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+ * Jalview - A Sequence Alignment Editor and Viewer (Version 2.8)
+ * Copyright (C) 2012 J Procter, AM Waterhouse, LM Lui, J Engelhardt, G Barton, M Clamp, S Searle
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 <head>
 <title>Release History</title>
 </head>
                <div align="center"><em><strong>Issues Resolved</strong></em></div>
                </td>
        </tr>
-       <tr>
+  <tr>
+   <td><div align="center">
+     <strong><a name="Jalview2.8">2.8</a></strong><br /> <em>08/11/2012</em>
+    </div></td>
+   <td><em>Application</em>
+    <li>Support for JABAWS 2.0 Services (AACon alignment
+     conservation, protein disorder and Clustal Omega) <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-976'>JAL-976</a>] -         Enhance Jalview desktop to support to JABAWS v2.0 services -->
+     <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-974'>JAL-974</a>]-->
+     <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-975'>JAL-975</a>]-->
+   </li>
+    <li>
+     <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1060'>JAL-1060</a>] -        -->JABAWS
+     server status indicator in Web Services preferences
+   </li>
+    <li>
+     <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-842'>JAL-842</a>] -         -->VARNA
+     (http://varna.lri.fr) viewer for RNA structures in Jalview
+     alignment window
+   </li>
+    <li>
+     <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1133'>JAL-1133</a>] -         -->Updated
+     jalview build and deploy framework for OSX mountain lion, windows
+     7, and 8
+   </li>
+    <li>Nucleotide substitution matrix for PCA that supports RNA
+     and ambiguity codes <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1027'>JAL-1027</a>] -->
+   </li>
+
+    <li>Improved sequence database retrieval GUI</li>
+   <li>Support fetching and database reference look up against
+     multiple DAS sources (Fetch all from in 'fetch db refs')<!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1061'>JAL-1061</a>], [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1075'>JAL-1075</a>] -         GUI elements to select one or several DAS sources to query for sequences or database references-->
+   </li>
+    <li>Jalview project improvements
+     <ul>
+      <li>
+       <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1109'>JAL-1109</a>] -->Store
+       and retrieve the &#39;belowAlignment&#39; flag for annotation
+      </li>
+      <li>
+       <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1110'>JAL-1110</a>]-->calcId
+       attribute to group annotation rows on the alignment
+      </li>
+      <li>
+       <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1136'>JAL-1136</a>] -         -->Store
+       AACon calculation settings for a view in Jalview project
+      </li>
+
+     </ul>
+   </li>
+    <li>
+     <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1160'>JAL-1160</a>] -         -->horizontal
+     scrolling gesture support
+   </li>
+    <li>Visual progress indicator when PCA calculation is running<!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1120'>JAL-1120</a>] -         -->
+   </li>
+    <li>Simpler JABA web services menus<!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1137'>JAL-1137</a>] -         -->
+   </li>
+    <li>
+     <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1165'>JAL-1165</a>] -         -->visual
+     indication that web service results are still being retrieved from
+     server
+   </li>
+    <li>
+     <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1183'>JAL-1183</a>] -         -->Serialise
+     the dialogs that are shown when jalview starts up for first time
+   </li>
+    <li>
+     <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1188'>JAL-1188</a>] -         -->Jalview
+     user agent string for interacting with HTTP services
+   </li>
+    <li>
+     <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-972'>JAL-972</a>] -         -->DAS
+     1.6 and DAS 2.0 source support using new JDAS client library
+   </li>
+    <li>
+     <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1202'>JAL-1202</a>] -         -->Examples
+     directory and Groovy library included in InstallAnywhere
+     distribution
+   </li>
+    </ul> <em>Applet</em>
+    <ul>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-963'>JAL-963</a>] -         -->RNA
+      alignment and secondary structure annotation visualization applet
+      example
+     </li>
+    </ul> <em>General</em>
+    <ul>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-958'>JAL-958</a>] -         -->Normalise
+      option for consensus sequence logo
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1121'>JAL-1121</a>] -         -->Reset
+      button in PCA window to return dimensions to defaults
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1125'>JAL-1125</a>] -         -->Allow
+      seqspace or Jalview variant of alignment PCA calculation
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1013'>JAL-1013</a>] -->PCA
+      with either nucleic acid and protein substitution matrices
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1157'>JAL-1157</a>] -         -->Allow
+      windows containing HTML reports to be exported in HTML
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-970'>JAL-970</a>] -         -->Interactive
+      display and editing of RNA secondary structure contacts
+     </li>
+     <li>RNA Helix Alignment Colouring</li>
+     <li>RNA base pair logo consensus</li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-878'>JAL-878</a>] -         -->Parse
