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- * Jalview - A Sequence Alignment Editor and Viewer (Version 2.8.2)
- * Copyright (C) 2014 The Jalview Authors
+ * Jalview - A Sequence Alignment Editor and Viewer ($$Version-Rel$$)
+ * Copyright (C) $$Year-Rel$$ The Jalview Authors
  * 
  * This file is part of Jalview.
  * 
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-               <tr>
-                       <td><div align="center">
-                                       <strong><a name="Jalview.2.9">2.9</a><br /> <em>23/2/2015</em></strong>
-                               </div></td>
-                       <td><em>General</em>
-                               <ul>
-                               </ul> <em>Application</em>
-                               <ul>
-                               </ul>
-        <em>Applet</em>
-                               <ul>
-                               </ul>
-                 </td>
+    <tr>
+      <td><div align="center">
+          <strong><a name="Jalview.2.9">2.9</a><br /> <em>9/9/2015</em></strong>
+        </div></td>
+      <td><em>General</em>
+        <ul>
+          <li>Linked visualisation and analysis of DNA and Protein
+            alignments:
+            <ul>
+              <li>Translated cDNA alignments shown as split protein
+                and DNA alignment views</li>
+              <li>Codon consensus annotation for linked protein and
+                cDNA alignment views</li>
+              <li>Link cDNA or Protein product sequences by loading
+                them onto Protein or cDNA alignments</li>
+              <li>Reconstruct linked cDNA alignment from aligned
+                protein sequences</li>
+            </ul>
+          </li>
+          <li>Jmol integration updated to Jmol v14.2.14</li>
+          <li>Import and export of Jalview alignment views as <a href="">BioJSON</a></li>
+          <li>New alignment annotation file statements for
+            reference sequences and marking hidden columns</li>
+          <li>Assign an alignment reference sequence to highlight
+            variation</li>
+          <li>Select or hide columns according to alignment
+            annotation</li>
+          <li>Find option for locating sequences by
+            description</li>
+          <li>Conserved physicochemical properties shown in amino
+            acid conservation row</li>
+          <li>Alignments can be sorted by number of RNA helices</li>
+        </ul>
+        <em>Application</em>
+        <ul>
+          <li>Optional embedding of BioJSON data when exporting
+            alignment figures to HTML</li>
+          <li>New Export Settings dialog to control hidden region
+            export in flat file generation</li>
+          <li>New cDNA/Protein analysis capabilities
+            <ul>
+              <li>Get Cross-References should open a Split Frame
+                view with cDNA/Protein</li>
+              <li>Detect when nucleotide sequences and protein
+                sequences are placed in the same alignment</li>
+              <li>Split cDNA/Protein views are saved in Jalview
+                projects</li>
+            </ul>
+          </li>
+
+          <li>Use REST API to talk to Chimera</li>
+          <li>Selected regions in Chimera are highlighted in linked Jalview windows</li>
+
+          <li>Calculate UPGMA and NJ trees using sequence feature
+            similarity</li>
+
+          <li>VARNA RNA viewer updated to v3.93</li>
+          <li>VARNA views are saved in Jalview
+            Projects</li>
+          <li>Pseudoknots displayed as Jalview RNA annotation can be shown in VARNA</li>
+
+          <li>changed 'View nucleotide structure' submenu to 'View VARNA 2D Structure'</li>
+          <li>change "View protein structure" menu option to "3D Structure ..."</li>
+
+          <li>Make groups for selection uses marked columns as well
+            as the active selected region</li>
+
+          <li>allow different similarity matrix calculations for
+            tree building and PCA</li>
+
+          <li>Export alignment views for display with the <a
+            href="http://biojs.io/d/msa">BioJS MSAViewer</a></li>
+            
+          <li>Export scrollable SVG in HTML page</li>
+
+          <li>Interactive free text and structured queries with the
+            PDBe Search API for PDB data retrieval</li>
+          <li>PDBe Search API based discovery and selection of PDB structures to
+            view for a sequence set</li>
+
+          <li>JPred4 employed for protein secondary structure
+            predictions</li>
+          <li>Hide Insertions menu option to hide unaligned columns
+            for one or a group of sequences</li>
+          <li>Automatically hide insertions in alignments imported from the JPred4 web server</li>
+          <li>(Nearly) Native 'Quaqua' dialogs for browsing file
+            system on OSX<br />LGPL libraries courtesy of <a
+            href="http://www.randelshofer.ch/quaqua/">http://www.randelshofer.ch/quaqua/</a>
+          </li>
+        </ul> <em>Applet</em>
+        <ul>
+          <li>New parameters to enable SplitFrame view (file2, scaleProteinAsCdna)</li>
+          <li>New example demonstrating linked viewing of cDNA and
+            Protein alignments</li>
+          <li>New layout for applet example pages</li>
+        </ul>
+        <em>Development and deployment</em>
+        <li>Java 1.7 minimum requirement for Jalview 2.9</li>
+        <li>Include installation type and git revision in build
+          properties and console log output</li>
+        <li>Github project and web URL for storing BioJsMSA
+          Templates</li>
+        <li>Jalview's unit tests now managed with TestNG</li></td>
+      <td>
+        <!-- <em>General</em>
+        <ul>
+        </ul>  -->
+        <!--  issues resolved --> <em>Application</em>
+        <ul>
+          <li>Escape should close any open find dialogs</li>
+          <li>Typo in select-by-features status report</li>
