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 <head>
 <title>Release History</title>
 </head>
 <body>
 <p><strong>Release History</strong></p>
 <table border="1">
-       <tr>
-               <td width="60" nowrap>
-               <div align="center"><em><strong>Release</strong></em></div>
-               </td>
-               <td>
-               <div align="center"><em><strong>New Features</strong></em></div>
-               </td>
-               <td>
-               <div align="center"><em><strong>Issues Resolved</strong></em></div>
-               </td>
-       </tr>
-  <tr>
-  <td><div align="center">
-  <strong><a name="Jalview.2.8.1">2.8.1</a><br/><em>20/5/2014</em></strong>
-  </div>
-  </td>
-      <td> <!--  New features -->
-      <!--  For major releases, split into sections: Application | Applet | General | Deployment and Documentation -->
-        <ul>
-        </ul> <em>Other improvements</em>
-        <ul>
-        </ul>
-      </td>
-      <td><!--  issues resolved -->
-        <ul>
-        </ul>
-      </td>
-    </tr>
-       <tr>
+               <tr>
+                       <td width="60" nowrap>
+                               <div align="center">
+                                       <em><strong>Release</strong></em>
+                               </div>
+                       </td>
+                       <td>
+                               <div align="center">
+                                       <em><strong>New Features</strong></em>
+                               </div>
+                       </td>
+                       <td>
+                               <div align="center">
+                                       <em><strong>Issues Resolved</strong></em>
+                               </div>
+                       </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>
+                               <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>
+                       <td><div align="center">
+                                       <strong><a name="Jalview.2.8.2">2.8.2</a><br /> <em>3/12/2014</em></strong>
+                               </div></td>
+                       <td><em>General</em>
+                               <ul>
+                               <li>Updated Java code signing certificate donated by Certum.PL.</li>
+                                       <li>Features and annotation preserved when performing pairwise
+                                               alignment</li>
+                                       <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>
+                               </ul> <em>Application</em>
+                               <ul>
+                                       <li>Extract and display secondary structure for sequences with
+                                               3D structures</li>
+                                       <li>Support for parsing RNAML</li>
+                                       <li>Annotations menu for layout
+                                               <ul>
+                                                       <li>sort sequence annotation rows by alignment</li>
+                                                       <li>place sequence annotation above/below alignment
+                                                               annotation</li>
+                                               </ul>
+                                       <li>Output in Stockholm format</li>
+                                       <li>Internationalisation: improved Spanish (es) translation</li>
+                                       <li>Structure viewer preferences tab</li>
+                                       <li>Disorder and Secondary Structure annotation tracks shared
+                                               between alignments</li>
+                                       <li>UCSF Chimera launch and linked highlighting from Jalview</li>
+                                       <li>Show/hide all sequence associated annotation rows for all
+                                               or current selection</li>
+                                       <li>disorder and secondary structure predictions available as
+                                               dataset annotation</li>
+                                       <li>Per-sequence rna helices colouring</li>
+
+
+                                       <li>Sequence database accessions imported when fetching
+                                               alignments from Rfam</li>
+                                       <li>update VARNA version to 3.91</li>
+
+                                       <li>New groovy scripts for exporting aligned positions,
+                                               conservation values, and calculating sum of pairs scores.</li>
+                                       <li>Command line argument to set default JABAWS server</li>
+                                       <li>include installation type in build properties and console
+                                               log output</li>
+                                       <li>Updated Jalview project format to preserve dataset annotation</li>
+                               </ul></td>
+                       <td>
+                               <!--  issues resolved --> <em>Application</em>
+                               <ul>
+                                       <li>Distinguish alignment and sequence associated RNA
+                                               structure in structure-&gt;view-&gt;VARNA</li>
+                                       <li>Raise dialog box if user deletes all sequences in an
+                                               alignment</li>
+                                       <li>Pressing F1 results in documentation opening twice</li>
+                                       <li>Sequence feature tooltip is wrapped</li>
+                                       <li>Double click on sequence associated annotation selects
+                                               only first column</li>
+                                       <li>Redundancy removal doesn&#39;t result in unlinked leaves
+                                               shown in tree</li>
+                                       <li>Undos after several redundancy removals don't undo
+                                               properly</li>
+                                       <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
+                                               properties</li>
+                                       <li>Popup menu won&#39;t open after retrieving sequence from
+                                               database</li>
+                                       <li>File open window for associate PDB doesn&#39;t open</li>
+                                       <li>Left-then-right click on a sequence id opens a browser
+                                               search window</li>
+                                       <li>Cannot open sequence feature shading/sort popup menu in
+                                               feature settings dialog</li>
+                                       <li>better tooltip placement for some areas of Jalview desktop</li>
+                                       <li>Allow addition of JABAWS Server which doesn&#39;t pass
+                                               validation</li>
+                                       <li>Web services parameters dialog box is too large to fit on
+                                               screen</li>
+                                       <li>Muscle nucleotide alignment preset obscured by tooltip</li>
