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Etomite 0.6.1.4 Released

Yes, it’s true, Etomite 0.6.1.4 has finally been released. The development team has worked feverishly in order to get this release out on May 15th., 2007. So far everything appears to be working as planned. We had almost 250 downloads in the first twenty-four hours. That’s not bad for an open source software package that didn’t publicize the release in advance! The changelog for this release is extensive and we did more than just bug fixes in this release. All of the fixes and new features were added now as we will be putting this release into maintenance-only mode so we can concentarate our efforts on the new code base, Cocoon. Anyone using Etomite is urged to upgrade to this newest release as it addresses security issues, bug fixes, cosmetic and language issues, and adds some nice new features.

Okay, you’re probably wondering what new features are included. Well, one new feature is the integration of EditArea, a code editor which can be used in place of standard textareas for editing Etomite resources like templates, snippets, chunks, and even document in non-Rich Text mode. Here is an image which was pulled from the snippet resources section. It has intentionally been resized for display here.

As you can see, it provides line numbers, search and replace, the ability to customize the editors font size (for us old geezers), utilizes language syntax highlighting, goto line, as well as undo and redo. The rest pretty much speaks for itself, like the nifty counters at the bottom of the editor. This is a welcome addition and I’d like to thank Johan Larsson (nalagar) for providing the integration of EditArea into the Etomite code base.

I’d additionally like to thank Johan for his continued improvements to the Drag-N-Drop feature that he has integrated into the Etomite managers document tree. Many users have commented on this handy addition and it now appears that virtually all of the bugs have been worked out of the integration.

While I’m at it I’d like to thank the entire devlopment team as well as everyone who helped in getting the code base to the point it is today. This group includes, but is not limited to, Dean, Randy Casburn, Jelmer, and more wo will be added to this list in the near future. Thanks for all the help.

Stay tuned for more about the Etomite 0.6.1.4 release right here.