+          <li>Consensus RNA secondary secondary structure
+            predictions are not highlighted in amber</li>
+          <li>Missing gap character in v2.7 example file means
+            alignment appears unaligned when pad-gaps is not enabled</li>
+          <li>First switch to RNA Helices colouring doesn't colour
+            associated structure views</li>
+          <li>ID width preference option is greyed out when auto
+            width checkbox not enabled</li>
+          <li>Stopped a warning dialog from being shown when
+            creating user defined colours</li>
+          <li>'View Mapping' in structure viewer shows sequence
+            mappings for just that viewer's sequences</li>
+          <li>Workaround for superposing PDB files containing
+            multiple models in Chimera</li>
+          <li>Report sequence position in status bar when hovering
+            over Jmol structure</li>
+          <li>Cannot output gaps as '.' symbols with Selection ->
+            output to text box</li>
+          <li>Flat file exports of alignments with hidden columns
+            have incorrect sequence start/end</li>
+          <li>'Aligning' a second chain to a Chimera structure from
+            Jalview fails</li>
+          <li>Colour schemes applied to structure viewers don't
+            work for nucleotide</li>
+          <li>Loading/cut'n'pasting an empty or invalid file leads
+            to a grey/invisible alignment window</li>
+          <li>Exported Jpred annotation from a sequence region
+            imports to different position</li>
+          <li>Space at beginning of sequence feature tooltips shown
+            on some platforms</li>
+          <li>Chimera viewer 'View | Show Chain' menu is not
+            populated</li>
+          <li>'New View' fails with a Null Pointer Exception in
+            console if Chimera has been opened</li>
+          <li>Mouseover to Chimera not working</li>
+          <li>Miscellaneous ENA XML feature qualifiers not
+            retrieved</li>
+          <li>NPE in annotation renderer after 'Extract Scores'</li>
+          <li>If two structures in one Chimera window, mouseover of
+            either sequence shows on first structure</li>
+          <li>'Show annotations' options should not make
+            non-positional annotations visible</li>
+          <li>Subsequence secondary structure annotation not shown
+            in right place after 'view flanking regions'</li>
+          <li>File Save As type unset when current file format is
+            unknown</li>
+          <li>Save as '.jar' option removed for saving Jalview
+            projects</li>
+          <li>Colour by Sequence colouring in Chimera more
+            responsive</li>
+          <li>Cannot 'add reference annotation' for a sequence in
+            several views on same alignment</li>
+          <li>Cannot show linked products for EMBL / ENA records</li>
+          <li>Jalview's tooltip wraps long texts containing no
+            spaces</li>
+        </ul> <em>Applet</em>
+        <li>Jmol to JalviewLite mouseover/link not working</li>
+        <li>JalviewLite can't import sequences with ID descriptions
+          containing angle brackets</li>
+        <ul>
+        </ul> <em>General</em>
+        <ul>
+          <li>Cannot export and reimport RNA secondary structure
+            via jalview annotation file</li>
+          <li>Random helix colour palette for colour by annotation
+            with RNA secondary structure</li>
+          <li>Mouseover to cDNA from STOP residue in protein
+            translation doesn't work.</li>
+          <li>hints when using the select by annotation dialog box</li>
+          <li>Jmol alignment incorrect if PDB file has alternate CA
+            positions</li>
+          <li>FontChooser message dialog appears to hang after
+            choosing 1pt font</li>
+          <li>Peptide secondary structure incorrectly imported from
+            annotation file when annotation display text includes 'e' or
+            'h'</li>
+          <li>Cannot set colour of new feature type whilst creating
+            new feature</li>
+          <li>cDNA translation alignment should not be sequence
+            order dependent</li>
+          <li>'Show unconserved' doesn't work for lower case
+            sequences</li>
+          <li>Nucleotide ambiguity codes involving R not recognised</li>
+        </ul> <em>Deployment and Documentation</em>
+        <ul>
+          <li>Applet example pages appear different to the rest of
+            www.jalview.org</li>
+        </ul> <em>Application Known issues</em>
+        <ul>
+          <li>Incomplete sequence extracted from PDB entry 3a6s</li>
+          <li>Misleading message appears after trying to delete
+            solid column.</li>
+          <li>Jalview icon not shown in dock after InstallAnywhere
+            version launches</li>
+          <li>Fetching EMBL reference for an RNA sequence results
+            fails with a sequence mismatch</li>
+          <li>Corrupted or unreadable alignment display when
+            scrolling alignment to right</li>
+          <li>ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException thrown when remove
+            empty columns called on alignment with ragged gapped ends</li>
+          <li>auto calculated alignment annotation rows do not get
+            placed above or below non-autocalculated rows</li>
+          <li>Jalview dekstop becomes sluggish at full screen in
+            ultra-high resolution</li>
+          <li>Cannot disable consensus calculation independently of
+            quality and conservation</li>
+          <li>Mouseover highlighting between cDNA and protein can
+            become sluggish with more than one splitframe shown</li>
+        </ul> <em>Applet Known Issues</em>
+        <ul>
+          <li>Core PDB parsing code requires Jmol</li>
+          <li>Sequence canvas panel goes white when alignment