+                                       <li>JABAWS preset submenus don&#39;t contain newly defined
+                                               user preset</li>
+                                       <li>MSA web services warns user if they were launched with
+                                               invalid input</li>
+                                       <li>Jalview cannot contact DAS Registy when running on Java 8</li>
+                                       <li>
+                                               <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1273'>JAL-1273</a>] -->
+                                               &#39;Superpose with&#39; submenu not shown when new view created
+                                       </li>
+
+                               </ul> <!--  <em>Applet</em>
+                               <ul>
+                               </ul> <em>General</em>
+                               <ul> 
+                               </ul>--> <em>Deployment and Documentation</em>
+                               <ul>
+                                       <li>2G and 1G options in launchApp have no effect on memory
+                                               allocation</li>
+                                       <li>launchApp service doesn't automatically open
+                                               www.jalview.org/examples/exampleFile.jar if no file is given</li>
+                                       <li>
+                                               <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1511'>JAL-1511</a>] -->
+                                               InstallAnywhere reports cannot find valid JVM when Java 1.7_055 is
+                                               available
+                                       </li>
+                               </ul> <em>Application Known issues</em>
+                               <ul>
+                                       <li>
+                                               <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-830'>JAL-830</a>] -->
+                                               corrupted or unreadable alignment display when scrolling alignment
+                                               to right
+                                       </li>
+                                       <li>
+                                               <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1329'>JAL-1329</a>] -->
+                                               retrieval fails but progress bar continues for DAS retrieval with
+                                               large number of ID
+                                       </li>
+                                       <li>
+                                               <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1486'>JAL-1486</a>] -->
+                                               flatfile output of visible region has incorrect sequence start/end
+                                       </li>
+                                       <li>
+                                               <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1487'>JAL-1487</a>] -->
+                                               rna structure consensus doesn&#39;t update when secondary
+                                               structure tracks are rearranged
+                                       </li>
+                                       <li>
+                                               <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1591'>JAL-1591</a>] -->
+                                               invalid rna structure positional highlighting does not highlight
+                                               position of invalid base pairs
+                                       </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
+                                               from alignment window file menu
+                                       </li>
+                                       <li>
+                                               <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1576'>JAL-1576</a>] -->
+                                               Switching to RNA Helices colouring doesn&#39;t propagate to
+                                               structures
+                                       </li>
+                                       <li>
+                                               <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1577'>JAL-1577</a>] -->
+                                               colour by RNA Helices not enabled when user created annotation
+                                               added to alignment
+                                       </li>
+                                       <li>
+                                               <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1439'>JAL-1439</a>] -->
+                                               Jalview icon not shown on dock in Mountain Lion/Webstart
+                                       </li>
+                               </ul> <em>Applet Known Issues</em>
+                               <ul>
+                                       <li>
+                                               <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1394'>JAL-1394</a>] -->
+                                               JalviewLite needs JmolApplet and VARNA-3.91 jar dependencies
+                                       </li>
+                                       <li>
+                                               <!-- [<a href='http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1510'>JAL-1510</a>] -->
+                                               Jalview and Jmol example not compatible with IE9
+                                       </li>
+
+                                       <li>Sort by annotation score doesn&#39;t reverse order when
+                                               selected</li>
+                               </ul>
+                       </td>
+               </tr>
+               <tr>
+                       <td><div align="center">
+                                       <strong><a name="Jalview.2.8.1">2.8.1</a><br /> <em>4/6/2014</em></strong>
+                               </div></td>
+                       <td>
+                               <!--  New features --> <!--  For major releases, split into sections: Application | Applet | General | Deployment and Documentation -->
+                               <em>General</em>
+                               <ul>
+                                       <li>Internationalisation of user interface (usually called
+                                               i18n support) and translation for Spanish locale</li>
+                                       <li>Define/Undefine group on current selection with
+                                               Ctrl-G/Shift Ctrl-G</li>
+                                       <li>Improved group creation/removal options in
+                                               alignment/sequence Popup menu</li>
+                                       <li>Sensible precision for symbol distribution percentages
+                                               shown in logo tooltip.</li>
+                                       <li>Annotation panel height set according to amount of
+                                               annotation when alignment first opened</li>
+                               </ul> <em>Application</em>
+                               <ul>
+                                       <li>Interactive consensus RNA secondary structure prediction
