a minor update to Kapow, version 1.4.4. This release is mostly to add an automatic backup system for the time data that I have been working on. A few users have experienced data loss, and this will hopefully prevent anybody else suffering that. Kapow now makes logarithmic backups (one backup a day for a week, then one backup a week for a month, then one backup a month for a year, and finally one backup a year after that) as well as a temporary backup that gets overwritten with each save. This release also adds support for building with Qt 5, although it is still released with Qt 4 as that is the primary development platform for now.

Longer term I am planning on making it easier for users to store the data file and backups in a location of their choosing, which will default to their documents folder. I have not settled on how I want to expose it in the interface (although you can already do this by using passing an XML file to the program).

Hexalate, Peg-E, and Simsu

I have also made a few other minor releases (Hexalate 1.0.2, Peg-E 1.1.2, and Simsu 1.2.3) over the past two weeks that I have not felt justify a blog post on their own. These releases mainly just add translations and support for building with Qt 5. I plan on making minor releases of the rest of my programs over the next few weeks to also update their translations, and to add support for building with Qt 5.

I just made a bugfix release of Kapow, version 1.4.3, that fixes some minor bugs. The timer is no longer restarted when you press enter in the task line edit. I also fixed the broken command-line arguments, and you can now specify the settings INI file. This release also includes a Greek translation by geogeo.gr.

I have finally finished a feature release of Kapow, version 1.4.1. This release includes an improved user interface as well as faster file loading. You can read about the features in more detail here. Enjoy!

Update: I just discovered that the brand new totals rows are broken, so I recommend turning on the report column until I get it fixed. Ideally that will be later tonight. Sorry!

Update 2: And the fixed version is now released!