+            window is being resized
+          <li>
+        </ul>
+      </td>
+    </tr>
+    <tr>
+                       <td width="60" nowrap>
+                               <div align="center">
+                                       <strong><a name="Jalview.2.8.2b1">2.8.2b1</a><br /> <em>15/12/2014</em></strong>
+                               </div>
+                       </td>
                        <td>
-                               <em>General</em>
-                               <ul>
-                                       <li>Make selection for columns now works on marked columns
-                                               rather than columns in rubber-band selection region.</li>
-                               </ul>
-                               <!--  issues resolved --> <em>Application</em>
-                               <ul>
-                               </ul> <!--  <em>Applet</em>
-                               <ul>
-                               </ul> <em>General</em>
-                               <ul> 
-                               </ul>--> <em>Deployment and Documentation</em>
-                               <ul>
-                               </ul> <em>Application Known issues</em>
-                               <ul>
-                               </ul> <em>Applet Known Issues</em>
-                               <ul>
-                               </ul>
+                               <div align="center">
+                               </div>
+                       </td>
+                       <td>
+                               <div align="center">
+                                       <ul><li>Reinstated the display of default example file on startup</li>
+                                       <li>All pairs shown in Jalview window when viewing result of pairwise alignment</li>
+                                       </ul>
+                               </div>
                        </td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                                        <li>RNA pseudoknot annotation can be
                                                imported/exported/displayed</li>
                                        <li>&#39;colour by annotation&#39; can colour by RNA and
-                                               protein secondary structure</li>
+                                         protein secondary structure</li>
+                               <li>Warn user if 'Find' regular expression is invalid (<em>mentioned post-hoc with 2.9 release</em>)</li>
+
                                </ul> <em>Application</em>
                                <ul>
                                        <li>Extract and display secondary structure for sequences with
                                        <li>Hide sequence doesn&#39;t hide associated annotation</li>
                                        <li>User defined colours dialog box too big to fit on screen
                                                and buttons not visible</li>
-                                       <li>author list isn't updated if already written to jalview
+                                       <li>author list isn't updated if already written to Jalview
                                                properties</li>
                                        <li>Popup menu won&#39;t open after retrieving sequence from
                                                database</li>
                                        </li>
                                        <li>
                                                <!-- <a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1539'>JAL-1539</a>] -->
-                                               out of memory errors are not raised when saving jalview project
+                                               out of memory errors are not raised when saving Jalview project
                                                from alignment window file menu
                                        </li>
                                        <li>
                                        <li>Newly created RNA secondary structure line doesn't have
                                                'display all symbols' flag set</li>
                                        <li>T-COFFEE alignment score shading scheme and other
-                                               annotation shading not saved in jalview project</li>
+                                               annotation shading not saved in Jalview project</li>
                                        <li>Local file cannot be loaded in freshly downloaded Jalview</li>
                                        <li>Jalview icon not shown on dock in Mountain Lion/Webstart</li>
                                        <li>Load file from desktop file browser fails</li>
                                        </li>
                                        <li>Not all working JABAWS services are shown in Jalview's
                                                menu</li>
-                                       <li>JAVAWS version of jalview fails to launch with 'invalid
+                                       <li>JAVAWS version of Jalview fails to launch with 'invalid
                                                literal/length code'</li>
                                        <li>Annotation/RNA Helix colourschemes cannot be applied to
                                                alignment with groups (actually fixed in 2.8.0b1)</li>
           <li>Allow disorder predictions to be made on the current
             selection (or visible selection) in the same way that JPred
             works</li>
-          <li>Groovy scripting for headless jalview operation</li>
+          <li>Groovy scripting for headless Jalview operation</li>
         </ul> <em>Other improvements</em>
         <ul>
           <li>Upgrade desktop installer to InstallAnywhere 2013</li>