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+ * Jalview - A Sequence Alignment Editor and Viewer (Version 2.6)
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 <head>
 <title>Release History</title>
 </head>
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        </tr>
        <tr>
+               <td>
+               <div align="center"><strong><a name="Jalview2.6">2.6</a></strong><br>
+               <em>23/9/2010</em></div>
+               </td>
+               <td><em>Application</em>
+               <ul>
+                       <li>Support for <strong>Ja</strong>va <strong>b</strong>ioinformatics
+                       <strong>a</strong>nalysis <strong>w</strong>eb <strong>s</strong>ervices (JABAWS)</li>
+                       <li>Web Services preference tab</li>
+                       <li>Analysis parameters dialog box and user defined preferences</li>
+                       <li>Improved speed and layout of Envision2 service menu</li>
+                       <li>Superpose structures using associated sequence alignment</li>
+                       <li>Export coordinates and projection as CSV from PCA viewer</li>
+               </ul>
+               <em>Applet</em>
+               <ul>
+                       <li>enable javascript: execution by the applet via the link out
+                       mechanism</li>
+               </ul>
+               <em>Other</em>
+               <ul>
+                       <li>Updated the Jmol Jalview interface to work with Jmol series
+                       12</li>
+                       <li>The Jalview Desktop and JalviewLite applet now require Java
+                       1.5</li>
+                       <li>Allow Jalview feature colour specification for GFF sequence
+                       annotation files</li>
+                       <li>New 'colour by label' keword in jalview feature file type
+                       colour specification</li>
+                       <li>New Jalview Desktop Groovy API method that allows a script
+                       to check if it being run in an interactive session or in a batch
+                       operation from the jalview command line</li>
+               </ul>
+               </td>
+               <td>
+               <ul>
+                       <li>clustalx colourscheme colours Ds preferentially when both
+                       D+E are present in over 50% of the column</li>
+               </ul>
 
+               <em>Application</em>
+               <ul>
+                       <li>typo in AlignmentFrame-&gt;View-&gt;Hide-&gt;all but
+                       selected Regions menu item</li>
+                       <li>sequence fetcher replaces ',' for ';' when the ',' is part
+                       of a valid accession ID</li>
+                       <li>fatal OOM if object retrieved by sequence fetcher runs out
+                       of memory</li>
+                       <li>unhandled Out of Memory Error when viewing pca analysis
+                       results</li>
+                       <li>InstallAnywhere builds fail to launch on OS X java 10.5
+                       update 4 (due to apple Java 1.6 update)</li>
+                       <li>Installanywhere Jalview silently fails to launch</li>
+               </ul>
+               <em>Applet</em>
+               <ul>
+                       <li>Jalview.getFeatureGroups() raises an
+                       ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException if no feature groups are defined.</li>
+               </ul>
+               </td>
+       </tr>
+       <tr>
                <td>
-               <div align="center"><strong>2.4.1</strong><br>
-               <em>Not Yet Released</em></div>
+               <div align="center"><strong><a name="Jalview2.5.1">2.5.1</a></strong><br>
+               <em>14/6/2010</em></div>
                </td>
+               <td></td>
                <td>
                <ul>
-                       <li>Fetch DB References capabilities and UI expanded to support
-                       retrieval from DAS sequence sources</li>
-                       <li>Local DAS Sequence sources can be added via the command line
-                       or via the Add local source dialog box.</li>
-                       <li>Enable or disable non-positional feature and database
-                       references in sequence ID tooltip from View menu in application.</li>
-                       <li>Parsing of Dbref and DbxRef feature types as database
-                       references</li>
+                       <li>Alignment prettyprinter doesn't cope with long sequence IDs
+                       </li>
+                       <li>clustalx colourscheme colours Ds preferentially when both
+                       D+E are present in over 50% of the column</li>
+                       <li>nucleic acid structures retrieved from PDB do not import
+                       correctly</li>
+                       <li>More columns get selected than were clicked on when a number
+                       of columns are hidden</li>
+                       <li>annotation label popup menu not providing correct
+                       add/hide/show options when rows are hidden or none are present</li>
+                       <li>Stockholm format shown in list of readable formats, and
+                       parser copes better with alignments from RFAM.</li>
+                       <li>CSV output of consensus only includes the percentage of all
+                       symbols if sequence logo display is enabled</li>
+
+               </ul>
+               <em>Applet</em>
+               <ul>
+                       <li>annotation panel disappears when annotation is
+                       hidden/removed</li>
+               </ul>
+               <em>Application</em>
+               <ul>
+                       <li>Alignment view not redrawn properly when new alignment
+                       opened where annotation panel is visible but no annotations are
+                       present on alignment</li>
+                       <li>pasted region containing hidden columns is incorrectly
+                       displayed in new alignment window</li>
+                       <li>Jalview slow to complete operations when stdout is flooded
+                       (fix is to close the Jalview console)</li>
+                       <li>typo in AlignmentFrame-&gt;View-&gt;Hide-&gt;all but