+      sequence associated secondary structure information in Stockholm
+      files
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1015'>JAL-1015</a>] -         -->HTML
+      Export database accessions and annotation information presented in
+      tooltip for sequences
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1052'>JAL-1052</a>] -        -->Import
+      secondary structure from LOCARNA clustalw style RNA alignment
+      files
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1065'>JAL-1065</a>] - [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1078'>JAL-1078</a>]-->import
+      and visualise T-COFFEE quality scores for an alignment
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1066'>JAL-1066</a>] -        -->&#39;colour
+      by annotation&#39; per sequence option to shade each sequence
+      according to its associated alignment annotation
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1130'>JAL-1130</a>] -         -->New
+      Jalview Logo
+     </li>
+    </ul> <em>Documentation and Development</em>
+    <ul>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1167'>JAL-1167</a>] -         -->documentation
+      for score matrices used in Jalview
+     </li>
+     <li>New Website!</li>
+    </ul></td>
+   <td><em>Application</em>
+    <ul>
+     <li>PDB, Unprot and EMBL (ENA) databases retrieved via
+      wsdbfetch REST service<!--<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-636'>JAL-636</a>-->
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-368'>JAL-368</a>] -         -->
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-153'>JAL-153</a>] -        -->Stop
+      windows being moved outside desktop on OSX
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-758'>JAL-758</a>] -         -->Filetype
+      associations not installed for webstart launch
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-849'>JAL-849</a>] -         -->Jalview
+      does not always retrieve progress of a JABAWS job execution in
+      full once it is complete
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-979'>JAL-979</a>] -         -->revise
+      SHMR RSBS definition to ensure alignment is uploaded via ali_file
+      parameter
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-980'>JAL-980</a>] -         -->Jalview
+      2.7 is incompatible with Jmol-12.2.2
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-983'>JAL-983</a>] -         -->View
+      all structures superposed fails with exception
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-994'>JAL-994</a>] -         -->Jnet
+      job queues forever if a very short sequence is submitted for
+      prediction
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1004'>JAL-1004</a>] -         -->Cut
+      and paste menu not opened when mouse clicked on desktop window
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1010'>JAL-1010</a>] -         -->Putting
+      fractional value into integer text box in alignment parameter
+      dialog causes jalview to hang
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1022'>JAL-1022</a>] -         -->Structure
+      view highlighting doesn&#39;t work on windows 7
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1023'>JAL-1023</a>] -         -->View
+      all structures fails with exception shown in structure view
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1025'>JAL-1025</a>] -         -->Characters
+      in filename associated with PDBEntry not escaped in a platform
+      independent way
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1026'>JAL-1026</a>] -         -->Jalview
+      desktop fails to launch with exception when using proxy
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1031'>JAL-1031</a>] -         -->Tree
+      calculation reports &#39;you must have 2 or more sequences
+      selected&#39; when selection is empty
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1040'>JAL-1040</a>] -         -->Jalview
+      desktop fails to launch with jar signature failure when java web
+      start temporary file caching is disabled
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1062'>JAL-1062</a>] -         -->DAS
+      Sequence retrieval with range qualification results in sequence
+      xref which includes range qualification
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1087'>JAL-1087</a>] -         -->Errors
+      during processing of command line arguments cause progress bar
+      (JAL-898) to be removed
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1097'>JAL-1097</a>] -         -->Replace
+      comma for semi-colon option not disabled for DAS sources in
+      sequence fetcher
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1111'>JAL-1111</a>] -         -->Cannot
+      close news reader when JABAWS server warning dialog is shown
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1127'>JAL-1127</a>] -         -->Option
+      widgets not updated to reflect user settings
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1131'>JAL-1131</a>] -         -->Edited
+      sequence not submitted to web service
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1134'>JAL-1134</a>] -         -->Jalview
+      2.7 Webstart does not launch on mountain lion
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1135'>JAL-1135</a>] -         -->InstallAnywhere
+      installer doesn&#39;t unpack and run on OSX Mountain Lion
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1144'>JAL-1144</a>] -         -->Annotation
+      panel not given a scroll bar when sequences with alignment
+      annotation are pasted into the alignment
