+---
+channel: release
+version: 2.1
+date: 2006-08-22
+---
+
+## New Features
+
+- MAFFT Multiple Alignment in default Web Service list
+- DAS Feature fetching
+- Hide sequences and columns
+- Export Annotations and Features
+- GFF file reading / writing
+- Associate structures with sequences from local PDB files
+- Add sequences to exisiting alignment
+- Recently opened files / URL lists
+- Applet can launch the full application
+- Applet has transparency for features (Java 1.2 required)
+- Applet has user defined colours parameter
+- Applet can load sequences from parameter "sequence*x*"
+
+
+## Issues Resolved
+
+- Redundancy Panel reinstalled in the Applet
+- Monospaced font - EPS / rescaling bug fixed
+- Annotation files with sequence references bug fixed