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Changelog

• It is now possible to add Xml Services also from HTTP links.
• Added periodic automatic update of installed Xml Services: it works for services added from HTTP urls and also from filesystem ones.
• Added periodic automatic check for application updates. When updates are found the full, localized, list of changes is shown and the user is prompted to download the new version, with an option to ignore the update.
• Services auto update and application updates check can be manually triggered with the new "Check for Updates" entry in the Help menu.
• Multilingual services: all responses returned to the user by the Xml Services can be localized (and are localized) using a unified service phrasebook that will be automatically updated to add new languages over the next weeks.
• The Service tab now shows more information (eg: supported countries).
• Drag and drop service reorder is now available also on the Write tab.
• Improved memory usage by some hundred of Kb, and fixed a good bunch of memory leaks
• Many small code improvements that should give a minimal performance improvement
• Services are now locked when in use to avoid some infrequent but possible crashes.
• Improved the code that read and writes profile data to deal with different settings versions, which handles and fixes the previous inability to use data exported in the linux deb version with other builds/os.
• Improved checks on services made with previous xml format versions to avoid some possible crashes.
• Partially reworked network connection code, especially when dealing with errors.
• The user is now warned when a Service configuration is not completely filled
• Improved user friendliness of configuration fields that require a mobile phone number with international country code
• Improved international country code handling in temporary recipient field
• Improved display of saved messages with long text
• Improved redirect handling
• Added a visual hint that a service is not configured or needs to be updated: its icon is grayed out.
• Improved handling of exotic text encodings in http replies.
• Experimental release of physical ram when minimizing to tray (Windows only), it may help on really low memory systems to leave goText++ Desk always open.
• Added right click context menu action on Service list to show the current xml service source.
• The Clear button on the write screen now breaks the connection when a saved message is edited (thanks to mip104 for the idea)
• Added more confirmation requests on items deletion (thanks to mip104 for the suggestions)
• The portable editions now read "Portable" in the main window titlebar.
• Optimized deletion of messages when possible in Windows and MacOSX installed editions.
• The international country calling codes now are checked against a list of valid ones to detect user errors
• Fixed a couple of crashes in particular conditions
• Unsupported characters are restored when another service is selected (when possible).
• Updated the OpenSSL library to the latest security fix, 0.9.8n (Windows packages only).
• Updated Qt library to version 4.6.2 in all OS and editions, besides the Ubuntu DEB (that relies on the system one).
• As there are many changes and improvements in the Xml Service format it is necessary to update all services to the latest version (and it is suggested to updated the from url to fully enjoy automatic updates).
  
  Changes related to developers:
• The system variable "$ic" has been renamed to "$img_code"
• New attribute allowed_ccc that improves and replaces require_icc. With allowed_ccc you can specify a comma separated list of destination international country codes supported in your service. If the attribute is not specified all existing country codes are supported. If the service supports only one country code the user can omit to write the country code, the xml engine will add it to the number automatically. If there many (or all) country codes are supported the user must write the country code to be able to send the message (thanks to egosum for the idea).
• Added user_agent attribute for the <service> tag. It will set the user-agent http header sent by all request generated from <page> and <captcha> tags.
  It can be one of the following values:
  - "firefox3.5", "ie6", "ie8", "safari4" that will be translated to the user agent sent by those browser (the Windows version, besides safari that sends the Mac ua string)
  - "wap" to send a random WAP browser user agent string of common mobile phone models of various makers
  - any other bit of text that will be sent as is
  If you don't specify this attribute no user agent header is sent
• New attribute wait_before="milliseconds" in <page> and <captcha> to pause the service execution for the given amount of milliseconds (thanks to egosum for the idea).
• Added some system variables related to the recipients:
  - $ccc = the international country calling code of the current recipient
  - $ccc_list = a comma separated list of international country codes of all recipients
  - $rcpt_noccc = the current recipient without the starting $ccc
  - $rcpt_list_noccc = a comma separated list of of all recipients without their international country code
  (thanks to egosum for the idea)
• Related to the above change, $rcpt and $rcpt_list sys variables will always contain the recipient number along with the international country code
• Standard Xml Services Phrasebook, or zero effort localization for services: the xml engine now supports a phrasebook which contains a number of common messages ready to be used and automatically localized in the form of system variables with the "$L_" prefix.
  The phrasebook is automatically supported in all xml engines which support Xml Service Version 1.0.8, and actually contains English and Italian sentences, but it will be updated to support more languages (and goText++ Desk! automatically gets the latest version of the phrasary from the SVN).
  You can see the supported sentences and the corresponding variable names in the "xml_lang_files/services_phrasebook.xml" file, inside the xmlservice folder in the SVN.
• Custom localized sentences that automatically use the language of the user can also be added into the Xml Service with the new <languages> and <language> tags (see the Xml Services source for examples), and can be used to localize the service description and configuration information too.
• Improved GET request encoding to behave more like browsers.
• Added new encode_percent attribute in <page> and <captcha>: it enables or disables the percent encoding of the percent character itself (default is "true", and it should be changed only if you see that it is required for the request to work)
  (thanks to egosum for help to track the problem).
• Added operation="entities_decode" in <var> tag: it decodes html entities in a string or variable to the matching chars (thanks to egosum for the idea).
• Added type="email" to configuration field types.
• Some improvements to the debug log in the Xml Service Debugger
• Added line numbers in Xml Source views.
• Fixed a rare crash on Service Debugger window close
• Added sys variable $rcpt_type: it contains the type of recipient currently in use (usually it is only one and it is "phone")
• Fixed $rcpt_count that contained garbage instead of its value
• Fixed empty/not_empty="confirm" display in Service Debugger
• Fixed execution of variables after an error was triggered in logout steps
• Improved sanity checks in xml service parsing
• Fixed $msg_len to take the count more/count for characters into account

• Redirect were still having some problems in 0.8.1, finally fixed.