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1148'>JAL-1148</a>] -         -->Sequence
+      associated annotation rows not associated when loaded from jalview
+      project
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1149'>JAL-1149</a>] -         -->Browser
+      launch fails with NPE on java 1.7
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1171'>JAL-1171</a>] -         -->JABAWS
+      alignment marked as finished when job was cancelled or job failed
+      due to invalid input
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1185'>JAL-1185</a>] -         -->NPE
+      with v2.7 example when clicking on Tree associated with all views
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1145'>JAL-1145</a>] -         -->Exceptions
+      when copy/paste sequences with grouped annotation rows to new
+      window
+     </li>
+    </ul> <em>Applet</em>
+    <ul>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-962'>JAL-962</a>] -         -->Sequence
+      features are momentarily displayed before they are hidden using
+      hidefeaturegroups applet parameter
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-965'>JAL-965</a>] -         -->loading
+      features via javascript API automatically enables feature display
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1170'>JAL-1170</a>] -         -->scrollToColumnIn
+      javascript API method doesn&#39;t work
+     </li>
+    </ul> <em>General</em>
+    <ul>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1007'>JAL-1007</a>] -         -->Redundancy
+      removal fails for rna alignment
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1032'>JAL-1032</a>] -         -->PCA
+      calculation fails when sequence has been selected and then
+      deselected
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1033'>JAL-1033</a>] -         -->PCA
+      window shows grey box when first opened on OSX
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1086'>JAL-1086</a>] -        -->Letters
+      coloured pink in sequence logo when alignment coloured with
+      clustalx
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1099'>JAL-1099</a>] -         -->Choosing
+      fonts without letter symbols defined causes exceptions and redraw
+      errors
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1123'>JAL-1123</a>] -         -->Initial
+      PCA plot view is not same as manually reconfigured view
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1153'>JAL-1153</a>] -         -->Grouped
+      annotation graph label has incorrect line colour
+     </li>
+     <li>
+      <!--[<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1155'>JAL-1155</a>] -         -->Grouped
+      annotation graph label display is corrupted for lots of labels
+     </li>
+    </ul>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+   <td>
+    <div align="center">
+     <strong><a name="Jalview2.7">2.7</a> </strong><br> <em>27/09/2011</em>
+    </div>
+   </td>
+   <td><em>Application</em>
+    <ul>
+     <li>Jalview Desktop News Reader</li>
+     <li>Tweaked default layout of web services menu</li>
+     <li>View/alignment association menu to enable user to easily
+      specify which alignment a multi-structure view takes its
+      colours/correspondences from</li>
+     <li>Allow properties file location to be specified as URL</li>
+     <li>Extend jalview project to preserve associations between
+      many alignment views and a single Jmol display</li>
+     <li>Store annotation row height in jalview project file</li>
+     <li>Annotation row column label formatting attributes stored
+      in project file</li>
+     <li>Annotation row order for auto-calculated annotation rows
+      preserved in jalview project file</li>
+     <li>Visual progress indication when Jalview state is saved
+      using Desktop window menu</li>
+     <li>Visual indication that command line arguments are still
+      being processed</li>
+     <li>Groovy script execution from URL</li>
+     <li>Colour by annotation default min and max colours in
+      preferences</li>
+     <li>Automatically associate PDB files dragged onto an
+      alignment with sequences that have high similarity and matching
+      IDs</li>
+     <li>Update JGoogleAnalytics to latest release (0.3)</li>
+     <li>&#39;view structures&#39; option to open many structures
+      in same window</li>
+     <li>Sort associated views menu option for tree panel</li>
+     <li>Group all JABA and non-JABA services for a particular
+      analysis function in its own submenu</li>
+    </ul> <em>Applet</em>
+    <ul>
+     <li>Userdefined and autogenerated annotation rows for groups</li>
+     <li>Adjustment of alignment annotation pane height</li>
+     <li>Annotation scrollbar for annotation panel</li>
+     <li>Drag to reorder annotation rows in annotation panel</li>
+     <li>&#39;automaticScrolling&#39; parameter</li>
+     <li>Allow sequences with partial ID string matches to be
+      annotated from GFF/jalview features files</li>
+     <li>Sequence logo annotation row in applet</li>
+     <li>Absolute paths relative to host server in applet
+      parameters are treated as such</li>
+     <li>New in the JalviewLite javascript API:
+      <ul>
+       <li>JalviewLite.js javascript library</li>
+       <li>Javascript callbacks for
+        <ul>
+         <li>Applet initialisation</li>
+         <li>Sequence/alignment mouse-overs and selections</li>
+        </ul>
+       </li>
+       <li>scrollTo row and column alignment scrolling functions</li>
+       <li>Select sequence/alignment regions from javascript</li>
