Change Log For CrossOver Mac

7.1.0 CrossOver Mac - October 22, 2008

• Outlook fixes:
  • Restored use of the Rules and Alerts dialog
  • Improved connectivity with Exchange servers
  • Fixed installation of several custom versions of Outlook
  • Improved copy and paste behavior
  • Fixed 'reply all' behavior
  • Improved printing
  • Partial support for signed emails
  • Fixed some address autocompleteion in Outlook 2007
  • Fixed ability to create new contacts, appointments & tasks
  • 2003 & 2007 now exit cleanly on the Mac
  • Can now open recurring Calendar Items
• Application installation changes:
  • Many more versions of Office 2007 (including Enterprise editions) now install properly.
  • Office 2003 Service Pack 3 now installs.
  • Office 2003 one-shot updates now apply.
  • Several more versions of Office 2003 now install.
  • MS Office language packs now install
  • Visio 2003 sp3 now installs.
• Other fixes:
  • Office 97 now works better.
  • PowerPoint 2003 slide preview improved.
  • Bidirectional text behavior is improved.
  • Access 2002 reporting is improved.
  • Improved Java behavior.
  • Use the native FreeType library on Leopard systems.
  • On Linux, add the ability to generate Debian bottle packages.
  • Fixed a CrossOver installation error specific to Estonian locales.
  • Fixed: Word 2003: Can't open Word doc, Out of Memory
  • Pull-down menus now appear more than once (WordArt)
  • Can now open Project 2007 files with Project 2003 (with the add-on installed)
  • Rotating text boxes now works in the proper direction

7.0.2 CrossOver Mac - July 7, 2008

• Bug fixes:
  • Fixed a bug in 7.0 which prevented printing in upgraded installs.
  • Fixed running of Office 2000 and Office XP on some 64-bit machines.
  • Fixed a saving failure in some Word 2003 and Excel 2003 documents.
  • Re-enabled use of the 'default bottle' on the Mac.

7.0.0 CrossOver Mac - June 17, 2008

• New application support:
  • Office 2007 (Including Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and limited Outlook)
  • Photoshop CS and CS2
• Bug fixes:
  • Greatly improved online banking integration in Quicken 2007 and 2008
  • Fixed service pack support for several versions of Office
  • Improved IE support in win2000 and winxp bottles (though win98 is still better)
  • Improved support for modern Linux distributions (especially Ubuntu)
  • This build also includes countless wine fixes. Many small bugs should be fixed, and unsupported application behavior should be greatly improved.

6.2.1 CrossOver Mac - December 7, 2007

• Changes to improve compatibility with OSX 10.5 (Leopard):
  • Repaired Input-Method behavior.
  • Fixed a crash with certain non-US keyboards.
  • Fixed a small GUI error which appeared when creating new bottles for supported apps.
  • Fixed a potential hang-on-exit problem.
  • Made the preference setting "Enable keyboard modifiers for mouse buttons" take effect
  • Fixed transparent and incorrectly colored cursors.
• Application fixes:
  • Extended the Team Fortress 2 font fix to Half-Life 2: Episode 2 and Portal.