+                       selected Rregions menu item.</li>
+                       <li>inconsistent group submenu and Format submenu entry 'Un' or
+                       'Non'conserved</li>
+                       <li>Sequence feature settings are being shared by multiple
+                       distinct alignments</li>
+                       <li>group annotation not recreated when tree partition is
+                       changed</li>
+                       <li>double click on group annotation to select sequences does
+                       not propagate to associated trees</li>
+                       <li>Mac OSX specific issues:
+                       <ul>
+                               <li>exception raised when mouse clicked on desktop window
+                               background</li>
+                               <li>Desktop menu placed on menu bar and application name set
+                               correctly</li>
+                               <li>sequence feature settings not wide enough for the save
+                               feature colourscheme button</li>
+                       </ul>
+                       </li>
+               </ul>
+               </td>
+       </tr>
+       <tr>
+
+               <td>
+               <div align="center"><strong><a name="Jalview2.5">2.5</a></strong><br>
+               <em>30/4/2010</em></div>
+               </td>
+               <td><em>New Capabilities</em>
+               <ul>
                        <li>URL links generated from description line for
                        regular-expression based URL links (applet and application)
                        <li>Non-positional feature URL links are shown in link menu</li>
                        <li>Linked viewing of nucleic acid sequences and structures</li>
                        <li>Automatic Scrolling option in View menu to display the
                        currently highlighted region of an alignment.</li>
-                       <li>Optionally scale multi-character column labels to fit within each column<!-- todo for applet --></li>
+                       <li>Order an alignment by sequence length, or using the average
+                       score or total feature count for each sequence.</li>
+                       <li>Shading features by score or associated description</li>
+                       <li>Subdivide alignment and groups based on identity of selected
+                       subsequence (Make Groups from Selection).</li>
+                       <li>New hide/show options including Shift+Control+H to hide
+                       everything but the currently selected region.</li>
                        <!-- introduced but not yet documented <li>Experimental blast report parser</li> -->
                </ul>
-               <em>Vamsas Capabilities</em>
-               <ul>
-                       <li>
-                       <li>Improved VAMSAS synchronization (jalview archive used to
-                       preserve views, structures, and tree display settings)</li>
-                       <li>Import of vamsas documents from disk or URL via command line</li>
-                       <li>Sharing of selected regions between views and with other
-                       VAMSAS applications (Experimental feature!)</li>
-                       <li>Updated API to VAMSAS version 0.2</li>
-               </ul>
                <em>Application</em>
                <ul>
-                       <li>New hidden columns and rows and representatives capabilities
-                       in annotations file (in progress - not yet fully implemented)</li>
-                       <li>Order an alignment in order of average feature score or
-                       total feature count</li>
-                       <li>Shading features by score or associated description</li>
-                       <li>Group-associated automatic and user-defined alignment
-                       annotation</li>
+                       <li>Fetch DB References capabilities and UI expanded to support
+                       retrieval from DAS sequence sources</li>
+                       <li>Local DAS Sequence sources can be added via the command line
+                       or via the Add local source dialog box.</li>
+                       <li>DAS Dbref and DbxRef feature types are parsed as database
+                       references and protein_name is parsed as description line (BioSapiens
+                       terms).</li>
+                       <li>Enable or disable non-positional feature and database
+                       references in sequence ID tooltip from View menu in application.</li>
+                       <!--                    <li>New hidden columns and rows and representatives capabilities
+                       in annotations file (in progress - not yet fully implemented)</li> -->
+                       <li>Group-associated consensus, sequence logos and conservation
+                       plots</li>
                        <li>Symbol distributions for each column can be exported and
                        visualized as sequence logos</li>
+                       <li>Optionally scale multi-character column labels to fit within
+                       each column of annotation row<!-- todo for applet --></li>
                        <li>Optional automatic sort of associated alignment view when a
                        new tree is opened.</li>
                        <li>Jalview Java Console</li>
+                       <li>Better placement of desktop window when moving between
+                       different screens.</li>
+                       <li>New preference items for sequence ID tooltip and consensus
+                       annotation</li>
+                       <li>Client to submit sequences and IDs to <a
+                               href="webServices/index.html#envision2">Envision2</a> Workflows</li>
+                       <li><em>Vamsas Capabilities</em>
+                       <ul>
+                               <li>Improved VAMSAS synchronization (jalview archive used to
+                               preserve views, structures, and tree display settings)</li>
+                               <li>Import of vamsas documents from disk or URL via command
+                               line</li>
+                               <li>Sharing of selected regions between views and with other
+                               VAMSAS applications (Experimental feature!)</li>