+       <li>javascript structure viewer harness to pass messages
+        between Jmol and Jalview when running as distinct applets</li>
+       <li>sortBy method</li>
+       <li>Set of applet and application examples shipped with
+        documentation</li>
+       <li>New example to demonstrate jalviewLite and Jmol
+        javascript message exchange</li>
+      </ul>
+    </ul> <em>General</em>
+    <ul>
+     <li>Enable Jmol displays to be associated with multiple
+      multiple alignments</li>
+     <li>Option to automatically sort alignment with new tree</li>
+     <li>User configurable link to enable redirects to a
+      www.jalview.org mirror</li>
+     <li>Jmol colours option for Jmol displays</li>
+     <li>Configurable newline string when writing alignment and
+      other flat files</li>
+     <li>Allow alignment annotation description lines to contain
+      html tags</li>
+    </ul> <em>Documentation and Development</em>
+    <ul>
+     <li>Add groovy test harness for bulk load testing to examples
+     </li>
+     <li>Groovy script to load and align a set of sequences using a
+      web service before displaying the result in the Jalview desktop</li>
+     <li>Restructured javascript and applet api documentation</li>
+     <li>Ant target to publish example html files with applet
+      archive</li>
+     <li>Netbeans project for building jalview from source</li>
+     <li>ant task to create online javadoc for jalview source</li>
+    </ul></td>
+   <td><em>Application</em>
+    <ul>
+     <li>User defined colourscheme throws exception when current
+      built in colourscheme is saved as new scheme</li>
+     <li>AlignFrame-&gt;Save in application pops up save dialog for
+      valid filename/format</li>
+     <li>Cannot view associated structure for Uniprot sequence</li>
+     <li>PDB file association breaks for Uniprot sequence P37173</li>
+     <li>Associate PDB from file dialog does not tell you which
+      sequence is to be associated with the file</li>
+     <li>Find All raises null pointer exception when query only
+      matches sequence IDs</li>
+     <li>Pre 2.6 Jalview project cannot be loaded into v2.6</li>
+     <li>Jalview project with Jmol views created with Jalview 2.4
+      cannot be loaded</li>
+     <li>Filetype associations not installed for webstart launch</li>
+     <li>Two or more chains in a single PDB file associated with
+      sequences in different alignments do not get coloured by their
+      associated sequence</li>
+     <li>Visibility status of autocalculated annotation row not
+      preserved when project is loaded</li>
+     <li>Annotation row height and visibility attributes not stored
+      in jalview project</li>
+     <li>Tree bootstraps are not preserved when saved as a jalview
+      project</li>
+     <li>Envision2 workflow tooltips are corrupted</li>
+     <li>Enabling show group conservation also enables colour by
+      conservation</li>
+     <li>Duplicate group associated conservation or consensus
+      created on new view</li>
+     <li>Annotation scrollbar not displayed after &#39;show all
+      hidden annotation rows&#39; option selected</li>
+     <li>Alignment quality not updated after alignment annotation
+      row is hidden then shown</li>
+     <li>Preserve colouring of structures coloured by sequences in
+      pre jalview 2.7 projects</li>
+     <li>Web service job parameter dialog is not laid out properly
+     </li>
+     <li>Web services menu not refreshed after &#39;reset
+      services&#39; button is pressed in preferences</li>
+     <li>Annotation off by one in jalview v2_3 example project</li>
+     <li>Structures imported from file and saved in project get
+      name like jalview_pdb1234.txt when reloaded</li>
+     <li>Jalview does not always retrieve progress of a JABAWS job
+      execution in full once it is complete</li>
+    </ul> <em>Applet</em>
+    <ul>
+     <li>Alignment height set incorrectly when lots of annotation
+      rows are displayed</li>
+     <li>Relative URLs in feature HTML text not resolved to
+      codebase</li>
+     <li>View follows highlighting does not work for positions in
+      sequences</li>
+     <li>&lt;= shown as = in tooltip</li>
+     <li>Export features raises exception when no features exist</li>
+     <li>Separator string used for serialising lists of IDs for
+      javascript api is modified when separator string provided as
+      parameter</li>
+     <li>Null pointer exception when selecting tree leaves for
+      alignment with no existing selection</li>
+     <li>Relative URLs for datasources assumed to be relative to
+      applet&#39;s codebase</li>
+     <li>Status bar not updated after finished searching and search
+      wraps around to first result</li>
+     <li>StructureSelectionManager instance shared between several
+      jalview applets causes race conditions and memory leaks</li>
+     <li>Hover tooltip and mouseover of position on structure not
+      sent from Jmol in applet</li>
+     <li>Certain sequences of javascript method calls to applet API
+      fatally hang browser</li>
+    </ul> <em>General</em>
+    <ul>
+     <li>View follows structure mouseover scrolls beyond position
+      with wrapped view and hidden regions</li>
+     <li>Find sequence position moves to wrong residue with/without
+      hidden columns</li>
+     <li>Sequence length given in alignment properties window is
+      off by 1</li>
+     <li>InvalidNumberFormat exceptions thrown when trying to
+      import PDB like structure files</li>
+     <li>Positional search results are only highlighted between
+      user-supplied sequence start/end bounds</li>
