Awasu 2.2.5.alpha3

IMPORTANT: This is an alpha release (what's this?). Some features may not be complete and there will probably be bugs!

You must be already running 2.2.5.alpha2.

To install:

• Read the release notes below first!
  
  
• Backup your Awasu installation directory and keep it, even if the alpha appears to work correctly.
  
  
• Unpack one (!) of the following zips on top of your existing installation:
  
  
  • Personal Edition
  • Advanced Edition
  • Professional Edition
  
  
• It is strongly recommended that you delete the BUILD.INFO file in the Awasu installation directory. This file now gets written to another location so it's a good idea to get rid of this one to avoid possible confusion in the future.
  
  

New features

• Added the ability to manually check for newer versions of Awasu. This can be done via the Check for updates item in the Help menu.

Minor changes and bug fixes

• Fixed a redraw problem in the Sidebar.
• Always keep at least the latest feed in the archive database, no matter how old it is.
  This means that channels will always show some content, regardless of how long it has been since new content was published. This also fixes the problem where dormant channels would suddenly start showing their feed URL in My Channels instead of their normal name.
• Portable mode can now be turned on by creating a file called .PORTABLE in the installation directory. Portable mode also now implies a default user name of portable.
  These two changes mean that you can now set up an installation of Awasu on a removable device by simply unpacking a release ZIP onto the drive and creating the .PORTABLE file.
• Fixed a problem with switching between passive and active FTP.
  Many thanks to Torsten Jensen for his help with this one.
• Fixed some possible crashes during startup (especially on multi-CPU machines).
• The Meta-Channel report template now uses Atom 1.0.
  This change required the addition of a new ITEM-METADATA-TYPE parameter that returns the type (HTML or plain-text) of a piece of content.
• Fixed a minor bug with the progress bar when generating certain reports that was causing it to show the process as being over 100% complete.
• Fixed some issues with how the Awasu Administration tool was locating each Awasu user's data files.
• Fixed some possible crashes in the database handling code.
• Optimized the way database connections are re-used.
• The BUILD.INFO file is no longer written to the Awasu installation directory.
  This file is now saved in the user's local application data directory.
• Made the enclosure icon the channel summary pages clickable.