+                               <li>Updated API to VAMSAS version 0.2</li>
+                       </ul>
+                       </li>
                </ul>
                <em>Applet</em>
                <ul>
                        <li>Middle button resizes annotation row height</li>
-                       <li>parameter to enable automatic sort of associated alignment view when a
-                       new tree is opened.</li>
-               <li>Non-positional features displayed in sequence ID tooltip</li>
+                       <li>New Parameters
+                       <ul>
+                               <li>sortByTree (true/false) - automatically sort the associated
+                               alignment view by the tree when a new tree is opened.</li>
+                               <li>showTreeBootstraps (true/false) - show or hide branch
+                               bootstraps (default is to show them if available)</li>
+                               <li>showTreeDistances (true/false) - show or hide branch
+                               lengths (default is to show them if available)</li>
+                               <li>showUnlinkedTreeNodes (true/false) - indicate if
+                               unassociated nodes should be highlighted in the tree view</li>
+                               <li>heightScale and widthScale (1.0 or more) - increase the
+                               height or width of a cell in the alignment grid relative to the
+                               current font size.</li>
+                       </ul>
+                       </li>
+                       <li>Non-positional features displayed in sequence ID tooltip</li>
                </ul>
                <em>Other</em>
                <ul>
                        <li>Features format: graduated colour definitions and
                        specification of feature scores</li>
-                       <li>XML formats extended to support graduated feature colourschemes</li>
-                       <li>
+                       <li>Alignment Annotations format: new keywords for group
+                       associated annotation (GROUP_REF) and annotation row display
+                       properties (ROW_PROPERTIES)</li>
+                       <li>XML formats extended to support graduated feature
+                       colourschemes, group associated annotation, and profile visualization
+                       settings.</li>
                </td>
                <td>
                <ul>
                        <li>Source field in GFF files parsed as feature source rather
                        than description</li>
+                       <li>Non-positional features are now included in sequence feature
+                       and gff files (controlled via non-positional feature visibility in
+                       tooltip).</li>
                        <li>URL links generated for all feature links (bugfix)</li>
                        <li>Added URL embedding instructions to features file
                        documentation.</li>
                        <li>Match case switch in find dialog box works for both sequence
                        ID and sequence string and query strings do not have to be in upper
                        case to match case-insensitively.</li>
-                       <li>AMSA files only contain first column of multi-character column annotation labels</li>
+                       <li>AMSA files only contain first column of multi-character
+                       column annotation labels</li>
+                       <li>Jalview Annotation File generation/parsing consistent with
+                       documentation (e.g. Stockholm annotation can be exported and
+                       re-imported)</li>
                        <li>PDB files without embedded PDB IDs given a friendly name</li>
-                       <li>Applet:
-                       <ul>
-                               <li></li>
-                       </ul>
-                       </li>
+                       <li>Find incrementally searches ID string matches as well as
+                       subsequence matches, and correctly reports total number of both.</li>
                        <li>Application:
                        <ul>
                                <li>Better handling of exceptions during sequence retrieval</li>
                                <li>Dasobert generated non-positional feature URL link text
-                               excludes the start_end suffix (application)</li>
+                               excludes the start_end suffix</li>
+                               <li>DAS feature and source retrieval buttons disabled when
+                               fetch or registry operations in progress.</li>
                                <li>PDB files retrieved from URLs are cached properly</li>
                                <li>Sequence description lines properly shared via VAMSAS</li>
                                <li>Sequence fetcher fetches multiple records for all data
                                sources</li>
                                <li>Ensured that command line das feature retrieval completes
                                before alignment figures are generated.</li>
+                               <li>Reduced time taken when opening file browser for first
+                               time.</li>
+                               <li>isAligned check prior to calculating tree, PCA or
+                               submitting an MSA to JNet now excludes hidden sequences.</li>
+                               <li>User defined group colours properly recovered from Jalview
+                               projects.</li>
                        </ul>
                        </li>
                </ul>
                        list</li>
                        <li>annotation consisting of sequence associated scores can be
                        read and written correctly to annotation file</li>
-                       <li>Aligned cDNA translation to aligned peptide works correctly
-                       </li>
+                       <li>Aligned cDNA translation to aligned peptide works correctly</li>
                        <li>Fixed display of hidden sequence markers and non-italic font
                        for representatives in Applet</li>
                        <li>Applet Menus are always embedded in applet window on Macs.</li>