+     <li>End attribute of sequence is not validated</li>
+     <li>Find dialog only finds first sequence containing a given
+      sequence position</li>
+     <li>Sequence numbering not preserved in MSF alignment output</li>
+     <li>Jalview PDB file reader does not extract sequence from
+      nucleotide chains correctly</li>
+     <li>Structure colours not updated when tree partition changed
+      in alignment</li>
+     <li>Sequence associated secondary structure not correctly
+      parsed in interleaved stockholm</li>
+     <li>Colour by annotation dialog does not restore current state
+     </li>
+     <li>Hiding (nearly) all sequences doesn&#39;t work properly</li>
+     <li>Sequences containing lowercase letters are not properly
+      associated with their pdb files</li>
+    </ul> <em>Documentation and Development</em>
+    <ul>
+     <li>schemas/JalviewWsParamSet.xsd corrupted by ApplyCopyright
+      tool</li>
+    </ul></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+                       <td>
+                               <div align="center">
+                                       <strong><a name="Jalview2.6.1">2.6.1</a>
+                                       </strong><br> <em>15/11/2010</em>
+                               </div></td>
+                       <td><em>Application</em>
+                               <ul>
+                                       <li>New warning dialog when the Jalview Desktop cannot contact
+                                               web services</li>
+                                       <li>JABA service parameters for a preset are shown in service
+                                               job window</li>
+                                       <li>JABA Service menu entries reworded</li>
+                               </ul></td>
+                       <td>
+                               <ul>
+                                       <li>Modeller PIR IO broken - cannot correctly import a pir
+                                               file emitted by jalview</li>
+                                       <li>Existing feature settings transferred to new alignment
+                                               view created from cut'n'paste</li>
+                                       <li>Improved test for mixed amino/nucleotide chains when
+                                               parsing PDB files</li>
+                                       <li>Consensus and conservation annotation rows occasionally
+                                               become blank for all new windows</li>
+                                       <li>Exception raised when right clicking above sequences in
+                                               wrapped view mode</li>
+                               </ul> <em>Application</em>
+                               <ul>
+                                       <li>multiple multiply aligned structure views cause cpu usage
+                                               to hit 100% and computer to hang</li>
+                                       <li>Web Service parameter layout breaks for long user
+                                               parameter names</li>
+                                       <li>Jaba service discovery hangs desktop if Jaba server is
+                                               down</li>
+                               </ul></td>
+               </tr>
+               <tr>
+               <td>
+               <div align="center"><strong><a name="Jalview2.6">2.6</a></strong><br>
+               <em>26/9/2010</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>2.5</strong><br>
-               <em>30th April 2010</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>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>Order an alignment by sequence length, or using the average score or total feature count for each sequence.</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>
+                       <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>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>Fetch DB References capabilities and UI expanded to support
                        <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>
+                       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
+                       <!--                    <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>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>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>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>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>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>
+                               <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>
-               <li></li>
                </ul>
                <em>Other</em>
                <ul>
                        <li>Features format: graduated colour definitions and
                        specification of feature scores</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>
+                       <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>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>Jalview Annotation File generation/parsing consistent with documentation (e.g. Stockholm annotation can be exported and re-imported)</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>Find incrementally searches ID string matches as well as subsequence matches, and correctly reports total number of both.</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>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>