6.2.0 CrossOver Mac - October 2, 2007

• Mac OS X specific changes:
  • Added a dock presence for running Applications. This provides some Mac-like interfaces for applications, including the activation of apps and quitting via the dock. There is rudimentary systray support, but this only provides notification services -- tray-based menus are still unavailable.
  • Fixed the chronic regeneration of application icons. These should be produced less frequently and at more appropriate times.
  • Fixed association upgrade behavior so that documents opened via their extensions should now be referred to the corresponding application rather than opened directly by CrossOver.
  • Dramatic improvements in performance on OSX Leopard
  • Improved 'Star Map' performance in EVE Online on some graphic setups.
  • Improved timezone support.
  • Fixed intermittent display update failures in several apps.
  • Added DirectSound support. This should fix the audio in EVE Online.
  • Added preliminary MIDI support (which may or may not work.)
  • Improved audio input -- support mismatched sample rates.
  • Fixed the icons for documents associated with Windows programs.
  • Improved support for Korean keyboard layouts.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented Wine programs from finding all available fonts.
• New application support:
  • Added support for Team Fortress 2 via Steam
• Application fixes:
  • Fixed Outlook encryption regressions.
  • Fixed printing from Delphi apps
  • More time-zone fixes for Outlook
  • Fixed 'advanced edit' of Outlook signatures
  • Fixed font rendering in several apps, including Quicken 2007
  • Dramatic improvement in Outlook 2003, particularly when it is installed without Internet Explorer. Many more features are now available.
  • Fixed support for Flash Player 9.
  • Many small bugfixes and improvements in stability.
  • Fixes for printing to printers without default fonts
  • Fixes to structure storage files to correct corruptions
  • Ejection of DVDs now works
  • Improvement in TreeView control behavior
  • Improved Mac IME integration allowing for Korean, Atok and Ebridge input
  • Comctr32.dll reports correct version
  • Many fixes to the behavior and location of the default IME input window
  • Saving files with IE now properly complete in multibyte locales.

6.1.0 CrossOver Mac - May 15, 2007

• Mac OS X specific changes:
  • Added handling of mailto: links, both within and outside of CrossOver.
  • Added support for installing a set of Windows-specific truetype fonts.
  • Fixed a problem with Quartz-wm on new Tiger install disks. Previously this problem caused CrossOver to crash on some new Macs.
  • Added a feature that will check for available updates.
  • Improved support on Leopard.
  • Added Japanese localization.
  • Improved support for composed characters
  • Some cosmetic changes to the GUI. No major redesigns.
  • Improved the menu-syncing algorithm.
• New application support:
  • EVE Online
  • QuickTime 7
  • Ichitaro 2006 and 2007 (Japanese locale only)
  • Ichitaro Viewer (Japanese locale only)
  • IBM HomePage Builder 10 and 11 (Japanese locale only)
• Application fixes:
  • Fixed some font problems in FrameMaker 7.1
  • Added support for RPC over HTTP in Outlook 2003 when running in a Windows XP bottle. This allows use of HTTP mail in Outlook.
  • Improved authentication support in Outlook 2003.
  • Lots of widespread graphics improvements. Game rendering and performance should be much improved.
  • Improved the Equation Editor installation process.
  • The Half-Life 2 Intro now plays properly
  • Several IE fixes: Wikipedia.org and Microsoft.com now load properly. Improved IE launch times.
  • Improved Quicken window rendering.
  • Lots of doc revisions.
  • Fixed a problem with black icons in the Outlook shortcut bar.
  • Fixed autocompletion in Outlook
• General CrossOver fixes and improvements:
  • Major update of DirectX support.
  • Added the ability to automatically download and install localized versions of some installers and service packs, including IE.

6.0.1 CrossOver Mac - March 9, 2007

• Mac OS X specific changes:
  • Fixed a bug in the 'eject' button. Previously many multi-CD installs failed when performed in any non-default bottle.
    Now multi-CD installations should succeed in any bottle.
  • Fixed a problem with registering the Demo version in non-English locales.
  • A few minor improvements in rendering performance. More coming in the next release.
  • Fix color printing on some printers.
  • Fixed a catastrophic failure that arose on systems with certain PostScript Type 1 fonts installed.
• Application fixes:
  • Fixed some Outlook 2003 crashes, in particular one related to right-clicks and one occurring on startup on some systems.
  • Fixed handling of emails containing quotes in Outlook 2003.
  • Fixed some copy/paste issues in Office 2003.
  • Fixed Lotus Notes hangs on certain emails.
  • Now all Internet Explorer installs will include DCOM98. This improves stability in many ways. In particular, it fixes a crash during printing.
  • Fixed an installation bug with Quicken 2006.
• General CrossOver fixes and improvements:
  • Updated the timezone information to comply with the revised 2007 DST rules.
  • Fixed a few bugs in the 5.0 to 6.0 upgrade path.
  • Fixed an issue with running Office 2003, Photoshop and FrameMaker in managed bottles.
  • Updated the Portuguese translation.
  • Updated the French translation.

6.0 - January 9, 2007

• Initial release of CrossOver Mac.