+                                               VIENNA RNAAliFold JABA 2.1 service</li>
+                                       <li>Select columns containing particular features from Feature
+                                               Settings dialog</li>
+                                       <li>View all 'representative' PDB structures for selected
+                                               sequences</li>
+                                       <li>Update Jalview project format:
+                                               <ul>
+              <li>New file extension for Jalview projects '.jvp'</li>
+                                                       <li>Preserve sequence and annotation dataset (to store
+                                                               secondary structure annotation,etc)</li>
+                                                       <li>Per group and alignment annotation and RNA helix
+                                                               colouring</li>
+                                               </ul>
+                                       </li>
+                                       <li>New similarity measures for PCA and Tree calculation
+                                               (PAM250)</li>
+                                       <li>Experimental support for retrieval and viewing of flanking
+                                               regions for an alignment</li>
+                               </ul>
+                       </td>
+                       <td>
+                               <!--  issues resolved --> <em>Application</em>
+                               <ul>
+                                       <li>logo keeps spinning and status remains at queued or
+                                               running after job is cancelled</li>
+                                       <li>cannot export features from alignments imported from
+                                               Jalview/VAMSAS projects</li>
+                                       <li>Buggy slider for web service parameters that take float
+                                               values</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>
+                                       <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>Occasional NPE thrown when calculating large trees</li>
+                                       <li>Cannot reorder or slide sequences after dragging an
+                                               alignment onto desktop</li>
+                                       <li>Colour by annotation dialog throws NPE after using
+                                               'extract scores' function</li>
+                                       <li>Loading/cut'n'pasting an empty file leads to a grey
+                                               alignment window</li>
+                                       <li>Disorder thresholds rendered incorrectly after performing
+                                               IUPred disorder prediction</li>
+                                       <li>Multiple group annotated consensus rows shown when
+                                               changing 'normalise logo' display setting</li>
+                                       <li>Find shows blank dialog after 'finished searching' if
+                                               nothing matches query</li>
+                                       <li>Null Pointer Exceptions raised when sorting by feature
+                                               with lots of groups<!--  possibly JAL-599 but commit 7c7a5a297e063d3892dd7e629bc317cdde837b81 associated with JAL-971 -->
+                                       </li>
+                                       <li>Errors in Jmol console when structures in alignment don't
+                                               overlap <!-- JAL-1476 Work in progress - don't send junk to Jmol -->
+                                       </li>
+                                       <li>Not all working JABAWS services are shown in Jalview's
+                                               menu</li>
+                                       <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>RNA Helices and T-Coffee Scores available as default colourscheme</li>
+
+                               </ul> <em>Applet</em>
+                               <ul>
+                                       <li>Remove group option is shown even when selection is not a
+                                               group</li>
+                                       <li>Apply to all groups ticked but colourscheme changes don't
+                                               affect groups</li>
+                                               <li>Documented RNA Helices and T-Coffee Scores as valid colourscheme name</li>
+                                               <li>Annotation labels drawn on sequence IDs when Annotation panel is not displayed</li>
+                                               <li>Increased font size for dropdown menus on OSX and embedded windows</li>
+                               </ul> <em>Other</em>
+                               <ul>
+                                       <li>Consensus sequence for alignments/groups with a single
+                                               sequence were not calculated</li>
+                                       <li>annotation files that contain only groups imported as
+                                               annotation and junk sequences</li>
+                                       <li>Fasta files with sequences containing '*' incorrectly
+                                               recognised as PFAM or BLC</li>
+                                       <li>conservation/PID slider apply all groups option doesn't
+                                               affect background (2.8.0b1)
+                                       <li></li>
+                                       <li>redundancy highlighting is erratic at 0% and 100%</li>
+                                       <li>Remove gapped columns fails for sequences with ragged
+                                               trailing gaps</li>
+                                       <li>AMSA annotation row with leading spaces is not registered
+                                               correctly on import</li>
+                                       <li>Jalview crashes when selecting PCA analysis for certain
+                                               alignments</li>
+                                       <li>Opening the colour by annotation dialog for an existing
+                                               annotation based 'use original colours' colourscheme loses
+                                               original colours setting</li>
+                               </ul>
+                       </td>
+               </tr>
+               <tr>
        <td><div align="center">
        <strong><a name="Jalview.2.8.0b1">2.8.0b1</a><br/><em>30/1/2014</em></strong>
        </div>
           <li>ClassCastException when generating EPS in headless
             mode</li>
           <li>Adjusting sequence-associated shading threshold only
-            changes one row&#39;s threshold</li>
+            changes one row&#39;s threshold</li>            
           <li>Preferences and Feature settings panel panel
             doesn&#39;t open</li>
-        </ul>
+                                       <li>hide consensus histogram also hides conservation and
+                                               quality histograms</li>
+                               </ul>
       </td>
     </tr>
   <tr>